Evening Star Newspaper, January 15, 1932, Page 2

ROOSEVELT VETOES - ABUSE OF HOOVER Adherence to Principles of Fair Play Demanded in Coming Campaign. ILSLEY SLAYERS SOUGHT IN HILLS Two Colored Men Believed Hiding in Mountains West of Leesburg. By the Associated Press. { NEW YORK, January 15—Strict ad- fer with Mai Rice M. Youell, prison | herence to the principles of fair play gonter R O Mg | in_ the Democratic presidential cam- Tawlord’s | pajgn was the keynote struck by Gov. | Franklin D. Roosevelt, potential choice of his party. in his address last night | before 3,000 guests at the New York Democratic “victory banquet” at Hotel Astor While open in his assertion that “the | President of the United States and his associates have perhaps shown inca- p after a scrap pacity to eontribute leadership in the ame was found in|solving of a ngtional crisis,” he de- which the slayers | clared that Democracy “can never tol- v. The car was|erate abuse against the person of the| near the south!'President of the United States.” ¢ | He regretted, he said, that there were | those “who had forgotten their sense of fair play to the extent of making the woman | President the subject of jests.” lared Crawford promised to give her | Pleacing for a campaign “free from and wrote her name and | prejudice.” Gov. Roosevelt, howevel the paper so he could send | declared that “the battle of Democra ¥ ter | is pointed not at the rank and file of the others taken into custody for | the historic Republican party. but at of them was | those who today direct its polices.” JordEATierIhe Tax Views Applauded. . pplauded for a suggestion (Continued From First Page.) el superintend>nt regarding Sunday colored woman, ion obtained by was one of six into custody for was armed last a in ‘The wc colored persons tak questioning last She was picked paper bearing her the automobile in made their geta-aw abandoned Wednesday end of Highway Bridge | Promised Woman Money. Questioned by Murphy, the All pected killer Money Stolen From Purse. | and SIMILAR AFFAIRS HELD THROUGHOUT COUNTRY TO §' ICTORY dinners were held in the larger cities of the country last night as the $1,500,000 for the 1932 presidential campaign prominently mentioned as a presidential candidate. of the National Committee; John W. Davis, Democratic presie Lehman of New York State, Gov. Roosevelt, Lieut. Gov. Grover Whalen. Among the speakers at t Front, left to right, dential no JPANESE ROUTED ST INSEVERE FIGHTING o Lose 100 Dead or Wounded Before Chinese Reoccupy Tahushan. By the Associated Press TIENTSIN, China, January 15.—Chi- nese newspapers today said Chinese reg- ular troops and volunteers have reoc- | cupied Tahushan after 48 hours of severe fighting with the Japanese, who lost 100 dead and wounded before they retreated from the city. Both Chinese and Japanese newspa- pers said the Japancse have been forced to retreat from the positions they occu- pled along the Pieping-Mukden Raflway following their advance to Chinchow that their losses in dead and wounded have been heavy in the sev- eral days of fighting. They were de- feated in most places, the newspapers said The battle was still in progress along the railway between Tahushan and Tungliao, Chinese advices said. as a result of the Japanese drive into Jehol Province. Japanese papers printed details of the fighting that has been going on along the railway since January 9 and said 5,000 Chinese troops and volunteers raided various Japanese posts, inflict- | URGES H MUM ON DRA DRY VOTE BY STATES nner at the Hotel Astor in New he di n F. Curl at the dinner: Joh minee in 1924; Henry Attorney General John J. Bennett of New York State, Norman E. Mack of FT PLAN: pen Declaration for Resubmission of Issue Called For at “Victory Dinner” of Massachusetts Democrats. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, January 15.—Alfred E Smith says he's “over the draft age” and beyond that refuses to commit him- self on the question of his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomina- tion New York's former Governor smiled contentedly as Daniel J. Gallagher, for- mer United States attorney, jumped to a chair during the victory dinner of Massachusetts Democrats last night to caution “Al" to go slow with his plans “because the party'’s going to draft you.” Mr. Smith's reply that he was over the draft age was the only allusion he made during the evening to the possi- bility of his own candidacy g He urged 2.000 wildly cheering Demo- crats to join in a united effort to restore their party to power by abandoning their traditional custom of finding fault with the Republican party and launch- ing forth on & constructive program of their own Bares Dry ‘Law Stand. Mr. Smith's route to success in the coming presidential election would be by an open declaration for resubmission of the prohibition issue to the several States, and advocacy of a gigantic Ped- eral bond issue for the expansion and improvement of public works and & con- solication of the forces of the party | And if you have any doubt, get your- self nominated for President and after- ward find out what happens to you I've had that experience.” He described the organization formed after the 1928 campaign, and to those preparations he attributed much of the success of the Democrats in the 1930 elections. Turning to the coming campaign, he launched into a discussion of platform planks. “If there was ever a time when the party should give the American people a clean-cut, straightforward, honest declaration of what it intends to do if entrusted with the Govcrnment during the next four years, it is this year. Wants Frank Demonstration. “Let’s make a frank, open and honest declaration of what we intend to do with the prohibition law. We owe it to the country and the people. Thers s no need of looking to the Republican party. The President is not in accord | with his own commission. intend to do anything about hope we don't.” “Now, the Republican party is un- alterably committed to a continuance not only of the waste of money in a senseless attempt at enforcement, but en economic waste that is growing from the loss of taxation while liquor of all kinds is flowing through every State in the United States. it and They don't | 'TART CAMPAIGN FUND DRIVE. e start of a Nation-wide drive by the Democratic party to raise a fund of York City was Gov. 