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WEAT (U, 8. Wea ture -Highest yesterday; lowest, 34, Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 ‘Taln, ‘with Tising tempera s St saoes W’I‘vmmhr-— HER. Porecast.) ; lowest tem- 35 degrees. t, 48, at 4 pm. at 7:30 a.m. today. Entered _as seco post office, Wad F00 AND LOTHE MAY BE EAENPTED N SHLES TAXPLAN Committee Considers Action as Means of Quieting Opposition. No. 32,101 LEVY ON OIL IMPORTS nd class niatter shington, D. C. Lennart and Bride To Get King’s Aid In Forgiveness Plea By the Associated Press NICE, France, March 21.— Prince Lennart of Sweden and his bride, who are scheduled to arrive here next Monday, the day after Easter, will find the prince’s grandfather, King Gus- stav, a new ally in the attempt at a reconciliation with Prince Wil- helm, the King’s son and Prince Lennart’s father. King Gustav already - has bought a wedding present for the couple and withdrawn any ob- Jections to their marriage. Prince Wilhelm objected to the wedding because the bride, the daughter of a wealthy Stockholm business man, was not of royal blood. ALSO TO BE CONTESTED La Guardia Willing to Cease Fight on Manufactures Levy if Amend- ments Are Voted. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. ‘The tax problem confronting the House today remained as tangled as ever. ‘The Ways and Means Committee, au- thor of the pending tax bill, met in executive session today to consider fur- ther exemptions to the manufacturers ! sales tax. A proposal to eliminate from the manufactures sales tax all foodstuffs and wearing apparel and “ethical” medicines was pending before the com- mittee for action when the committee took a recess at noon until 2 p.m. Representative La Guardia of New York, Progressive Republican, who has been leading the fight against the manufacturers’ sales tax, said later that f all foodstuffs, wearing apparel and “ethical” medicines were exempt from the manufacturers’ sales tax, such ac- tion would remove his fundamental ob- jections to the manufacturers’ tax. Rumors spread that these proposed exemptions might ultimately be a basis upon which the warring factions of the House could reach an agreement on the tax bills. ‘While the Ways and )f;lmn Commit- tee was meeting a group ouse mem- bers from the Mflndc Coast States met in the office of Representative Lin- thicum of Maryland to discuss ways and means of eliminating from the tax bill the tax on imported crude oils and gasoline. It was determined that Rep- resentative McCormack of Massachu- setts present an amendment to the tax bill on the floor to strike out this tax. Mills Hits La Guardia Plan. ed | Tepresentatives here. b3 ittee, would fall short by $530,000,000 of the rc enue needed by the Government. The Treasury Department estimate of the increased revenue to be derived. d ments increasing normal of the income tax is only about $30,- 000,000, although La Guardia and his supporters have claimed that these amendments would increase the revenue by $150.000,000 or more. Speaker Garner was asked today whether he would take the floor and discuss the tax bill situation in an effort to win the Democratic opponents back into allegiance to the Democratic leadership of the House. . “T'll determine that as we go along, said the Speaker. Both Sides Favor Exemptions. Acting Chairman Crisp of the House Ways snd Means Committee declined to reveal the source of the proposal to exempt all foodstuffs and wearing ap- 1 from the operation of the manu- | acturers’ tax. .He indicated, however, that it came from both sides As the bill now stands, it already ex- empts from the operation of the manu- | facturers' sales tax o great quantity of foodstuffs. The Treasury Department | estimates that if all foodstuffs are to| be exempt another $60,000,000 of rev- enue will be lopped off. The depart- | ment's estimate of the revenue that will be lost by exempting all wearing apparel from the manufacturers’ tax is | $55,000,000. The proposal also mcludcs‘ exempting all “ethical” medieines from this tax. This would reduce the rev- enue by $10,000,000. The committee today agreed to a list of exemptions recommended by a subcommittee, in- cluding ice cream and malted milk, which was made public yesterday. The estimated loss in revenue from these € ptions was $10,000,000. Should the proposals for the ex- emption of all foodstuffs, wearing ap- parel and ethical medicines be adopted, (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) NICHOLAS PLANNING RETURN TO RUMANIA. Prince Makes After Reaching Nice in Motor Race Disclosure From Paris. Associated Press NICE. March 21.