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T A—2 ¥¥» ‘ HOUSE WETS LOSE VORI T Broposal to Submit Dry Law to Decision of States Defeated: (Continued From PFirst Page) been 700,000 peaple arrested and 500,000 convicted, and our jails are crowded. mash to ‘the extent of over ,000,000,000 gallons has been seized fines to the extent of $60,000,000 Ve been assessed, Wa have lost & Tevenue of $10,984,000,000. " 18 not; however, the loss of funds has so blasted our country. but law has lowered the morals of our mple and made hypocrites of many of best of society. We do not seek to violate the Constitution. but we do seek to so amend this vital article that It will not be violated by the peopie of our land. Pass this resolution and de- ression will fade away like mist before Fhe noonday sun. The tmmorality of the country, racketeering and bootleg- ging will be a thing of the past.” c‘uim-n Sumners of the House Judiciary Committee which has refused to report out the wet resolution, han- dled time for drys. He first recom= mended Representative Moore, Repub- | lican of OQhip, = Mr. Mogre told the House that if the resolution pre by the wets were adopted it would mean return of 5 Cheers interrupted him. He said that in spite of the fact the wets had said they would accept an amendment prohibiting the saloon, he had been told by prominent wet mem- bers of the House that the saloon could be returned under this resolution. “Furthermore, this puts the question of prohibition in politics,” Mr. Moore continued. This remark also was greet~ ed with cneers. Asks Fairness to Pedple. Mr. Moore said the proposed resolu- chaos with some joan, others hav- of Representatives. Mr. those appealing to the people ought to be fair to the people. He said the to el to State ‘Constitutional conventions was no more 8 referendum than the election of members of the House by the people. In conclusion, Mr. Moore said the ml of the wet]a :ovu nothing n:;v: it & proposal bring back old sys';m o ‘State control which has been found unsatisfactory. “When the Americi people know what it is they will be ags it,” said My. Moore, amid cheers by the drys. nepreunuzt\vguh Boylan of New York, “If you want to come back, he ecare- ful how you vote today.” His remark caused & shout of laugh- ter. Mr. Boylan said the bootlegger, the hijacker and the kidnaper under t ocenditions are running the eountry, It is high time, he sald, to call a halt. Representative O'Connor of New York, another wet Democrat, also supported the motion to discharge the committee and attacked national prohibition, Quotes Senater quoted Senator She) as saying at the on the amendment in 1917: “The member of Congre rd of Texas, smendment, after bran §° ‘Tis the Ides of and be counted.” Chairman Sumners ed against the discharge of the Judic! Commit- tee and Representative La dia of ew ‘l’orkimlhpuhliun. wet, spoke e. y for Tge. Representative James M. Beck of Pennsylvania, the leader of the Re- publican wets in the House, closed the debate for the wet side. Question Declared Simple. “The question to’ be discussed is 8 very simple one.” he said. “It does not involve the merits or demerits of the eighteenth amendment, but only the right of the American people if they s0 desire to determine their own e Who such resubmis- oppose sion must do so on the theory that this ision of the Constitution is & final- for the eighteenth amendment, for ulur'lz‘fiuy did not the Con- stitut " "Kentucky: ~__ ' THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C EXPLORER BATTLES BUTTERFLY HORDE IN WILDS OF PARAGUAY Dr. Donald S. Wees’ Harvard Expedition Lives on Braised Alligator Tails as Food Dwindles. By the Associated Press. BUENOS AIRES, March 14—Fight- ing off brilliant butterfiies, which bite like horsefiies, and living sometimes on yellow worms picked from palm fronds and cooked with wild gourds, Dr. Don- ald S. Wees, American zoologist, 13 fighting his way through little known jungles in Northeastern Paraguay. Dr. Wees, whose home is at Elkins, W. Va., is under commission from Harvard University Museum. His path les toward the headwaters of the Parana River, on the Brazilian border. With two native companions he started three weeks from Rio Yu- quin across the “Gr: Desert,” follow- ing the bends of the inaccurately chartered stream in a 16-foot canoe. The region is approximately 700 miles west: of Rio de Janiero and 700 miles north and slightly east of Buenos Aires. Leave Final Ranch. “The final ranch of tnatch and split palms has been left far behind,” he wrote in a letter dated February 30, “and not even an Indian hut lies 3 This is the most grandly deserted dis- trict outside of Chaco, which lles west~ ward and is less hot, wet, forested or g&uflc‘ with fauna and insects than How They Voted House Roll Call on Dry Amendment