Evening Star Newspaper, April 27, 1932, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair, slightly cooler tonight with light frost, probably heavy in suburbs; mini- mum temperature tonight about 34 de- . Temperatures—Highest, 74, at 12:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 39, at 6 a.m. today. Full report on page 9. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news service. Closing N. Y. Marke ts, Pages 14 and 15 Ch ————eee e e Entered as sec: post_office, W No. 32,138. ond class matter ashington, D. ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, g Shae, 1932—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. sk Yesterday’s Circulation, 125,275 (®) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. PRESENT RCES COVERNORSTO T PUBLIC EXPNGES Hoover Tells State Executives Taxation Is Problem for All Government Units. CONFERENCES SUGGESTED TO STUDY FISCAL NEEDS Chief Executive Declares Cost of Administration Too Large a Share of National Wealth. By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va., April 27.—As “the sure highway to national recovery,” President Hoover cited to the Governors’ Conference today the “absolute neces- sity” of reducing expenditures, better -distributed taxation and balanced bud- pets on the part of government. Town councils, county commissions, ) State Legislatures and the Congress mgree on these fundamentals, he said, but to accomplish them “we must have the intelligent support of the people themselves, that selfish vested interest and vested habit do not, by their organ- 1zed sectional and group oppositions or individual action, defeat these high purposes.” Suggests Conferences. Expressing a wish for greater co- operation toward settling governmental problems, he suggested that the Gov- ernors sponsor in their States such conferences as they have been holding here. Having the local executives ex- amine their difficulties together, he said, “would help toward a realization that local expenditures and taxes are a part of a great national problem in stability as well as one of local concern.” Stressing the need for adjustments, the President told of Federal, State and local government expenditures ris- ing from $2,900,000,000 in 1913 to $13,- 200,000,000 in 1930 and the total out- standing debt going from $4,800,000,000 to $30,600,000,000 in the same time. Before the war, the total governmental cost represented but 8 per cent of the national income and Mr. Hoover esti- matad the present proportion at above 20 per cent. “We cannot restore economic sta- bility in the Nation by continuing to siphon so large a part of private effort into the coffers of the Government,” he said, “Its abstraction from the g- ple stifles the , “the - con= sumption and the recovery of employ ment. Urges Tax Study. “Nor can we hide our heads in the sand by borrowing to cover current Government expenses, for thus we drain the capital of the country into public securities and draft it away from in- dustry and commerce.” He urged study of the tax problem with a view toward Feorganization to distribute the burden more evenly and cutting down duplication in taxation by the Federal, State and local gov- ernments. Especially he spoke with dis- favor of the general property tax, relied [ on heavily by States and local govern- ments. 3 “Decreasing prices and decreasing in- | come result in an increasing burden upon property owners, both in rural | and urban communities, which is now becoming almost unbearable,” he de-| clared. “The tax burden upon real | Late Vote Results Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt, with 51,- E. Smith, with 48,661 votes, in returns from 3,361 of Pennsylvania's 8,181 pre- cincts. Senator James J. Davis, with 588,600 votes, is far ahead of Maj. Gen. Smed. ley D. Butler, with 300,250 votes, in re- sults from 4,435 precincts Representative Louis T. McFadden has polled 17,418 votes against 13,542 for Mrs. Cornelia Bryce Pinchot in 213 districts out of 312. In Massachusetts Smith carried the State's 36 votes by a nearly 3-to-1 mar- gin over Roosevelt. STIMSON T0 SAIL FOR .5 TUESDAY in Five-Power Parley Again Blocked. By the Associated Press GENEVA, April 27—Col. Henry L. Stimson’s plan for a five-power dis- armament conference on Friday evap- orated today