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ESTATE T " CLAUSE IS WVALD Federal Judge Attacks Sec- tion Covering Transfer of Funds Beore Death. By the Associated Press. WILMINGTON, Del, August 29.— ‘An opinion holding as unconstitutional the section of the 1926 internal revenue act which states that all transfers of property made within two years of @eath and in excess of $5,000 to any | ‘one person and without full considera- tion shall' be deemed to have been made in contemplation of death was handed down 'in Federal Court yesterday by L John P. Nields. opinion was given in connection ‘with the demurrer, of the United States Government to the suit filed by the Delaware Trust Co. executor of the estate of William du Pont against the collector of internal revenue for Dela- ware. The suit was filed to obtain the re- turn of $283,130, which represents 20 per cent of a deficiency estate tax levied on property that Mr. du Pont had transferred to relatives. ‘The total deficiency tax on the prop- erties, which were transferred shortly before Mr. du Pont's death in 1928, amounted to $1,287,000. Of the defi- clency tax, only 20 per cent had been "Aut prior to filing of the suit. others testified that at the time of the property transfer Mr. du Pont was in good health and had no expectation of early death. SPECIAL JURIES HIT BY CHICAGO PROBERS Unguiry Fails to Find Graft Worthy of Prosecution; At- tacks Dry Law. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 29.—An eight- month search for evidence of police graft and corruption was terminated by a 1 grand jury yesterday with the report it found nothing worthy of prose- cution and that special grand juries ought to be discarded as obsolete and neffective. The report commended the depart- ment as second to none in honesty and efficiency and upbraided, as pernicious and reprehensible, critics “who attempt to thrill “‘:géfkutm"s with weird tales ©f sin-soak Admitting a few captains, whom re- credited with bank accounts rang- as high as $75,000 and $100,000 on of $4,000, had holdings out of all proportion to their earnings, the grand jury said it returned no indict- ments because there was not sufficient proof to warrant them. ‘Whatever graft was discovered, the grand jury said, could be traced to the enactment of the national prohibition prior to which “we are satisfied it confined to sporadic instances. * ¢ * Nothing in our opinion would go %0 far to raise the standards of all police departments as would the repeal or modification of prohibition.” ol it BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers' Home Band this evening at the bandstand at law, was “Hunting for Snark’ Rollinson Noonday in & peaceful hamlet. The terrible tale of the smark. They seek the snark in his Jair. Danger is near. All become panic-stricken and a stam- | ensues. The hunters return in and make a masterly retreat. Mosaic, “Favorite Songs of Scotland,” Lampe Fox trot, “When Your Lover Has Gone"” Swan ‘Waitz suite, “Moonlight on the Hud- R Hermann Finale, “Old Man Sunshine”...Warren “The Star Spangled Banner.” ‘The potential value of the public fands under care of the Department of 'g;&oolo%mnr is estimated at $25,000,- a recent hearing physicians and ; ® THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1931. Exhibited Newest Aid to Aviation | ELIEVE it or not, but this plane in France is the invention of M. Makonine, a Russian. the same lines. With the wings extended the ship travels at a speed of telescoped the speed is ralsed to about 186 miles. The craft is powered has wings which can be extended or contracted at will. The wings may be compared to a telescope, since they work along | ‘With the wings extended the spread is about 68 feet and telescoped the spread is about 36 feet.—Wide World Photo, RUSSIAN INVENTS EXTENSIBLE WINGS FOR PLANES. The device ! about 106 miles per hour and with them with a 450-horsepower Lorraine motor. Universes Seem Splitting Observers Believe Nebulae in Distant Galaxies Move Outward at Speeds Increasing According to Distance from Milky Way. BY THOMAS r. HENRY. A vast cluster of galactic universes approximately 600,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles away from the earth apparently is rushing outward at a speed of about 12,000 miles a second. A similar cluster approximatdly 418,- 000,000,000,000,000,000 miles distant ap- pears to be speeding away at a velocity of about 7,316 miles a second. Results of observations of 46 of the fainter clusters of nebulae, ranging in distance from about 171,000,000,000,000,- 000,000 miles to 600 quintillion miles, | have just been made public by Drs. Edwin Hubble and Milton L. Humason of the Carnegie Institution of Wash- ington, in the