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L |t i -~ SUCCUMBS AT 31 - Pneumonia of Two Days ‘No. 1,363— Jo. 31,778. GEORGE F. BAKER, DEAN OF FINANCE, Claims Director of Many Banks and Utilities. WEALTH RATED THIRD LARGEST IN WORLD ‘m.nflmpin and Feats in Busi- ness Often Subject of Discussion, Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. TOWNER.R.F.D,, BRYAN UNTIEDT'S ADDRESS White House, the Hoovers, and Lindbergh’s Plane Im- Press Boy Hero Most. “It’s Aimostas Hard to Leave Here as Home,” Youth Says as Train Pulls Out. BY SAM BLEDSOE, Associated Press Writer. “It's almost as hard to leave here as it was to leave home.” Bryan Untiedt of Towner, Colo, who had been the guest of President and Mrs. Hoover for four days, was standing Liberty Limited as he spoke. ‘There was a warning whistle and the train slowly began to gather head- way. The 13-year-old boy, whose hero- By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, May 2.—George F.| Baker, philanthropist and dean of American finsnclers, died of pneumonia | at 8 o'clock tonight at his home, 258 Madison avenue, He was 01 years old. | Mr. Baker died peacefully. He had| been unconsclous for several hours. At/ his bedside were his son, George r‘_; jr.; his daughter, Mrs. Goadby Loew | and his grandchildren. | The aged chairman of the board of | the Pirst National Bank and director | of the United States Steel Corporation. was stricken Thursday after hu]u::nd down! . He complaines «'?m'.’u y-m morning his con- dition rapidly grew worse. Rated As Third Richest. | The man who once admitted his financial strength was so great that no, large enterprise could be carried throug without first winning his confidence and that of J. P. Morgan, had kept his interest to the last in many of the 40 or more corporations in which he was afiliated. His wealth had been placed ces variously at from | 2h005eb 000 o $500,000,000. He was Tated n the world, to be the third richest g only Henry Ford and D. Rockefeller being conceded | more wealth. Few besides Rockefeller | ‘him in gifts to charity. 1 Mr. Baker attended a | ©of the directorates. This after: secretary, George Rysavy, is- | a statement which said: | . Baker was at business Thurs-| He developed pneumonia that He has grown steadily worse condition is now serious.” 8:27 pm., Mr. Rysavy gave out| following: 3 | George F. Bater passed away ly tonight at 8 o'clock.” o & tH éi i tracted the attention of the President, was on his way home. Sums Up Tmpressions. Bryan summed up his impressions of his stay at the Executive Mansion hesitantly. “Most, everything was nice,” he said a bit shyly. “What impressed me most? I don't know, hardly—Washington sure is_pretty and everybody has been as (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) HOOVER 10 GREET C. OF C. DELEGATES onflict Seen on Tariff, Rep- arations and Russian Rela- tions at Conference. Viewed as one of the most important international gathering of business men ever held, because of world-wide de- pression, the International Chamber of | Commerce tomorrow will open its general congress here with 1,000 representatives of more countries present. President Hoover opening session in Cor 10:30 o'clock, an 3 ward, the Congr I the work, with a ness conditions by Georg: mer Prime Minister president of the Inter Several issues whic the Hall at after- to nediately get down of world bus nis, for- who is on the platform of the West-bound | ism during a Colorado blizzard at- | WASHINGTON, D. C, AcAI BEcoMES JANNON'S TRIL T CALED FARCE By " & o i i i ok Church Still in Dark as to ‘ Proceedings, Says One of Four Accusing Elders. PARTIALITY DECLARED SHOWN TO ACCUSED, Letter to Baltimorean Asserts Prosecuting Witnesses Were Denied Rights. SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 3, 1931—114 PAGES. | BALTIMORE, Md, May 2—Rev { Forrest J. Prettyman, one of the four {elders of the Southern Methodist | Church who brought charges against Bishop James Cannon, jr., several weeks | ago, charges in a letter made public today that the bishop's trial was “a | farce and an absurdity.” | Photo.