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LN NG THE EVENI STAR. WASHI 4TON. D. C. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 6, 1932. A—S LEGION SUPPORTING ANTEBONUS. STAND Commander Stevens Declares Posts Will Not Go Back on Convention Vote. By the Associated Press RA H. N. C., April 6.—The Amer- fean Legion is standing squarely behind the menda‘e cf its notional convention agriret further bonus legislation, Na- ticnel Commander Henry L. Stevens said here yesterday i He ceclared only 23 Legion posts out of 10400 hzve “kicked over” by indors- inz such legislation “The proposition cf individual Legion naires fevoring bonus action is larger, the national commander continued, “but I have made officio] visits to 37! States and I find that Legionnaires generally are backing up fl:flr naticnal | conventicn in opposition f any bonus legislation at this time Willing to “Play Ball." “Legionnaires, fectly willing to ball,' of them who wculd like to see a dif- Sevent policy are perfectiy willing to it and try to bring it about in an Veuerly way through action of some | later national convention 1 Stevens sald “Legior s rec e | that, as ‘much as they would like to have the bonus money, the Government {5 just not in any position to pay it| right now.” “There is a deficit of nearly three billion dollars and things can’t go much | further without er rising over the | gunwales,” he said. | Comdr. Stevens said he will be in Washington on April 14, but his pro- | Jected visit has no connection with the | Patman bonus bill, although he expects to see President Hoover and discuss matters. | Backs Three Other Bills. Stevens sald he was not conducting sny act:ve opposition to the bonus bill, but is throwing the full force of the Legion’s strength behind three other measures pending in Congress. These are lh% $131,000,000" highway eonstruction bill which he estimates would provide employment for 900,000 idle men; the $26,000,000 relief bill for widows and orphans of veterans and a $52,000,000 measure for construction of 12,000 more beds in veterans' hospitals. The national commander announced the acceptance of Josephus Daniels, former Secretary of the Navy, to be an honor guest and speaker at the Na- tional Convention of the Legion at Portland, Oreg., September 12-15. WOMAN G.0.P. LEADER, | JUDGE'S WIDOW, DIES Mrs. J. Willis Martin of Philadel- phia Long Active in Politics and Welfare Work. a whole, are per nd most B the Associated Press, THILADELPHIA, April 6—Mrs. J. A Mortin. 68, nationally known p-liti~al and welfare worker, died last | n =~ was the first Pennsylvania wom- an delegate to-a Republican National | ion—the Cleveland convention 24; the first woman to speak, as nsn of a major committee, from ublican National Convention plat- 2 and to present a major com- s report, the first woman com- sloner of the Pennsylvania State ment of Welfare and the first woman ever to address the Pennsyl- vania Bar Association. She was chairman of the Women's Committee of Pennsylvania of the Council of National Defense, organizer and first president of the Garden Clubs of America and a member of the Advis- ory Council of the Pennsylvania Divi- sion of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform Mrs. Martin was chairman of the Women's Diocesan Committee of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Penn- sylvania. She was the widow of President Judge J Willis Martin of Common Pleas | Court, who died in 1930. SCIENCE RETALIATION ON MUSSOLINI URGED Americans Asked to Refuse to At- tend Congress Unless Allegiance Order Is Rescinded. By the Assoctated Press CHICAGO. April 6—Dr. A. J. Carl- son, noted University of Chicago physi- | ologist, Tecommends that American scientists refuse to attend the Inter- national Congress of Physiology at, Rome this August unless Premier Mus- solini rescinds an order requiring uni- Versity professors to swear allegiance | to the Fascist government. Writing in the current issue of Science, Dr. Carlson terms the required | ocath “a brutal and defiant attack on academic freedom on the part of the Ttalisn government.” The congress is | one of the most important conferences | in international science and usually 25 50 outstanding American scientists & o =i 2P Tr 