—Prince Nicholas of Rumania toid the Associated Press to- he was going back home to take p his old place in the court of his brother, King Carol. He made this disclosure of his plans when he reached here at the wheel qf the automobile he drove down from ! Paris in the grueling Paris-Nice motor | race. He was well up in the running, but the official results will not be an- nounced until PFriday. Prince Nicholas angered Carol marrying Mme. Jana Delet), a com- moner, against the King's wishes There was some talk of stripping him of his royal prerogatives, but the prince left with his bride for Paris and Carol took no drastic action Recently the King sent an emissary to see Nicholas, and presumably it was he who succeeded in patching up the quarrel. by PRIEST HELD AS SLAYER 13, Found With Throat Cut in School Dormitory. ROME, March 21 (#)—Paoli de Bene, 13-year-old student, was found dead in bed with his head almost severed from the body by a knife wound in a dormi- Boy, SHANGHAI PARLEY MAKES PROGRESS Basis for Formal Discussions | Reached—League Mission Sees Battlefields. By the Associated Press, SHANGHAI, March 21.—New par- | leys for peace and new trenches for | war were under way here today. Japanese and Chinese negotiators continued peace parleys under the aus- pices of neutral observers, while out along the Japanese front line to the northwest Japanese soldiers worked | feverishly on new trenches, barbed wire barricades and sandbag redoubts. | Those actually connected with the | negotiations, the Chinese and Jap- | nese representatives and the foreign of- | ficials, all professed to see hope for | success of the parleys. Center on Three Points. Officials declined to reveal the terms suggested for the armistice, but they were reported to have centered on three points: 1. Chinese troops to remain in their p;esent postluom, about 20 miles West | o ai. 2. Japanese forces to withdraw into the International Settlement. 3. A neutral commission to supervise the Japanese withdrawal and to take over the administration of the wide area around the city, now occupied by the Japanese. 2 Dispatches f';m;e;rokm Lndll:lt;’d the lapanese _conten proposal No. 2 would nullify th of 411 their activities around Shanghal. The Jap- anese and Chinese foreign offices at Tokio and Nanking announced further instructions had been sent to their Japanese Shorten Lines. the great activity was taking place. The indication was that the Japanese planned to make it their permanent defense line. Behind the lines, eastward to the International Settlement and the ‘Whangpoo River, the Japanese were es- tablishing a vast storehouse for mili- tary supplies. The Chinese and Japanese negotiators said tonight at the end of today's par- leys that further definite progress to- ward peace was achieved. Quotai-Chi, representing China, said a basis for formal discussions was laid down as a result of today's conversations and that | today’s meeting concluded the “informal mee " The next conferences, which are slated for Wednesday, je said, would be | “formal.” The conferees agreed today, | he said, that the Chinese troops would remain where they now are and that the Japanese troops would withdraw | according to a fixed program not yet announced. It also was agreed, he said, that a joint Sino-Japanese Commission, including representatives of the neutral powers. would certify the execution of the above conditions. Three more transports carrying part | " (Continueq on Page 2, Column 8.) JOB TOTAL NOW 275,000 MINNESOTA LEADING National Campaign Honor for Per-| centage of Quota, However, Highest in Delaware. By the Associated Press. i NEW YORK, March 21.—More than | 275,000 jobs had been drafted today in| the war against depression. Minnesota held the numerical lead | over all the States, having found jobs for 30,012. Delaware, however, topped | the country on a percentage basis, re- porting a total of 4,501 new jobs, which Tepresents more than 230 per cent of its comparative quota. The goal set in the campaign, which | is sponsored by the American Legion, American Federation of Labor, the As- sociation ofé National Advertisers and ch WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1932—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. »*% Associated service. P) Means Associated Pre: The only evening paper in Washington with the Saturday's Circulation, 121,057 Sunday’s Circulation, 130,213 — ] TWO CENTS. MILITIA OFFICERS AUTO IS STONED AT STRIKE SCENE Crowd Forces National Guard Observers to Return to Nelsonville, Ohio. 