'y, Tammany Hall leader; John J. Raskob, chairman T. Rainey, majority leader of the House of Representatives; Franklin D. Roosevelt, { Buffalo and —A. P. Photo. HOOVER RELIEF PUT BEFORE CANDIDACY |Secretary Says President | Subordinates Personal Poli- tics to Economic Program. (Continued From First Page.) to the renomination of the President, could be elected there, it was said, if the President decided to keep away from any official statement of his candidacy. Attention was called to the fact that in New Hampshire, where the first presi- dential primary is held, Senator Moses and others have already announced their intention of running as Hoover pledged delegates to the national con- vention. The New Hampshire primary falls on March 8. What Mr. Hoover's friends will do about the North Dakota primary. which is set for March 15, has not been de- termined, Postmaster General Brown said. That is the primary in which the North Dakota Senators have sought to enter Senator Hiram Johnson as an anti-Hoover candidate. _ Candidates must file, they hold. by February 13. Up to date the California Senator has maintained silence about his plans. Supporters of Senator Borah of Idaho, another Progressive, for the presiden- tial nomination, are talking about get- ting him into these primary State Taces. Booms Are Scarce. The President’s hat, which has vir- STATE DEPARTMENT WARNED OF LOAN White Says Information Re- garding Bolivia Was Re- " ceived in 1928. By the Associated Press The State Department was Informed in 1928 that loans to Bolivia were un- wise, but one of its high officials said today it had no authority to stop Americans from lending money to for- eign countries Assistant Secretary Francis White said the State Department had been given this information from the Com- merce Department, but that the Secre- Interests were Involved he should take no action. The loans are now in de- fault. He gave the testimony to the Senate Finance Committee during an inter- rogation covering loans to several South American countries. Many of the questions centered around a loan to Colombia shortly after that coun- try had granted a valuable ofl con- cession to the Mellon-controlled Gulf Oil Corporation, Had Denied Message. White previously denied that State Department officials knew of a message to the Colombian Congress saying was essential the Barco oil concession taine¢ from this country. He told the committee he did not recall such a mes sage. Senator Johnson of California had asked about it. message Johnson asked about. This one was described as also being from ! President Olaya of Colombia and as saying he had resumed negotiations with the Guif Oil Corporation over the Barco concession because the American legation wished him to do so. Again Refuses Letters. The Assistant Secretary again refused to turn over to the commitee, except confidentially, pertinent letters ex- changed between the department and its Colombian legation. The committee de- ferred voting on a formal demand for the documents. In offering to let the committee mem- bers see the papers confidentially. White said they referred to relations between the United States and a foreign govern- ment that should not be made public. Johnson refused to accept this, how- ever, pointing out it would be impossible to cross-examine White if the corre- spondence were furnished under these conditions. Senator Jones. Republican, of Wash- ington, asked if White was acting under orders in refusing to turn over the cor- respondence. White replied in the affirmative, but sald he was willing to take the re- sponsibility of refusing. Follows 25-Year Practice. Chairman Smoot asked if White was not following the practice of the de- partment for 25 years. “Yes,” White replied. “Do I understand that it has been the department's policy for 25 years to read diplomatic messages to interna- tional bankers and deny them to the tary of State felt that unless political | it | be granted in order that loans be ob- | White also failed to recall another| PATMAN CHARGES - DENIED BY MELLON Agent Tells House Probers Secretary Controls No Corporations. (Continued Page.) poration, a company controlled by Mel- lon interests. Asked later if he meant Mellon was never consulted about the Barco con- cession, Gregg quickly answered “I was careful not to say that; I don't know. He never suggested that the Gulf Oil Co. confer with repre- sentatives o fthe Colombia government | to arrange the concession The Gulf Oil Co. owns 75 per cent of this concession, which was reinstated last Spring by the Colombian Congress, 1 It was a compromise settlement.” | “Mr. Melon does not own personally any sea vessel” Gregg continued. “He is not personally interested in any im- | ports. Some of the corporations in which he is a stockholder may be, I