Evening Star Newspaper, February 7, 1931, Page 2

AL2 = STATES JIG-SAWING NEW CONGRESSMAP Shifted Populations Revealed by Census Gives Reappor- tioning Task. By the Associated Press. The siren call of grinding wheels, the pot of gold at the gusher’s mouth, the glamour of Klieg lights and bright sunshine inviting harried men with | graying hair have set State legislative Jigsaws awailing this Winter to cut out & new congressional map of the United States. Mostly it is a few of the lustier youngsters of Uncle Sam's family, grown Gargantuan in the last 10 years on the pap of changing times, which | make it necessary to alter the renre~’ sentation ot 33 States in the National House of Representatives. The 1930 census taker, as he went his rounds for the first time since 1920, found that things had been hap- pening. Southern Califérnia, once a desert, had become a thickly populated part of the United States. orida’s palms had called some of the people who used to be found upon the middle plains. Detroit, New York and Chicago, where machinery groans and dollars ring, had won many another lad from | the milking school. Battle in Most States. By and large, the legislators don't like their job of deciding how to distribute the gains or losses in rep- resentation from their States. In most Btates | a pitched battle and one to_be delayed. Throughout most of the wide belt of States between the two .coasts re- districting is felt to mean dwindling sectional prestige. Missouri loses three members, Georgia, Jowa, Kentucky and Pennsylvania lost two each; Alabama, Indiana, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia and Wisconsin each lose one. California_gains nine seats, most of them around Los Angeles and Holly- wood. Michigan gains four; Texas three; New York, New Jersey and Ohio two each; Connecticut, Florida, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Washington one each. In the States where the greatest gains have been made, the battle is be- tween town and country. Los Angeles increases & metropolitan grip on South- ern California; Detroit factory hands take the scepter from Michigan country- men; Chicago towers over downstate Tilinois; San Antonio and Dallas rise in importance in Texas, ‘Wet and Dry Problem. Where this situation prevails, the wet and dry problem also strongly leavens th: political melee which revolves around redistricting. The drys, believ- ing the urban areas to be wet, struggle to escape their domination. The wets want any new wet voices heard. In most of the States plans are still indefinite. Tentative bills have ‘beén introduced in many Legislatures, but the real fight awaits the warring days of the sessions. In Kentucky nothing will be done until next year, but the prospect will inject a stiff fight for party control into this year's cam| s must In Minnesota, where one dh:;‘m o be cut off, the finger Be:mnuflva Paul John Kvale, only Farmer-Labor member. is the smallest of aliens puut of the census totals before a basis for rfl-gé%‘;lno e established. There are 7, fa the United States, of whom Iows has few. 12 or 14 Chicago’s Hope. aihe hic: es to get 12 or 14 out o ths 27 ::.ofl Tilinois will have. In Wash- ington the city of Tacoma wants to be & separate district. d In Texas an atte made to eliminate the of Representa- tive Harry Wurzbach, its gnly Re] :E: trict in Texas would be 300 miles long. In Maryland it has been suggested that all districts radiate out.cf Balti- more, each with a portion of the city in it. A dozen tentative plans are on file in Michigan, where- the out-State fight against Detroit is bitter. Some of the plans would leave two or three incumbent Congressmen in one new district to fight it out. In Wisconsin two bills, one by con- servative Republicans, one by the La Follette forces, confine themselves to the method of selecting a committee to work out the problem. A resolution of protest against the Joss of one seat has been sent to_the Benate Judiciary Committee by Ver- mont. South Dakota, which has two Congressmen 1éft, may elect both &t large. l’I‘! it becomes impossible in other States to pass reapportionment bills during the present legislative sessions, Congressmen would be elected at large until new alignments could be made. PAIR SICK OF RUSSIA AND RAGGED NATIVES Shoes $60 a Pair and Butter $6 a Pound, Report Philip Harty and Wife Upon Return. t may be Re] By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, February 7.