when Premier Tardieu of Prance sald he could not attend. The American Secretary of State announced that he would sail for home on Tues- day. The meeting which Col. Stimson tried to arrange would have been attended by himself, M. Tardieu, Prime Minister MacDonald, Chancellor Bruening of Germany and Dino Grandi, the Italian foreign minister. Call Second Meeting. Yesterday the secretary, Dr. Bruening and Mr. Stimson's villa outside the city for Premier Tardieu, who had promised to come. could not return from Paris in time, so the three statesmen conferred among ing for Friday. Then this morning word came from Paris that M. Tardleu had an attack of laryngitis which would prevent an immediate trip to Geneva. Col. Simp- son suffered a similar attack a few days ago which necessitated cancellation of an appointment with Maxim Litvinoff, the foreign commissar of Soviet Russia. Arrangements Stand. ‘When he learned today that the meet- ing on Friday would be impossible, Col. Stimson discovered that it was too late to change his sailing arrangements and that he would have to leave Geneva on Friday for Cannes, to sall for New York on the liner Vulcania. (It has been suggested that the recent German _elections and the coming French elections have added to the un- cetainty of discussions of disarmament problems at this time.] Rear Admiral Arthur J. Hepburn of the “group of naval experts of the United States delegation to the Dis- armament Conference, joined the Brit- ish today in indicating the submarine as the only offensive naval weapon, but the contention met with sharp opposi- tion from s ien for the smaller powers on the Naval Commission. Admiral Hepburn declared battleships and other surface vessels were entirely defensive, The Russian member of the commis- sion contended all surface ships were aggressive weapons and the Italian member agreed with this view to a great extent. The Japanese defended submarines and charged that aircraft carriers were the most distinctively aggressive naval arm. GERMANS BLAME TRADIEU. Iliness Is Termed Onmly “Diplomatic.” Pessimism Undisguised. estate is wholly out of proportion to that upon other forms of property and‘ inccme. { “There is no farm relief more needed | today than tax relief, for I believe it can be demonstrated that the tax bur- den upon the farmer today exceeds the burden upon other groups.” In closing, the President paid tribute | “to the courage shown by our public officials, both_executive and legislative, | in these problems.” Theirs is no path | of roses, he said, but “is one to invite | the anger of established interests.” | To the public he addressed this mes- sage: “Be patient, be helpful; recognize the complexity and the difficulty of the problem before these servants of your combined public interest. Support them in their task, for upon its successful conclusion depends a most momentous contribution to our united security, our hope of an early return to stability and the common welfare of every man, woman and child in our Nation.” President Hoover and his party of approximately 30, reached Richmond at 1:56 o'clock. The President was immediately escorted by an honor guard to the John Marshall Hotel The President was met by Gov. John Garland Pollard of Virginia, host to the conference; Gov. Case of Rhode Island. chairman of the Conference Executive Committee, and Gov. Rolph of Californ: A presidential salute of 21 guns was fired by a detail of the Virginia Na- Guard to herali Mr. Hoover's The Governors will repay the Presi- (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) FAKE LIQUOR AGENT NABBED STAGING RAID By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 27.—Jerome Smith, who came here recently from ch was in the police line-up to- rged with attempted extortion, nating a Faderal officer and c ors: orgery He was arrested last night while he end ancther man, who escaped, were trying to serve a fake liquor search warrant on the occupant of a room in the Hotel Aberdeen in West Thirty- second street “It was all a blufl,” Smith acknowl- edged in the line-up. The search warrant bore the spurious signature of United States Commis- sioner Prancis A. O'Neill. When de- tectives interrupted the search both Smith and his companion asserted they ‘were Federal agents and Smith's com- panion said he could prove it if per- mitted to go out and get his superior. He was permitted to go and failed to return. Smith had a badge resembling a Fed- . eral officer's shield and a star-shaped inscrived “Prison Problem ndiana.” British Flyer Takes Off. BOURABAYA, Java, April 27 (#).