Astrophysical Journal. Distance-Speed Link Checked. | The new observations were under- constellation Pegasus, distance 11.000,- %km Pyl by dxufiw T“"’“[m g:lll'zeu speed outwards 3,200 miles DhaVESac v Sphe eavens | © A group of about 800 nebulae in the s O i A e e e mental lmitations, This is that the 000000 parsecs, speed 4600 miles & further away in the vast reaches of Second. space beyond the Milky Way galaxy, in which the sun is mil- results are described in parsecs | astronomical unit of approximately | 000,000.000,000 miles. It is really th: | distance to some heavenly body whose | annual paralax amounts to one second {of arc. Miles have no real meaning { when applied to such vast distances | Even light years—the distance traversed |in one year by light moving through | space at 186324 miles a second—Ilose | their significance. | Results Announced. Here are the results of the new ob- servations of Hubble and Humason: | A group of about 150 nebulac in the | constellation Cancer, distance 9.000,000 parsecs, speed outwards 2,900 miles a second A group of about 500 nebulae in the | A group of about 300 nebulae in the | constellation Ursa Major, distance about 122,000,000 parsecs, speed about 7,300 | miles a second. | A group of about 300 nebulae in the | constellation Leo, distance approxi- | mately 32,000,000 parsecs, speed about the objects there are moving outward. These cbjects are nebulae and clusters of nebulae—each nebulae being a_ 1ast conglomeration of stars comparable in | eseriaions Milky ystem, | 12,000 miles a second. . :‘fi'mm',"vmh ob- | This is as far as the observers have sky. | been able lwm:o ulp‘uz r:hc p;‘csenld seem Theoretically the relationship is figure m‘?."m:‘-‘;..{’.:'.‘,'d"‘.,“'."".‘:.d e, 4o b | out to & distance of 108,000,000 parsecs creases approximately 350 rhiles per | and.an outward velocity of about 37,- second for each 19,000,000,000,000,000,- 000 miles a second. o e apect s G| vty sl Apparent l‘r{! the specbmm’c! the lfsht from these ‘ ‘The observers stress in their report rebulae. The displacement of spectrum | Of the new observations that, so far lines has proved a reliable method for |35 they know. the increasingly great measuring the distance and direction |Cutward velocities are only apparent of motion of objects within the local (8nd they have no means of stating galaxy. positively that this strange phenomenon i | actually is taking place in the distant Law Apparently Holds Good. | heavens. They make no effort to inter- The two Carnegle Institution ob- pret what it means if it is a reality servers, working at the Mount Wilson rather than an illusion in some way in Observatory, had found th: law of in* herent in observation over such re- creased speed of outward motion with | mote distances. increased distance to hold good for | The two observers express confidence, nebulae, whose distance cculd be calcu- however, that the same uncanny re- latea in other ways, as by observations 'hliunship of outward speed and di of variable stars which could be isolated ' tance. which seems on the surface as on photographs. The t observa- | if all creation were undergoing a gigan- tions were made of nebulae, whose dis. | tic explosion, will hold good when it tance was calculated by their luminosity | becomes instrumentally possible to ex- and extend approximately four times | tend the observations to still more d as far into space. tant objects with the photographic eye The distances are so vast that the | of the telescope. NATIONAL HEALTH a “REMARKABLY GOOD" Plane Wrecked When Motor Fails | Over Ohio Airport. NEW PHILADELPHIA, Ohio, August Insurance Statistics for 7-Month sl 29 (#).—W. L. Scott, Houston, Tex., Period Show Extensive Drop. | making' a solo flight from Pittsburch in Fatal Ills. - to ‘which includes Jects in the | to St. Louis, escaped injury when his | plane was wrecked here last night. | Scott was 150 feet over Schoenbrunn Atrport, where he had stopped to refuel, S e | when his motor stopped and his piane SPECIAL NOTICES. 1 WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY | contracied by any one other than D. LOUIS SELKE, 1805 Potomac TR i RN WOTICE TO CREDITORS OF THE MEN' CLIFP BENEFICIAL ASSOCIA- TION OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUM- | Notice 18 hereby given that the under- igaed has been duly appointed by decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Co- Iumbla receiver of the Men's CLff Rock Ben. al Association of the District of Colum- bia, and all creditors of said corporation are’ hereby notified 1o present their claims o me without delay GEORGE L. HART. JR.. Receiver. | 218 Munsey Blds. hington, D. C. | FOR ~REN1. 