4y Suiseppe Castruccio, Italian consul | general here, after the scientist’s arf was called to his attention last t. #aid Dr. Carlson “evidently does not un- derstand the oath.” It has been.cus- tomary, he said, ever since Italy was united. and was taken only by professors in royal universities who are employes of the government and was not admin- istered in private schools OLCOTT, LAUDING WIFE, LEAVES ESTATE TO HER Irish Tenor's Will Her With Accumulating Through Credits Saving. By the A NEW ociated Press YORK, April Chauncey Oleott, Irish tenor, was| “mindful of the fact that whatever| estate I have been able to accumulate | is due to the savings of m wife He bequeathed his entire estate to her His will was filed for probate yester- day in Surrogates' Court. The value of | the estate was given as “over $10.000.” | The will noted the fact the Oicotts legally adopted Jeanne Angelia L. Ol- cott on March 5, 1930. The singer died | s fortnight ago on the Riviera LUMBER COMBINE SEEN Manu- 6.—~The late Northwest and Southern facturers May Join. PORTLAND, Oreg., April 6 (). An alliance of lumber and pulp manufac- turers of the Pacific Northwest with op- erators in the Southern States, in the interest of an import tax on lumber and pulp, was predicted by lumbermen here yesterday. The Senate Finance Committee will be urged to include such an import tax in the revenue bill. C. C. Shepard of Louisiana, president of the Southern Pine Lumber Associa- tion, and Prank Wisner of the East- ver Stamp, son of Sir Ji terday. bridegroom, Mrs. Gordon Padley others live in Evanston. Chief Justice Hughes Among Mourners at Rites for Noted Geologist. Chief Justice Hughes of the Supreme Court was among a large group of no- tables who attended the funeral yester- day of Dr. Albert Perry Brigham, noted geologist and geographer, who died last Thursday. a close friend of Dr. Brizham since the two attended Colgate University in the seventies. The services, held street, Dr. Brigham's Washington home, were conducted by Dr. Henry Ph Ross, and were attended by a group of Colgate faculty membeis and some of Dr. Brigham's associates In research at the Library of Congress. Honorary Pallbearers. Honorary pallbe> included Dr Herbert Putnam, Librar:an of Congress, and seven consultants and chiefs of di- vicions at the Library, Dean William H. Allison, Dr. Martin A. Roberts, Dr. Harry Walter Tyler, Dr. Henry E. Bourne, Col. Lawrence Martin. Dean 2400 Sixteenth William A. Slade. A private service for members of the family was held preceding the service. It was conducted by Rev. Ze Barney T. Phillips, chaplain of the Senate. Ashes to Be Scattered. At Fort Lincoln Cemetery, where the body was placed in a vauit to await cremation, short services were con- ducted by Rev. Gove G. Johnson, pastor of National Baptist Memorial Church. At Dr. Brigham's request his ashes will be scattered from a mountain top, follow- ing cremation. Dr. Brigham's home was in Hamilton, N. Y. He is_survived by his widow, Mrs. Flora W Brigham, and a daughter, Mrs. Lawrence Roth, ABALLI, EX-CUBAN ENVOY HERE, DEAD Former Communications Secretary in Machado Cabinet Suc- cumbs at 55, By the Associated Press. HAVANA. Cuba, April 6.— Rafael Sanchez Aballi. former Cuban Am- bassador to Washington and former secretary of communications in Presi- dent Machado’s cabinet, died Monday He was 55. He was a graduate of Lehigh Uni- Bethelehem, Pa., where he studied engineering. He had large sugar interests in Cuba when Machado, on becoming President in 1925, named him Ambassador to Washington. He occupied that post until his health caused him to return to Cuba munications, resigning to_seek unsuc- cessfully the office of Senator from Oriente province. His widow and three sons survive acl Sanchez Aballi served as Am- bassador to the United States for one vear, from May, 1926. One of his three sons is married to the former Bertha Machado, daughter of the President of | Cuba. New Manager C. C. CAPPEL TO HEAD NA- TIONAL SYMPHONY. C. C. Cappel, nationally known con- cert manager, will manage the National Symphony Orchestra. next season association announced today. Mr. Cappel's appointment. is effective immediately. He will assist the com- mittee in securing the $75,000 fund to finance the