—Philip Harty and Mrs. Harty of Newark, N. J., stepped down the gangplank of the Hamburg American liner New York last night and heaved hearty sighs of rellef. They were back in a country where' shoes cost less than $60 a pair and butter not quite $6 a pound. They had come back from Russia. Harty, mechanical engineer Wwho went to Russia last August to investi- gate rolling mills in Siberia, had much to say and little of it was complimentary to the Soviet or the so-called five-year lan of -social and industrial re- abilitation. “The five-year plan is not cw" ‘Harty remarked, “it has collaj The people are in rags. There is depression everywhere. The only ones satisfled are the young generation who have been taught the Soviet ideas from the start. If 1 learned one name in Russia, it was their equivalent for ‘capitalist’ for it was hurled at both my wife and myself wherever we went.” Harty said there were many German ‘er meers in Russia at present, but they h' to be satisfled because conditions in their own country are bad. oI ACT REPEAL ASKED Oklahoma Commission Makes Rec- ommendation to Governor. TULSA, Okla., February 7 (#)—The TTulsa World says Gov. W. H. Murray's of 4 . 5 8k | 15| listener. “They THE ‘EyviayING Committee of the Dominican Club of St. Dominic’s Catholic Church arrang- ing dance to be given in the church hall, Sixth and F streets southwest, February 13. Left to right: Teddy Palmer, Connie Kines, Evelyn Knott and Dorothy Mc- Mahen. —Star Staff Phroto, MRS. BRUCE RECORDED FLIGHT ON 50 DICTAPHONE RECORDS British Birdwoman Described Countries She Flew Over in Crossing Three Continents in Tiny Plane. \ By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, February T.—After crossing three continents in a tiny bi- plane—the smallest and cheapest flying machine -she could buy in England— the Honorable Mrs. Victor Bruce is g home a spoken record of her globe-circling flight. It was in a “honeymoon mode! with seats for two, close together—the 20-year-old amateur fiyer set out on her adventure last September. Married for more thin a decade, she decided a 50-gallon tank of gasoline would be of more use to her than a husband in that extra seat. “But a woman must talk,” she said, “and since I was not taking my hus- band along to listen, I placed a dicta- phone at my side.” Mzde Fifty Records. As she flew over the plains of Hun- deserts of Persia, the junfl:& of China, the im- Jepan, the forests of , the mountains, v leys, deserts and {i between Cal fornia and New ¥« Mrs. Bruce d scribed the scenery to her mechanical Fifty records were used. . will make my 10-year-old son very happy,” the little brown-haired woman remarked, her blue eyes spark- ling. “Tony can turn o6n a record and hear his mother's volce describe parts of the world about which he has studied ]in school. He has been so interested in | the places along my route that he<be- came the best student in his geography class.” Mrs. Bruce is proud of her husband, “He's the bravest man in England,” she declared, smiling. “He went up with me when I made my second flight at the controls of an airplane.” Back Ahead of Schedule, She planned to circle the globe in six months, but she will get back to Eng- land a month and a half ahead of schedule. “I pride myself on being punctual,” she smiled. “Well, I promise to land my Bluebird at Croydon two miinutes past 3 o'clock, Saturday afternoon, February 14. Why, that’s St. Valen- tine's Day—a fine occasion to see my husband again after I left him behind to _go around the world.” Wherr the Ile de France docks at Havre Mrs. Bruce will unfold the wings of her Bluebird and fly to Paris before going home. She left England with a small Amer- ican flag which her mother, a native of New Albany, Ind., gave her to drop from the skies over her birthplace. The daughter has carried out her mother’s wish, and now she is taking another American flag to England—a gift for Ambassador Dawes from May- or McLinn of New Albany. BLAST FIRES BOAT; ONE DIES, 13 SAVED Victim Drowns Trying to Rescue Wife After Leaping From Glass-Bottom Craft. By the Associated Press. OCALA, Fla, February 7.—Thirteen persons were rescued and one drowned yesterday after an cxplosion set fire to a glass-bottom boat on Silver Springs, largest known springs in the world. Rescuers who plunged into the wa- ter from boats and shore assisted those who could not swim to safety. J. A. Perkins, 65, Oak Park, IIl, lost his life when he jumped from a boat to aid his wife, who was struggling in the water. Mrs. Perkins was in a hospital suf- fering from shock. Several persons were burned slightly, but no one was seriously injured. explosion occurred when the boat was leaving the landing and only 14 feet from shore, but the passengers were forced to drop into the water to escape the flames, Several men jumped from the shore at once and set out for the rescue. Among