don't know.” “I have investigated every fact T pre- sent and am prepared to prove every statement,” Gregg_continued Sitting behind Gregg was a second Mellon representative, D. D. Shepard of Pittsburgh. At the same table Patman | also sat, listening intently | Taking up the charg made large tax refund: companies in which he is interest | Gregg drew on his own Government | perience to outline in detail tax case | procedure. Refunds Must Be Approved. He emphasized that the commissioner of interpal revenue is appointed by the President with the approval of the Sen- ate and “is not an employe of Mr. Mel- lon.” Gregg sald & tax refund never made until approved by the Joint Con- gressional Committee on Internal Rev- enue Taxation and that “never has a refund been made over the protests of this committee.” “I was in the Treasury from 1621 to | 1827, he stated. “and I never knew the Secretary to consider a specifice refund case.” Representative Tarver, Georgia, Dem- ocrat, brought out that during the early part of Mellon's term neither the joint committee nor the Board of Tax Ap- peals had been created “The Secretary of the Treasury has never passed on a refund since 1920,” Gregg replied | ~“Mr. Mellon told me he had never heard of ‘the Federal Architect, " Gregg added Patman said Mellon, through this publication, had increased the use of aluminum in public buildings, “I know that of my own knowledge,” he said. Mellon had | to himself ar Tax Additions Cited. Gregg denied any knowledge on Mel- lon’s part of the huge amortization re- fund made several years ago to the Aluminum Co. of America, in which the | Secretary has an interest, “Since Mr. Mellon has been Secre- |ing many casualties on the Japanese, | throughout the Nation on an all-the- R T oyl A e T T s entitles the holders to use that historic | Senate?” Johnson asked. 1 spoke of “go- | the mountains” B9 {hat the States designate certain flelds | riff E. S. Adrian of Lou-' Of taxation in which the Federal Gm-l rted today that all the | ernment might ralse its expensc money ns had been released, re- | &nd t the States raise thelr tax ports that the six sl were beng held | money If (e TeRURtE QeI 10 o3 e o Cers i (o6 be held | hotel, which has been the scene of | virginia jail and the others in|MAany a famous banguet, was filled, and e lokup Their detention was | 50 Were two balconies. as the Governor being kept, secret, the yeports stated, | mOUMEL B BaE L) OO o8 O S 0TS because authdrities feared possible mob | X601, fo, help ohery the Do They cheered him for a full minute | before he began and again when he Although robbery had been virtually | A ey o et and discarded as a motive for the double | LIRSS Hne 10 Q ACE B oeR O el murder, a check-up revealed about sfif‘pvfiklnl iy HBoaton » J was stolen from Mrs. Tisley's pocket- | SPERKInG In Boston. 00 g DO e e e oy ered o | themselves in writing to help raise the an's ba deposits and expenditures. i;:}rfl chest for the coming pruldenulli When the purse was found it contained | “yiryuglly al the leaders of democracy | O s jewelry was still intact |0 the Middle East were at the speakers’ srhien (hier body was fonnd L. ! table, behind a battery of microphones | Following a trail of blood spots to s“;gg“‘" the glare of powerful cnlflumi e part of the murder| ™ John J. Raskob, Democratic National | CoMage O A mobiles | Chairman, sat near the Governor and | eys 10 one of M. Tl AT nich | smiled when the crowd cheered at| N Cosiren | every mention of his name and his | was used by the slayers to make their For: Moriite perty. | ol fi?h?fi“ii;fi?"fii&‘hffi k‘:\]':) Tammany was represented by John B0t isturtied. howover 8| p.‘Curry. its leader. Grover A. Whalen, | 53l ¢ i | “the bes s y « The fear of mob violence on the part | il ol i e;]indp?l:% tgr\r:;reus;tiopfi‘ of Virginia residents was intensified | K : s ful Jast night. An automobile occupied by [dress and said a few words investigators was trailed for some dis- | John W. Davis Speaks. | $ancefoy meveral other sod1 The rally ended with John W. Davis, | Funeral Services Held. 1924 standard bearer, and Representa- | : tive Henry T. Rainey of Ilinois, | Funeral services for Mrs. Tisley were | mg jority leader of the House, predicting held at noon today in Emanuel Prot-|‘\ictory in 1932 with the help of the | estant Episcopal Church, Middleburg. | ¢1'500.000 fund now being sought. i Seores of floral tributes were received. | 313 00PN B art: ; Among ‘the cards were those of Mr.| Oc ({1 bresident) i perhaps the | and Mrs. Walter West Al}u‘n. N i | victim of & theory which holds that the former Senator and Mrs. Walter Good-| control of the Republican party reins win, Hartford, Conn Col. and Mrs. | C. Oliver Iselin, Middleburg and Long Island: Miss Hope Iselin, Long Island; | Mrs. Emory Perkins, Middleburg: Mr.