Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1929, Page 2

2 . e e L S S . THE EVENIXG STAR.' ASKS FEDERAL AID FATHER WHO SLEW INSCRIVENER CASE Grand Jury Requests Justice Department to Help Check Fingerprint on Pistol. Ald has been asked of the Depart- ment of Justice by the grand jury investigating the mysterious death of Detective Sergt. Arthur B. Scrivener it was learned today. The Department of Justice has been Tequested to assist in checking a par- tial fingerprint found on the pistol with which Scrivener was shot. It was re- ported that the department’s experts also would take fingerprints of various persons connected with the case. Shortly before noon today Thomas . Cullen, an inspector of the Bureau of Inve: tion of the Department of Justice, and E. K. Thode, chief of the division of identification and informa- tion of the Bureau of Investigation, arrived at the grand jury room in the “District Supreme Court Building and said they were planning to have a con- ference with United States Altorney Leo A. Rover. ‘Would Check Prints. Meanwhile John F. Maragon of Chi- eago, a former friend of Scrivener, an- nounced he would make a special ef- fort to have the fingerprint said by police to have been found on the ‘weapon with which Scrivener was kill- ed definitely established as authentic. Maragon previously had told reporters he planned to suggest to the grand jury when he was called as a witness that jt cause the fingerprints of all persons “connected in any way with the case” to be taken and checked with the print found on the pistol. Surprise. was caused by the arrival to- day of Garner Scrivener, a brother of the slain detective, from Akron, Ohio, where he is a member of the police force. He said he expected to be called before the grand jury. ‘The dead detective’s brother asserted he would be willing to give the inquisi- torial body all the information in his possession. He explained he was in Win- chester, Vi t the time of the funeral of his brother frcm the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Turner Scrivener. ‘Witness Recalled. Miss Catharine Markey, a witness of yesterday, was recalled today. She was the first person questioned by the grand jury this morning. Miss Markey declined to discuss the case on leaving the grand jury room. She previously had. said she last saw Scrivener two days before his death and that he asked her on that occasion to be his wife, though he had told others he intended to,_ marry Miss Parker. ‘Another witness recalled today was Sergt. Fred Sandberg, chief of the Police Department bureau ‘of identifi- cation. Sandberg carried a large en- velope when he entered the grand jury room and returned empty handed. He ‘was believed to have presented in evi- dence 2 rprint of a member of the Police Department. Sandberg re- fused to comment on any angle of the case, After s previous session with the grand jury, Sandberg told newspaper 1 SENATOR CAPPER 10 SPEA N RADO FORUM To Discuss West’s Viewpoint on Tariff and Farm Relief Matters. CAPPER. Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas will discuss the necessity of the settlement of differences which have arisen be- tween the West and the East in recent months, both in connection with the tariff revision and with farm relief legislation, in the National Radio Forum arranged by The Star and sponsored by the Columbia Broadcasting System, at 10:30 tomorrow evening. Senator Capper, a stanch and riru- lar Republican, will discuss the questio: He believes that the East should awaken to the economic needs of the great West and should give that section of the country more of an “even break” in matters of legislation and national administration. The differences which have arisen be- tween the West and the East have been responsible in large part for the formation of the present “Senate coalition” to deal with the tariff bill. Neither section of -the country will benefit long by anything that hampers the other. Senator Capper will deal with the subject in a broad way, avoid- ing partisan political discussion. The Kansas Senator, although a vet- eran member of the Senate, joined the so-called Republican “young guard” which was formed in the final weeks of the special session of the present Con- gress. - This “young guard” is composed of many Eastern Republican Senators as well as Western, but is made up for the most part of Senators who have been recently elected to the upper house. The Eastern members of the group, as well as the Western, be- lieve that the time fms come for real men he had found a fingerprint on the Scrivener pistol, which convinced him the detective was murdered because the identification failed to correspond witth Scrivener's fingerprints. of yesterdsy’s developments in iga was the Jet- , Democrat, of , to District Attorney ticized tul”u it id er present grand jury ision in the McPherson case said it would be “nonsensical” to it any matter to this grand jury 4n unblased or x.mprejullced Te- sult would be expected. Senator’s Reply. ‘This was the reply of Senator Blease to a letter Mr. Rover had sent him the day befére, inviting the Senator to send to the District attorney’s office any in- formation he may have bearing on the death of Scrivener. “Honorable Leo A. Rover, United States District Attorney, Washington, D. C. “Dear Sir: “I have yours of December 2, which reads as follows: ‘My Dear Senator Biease: The grand jury this morning commenced an investigation into the facts and circumstances surrounding the death of Detective Sergt. Arthur Scrivener, which occurred on the morn- possession some informa. tion which would be helpful in arriving at the truth surrounding the death of Mr. Scrivener. *‘I should therefore appreciate it if you would send the information to my office 30 that it may be presented to the grand jury, “‘Sincerely yours, (Signed) A 3 ““United States Attorney.’ “After the result of the investigation by the present grand jury into the death of Mrs. Virginia McPherson, I think it would be very nonsensical to submit any matter to them for consid- eration where an unbiased or unpreju- diced result would be expected. “With my kindest regards, I am, very respectfully, (Signed) “COLE L. BLEASE.” It was the present grand jury which not to return an indictment against Robert A. McPherson, jr. the husband of the dead nurse. McPherson had been indicted by the previous grand ¥ but it was found later that one of the members of that grand jury was to serve because she received ; & pension from the Government, and it was decided to have titt new grand Jury hear the McPherson case. After the second grand jury had decided not to Indiet McPherson he was released from jail. MAX JANOF, RETIRED JEWELRY DEALER, DEADl Funeral Services Were Held at Residence Here This Afternoon. Max Janof, 81 vears old, retired jew- elry dealer of Washington, died yester- day at his home, 1205 Harvard street, after an iliness of 18 months. Funerai services were held this afternoon at the residence. Rabbi Willlam Rosenblum and Rabbi George Silverstone officiated. Burial was in the Congregation Tifereth Israel Cemetery. Mr. Janof, & native of Russia, immi- grated to this country at the age of 6, Developing a chain of jewelry stores in Baltimore, his entire business was de- stroyed by the fire of 1904. Coming to Washington, he re-established himself in business, retiring several years ago. He is survived by his widow, M Fannie Janof; three sons, Louls, Wil- liam and Maurice, and three daughters, co-operation between the two sections from the standpoint of a Wuumer.l 2 DELAYS INQUEST Nevitt Expects to Probe Kill- ing of Children by Parent Tomorrow. ‘While Albert Pumphrey, 37-year-old baking company employe, lay ‘u) cot in the psychopathic ward of linger Hospital today, chlr,‘ed with the murder late yesterday of his own two children, Doris Theresa, 6, and James Tho 4, Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt announced that he would make an effort to hold an inquest into the double siaying tomorrow morning. | The physical condition of Pumphrey land the time still required by the in- ! | qest into the fatal blast at the Mc- Crory 5 and 10 store a week ago, are the two factors which will decide when the first formal move will be made to determine the facts in the killing of the children, Dr. Nevitt said shortly before noon today. Worry Preys on His Mind. Pumphrey shot his children to death at 4:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon in the living room of the home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Watts, his stepfather and mother, 1207 B street southeast. | He had been separated from his wife, Mrs. Beulah Pumphrey, who had cus- tody of the little girl, and members of his family said after the shooting that worry over the possibility of his wife's obtaining possession of both children had preyed upon the father's mind. After his arrest Pumphrey himself confirmed this bellef and in rambling statements, which seemed to verge upon hysteria, intimated further fears predi- cated upon the scriptural prophecy that “the sins of the parents shall be visited upon the children.” | Following the shooting, which occur- {red when Pumphrey took his daughver to the grandparents’ home where he and the little boy lived, Pumphrey was found to have a slight wound on his tright hip. Police believe this“to have "be!n self-inflicted with a small nailfile while he was being taken to the fifth precinct police station, where the file was found in his pocket. ‘The revolver with which the children were shot, & small, inexpensive .32- caliber pistol. contained four discharged | eartridge shells, although each child had been shot onlv once, the bulleis lodging in their hea.s. ‘When Pumphrey was arrested by Po- liceman Joseph G. Russell of the fifth precinct he is quoted by the police as saying: “I am satisfied. If I can’t have them, no one else will Mrs. Pumphrey, her husband's family declared, recently filed action for cus- tody both children, and it was a reference to that action that his family believes he spoke when he was arrested. Pumphrey was taken first to the fifth precinct station, where he complained of & wound in his hip. He was sent at once to Casualty Hospital, where the slight flesh wound was discovered and treated From Casualty he was trans- ferred to Gallinger Hospital for observa- ol tion, At Gallinger last night Pumphrey| told a reporter for The Star that he k':lled his children because he Jloved them. “Safer With God,” He Says. ' “They are much safer with God than they would be on this earth,” he told of the country and that the time has come for the East to make some con- cessions to the West. . NORTHCUTT FAGING COURT-MARTIAL Trial Likely to Begin Next Week on Coast—Charges Not Specified. By the Associated Press. Naval officials said today the trial of Lieut. Harold W. Northcutt, who disap- peared under mysterious circumstances from Norfolk, Va., recently, and later was located in Vancouver, British Co- lumbia, and arrested in Seattle, prob- ably would begin next week. Rear Admiral Leigh, chief of the Bu- reau of Navigation, sald the lieutenant had submitted his resignation s week after he voluntarily surrendered to naval authorities, but it had been refused. Northeutt was said today to have written his wife that he left a small sum of money he had with him when