Revealed. (Continued From First Page.) tenwalner,” Pennsylvania; Lindsay, New York; Linthicum, Maryland; Lonergan, Connecticut; McCormack, ts; McDuffie, Alabama; Carolina; Major, , Mans- fleld, Texas: Martin, Oregon; Mead, New York: , ia; Montet, Xouisiana; Norton, New Jersey; O'Connor, New Yor Oliver, New York; Palmisano, Mary: land; Pettengill, Indiana; Polk, Ohio; Prall, New York: , linoi Reilly, Wisconsin; Rudd, New Yorl Sabath, Tilinois; Schuets, Shannon, Missouri; Sirovich, New York; Smith, Virginia; 8mith, West Virginia; Somers, New York: Spence, Stewart, New Jersey: Sullivan, New York; Sutphin, New Jersey; Sweeney, Ohio; Tierney, i __Underwood H Arents, Nevada; Bacharach, New Jersey, Bachmann, West Virginia; Bacon, New York; ,_Ne- braska: Barbeur, Californis: Beck, Pennsyl Rhode vania; m| Island; Campbell, ley, Hess, Ohio; Hollister, Ohio; Holmes, Massachusetts; lluscr. Michigar; Horr, Washington; Morton D. Hull, Tllinois; William E. Hull, Illiinois; James, Michigan; Jom)'aon. South Pennsylvania; Rogers, Massach setts; Schafer, Wisconsin; Schneider, Whitley, New York; Wi Massachusetts; Withrow, Wolcott, Michigan; Penuylv:l‘:,l;: ‘Wolverton, lv(;w Jer- - ‘ats voting no (114): Abernethy, N : mm Mr. Beck said there are special rea- th amendment m four years ago by President Hoover. eighteenth amendment has had 12 of trial, he said, ;;ldthltnbu E and have many difficult “The question Is not a partisan resubmitted to the people it will go to clear the decks for other portant public questions. The fatlure to fesubmit will intensify the revolt and the 1l {feeling now exists different. of people. Until thus resub- mitted the qa;:nom:um h-upn:t . Bubmit the it and the people decide. POLISH INSTITUTE PLANS ¥0 PROMOTE Y. S. TRADE Bepresentatives of Industry and Sommerce Named on Spe- ‘Bus ipol; B Homs; Clark, North Carolina; Col- ton, North Mississippi; Driver, Arkansas. Tennessee; Fishburne, Vir- ginla; Flannagan, Virginia; Ful- Missouri; Puller, Arkansas; ', South Carolina; Garrett, ‘Texas; CGasque, South Carolina; Gil- len, Indiana; Glover, Arkansas; LENTEN SERVICES NEW YORK AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Daily, Exeept Saturday and Sunday 12:20 to 1 O'Clock Speaker Tomerrow— DR. J. R. §1200 Pastor New York Avenus Presbyterian Church Auspices Federation of Churches “We spent days and nights hunting and when we shot nothing we were hungry in a forest of game. Braised alligator tail tastes like flaked Todfish. Here spider webs enmeshed birds. Ants drive us from our hammocks into a circle of ashes. “The hords of insects for which the region does not provide a living cause us night after night of sleeplessness. One especially virulent species has poi- soned us all. Potent does not describe this land of mold and blood, much of which is fully as challenging to the explorer or sclentist or adventurer as the Matto Groaso or Chaco jungles, Food Is Scarce. “There are uncounted leagues of un- inhabited forest which support every form of animal life. We are laun f into it with a bag of rice, a tin o yerba and eight kilograms of flour, hop- ing to shoot enough game for food as *ve go on.” Dr, Wees is the first American to penetrate the nPun. He expects to merge about April 15 and probably will proceed to Corumba, Brazil, and g0 from there by rail to Rio de Janeiro. Hig letter was sent on here by run ner to the nearest riverboat t. He said it was written “while flicking fire ants from the paper in 90 d of heat and 90 per cent humidity, with polvorines devouring me and yatebul crawling up my trouser legs.” homa; McKeown, Oklahoma; Me- Reynolds, Tennessee; Mc8wain, South Carolina; Miller, Arkansas; Mitchell, Tennessee; , Missourd; Mob- ley, Geeorgia; Moare, Kentucky: More- enc, Nebraska; Nelgon, ‘kansas; Rams- peck, Georgia; Rankin, Mississippi; Rayburn, Texas; Romjue, Missouri; Sanders, Texas; Sandlin, Louisiana; Shallenberger, Nebraska: Steagall, Alabama; Stevenson, South Oaro- lina: Summers, Texas; Swank, Okla- om! ver, QOeorgla; Taylor, Colorado; Thomason, Texas; Vinsen, Georgia; Warren, North Carolina; Weaver, North Carolina; Whitting- ton, Mississippl: Willlams, Texas; Wilson, Loyigiana; Wi kansas; Yon, Florida. blican noes (lb): A , IHinois: Allen, Illinois; Beedy, Maine; Beers, Pennsylvania; Bowman, West Virginia: Brand, Ohio; Burtness, North Dakata: But- ler, Oregon; Cable, Ghio; Campbell, Iowa; Chipperfield, Illinois; Christ- gau, Minn Christopherson, South Dakota; Clarke, New York; Cochran, Pennsylvania; Cole, Towa; Colton, Utah: Cooper, Ohio; Crail, California; Crowther. New York; Culkin, New York; Dallinger, Massa- chusetts; Davenport, New York; Dowell, Yowa; Eaton, Colorade: Evans, California; Finley, Kentucky; Frear, Wisconsin; Free, California; French, Idaho; Garber, Oklahoma; Gibson, Vermont; Gilchrist, Iowa; Goodwin, Minnesota; Guyer, Kan- sas; Hall, Illinois; Hall, Dakota; Hardy, Colorado; gen, Iowa; Hawley, Hoch, Kansas;. Hogg. Hogx. ;lut