| The letter was written to Albert H. | Dudley, manager of the Baltimore branch’ of the Federal Reserve Board {of the Richmond district. A hearing of | | the charges at Washington resulted in a | | finding that “trial by church is not | necessary.” BRYAN UNTIEDT. ssociated Press DEFICIT MOUNTS 0 10-YEAR PEAK Would Be Setttled With Shor Term Debts by Pro- posed Bonds. ccusers Denied Rights.” He declares in the letter that the ac- sing elders were not allowed during trial to take their private notes from the room, although Bishop Can- non was permitted to take all docu- t ments to his own quarters to make copies, and that the accusers were not permitted to make any argument at the | close of testimony. aithough the bishca | | was allowed a three-day argument in | | nis own defense. | “It remained therefore” he says, “a| { closed. star chamber proceeding and | the church is still kept in the dark | |as to what were the charges or the | character of the evidence or of the pro- | cedure in the investigation. By the Assoclated Press. Completing 10 months fiscal year on April 30 with & of $878,971,129, the largest in a d the Treasury entered the last months with indications tha be increased during that per The Treasul t April 30, Government lected from all sources $2.679 and had spent $3,558,906,240 In the same period of year it collected $3,201,20 spent $3,346,355,848. ¢ of Doubly Convinced of Truth. | the close of the case the elders| brought the charges had not the| slightest doubt as to the truth of them, | but were only doubly convinced by the | admission cn the part of the defendant | 5 ry fac ch he considered im- | ued yeste: i stantiating the charges further be stated that Bishop endeavored by every means the facts from coming to “A preventing the hearing, | in locking up the evi- | eping it from the eyes of | 1 and the public. We, who| 14681337 ASKED FOR SCHOOL WORK Estimate Carries $828,000 for New Lands, With Cut in Building Program. Estimates totaling $14,68 public school system's expenditu 1933 were transmitted late yester the District Commissioners Board of Education Most important items of non-recurring and oper expense, is an estimate of $828,000 f new school lands. This amount $338,000 more than the actual appro priation for sites for the coming i year of 1932 and represents the effot of school authorities to prepare for school meeds of the future by among the tives Gather at Home. { 'm,":h'fmoig‘~h;;{“; lare in sight for the Congr mansion. - Among the ‘first was | I _thelr number debts an ot Then eame his grandson, |tarifl and Russian relations er St Oeol;ge 3}5 'xxfixexdn‘i followed by his wife, the former| e tarift quests felt to be par- rine Delano Price Colller. Thev | ycylarly productive of controversy, as e e ey, " | linked in with Il come discussion B o e o Dy eaeencge D, | of European eco ers and ¢ art for whom the financier created | OTMUIHOR OF - the $1,000,000 Geowge David Stewart | M5 CHStOmS O Foundation, were in attendance. T A e The banker d into unconscious- | ‘ered on, & TERCTL 1O | ness late in the day. Three doctors re-| 0 U0 RN 10" hich ::\ldlned constantly at his bedside to the {the economic_reor Baker returned & few wecks ago from 8long lines of e his Winter home on Jekyll Island, off | establichment Of el the Georgla coast. ~He then was ap- from the operation of parently in the best of health. After |Dation clauses in treatie spending Thursday at his desk in the| First National Bank, of which he was | mercial president, he was seized with a chill in | but the evening and pneumonia developed | "W rapidly. A score of years ago he wa regarded as J. P. Morgan's chief On the death of Morgan it was e that Baker controlled interests at $1,368,250,000. Only Son Follows Path. Widowed many years ago only one son, named for him Jows in his footsteps. f 145,000,000, however, w: ed out June when the second quarter’s income | in tax payments were received and foreign 1‘ s debtor nations paid thelr debt instal-| o1 ments and interest in cash instead of securities, as had been the ice previous years. Debt Payments Coming. The amount of the deficit this ¥ will depend to some extent upon debt payments to be received in Ju If they are in cash some of the amo can be applied t> the general fi | thus reducing the deficit, but if securities all must go toward redu of the public debt. As the deficit mov grew that the Treasury wi to float a sizable bond issue, thoug! no official word that such action wa: contemplated has been announced. Arthur A. Ballantine, Assistant retary of the Treasury, Wednesday at Atlantic City, deficit this year would be met creasing the public debt, whic! pated reports that a tax might be recommended He added the same procedure coul be followed next r, pointing that since the w debt retireme became effective in 1920 the Tre viewpoints including Teparations, tain to bring out conflic § i i Controversy Seen on Tariff. 