| and Mrs. John Hay Whitney, Upper-| wville; Mr. and Mrs. Arthur ‘White, Mr. | and Mrs. Henry W. Frost, Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Sands, W. C Langley Brig. Gen and Mrs. Willilam D, Mitchell and Mr. and Mrs. W. L Hulbert, all of Middleburg | Dr. B. Campbell Mayer read the cus- tomary Episcopal burial service, which was followed by a few remarks on the | esteem and affection in which Mrs. | Tisley was heéld by neighbors | Pallbearers were Sands, William Hitt, ! James Skinner, Frost, Col. William Clifford, Thomas Adkinson, Hulbert, | Gen. Mitchell, George Gaither and Dr. | Carey Langhorne Following the services, the body was brought to Washington and placed on | a train for Milwaukee. Burial will be in that city. Mr, and Mrs. Julius W. Boeing, Mrs. Tisley'’s parents, and her brothers, John and Paul Boeing, left at once for the | Wisconsin ety Two colored men arrested by Cam- den, N. J., police as suspects, were re- Jeased last night after about two hours’ qQuestioning MILWAUK | RITES SET. MILWAUKEE. January 15 (#)—Rel- | atives of Spenc ey have made ar-| rangements for the burial here Satur- day of his widow, Mrs. Agnes Bocing | Tisley, who, with her maid, was slain in Middleburg. Va Fureral ices will be held at pm. m Forest Home Cemetery Chapel, | with Holmes Whitmore, rector | of St Episcopal Church, offi ciat The body will be buried be- of her husband and Paul Boeing, brothers of Tisley, are expected to bring the here, relatives said 2 Paul's STATE POLICEMAN 1 SLUGS PHOTOGRAPHER | AT ILSLEY FUNERAL' (Continued From First Page.) Protestant Fpiscopal Church, in Mid-| dieburg, and were preparing to leave the scene when Policeman Stafford rushed the church and demanded the fi But we from pic- received permission fam take these photographers said ers caid nd none Mrs. tures,” the em the togethe to the co office around arms of Rob: grabbed the er photographer on treet. Roberts rem d walk up the being held and stafford then struck Rob- his fist, knock- down. Roberts 1 nose and stepped them. blow to Roberts’ head was so he was forced to sit on the side- mome to recover his erts and way up strated street al ithout nched he State officer d the ¢ phot flew hard walk a few senses ner for The d to turn over flord threat- ra.” He then and pulled out it developed photogr also decli ened to rabbed plat one stion of James Williams d been deputized as a deputy sheriff, and Maj, Turner Wilt- shire, plates of other photographi were seized and destroyed INSURANCE BILL READY District Measure Would Require Headquarters Here Corporation Counsel Willlam W. Bride has submitted to the Commission- ers a draft of a bill to compel insurance companies, incorporated in the District to maintain their headquarters here and keep their records within the jurisdic- tion. There is no such provision if the resent insurance law, and as a result he insurance commissioner is often put to considerable travel expense in order to keep & close scrutiny of the books of the corporations incorporated in the District, 14 who sai he | a further task as a party | of fair play and at the same time the ' that party for the purpose of personal gain. | “He and his associates have perhaps | shown incapacity to contribute leader- ship in the solving of a national crisis. | “The battle of Democracy is pointed not at the rank and file of the Repub- | lican party, but at those who today di- rect its policies. But the battle of | Democracy can never tolerate abuse heaped against the person of the Presi- | dent of the United States. “Campaigns in the United States have at times been won by an appeal to prejudice, by an appeal to ignorance, by the picturing of principles in false colors, by the presentation of candi- dates dressed in borrowed clothes. | Prejudice cannot be kept alive if the facts are known; secrets cannot be hid- den if they are shouted from the hill- tops. ‘Ye shall know the truth and the | truth shall make ye free.’ Demands Fair Play. “Hand in hand with the campaign to spread knowledge and thereby in the | long run eliminate prefudice, we have S0 to con- duct ovrselves that we shall never be | made the object of the accusation that we have dealt our opponents & blow | below the belt | “I refer especially and specifically to many men and women in the United | States, members of both greet parties * * * who have forgotten their sense | fact that their victim of the moment is | the President of the United States.” Reviewing tax situations, the Gov- ernor said “The time has come for the 48 5o ereignties which have created the Fed- eral machinery of government to say to Washington: Let us follow the origi- nal principle established in the consti- tution in 1787, that the States give to | the Federal Government certain speci- fied powers and Teserve to themselves all other powers and t | must say to each other 0 the Federal Government * * * | let us establish for times of peace a| definite apportionment of the whole field | of taxation. Adequate Taxes Urged. ““To the Federal Government we will give adequate sources of taxation to meet the administrative needs of the especially at Chinsi, where the Japanese were surrounded and practically an- nihilated. The Japanese papers did not give the number of dead. however. Japanese ' military headquarters here sald no information has been received regarding the outcome of the fighting and merely stated it was going on Other Japanese sources said the trouble in that area was due largely to the presence there of the third Chinese cavalry brigade and a number of in- fantry units that withdrew to Southern Jehol Province after the evacuation of Chinchow and the Japanese advance upon Shanhaikwan. REPRISALS THREATENED. TSINGTAO, January 15 (#).—A dele- gation of Japanese Tesidents of this city, where a Chinese newspaper plant was burned earlier this week, visited all other newspaper offices, inciuding a British daily, today and threatened re- prisals for publication of news unfavor- able to Japan. The editor of the British daily was upbraided_for printing an account of the riots Tuesday night. A close watch was maintained by au- thorities, who feared another cutbreak TOKIO REPORT DISPUTED. NANKING, China, January 15 (#).