he dis- appeared, which he had collected for the University of Virginia, where he taught extension courses, in his automobile when he abandoned the car in Rich- mond, Va. The charges on which Northcutt will be tried were not given out by Navy officials. It was said at the Navy De- partment, however, they might include a charge of being absent without per- mission from the Norfolk Navy Yard, and also the charge of entering a for- eign country without permission. The allegation that h with the university’s funds aiso was expected to re, as was the report that Northcutt visited a girl in Van- couver, Admiral Leigh said today his infor- mation regarding the case was limited to a report from the commandant of the Bremerton Navy Yard, which stated Northcutt said he had no statement to make at the time he surrendered. Northcutt was located by Department of Justice agents. He returned to the United States and surrendered to naval authorities in Seattle. 3-DAY CIRCUS TOMORROW A three-day program has been ar- ranged for presentation of the tented circus which will begin tomorrow night at the Masonic Auditorium under auspices of the District Federation of Federal Employes' Unions. The per- formances, which wil take place each day at 7 and 9 o'clock, with a 3 o'clock matinee on Friday and Saturday aft- ernoons, promise all the thrills of the big-time circus ring, including trained animal acts, athletic performances and clown antics. Talent for the occasion has been imported from Winter quarters of circus companies. Culminating the three-day feature will be the crowning Saturday night of “Miss Federal Employe.” Eighteen candidates entered in this contest. BAND CONCERT: By the United States Marine Band Orchestra, at 8 o'clock tonight, audi- torium, M: e Barracks. Taylor Bran- son, leader; Arthur S. Witcomb, second leader. Program of Pan-American music: March, “Dr. Juan Ramon Tiron,’ Sarah, Dorothy and Mrs. A. W. Kahn, Days | “HAVE YOU DONE YOUR CHRISTMAS SHOPDI! Gabano Overture, “In Bohemia”. . Hadley (2) “Ensueno” (Dreams; .Alvarado (b) “Dansza Yaqui” ..........Alvarado !ynghnnl: poem, “La Voz de las ‘alles” (The Voice of the Streets) ..................Allende ( First performance in America.) Caprice, “PFirefly Fancles”...... El Excerpts from “The Desert Song, “Alegrias” (Merriment) , Overture, “Salvator Rosa’ B Marines' Hymn, “The Halls of e Montezuma. “The Star Spangled Banner.” Notice—There will be another orches- tral concert on Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock, in the guditorium at the Ma- rine Barracks. ' .Valverde Gom ie | and part of a bunch of grapes clutched the reporter. Continuing in his halting statements, the father said: “It is written that the sins of the parents shall be visited upon the chil- dren. ~ Well, the sins of that woman will never be held against my babies. ‘The man sald he purchased the re- volver the day before the siaying, but declared he had no i tionyiof shoot- ing the little girl and boy at’that time. He insisted that the ‘thought to shoot them came to him impulsively as he was seated in the front room of the B street house with them yesterday aft- ernoon. In the psychopathic ward at Gallinger Hospital, Pumphrey awoke this morn- ing to_the full realization of his tragic act. He told physicians and hospital attendants he spent a restless night and had not slept more than 15 minutes. ‘When asked regarding the incidents leading up to and immediately follow- ing the ting, Pumphre; jumed a non-committal attitude and said he did | not.'wbh to discuss his marital diffi- culties, He told Dr. C. A. Boseman of the hos- pital staff when examined this morning that he remembered nothing regarding the shooting of his two small children. | He told Dr. Boseman that the last thing he remembered was walking down the hall of the B street house with his littie girl. He said he did not remember any- thing about the shooting nor any inci- dent immediately following it. He did remember, however, he sald, a police- man of the fifth precinct bringing the tragedy to his attention after his arrival at the hospital. “I feel terrible,” he sald when inter- viewed in bed this morning. “I have terrible headaches and feel depressed. I don’t want to talk about anything re- garding my domestic difficuities.” Says Wife Is His Enemy. The prisoner told Dr. Boseman that his wife was his enemy and that at one time she had threatened to shoot him. He did not go into details regarding this incident and when asked he re- fused to answer. Policeman John O'Connell of the fifth precinct, who is on guard at the bedside, sald he has known Pumphrey personally for a number of years and knew him when he was employed as a conductor for the Capital Traction C5. Pumphrey told O'Connell that he had been man- ager of the Capital Traction base ball team two years ago. Physicians said that Pumphrey will b> confined to his bed for several days and during that time will be kept as quiet as possible, Mother Is Notified, Mrs. Pumphrey was notified of the | tragedy at her place of employment in the down-town window cleaning company immediately after the shoot- ing. She went to an address in the 1000 block of East Capitol street, whére she | has been living during the last two weeks, She formerly had resided in the 100 block of Eleventh street south- east and occupants of both houses ex- pected her to return to each place some | time this morning. Mrs. Pumphrey told newspaper men last night of recent efforts of herseif | and her husband to effect & reconciliu- tion for the sake of the children. She sald she had met her husband at| church Sunday, and was to have met him again for the purpose of discussing their marital