the passengers were Miss Elizabeth Gibbs, Wheeling, W. Va., and Mr. and Mrs, Foreman, Pittsburgh, Pa. CARAWAY REGRETS REMARKS ON HOOVER Senator Says He Only Used Every Weapon to Seek Relief for Sufferers. Senator Caraway of Arkansas, in & radio address on the drought situation over Station WJSV last night said he was sorry if he had made any unkind remarks about President Hoover. “I had been thoroughly convinced the people of my State and other States were hungry and cold and threatened with disease and starvation,” he said. “Feeling this way I fought with every weapon at my disposal for rellef for these people. But now that an agree- ment has been reached I am laying down my arms and if I have said any- thing unkind I am sorry and want to apologize. “I realized that Mr. Hoover was President and had his responsibilities. But I felt relief should be provided and I fought for it. If I said anything un- kind about him I am sorry.” Senator Caraway said the relief agrce- ment reached yesterday by Senatg and House leaders was “satisfactory” to him. TORTURE VICTIM TIED TO CROS ’ STAR, B WASHINGTON, ONUS THREATENS SPECIAL SESSION Compromise for $20,000,000 Drought Loan Fund Ap- proved by Hoover. crop of 1931, and for further agricul- tural rehabilitation in the drought and (or) storm-stricken or hail-stricken areas of the United States. Insist Dole Is Eliminated. “The advances and loans made pur- suant to this act and amendment thereto shall be secured by liens on crops or by other security, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of Agriculture may prescribe.” Under the language the $45,000,000 joit resolution now a law is liberalized 50 that feed may be purchased for all live stock instead of merely for work stock. While the language of the tentative agreement does not specially state that the money loaned may be used for the purchase of food. it is generally under- stod that once the money is loaned to the farmers it may be used to buy food, clothes or anything else that he may need for himself or his family. The administration _leaders insist, however, that the Federal “dole,” against which they have fought con- sistently, has been eliminated. No money is appropriated for the free dis- ! tribution of food, as proposed in the | Robinson amendment, to the distressed |in all parts of the country. The new relief measure is for those people who live only in the drought, storm and hail stricken areas of the country. There is no provision for getting free food to the unemployed in the cities or elsewhere, through this Federal appropriation. Insurgents May Fight. On the other hand, the Democrats in the Senate claim they have what they contended for in the first place, a pro- vision for loaning money to those farm- ers in the drought-stricken area, who are in need of food for themselves and their wives and children. At the White House it was stated em- phatically that the President had not retreated from his stand against the distribution of free food by the Federal Government. It was said that even though the Democrats and the Republicans had agreed to th enew relief proposal, there were Republican _insurgents, among them Senator Borah of Idaho and Sen- ator La Follette of Wisconsin, who were Dot yet s:tisfied, and who were prepared to fight the plan. However, if the Re- publicans and the Democrats are united ‘they could, if it became necessary, in- wke the cloture rule to put through the anmpmnon bills and wind up the ses- slon of Congress March 4 without the necessity of a special session. They hope to be able to avoid such radical steps, however. Three wesks still re- main of the present session, ample time, the leaders say, to complete the appro- priation bills and relief legislation. Attacked by La Guardia. ‘The relief compromise was assailed today by Representative La Guardia, Republican, of New York. He termed it “economically impossible, politically disastrous, morally jnsincere and prac- tically ineffective.” “I hope the representatives of the farmers in the House will see through this and stand together as we did be- fore,” said La Guardia, who joined the Democrats in the fight for a direct re- lief appropriation. 