orchestra’s next . concert series and also have charge of ticket sales A box office handling National Sym- phony Orchestra tickets exclusively will be opened in the downtown section, as handle the orchestra’s business, man-Gardner Co. of Laurel, Miss.. have been asked to join the Pacific Northwest group in urging the tax. Representa- tives of the Northwesl will join with from the South in a personal mulm before the Senate Finance Park road. will be moved downtorn at tour manager of the United States Army Band. Mr. Cappel's office in the Tivoll Building, Fourteenth street and an early date. tendants are cousins of the bride. The Chief Jusiice had been | William Alexander Hammond and Dr. | at his home here after a long illness. | He was then made secretary of com- | the Executive Committee of the orchestra Mr. Cappel is principally known as ! party at the marriage of Miss ‘Frances Bosworth of Evanston. IIL, t oS and Lady Stamp of England. is sho v of London, England, sister of the bride, Revenue—Co-or: (In this, the eighth article of a of 12 on Balancing the Budget, vid Lawrence tells of the trends in State and local tazation and what are the principal sources cf revenue for States and munictpalities nowa- days.) BY DAVID LAWRENCE. State and City Problems. While the Federal tax problem gets the limelight, the truth of the matter is that the tax systems of our States and cities present an even more serious situation and one that is far more ‘in | need of revision and reorganization. Thus the cities of the United States, which spend a_ total of seven billion dollars s year, are relying for 93 per cent of their revenues on the general prop- erty tax, while the aStates, which spend approximately two billions a year, are | relying on the gen- eral property tax for 32 per cent of their receipts. Small wonder that the real estate owners have been groaning under the | David Lawrence. load for many years and have been | trying in one way or another to shift the burden of taxes to some other | sources. The cities have been getting about 4 per cent of their taxes from licenses and permits. but all their mis- | cellaneous taxes combined do not amount to 7 per cent of the total re- ceipts In the States, however, we find a variety of taxes, with business licenses yielding about 1715 per cent and motor vehicle licenses bringing about the same percentage, while gasoline taxes | yield approximately 16 per cent. Inheritance taxes have been bringing in only about 7 per cent of the taxes |for the States and income taxes less than 4 per cent, so that it may well be said that while the States have | spread their taxation much better than | have the citles, the various sources of | State taxation ‘are still limited. ~ There are fully 250,000 different tax- |ing units in the United States and |these, of course, are almost entirely State' and local and county. Thirty-five Million a Day. Somebody has figured it out that Federal, State and local governments combined are spending approximately $35,000,000 a day. the clock ticks was at the rate of $8,000.000 a day. While the Federal expenditures grew mostly out of the war, the States and municipalities have been spending most of their money for capital improve- ment, particularly highways. The revenue-raising side has not kept pace with the spending proclivity. Comparatively little progress has been made in the States and cities in im- proving the revenue-getting machinery of local government. | Whenever States and cities needed extra revenue, they used to increase the general property tax or supplement it with special property taxes. The States did not, however, continue this trend when they discovered the auto- mobile tax and the gasoline tax. by the shift in the percentage assessed to actual values of property. | In Jowa, according to a report just submitted to the Legislature, assessed valuation decreased from 1919 to 1930 by about $580,000,000, or about 10 per | The situation has been complicated | of | cent, while the taxes were increased | | from $77,000,00 to $145,000,000 a total | of about 106 per cent. | property values have increased, but not nearly as rapidly as taxes, so that as a general rule the rate has been rising | ; Property Tax Byrden. Thirty-one committees