Evening Star Newspaper, April 13, 1932, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Woather Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy; continued cool tonight: tomorrow party cloudy, slowing nu«?p The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news temperature. , Temperatures—Highes 1:30 p.m. yesterday; at n.. today, 'ull report on page 9. Clo: N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 lowest, 37, at 5 ch ¢ Foening Star. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION service. Yesterday’s Circulation, 124,970 ered a offe secor 32,124, o Was} nd class matter m, D« WASHINGTON, D. C ., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 193‘.’——1’(]1{'1‘\' PAGES. #¥% ) Means Associated TWO CENTS Press. JAFSIE RESUMES BABY NEGOTIATIONS AS FIRST RANSOM BILL IS REGOVERED Police in Stockho!m, Sweden, Get Sudden Orders to Comb City — Suspect Jailed in St. Thomas, Ontario. DR. CONDON CERTAIN HE IS IN TOUCH AGAIN | | Boats Offshore Searched in Vain for Trace of Stolen Infant Fol- lJowing Tip in Mysterious Mes- sage—Authorities Silent on Con- By the Assdcinted Press, One of the $20 notes paid to the dbergh kidnapers was reported here today to have been passed in New York City over to the New York Police Department by the ervice agents in New ¥ identified the bill and r finding to the enable the latter to mpt to trace the note. It however. that it d be impossible to trace the note to its source in New York. Following announcement today by Dr. J. F. Condon, “Jafsie,” that he had newed contact with the o Freezing Weather Forecast as Cold | Grips Wide Area {Little Danger to Fruit and Vegetation Here, Say Bureau Officials. | | Freezing weather was in prospect for the Washington arca tonight as the cold snap of yesterday clung tenacious- ly to the northeastern section of the country. Although the mercury will hover near the freezing point, there is little danger of frost, Weather Bureau officials said. Mild breezes that have blown since the drop in temperature yesterday will pre- vent frost formation should the mercury touch the predicted low, and there is little danger that fruit trees and other vegetation that has budded. will suffer As the skies cleared today, visitors continued to flock to the Tidal Basin, where the Japanese cherry blossoms are bursting into bloom. Despite adverse weather conditions. the display has not suffered, according to park officials, though it has been re- { tarded in reaching its clima icted ex- Fair and warmer weather for tomorrow. when the mi Y pected to climb 20 or more degress Continued heavy snow over the Alleghenies held up flying operations on the airline west of the Capital for the second successive day. Reports re- ceived at Washington-Hoover Airport showed heavy snowfall within 100 miles of Washington on the Pittsl h airway. | TARDIEU SEES PLOT 10 ISOLATE FRANCE INU. S ARMS PLAN Great Britain Inclined to Seek End of Schism at Geneva Between Republics. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Cable to The Star. kidnapers of the Lindbergh baby, | other developments came swiftly. | They were One of the $20 bills paid in the $50,000 ransom money was in the hands of United States secret service operatives. It was recov- ered in Newark. N. J. Agents are trying to trace it to its source. Police in St. Thomas, Ontario, have arrested a man who gave the name of D. D. Dickerson of New York, in connection with the case. A report from Stockholm, Swe- den, announced that police have been asked to search the city for suspects and the baby itself, CONTACT IS RENEWED. | | | | | | Jafsie Certain He Is Again in Touch With Kidnapers. HOPEWELL, N. J., April 13 (#).—Dr. John F. Condon indicated today that he had renewed negotiations with the kidnapers of the Lindbergh baby, to whom he has already paid a $50,000 ransom, and police disclosed they had Teceived a “mysterious message” telling where definite information of the baby's whereabouts might be obtained. “I'm convinced I had contact with the kidnapers and I still have contact with them,” Dr. Condon, who nego- tiated with the criminals through a | series of advertisements signed “Jafsie, said early today after a mysterious night journey. A few hours later Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, superintendent of Sna:e' police, who is in general charge of the | police investigation, issued his usual morning bulletin and in it announced the latest clue. | Mysterious Message Received. “A mysterious anonymous message was received,’ he saig, “aavising thit definite intormation of the kianapers and the whereabouts of the child would | be available on a boal on_or ncar the, property of the A. A. C. & Co. of Chrome, N. J. “Details of troopers, together detail of the Carteret poiice, s all boats in and near