1t the sponsors of the compromise are sincere in using these funds for the im- mediate relief of drought-stricken far- mers, said the New Yorker, “they know that they can never be repald.” “The crop is already mortgaged for the seed loan,” he sald. “Therefore, why put the unfortunate farmer in the position of signing something that he will never be able to repay. “If they do intend to press the far- mer until the loan is paid, then instead of having the farmer in destitution for one season we will have him broke, poverty stricken and destitute for ten years.” Food Loan Assurance Demanded. A demand that the administration give “definite assurance” the $20,000,- IDDD will be loaned to farmers for food purchases was made by Representative Byrns, Democrat, Tennessee. He sald he did not consider loans for “rehabilitation” any stronger lan- guage than that used in the $45,000,- 0C0 drought loan act which authorized advances “for other purposes incident to crop production.” “I think they both include food,” gefla?'led]‘ ":ut secf;hfy Hyde told us efinitely he would not so inte: the drought act. ki “Before wé pass this I would like to know whether he has changed his mind about such advances being doles.” Representative Aswell, - Louisiana, [Declares Issuance of Bonds| ranking Democrat on the Agriculture Committee, expressed a similar view, Tilson Issues Statement, Regarding the compromise, H Leader Tilson issued ‘: snnmen:mme which he ‘said t is gratifying that all reference to appropriations from the Treasury through the Red Cross or other agencles has been abandoned. It ‘was necessary that this be done before there was any proper place for com- Dmgl!]e );e emphasized. “Only a loan proposition under prop- er safeguards and with - ity now remains. e “It will be recalled that the contro- versy between the House and the Sen- ate has been upon the straight- propo- sition of appropriating $25,000,000 from the Treasury to be distributed as char- ity through the Red Cross or other | AsH! agencies. The House, by a decisive majority, determined' that this should not be done.’ The compromise now proposed deals with entirely a different matter, It now proposes to increase loan facilitles for agricultural relief. The intermediate credit bank is chosen as the principal vehicle through which to make these loans. Therefore, the amount of funds, and the banking ma- chinery through which it may be made available, are the only. matters now the subject of the compromise. Amount Involved Not Issue. “The adoption of such a compromise will settle once and, I hope, for all, that hereafter the Red Cross is to be left with its powers unimpaired to. perform its proper function in the distribution of charities, and that under present con= ditions no appropriation of funds will be made from the Treasury for distri- bution as charity thfough the Red Cross or otherwise. “From the beginning, the amount of funds involved has not been the subject,} of controversy. This was a matter to be determined by the need. “Now that the question of appropriat- ing from the Treasury for distribu- tion as charity has been removed from the Treasury by, the abandonment of the effort, the amount that may be properly made allable for loans through intermediate credit banks or other loaning facilitiesis in every sense of the word & proper subject of com- promise. ) A com) lan under which it is proposed tentatively to increase the loan allowance on adjusted compensa. tt‘l’fln b%e\':u‘lgltu of World War Veterans abou per cent is expected to be enacted within 10 days, Detalls of the plan were being worked out today by Government officials, It would reduce interest to & uniform rate of approximately 4 per cent, it was sak r%’” wives of applicants to g‘mei- in requests for the new a vu‘}nnf and extend the new grants to all of '!’;’0‘9&,000 veterans who might choose W, The compromise plans were an- nounced by Representative Bacharach of to New Jersey, ‘s ‘House Ways ranking member of the and Means Committee, W] to | yesterday in a bi D. 3 Secretary of Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde was one of the chief speakers at the Atlanta meeting of the Southern Agri- cultural Workers' Association. mer Congressman A. F. Knapp, Auburn, Al Other notables at the meeting caught by the camera with Mr. Hyde are, left to right: For- Lever of South Carolina; J. Phil Campbell of Athens, Ga.; Secretary Hyde, Dr. Bradford d Dr. B. C. Brooks, Raleigh, N. C. —A. P. Photo. COUZENS IN FAVOR OF PAYING VETERANS BONUS IN FULL NOW Senator Says Compensation in 1917 Could Have Earned 95 Per Cent by 1931. Faces Nation in 1945 if Not Paid at Present. Senator Hiram Bingham, Repub- lican, Connecticut, a few days ago gave his reasons for opposing im- mediate cash payment of World War veterans’ compensation certifi- cates. Senator James Couzens, Re- publican, Michigan, offers herewith his views on the other side of the question for The Star and the North American Newspaper Alliance. BY SENATE JAMES COUZENS, Member of the Senate Finance Committee. In 1924 Congress decided that the service men who served in 1917 and 1918 had been inadequately paid. They