— ©C. W. A. Scott, flying for a new speed BERLIN, April 27 (#).—The sudden illness of Premier Tardieu of France has caused some disquietude in Ger- many, and there was no attempt to dis- guise pessimism over the outcome of the disarmament parley at Geneva. The Nationalist newspaper, Nacht Ausgabe. intimated bluntly its belief that M Tardieu's illness was only “diplomatic.” The five-power arms conference which Col. Henry Stim- son had planned for Fri an- " (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) 16 HARVARD 'STUDENTS PLACED ON PROBATION Disciplinary Action Follows Dis- turbance Last Thursday in Which Nine Were Arrested. | By the Associated Press. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 27.—Six- teen Harvard and two upperclassmen—have been | placed on probation because of their participation in the disturbance which threw the Harvard Square district into an uproar last Thursday night. The action was taken at a special meeting of the Harvard Administrative Board yesterday. None of the students’ names was dis- closed by college authorities. No action was taken in the cases of nine students | | who were arrested at the time. Har- vard will defer punishment in their | cases until the court disposes of them. In the future, it was decided, a stu- | dent who is guilty of any offense | against law and order or who dlsrz-‘ gards the orders of a Harvard proctor or other college official shall be dis- | missed immediately from Harvard College. | { | —_— | Indian Loan Oversubscribed. LONDON, April 27 (#).—The Indian government £10,000,000 loan issued in 5 | | per cent bonds ot 95, was oversubscribed | | today soon after the lists were opened. | Three-fifths of the amount is ear- marked to retire 6 per cent bonds ma- turing in June. 375 votes, is leading former Gov. Alfred | Attempts to End Deadlock MacDorald waited at Col. | It developed that the premier | themselves and arranged another meet- students—14 freshmen | SMITH-ROOSEVELT DIVIDE ADVANTAGE INPRIMARY VOTING |Former Carries Massachu- | setts Delcgation—Latter ‘ Leads in Pennsylvania. SENATOR DAVIS DEFEATS BUTLER BY WIDE MARGIN Representative McFadden Victori- ous Over Mrs. Pinchot in Rout of Governor's Forces. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Alfred E. Smith wrestled to a “dog fall” in the primary contests yesterday for delegates | to the Democratic National Convention, | on the face of the returns at hand. ‘The Smith and anti-Roosevelt forces in Massachusetts have apparently elect- ed all the delegates-at-large and may have the entire 36 votes from the Bay State in the na.ional convention. Roosevelt, on the other hand, was & victor in Pennsylvania, and in far-away | Alaska. Pennsylvania has 76 votes in | the Democratic National Convention and Alaska 6. All of the Alaska dele- gates are for Roosevelt. In Pennsyl- vania it is believed that 60 of the del | gates will be Roosevelt men. |~ With 118 delegates at stake, Roosevelt | appears to have won 66 to 52 for Smith | First Roosevelt Defeat. ‘The Roosevelt defeat in Massachusetts is his first in a string of primary and convention fights in & considerable number of States. The Massachusetts delegates are the first that will have been instructed for Smith in the preconvention campaign. Undoubtedly the Roosevelt opposi- tion will take heart from Smith’s smashing victory in Massachusetts. While Gov. Roosevelt and his prin- cipal opponent in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination held the center of the stage, other con- troversies of much political in.portance | were settled in yesterday's primaries. | Gov. Gifford Pinchat of Pennsylva- | nia and his senatorial candidate, Maj. | Gen. Smedley D. Butler of Marine | Corps fame, took a hard toss in the | Republican primaries in the Keystone | State. Senator James J. Davis has| | defeated Gen. Butler in the senatorial | | primary by a big vote, and the Repub- jfscan organization of the State appears to have put through its slate generally. Victory