of one kind or another made reports to 40 different/ | Legislatures during 1931 and the main theme of them all was “property tax relief ” The difficulty in finding other sources of revenue has, however, been an obstacle. The Iowa report estimated that a personal income tax in that State would yield only about $2,000,000. One difficulty about other forms of taxation besides the property tax is that most people fear that other sources of revenue will be used for ex- travagant expenditures and the prop- erty tax retained after all More than a hundred years ago Peapsylvania enacted a statute pro- yjding for a tax on intangibles of 10 ents on each $100. This was aimed at those who owned stocks and bonds, | but who, it was supposed, never con- tributed anything to local government Connecticut and Maryland, during the | latter part of the ninetcenth century, | | had intangible taxes, but until 1911 these three States were the only ones which had taken steps to put intangible prop- erty on the tax roll. Minnesota and | Towa were added to the list in 1911, and Wisconsin finally enacted what might be called the first State income tax law. Massachusetts and Virginia had experimented with this as far back as Colonial times and other States had | tried it, but Wisconsin was the pioneer | in effective enforcemept. Today 16 States have intangible taxes and 24 have income taxes. First Gasoline Tax. In 1919, Oregon, Colorado and North Dakota imposed the first gasoline tax of 1 cent & gal'on. Every one of the | 48 States now has ‘rates ranging enywhere from 2 to T cents, and the tax produces a total of well as a centrally located office to or $400 every time | In 1913, the spending | In most States | such'a tax, with| Cousin of Dawes Weds Briton CEREMONY PERFORMED AT ILLINOIS HOME OF BRIDE. 1sin of Gen. Charles G. Dawes, and wn here nfter the coremony in the bride’s Left to right: Miss Margaret Dawes, Palmer Dawes, Mary Dawes, Curtis Dawes. the bride and and Henry Dawes. All of the Dawes at- Henry Dawes resides in this city, Curtis Dawes lives in Syracuse and the A. P. Photo, NDTABLES AHENU | How 511all We Balénce Budget? BRIGHAM FUNERAL st Property Tos, b || Cry Raised Against Property Tax, but States Have | Hard Time Finding Another Source of dination Needed. | nearly $500,000,000 & year. These taxes | have held up fairly well during the | depression Thirteen States now have tobacco taxes. While the revenue is not very large and it is a form of competition with the Federal Government, neve | theless the States have been reluctant to give up this source of taxation | Georgia had a sales tax, but aban- | doned it and now there are only four States with sales taxes. Other States have been hesitant to adopt a sales tax because of a fear of interfering with their own merchents' business. There are difficulties in interstate sales because they cannot be taxed by the States. Some of the States have special license taxes on chain stores, but in none of them are the rates high, because of a fear that they might be declared in- valid if made almost confiscatory. Spe- | cial taxes on motor carriers have been adopted by some of the States. but these have resulted in much litigation due to the interstate character of the bus lines. In a number of instances the States have adopted selective sales taxes or luxury ‘taxes, somewhat the same as those proposed by the Treasury Department in its recommendation last December for the Federal budget. License taxes have been increasedsso as to cover almost everything. Co-ordination Lacking. In very few of the States has there been any attempt made to work out a well co-ordinated system of taxatfon. States, counties, towns, villages, school districts, water district lighting dis- tricts, sewer districts, are all part of the 250,000 taxing units which take their toll from the American taxpayer. Administrative difficulties are numerous because many corporations do business in various States at the same | time. State income taxes can be im- posed only on the proportion of the in- | come such companies derive from their operations in a particular State. Capi- | tal stock taxes present the same diffi- culty, | What will the cities do? them already are finding it difficult to collect the