then said, legislatively, that the men who remained at home in the service were entitled to $1 a day extra, making $2 a day for the time served. They said the man who served abroad was entitled to $1.25 a day,extra. It was proposed that we pay them that addi- | tional pay in cash, but Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and the then S:esldent. Coolidge vigorously opposed is. Therefore & substitute was provided to give the veterans, in lieu of this cash payment, what amounted to a paid-up endowment policy due in 1945. Now, it 5o happens that if the men had ‘received this adjusted compensa- tion when they performed the service in 1917 and 1918 end had invested it at 6 per cent compound interest, on February 1, 1931, they would have re- ceived approximately 95 per cent of the now face value of the certificates. It may be said that 6 per cent is too much, but the facts are that the SENATOR COUZENS. Government charged the veterans 6 per cent when they borrowed money. The Government also pays taxpayers who overpay their taxes 6 per cent for the period the Government retains the overpaid taxes. Congress having admitted that the men were entitled to this adjusted compensation, that question can hard- ly be raised again. It is contended that there will be considerable diffi- culty in raising the money to pay the veterans now, but no one can tell whether it will be any more or less difficult to raise the money in 1945. Under the existing law the Govern- ment will be required to sell $3,500,- 000,000 of bonds in 1945 and it is quite possible money rates will be very much higher than now. For these reasons and the economic distress encountered by over 1,300,000 it would be doing justice to the vet- erans to pay the certificates in full now and, in my judgment, wouid not retard economic recovery. (Copyright, 1931, by North American News- paper Alliance.) THOUGHT SAFE ON FLOE Young Michigan Fisherman Hunt- ed in Region of Lake Island. CHARLEVOIX, Mich.,, February 7 (&) —George Kruskie, 21-year-old Croes Villiage fisherman, carried away yester- day on an ice floe that broke away without warning, was belleved today to have drifted to safety on Crane Island, 10 miles out in Lake Michigan. Signal fires were reported from the island last night. Today a swirling snowstorm and heavy seas prevented further effort at communication with the island. Coast Guards who left here yesterday to search from Kruskie had net re- turned this morning, but an airplane which also joined in the search re- ported having sighted their boat near | Crane Island. 25 TRAPPED ON FLO Fishermen on Lake Erie at Mercy of Northwest Wind. BUFFALO, N. Y., February 7 (#).— At least 25 fishermen were carried out A LS O into Lake Erie here today when a|sta northwest wind broke off a huge sec- tion of the ice on which they were ing. conferred yesterday with President Hoover and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon., Approval Is Expected. At the conference he voiced the opin- fon that & compromise proposal along the lines suggested by Owen D. Young, chairman of the General Electric Co., would meet with approval of all fac- tions in the House and Senate. Administration leadérs expressed the opinion the President would approve such legislation. ‘The announcement by the New Jer- sey member of the Ways and Means Committee followed a lengthy confer- ence between leaders of both parties in the House and Senate. It was indicated they were in agreement. “We are very hopeful for this plan,” Bacharach sdtd as he left for the White House. “If e are going to have legis- lation we will have it within 10 days. ‘The situation is encouraging. The substitute plan would compose differences betWeen advocates of im- mediate cash redemption of veterans' adjusted compensation certificates—at & cost of $3,500,000,000—and opponents of any veterans’ aid legislation. Details Not Worked Out. Details of the compromise have not been worked out, but Representative Bacharach believed they could be coni- pleted promptly. After conferring with Treasury of- ficlals, Bacharach said he believed the compromise plan could be financed by short-term Treasury certificates, with- out resort to a bond issue. Senate and House leaders agreed yes- terday to expedite action on the pro- posal of Veterans' Administrator, Hines for a $10,000,000 hospital ex) Hon program. Chairman Johnson of the House Veterans Committee announced he would report it next Tuesday. Another n Eroposal ‘was offered 1 by Representative La Guardia, Republican, New York. It would authorize loans from $100 to $300 veterans at 3 per t interest, the funds to be used for purpose, but o ho