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The report stated that July is the fourth successive month this year with a better health record among wage, earners than the corresponding month last year, although 1930 was the best year previously and wage earners usu- {ally feel the most serious effects of economic _disturbance § The death rate among the industrial population of Canada and Far Western States showed an appreciable drop for &000“00000“0‘« TRUTHFUL ADVERTISING Ol ctectil = have waited long h to be able to haye d in vour home to a cumulative increase of 2 per cent mortality in the East, deaths declined more than 8 per cent in States west of the Rock Mountains. Influenza, infantile paralysis, diabetes only sources of increased mortality so | far this year in the field of illness. Automobile accidents, homicides and | suicides also showed & slight increase PROTEST CAR TAX BOOST Petitions Circulated Against House Committee Recommengdation. 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By the Associated Prese NEW YORK, August 29.—The pock- ets of Uncle Sam soon will bulge with more than $5,000,000 in gold. | A survey of the gold situation yester- day showed it ‘will be only a matter of a short time before gold holdings in the United States will top the five-billion mark for the first time in the history of any nation. | The gold reserve on August 26 amounted to $4.992,000,000, while im- pending shipments from South Amer- ica will increase this amount. A ship- ment of $4,255,000 is being sent to New | York from Argentina on the steamer Western Prince, and Uruguay plans to send $5,000,000. In addition receipt of 965,000 from Mexico was reported yes- | terday by the Federal Reserve Bank of | New York. It became apparent that the United States would pass the five-billion dol- |lar mark when it was indicated at Buenos Aires that the Argentine gov- | ernment would meet the $50,000,000 | notes maturing October 1 with gold | which is being withdrawn from the | Caja de Conversion. Thus far this| month receipts from Argentina have | | amounted to only $5.328,000, but heavy | shipments are looked for in the neml few weeks. The last extraordinarily large move- | ment from Argentina took place in May, | when more than $40,000,000 was re- ceived in preparation for interest and sinking fund requirements for the half vear. - Since that time shipments have totaled about $18.500.000, all of which has been for public debt service. . MAN, BELIEVED OF ITALIAN NOBILITY, ENDS HIS LIFE By the Associated Press. MARTINEZ, Calif, August 20.—A man_known as Prank Cosmis, said by | his friends to have been a member of | the Italian nobility, shot himself to death yesterday. | | Cosmis, Deputy Coroner A. L. Pres- | ton said, apparently feared to be de- | ported to Italy. Friends of the dead man said he feared the wrath of Mus- solini | " He left a short note saying, “I, the undersigned, declared the reason for the insane act I am commiting is due to | necessity.” Preston sald the Department of Im- migration had been investigating Cos- | mis for the last three weeks because he had overstayed his leave in the United States. Preston believed de- | portation proceedings were imminent. FOR SALE. OVERLOOKING FARRAGUT SQUARE. LARGE MODERN HOUSE: AUT! MATIC ELEVATOR: WOND HOME FOR CLUB OR . A L. W. GROOMES, 1719 EYE ST. of Washington The only really differ ent Home built in this city in recent years. New IDEAS, new IM- PROVEMENTS. Bet- ter living and for LESS MONEY. Don't Miss This New Type -Home Chevy Chase, D.C. TO INSPECT Conn. Ave. to Chevy Chase Circle, left on Western Ave. to Rittenhouse St., left two squares to Rittenhouse and Broad Branch Rd. SHANNON_E LUCHS 1435 K St. N.W. beautiful view ILOUISIANA COTTON s your chance to get modern in every way. PLAN STIRS SOUTH Copy of Act Sent to Texas While Farmers Schedule Conferences in Other States. By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, Ga., August 20.—The at- tention of the South today was focused upon Louisiana’s legislation against pro- duction of cotton in 1932 and the man- ner of its recepton by the other cot- ton States. A copy of the act, finally adopted | sarly this morning and made a law when its sponcor, Gov. Huey P. Long, arose ' from bed to sign it, was dispatched to Texas for consideration. The bill be- | comes operative only if States raising | three-fourths of the crop adopt similar | measures. Farmers Discuss Plan. In South Carolina, by proclamation of Gov. Ibra C. Blackwood. farmers | gathered at county seats to discuss the | coiton situation and express their de- sires as to following the Louisiana plan. He said he would be ruled largely by | their sentiments. i At least three meetings of farmers to discuss the prohibition measure have been scheduled