affairs late yesterday. She | expressed happiness she had experi- enced over the anticipated reunion with her husband and broke down and wept | as she told of this phase of their mar- | ried life. Visioning the scene of the sheoting today. Lieut. Joseph E. Morgan, chief of the homicide squad, who reached the B street house just after Pumphrey had been taken away, saild he had never seen a sight which touched him more, “I have seen bodies of murdered per- sons, suicides, victims of lynchlnr and those of some who had b: lead long time,” the officer said, “but none of them touched me as did the sight of the bodies of those children yesterday. “In_one rt of the room was the girl's body, & bullet wound in her head in her hand. The body of .the little fellow, who evidently was trying to get out of his father's way when he, was shot down, was near the bay window.” Lieut. Morgan later visited the slayer in Gallinger Hospital, quickly recogniz- ing him as a resident of Southeast Washington. He recalled that Pum- phrey had been employed in R. E. Smith's grocery store, at Sixth and E streets southeast, & number of years | said. Above (left to right): James and Doris Pumphrey, whe were shot to death yesterday by their father. With them ‘is their mothcr. Mrs. Buelah Pumphrey, estranged from her hus —Capitol News 3 Below: Charles A. Macdonald, who held Pumphrey until the police arrived. —Star Staff Photo. and later had been employed as & conductor on the Navy Yard branch of the Capital Traction Co. Morgan said today that Pumphrey responded to his questions with such replies as “I don't know” and “I don't Temember.” During his fruitless con- versation with the man, Morgan said, Pumphrey frequently mumbled “They are with God now.” Pumphrey did tell Lieut. Morgan, however, that his father once had been | employed at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital and admitted that he also had worked on the cars and at the grocery store. Policeman Russell reported that a small note book was found in Pumph- rey’s pockets containing various license numbers of automobiles, street addresses and d Names of members of the | Woman's Bureau of the Police De- partment also were included in the list. Russell sald the notations were made in pencil and appeared as though the owner had been trriling some one. The book was given to the policeman at Casualty Hospital and he turned it over to_the homicide squad. Dorls and James Pumphrey were shot to death by their father at 4:30 o'clock yesterday afternc-n in the living room of their gv ».ints’ home. ¢ "".d for Daughter. According to Pumphrey’'s own state- ments to a reporter for The Star last night at Gallinger Hospital, Doris, who lived with her mother, was to have vis- ited him Monday and when she failed to put in her appearance, he called for her at the East Capitol street address of his wife yesterday. He was told there that some one had taken the little girl | shopping, 50 he waited for her to re- turn. When the child neared her moth- er's residence, Pumphrey greeted her and she went with him to the Watts home on G street. her father carrying her school bag for her. At the Watts home, the father and the two children went first to the rear of the house where Mrs. Watts, Pumph- rey's mothér, was preparing dinner, and where Watts, Pumphreys stepfather, was resting with a disabled leg. phrey went to the front room, Mr. Watts said yesterday after the tragedy, and called the two children with him, telling them he wanted to talk with them. “I didn't pay any attention to that,” Mr. Watts sobbed last night: “I thought he just wanted to talk with the children like he did lots of times and then after awhile—it wasn't over 10 minutes—I heard the shots; I don't know how many I heard, three or four maybe, and then I came in here in the living room as quickly as I could with this leg and there I saw the children lying there.” Got Own Gun. Charles A. MacDonald, who lives in an apartme:t on an upper floor of the B street house, took up the story at this point. He said he was upstairs when the shots rang out. When the first sounds reached him, he said, he paid little or no attention to them, thinking that perhaps something had been dropped or that the children were | scuffiing in play, but scarcely had this explanation flashed across his mind when realization dawned upon him that he was hearing pistol shots. “I started downstairs and then I ran back and got my own gun,” MacDonald “I didn't know what to expect and was afraid whoever was doing the shooting might shoot everybody down- stairs. 'When I reached the foot of the steps I found him standing up in the floor there with his mother's arms around his neck. He dropped the gun and I took it. I stayed with him— detained him, I fuexv—\mm the police came and took him away.” Pumphrey submitted, dazedly, to arrest by Policeman Joseph G. Russell of the fifth precinct. When the police- man entered the house and saw the bodies of the tv.2 children lying in pools of blood & scant dozen feet apart he faced Pumphrey and exclaimed: “God, man, how could you do it!” Pumphrey looked at the officer and tisfied. now.” After the father had been taken from the house, Dr. Joseph D. Rogers, deputy coroner, viewed the bodies as they were found after the shooting.. The little girl, clad in her street wraps of brass- buttoned blue coat, gray worsted cap and goloshes, lay sprawled upon her back just inside the open doorway of the living room. The little boy lay crumpled by the side of a large arm- chair in the bay-window of the house. Each child had been shot through the head and death probably was instan- taneous, in the opinion of Dr. Louis Jimal of the