'MANY MINERS BELIEVED ARMED WITH RIFLES | Governor Threatens Martial Law, Blaming “Professional Agi- tators” for Troubles. COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 21 (#). —Gov. George White today an- nounced Ohio leaders of the United Mine Workers, after a conference here, pledged their co-operation in maintaining order in the Hocking Valley coal field. The Governor said the attitude of the union chiefs made him feel that he may be able to avoid send- ing the National Guard into the field as he had threatened after several acts of violence, By the Associated Press. ATHENS, Ohio, March 21.—An auto- mobile, bearing Ohio National Guard officers to mine No. 6 of the Sunday Creek Coal Co., where a strike of min- ers is in progress, was stoned by a crowd of men today. Windshield, win- dows and, headlights of the machine were smashed, but the officers escaped injury. The Guard officers, sent into the strike region as observers for Adjt. Gen. Frank Henderson, had been order- ed to Millfield to relieve 10 other of- ficers who had been on duty during the night. As the car approached the mine, members of the crowd of men hurled rocks at it. The officers turned about and drove back to Nelsonville and | reported the incident to Gen. Hender- son at Columbus and Sheriff Wayne Wingett of Athens County. Gen. Henderson termed the stoning & “serious problem.” He intimated he would send machine gun companies into the fleld if the Governor decides to call upon the National Guard. Many Armel With Rifies. The Guard observers estimated there were about 1,500 men in the Millfield district today, and many of them were said to be armed with rifies. A tense quiet pervades the Hocking Valley bituminous coal fields. National Guard units are ready for immediate mobilization following Gov. George White's stern uitimatum for a cessation of “lawlessness” under pen- alty of martial law. A series of minor outbreaks during the past month and a half was climaxed early yesterday by the dynamiting of & raflroed spur trestle and the stoning of five mine officials by a group of men reported to number about 150. The disorders resulted from reports of the reopening today of the No. 6 mine of the Sunday Creek Coal Co. at Millfield and the Lick Run mine of the Hocking & Athens Coal Co. The op- erators were requested by Gen. Hender- son to keep the pits closed tem K Early this morning more than 1,000 striking miners gathered at Millfield for a mass meeting, but fear of re- current violence was dispelled for the time being when speakers renewed their cautions against extreme means. Phone Lines Cut. As daybreak approached, the miners still were milling about the village under the eyes of 35 guards and the sheriff and a group of deputies of Athens County. Direct communication with Millfield was not possible because telephone lines had been cut. Reports from Milifield were made to the telephone operator at Chauncy, about three miles south. “Professional agitators” were blamed by Gov. White for the disorders. In a statement recalling recent in- stances of intimidation of working miners and threatened destruction of property, the Governor ordered units of the Ohio National Guard “to be pre- pared to move to the district imme- diately in the event further contempt of the law 1s shown or the continuance of acts which threaten the loss of life and property.” “This violence, this disgraceful law- lessness, can no longer be tolerated,” the Governor said. “It will be put (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) GEN. HEALY REPORTED “RESTING COMFORTABLY” By the Associated Press CHICAGO, March 21—Brig. Gen. George H. Healy of the Indiana Na- tional Guard was “resting comfortably, his courage good, and doing wonder- fully well,” his physicians said today. ‘The commander of the 76th Infantry Brigade lost his right leg by amputa- tion Saturday, due to an infection. the Legion Auxiliary, is 1,000,000 jobs. Encouraging in A bright ray glistened today on the needie of this country's economic | | barometer in the announcement of the Labor Department’s Bureau of Statistics | that employment