— Eugene Chen, Chinese foreign minister. week that he had discontinued overtures to Japan regarding a settlement of the Manchurian controversy upon receipt of Secretary Stimson’s recent note were .abrications,” The Tokio reports, which were cred- ited to authoritative quarters, said the Chinese foreign minister had approach- ed the Japanese with fundamental pro- | posals as a preliminary step in negoti- ations between the two countries. FOREIGNERS FLEE IN FEAR. i L = HANKOW, January 15 (A).—Foreign- ers in several towns in this vicinity left their homes and came into Hankow to- ; the area, and fearing for their safety | Shekow, 10 miles to the east, and Siao- kan, 30 miles to the northwest, garrison forces were reported to have joined ir- Federal Government &s a government of definite delegated powers rces of taxation we, the serve unto ourselves When this is accomplished it will possible for the State sovereigntics to scan this reserved field of tax sources and to determine which elements in that field can with propriety and jus- tice be allocated s tax sources to local government.”’ States, re- be SHOU WARNS PARTY. Danger of Overconfidence Pointed Out at Chicago Dinner. CHICAGO, January 15 (#)—Jouett | Shouse, chairman of the National Ex- | ecutive Committee of the Democratic party, warned Democrats against the danger of overconfidence at a victory | dinner here last night. Success that seems assured in January has been known to dissolve before November, he sa | Melvin Traylor urged the party to! campaign on a short platform, frugal promises and many results Senators Lewis of Illinois and Bulk- ley of Ohio were victory dinner speak- | ers at Celumbus, Ohjo. Each criticized the Reputlican acministration. | Gov, George H. Dern of Utah told the victory diners at Helena, Mont., that Americans have “awakened to the fact) they have been fooled and be- trayed by the col al stupidity and ineptitude of their smug Republican leaders.” | Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, former Gov- ernor of Wyoming, told Tampa, Fla. | Democrats that the Republican party had “fallen down on its campaign | promises and had failed to give relief in a national emergency.” . Edwin C. Moran, jr., twice Governor | of Maine, told Democrats of Portland, | Me. that the Republican party is “bereft of real leadership” and that “a change is necescary.” At Wilmingten, Del, mention of the names of James M. Cox, John W. Davis, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Alfred E. Smiih, Gov. Albeit C. Ritchie of Maryland and | Owen D. Young brought applause. Prolonged cheering followed the stat ment at the Atlanta, Ga. dinner that All other | | that the took over control of the towns. There are only a few foreigners, chiefly mis- ! sionaries, in these places. | FREE TE SHAPING UP. | SHANGHAI, China, January 15 (#). | —Japanese reports from Mukden, Man- | churia, today said rapid progress is | being made with the formation of the prop:sed new independent state of Manchuria and Mongolia following the complete eviction by the Japanese of Marshal Chang Hsiao-Liang's official Chinese forces The new state will include the Prov- inces of Mukden, Kirin and Heflung- kiang in Manchuria proper, the reports sald, and will have a president as chief executive, They also said the new regime probably will be inaugurated February 11 and that the state is likely to be more or less under the protection of Japan. Resignation of Huang Han-Liang, Chinese minister of finance, was un- officially look~d upon as an indication new government, headed by Sun Fo as the equivalent of premier, was_about to collapse. The minister of finance and his 2s- sistants resigned Wednesday night after occupying their posts for only & fortnight Officials said they “found the gov- ernment’s financial affairs in a hope- less muddle.” BAKER STAYS AWAY CLEVELAND, January 15 () —New- ton D. Baker, recipient of a presidential boom, substituted music for oratory last night . While Democrats over the country were holding “victory dinners,” the for- mer Secretary of War. who is often mentioned as & possible presidential ! nominee, spent the evening at & sym- phony concert. Ship Line to Houston Opened. BALTIMORE, January 15 (@).— new direct steamship scrvice between the Nation might be “rescued from the morass by a Democratic party under the leadership of Franklin D. Roose velt.” augurated yesterday with the sailing of the steamship El Estero of the Morgan line. The new serviee will give two salings monthly in both directions, 4 Gay alarmed over military activities in| At Hwangpel, 35 miles to the north, | Baltimore and Houston, Tex., was in-| year working basis Smith launched into a satirical de- scription of the manner in which he said the Democratic party had func- tioned between past elections. “Uncer our Constitution and in keep- ing with our form of government, it is absolutely necessary that we have in this country two healthy, prosperous ! and vigorous political organizations,” he said. “Besides the one in power, the other must scrve as & check on that power.” Aside from the two terms presided over by Wcodrow Wilson, he said, the Democratic party had never functioned between elections. This, he thought, was largely because of discouragement among the rank and file. “When word flashes over the wire that the party has been defeated,” he said, “they all take a walk.” His Own Experience. next day some one comes around and closes the headquarters, throws the furniture out the window, and the party ceases to function except for its representatives in Washington, until the January before the next presi- dential election—three and a half years “Then in a solemn way they meet to talk about