Casualty Hospital staff, who first viewed them. Dr. Rogers issued orders for the removal of the children’s bodles to the morgue and they were taken from the house about 7 o'clock, After the bodies were removed, Mr. Watts sobbed out further details of the incidents surrounding the shooting to police. He said that when he first saw s step-ston after the shooting, Pumph- Tey said to him: “I've done it. I've killed them both.” Watts declared that his step-son loved his childre arly and was continuous- !y showerfing them with loving atte; tions and protestations of his affectior Asked by the police if Pumphrey h: been drlnklni. Watts sald that so far as | he had | he knew not. POOR FUND IS.REFUSED AUTOMOBILE OPERATOR By the Associated Press. FRANKLIN, Ind., December 4— Floyd Owens, Franklin Township trustee, today announced a policy of refusing to extend poor-relief funds to persons who drive automobiles. Owens declared he has recently had several requests for aid from persons who operate cars. In enunciation of his policy, Owens sald, “If these persons can afford to keep an automobile, buy gas, oil and keep the machine running they do not need any of the taxpayers’ money. and ::fiw:“l not get it as long a8 I am They are with God | CHILDREN SLAIN BY FATHER ';WO NEW JUSTICES TO BE PROVIDED IN DISTRICT’S COURTS ___(Continued From First Page) that 300 are out on bond and that 81 are in the District Jail awaiting trial. “In the Civil Court 2,500 suits are pending. It is impossible for the justices to hear more than 50 cases a month in the two equity courts. Illness of justices causes a further delay. “The obvious solution to this serious condition is the expansion of the facil- ities of the District Supreme Court. ‘With that end n view, I today am in- troducing a bill to provide for the ap- pointment of two additional justices. I sincerely wish that Congress will see the urgent necessity for this legislation and pass it without delay at this ces- sion. T consider it vital to the welfare of the District that this bill be enacted into law at the earliest possible date.” Sees Attorney General. Senator Capper also revealed that within the past few weeks he discussed with the Attorney General the question of bringing about the best possible law enforcement conditions in Washington, and he said he expected the Attorney General would forward some recom- mendations to him. It is probable the Senator also will confer with the dis~ trict attorney and with prohibition au- thorities. Meanwhile, Senator Howell, Repulb- lican, of Nebraska is preparing to in- troduce at an early date his bill to give ‘Washington a local prohibition enforce- ment law, supplementing the national prohibition act, along the lines of State enforcement acts throughout the coun- try. The advisability of such legisla- tion also was referred to by the Presi- dent in his message vesterday. ‘The crowded condition of the dockets in the District Supreme Court, bearing on the need for additional judges, was summarized recently in The Star. FEDERAL PAY RAISE PROPOSED IN BILL Woodrum's Measure, Introduced in House, Provides for Flat In- crease of $300. Proposal for a flat increase of $300 for all civilian employes of the Federal and District Government in the depart- mental ‘service in Washington and in the fleld service throughout the States, with a 1212-cent increase to those paid on an hourly rate basis, is made in a bill introduced today by Representative ‘Woodrum of Virginia, a minority mem- ber of the House Civil Service com- mittee. This bill is introduced in protest, r. Woodrum said, against the in- equities and injustices especially to the low-paid employes that have resulted from the operation of the so-called Welch pay bill. It is identical in language with a measure which Mr, Woodrum intro- duced in the last session, when there was a deadlock over proposed measures to correct inequalities in the Welch bill. If the civil service committee is willing to give serious consideration to this flat- increase measure, Mr. Woodrum said, he wants the bill changed so that those who got increases to their salaries in the higher brackets under the Welch bill will not receive the he proposes applic: those receiving low \TEMPERATURE RISE {PROBABLE TOMORROW and Continued Cold Is Weather Forecast for To- night. | Fair | Fair and continued cold weather is in ‘F" pect for Washington tonight, fol- > _d tomorrow by increasing cloudiness tnd slowly rising temperatures. The Weather Bureau predicts a minimum of 17 degrees tonight, two points lower | than the extreme this morning. ‘Troublesome. deposits of ice, which have remained on sidewalks in many localities since Monday's freezing rain, may thaw tomorrow, although the maxi- mum today probably will hover below freezing. The extremes yesterday were | 31 and 32 degrees. | Most of the more frequently traveled streets have been freed of ice, although motorists complain of slippery sections | ‘tfllpt‘"ment in several parts of the Dis- rict. ‘The first 45-mile-unit of the Na- tional Highway in Panama just has been completed. , WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1929, HOUSE COMMITTEE APPROVES TAX CUT! Measure Will Be Brought Be-f for Legislators for Action on Thursday. By the Associated Press. The administration’s $160,000,000 in- | | come tax reduction plan was spproved | | today by the House ways and means | committee and will be brough: before the House for action Thursday. This indorsement was given after Undersecretary Mills of the Trcisury | appeared before the committee and ex- plained the proposed cut in detail, The Hawley resolution to provide for 1929, on which the committee was hold- |ing