4] 3k 4 esented b; Cimmittee will be_us jon of Eur be grouped World Trade Discussion d trade will be taker session tomorro international _ecc he who 1 ht the charges, and must now stand the eyes of the church as false wit- against & bishop, claim that concealment s in_itself 1 of guilt on the part of UNABLE TO OUST CANNON Take No Action. May 2 (P.— o remove a bishop, | 5 of the Methodist uth today on petitions seeking { one of its members, s Cannon, jr, of Rich- wise took no_action hop Cannon be pre- coming president of the asked that he not be the post for which he December. He was »m accepting because d a statement before at the selection of the regular order. that the bishops e College of Bish- in the order of ate that Baker was born in Troy, once held a $2-a-week cler ing to New York in his yout immediately entered the bank and gave all of his life to financ ters. He had been Sparta devotion. to his business a to his office early mornings late into the night. His benefactis have dreds of million hoo hospitals and art center. his bounty. His gifts to Ha versity totaled man Pield, Columbia Univers The first Baker, Rich: America on the Batcl Norse bark of 25 tons, Jan 71 days after embarking fi end, England, on November In 1639 this hardy adt new world became a i church in Dorchester and later married the ruling ter, Faith Withington were of some distinctio He Com- N a wheelwright, v miles awa T George come a colos Wkhen e ~(Continued ¢ TWO LEAP TO SAFETY AS TRAIN HITS AUTO Limited Carries Wrecked Machine Nearly Quarter of Mile at Ammendale York boun: thi said Shortly before 3 o'clock ing_Union Station off engine was still at Amm the automobile beneath it cars were pulled to Alexander Junction near Hyattsville, Md., snd an engine was dispatched from Washington take the train through to Jersey Ci N J ‘The train left the Capital 12:25. orn- ¢ with at the | plenar held to take up sp general 3 ng, rnational { capital brought neier de Fri t Chile will tional C: e of the congress th mer er, and \BRITISH WAR DEAD SMUGGLED BACK TO HOMES FOR REBURIAL '}, Top Fee of $2,500 Buys Exhumation in France, Crating r and Shipment to tions Sunday Ex- ight, said f wealthy families died in the were being smug- d from Bel to England for re- al. The smugglers, the Express , land the bodies on the Essex coast, b sal he railrond | and the prices run as high as $2,500, | | depe to pay The war cemeteries in France and Flanders are visited periodically by “a mourner.” who selects the bodies for ex ion, the newspaper relates. LY ing on the ability of the family Y came my time to | pre 1 t ‘in view of | e nnon' the (W. B) | » no rea and prefer { the college ghall | had reduced the debt by approxi y $10,000,000,000, or about .$4,000,000,000 e than required by law Consolidation Is Urged. addition, the Treasury'’s action issuing rm_securities for 60 .0 90 days ise funds to meet G nent needs indica e | wa g made to have 8s muc " o e ssible cf the short-term debt F'ODAY'S S AR | late Summer when it col | retired t ugh a bond issue. At present time the short-terr about $3,300,000,000 emn | PART ONE—28 PAGES. | A L and B-11 Local, National cemfort A bond issue permitting $1,000,000.000 of the short-term debt to be re and large enough to wipe out deficit would leave the Government a position to take up the slacl revenue cver a period of years i of try to meet it at once. Another factor in favor of & bond the condition of the mone se rates are at the lowest s and the fact that much PART FOUR—12 ¥ f the large banki t = i held in their Market Is Favorable. securities issuc in the last month 1 oversubscribed, ages B-9, B- eges—Page B-4 TWO—8 PAGES. Features, ong term PART THREE—18 PAGES. GES. ater, Screen Each of the the T nd issue. t year the Tre s totaling $ ctired $4,6 iod of the 1930 fiscal $3.062,923,107 in securities $3,600,277,421 ween March 31 and April 30 tr ross