Jefferson, hold dinners, cele- brate Jackson's birthday. and then all get together and give the convention to the highest bidder. See what a dis- tressing effect this has on the party “The today said reports at Tokio earlier this | TAX SCHEME HITS INVESTING ABROAD Gray, Farm Federation Offi- cial, Offers Plan to Yield $1,500,000,000 a Year. | i l | By the Associated Press A broad tax program, one point of regulars and Communist groups, which | which would tap the income flowing from American investments in foreign countries, was put before the House | Ways and Means Committee today by the American Farm Bureau Federation. | Chester H. Gray, Wastington repre- senative of the ration, estimated his program would produce $1,500,000,- 000 of revenue annually Other points on his cluded Increasing the corporation income tax rates from 12 to 15 per cent. This in- crease, he said, would bring $750,000,- 000 annuelly. The Treasury program would boost this tax to 12'2 per cent Backs Higher Estate Taxes, He proposed integrating and increas- ing the rates of the estate and gift taxes to bring in a billion dollars a year instead of $12,000.000 He sald this could be secured by a 10 per cent tax on the $10,000,000,000 annually he estimated changed hands through inheritance, Personal income tax rates, Gray said should be increased in the upper brackets and lower income earners should be reached by lower exemptions. | He favored $1,000 exemption for a sin- gle person and $2,500 for a married per- son and $300 exemptions for de- pendents. He expressed opposition to a general sales tax and to select sales or mi: cellaneous taxes except in the extreme emergencies. He also opposed the ad- ministration's proposed automobile ta but said misccllaneous taxes which no bring in about $200,000,000 annually could be increased to obtain an addi- 1.$100,000,000 without undue hard- fed, program in- Proposal Opposed by Mills. Gray said $16.000 000,000 were in- vested abroad and added. “Some sort of supertax rate should be imposed on these earnings, thus making our citizens who desire to in- vest abroad pay the public at home in the form of a higher tax payment for the increased competition and other unfair conditions developed in the do- “There is no question about that only it requires nerve to admit it. It requires nerve to tackle the problem And, do not make any mistake, the men’ on the other side of that problem understand that phase of it just as well as we do.” “But they don't want to cee it They go so far as to say it is not an issue, it is a social question. Cites Morrow. Stand. was it an issue in New Hamp- shire? Was it &n issue in New Jersey? Was it an issue out in Michigan? Did the late Senator Morrow make it an issue when he ran for Senator in New Jersey? You bet he did. and he csme out with a declaration absolutely con- trary to the position taken by his chief and the leader of his party at | Washington “I will go a step further. I am right—I am sure I am right. “Well T think 1 think that the change in the political | complexion in the House of Represen- | tatives can largely be attributed to the fact that the people of the coun- try are looking to the Democratic party for relief “Now what do I mean when I speak about a declaration in the platform? I just mean this: That neither of the political parties can hope to give the people any relief unless and until all the candidates of that party are pledged to some definite plan.” ROOSEVELT GFTS NORTHDAKOTAD.K State Convention Indorses | Him Unanimously as 1932 Standard-Bearer. By the Assoclated Press VALLEY CITY. N. Dak., January 15— Gov. Franklin D. Rocsevelt of New York | today had his first formal indorsement | for the 1932 Democratic presidential | nomination. | He received it unanimously from the North Dakota State Democratic con- vention here yesterday. The convention ad:pted a resolution indorsing Roose- veit and asking permission to use his nzme on the ballot at the State presi- dential preference primary March 1 Circulation of petitions to place Roosevelt's name on the ballot already has begun, although the Governor has yet to accept officially the recom- mendaticn of the convention. The peli- tions must be filed with the secretary of State at Bismarck by February 13. In its resolutions the convention said that “under his (Roosevelt’s) leader- ship the national Democracy will offer to the country a guarantee of a liveli- hood to all and a return to prosperity George T. Murray of Berthold, N Dak.. brother of Gov. Willlam Murray of Oklahoma, attended the convention to “size it up.” He did not present Gov. Murrey's name, but indicated pet tions may be circulated later > put the Oklehoma executive on the presiden- tia] ballot in March. At the convention the move for Roosevelt was so strong that no other name was considered Quake Recalls Disaster. MEXICO CITY, January 15 (#).