in manufacturing in- | dustries increased 12 per cent and| earnings were boosted 2.1 per cent dur- | ing February. | Per capita earnings in this group In- | creased 0.8 per cent during the month, the bureau said. The increase is based, the bureau ex- | plained, on reports made by 16,891 es- tablishments in 89 of the principal manufacturing industries throughout the country, having in Februarya total of 2,830,890 employes, whose combined earnings in one week were $56,719,548. The report was col in Govern- ment circles as one of the most en- couraging issued during the last 12 or more months. It follows wholesale tory at the Catholic Institute of Pus IX, yesterday. Paolo Sociarelli, a priest, was held by police, who said he admitted he must have killed the boy “in a moment of unconsciousness.” The dormitory was occupied by 40 boys and four priests. L firlu statistics issued Saturday, which ndicated the firming of the wholesale purchasing power of the 1926 dollar at FACTORY EMPLOYMENT RISES 1.2 PER CENT AND EARNINGS 2.1 Official Circles Consider February Report One of Most Year or More. On the other hand, slackening of sea- sonal demand caused employment to \decrease 0.3 per cent in the 16 major industrial groups, but despite this slump the groups reported their combined earnings increased 0.1 per cent over January. This phase of the report was based on returns from 60,252 establish- ments, having in February 4,542,751 employes, whose combined earnings in one week were $97.759,053. Bituminous coal mining, telephone and telegraph and crude petroleum producing reported increases in pay rolls of 0.1, 0.5 and 0.9 per cent, re- spectively. In the manufacturing group the lum- ber, paper and printing and food groups showed decreases in employment and earnings. The rubber products and the machinery groups showed no e, while nine other groups showed in employment ranging from 0.1 per cent in chemicals to 56 per cent in leather. As to earnings, increases were regismwrui frflmlg.;l ipe:hMt in the to- 0 group to 15.1 in the leather 3 L Xy $1.50 during the last four weeks. ‘The factors behind this employment increase were not the report. brought out in ments set operation at 87 per cent of | full time, & gain of 1 per cent for the 'month. g ViM9 TAR L3 -3y A1ie 7, Bxu}" . 3 PRI\ WONDER. IF 1 COULD PASS THIS BLOOMIN’ ~THING ON 7 To SOL. Wi QW Too'% N N PARTS OF AIRPLANE ARE FOUND INRIVER Give Clue to Mail Flyer and Woman, Missing in Ohio Valley Section. i By the Associated Press. STEUBENVILLE, Ohio, March 21.— Parts of an airplane and a dozen air- mail sacks, found on the West Virginia bank of the Ohio River this afternoon | at Browns Island, 5 miles north of here, led to the belief that an East-bound | transcontinental Western Air Lines mail plane, missing for 10 hours, had crashed into the river with its pilot and a wom- an passenger. An oil tug boat, the Phil James, was ordered to proceed up the river and ascertain if the ship was in the river, which at that point is 50 feet deep. Ezre. Van Dine and Charles Gal- 'lagher reported they found part of the landing gear of a plane, a woman's hat, 12 sacks of mail, parts of an avi- ator's uniform and some water-soaked papers. The missing plane was last heard of at 2:37 am. today when the pilot, Hal George, asked by radio for weather con- ditions around Pittsburgh. His pas- senger was Mrs. Dr. Carol S. Cole of St. Louis, who was en route to New York. SOUGHT BY PILOTS. S | Flyer Believed to Have Been Forced Down. PITTSBURGH, March 21 (®.— Planes from Bettls Airport and Penn- sylvania State police are searching for an airmail plane missing in the Steu- benville, Ohio, region. Hal George, the pilot, radioed Bettis | Airport at 2:37 am. and asked about | the weather. Then his voice went off | the air and Bettis attaches fafled to | contact him again. They believe he | rnac:’e a forced landing shortly after- ward. TRIED TO SAVE TIME. Mail it bl | Woman on Plane Hastening to Daugh- ter's Bedside. ST. LOUIS, March 21 (#).