particularly to find employment. L. W. RIGGS FUNERAL TO BE HELD MONDAY Dr. H. B. Smith Will Officiate at Services in Columbia Heights Christian Church. Funeral servjces for Loffa W. Riggs, superintendent of construction for the new House Office Building, working under the Capitol architect’s office, who died in Emergency Hospital Thursday, will be conducted in Columbia Heights Christian Church Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. Dr. Harvey Baker Smith, pastor, will officiate. Interment will*be_in Glenwood Cemetery. Mr. Riggs, who was 50 years old, died from complications following an attack of influenza. His home was at 2036 Pierce Mill road. He was a member of the Washington Board of Trade, Mount Pleasant Lodge of Masons and-the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. He also was past assoclate patron gf Columbia Chapter of the Order of the Eastern r. Mr. Riggs is survived by his widow, Mrs. ‘Bertha White Riggs, and & son, Metford Riggs. WORLD TO HEAR Pope Pius XI (inset) will be heard broadcasts February 12 to inaugurate HV Vatican. The program is to be rebroadcast by the two HOOVER ASKS HALT 10 SCHALL ATTACK Writes Senator Requesting Eight “Fit” Nominees for U. S. Judgeship. President Hoover has moved to end the controversy between Senator Schall, Republican, Minnesota, and _Attorny General Mitchell, by writing the blind Senator that he could not approve his candidate for a Federal judgeship and suggesting he submit a list of “fit appointees.” The President’s letter was given out late yesterday after Schall had renewed his attack upon the Attorney General | for refusing to approve for the judgeship | in Minnesota, Ernest Michel, Minneapolis | attorney whom he had recommended for the post.” Schall Renews Attack. ‘The controversy with Mitchell came into the open when the Attorney Gen- eral recently issued a statement saying it_should be. understood “once and for ai’ that he would not recommend Michel to the President. Schall replied in several statements that there was nothing against his can- didate and yesterday assailed the At~ torney General for having indorsed Al- bert L. Watson to be a Federal judge in Pennsylvania. Asks Eight Names. Mitchell, said Schall, did not consider Watson really qualified, but was afraid to_say so. The President wrote the Minnesotan he would be glad to receive any sugl gestions regarding the vacancy and ad- vi Schall to present the names of 8 or 10 men he thought would make “fit appointees for United States district judge in Minnesota—men whom you are sure will be dominated by no one.” DINNER TO AID FOREST Einstein Approves Plan of Fete for Palestine Timber. LOS ANGELES, February 7 (#).— Asron Richie, head of a committee of Jewish citizens here, said last night Prof. Albert Einstein had approved plans for a dinner in his honor, the proceeds to go toward planting an “Einstein Forest” in Palestine. Richie said Frau Elsa Einstein sug- gested the money be given to the Jewish national fund, an auxiliary of the Zion- ist organizatipn, to be applied on recla- mation an reforestation work in Palestine. - Two forests already have been planted, one named in honor of Theodore Herzl, | founder of the Zionist movement, and the other in honor of Lord Balfour for his services to the movement. e VOLSTEAD GAINS “Father” of Dry Law Rests After 0 Operation. MINNEAPOLIS, February 7 (®). Andrew J. Volstead, “father” of the prohibition enforcement act, rested easily in Fairview Hospital yesterday after an emergency operation for acute appendicitis last night. Dr. N. H. Scheldrup, who performed the operation, described Mr. Vclstead's condition as “very favorable.” Mr. Volstead is legal adviser to the Northwest prohibition administrator. POPE OVER RADIO S radio round the world when new short-wave stal of ation-wide Here are 1)Iuwn the antenna towers of HVJ and the_fansmitter bul BOSTON CONTENT WITH ITS GROWTH City Retains Solid Character- istics, but Takes on Modern Trappings. By l;’c';s Assoclated Press. TON, February 7.