general property tax. The list of defaults and property sales is every day becoming more of a threat to the * stability of the property tax. Hitherto it has been regarded as the most productiye of all. If, of course, the business depression is short-lived | the property tax will recover, but it is doubtful whether it will ever be relled upon again almost exclusively for city revenues, though it is difficult to say what new forms of taxation can be de- ' vised or what old sources can be tapped. Co-ordination Paramount Need. Reduction of city expenditures is the | real problem in America, because the | borrowing power of many cities has been limited or else exhausted. The burden of unemployment relief has fallen on municipalities. No real progress can be made on this problem until there is co- ordination between Pederal, State and | local revenue systems. The cities with | the bulk of the job to do have refrained from invading other tax fields. Overlapping between the State and Federal Government has begun. If the cities are forced to enter into competi- | tion with other governmental units the general spread of nuisance taxes is in- | evitable, particularly on admissions and on luxuries, Already there are some conflicts between the many taxing units, This In itself is costly, Co-ordination | ;;r:;l: \l;n)z( systdtms in America is the ount need devel - Deeamd oped by the de- (Copyright. (Tomorrow'’s article will deal with overlapping tax systems.) el SUITS ARE DISMISSED AGAINST WOOD ESTATE Three Woolen Companies Sought to Recover Losses Attributed to Late Head. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, April 6—Three bilis in equity brought by the American Woolen Companies against the estate of William M. Wood, head of the companies, were dismissed in Su Monday. preme Judicial Court The dismissals followed upon the fil- 1932) ing of reports by Arthur Black, ' who | Hure sat as master in the cases, that the parties had agreed to settle their dif- | ferences themselves. One of the bills was brought by the American Woolen Co, of New Jersey to recover $1,800,000, which, it was claimed, the company lost through Waod's ac- tion. The New Jersey company also | losses due to Wood. The American Woolen Co. of Massachusetts sought to recover $639,504 under a similar claim. ROUGH RIDER DEAD Capt. Armond Padget Served With Thepdore Roosevelt. LOS ANGELES, April 6 (#).—Capt. Ormond Padget, former Rough Rider with Theodore Roosevelt, United States Army officer and linguist, died yester- day at his Culver City home, near here, He was 85 years old. ‘When severel thousand lives were lost at Galveston, Tex., in the 1900 tidal wave, the Secretary of War appointed Padget to martial command of the city. Six years later, Padget left the Army after declining to me martial com- mand at San Franc! after the earth- quake and fire. bridge districts | Many of | sought to recover $277,771 for alleged | PICTURE BODKING | . SYSTEM UPHELD U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals Reverses in Effect Federal Trade Commission. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, April 6.—The right ot motion picture producers and distribu- tors to continue the system of “block booking,” whereby exhibitors are re- quired to lease a group of films in order o get a desired one, was upheld yes- terday by the Federal Circuit Court of Appezs. Judge Martin T. Manton by return- ing this decision in effect reversed an | order of the Federal Trade Commission calling on four defendants to ‘“cease and desist from practices found by the commission to constitute unfair methods of competition in violation of the Eed- eral Trade Commission act.” The Circuit Court had been asked to | enforce the order in the case of the Paramount_ Corporation, the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation. Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky. The matter has been in litigation for several years. Judge Manton ruled that available data “demonstrated that there is free | comoetition among producers and dis- | tributors for the distributing and mar- i i i Keting of their pictures,” and that there is “not only Jack of monopolization but lack of ability to achieve a monopoly.” | “It is impossible to say on the evi-| dence.” he continued, “that the effect of block booking as practiced by the respondent _or its accumulative p as practiced independently by the spondent and others has unfairly af- fectzd competition. | “On the other hand, it may fairly be said that all persons engaged in the | production of pictures have been able | successfully to distribute their product. | This indicates fair competition in the | | industry.” WESTERN RESERVE U. IS ROBBED BY BANDITS | !r“‘ “ \ vade Casl Hold-up Men In Office, Take $1,000 and Escape. By the Associated Press. ‘ CLEVELAND, April 6—Two robbers | |invaded the staid campus of Western Reserve University yesterday and escaped with an estimated $1,000 from the cashier’s office. | The robbery occurred at noon when | only two women employes were in_the | office. The robbers, described as about | 27, and swarthy, sauntered into the | office. The women, believing the pair | to be students, were startied to find themselves staring into the muzzles of | two revolvers. One of the men stood guard over the employes while the other ransacked the cash drawers. i | THE WEATHER | | District of Columbia—Fair, cooler to- | night; minimum temperature about 42 degrees; tomorrow increasing cloudiness, | slowly rising temperature; moderate | north winds. Maryland—Falir tonight, cooler in; central and east portions; tomor- | Tow increasing cloudiness, possibly | followed by rain and warmer in extreme | west portion. | Virginia—Partly cloudy, cooler in| central and east portions tonight. to- morrow increasing cloudiness, slightly | cooler in southeast portion, rising tem- | perature in west portion. i West Virginia—Increasing cloudiness, slightly warmer in west portion tonight; tomorrow cloudy and warmer, probably followed by rain. Report for Last 24 Hours. i ‘Temperature. Barometer. Inches. | 30.06 | 30.04 30.02 Yesterday— 4pm. ... 8 p.m. Midnighf Today— 4 am. 29.98 8 am. 30.02 Noon 30.03 | Highest, 66, 6:00 pm. yesterday. Year o 4 ago, 47. Lowest, 46, 4:30 am. today. Year ago, 3! | Tide Tables. { (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) Today. 8:23am. 2:42am. 8:48 p.m. . 3:14pm. The Sun and Moon. Rises. 5:46 High Low . | High . Low .. Sun, today... : Sun, tomorrow 5:44 E | Moon, today.. 5:50a.m. 7:28 p.m. | Autpmobile lights must be turned on one-half hour after sunset. Rainfall. Monthly rainfall in inches in the Capital (current month to date) | | “Month, 1932 Average. Record. | January 482 3 7.09 82 | February ... 2.46 684 '84 | March 6.45 884 ‘91 913 '89 1069 '89 1094 00 1063 1441 November ., | December 3.32 Weather in Various Citles. Temperature. « 017 Uy Stations. .&.."pm" frottet meg o) wwg Cloudy Abilene, Tex. * Pt.cloudy Albany, N Atanta, Ga Atlantic Oity. Baltimore, Md Birmingham Bismarck. N. D. Boston. Mass... Buffalo, N. ¥... Charleston. S.C. Chic Tl Cincinnati, ity [+oee amoun Ohio Ohio 3 c urom. k Indlanapolis.Ind Jacksonville Fla. Kansas City.Mo. Los Angeles ... 3 | Louisville. Ky.. 3 | Miaml, Fla.... New Orleans. : | New York, N.¥.3000 Okliahoma City HE ¢l San _Autonio... 30.00 84 66 ... Pt San Diego. Calif 30.00 al Ban_ Prancisco. 30.18 8t. Louis, Mo.. 30.08 8t Paul, Minn. 29.96 Beattle. ' Wash: 3016 Spokane _Wash. 30.28 Tampa. Pla.... 30.22 W. C... %002 ar cloudy (7 a.m., Greenwich time, today.) Stations, London, England. Vienna, Austria Berlin, Germany . Erest, Prance Zurich, Switzerlal Stockholm, Swede Gibraltar. ' Spain.. 47 (Noon. Greenwich ‘time, Horta (Payal), Azores... Current observations.) Hamilton. Bermuda . 6 ol San_uas, Porto Rico . 78 avana, 5 Oolon, Cansl Zons 39 48 38 34 ay.) Part cloudy Will Dance at Ball COUPLE TO ENTERTAIN 1SS EVELINA JACCARINO and M AT COLONIAL AFFAIR. Prederick Greggor, who will perform at the Colonial ball to be given April 19 at the United States Chamber of Commerce by the Americanization School Association—Star Staff Photo. NEW PARKING BANS SET UP INDISTRICT Commissioners Carry Out " Van Duzer’s Requests on Traffic Changes. The District Commissioners, on rec- ommendation of William A. Van Du- zer, director of vehicles and traffic, ‘ye.