Kirztnn. ':iohday, )51‘151- nois; 'y ANSAS | opkins, e sourd; l?l?:\non, Delaware; Jenkins, Ohio; Johnson, Tllinois; Kelly, Penn- sylvania; Kendall, Il{’enmylvmn; ; K sylvania; Lam| K ford, Virginia: Leavitt, s Loofbourow, Utah; Lavette, “Ten- nessee; Luce, Massachusetts; Mc- Clintock, Ohio; McFadden, Pennayl- vania; McGugin, Kansas; McLaugh- lin, Michigan; Magrady, Pennsyl- vania; Manlove, Missouri; Mapes, Michigan; Michener, Michigan; Moore, Ohjo; Mouser, Ohio; Murphy, Obio; Nelson, Maine; Nelson, 'Wisconsin; Nolan, Minne- sota; Parker, New York; Partridge, Maine; Purnell, Indiana; Ramseyer, Jowa; Reed, New York; Rich, Pennsylvania; Robinson, Iowa; Ban- ders, New York; Seiberling, Ohio; Selvig, Minnesota; Shott, West Vir- ginia; Shreve, Pennsylvania; Sim- mons, Nebraska; Sinclair, North Da- kota; Smith, Idah Snell, New York; Snow, Maine; Sparks, Kan- sas; Btalker, New York; BStrong, Kansas; Strong, Pennsylvani mers, Washington; Swanso) Swick, Pennsylvania; Swing, Cal fornia: Tabey, New York; Taylor, Tennessee; Temple, Pennsylvania; Thateher, Kentucky; Thurston, Jowa; Timberlake, Colorado; Under- hill, Massachusetts; Wason, New Hampshire; Weeks, Vermont; W liamson, South Dakota; Wyant, Pennsylvania; Yates, Illinois. Farmer-Labor: (1), Kvale, Min. nesota. EX-PRESIDENT SAILS Uriburu's Presence in Uruguay Leadg to Arrests. MONTEVIDEO, Urugusy, March 14 (#).—Former President Jose Uriburu of Argentina passed through the harhor Iast night on the way to Europe for a vacation. His presence led to the ar- rest of several political agitators. He said he intended to visit France, Austris, Italy, Denmark, England and Germany, returning in November by way of the United States. He denied ill-health prompted the trip and laid it to a desire to avoid re- action against the new government's work. . KWANGCHOW ATTACKED By the Assoclated Press. The Communist attack on Kwang- chow, Nonan province, China, has been defeated and the city removed from danger for the time g. A message to the te Department todsy from Walter A. Adams, Ameri- can congul general at Hankow, said ns residing in Kwangchow were unharmed. Kwangchow i5 about 130 miles west of Nanking. — BAND CONCERT. By the United Btates Marine Band this afternoon at the Marine Barracks Auditorium at 3 o'clock, Capt. Taylor Branson, leader; Arthur . Witcomb, second leader, conducting. “Reminiscences of Ireland”....Godfrey Vibraphone solos— (a) “Belleve Me If All Those En- dearing Young Charms.” (b) “Where the River Shannen Flows.” Musicin.. Wilbur H. Kieffer; harp obbligato, Musician Joshua M, Tyler, Trio for cornets, “Three Solitaires,” ¥. John Auer, Joshua M. T¥ler, Cornet solos— (a)_“Killarney” ....q.. .Balfe “«Little Bit of Hedven" Ball Leader Arthur. 8. Witcomb, gscnm “Poet and Peasant”. .., Suppe The ' hyma, “The T Star Spangled Bamer JOKER' IS CHARGED INALL SHOALS BIDS Nation-Wide Propaganda '0f- fers Cheap Fertilizer as Bait, Senators Say. By the Associated Press. The Senate Agriculture Committee today charged a Nation-wide propa- ganda campaign has been conducted to secure the power at Muscle Shoals for private gain under the guise of cheap- 1ening fertilizer for the farmer. In recommending enactment of the Norris bill for Government operation of the plant, the committee challenged those who have been seeking private production of fertiliser at Muscle Shoals to show good faith by accepting the alternate leasing provisions of this measure. The Norris bill fmvldes for operation of the gigantic §! ao.ooo.oooogmjocc on the Tennessee River by the Government unless the President negotiates a lease operation of the nitrate plants from its enactment. Despite ident Hoover's veto of the measure at the last session it was re- to the Senate agsin without a nting v n;nn‘mm-wldo m) gl"mh;.” :oen on more or less eontint jur- fn' the last eight years,” the committee said, “the object of which has been to deceive the farmer and make him be- lieve that a private lease of the Muscle Shoals property would demonstrate methods of cheapening the production of fertilizer. Behind this propaganda was always the real intent of getting passession of Muscle Shoals under the guise of a fertilizer proposition, but with the intent and purpose of utilizing the er produced at Muscle Shoals for mmvau profit and gain of the les- g The committee said no fair offer for leasing Muscle Shoals had ever been made “which contained, in good faith, & genuine proposition to use the power there for the primary purpose of mak- ing cheap fertilizer. “In bid,” the committee said, slways been discovered a joki which clearly showed che lessee w using the fertiliser proposition only a blind to gain possession for