publie debt increased from $16 2,868,436 to $16,655,379,119. On April 1930, the gross debt was $16,393,- 734,1 ed securit sa it issue At Pare Page Page Ma S age 10, w. dic NO PART FIVE PAG s and Classified Advertis- ng e Home Gard Page 12 PART SEVEN—20 PAGES. Bereaved Families. “ Th Note: Expert gardeners are employed, and Page 14 identification is made by the army iden- tification discs buried with the bodics Once exhumed, they are sent in crat marked frult and vegetables, aboard yacht and smuggled into England under cover of darkn cluded spots on | e bt s ol GRAPHIC SECTION—8 PAGES. The bodies then, are transferred to|World Events in Pictures. ordinary trunks and left at the rail y 'D SEC ‘. road stations of the dead soldiers’ fam- | COLORED SECTION—8 PAGES. Tarzan; Moon Mullins; Mr. and Mrs.; illes, | In most cases, it is said, reburial is| Reg'lar Fellers; The Timid Soul; Lit-! made in a family vault prepared be- tls rm:}mn Annlv;,nfllghllghu of His- tory; Mutt and Jel ferzhands 4 World—Page 17 Page 18. Page—Page 19. | Contrasting with the increase in the |land items, is the reduction of the { amount sought by the school boar | new bulldings. The estimates for 1 contain an amount of $2,639,500 {new construction as compared with 1$2.720,000 carried in M. E. Bishops Receive Petitions, But | priation act for the same pu | Salaries Largest Ttem. | As usual, the largest single item {the estimates is the amount pro Teceived, | for the salarles of teachers and | brarians. The figure is $6,742.767 | $343,567 more than that carried | current appropriation. = How much the of this increase is based upon estimate for mew positigns will not be known until the complete budget is made pub- lic by the Bureau of the Budget when |1t 1s presented to Congress on the first | Tuesday in December: Most of the | increases, however, is caused by the salary increases authorized by exis laws The 1933 estimates include ai | of $130,000 for furniture and e {of the new Roosevelt High School, now { under construction at Thirteenth and | Upshur streets. Another item of $137.- {889 is carrled under the blanket head- ing of “furniture and equipment” and which includes all the other school building needs in this direction. The amount is $65,001 less than fund provided fcr the same purpose in the current appropriaiton. Schools to Be Enlarged. Among the specific imprc items are varying amounts for eling several of the existing buildings. These include $21,590 Western High School, $13,000 for the Macfarland Junior High School audi- torium, $6,000 for the Stuart Junior High School auditorfum and $190,183 for the old Business and Cardoza Higl Schools. Routine repairs to buildings are provided for in an item for $475.- 000, representing a reduction of $17,000 over the current appropriation. The_school board is seeking $31,200 ment mo school { for textbook and supplies for the night school pupils under provisions of the free textbook and supply law. This law was not construed during the past sea- son, its first of operation, to include the ‘night schools, but at the instigation of the late Dr. Charles F. Carusi, school board president, it was agreed to e tend similar educational assistance to the evening pupils. An additional $225,000 is estimated for the adminis- tration of the textbook law for day schools, this amount to provide for re- placements, new books and equipment. Rent Item Reduced. A marked decrease in the rental funds 15 noted in the estimate of $140 as | against the $3,000 appropriated for 1932 This reduction is attributed to the progress_being_made in mnew school (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) GUSHER UNCHECKED; EXPERTS PREPARE BLAST Kinley Brothers, One Working on Crutches, Hope to “Shoot” Well at Dawn Today. By the Assoctated Press. GLADWATER, Tex., May 2- on tonight with ofl fire fighters still in doubt as to when they could set a charge of nitro-glycerin in an attempt | to blast out the fire which began Tues- day and which has taken nine lives. M. M. and Harry Kinley, professional oil well fire fighters from Tulsa, Okla., well tomorrow at dawn. Glenn Har- Toun, In cl\lr?e of production for the Sinclair Co., Indicated Monday would be the soonest an attempt could be made. The charred body of Bob Murdock, Orlando, Okla., a worker caught as