—Dr. Carol | Skinner Cole, St. Louis woman physi- | cian, reported missing in a mail air- | plane near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border, left Lambert-St. Louis Field at 8:40 o'clock last night, explaining she was hastening to the bedside of her daughter, Mrs. William T. Bingham, who is ill at Newark, N. J. Because of anxiety over her daugh- ter’s condition, Dr. Cole chose to fly in the night mail ship rather than wait | for a pessenger plane leaving this | morning. She was wearing a parachute when she departed. NAVAL TRIO .IN HOSPITAL New London Submarine Base Ac- | | cident Due to Torpedo Machinery. NEW LONDON. Conn., March 21 (). | —Two student officers and a chief tor- | pedo man injured Thursday at_the United States Navy Submarine Base | were transferred last night to the| Brooklyn Naval Hospital The three, Ensigns Edward C. Folger of Abington, Mass.; Rob Roy McGreg- | or of New York City, and Chief Tor- | pedoman Floyd Van Idour of Bay City, | Mich., were injured when the propelling machinery of & torpedo collapsed while | being operated at high speed. Folger and Van Idour were hurt critically and | McGregor suffered serious injuries. | CHANCE FOR FULL BONUS | LESSENED, HOOVER TOLD Representative Johnson Says Con-| gress Wants to Keep Govern- ment Expenses Down. President Hoover was told today by Representative Royal Johnson of South | Dlflou, ranking Republican member of the House Veterans' Committee, that | the chance for additional bonus legis- lation at this session of Congress has become lessened as a result of a de- sire on the part of Congress to effect governmental economy. Representative Johnson declared a number of members of the House are in favor of the proposal to give the vet- erans the remaining 50 per cent of their adjusted compensation certifiates, but they had been, forced to change their positions as a result of the fight on the tax bills and other economic measures. He said there is still agita- tion in favor of the measure and that the outcome is, in his opinion, doubtful at this time. Radio Programs on Page B-8 { Kidnaping Hoaxed To Avoid Testifying In Divorce Fight By the Associated Press. CATSKILL, N. Y., March 21— Sergt. J. Walter Wheeler of the Catskill police said today that alarm at the prospect of testify- ing in a divorce action between his father-in-law and mother-in- law influenced Albert C. Gregory of Sussex, N. J, to originate a kidnaping hoax. Gregory, acccrding to Wheeler, admitted to the police his story of being taken for a 400-mile trip to the Catskill Mountains and held for a ransom was an ex- aggeration. Gregory paid & small fine on a disorderly conduct charge. Gregory appeared in Catskill last Saturday and said he had been kidnaped. Police said he came here in his own car, leaving a note pinned to his cottage door demanding $2,000 ransom. GOURT WITHHOLDS SMITH BANK RULING County Trust Co. Seeks to Vacate Order in “Tiger Room” Suit. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, March 21.—The “tiger room” conference, at which, it is charged, a number of the friends of Alfred E. Smith, in the late Summer of 1928, on the promise they would never have to pay, signed a blanket note for $225,000 to cover up illegal contributions to his campaign funds, was in the courts again today. Supreme Court Justice John Ford reserved decision on a motion by the County Trust Co., which, it is charged, advanced the money tc the Smith cam- paign, to vacate a previous court order whereby Timothy J. Mara, who says he was one of the signers, was to be per- mitted to examine Orie R. Kelly, presi- dent of the company, before trial of the company’s $50,000 suit against Mara. Suing on Notes. The County Trust Co. is suing Mara and Patrick F. Kenny, a Yonkers plumbing contractor, for $50,000 and $20,000, respectively, on notes which they signed in 1928 and 1929, and which they have not paid. Mara and Kenny both say they signed the notes to cover up contributions from the County Trust Co. to Smith's cam- paign fund, and that they were told when they signed them they would never have to make good on them. The story told by both defendants— and denied by John J. Raskob, Demo- cratic national chairman—is that in the late Summer of 1928 they were sum- moned to the “tiger room,” a recreation room maintained by William F. Kenny, millionaire contractor and intimate friend of the former Governor, in an office building he owns on West Twenty- third street. It is called the “tiger room"” because it is decorated with pic- tures of tigers. There, they say, a number of Smith’s " (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) INDIAN AUTHOR FOUND 'DEAD IN GIRL'S HOME Death Is Termed Suicide by Police. Had Bullet Wound in Head. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, March 21.—Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, 36-year-old Indian author, was found shot to death Sunday in the palatial home of Anita | Baldwin, wealthy daughter of the late “Lucky” Baldwin, mining magnate. A revolver, which police said be- longer to Chief Long Lance. was found near the body. Authorities” said the Indian had ended his own life with a bullet wound in the head. Frank A. Nance, county coroner, today was waiting a report from a physician who was called when the body was found. He was unde- cided as to whether an inquest would be called. Chief Long Lance, who entered Car- lisle Indian School in 1909 after ap- pearing in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, had been a frequent visitor at the Baldwin estate. He was a friend of Jim Thorpe, noted Indian athlete, who told authorities he had received letter a week ago from mw’ in which Lhednuthoé gave no intimation of worty or ndency.. o;ryvm“u.;:o the cnyaldwtn home told police Long Lance had been drinking heavily, FOSHAY FOUNDERS CONVICTEDINFRALD |Sentenced to Aggregate of 15 Years Each and Fined $1,000. By the Associated Press. MINNEAPOLIS, March 21.—~Wilbur B. Foshay and H. H. Henley, founders " victed on four of 17 counts of using the mails to defraud, by a Federal Court jury today. Judge Joseph W. Molyneaux sen- | tenced each to serve an aggregate of 15 | years in the Federal Pentitentiary at Leavenworth, Kans., and to pay a fine | of $1.000 each, with a stay of 42 days in | which to move for appeal. Jury of 11 men, the second to hear the case, returned the verdict on first jury last Fall disagreed. of emotion. Both were released by con- tinuing their appearance bonds in force. Jury Hung at First Trial. The first trial lasted eight weeks, ending in disagreement of the jury panel made a solitary stand for more than a week for acquittal. Later this woman, Mrs. Genevieve A. Clark, was found in contempt of court for failing to reveal when examined that she was a former Foshay employe. She has appealed this finding, which resulted in a sentence of six months jail and a fine of $1,000. The verdict wrote another chapter in the life of Foshay, who, in 1917, after a career as an art student at Columbia University, as a clerk and minor execu- tive with utilities companies, estab- | lished his own business here in a one- room office. Buying small utilities properties in rural sections on the part-payment plan, he began marketing securities on a small scale, but with steady success. Then he branched out, added Henley | as his chief assistant, and expanded | speedily in 1925. In 1927 and 1928 he marketed his own securities at the rate | of more than $1,500,000 monthly. Sales Off in 1929. In 1929 his sales dropped, and he | was forced to make loans at high in- | terest rates. Finally, he was unable to | get further loans, and a receivership was ordered on November 1, 1929, ‘Foshay properties were credited with a value of more than $50,000,000 at one time, but the Government in the trial alleged that the promoters consistently exaggerated values to stockholders and Pprospective investors. Josiah Brill, defense attorney, said he | would appeal. — |SKIDDING VAN KILLS MAN Special Dispatch to The Star. | . HAGERSTOWN, Md., March 21.— | James Crippen, 43, was killed instant- ly today when a furniture van skidded in the deep snow on the highway at | Walnut Bottom, Pa. Crippen's head | was crushed when he was caught be- neath the van as he tried to get clear. with the car and escaped injury. The men were moving furniture from Hagerstown to Scranton, Pa. —_— France Launches Destroyer. LA SEYNE, France, March 21 (#).— The new destroyer, Chevalier Paul, |2.634 tons, was launched here today. of the Foshay enterprises, were con-|® its sixth day of comsideration. The| Foshay and Henley showed no signs | when the only woman member of the | in Ivan Peters, who was driving, stayed | LINDBERGH PROBE -EXTENDS T0 NOTE FOUND ON PIGEON Message Says Child Is Safe on Yacht Outside U. S. Jurisdiction. SEVERAL PERSONS MAKE CONFIDENTIAL REPORTS Bird Was Forced Down in Con- necticut Storm—Code Is Trans- lated by Bootlegger. By the Associated Press. HOPEWELL, N. J., March 21.