hearings, followed, he said, Presi- | dent Hoover's recommendations and | was approved by the Treasury Depart- | ment. Although party leaders in both | Houses had agreed, to the plan, Mills explained, the Treasury had been con- fronted with the difficulty of determin- ing the business trend of thé® current calendar year and of forecasting the business trend of the coming year in arriving at the amount of , reduction that could be allowed. Features of Measure Outlined. The features of the measure were, he said, that it limits the new rates to one year—a novelty in income tax legislation in this cuontry—and that it gives relief to the maximum num- ber of income tax payers, with relatively | larger benefits to those with smaller incomes. The reasons for limited revision wers, he said, the estimated surplus of $226,- 000,000 for 1930, and the estimated surplus of $123,000,000 for 1931. “These figures,” he sald, “do not in- dicate a very large margin of safety in budgets of over $4,000,000,000, but the tax reduction of $160,000,000 which | will result from the enactment of this bill is divided lrpl’oxlmtely equally between two fiscal years, | “Looked at from this standpoint, the | margin of safety is reasonably ade- i quate. The Treasury Department feels, | therefore, that the taxpayers should | receive the benefit of those prospective :;Arplum in the form of tax reduc- on.” Surplus May Be Temporary. Mills explained that a Treasury sur- plus may be recurring or temporary, but that the estimated surpluses o: 1930 and 1931, “seem to fall in the| second class.” ‘“‘Moreover,” he continued, “the prob- lem of estimating future revenue is av- tended by extraordinary difficulties ac the present time, due to the existence of a number of factors the effect or vhich it is almost impossible to fore- ‘The undersecretary explained that the Treasury had been confronted with the “difficult problem of determining what effect the recent precipitious de- cline of security values will have on tax reufigu from security transactions. which unquestionably yielded a very large income in 1928 and for the first eight months of the calendar year 1929." “The pending measure,” he cqntinued, “solves the problem of giving to the tax- payer the benefit of the surplus which seems reasonably certain in the fiscal year 1930 without nlnnlnr too great a risk of incurring a deficit during the fiscal year 1931." Wage-Earners Beneficiaries. Although explaining the chief bene- ficiaries of the measure would be wage- earning and salaried employes, he said about $90,000,000 would be slashed off corporation taxes and $70,000,000 off individual income taxes. The manner in which to grant the tax cut to the greatest number was through a corpo- ration tax reduction, he added. Corporations, relatively speaking, Mills sald, were overtaxed, and added that in 1927 they paid 2446 per cent of their net income in tases, including income taxes. He pointed out that persons owning stocks in corporations were ‘“virtually \paying taxes through the corporations at 12 per cent on that portion of their income arising from the profits of the business enterprises in which they were stockholders.” Mills presented a statement showing the total receipts for the fiscal year 1929 at $4,033,250,225, with expenditures amounting to $3 63,189, leaving a surplus of $184, 5. It _gave the 1930 estimated pts at $4.249,263,000 and expenditures at $4,023,681,000, with an estimated surplus of $225,581,534. Es- timated receipts for 1931 were placed at {a flat 1 per cent rediction on corpo:a- | Ition and normal individual incomes of | Burned to Death JAMES P. NOONAN. —Harris-Ewing Photo JAMES P. NOONAN VICTIM OF BLAZE Labor Leader Succumbs to Burns Received in Apart- ment Fire. James P. Noonan, 52 years old, filth vice president of the American Federa- tion of Labor, died at the Emergency Hospital today from burns sustained when fire gutted the living room of his apartment at -the Wisteria Mansions, | 1101 L street, shortly before 4 o'clock this morning. Mr. Noonan died at 9:45 am, five hours after he was found lying in a semi-conscious condition from his burns on the floor of the bathroom in his apartment. He was a member of the American committee at the world power conference held in London in 1924, and was president of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Groans Awakened Neighbors. Groans coming from the Noonan apartment, located on the fourth floor of the Wisteria Mansions, awakened Mr. and Mrs. 1. Eisman, occupants of & neighboring apartment on the same floor. Believing Mr. Noonan ti be ill, they summoned Emmett Stevens, colored ele- vator boy, who opened the door with a master key. Smoke poured from the open doorway, while flames were seen llcklngell the furnishing in the living room beyond. Stevens made an effort to dash into the apartment to rescue Mr. Noonon, but he was beaten back by the flames. A fire alarm was turned in, while a second followed soon after the arrival of the first apparatus. Firemen discovired Mr. Nconan lying in the bath room and carried him from the blazing apartment. Dr. Francis Gilfoy and members of Fite Rescue Squad No. 1 administered first-aid treatment and ordered him remov:d to the hospital. Little hope was held for his recovery from the time he was ad- mitted to the institution. Fire Started in Couch. The fire is believed to have originated at the couch in the living room and it is presumed that Mr. Noonan came in, lay down upon the couch to take a smoke and fell asleep, his cigarette falling on-the couch and igniting it. It is presumed he awakend and crawled into the bathroom to escape | from the burning room. It was said at his office in ® Machinists' Building. 