the A. A. C. dock | and found only six barges. ‘Two barg.s just unloaded coal and four emy ges were aboul to be fil All other boats in hi Detroit or g also said Fleischer gangster, long sought g about 1dnap to be planning to s s ana is mak Aul 1tics d Halifax have been r questior ¥ rzkopf did not answer a! to before he issued 1 asking “a clear state- tion of Mrs. An earlier police ¢ was "no per- ! fon. Pre- | of reports | afier he appealed once more to| tne kidnapers not to doubie-cross him In a renewal of the last of a series of newspaper advertisements signed “Jaf- sie,’ he reiterated “What is wrong? Have you crossed me? Please, better directions.” The Condon development competed for interest with reports from London that the ransom money has turned up there, and rumors, twice scouted, but persistent_here and in_Trenton, that ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) Kills Himself in Auto. SALEM, N. J., April 13 (). —Clement Reeves Wainwright, 53, socially promi- nent Philadelphian, shot himself through the head while seated in his GENEVA, April 13.—The first serious conflict of the Disarmament Confer- ence in Geneva has arisen. This con- flict is not between France and Ger-| many, or France and Italy, or the| United States and Japan, as might have | been imagined, but between France and | the United States. | On both sides there is a good um“ of feeling. Then French resent both the | matter and the manner of the new American proposals made Monday, but especially the manner. The Americans feel that'thé cutting vehemence of Pre- mier Andre Tardieu's criticisms of these proposals is entirely uncalled for. | Great Britain, Germany, Italy and| numerous smaller coumtries tend to support the United States, and France tends to be isolated. This may possibly further account for the liveliness “of the French antagonism. Want to Clear Matters. Great Britain shows some inclination | to try to patch matters up prior to the | arrival of Secretary Henry L. Stimson, British Prime Minister Ramsay Ma Donald end German Chancellor Hein- rich Bruening later in the week, for it is felt in conference circles that the present atmosphere is not exactly pro- pitious for constructive work of inter- national conciliation by the leading statesmen. In other quarters there is a feeling that this conflict was inevitable sooner or later, anyway, and that it was better in some respects that the United States should lead the opposition to France than that this burden should have fallen on Germany or Italy. Regarding the manner of the Ameri- can proposals, this seems to be what happened: The speech of Ambassador Hugh S. Gibson Monday was supposed to be a surprise. Its text, however, seems to have been communicated in advance to Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland and possibly Italy and other powers, but not to France. This enabled Great Britain and Swiizeriand boln to come to the meeting with re- plies carefully prepared, whereas France really was surprised. Fear Leak to Press, Apparently the only reason eiicans did not communicate the their speech to France in advance was their tear that it migat leak prematurely to the press, as so often happens in France. There may also have been the idea that France was sure to oppose anyway and that it was better ) communicate it only to those likely 1avor it The interpretation the French place on this otherwise slight incident, how- e is momentous. Tardieu, like chilles in the tent, waxed wroth and sallied out to battle Tuesday 1g. obtaining from the Turks, who ning to speak in favor of the plan, the right to speak in this bother? Tardieu thought, from his jons with Gibson prior to the ce's adjournment for the East- s and those with MacDonald wed on Page 2, Column 4.) JOB TOTAL IS 486,720 NEW YORK, April 13 (A.—A step | nearer the half way mark was reported today by officials of the United Action Campaign to find a million jobs for un- employed wage earners. They said that 122 communities yesterday reported 6017 placed in positions, bringing the grand total to 486,720, { but To By the Associated Press WCODSTOCK, Il April 13 —There wis @ story of tragedy cn the mail box | near the home of Lizzie Furney, 65, yesterday. Around the box was & pair of trousers, automobile at Penns Beach, near here, late yesterday. He was dead when found by Willilam Clancy, a farmer. Wainwright was president of the Penn Ehemical Co. regular rounds, knew it was a signal that scmething was mnfi Hurrying to the house, he found the woman had been burned to death. Her two brothers, bog blind and | called to repeat her story previously April showers today. + BLIND BROTHERS HELPLESisv AS WOMAN BURNS TO DEATH Pair of Trousers Draped Over Mail Box Attracts Postman, WHAT THEY SAWAT FORTESCUE HOME Only Eleven Prosecution