&lerdn\‘ adopted a series of new rules tightening parking restrictions on vari- ous streets. The new rules are Bryant street, from First to Fourth streets, no parking on the north side at any time. Florida avenue, from Sixth to Ninth streets, one-hour parking on both sides, save for 150 feet east and west of Sev- enth street, no parking at any time. S street, between Connecticut ave- nue and Twentieth street, one-hour parking from 8 am. to 6 p.m. Massachusetts avenue, from North Capitol street to Union Station plaza, no parking at any time, C street from Seventh to Ninth street southwest, no parking on the north side between 8 and 9:30 am. and 4 and 6 pm D street from Eleventh to Four- teenth street southwest, no parking on the north side between 8 and 9:30 am. and 4 and 6 p.m Maryland avenue between Ninth and E'sventh streets southwest, no parking between 8 and 9:30 am. and 4 and 6 pm Pleasant street. Thirtieth street to | Nichols avenue southeast, no parking on south side at any time. caroline street between Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets, for east-bound traffic only. Picrce street, North Capitol street to New Jersey avenue, one way westbound (changed from eastbound to accom- modate Sibley Hospital ambulances). Owens place, West Virginia avenue to | Trinidad avenue, eastbound traffic only. CONVICT SETS FIRE | T0 ESCAPE PRISON But Later Gives Alarm at Joliet When He Sees No Chance to Get Away. By the Associated Press. 3 JOLIET, I, April 6—Thirty-five vears in prison and “tired of being shut up.” Convict Lyman Hall set fire to the chapel of the State Penitentiarye yes-| terday and then gave the alarm because | he saw no chance of escape. | The interior of the old stone chapel | was destroyed. Warden Henry C. Hill estimated the damage at $5,000. | Hall, one of the oldest men in the | penitentiary and a trusty for many years,. ran into the deputy warden's office and shouted to Capt. J. C. Car- | penter: | “I'm tired of the world. I'm tired of being shut up. I just set fire to the | chapel and I wish the whole place would burn up. They told me I would | lose my job at the oil station. I don't want to lose my job. I decided to burn | the place down. It was my only chance to get, out, but it didn’t work.” Prison officials described the man as “stark mad.” He had been handling | the prison gasoline and oil supplies and next week his “station” was to have been torn down. | Hall used gasoline and oil-soaked rags | so that the fire quickly spread through the chapel, It took the Joliet Fire De- ! partment and 300 convicts a half hour | to get the blaze under control. { Rer. Eligius Weir, Catholic chaplain | and hero of the rlots that broke out a | year ago. ran into the burning audi- torium and saved the church records and sacred vessels. | Hall was sentenced from Will County, Ill, in 1897 for the murder of Con- stable Francis De Long. g — | FOREIGN COPPER TARIFF | ASKED BY 12 GOVERNORS | Hoover Appealed to for Legisla- | tion to Save Industry From “Extreme Distress.” | By the Associated Press. | PHOENIX, Ariz., April 6. —Governors | of 12 States joined yesterday in urging | President Hoover to advocate immediate legislation for & tariff on foreign copper. The executives charged the domestic industry is in “extreme distress as a result of stagnating effects of cheap labor metal brought in from Africa and South America.” d | Those signing the petition were George W. P. Hunt, Arizona; George H. Dern, Utah; Henry H. Horto Tennessee; Wilbur M. Brucker, Michi- gan: C. Ben Ross, Idaho; A. M. Clark, Wyoming; J. E. Erickson, Montana; | F. B. Balzar, Nevada; Arthur Seligman, New Mexico; James Rolph, jr. Cali- fornia: Roland H. Hartley, Washington, and Julius L. Meier, Oregon. | Copies of the petition, drafted by the Arizona Copper Tariff Commission, were mailed to the various chief executives for their approval by Gov. Hunt. The Tariff Commission recently was ap- pointed to organize a fight for a levy | on the red metal. | D. C. RED CROSS CHAPTER | PLANS NURSING COURSES Two courses in “Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick” will be given by the | District Chapter of the American Red Cross, it was announced today. One of the courses will be given on Wednesdays and Fridays beginning April 15 at 5 o'clock, and the other class is to be given on Mondays and Thursdays, beginning April 18 at 10:30 o'clock. “This course is given as a phase of | health