1200 Fifteenth street, this morning that Mr. Noonan | had planned to attend a railroad organ- ization mesting Iast night. | Firemen managed to confine the blaze to the Noonan apartment. Mr. Noonan is survived by his widow, who is now in Florida, and two sons, all of whom reside in St. Louis. Mrs. Noonan made her home in that city, it “is said, becaus: of the numerous travels of her husband to carry out his meny duties with the several organiza- tions with which he is connected. Ef- {g;u were being made to reach her ay. Served on Many Committees. - the | $4,225.727,000, expenditures at $4,102,- 938,700, with a surplus of $122,788,966. After the Undersecrectary had con- cluded a prepared statement, Repre- sentative Garner of Texas, the Demo- cratic House leader and senior minority member of the committee, said he had spoken of an uncertainty in the esti-! mates. Mills replied that previously had been overoptimistic on 1928 es mates, but asserted the prospective sur- plus was reasonably adequate to provide & margin of safety for the program. Mills also was questioned by Garner | as to the policy of the present adminis- traticn. The Texan asked Mills if any of the Government departments had asked the Treasury how much money remained of certain appropriations that could be disposed of during the present fiscal year. Mills replied that President Hoover had asked the Treasury what expendi- tures could be made immediately, but that he had no information as to the President’s plans and asserted that so far as he knew there had been no change in the administration's policy. Garner said that in the Coolidge ad- ministration the President had.asked the department to return all unused amounts of appropriations to the Treas- ury, but that he understood the pres- ent administration had reversed the policy and was urging the departments “to spend every nickel they have.” Milis answered that as far as he knew the policy of the present administration was identical with that of the former. PHYSICIANS HELD ON NARCOTIC CHARGE Hagerstown Doctors Post Bond! After Accusation of Illegal Handling. HAGERSTOWN, Md., December 4.— Charged with violating the Federal narcotic act, two prominent physicians of Hagerstown, Dr. H. R. Eazey and Dr. C. 2. Windred, were held today on $1,000 and $500 bond, respectively, pending an afternoon hearing before United States Commissioner A. Wol- finger. The arrests were made last night by Federal Inspector of Narcotics 8. L. Rakusin and Federal Narcotic Agent E. K, Rabbitt, According to Rakusin, a Washington Wwoman came to his district headquar- ters last week, reporting that her hus- band had become addicted to the use of drugs. She then revealed to Rakusin the location of the drug source, which, she sald, was located in - Hagerstown, Md. A week of investigation by nar- cotic agents under Inspector Rakusin resulted in the arres doc- tors last night. el Mr. Noonan, who was born in St. Louis on December 15, 1878, has served on many national committees, includ- EXTEND SEARCH FOR MAIL PILOT Area to Be Laid Out in Three- Mile Squares, With Plane to Each. By the Associated Press. CLARION, Pa, December 4.— The hunt for Thomas P. Nelson, airmail | pilot missing since Monday, was extend- ed today from Clarion to Andover, Ohio, although searchers admitted they were losing hope of finding Nelson alive. Several planes which searched for Nelson yesterday and then went to Cleveland because of limited facilities at the local airport, will return today to join other planes which will start out from here. A heavy snow was fall- ing and the thermometer registered 4 degrees above zero, Plans Systematic Search. W. L. Smith, district superintendent of the National Air Transport Co., Cleveland, which employed Nelson, and who had established headquarters at & hotel here, said today he planned to lay out the search area in squares. Each search plane will be assigned a square, comprising three miles, each day. Meanwhile forest rangers and farmers will_trample through the snowy hills of Northwestern Pennsylvania in re- newal of the search interrupted by d;rk?m last night after a day of futile effort, Smith was informed last night that A. R, Hall, Andover, Ohio, near Paines- ville, had watched a plane circle over Painesville early Monday. It finally dis~ appeared to the southwest, Hall report~ ed. Another man, whose name was not learned, reported seeing a plane about the same time winging in a direction which_would have carried it toward Its lights were turned on, Lindy Offers Services. CLARION, Pa., December 4 (#).—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh today offered to aid in the search for Thomas P. Nelson of Plainfleld, N. J., airmail pilot on the New York-to-Cleveland route, who dis~ appeared while flying from Bellefonte, Pa., to Cleveland early Monday. Col. Lindbergh telephoned from ths home of Ambassador Dwight W. Mor- row, his father-in-law, at Englewood, N. J. He tendered his services to W. L. Smith, division superintendent of the National Air Transport Co., in the hunt for Nelson, who was associated with Lindbergh in carrying mail from St. Louis when the noted aviator was an airmail pilot. Supt. Smith said he told Lindbergh everything possible was being done to gnd Nelson, and that while his offer Wwas appreciated “it would be futile for him to join in the search.” “It is possible that he may fly out of Cleveland later if our hunt continues unsuccessful,” Smith added. “BAD WEATHER PILOT.” ST. LOUIS, December 4 (#).