—A slight earthquake shook the City of Oaxaca at 1:455 a.m. yesterday, on the anniversary of an earthquake that dam- aged half the town and killed 100 per- sons last year. mestic fields by such foreign invest- ments.” Undersecretary of the Treasury Mills has opposed such a tax | "The = federation representative said | “under present conditions™ of agricul- ture, increases or decreases in the Fed- eral income taxes will have little dlrect‘ | effect on individual farmers.” He explained the average of all in- dividuals _reporting in 1930 to the Treasury Department showed an income of $5,100, but that the average income ;gr“h.rmm for the same year Wwas ring by Postmaster General Brown, looms large today. Opponents of the Presi- dent in the Republican party have trotted forth the names of various can- didates, both conservative and pro- gressive, but, except for the candidacy of former Senator France of Mary- land, announced months ago by him- self, there has not yet developed any real candidacy against Mr. Hoover. Booms have been launched for former President Calvin Coolidge and for Am- bassacor Dawes, but they have both de- clined to be drawn into the picture as presidential candidates, and further- more, have pladged their support to Mr. Hoover. Gov. Pinchot of Pennsylvania, and a handful of progressive Repub- lican Senators have been mentioned time and again as possible contenders | forthe nomin..tion with the President, but nothing so far has come out of these conversations. Postmaster General Brown has de- clared that the only way for the Presi- dent to be renominated is to get dele- gates to the National Convention. He is regarded as a likely choice for the office of Republican national chairman in the event President Hoover is renom- inated. Fess Will Retire. Senator Fess of Ohio, who at present is chairman of the National Committee, has declared that he will not serve be- vond the period of the Republican Na tional Convention, which is to be held in Chicago on June 14. | There are only 14 States, according | | to the Republican National Committee, | which hold presidential preferential | primaries in which the Republican party takes part. These States will have a total of 442 delegates in the national convention. The total num- ber of delegates in the convention will be 1,154. In other words, the States which have presidential preferential primaries in which the Republicans participate will be represented by 442 delegates while those States and ter- | ritories in which no such primaries are held will be represented by 712 dele- gates. In the Republican convention a majority vote nominates for President. The primary States and the number | of delegates allotted them are as fol- |1ows: California, 47; Illinois, 61; Mary- jand, 19: Michigan, 41; Nebraska, 17; New Hampshire, 11; New Jersey, 35; North Dakota, 11; Ohio, 55; Oregon, 13; Pennsylvania, 75: South Dakota, 11; West Virginia, 19, and Wiscon- sin, 27. ILLINOIS GOVERNOR CALLS EXTRA SESSION Salary Reductions for State and Municipal Officials Will Be Considered. By the Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD, IIl, January 15— Gov. Louis L. Emmerson late yesterday issued a call for a special session of the Legislature to consider salary re- ductions for State and municipal offi- cials, both elective and appointive The session will meet concurrently with the present special session, the scope of which was limited to tax re- lief and unemployment. The Governor declared that proposed selary reductions must be mcted upon at once if they are to go into effect tor officials elected or appointed this year or early in 1933, since incumbents’ salaries cannot be affected. “During the last two years, this coun- try has been. experiencing an economic change—a process of deflation follow- | ing & period of inflation,” Gov. Emmer- {son said in the call. “Thix neceasary readjustment embraces the falling of | prices of all commodities, the lowering | of values of invested capital, the de- | crease in returns from capital and the | reduction of expenses and salaries in | industry “It is of the greatest importance that | careful consideration be given to re- ducing the cost of government and | thus lightening the tax burden which, particularly at this time, rests so | heavily upon the owners of homes and farms and other property." Movie Actress Swallows Poison. NEW YORK, January 15 (4").—Fran- | cine Dowd, 28, motion pieturc actress. swallowed poison yesterday and was in a critical condition. An’ elevator op- erator sald she sta, ed from her apartment and gas) Nothing mat- ters. I don't care for ansthing E “The telegram I gave in confidence to Lancaster (attorney for the bankers) I give to you In confidence,” White said. Senator Harrison. Democrat, Missis- sippi, said he wanted to make a motion to demand the papers, but deferred the motion until Smoot cculd summon other members of the committee. ., Johnson pointed out that a number of banks were associated on the loans and that one of Lancaster’s law asso- clates was Gerrard Winston former As- sistant Secretary of Treasury. “He served under Mr. Mellon?" John- son asked. “I believe so0,” White replied. Retuses Correspondence. The State Department’s version of its activites with reference to the Colombla loan was given to the com- mittee yesterday by White and Free- | man Matthews, assistant chief of the | department’s Latin American Division. White flatly refused to comply with | Johnson's request that he give for publication correspondence between the department and the Colombian lega- tion bearing on the oil concession. He continued in his refusal even after Johnson had drawn from him a state- ment that he had read one of the communications to a‘New York banker. White testified the $4,000,000 loan payment made on June 30. was the final installment of a $20,000,000 loan contracted for a year previous. The fact of its payment 10 davs after the granting of the Barco Oil concession was a coinridence, he said. Senator Johnson, however, succeeded In obtaining testimony from Mr. Mat- thews to the effect the $4.000,000 loan was held up by American bankers for several weeks and finally granted after the State Department had interceded. The Colomblan Legislature, during this time, Mr. Matthews said, was debating