—In- vestigators in the Lindbergh kidnaping were excited for a time today by two notes, supposed to have been found on carrier pigeons. One was quickly revealed to be a hoax and the other could not be verified. The investigators were otherwise without any tangible result in their long search for the missing baby. The 10 o'clock bulletin of the New Jersey State police, issued by Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, told of the two notes. Several hours later boys in ing one of them as a prank and tieing it to the leg of a dead pigeon. Other Written in Code. The other note was reported to have been in code and found on a bird beaten down in a storm in Connecticut. The informant of the police said he did not see the note and he refused to name a local hootlegger who he said decoded it. He said it read: “All lines unsafe. Kid in yacht. Making no port. Well trained care outside United States jurisdiction. Re- turn bird.” Several Persons Interviewed. The bulletin continued: “Several people were interviewed at hese headquarters yesterday, purport- have information concerning the In each of these instances the | information was offered in confidence |and this confidence will be respected. | All of the information so received is | now being investigated. | “Follcwing telephonic communication | with Jersey City we find that Henry | Johnson is still in the custody of Jersey | City and has been contmuoulmmmee his return to the Jersey City aut last night. Indications are that he is | about to be over to the Federal | immigration authorities. | "Invesuflum are out all over the | state, following up information re- | celved, and no reparts are available as yet from any of them.” Phone Calls Continue. | The Lindbergh telephone lines con- | tinue to_buzz with reports that babies | looking like the stolen child have been | seen. Mrs. Lindbergh frequently takes questions the caller | the calls and | closely. All such leads have proved false, but the State police have arranged for a close check on all babies who might possibly include the one being sought. Several details are now assigned to this | task alone. | Between the lines of the official police communiques there sounds an occa- (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) INCOME TAX SHOWS " SHARP FALLING OFF | —_— |$27,846,167 on First Day of New Quarter Compared With | $44,105,314 Year Ago. | |t | ing to | By the Associated Press. Income tax collections from the first | quarter’s payments on March 18 were | $27,846,167, as compared to $44,105,314 | for the same day a year ago. The collections brought the total for March to $152,428,074, against $283,229,295 in | the same number of days last March. The collections for the fiscal year | continued to run half a billion dollars | behind those for the similar period of the preceding fiscal year. From last July 1 to March 18 the Government has collected from income tax $810,- 549,416, as compared with $1,454,660,- 320 in the same period of last year. The Government’s deficit on March 18 stood at $1,811,049,506. On that day the Government had collected from all sources $1,530,305,727 and had spent $3,341,355,234. The receipts were approximately $800,000,000 less than collected in the same number of days a year ago, while the expenditures were aboutt $350,000,000 more than was spent. | Boosts Interest Rate. COLUMBIA, S. C., March 21 (#).— The Columbia Clearing House Associa- tion announced today that interest on savings accounts will be increased from 3 to 4 per cent April 1 and rescinded its requirement that advance notice of intention to withdraw savings accounts | be given. Ernest Durig's two-ton work of art, | a plaster bust of George Washington, which he presented to President Hoover Saturday, and which summarily con- stituted quite a problem on the Chief Executive’s hands, now is an even greater complexity to Sol Bloom at the United States Bicentennial Commis- sion. When Theodore Joslin, one of the President’s secretaries, called up Mr. Bloom Saturday and asked him if he could find a place to house a bust of Washington just presented to Mr. Hoo- ver, the New Yorker acquiesced read- fly. It would make a worthy addition to the collection of Washingtoniana. mostly of 1932 origin, that graces the commission offices. he felt. “Sure, sure! Gisd to do & velum- { & i ;WASH'INGTON BUST NO PROBLEM TILL BLOOM TRIES TO MOVE IT |4 | Glad to Take It Off Hoover’s Hands, He Says, But It’s Still Parked Aboard Truck. ;eer?td Mr. Bloom. “T'll send right over or it." And send over he did, directing a member of his staff to “jump into a taxicab and bring the bust up to the commission office.” Tefft Johnson, thus delegated, passed the bust in the White House grounds