in Georgia for Monday. Eugene Talmadge, Georgla commissioner of agriculture, has been speaking in behalf of the plan through the~State. Several mass meetings have already ap- | proved the measure. | Gov. Russell of Georgia yesterday | wired President Hoover asking him t ““use the good offices of the Farm Board’ to take steps toward improvement of the price of cotton or to call a special session of Congress if the Farm Board | cannot act at once. | The South also looked to the Farm | Board for any steps that body might take, Yesterday Senator George of | Georgia and other Southern Senators | discussed the cotton crisis with the‘ Farm Board members in Washington. | Senator G!owe submitted a plan to/ pay farmers 12 cents a pound for their | cotton, half now and half next year, | if they plant no cotton then. ‘The suggestion of the n gov- ernment for an international confer- ence to consider the world cotton situa- tion likewise was under scrutiny. | LONG DOMINATES POLITICS. ‘ Wins Vote of Confidence From Legis- | lature, Which Sought Impeachment. | By the Associated Press. BATON ROYGE, La., August 29.— Two and a half, vedrs ago Gov. Huey P. Long stood on the floor cf the Louis- iana Legislature and heard impeach- ment articles voted against him on charges ranging from attempted mur- der ‘conspiracy to permitting a night club entertainer to sit on his knee. This week he stood on that same floor and heard the same Legislature | give him a unanimous vote of confl- | dence by indorsing his plan to prohibit | by law the growing of cotton next | year in the State, provided other States Go_the same. Since the days of the impeachment trial_Gov. Long's fortunes have risen | steadily. By a clever coup he stopped | the impeachment trial in the Senate, | where his enemies held a majority. | “I'll show ‘em,” he shouted the night before he broke up his trial. His enemies now are hard to find ImJ is record since the im- 1 shows he has won & himself in the United States Senate and placed his friends in the United States House of Representatives. He has become & member of the Dem- ocratic National Committee *and had | welded the old regulars of New Or- leans into his own organization after those dignified gentlemen had branded him “a young whippersnapper.” He influenced the State Legislature into enacting measures calling for more than $100,000,000. He has built a new cap- itol, a new Governor's mansion and paved roads and built bridges where he chose despite opposition. He has dom- inated local as well as State politics | and stands today the undispu o litical czar of Louisiana. o float across highways, blazing: “anlm!tl"‘nl&n." All in all, this red-headed young man has come a long way from his big farm home in the Red Hills of Winn Parish, and he isn't yet 40 years old. 5,000 VISIT WAKEFIELD IN MONTH, TALLY SHOWS First Official Count Also Bares Reg- istration of Foreigners at at Washington Shrine. The George Washington Birthplace FRENCH PLAN TO HONOR HANNIBAL FOR MARCH Feat of Crossing Alps With Army Into Italy Against Romans ‘Was Made in 218 B.0, PARIS (Speciai) —Revival of the in- | terest in Hannibal for his feat of crosse ing the Alps into Italy with his Carthaginian army has been brought about in France in the last few months by the formation of an association for the commemoration of the passage by :‘h:.esnuz general of pre-Christian National Monument at Wakefield was| The association thus far has several visited by approximately 5000 mvhundred members, most of them con- during July, when & count of vl.llwrsi‘-“r'g‘;d with ‘the universities or the He has won the right to sign his| | was made for the first time by the | statements, as he frequently does, “Huey P. Long, Governor of the State of Louisiana and United States Senator- elect by the grace of his people.” Seeks to Tie Cyr's Hands. He also has piled up accomplishments that many people claim gives credence to his laughing boast: “There may be smarter people than Huey Long, but they ain't in Louisiana.” Right now he is a busy man. He is seeking to “tie the hands” of his po- litical foe, Lieut. Gov. Paul N. Cyr. so that he can leave the State without Cyr taking over the Governor’s powers as the State Legislation provides. He is also striving to put into office a Gov- ernor and a new set of State officers from among his own organization, and lately he is working hard to get South- ern States to enact laws to adopt the Long “no-1932-cotton plan.” Many people will tell you privately that Long cannot succeed in any of these ventures, but as many more will say meekly: “Huey might dot it.” Some_Louisianians will say the same FEATURES —introduced in our HOMES become STANDARDS. 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