restoration of the Barco Ol concession to the South American Petrolenm Co. The latter is chiefly owned by the Gulf Oil Co. CONFESSED SLAYER OF ILL SON AWAITS GRAND JURY ACTION (Continued From First Page) secret for more than a year, surren- dered to the sheriff last Baturday and told ®f ending the boy’s life. Fear that some day he would make an unintentional remark concerning the boy's fate caused him to make his confession, Stenhouse told officials Stenhouse, a stonecutter, told his wife how he came home one night in September, 1929, found the child in a stupor and chloroformed him. She advised him not to tell authorities and he was able to keep his secret until recently when he felt he could no longer bear up under the ordeal of withholding his story. Indications were today that Sten- house, if indicted by the grand jury. would be sent to a State hospital for treatment Stenhouse sald he talked the boy's death over with his wife Jast Friday him to confess. Stenhouse said he told his 13-year- old daughter Ellen how died for the first time last Frida; “It was the first time I told her what I had done” he said. and she was all broken up. I don't I saw how she took it I was afraid she might tell some cne, because I don't elrcumstances. “1t was then I definitely made up my mind to tell.” During the time he kept the story, Stenhouse said he would go on a drink- Ing spree to “get cheery.” He said he often drank until his wife threatened to %0 to police with the story. "I don't believe she would have told them, because she was afraid I would do something to myself, for she knew how greatly I grieved.” Asked if he regretted his act, Sten- house replied: “Under the circumstances I would do the same thing again. I could not bear to see ths little fellow suffer and my wife ruin her health by constantly being at his bedside when I knew the baby could not be cured. I did not want my wife to go crazy by worrying over the and they decided it would be best for | her brother | ever | know what made me tell her, and after | believe she quite understood the true ' $91.000 in refunds and has been as- sessed $209,000 in additional taxes, mak- g a net addition of $108,000,” he said, Gregg added the Joint Congressicnal Cemmittee had ruled the largest of the Mellon refunds—$72,000 in 1926— “clearly allowable. “Mr.” Mellon personally owns no bank stock,” he sald. “He sold it all before he took office. Sold Stock Outright. “I checked up to see if he sold it to a corporation in which he is interested; he did not. “I checked up to see if there were any strings on it; there were not. “Mr. Mellon owns gbout 15 per cent of the stock of the aluminum company. That company owns 100 shares in the Bank of East St. Louis. This is Mr. | M<llon’s only connection with any bank stock. Referring to the charge Mellon en gaged in the liquor business, Gregg sai “The Overholt Co. went out of busi- ness three years before prohibition. ‘When Mr. Mellon took office he created an_irrevocable trust with the trustee having the sole power to dispose of the lllgzué)& interest. It was liquidated in Cites Former Secretaries. Gregg named several of Mellon’s pred= ecessors and said they had stock hold- | ings. Included were William G. Mc- Adoo and Senator Glass of Virginia. Secretaries of the Treasury during the | Wilson administration. | “It seems to me,” he said, “that the history and the uniform construction has been that ownership of stock is not in itself sufficient to disqualify & man under the statute under consider- ation.” Gregg had not finished his statement | when “the committee adjourned un Monday. He intimated he would wa five minutes more and then Paiman will ask permission to reply. FLETCHER ASKS AID By the Assoclated Press The Pennsylvania congressional dele- gation was asked today by Henry P. Fletcher, former chairman of the Tarift | Commission, to support him for ap- pointment as Ambassador to Great Britain | Fletcher, who has had long experi- ence in diplomatic work, made the re- quest in a telegram sent to all Repub- lican members from his home State. He has been frequently mentioned for | the British post since the recent an- nouncement by Ambassador Dawes that he_would resign | _There also has been mention of | Fletcher as a possible Republican can- didate for Senator from Pennsylvania. | A majority of the Pennsylvania dele- gation have said they would support Fletcher for the appointment unless Senator Reed of Pennsylvania should be & candidate. Reed has indicated he | will not seek the position. "Pastor, I,(;;st in Fog, {Is Back Home After | T {An All-Night Walk | By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, January 15.—Rev, Charles Kelser, pastor of the Emanuel Methodist Protestant Church, returned home last night, after being missing for 24 hours. He said he had been lost in the fog and had walked almost to Wilmington, Del., and back. “I set out for a short walk after prayer meeting last night,” he said. “I walked a ways and turned back But the fog was so thick, I lost my But I must have lost my sense of direc- tion. At dawn I saw a roodside sl that said I was almost to Wilmingto I had no money in my pocket and I tried to get a lift. Nobody would pick me up. “So I walked home. I walked a while and then sat down. Then I walked some more. I finally got here. boy.” ‘h.'rlm' ;mun bhe‘rm‘?kr of Labor reports number of people on the dol is decreasing. - “I never lost my knowledge of what was going on. I was just lost in the fog. There’s nothing Wrong with me but_blistered feet.” Mr, Kelser came here from Wash- ington in June,