without paying much tention to it. other than, perhaps, velling at its great height. Inquiries for “the bust Mr. Hoover wants Mr. Bloom to take care of,” how- East Stroudsburg, Pa., admitted writ-! PAY GUT REPORT WILL AVOID FIXING REDUCTION RATE House Subcommittee to Sub- mit Results of Study This Afternoon. ECONOMY GROUP TO GET DETAILED INFORMATION Stiff Opposition Indicated to Re- duce Salaries of Already Low- Paid Employes. No definite and specific recommenda- tion regarding the rate of reduction to be applied on the Government pay roll | will be made to the full Economy Com- mittee, when it meets this afternoon, by the special subcommittee of three to which was delegated the task of see- ing what could be done to effect a sav- ing from $50,000,000 to $100,000,000 by wholesale salary slashing. Instead, the subcommittee will lay be- fore the Economy Committee detailed information regarding the estimated reduction that can be made by apply- ing various rates decrease to the Gov- ernment pay roll. The office of the United States Bu- employes who are receiving less than $2,000 a year salary. Up Against Stone Wall. The subcommittee, headed by Repre- sentative McDuffle of Alabama, has found itself literally up against a stone wall in its efforts to make any con. siderable showing of saving of Govern. ment !ux;ds wm*:‘out. still further o%; essing those who are endeavoring ve on salaries under $2,000. encountered a tide of opposition in the House aga! cutting the of already low-| Government employes so as to big business interests int which desire use the cutting of the Federal as an excuse and wholesale reduction of salaries in pri- vate throughout the entire United States. s Flat Rate Opposed. roll for two-thirds of the entire psy roll is composed of persons who receive $2,000 a year or less. '!'hrmxfluuv. the membership of the House the sentiment is g that the drive from outside in ts. tmn’ to force Congress to cut salaries of s | paycutting throughout the entire coun- Protests Pour in. ‘The largest organizations of employed people, as well as thousands of indi- vidual wage earmers, are writing io members of Congress urging the impera- tiveness of maintaining the Govern- ment pay roll in order that reductions, made for psychological effect, as stated by House Leader Rainey, even it was known they would not be mate- rially helpful toward cing the budget, might not give outside employ- ment an excuse for general and whole- sale salary cuts. The Senate today transferred the Connally Government pay cut bill from the Committee on Appropriations to the Civil Service Committee. This step was taken on motion of Chairman Jones of the Appropriations Committee and was in line with a similar request he made several weeks when the Borah salary reduction bills were turned over to the Ci Service Committee, of which Senator Dale of Vermont is chairman. The Connally bill would apply only until the end of the next fiscal year and would reduce on a sliding scale salaries above $2,000. WIDESPREAD SNOW WELCOMES SPRING “Worst™ Blizzard of Year in West. Trolley Plows Out in Phil- adelphia. By the Associated Press. . Belated Winter blew a spiteful at nascent Spring today. Snow dropped. almost generally, from the Atlantic seaboard to beyond the Rocky Mountains. In Washington it fell part of the night, but meited quickly. High winds and rough seas troubled Southern California. Trees blew down and high-tension wires snapped in Los geles. The “worst” blizzard of the year swept south of Colorado mm and four persons were n through blinding flakes. Freak thunder and lightning startled Chicago’s North Side. Snow hit Loop and later became general. Dawn found several inches of snow PR T 0" 2 ar- rived simultaneously in Pittsbutgh. New Yorkers put om rubbers and gr:kmed umbrellas against heavy, soggy es. Representative temperatures at 8 a.m. were: New York, 28; Me., 22; ever, brought him right back to it. He learned, too, that a truck and six men had delivered it there. The rest of the day, Mr. Johnson spent locatin, a conveyance and crew to remove i again, to where, he knew not. And he knows not today, for the bust remained aboard a storage company truck over the week end, and Mr. Bloom, Mr. Johnson and the Bicenten- nial Commission are still wondering what to do with it. Montreal, 14; Cleveland, 24; ), 28; Kansas City, 30; Seattle, 42; Angeles, 52; Atlanta, 54. The Weather Bureau said an ares of