for Wets. The Davis victory over Gen. Butler is | 2 blow to the drys and a boost for the wets. Davis espoused the anti-prohibi- tion cause after Willlam S. Vare, the Republican boss of Pennsylvania, threatened to put an organization can- didate in the race against him if Davis did not declare against the eighteenth amendment. Gen. Butler ran as a bone { _The result may mean a militant Pennsylvania delegation in the Repub- |lican National Convention fighting for |a plank promising resubmission of the { elghteenth amendment. | Gov. Pinchot’s presidential aspira- |tions, if he had them, seem to have been snuffed out completely in the Pennsylvania primary. President Hoover vill have the support of virtually the cutire State delegation in the Repub- lican National Convention. Pinchot’s | culy chance to figure in a presidential | " (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) \GOLDER IS DEFEATED | FOR SEAT IN HOUSE! Representative Frederick McGrady Also Loses in Pennsylvania Primary Election. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, April 27.—Congres- sional incumbents who were candidates for renomination in yesterday's Penn- sylvania primary were generally suc- cessful, one notable exception being Representative Benjamin M. _Golder, | Republican, in the fourth district | Golder lost to Arthur Sellers, deputy | coroner in Philadelphia. Representa- | tive McGrady lost to Franklin G. | Brumm on the Republican ticket in the new thirteenth district. Brumm advocated modification of the eight- | eenth amendment. Louis T. McFad- den, Republican, had a substantial lead for renomination in the fifteenth district, on tke basis of incomplete re- turns, over Mrs. Cornelia Bryce Pin- chot, wife of the Governor. Representative E. Lowber Stokes of Philadelphia, Republican, won nomina- tion in the sixth district. J. W. Ditter, running as a wet on the Republican | ticket in the new seventeenth district | won over State Senator James S. Boyd, also a wet MALONE TO VISIT MINES Joins Delegation for Inquiry Into Kentucky Fields. NEW YORK, April 27 (#)—Dudley Field Malone, international lawyer, will accompany a delegation of representa- tives of the American Civil Igberties Union wnich will leave for Kentucky tomorrow to investigate conditions in coal flelds there, it was announced to- day by the union. Malone was invited to join the dele- gation by Arthur Garfield Hays, lawyer active in the union's affairs and who will lead the group Mrs. Malone will acompany her hus- band. BOY DIVES UNDER MOVING ’l:R‘;siNd TO SAVE LIFE OF HIS ERRANT PU Crawls Out Safely on Other Side While Horror-Stricken | NAT-YANKEE GAME OFF Passengers By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 27—It happened | freckles glanced up and saw his pup | as the 8:18 chugged to a stop down at 103d -street. “Shoot you a game of marbles,” came in an 8-year-old voice. Commuters on the Rock Island train glanced from their papers to see two youngsters outside the car window. | train. Commuters gasped, rushed One boy set down a nondescript from his arms and took out a o:lfhmu to accept the . It all happened in a mgment, uppy d- Look On. game was on. The boy with the beneath the train “Rags,” he called, “come here, Rags. The dog paid no attention. the window, then wilted. The scrambled out on the opposite carrying his one arm, » | postponement of a scheduled game be- Fhe | tween the New York Yankees and the | locomotive snorted, the cars beg-a to move forward. home this afternoon and will open a The youngster ducked ‘under thel/ll came series with the Philadelphia bey| Athletics at Grifith Stadium tomorrow. DUp Py unAs Radio l’ro‘n-.s on Page B-8 | | KIDNAPING PARLEY ENDS OBSTAGLES Curtis Returns From Trip on Which He and Lindbergh May Have Met Gang. By the Associated Press NORFOLK, Va, April 27—John Hughes Curtis, returning today from a secret mission, as a negotiator in the Lindbergh kidnaping case, authorized the statement that a number of ob- stacles had been overcome in his nego- tiations for the return of the baby. The statement, given out by the spokesman, Rear Admiral Guy H. Bur- rage, retired, follows: | “At this time we can state we have | overcome a number of obstacles that have stood between us and our objec- tive. Asked if there was anything| more he