—Thomas P. Nelson, missing airmail pilot, wes known here as one of the t “bad weather pilots” on the St. Louis- Chicago irmail line. His buddies on the line wers Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and Phil R. Love, Lindbergh's companion on & tour of the United States following the Paris flight. In April, 1926, Col. Lindbergh, then chief of the Chicago-St. Louls line, selected Nelson and Love as the other pllots on th: run. Nelson continued tlg fly flnrmfl’ nuthut h‘;re for more AN & yeaf, leaving here in June, 1927, to join the National Air Transport at Chicago. JURY BLAMES TANK IN ITS FIRST FINDING IN BLAST INQUEST _(Continued From Pirst Page.) ley, soda fountain clerk in the McCrory store, and that she told him she had made several complaints to an assistant manager that the hot water at the fountain was discolored and that clouds of steam frequently issued from the plggh Wwhen the faucet was opened. Is statement, however, was refuted by two other employes of the store, Miss Marjorle Kemp, relief soda clerk, said she had never seen the water dis- colored and never knew of an instance when steam came from the pipes. Mra, Pauline Hayes, colored dishwasher, also denl": ever seeing any discolored water or steam. Water Meter Missing. ing Hoover's St. Lawrence Waterway Commission, the United States commit- tee on seasonal employment in build- ing industry in 1924, of which President Hoover was a member; the national public safety committee in 1924, the Industrial lighting committee of the Na- tional Research Society the same year, ‘l.)ulg;‘nn Giant Power Commission, also n 3 He has been president of the Inter- national Brotherhood of Electrical ‘Workers since 1919 and a member of the executive council of the American Federation of Labor since 1924. M Noonan has served on the executi: council of the bullding trades, Depart- ment of Labor body for the past seven years, while in 1922 he was a member of the jurisdictional board of awards for the building trades industry. Mr. Noonan was the labor delegate on the American committee at the World Peace Conference in London and he was author of the paper on “Labor’s Part in Power Production,” which was submitted to the conference. He has been editor in chief of the Electrical ‘Workers' Journal, an ex-officio post, for 10 years. He was an active member of the] Benevolent and Protective Order o!, Elks. He also held membership in the Congressional Country Club. | Mr. Noonan, the son of a farmer, | left school after completing the ele- mentary grades and began work in a mill at the age of 14, He quit his posi- tion at the mill to enlist in the 8th ted States Cavalry at the outbreak ish-American War, during which he served as a private. At the end of the war he entered the elec-; trical trade. POLICE PAY INCREASE BILL IS INTRODUCED Base Salary of $1,900, With $2,400 Maximum for Privates, Pro- posed by Senator Capper. The bill to increase the pay of officers and members of the Police and Fire De- artments was introduced in the Senate today by Chairman Capper and referred to the District committee for considera- tion. As outlined by the Senator several ago, the bill would establish an ent ice salary of $1,900 a year for pri- vates in both departments, with an an- increase of $100 for five years, making the maximum $2,400 a ‘year. ‘The present schedule for privates is $1,800 minimum and $2.100 maximum. Specific incre re written into the bill for the us groups above the grade of pri 3 In announcing Sunday his intention to introduce the bill, Senator Capper said the und-rst Washington had d: away dcwn in the list of American cities Authorities have refused to disclose on the question of salaries paid to its the woman's name, policzmen and firemen, ) g E. H. Grove, employe of the Water Depqrtmem.wmuflzd m ::\.Ic:“: .x;nllble' ;o nfim the water meter n the store, that several valves om ‘water .“llu riod immediately pre- also are missing. ceding the explosion, he said, the > sumption of water in the store hllu—d from one-half to one-fourth of fts former volume. He said this may have been due to overheated water in the storage tank backing out through the city main and turning back the water meter, Conflicting expert testimony as to cause of the explosion wn’mmug yesterday. Two District government employes expressed the belief that the bursting of ‘the hot water tank was Y some sort of preliminary caused plulor;.m 5 Another District employe and two Federal Government employes were then placed on the stand. All three of these scouted the preliminary ex- plosion theory and insisted that with- out question the breaking of the hot- water tank was the direct cause of the T H. COX During the MRS. JULIE DIES AT AGE OF 71 Daughter of Last Mayor of Wash- ington Expires After Brief Illness. Mrs. Juliet Hazeltine Cox, 71 years old, daughter of the late Matthew Gault Emery, last city mayor of Washington, died Monday at her residence, on Emery place, Brightwood, following a brief {ll- ness. Funeral services will be conducted at the home tomorrow afterncon at 2 o'clock. Private burial will be in Rock Creek Cemetery. Mrs, Cox was born in Washington in 1858. In 1870-71, prior to the aq tion of territorial government in District, her father, Matthew G. Emery, Wwas mayor of Washington. In 1886 she married the late Dr. William Van Zlnfdt ?xl tlrr'ho retired in 1923 as president of e Second National Bani of Washington. ™ Mrs, Cox was a charter member of the D. A. R, & past nt of Our chlpurunt that lsation, .,.a’:‘.: mer national president of the Society of Daughters of the Founders and Pa- triots /of America. She succeeded her mother, Mrs, hew G. Emery, on the board of lady managers of th- District Orphan Asylum, and in 1916 was appointed first director. flur‘ Mrs, She is survived a d g‘hlrlu 0. Plrklb’B‘ ll? six grand-