privaf profit of the enormous power facilities.” ALLEGED BIGAMIST HELD ON 3 GIRLS’ CHARGES Say Accused “Told the Truth” After Confronted by His Three “Wives,” By the Assoctated Press. CLEVELAND, March 14. — Three young women who claimed they were married to the same man, William D. Alken, caused his arrest here last night on a charge of bigamy. Alken, 28, blonde and good looking, was arrested in an apartment where was residing with the alleged wife No. 3, Mrs. Marle McConnell Afken. At the police station he was con- fronted by the other two, Mrs. Mabel Keyser Aiken, 26, of Deary street, Pitts- ,burgh, and Mrs. Margaret Maloney 3, of Cleveland. Police the truth” after Margaret, Marle and Mabe! related how he had wooed and wen them. MEXICO SEIZES AUTHOR MEXICO CITY, March 14 () —A man who claimed to be Jonathan Starr, an author, and who recently was charged with irregularities in handling his hotel bills, and his wife have been arrested uleo and are en route to Mex- nder guard, it was announced The department of interior has an- nounced Starr will be deported. Your Income Tax No. 13. Deductions for Professional Expenses, A professional man may deduct sll necessary expenses incurred in the pur- suit of his profession. These inelude the cost of supplies used in his prac- tice, expenses paid in the operation and repair of an automobile used in mak- ing professional calls, office rent, cost of light, water, fuel and telephone in his office and the hife of office assist- ants. Many physicians use their residences both their offices and their homes. In such instance the physician may de- duct as a_business expense the rental value of the rooms occupied for office purposes if he actually pays rent and also the cost of light and heat fur- nished these rooms. Also, he may de- duet aqportion of the wages pald do- mestie servants whose time is partly occupled in caring for these rooms. Membership dues in professional socie- ties are deductible. Physicians and den- tists who keep in their waiting rooms current magesines and newspapers for the benefit of duct this item as a business expense. The cost of professional journals for the taxpayer's own use also is a de- ductible item. The cost of technical books is not = deductible item, being a capital expen- diture, but a proportionate amount for each year's depreciation of the books may be deductsd. Insurance premiums on office or other professional equip- ment and liability insurance may be de- ducted. Automobile liability insurance may be dedugted only when the autor moafle 16 used wholly in pursuit of the taxpayer's profession and the cost of the entire uph? may legitimately be claimed as & professional expense. Claims for deductions for losses are divided into three classes and to be al- lowed must follow closely the wording of the income tax laws. Losses are de- ductible if incurred (1) in the taxpay- er's trade, business or profession, (2) in any ion entered into for profit or (8) from fires, storms, shipwreek or other casualties or by theft. Business losses result usually from the purchase and sale of merchandise. Such losses usually are ascertained by means of inventories, which are required whenever, in the opinion of commis- sioner of internal revenue, their use is necessary to determine the income of any w&cyer. The term “transaction entered into for profit” means any kind of & busi- ness proposition. For example, a tax- payer purchases an sutomobile to be used solely for business purposes and which is sold at & loss. As this is a business p: ition from start to fin- ish, the loss is ceductible, but if he had purchased the automobile to be used for bert | pleasure or .convenience, ?u deduction 't was not a profit. woyld not be allowed. tra to for 1 the theft of an entered in loss sustained in pleasure is the taxpaver may elaim the loss sustained, as it comes within the meaning of “casualty.” Where damages result from the faulty |driving of an automebile with which the automobile of the taxpayer collides, the loss occasioned the taxpayer like- wise is deductible. losses are daductible only to the t by whieh they ere mot - sated for by insurance or : |last few weeks and who had seen and € | man's suicide might have been similar Aiken, ! Two detectives said the husband “told their patients may de- | Jed, J HINDENBURG VOT AVERTS NEW PANIC Distracts Public Attention From Kreuger Collapse and Suioide. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. Paul von Hindenburg, the octoge- narian President of Germany, has saved Europe from a panic similar to the one which oceurred last Summer and re- sulted in the Hoover moratorium. Hin- denburg's overwhelming vote at the polls yesterday has completely over- shadowed the consequences of the spectacular difficulties of the Kreuger companies which culminated in the suicide of Ivar Kreuger, head of that important concern. According to Washington diplomats who have been in close touch with the financial developments in Europe in the talked to Kreuger only three weeks ago when the Swedish financial ml,nm visited Washington, the effects of the to the panic created by the failure of the Austrian Kredit Anstalt which brought an o0st chaotie situation in Europe last year. Difficulties Discounted, It is true that well informed finan- cial circles had discounted the troubles which were facing the many companies | and enterprizes organized by Kreuger in the last seven TS, erally known by the bankers and finan- clers that Kreuger had spread teo much; that tl depreciation of the currency in many of the countries where he had either organised his vari- | | ous industrial concerns or to whom he had lent substantial sums of money,| would make it very difficult for the| !lwaalnh financier to meet his obliga- | | tions. He tried to obtain credits in the United States, but the bankers, while admitting the soundness of his enter-| prizes and the steadiness of the leader, were loath to part with the many mil- lions Kreuger needed in order to meet | his obligations, and refused him the, required loans. | All this was known in high banking | circles, but was not to the rank and file | of the investors, who had been induced to belleve du.r!n: the last few years in the solidity of the Kreuger en ines, whose bonds and stocks were considered as the only remaining gilt-edge securi- ties in Europe, They were in many cases preferred to certain government bonds. Consequently it was feared the effect of the suicide of Kreuger would cause a run on most of the European banks. Distraets Public Mind. Fortunately, however, the tremendous vote Hindenburg obtained =t the polls has distracted public attention in Ger- many and France, two most important centers of Europe, In both countries the Hindenburg succzss is interpreted &s a complete victory of the stable Democratic elements in Germany aver the exireme Nationalist and Communist factions. Both in Frange and Germany public opinion was so intensely intere: ed in the results of the German presi- dential elections that the tragedy of the Kreuger enterprises was overlooked. | In financial circles the results of the investigation of all the Kreuger busi- nesses is awaited with anxiety. It is fairly well known what his commit- ments were, but nnhod{ knows exactly what he had on the right side of the iger, Kreuger is the fourth financier in Europe whose meteoric career ended in disaster, The first one (o rise spectac- ularly and then break down under the stress of the political difficulties of Eu- rope was the German, Hugo Stinnes. who at one time was considered worth about $250,000,000. He died broken- hearted, A finaneier, whose spectacular career ended in an alleged suicide, was Alfred Loewenstein, the Belgian financier. Hatry, a minor English financial light, went bhankrupt to the extent of #60,000,000, and is serving a 15-year term in an ish . ‘The last, and the most substantial one, Kreuger, committed suicide Saturday when, on his return from the United States, he realized all the credit sources which might have savedl him and his institu- tions were closed to him. Kreuger was not a speculator, nor an unserupulous finanlcr. He was prac- tical and steady and combined his - cial ideas with sound political ideals. Sought Peace in Europe. During the conversations he has had in Washington with President Hoover and other im nt officials he ex- pounded the that mrom‘mld be reorganized on a peaceful is by the formation of a network of closely interrelated industrial and financial or- ganizations in every country. He want- ed to tie up the jpean states in a knot #o they should be interested in the financial and economic progress of their neighbors. He loaned European coun- tries, such as Poland and Rumania, sub- stantial sums in exchange for certain monopolie: like matches and tele- 3 sms) His foreign secre- A ide Briand, because the lat- ter planned to Europe on & pacific basis by s customs union, for Wwhich Europe 15 not prepared as yet. Kreuger wanted to work less spec- ually feel thetrmx’i“ntzruh. 