education, and is for the pur- pose of improving the personal health of those who take it said a state- ment concerning the matter, “also giv- ing instructions as to health problems in the home and teaching simple meas- ures for the care of the sick.” ‘Those interested in these courses may apply to Miss Evelyn Paton, secretary of the Committee on Nursing Activities ahd Health Aids at the national head- quarters of the American Red Cross. Hardwood Lumber in Stock " Birch, red gum, plain white oak, quartered white oak, mahogany, black walnut, white pine, fir, “NO ORDER TOO SMALL" “SUDDEN SERVICE" J. FRANK KELLY, Inc. Lumber, Millwork, Paint, Coal Sand, Gravel, Cement 2121 Ga. North 1343 Hungry Men Seize Bread. BUDAPEST, Hungary, April 6 (#).— A baker's apprentice pedaling a push- bike with a load of bread was attacked vesterday by 15 hungry men, who helped ihemselves to the loaves and fled. L0 A pile of bombs collected from the b-tilefields and stored at the roadside T Arras, France, exploded recently, f vo men. * B ol Let a = gy - | ’ | GOLD’S RELEASE SOUGHT MINNEAPOLIS, April 6 (#).—A reso- lution declaring that more than $500.- 1000000 in gold held by the United States Treasury to redeem currency. ‘ lost or destroyed should be released for circulation, was adopted yesterday at the American plan open shop confer- ence. ‘The money is being held out of cir- | culation needlessly, the resolution said. ADVERTISENENTS RecEIVED HERE Star Classified Adv. Supply that want—whatever it may be. 3 who has what you F there is any one in and around Washington are needing, a Classified Advertisement in The Star will secure it for you—more quickly than in any other way. Copy for The Star Classified Section may be left at any of these authorized Branch Offices—and it will appear in the first available issue. There are no fees for this service; only regular rates are charged. In the Northwest 11th and Park rd.—Arm- strong’s Pharmacy. 14th and P sts.— Day’s Pharmacy. 1135 14th st.—Marty’s Cigar & Magazine Store. 17th and Que sts.— Ken- ner’s Pharmacy. 15th and U sts.—G. O. Brock. 14th st.—Colliflower Art & Gift Co. 3401 14th st.—Bronaugh’s Pharmacy. 14th and Buchanan sts— Hohberger’s Pharmacy. 14th st. and Colorado avi —O’Donnell’s Pharmacy. 3209 Mount Pleasant st.— Mount Pleasant Cigar and News Shop. 1823 Columbia rd.— The Billy Shop. 2162 California st. — Co- lodny Brothers. Wardman Park Pharmacy. 215 N. Y. ave—Sanitary Pharmacy. 1st and K sts.—Duncan’s Pharmacy. 7th and K sts.—Golden- berg’s (time clerk’s desk). 7th and O sts.— Lincoln Drug Store. 7th st. and R. L ave—J. French Simpson. 11th and M sts.—L. H. Forster’s Pharmacy. In the Southwest 10th st. and Va. ave— Herbert’s Pharmacy. 316 4% st.—Harris Drug Store. 41 and L sts.—Columbia Pharmacy. In the Northeast 208 Mass. ave.— Capitol Towers Pharmacy. 4th and H sts.— Home Drug_Store. Ifi;’ and SE';,CI]L ru; re. 907 fl‘l'.—Gln‘en'l Music —Paul's Store. 12th and Md. ave—Luck- ett’s Pharmacy. 7th and Md. ave~—Louis F. Bradley. Nor#h Capitol and Eye—Ken- ealy’'s Phar- 20th and R. 1. and R. ave. — Collins’ Pharmacy, Woodridge. 3500 12th st— Brookland Pharmacy, Brookland. 4th and R. L ave. —John G. . Biggs’ Phar- macy. Chesapeake Junction —Dr. F. L. Wight, jr. 9th and U sts—M. H Hunton’s Pharmacy. Ga. ave. and Upshur st.— Petworth Pharmacy. 221 Upshur st.— Monck’s Pharmacy. 5916 Ga. ave.—Brightwood Pharmacy. Ga. ave. and Kennedy st. —Lampkin’s Pharmacy. 2901 Sherman ave—Sher- man Ave. Pharmacy. 6224 3rd st.— Stewart's Pharmacy. 1905 Mass. ave.— Dupont Pharmacy. 18th and Fla. ave.—Bern- stein’s Drug Store. Fla. ave. and 1st st—N. Reiskin. North Capitol st. and R. L ave.— Parker's Phar- macy. 1742 Pa. ave.—J. Louis Krick. 21st and G sts.—Quigley’s Pharmacy. 25th st. and Pa. ave.— Columbia Drug Store. 3315 Conn. ave.—Joll’s Newsstand. 5017 Conn. ave—Higger's Community Drug Store. Wisconsin ave. and Macomb st—Harry C. Taft. 4231 Wisconsin ave.—~Mor- gan Bros’ Pharmacy. Takoma Park, 359 Cedar st. —Mattingly Bros’ Phar- macy. In Georgetown 30th and P sts—Morgan Bros.’ Pharmacy. 3411 M st.—Moskey’s Phar- macy. 1834 Wisconsin ave. Haney's. 35th and O sts.— Su, Drug Store. s In the Southeast 3rd and Pa. ave.—O0'Don- nell's Drug Store. Drug Store: F. S. Boisfeuil- let, prop.