Wit- nesscs Remain to Be Heard in Honolulu Trial. WOMAN IS UNDISTURBED BY TESTIMONY IN CASE Patrolman Describes How Lieut Massie Congratulated Self After Being Arrested. NEIGHBORSTOTELL DEMOCRATS MEET | HERE IN TRIBUTE TOPARTY FOUNDER lefferson Day Dinner Tonight to Be High Spot, With Al Smith Speaking. ROBINSON DENOUNCES HOOVER AT LUNCHEON Minute Men Report on Conditions in Each State at “Mobilization” Session in Morning. By the Associated Press, HONOLULU, April 13 —Relying upon the eyves and ears of Mrs. Granville Fortescue's neighbors for the final phase of its case, the Territory set out tc evidence against the society woman and three men of the Navy accused of Iyn ing Joseph Kahahawal | Three of the eleven remaining prose- | cution witnesses were called to tell what they saw and heard at the Fortescue | home January 8, the day Kahahawa!| was abducted and slain. By a procession of witnesses, most of | them police officers, the pltm‘mmun" yesterday carried its story from the | point where the body was found to the | darkened home of the accused woman, where the killing allegedly took place Mrs. Fortescue Unmoved. Mrs. Fortescue sat through the ses- | slon apparently unmoved, even when the blood-stained sheets that had shrouded Kahahawai's body were un- folded and waved before the jurors of | widely varied racial origin. Occasion- ally she glanced at Clarence Darrow, leader of the defense, but most of the time she kept her gaze on the back of a chair immediately in front of her. On today's list of prosecution wit- nesses was Mrs. Shizuko Yamamoto, who lived next door to the Fortescue| home. The prosecution expected her to tell how, while sitting alone, she saw Mrs. Fortescue pull down a window shade in the rear of the Fortescue home about 9:30 am. Mrs. Helen Stickney, who was visit- ing her sister, Mrs. Anne Tarleton, next door to the Fortescue home, was h- told to Prosecutor John Kelley— that she heard what sounded like a muffled pistol shot. Victoria Akana, a matron at the police station, was summoned to testify that she took from Mrs. Fortescue's | person after the latter's arrest a strip of cloth ly torn from a sheet. This its the missing part of one of the sheets which was wrapped about Kahahawai's body. Servant to Testify. A Japanese servant girl also was on the witness list. She previously told authorities that on the day before Kahahawai was killed Mrs. Fortescue paid her wages and instructed her not to return until Saturday, the day after the lynching. Officers told yesterday of the recov- ery of the lynching victim's body from an automobile containing three of the defendants, Mrs. Fortescue, Lieut. Thomas H. Massie and Edward J. Lord A policeman testified that the sheets on a bed in the Fortescue home were missing. Another witness identified a coill of rope found in the house as identical with that wound around the sheet-wrapped body. Still another tes- tified that he found a photograph of Kahahawai in a purse belonging to Mrs. Fortescue. Percy Bond, a radio car patrolman, said Mrs. Fortescue had conversed with him upon his arrival at the place where the arrests were made. He said she had asked if she had not met him on a Hawailan-bound steamship and he had replied negatively. Shook Own Hands. Bond testified that when he said, “Good work, kid,” to George von Arns- wald, who stopped the death car and arrested the trio, Lieut. Massie wheeled and said “Are you talking to me?" Before he could reply, Bond said, Massie shook hands with himself and said, “Thank you very much.” Through the Associated Press Lieut. Massie sent a message to his mother, Mrs. W. S. Massie of Winchester, Ky. It said ‘Dearest Mother—Please don't worry. Have courage and everything will be all right. Love. Tommy." Kahahawal and four other men were awaiting retrial on charges of having attacked Mrs. Massie, daughter of Mrs. Fortescue, when the killing occurred “She is a game girl” Lieut. Massie, said, referrin to his wife. “She is bear- ing up under it fine BLIZZARD HITS OHIO CAUSING MINOR MISHAPS Freezing Temperatures Convert Showers Into Snow, Driven by Wind of Lake. By the Associated Press CLEVELAND, April 13—The weather man substituted a near-blizzard for Temperatures were at freezing levels and a strong wind off Lake Erie drove a steady snowfall before it. Streets were glazed with ice and minor traffic accidents were numerous, The Snow- storm extended as far West as Toledo. The Weather Bureau, however, said Spring was “just around the corner’ and predicted rising temperatures to- day and tomorrow. o Late. | deaf, sensing that she was on fire, were helpless to aid her because they could neither see nor hear and draped |the mail box with the trcusers to | attract attention. | Investigators sald it was apparent | when she tried to start a fire in & stove, She had been taking care of the | blind brothers for years and had learned their sign language. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Mobilization of Democratic forces to wrest the contrcl of Government from the Republican enemy was planned at | & series of meetings in Washington to- to complete its web of circumstantial | day, attended by many of the party's national leaders. Selecting the 189th anniversary of the birth of the patron saint of the Democratic party, Thomas Jefferson, for their rally here, the Democrats looked ahead and planned for the coming campaign. They will pause this afternoon to pay tribute to the last Democratic President, Wozdrow Wilson, | 'BRAIN OF DR. BAUER, SUICIDE, MAY BE SAVED FOR SCIENCE with a memorial service at his tomb in Washington Cathedral. Banquet This Evening, The final event of the day will be a banquet at the Willard Hotel, where Alfred E. Smith, the standard-bearer in 1928 and a candidate for renomination, will deliver an address. Other speak- ers will be Gov. Albert E. Ritchie of Maryland, former Gov. Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia and Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois. Absent from the rally, however, will be today's leading candidate for the Democratic nomination, Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt. His original acceptance of an invitation to attend the meetings and the dinner was withdrawn. It is said that the Governor of New York is not coming because of the hostile at- titude which the Roosevelt forces at- tribute to the Democratic national or- ganization headed by Chairman John J. Raskob and by ‘Jouett Shouse, chair- | man of the Executive Committee, al- though both have proclaimed their neutrality. However, many of the friends and supporters of the New York Governor will be at the dinner. They pointed to- day to the desire of Gov. to leave New York at this time, when 4 committee of the State Legislature, dominated by Republicans, is investi- gating his administration. Smith Is Cheered. Smith was the central figure of the day. He was given an ovation when he entered the “mobilization meeting"” shortly before noon and took a seat on the platform. As soon as the reports of the money raised in the victory drive campaign had been concluded, Shouse took the chair and reports of the po- litical sentiment in the various States were made. All of these reports showed the Democratic leaders erthusiastic over the outlook for the coming presi- dential and congressional campaigns. Mr. Smith, in an interview this merning said: “Of course, we will win in Novem- r He withheld all comment, however, on the campaign for delegates to the naticnal convention, now going on. Among the prominent Democrats ab- sent from the meeting today in addi- tion to Gov. Roosevelt were Gov. Mur- ray of Oklahoma, Owen D. Young of New York and Melvin Traylor of Chi- " (Continued on Page 3, Column 1.) BOLIVIAN TROOPS PREPARE TO MARCH| Gen. Panda Reported on Way to Salta to Take Command of 5,000 Men. By the Associated Press. BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, April 13. —The newspaper Intransigente at Salta, which first published the recent reports of Bolivian troop movements in the Chaco district, said today it had in- formation from “¥n equally authentic source” that the Bolivian general, Mariaco Panda, would arrive this week at Yacuiba to take command of 5.000 men Two weeks later, the paper said, two regiments of engineers will come down to the same point, which is close to the Argentine border and more than half way to Asuncion, Paraguay, from La Paz, Bolivia. The Bolivian headquarters now are at Villamonte, said the newspaper, and nearby are quantities of arms, muni- tions, trucks and seaplanes. The paper said there were uncon- firmed reports that Bolivian purchases of cattle and wheat in Argentina were being shipped to Yaciiba. COAST GUARDSMAN MISSING IN CRASH Six Other Customs Men Injured When Cutter and Steamship Collide. By the Assoclated Press NEW YORK, April 13—One member of the crew of the Coast Guard cutter Manhattan was lost overboard and six customs men were injured today,in a collision between the cutter and the Panama Railroad steamship Guayaquil iri the harbor, midway between the bat- tery and the Statue of Liberty. Third-class Firéman James C. Reilly af Santa Barbara, Calif., was thrown from the bow of the cutter between the two vessels and disappeared. It was believed he was crushed and drowned. Customs Roundsman C. Campbell and Guards E. J. Howden, A. Wyman, W. J. Tappey, W. H. Lampe and S. F. Fugel- and the rural mail carrier, making his | the woman’s clothing had been ignited | 52ng Were taken to Broad Street Hos- r treatment of injuries suffered pital fo in the crash. Radio Progn: on Page