could give, Admiral Burrage | said, “That's all.” Mr. Curtis declined to discuss his | trip, undertaken Sunday night. He | referred all questicns to Admiral Bur- Tay their representatives. Reports from Hopewell, N. J. indicated that Col. | Lindbergh may have joined the Nor- | folk intermediary on a boat off the Virginia coast in the hope of bringing | the negotiations to a successful con- ciusion. COLONEL ABSENT FROM HOME. | | | Still Missing Despite Report of Contact With Kidnapers. By the Associated Press. HOPEWELL, N. J, April 27 (P Charles A. Lindbergh, jr., was still mi: ing today, despite a high official's Qdeclaration . that Col. Lindbergh is un- | derstood to have made a personal con- | tact with the baby's kidnapers, | This contact is reported to bave been made in Virginia while the flying col- onel was away from his estate Monday | and Tuesday of last week. Police offi- cials denied knowledge of it. The persons who met Col. Lindbergh DE VALERA BEATEN ON JOBLESS ISSUE, | | Answers Cries of “Resign” With Challenge for Motion of No Confidence. By the Assoclated Press DUBLIN, Irish Pree State, April 2. | —The government of President Eamon | De Valera was defeated in the Dall| Eireann today in a division on the un- employment issue. The vote was 74 t0 66. “Resign! Resign!” the opposition members cried when the result of the vote was announced | The President toid them that any- body who wanted him to get out could put_a motion of no confidence !" This was accepted as an_indication | that he had no intention of resigning | on the unemployment vote. BRITISH LABORITE FIGHTS| ALLEGIANCE OATH TO KING | Socialist Commoner Denied Right to Introduce Bill Abolishing Required Affirmation. By the Associated Press. LONDON, April 27.—J. McGovern, | a left wing Labor member of the House of Commons, sought permission today to introduce a bill abolishing the oath of allegiance to the Crown, required of | all members of the British Parliament. | “As a Socialist,” he sald, “I cannot take an oath of allegiance to & symbol which I am out to destroy.” Permission for introduction of the bill was refused. Cold Weather Causes Second Post- ponement in New York. NEW YORK, il 27 (Special). — For the second e in the current series cold weather today caused the Washington Nationals. Walter Johnson's club will return ge. i Earlier in the day it was stated that Curtis was seeking a contact with the men believed to be the kidnapers or | | | September 17. | charge by Justice James M. Proctor. 1Rep0rler, Fighting Crime in Ohio, Shot | By Two Gangsters |Shooting Follows Cam-| paign Against Organiz- | ed Crime in State. | By the Associated Press. ‘ CANTON, Ohio. April 27.—Harry ‘Bouklms, & reporter for the Ohio Ex- | aminer, & weekly newspaper published by Grover Fleiming, was shot and seri- ously wounded in front of his home here early today. Twd men who lay | | in wait for the man opened fire on mm’ | with a shotgun. | | The Examiner has been waging a campaign against organized crime in Canton and other Ohio cities and Bouk- ‘lms was the Canton reporter for the | paper. The Examiner has carried many attacks against the Canton po- lice and underworld characters. As Bouklias was about to enter his home, the two assailants hiding near his porch opened fire. Bouklias saved (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) . N SECND DERRE John M. Crowder Also Con-| victed in Drowning of Woman and Child. Harry C. Wimbley and John M. Crowder were convicted today of second degree murder in the drown- ing of Wimbley's wife in the Chesa- peake & Ohio Canal last September 17. The jury was out 22!, hours. Deadlocked after more than 20 hours of deliberation the jury of 12 men con- | sidering the fate of Harry C. Wimbley and John M. Crowder continued this | afternoon to weigh the evidence in the | trial of the two men accused of mur- | dering Wimbley's wife. Locked up shortly before 10 p.m. last night, the jurors were brought back to the court house this morning at 9 | o'clock and resumed their consideration of the evidence in the case of the drowning of Mrs. Elizabeth Traylor Wimbley, with her 3-year-old daughter, | on the Chesapeake & Ohlo Canal last | The question of whether Wimblev and Crowder should go to the electric | chair, be imprisoned for life, or allowed | to go free was placed in the jury’s hands at 4:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon after a day consumed by prosecution and de- fense arguments and delivery of the Five Possible Verdicts. “I want the electric chair or freedom,” | said Wimbley in his cell at District Su- | preme Court. “If that jury believes I | | means. MILLS AND MEYER FIGHT CASH BONUS Heads of Treasury and Fed- eral Reserve Oppose Pay- ment Measure. Secretary of the Treasury Mills and Eugene Meyer, governor of the Federal Reserve Board, today unloaded a pow- | erful administration offensive against | cash payment of the soldiers’ bonus. Mills spoke first, appearing as a wit- ness, before the House Ways and Means Committee in its extended hearings on ‘l the issue. | Meyer said that “to tinker with the currency” would endanger the confi- | dence of the whole world in the United | States. Doesn’t Mince Words. In language no less forceful than that Charles G. Dawes employed before | the same committee a week ago, the new Treasury chief drove home his opposition to the $2,400,000,000 outlay, whether paid in borrowed money or through inflation of the currency. “The measure now before you is designed to pay an obligation not due, in money that is not honest,” Mills said. “The adjusted service certificates do not mature until 1945. To pay them at their face value today, less the amount that has been borrowed on them, would, in effect, almost double the payment provided for by the ad- justed service compensation act and would involve an immediate cost to the Government of about $2,400,000,000. “In other words the Government is to pay almost twice the amount it undertook to pay. “To select this moment,” he went on, “to destroy our hopes of a balanced budget and to deal a smashing blow to national confidence, is to me simply incomprehensible. The prop8nents of this measure fully recognize that the cost cannot be borne by legitimate | * * * They would discharge what they state to be a solemn obli- | gation of the Government * * * by setting the printing presses to work | printing dishonest dollars. Will Destroy Confidence. “For a great, powerful Nation * * */| deliberately to adopt this insidious and | essentially dishonest device would to| my mind be worsec than an act of | " (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) —_— IRISH TAX ALL FOREIGN | CLOTHING 50 PER CENT | British Empire Accorded Lower | Preferential Duty——Other Tariffs Announced. By the Associated Press DUBLIN, April 27—A 50 per cent emergency tariff has been imposed by the Free State government on ail foreign clothing and other duties on woolen textiles, hats, shirts, brooms and brushes. The British Empire was accorded lower preferential rates in the order, which was put into effect last night. ‘The rate on clothing from the em- | was enough of an animal to kill an in- | pire will be 40 per cent instead of 50. nocent mother und her baby, then I should be electrocuted. If not, then I should be given my freedom, no second- degree verdict.” Five possible verdicts were outlined to the jury by Justice Proctor at the con- clusion ‘of his charge yesterday: 1. First degree murder against both. 2. First degree riurder against one; second degree against the otber. 3. Second degree murder against both. 4. Second degree against one; acquit- tal of the other. 5. Acquittal of both. The greater part of the justice's long charge, which lasted an hour and a half, was taken up with the question of “reascnable doubt” of guilt, as the Government's case hinges virtually en- | (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) AID URGENTLY NEEDED BY STARVING ESKIMOS By the Associated Press. FAIRBANKS, Alaska April 27— Eskimos in the district between the mouth of the Yukon River and Hooper Bay, where a tidal wave last December destroyed food supplies, are so desper- ately in need of “sustenance they are resorting to unprintable measures,” Pilot Art Woodley reports. Woodley returned here yesterday aftet flying over the district with Rev. Fran- cis Menager, superior of Jesuit Mis- sions in Alaska. The tidal wave carried ice blocks 20 miles inland and destroyed several na- tive villages and food supplies over a vast territory. Father Menager said resources of the missionaries have been