—Its 300th an- niversary last year still fresh in mll‘nd. this city scans the record of the 1930 2;2;!;: WILRx ;‘llihl concern over the s which a me 'r:‘,':!m. mere decade have e 10 years since the census of 1920, it found, have altered the picture little, changing it here and there upon the surface and, in contrast, leaving be- neath the modern veneer the solid back- ground of three centuries of history. The growth of business and industry set its mark upon the face of the city in the rise of new buildings and & mounting skyline, in_widened streets and swelling traffic. But among_these evidences of modern progress nestle un- disturbed the mossgrown graves of men, whose names are written large in the Nation's history and revered landmarks. Falls to Ninth Place. Younger cities elbowed during the decade and m‘??;w‘;:‘un:l?; the honor roll of the country’s largest. From seventh place in 1920, when it counted 748,060 inhabitants, it fell to ninth in 1930 with 781,188. This city's growth, a bare 4.4 per cent in the cold percentage figures, was largely skyward. Hemmed in by the sea on one side and the encroaching bound- arles of its closely packed suburbs, it found little room for outward expansion. nAl?:vrth‘nL thufltginss poked their heads e the treetops and - sax(l)%;’ found hompu. g T ers spilled over the city" into the towns and cities that Ix‘('anlt“é make up the metropolitan district, & crowded area that fell barely short of the 2,000,000 mark in last year's count. Many Towns in Area. P AR cenf a total for the district I 1550, Boogn mee gards as more nearly representative of its development. Numbered within this area, most of them within 10 or 15 miles of the city's business district, are 13 cities, including Cambridge, f: Boston across the Charles River, an Ting 100,000. Inch them are 29 towns, !.nl:h«lc ol line, called the wealthiest in America, :'llltnh tlv.s Dopumon of 47490, and 0t surroun corporat llm.ll_g! ofuBuuwn. ity o e city saw its first “skys » of the set back type and more b3 tbe making. New office buildings and ho- tels rose in the Park Square district on the edge of the Back Bay. Famous hnsm‘r,:u. m: A House, where once the great and near-great stopped, :ung Young’s Hotel !td;dg:m t.heppu:- 01d Indlstries Remain. New industries developed, although the turn of 1930 found the C’ltyo:fill relying largely on the sources of its Fually takes hesvy toh 1 shippiiy es heavy fish, the boot and shoe and &"x’fxf. dustries and the wool trade. On the cultural side the city looks optimistically toward the future. As & medical and health center the decade saw many developments, reflected in new hospitals and research’ facilities. Its museums of art were enl 3 enrollment of its schools and colleges bounded upward. MOUNTAIN FOLK FLEE FROM FOREST FIRES McDowell County, N. C., Swept by Flames Fed by Pine Dried in Long Drought. an- and in- By the Assoclated Press. MARION, N. C., February 7.—With highways almost impassable in spots and dense fog and smoke hanging over the mountainsides, mountain folk in two sections of McDowell County today were fleeing before forest fires which were devastating a wide area. The flames, roaring through gorges and up mountains and feeding on drought-dried pine, last night destroyed several homes. - Many of the winding dirt roads were dotted with wagons and carts, loaded with household effects, which trudging mountaineers sought to save from de- 5"r‘)ml“or:é i htel making ‘olunteer fire fighters were little headway against the flames. U. S. LAND CASE UPHELD NASHVILLE, Tenn., February 7 (#).— Right of the State to condemn land that the Federal Government will in- clude in the great Smoky Mountain Na- tional Park was ut;gheld by the Tennes- see Supreme Court today. “Poppy Lady” Honored. ATLANTA, Ga., February 7 (#)— Miss Moina Michael, the “poppy lady,” was acclaimed a distinguished citizen gg ?:orgm yesterday by the State nate. INCOME TAX FACTS. No. 6. In the making of an income tax return for the year 1930, tax- payers of every class, business and professional men, wage-earn- ers and farmers, should present to themeselves for consideration the following questions: Did you receive any interest on bank deposits? Did you have any property from which you receive rent? Did you receive any income in the form of dividends or interest from stocks or bonds? Did you receive any bonuses during the year? Did you act as broker in any transacticns from which you re- ceived commissions? Are you interested in any part- nership or firm from which you receive any income? Have you any income- from royalties or patents? Have you minor children who are working? Have you control of the earn- nings of such chidiren? If so, the amounts must be included in your return of income. Did you receive any directors’ fees or trustees' fees in the course of the year? Answers to all of these ques- tions are necessary to determine whether a person has a net in- come sufficiently large to require that he or she file a return. If single, or married and not living with wife or husband, and the net income -for 1930 was $1,500 or the gross income $5,000 a return is required, of whether the net in- come is nontaxable by reason of the - personal _ex and credit for dependents. A who was single during the taxable year and wi less than $1,500 and i tha.