C.3 Roosevelt not | N2 PR RN “LS'( NS g)* 53'661 g1 W“"i i ALR‘rc_Hl hll) BN ReseraLes @ v#'nm. Wil » r:l," ‘_, THOMAS i “\1 LABENY ) EFFERSON I 0 JEFFERSON DAY, | Preservation Considered by Widow of Eminent Math- ematician. Scholar Dies in Leap From Window of Ontario Road Apartment. The brain of Dr. Louis A. Bauer, one of this country’s foremost mathema- ticlans and scientists, who leaped to his death last night from a window of his sixth-floor apartment at 2853 On- tario road, may be preserved for scien- tific_study. The plan to preserve Dr. Bauer's brain is being considered by Mrs. Bauer, but no final decision has been reached. It is understood, however, that Mrs. Bauer discussed the idea with the un- dertaker today, pointing out to him that her husband’s greatest desire al- | ways was to do “everything he could for | science.” Dr. Bauer, who was 67, plunged from a window of his bed room while his | wife, Mrs. Adelia D. Bauer, was in the " (Continued on Page 2, Column 3. | CLAINS VETERANS | * UNTED FOR BONCS V. F. W. National Commander Says 98 Per Cent of Men Want Cash Payment. i By the Assoclated Press | Darold D. Decoe, National commander | | of Veterans of Foreign Wars, told the | | House Ways and Means Committee to- | day that “perhaps 98 per cent of the| | rank and file of the World War vet- | erans” are behind the bonus payment | proposal. | Decoe, who came from Sacramento, | Calif,; to sponsor the $2,000,000,000 cash | payment, said “conditions are serious and the veterans need the money.” | “Gen. Hines, veterans' administrator, estimated that last year's loan advances | were spent 65 per cent on the necessi- ties of life, 20 per cent on investments, 8 per cent on automobiles and only 7 | per cent on purposes from which no DIth!Il A. Bfl'{l‘;n benefit was received,” Decoe said. 53046 ADDITIONAL SHRTAGEALEGED Montgomery Grand Jury Re- turns 97 True Bills Against | Ex-Clerk Clark. | By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md. April 13.—Addi- | tional shortages totaling $30,466 against | Berry E Clark, former clerk to| the Montgomery County commissioners, | were reported yesterday afternoon when the county grand jury returned 97 true bills against him, all chaging embezzle- ment of county funds. H The 97 indictments, some of which | contained two or more counts, were | turned over to Judge Robert B. Peter of | the Circuit Court by William H. Mc- Ceney, foreman of the jury, shortly before 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon at the completion of the work of the in- vestigating body. Mr. Clark, who was arrested on em- | bezzlement charges on March 26, just | after he had been dismissed by the| commisioners, is at liberty on $5,000 | bond. State’s Attorney Stedman Pres- | cott stated yesterday that the case will Introduced by Patman. He was introduced by Representllh‘e,‘ Patman, Democrat, of Texas, who told | BEER TAX IS URGED AT SENATE HEARING Emery Asks Volstead Act Amendment as Harrison Assails Mills. day’s hearing began that he believed Tuesday’s meeting of the Federal Re- serve Board with the governors of the | 12 Reserve banks had dealt with the | bonus question. “I believe the board discussed creat- ing a pretense at deflation of the cur- rency for the purpose of offsetting the movement to pay the soldiers’ bonus Patman said, i Decoe spent only about five minutes | on the stand, and was not questioned by committee members. He concludsd | with the statement: “I feel the bonus payment would be the biggest and best pay day this coun- By the Assoclated Press. | try has received for many months.” Beer as a source of revenue was | Vb Cin't Peo 1 thrust back into the tax dispute today | el e o 2 Wallace M. Howells of Detroit, the before the Senate Finance Commitiee. | next witness, said there were 4,300 vet- James A. Emery, counsel for the Na- | erans in one section of Detroit who tional Assoclaion of Manufacturers, have not DAl ‘lhflz“' o (o tno et “You can help Detroit by paying the called for amendment of the Voistead | honus and help other. seetioms Sl Act and the regulated manufacture of larly,” he said. a cereal beverage which, he said, would | John H. Fahey of Watertown, Mass., produce $270,000,000 annually of rev-| national legislative chairman of the Army and Navy Union, asked for the enue. “We are concerned neither with the | bonus payment ‘“to prove that the crosses in France are not there in | pros nor cons of prohibition,” he said. | “The only issue is whether we shall | vain.” George W. Armstrong of Fort Worth, | have beer, with or without revenue. “We urge the permissible manufac- Tex,, discussed the effect of the bonus | ture of a palatable non-intoxicant,| | payment on the monetary system, and | competing with an illicit beverage to said enactment of the bill would in- crease