1: the eco- nomie field were clomly related to each ofher. He worked slone. Being a off 8 sy S ol T It was gen-| g he | lieved hy & APANESE bluejackets in action behind their sand bag barricade outpost in the devastated native section of Shang- hai. Two armored motor cars with heavy machine guns are lending their support as the Japanese laynch Attack, in the middle of February, {o eapture Chapel and the Woosung forts. & heavy ~A. P. Photo. STOCKS SELL OFF ON KREUGER DEATH, BUT LIST STEADIES (Continued From Pirst Page.) m!l transaction of 225000 shares of Oities Bervice in the New York Curb Market, on November 4, 1929. Decline at Amsterdam. AMSTERDAM, Holland, March 14 (#)—Stock in the companies controlled lg‘; Ivar Kreuger v;n off heavily on the urse today and other ouf issues lost about 10 points, o DEBT RESPITE GRANTED. Brief Moratorium Extended to Business Interests by Swedish Parliament, STOCKHOLM, Sweden, March 14 (#). —A brief moratorium, following eclosely on the suicide of Ivar Krueger, Swedish mateh king, was extended to business interests by the Swedish Parliament to- day and first applied to Krueger's own concerns. e The match king, director of one of | the largest financial organizations in | the world, shot himself to death in his Paris apartment Saturday. When the bank most intimately con- nected with the Kreuger group opened | this morning, not a single person ap- peared to withdraw deposits. The same was true of all other banks. On request of the Kreuger & Toll Co, | the parent firm, the cabinet extended untdl Mtxch 31 a moratorfum on the firm’s cbligations and those of three smaller affiliated concerns, as well as | on the liabilities of Kreuger's heirs and four of his associates, including Deputy Director Krister Littorin. | The debate in the upper chamber was opened by Minister of Pinance Felix . He emphasized that the pow- ers extended should be used with the | utmost caution with respect to national as well as private interests. A Becial {st Deputy replied that although the Pearlisment agreed to extend the mo: torium, it did not forego the right to critieize whatever measures the govern- ment might take. The request of the Kreuger company to the Parliament said: “On mccount of the death of Ivar Kreuger it is necessary for the directors (of Kreuger & Toll) to make an in- vestigation and to survey the b:anp.: [ order ing regard for the firm’s large opera- tions, the company requests the gov- ernment to grant s respite until the end of March for payment of the debts of the company. “The same respite is requested for certain afflisted companies and cer- tain persons in the Kreuger & Toll Co., who are personslly liable for some of the company’s engigements.” ‘The local stock exehange was ordered closed last night until further notice, AMSTERDAM BOURSE ACTS. Dealings in Stocks of Companies Con- trolled by Kreuger Forbidden. AMSTERDAM, Holland, March 14 (#).—Dealings in stock of the com- ?llfl.s controlled by Ivar Kreuger were orbidden by the Bourse Committee to- day, but although the general tone of the market was weak tne repercussions | of ;llx("u“" death were relatively | emall The Kreuger stocks always hlVe! been restricted and a considerable per- centgae of the shares and bonds d | in Holland have been for French ac- counts. POLISH FINANCES SAFE. No Damage Effect Is Expected From Death of Kreuger,~ : ‘WARSAW, Poland, March 14 (@).— | Ivar Kreuger's death was not expected | to have any damaging effect on Polish finances, since his company paid in full its installment against the match monopoly in 1931. In exchange for a $32,000.000 loan at 6.5 per cent the Kreuger Co. received the Polish match monopoly for 42 years at an annual royalty of $750,000. Receipts more than eover eommitments, it was u'l:hbuh:‘xfi:cdum ok;nd a small sum on s purchased in thy Polish Telephone Co, i STOCK DROPS IN BERLIN. Kreuger Svenskas Dips From 81 to 40, Closing at 42. BERLIN, March 14 (®)—Stock in | the Kreurer Svenkas Co. dipped from | :fi waao n v.h“f nmmhmr of trading on | e Boerse today, - 109, and clom ot 437 19 Yo @, ml The Boerse Was generall, weak, but losses In other issues ran points. .' | rom 1 to ¢ | BIRD COLLECTION BOUGHT | NEW YORK, March 14 () —The| Rothaehild colleetion of Hm.“?umb’;hr: ing more than 200,000 specimens, has been purchased in part by the Ameri- can .n'f‘uxeum l:( g:tur;’l !:h&orylnd will | low 2 iaerp ork from 'rrtns,‘ The price paid Baron Walter Roth- | HOOVER PETITIONE ON DRY LAW STAND Hotel and Restaurant Men Ask Strict Enforcement or Else Modification. President Hoover was petitioned by & delegation from the Hotels, Restau- rant, Club and Allied Industries Asso- ciation today to either bring about a strict enforcement of the Volstead act or else use his influence for modifica- tion of this law. The President was advised by Paul Henkel, chairman of the delegation, that the national deficit could be wiped out if Congress would pass a bill per- |- mitting the sale of wines and beer. He stated at the White House that in the event that the same $6 excise tax was on each barrel of beer sold the Government would receive $600,- 000,000 in taxes. He added that be- side this amount the association rep~ resented by him and his associates ale ready has gone on record as favoring an additional 2 per cent tax on the gross sale of beer and wine, which, he said, would give the Government an additional $3 00. Would Sirengthen Income Taxes. ‘Then,” continued Mr, Henkel, “our recyuranis and hotels would also, for the first time in many years be in a pesition to pay intome taxes on their n2t profity which would help swell the Go ernment income to much more than a billion dolla’s. This income would | help reduce the taxes the public now | A, Tl i :n:‘?