the well ignited, was found today. Crutches suflwmu M. M. Kinley as he aided in g preparations for placing the shot of explosive. His right leg was broken yesterday while he was working near the well. “The | wild well of the Sinclair Oil Co. roared | * Mosquito Breeding Planned to Treat Insane Patient Plan to Cure Paresis Is New Objective of Health Service. the Associated Press Artificial breeding of malaria mos- quitoes in quantities sufficient to sup- spitals for the insane with ire for paresis has been made a naw chjective of the Public Health Service. Dr. L. L. Williams, in charge of ma- a control, said the demand for such a project had become so general the Public Health Service had felt it a duty to_comply. Introduced _into (Continued on Page 2. tne Unlted States Column 4.) SOUALORIN ALLEYS SGORED BY WILBUR Conditions Here Held Worse Than Worst Indian Areas in Radio Forum Talk. “Not Indian reserva- tions at their worst can beat some of the alleys of Washington in disease or | depredation,” Secretary of the Interior Wilbur declared last night, explaining the work of Government in behalf of the India the course of an ad- dress in the National Radio Forum, ar- ranged by The Washington Star broadcast over a. coast-to-coast network of the Columbia The a : cally even the wor: was broadcast lo- ation WMAL, was the first fes of talks by cabinet officers in_the | Radio Forum. changed policies in all d activities of the In- the Secretary said ¢ lan Bureau is of a job in 25 years ng at times to tell suffers more from over-ardent sent bur added so different hi rom the rest of ional Transition. need of nother goal tion’s pride has embarked on neering and the next quarter of a century 1d sce a com- plete transformation in the Nation's relation to its human and physical re- sources, Mr. Wilbur declared Asserting that the Nation's frontler “has dissolved in the Pacific and re- appeared in the laboratory and on the school playgrounds,” Secretary Wilbur said it has been necessary, during the past two years, for the Interior Depart- ment to do its part in th new pio- neering. In consequence, he explained to the radio audience, this is a period of transition for his department B Revie the bur terior the goa. to “‘wor “But i M: “The gen- ke-up f is Sees N and a challenge to The United Stat period of pi Defends Oil Policy. A good de Mr. Wilbur's address was devoted to a defense of the admi istration’s policy with respect to the public domain and particularly in con- nection with the Governments oil lands “As to the public domain." Secretary (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) of and | Broadcasting Co. | FIVE CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS THOUSANDS MUST PAY BACK TAXES Treasury Ruling Hits Profes- sors and Employes of States and Cities. ofes employes ors at State universities and of public utilities companies owned by State, county and municipal governments by a ruling by the Treas- ury Department are subject to Federal income tax collection, not only for the past vear but for six years back, plus interest The ruling is expected to prove a heavy blow to thousands of instructors at State colleges and State and municipal employes, who have considered them- selves exempt from Federal income tax- Not only has their exemption been swept away at a single stroke but they find themselves subject to taxa- tion on their salaries for six years back, with a penalty in the form of interest payments on the taxes to be assessed against them for those years. Effect in Wide Scope. Not only the professors, but street car conductors, electricians, line men mechanics and water works employees of governmentally owned companies are believed affected The ruling, coming on the heels of the prediction of Secretary Mellon that there will be a large Treasury deficit for the-current fiscal year, is causing a storm of protest. Many contests are being thrown into the Board of Tax Appeals and the courts of the country The Government, however, is hewing sharply to the new line it has marked out. Professors of the University of Mary- land are among those who have car- ried their protests to the Board of Tax Appeals, where one decision has already been rendered in favor of the Government ccllecting the tax from | the professors. The case of one of