prices and wages, produce revenue in a national emer- gency.” | FIRE HITS NEW—C;\STLE Two Blocks in Business Section Destroyed in $400,000 Blaze. Harrison Raps Mills. Emery appeared after Senator Harri- ECompulscry newspaper men just before the third |, | son, Democrat, of Mississippi had ac- | e pkted for trlal st the BIeSent | cused Secretary of the Treasury Mils | reached next month. He is expected to | of not playing fair with the Finance be arraigned today or tomorrow. | Committee in referring it to the origi- Two Laws Invoked. Embezzlement was charged under two | sections of the law in the various in- | dictments, one covering the office of | clerk to the county commissioners, | which position Mr. Clark had occupied | since 1922, and the other covering a | county officer. From 1910 to 1922 Mr. | Clark served both as county treasurer and clerk to the commissioners. From 1904, when he entered the county serv- 1r1e-_ until 1910 he served as assistant clerk The additional shortages reported against Mr. Clark bring the total re- ported discrepancies in his accounts to $54.432.63, as he was reported $23.- 986.63 short prior to 1922 in the audit of county funds for the past 15 years made to the county commissioners March 26. The shortage of $30,000 reported in the grand jury indictments caused 87 of the 97 true bills which were returned, the remaining 10 being vased on the $24,000 shortage as county treasurer. This shortage, it is alleged. occupied in a_hitherto unknown bank account (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) et ey HARRIS GROWS BETTER Senator Has Good Chance to Get Well, Physician Bays. ~ Senator Harris of Georgia was re ported by his physician today to be “a good deal better” and to have “a good chance to get well.” The physician said the Senator, who has been suffering from a complication of diseases, “looks as much better today as he did worse yesterday.” At that time the physician held little hope for recovery. Harris' temperature was normal and his pulse nearly the doctor added. | | nal Treasury revenue plan rather than' submitting new proposals. A letter by Mills to the committee sald he preferred either the original Treasury plan or the revenue bill as it was reported by the House Ways and | Means Committee to the measure\ passed by the House and now before | the Finance Committee. He offered to | " (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) NEW CASTLE, Pa., April 13 (#)— Two blocks in the business district were destroyed by fire last night with an es- timated loss of $400,000. The blaze started in the Wood Build- ing, & three-story modern brick struc- ture, and was carried by a high wind into the Dun block. Other buildings were damaged by flames. The City Hall was endangered, but firemen saved it. All firemen and fire- fighting equipment in the city were called out. Monday night a $100,000 blaze :’recked the Citizens’ Lumber Co. plant ere. |U. S. DEFICIT OVER TWO BILLIONS TO REACH HIGH PEACE-TIME MARK Income Taxes Show Largest Decrease in Revenue—Postal Shortage Reaches $145,018,810. By the Associated Press. ‘The Government's deficit went above the two-billion-dollar mark on April 11 when it amounted to $2,017,858,745. On that date, the Government had collected from all sources, $1,629,961,527, and had spent, $3,647,820,272. In the general fund, the Government | had a deficit of $1988,233,585, having collected $1,607,726,897 since last July and spent $3,595060,482. Income Taxes Largest Decrease. Income tax collections accounted for the major item of decrease, amounting to $859,523,350, compared with $1511,- | 704,272 in the same period last year. Miscellaneous internal revenue de- clined $45,000,000 and customs duties 340. compared with $1,748,772,386 last year. The postal deficiency had piled up to $145,018810, an increase of $41.- 000,000 over the same period & year 2go. Large Expenditure Increases. $222,679,909 for Reconstruction Finance Corporation and $63,243,740 spent by 1| the Treasury to subscribe to additional stock for the Federal Land banks. ‘The $2,000,000,000 deficit was the highest ever piled up by the Govern- ment in peace times. During the war, it went above that figure twice. it amounted to $14.197,760,281. were down $23,000,000. Expe: amounted. 10:$2,033,788,- when it amounted to . Other items of increase included | 30 DAYS WITHOUT PAY OFFERED BY PRESIDENT IN NEW SLASH PROPOSAL Economy Committee Regards Plan as More Than 8 1-3 Per Cent Flat Cut on Sal- aries Down to Lowest. WOULD BE ABSORBED ON 5-DAY-WEEK BASIS Furlough Hits Low Salaries Hard, Considering Un- limited Vacation Leave When Congress Is Not in Session. Fight Before House Tomorrow. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. President Hoover offered a new drastic salary reduction proposal today through Budget Director Roop in an executive session of the House Economy Committee. The President proposes a flat 30-day leave without pay for all Government employes, to be con- sumed on a five-day week basis. Members of the Economy Com- mittee figured that this means more than 8!4 per cent flat cut on all salaries down to the very low- est, without any exemption allow- ance. When the ordinary 30-day vacation leave and 30-day sick leave are considered, which are included in the economy program of the committee, to be cut in order to reduce Government ex- penditure, this new 30-day com- pulsory furlough without pay hits with unexpected strength, particu- larly at the low-salaried employes, as many of the high-salaried em- ployes, including both members of the Senate and House, are given unlimited vacation leave when . Congress is not in session. Proposals in Statement, The statement presented by Col. Rooj to the % hzlnfl of President Hoover regarding altérna- tive proposals for savings on the sal- aries of Federal employes, upon which agreement was not reached last Sature day, contained two proposals “to sim- plify the suggestion offered by the ad- ministrative group so as to provide for the coming fiscal year. “l. The introduction of the principle of the five-day week or its equivalent throughout the Government service. “2. The elimination of all annual ve with pay. “3. The elimination of allowances to rural mail carriers for vehicle main- tenance (in lieu of No. 1 above for these employes) “For per diem employes the principle of the five-day week can generally be applied directly by eliminating work on Saturday morning and reducing pay proportionately (that is one-eleventh). “This amounts, in effect, to 26 days’ furlough without pay in a year. “For annual employes a very close equivalent can be reached by providing a furlough without pay for one calen- dar month. As this furlough could not always be made a continuous absence for a full month, provision should be made to spread it into smaller units when desirable, in which case the month would be considered as equivalent to 24 working days (Saturday being count- ed a half day). Rural Carriers Exempted. “The application of either one or the other of these two methods to be man- datory for every officer or employe of the Government except rural mail car- riers and the enlisted forces of the military services. Provi n should be made however for the President to ex- empt from these provisions special cases where he finds that a suitable substitute cannot be provided and the public interest forbids the absence of the regular employe. “It is estimated that the saving by these simplified proposals (after al- lowing for the hire of substitutes when necessary) would be about the same as was estimated under the three pro- posals for which these are now sub- stituted—about. $96,000,000. “These simplified proposals have the further merit of maintaining the present scale of salaries, establish the principle of the five-day week and of treating everybody on practically the same basis. In effect, each man would receive pay at the present rate for each day he works for the Government, but would be called upon to take his leave at his own expense. This plan will furnish some additional employment for sub- stitutes in certain cases and will go a long way toward eliminating the other- wise necessary discharge of many em- ployes Proviso Against Reductions, “Further consideration is also being given to the propriety of including a provision which would prevent the ré- duction of employes receiving $2.500 a year Or less below the prevailing income for some comparable occupations out- side the Government service, and which would provide this in case the furlough plan herein discussed does not effect a reduction in such comparable incomes, then a further adjustment by extension (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) ZEPPELIN PACY HOME Second Trip of Year From Pernambuco, Br FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany, April 13 (#).—The Graf Zeppelin, German dirigible, landed here this morning at 8 o'clock, ending her second trip of the year to Pernambuco, Brazil. The Graf encountered a snow storm in the home port, which made her landing difficuit. The crossing from Pernambuco was slower than usual, tak- ing 101 hours, on account of heavy fogs. 981 on Ship Rescued. TOKIO, April 13 (#).—A Rengo News Graf Completes In 1918 it amounted to Agency dispatch from Hakodate today $9,611,482,739, while in 1919, the record, sald all the 950 passengers aboard the (steamer Taiseimaru No: 3, which ran The deficit for the present year to aground in the Kuriles yesterday, had the crew also were date already is twice that of last year, been rescued. The 31 men of $903, off,