‘mt‘&‘!:: el C] “wor necessary confidence in the public to s} money now being hoarded and wheeis of industries humming.” It was peinted out by Mr., Henkel during his White House cell that there’s more than $5,000,000,000 invested in the hotel industry and thet more than- 00,000 men and wcmen are employed. stated that the resturant business represents $12,000,000,000 with 800,000 smployss He continued that for the easies which, he said, are to bs found throughout the country, hotels and GERMANS PREPARE FOR RUN-OFF VOTE Hindenburg Misses Clear jority Over Hitler by Malf of 1 Per Cent. (Continued Prom First . vote of confidence o‘:::hfl -;-almammrmm- ed a delegation from the Non- Sufieey Hindenburg Campaign Com- Wi continue to stand & candidate. - All over e town today the people were should be h other 'hyhl second ballot necessary, with the four more weeks of agitation it will entafl. Who announced as soon as Tesult. became certain” that he - weud run again. He claimed for himself the vor.e;e cast ]1:: Duesterberg and as- serted would take se from Hl:flmbumv T e acoepted yesterday's verdict it was likely that the Reichstag have convened immediately e ened President Hindenburg's term by parliamentary vote in order to spare the country the costs of the campaign. It was strongly intimated by Herr Duesterberg in a conversation with the mu.trgd P{: that his “Steel Hel- ‘e not inclined simply to to Hitler. The candidate mmm attitude would be settied at a confer- ence tonight or tomorrow. Fears had been expressed in some quarters that the Socialists might dis- obey party instructions and vote for the Communist Thaelmann d of for Von Hindenburg. These fears were shown to be unfounded. Social democ- recy gave an excellent example of dis- cipiine by yoting for a man whose philosophy of life runs counter to theirs, mhu honesty and integrity they In East Prussia, where the Nasis did everything possible to undermine confi- dence in the government's concern about :.n‘: e?p:.o:d e, the President ob- X compared with 400,000 for Hitler, Few Disorders Reported. Although it was the most tense elec- tion since Germany became a republic, it went off with comparatively few dis- orders. There were five fatilities. A Communist and & Nazl were killed in an election fracas in one of the Berlin sub- urbs; and at Hulckeswagen, near Kre- feld, three Communists were shot to e oports 0t & knifings and ere were Tt fist fights from various parts of the country, but in general the police had easier time of it than they had ex- ‘Two policemen were on duty at every one of Berlin's 2,585 polling places and the streets, especially in the govern- ment section of town, were strongly patrolled. In the sections of Germany where Winter sportsmen gather voting booths were erected on snow-clad hills. Out at tsdam, once one of the seats of the monarchy, Prince August Wilhelm, fourth son of the ex-Kalser, was an active worker for the Nazi cause. Like any political precinct captain in the United States, he drove his car about blished today after the announce- wm‘nt of the complete returns predicted President Von Hindenburg would be & | smashing vietor in the second election. | The _industrialist Algemeine ~Zeltung said Hitler would not be able to utilize his gains effectively in the run-off. The Socialist Vorwaerts said: “The attempt of Fascism to win D indenbure . pilans natiyn will give urg a vote of con&mte." L SIROVICH'S HEARING ON CRITICS CALLED “FISHING EXPEDITION” (Continued From First Page) ture law to be drawn up on somsthing restaurants have been facing ruination. | or other, Violations Hurt Business. - It is set forth in the petition, which Was presented to the President by John McGlynn, director general of the asso- ciation, that the latter indorses the President's plan to have a full enforce- ment of the eighteenth amendment, and explained thal these industries repre- sented in the mssociation have ed the laws as provided in the Constitu- tion, but that unfair competition be- cause of violators of these laws have made legitimate business suffer greatly. The petiticn was signed by repre- sentatives of the following organizations; New York Restaurant Keepers' Asso- ciation, Internatienal Gepeva Associa- tion, Vattel Club of Ameriea, West Side Hotel Associaticn of N 5 York, New York Bociety of Rateurs, de Couj- sine of America, New Jersey Btewards, | New York Stewards, Societe Culinajre Philanthropique, Metropolitan Ciub Managers, Atlantic _Restauranteurs, Hotel Executives Club, Elite Head Wait- ers’ Association of America, Interna- tional Cooks' Association, United Res- taurant Owners' Association, National Helvetia_Society, Hotel Greeters, Char- ter No. 2, and a number of restaurant owners, REPORT ON ESTATE TAX IS DUE TODAY Efficiency Bureau to Submit Rec- ommendations te Senater Capper. The Bureau of EMclency probably will submit to Chairman Capper of the Senate District Committee &h after- noon its report on the proposed estate tax for the District, with indications its finding on the increase of the gaso- line tax and the proj tax on zuto: mobiles by wd’m will not be ready for submission. until Wednesday morning. These three itions are of the program five bills put through the House by the Mapes Committee, seeking to increase the taxes of the people of the District, The other two bills, on which the ef- fieiency experts are working, pro- vide for a Jocal income tax and of the substantive law which lished the 60-40 ratio between the Dis- trict and Federal Government in meet- m‘_tho expenses of the Capital City. ‘he bureau, it was learned today, is combining its discussion of the gasoline tax and the motor vehicle weight*tax in one report. because of the close relation between these subjects, The gasoline tax bill would raise the rate from 2 to 4 cents a gallon. The Mapes Committee estimated in | its report to the House that the estate TRl wissracking Critic Robert Coleman, in exponent of the van) school of oratory, from gigantic sheets of paper spi before him, thereu anpnounced in the midst of a di silence, “A critic is not made—he is born1” And point- ed to such spectacular lights of the critical world as G. B. Shaw, whose words of wisdom were not “thrust upen him." but born with him. Thus the final hearing which has focused the attention of the world on the first open forum in congressional records on the waywardness of critics. And but for a few choice words, the Ted carnation on the lapel of the chair- man of the committee’s coat, the cigar which Oritic Coleman brandished from time to time, the occasion was an anti- elimax for an expedition” of this kind. The promised trainloads of drams scribes from New York, Chicago, Bos- ton and Pittsburgh seemed to have been mislaid. Mislaid also was the battle for which Reprezentative Sirovicn had prepared himself “Weeds, Thorns and Thistles.” The most violent expression of the moiming’s session (apar. {rom the re- iterated statement from Representative Birovich that he had been “ortured and abused” In everything tnat he had said) was that “tne weeas, the thorns, the thistles must be removed from the the- ater.” Critic Coleman agreed with Siro- | vich on this, He agreed with Repre- sentative Sirovich on everything, He himsell spoke about “weeds, thorns and thistles.” He said the chairman had |been fair in everything that he had !said. He further added that his speech ‘wer the radio Jast night had been par- ticularly enjoyeble. He also looked somewhat surprised when Representa- tive Cole asked out of the clear sky, “Is this a fishing expedition?” Words of fair and foul play on the subject of the theater had been ex- | changed between the chairman and his ! chief witness. After Coleman had his “critical” examination and ved himself a 1.ajor scholar of the theater by having been to high esheol, | college for one year, to “Mlumbia “or -four years studied little ireater move- ments and also béen abrow!—ut which i he was extolled by Swovich as being the kind of critic “with a background,” | which the theater wants—the d'scus- slon of “wisecracking among the crit- ies” and the school of slander was brought up. uage, ‘Do you approve of such c " asked the worthy chair man of the worthy eritie. “No, I do not,” said Coleman. “Wise- cracking is the refuge of the witless. And furthermore,” ne added, with s sweep of his hand in the manner of 8 consummate thespian, “I doa't ap- prove of anything that is against mg:lty of the theater.” e dignity of the theater was then put temporarily away. In its place the callgus eritic was scourged, the question of the 20-minute revue was brought up, and the defense of brevity in com- Pposition upheld by Coleman, who that “Hark, Hark, the Tark” had beep w in 8 jiffy, and the vague - eralisation of thought among lfio present, “Well, what's going to be done about it?” Nobody denied Mr. Eifrovich. Rvery one seemed to be for him. Represen- tative Cole’s suggestion that this was perhaps not leading to much seemed very much to the poinl. Mr. Coleman seemed ancicus to .a i £9 alq i sentative Sirovich. T'p until a late hour they were still t=lk.ng. But where were thoge critics wio haa called s tors “hams"? And why ves the tuater -deelining. Nobody kmew. In -act, the start an- theater has beem ever this year,