the instructors at the University of Maryland, G. Ridgely Sappington, {to come up for hearing before board tomorrow morning. The Government has against the estate of S. Niles, former professor of the Law School of the University of Maryland. The Government i a total tax of $234 again: S for income tax. The execut Mary W. Niles, protested and the Board of Tax Ap- peals held that the inco: xabie. Prof. Niles died Novembe: 6 Sharp Distinction Drawn. ry Department is drawing a sharp distinction between two groups of State or municipal employes for pur poses of the new tax. GOVErnors, may ors of cities, councilmen, altermen, pub- lic school teachers, firemen and police- men and others whose services are con- sidered essential governmental functions are_exempt. ation. the won its case The other group, whose salaries are | now being taxed under the new ruling, includes those whose duties are per~ formed for the State or a political sub- division of the State and are considered of a “proprietary or private nature. Such employes are those of a munici- | pally owned water works, li plant, street railway, faculti tutions of higher learning, State universities where tuition i charged, independent contractors, e ployes of public parks and playgrounds and employes of State, county and municipal hospitals Assessments authority of the revenue act of 1926 and collections will be made where pos- sible for all years back to and including or power of insti- such as 1 | HUGHES GUIDES SUPREME COURT TO NEW RECORD IN CASES HEARD Total of 656 Cases Will Have Been Removed From | Docket, Compared With 597 Last Term. By the Associated Press. The speed with which the Supreme Court, under the leadership of Chief Justice Hughes, is disposing of busi- ness coming before it will enable it on Monday to establish a new record for | recent years. On that day, within approximately two months from the time it granted isaid they might be able to “shoot” the |a review it will have heard oral argu- | ment in a case and have taken it under advisement for decision. | 71t 1s not_unusual for the court to advance and decide cases within that time, but never before since the court has been crowded with litigation, has it been able to reach a case in such a short time in its regular course of procedure. ‘The court, on its own motion under Ohief Justice Taft, began efforts to bring its work down to date. Chlef Justice H:hes with the co-cperation | of his colleagues has followed the same | plan. Not many years ago cases were not reached in regular turn for hearing in less than two years and frequently longer. Now the work of the court has been brought up to date, cases requir- ing speedy attention receiving it with- out delay, while others are being heard as rapidly as counsel can prepare them for argument. Official figures show that on April 25 the court during the present term had heard oral arguments in 241 cases com- pared with 155 during the same period is | the late Alfred | i » | needed, e being made under | | TEN CENTS ELSEWHERE IPROCRESSIVES HIT BARNES' ADDRESS BEFOREU.S.C, OFC, La Follette' Says Effort to Blame Politics for Depres- sion “Won’t Go Down.” { TARIFF REVISION PLAN DRAWS FIRE OF G. 0. P. Borah Asserts Convention Agreed Only on Opposition to In- creased Taxes. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. .‘ Julius Barnes and the United States | Chamber of Commerce, which has just held Its annual meeting In Atlantie iCH\ were targets of Progressive Re- publican Senators last night, among 1'h»m Borah of Idaho and La Pollette | of Wisconsin | Neither of these Senators tenor of the remarks of Mr. liked the Barnes, chairman, of the board of the chamber, {who had blamed politics and govern- mental interference with industry as chief causes of the world-wide Indus- trial depression Both these Prog: ’rlmd that the on! | sive Senators de- thing which Mr. Barnes and the Chamber of Commerce had been able to agree upon was oppo- sition to increases in income and in- heritance taxes “No Moses Appeared.” “There was only one thing that T gleaned from the proceedings at At- lantic City and that was that no Mcses appeared,” said Senator Borah. “Con- gress has been fearfully criticized for | having no plans. It would appear from | the results at Atlantic City that there were no plans submitted there. They were only clear, conclusive and unan- imous as to one thing, and that was they did not want any increased taxes levied on those who were represented.” | ~Senator La Follette sald that a read- |ing of dispatches from the convention city showed that the industrial and financial leadership of the country, as represented in the chamger, was seek- ing to avoid any responsibiiity for the depression. “Their effort to blame politics and politicians for the tragic situation in which the country now finds itself.” sa Senator La Follette, “will not go down ! Democrats Agree on Tariff. | One part of the address delivered by Mr. Barnes at the closing banquet of the convention of the Chamber of { Commerce, however, was given par- ticular approval by Demoecratic Sena- tors in Washington and at the same time was hit by Republican regulars. That was his recommendation that the | tariff be revised. Mr. Barnes proposed: | “the establishment of tariff schedules {on economic principles facilitating in- { ternational trade, with enly due pro- | tection to our higher wage scales and living standards.” Mr. Barnes' statement was hailed by the Democrats as a concession to the tariff proposals of their own party and a repudiation of the Smoot-Hawley tariff bill. These were the views of Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi, ranking minority member of the Sen- ate Pinance Committee, and of Senator Cordell Hull of Tennessee, who for many years as a member of the House was a tariff spokesman for the Demo- crats. i Bingham Against Tinkering. | _Senator Bingham of Connecticut, a Republican member of the Financa Committee, on the other hand, declared | flatly against any tinkering with the tariffl at this time. He insisted that | Barnes’' statememt reflected not the | opinion of American business, but of a few “international bankers. The Barnes recommendation on the tariff, following clcsely on the heeis {of simiar proposals by Gen. W. W Atterpury, president of the Pennsylvania | Railroad, and to_a lesser degree, re- marks made by Chairman Snell of the | House Rules Committee, gave impetus to the talk of tariff revision at t | coming session of Congress. | It was pointed out last night that a combination of Democrats and Pro gressives in House and Senate in | coming session could put through » | serles of tariff measures reducing rates {just as the Congress in 1911 tacklec the Payne-Aldrich tariff law and sent a series of bills to the then President Taft, who vetoed them Democrats to Seek Cut. Senator Hull said the Democrats would at all times be active in their | efforts to bring about a reduction of tariff duties where such reductions were and Senator La Follette de- clared that the Progressive Conference |held recently in Washington wa {already on record in favor of red: ing the inordinately high tariff du of the Smoot-Hawley law. If the Progressive Republicans and the Democrats should unite next De- iu‘mbrr to shove through bills reducing some of the tariff duties, the admin: (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) oS 'CRAZED VOYAGER 3 HURLS TWO IN SEA | Mexican Steamer Wirelesses Ef- fort to Subdue Passenger Is Unsuccessful. By the Associated Press MEXICO CITY, May 2.—A radio messgge from the captain of the small Mexidan coastwise steamer Santa Ce- cilia, intercepted in Manzanillo yester- day, said a crazed passenger was run- ning amuck aboard the vessel, and that efforts to capture or subdue him had proved futile. b The demented man, of huge physical proportions, was said to have thrown two sailors into the sea. The sailors were saved by other sail who threw ropes to them while others gave battle to the assailant on another portion of the deck. Wielding an iron bar, the crazed man injured four passengers and sailors, finally driving the remaining last term; had disposed of 222 by opinions as compared with 165 and had sposed of 434 petitions for review compared with 432, making a total of 656 cases removed from its docket up :: that time compared with 597 last rm, passengers to their cabins and setting fire to a por= tion of the deck. “wn. e ‘The crew man: t ! and at the u.m:‘the cap:t.nn sent, message they had the marauder eors . nered and were supreme. to overpower him. The ship was. from Manzanillo o Acapuico,