depleted. Sick- ness was appearing among the natives and there was danger floods from Wool cloth valued at more than 2 shillings (ahout 38 cents) a square yard will be taxed at 45 per cent, with an empire preference rate of 30 per cent Hats and shirts will pay 22! per cent, with a preference rate of 15 per cent. Brooms and brushes will pay 50 per cent, with a preference rate of 331, per cent. SENATORS BOOST INCOME TAX RATES ABOVE HOUSE BILL Finance Committee Action Doubles Almost All Indi- vidual Assessments. MEASURE REWRITTEN IN BURST OF SPEED Maximum Surtax Raised From 40 to 45 Per Cent—New Levies Highest Since War. By the Associated Press The Senate Finance Committee voted today to double almost all along, the line the income tax rates of the Na- tion’s individual taxpayers. In a dash of speed, the committee | Tewrote the income tax schedule of the House revenue bill, accepted the high inheritance and gift levies voted by the House and took up the question of higher corporation levies. All normal income tax rates were boosted above the increases provided by | the House and the maximum surtax rate was raised from 40 to 45 per cent. Highest Since War, The new income levies—the highest | since the war—were approved with only | one dissenting vote, virtually assuring adoption by the Senate. Senator Couzens, Republican, of Michigan, voted against the income schedule after a proposal of his to re- vive the even higher wartime surtaxes was rejected. ‘The committee almost unanimously adopted a schedule presented by Sen- ator Harrison of Mississippi, the rank- ing Democrat, calling for a maximum surtax of 45 per cent. Normal income rates were boosted to 3 per cent on the first $4,000 income, 6 per cent on the next $4,000 and 9 per cent on the income above $8,000. The present normal rates are 1'i, 3 and 5 per cent. The House voted to increase these rates to 2, 4 and 7 per cent, respectively. Couzens Plan Loses. ‘The vote was 11 to 7 against the pro- | 1 by Senator Couzens to revive th® 1918 schedules providing a maximum surtax of 65 per cent and lowering the exemptions. Democrats who opposed the war-time rate, together with some Republicans who' joined them, then countered with the proposal to increase the income schedules above the rates voted by the House. Those voting for the war-time in- come rates included Couzens, Keyes, Bingham, La Follette, Thomas of Idaho and Jones, Republicans, and Costigan, Democ rat. In voting the general income tax raise as proposed by Senator Harrison, the committee made the increased surtax rates applicable to incomes over 100,000. ‘The House schedule provided for a maximum surtax of 40 per cent on all income in excess of $100,000. The Sen- ate amendment builds up a graduated scale of rates above $100,000, keeping the House surtax rates up to that point. The maximum of 45 per cent would ap- ply on income over $1,000,000. Committee Shows Speed. The committee disposed of the vital income levies with a rapidity that car- ried through the pledge of the party leaders for speedy disposition of the revenue bill. With almost unanimous support in the committee for the new income schedule, its adoption by the Senate is forecast. A fight will be made on the floor by Senator Couzens for even high- er rates. The committee accepted without | change the lowered exemptions for in- dividual taxpayers provided by the House, Single persons will be allowed $1,000 instead of $1500 and married persons $2,500 instead of $3.500. The House provision limiting earned income deductions to $12,000 also was approved. Attempts to increase this to $30,000 and $20,000 were defeated. Inheritance Rates 0. K.'d The committee then approved the 45 per cent inheritance tax rates voted into the revenue bill by the House. Secre- tary of the Treasury Mills had urged a reduction in the House inheritance levy. The new inheritance schedule starts with a 1 per cent tax on estates of $10,000, and is graduated to the 45 per cent maximum applicable on estates in excess of $10,000,000. ‘The schedule of rates on gifts, pro- vided by the House, with a minimum of 331; per cent on amounts in excess of $10,000,000, was approved. The schedule begins with a rate of three-quarters of 1 per cent on gifts up to $10,000. The committee, however, raised the exemp- tion from $3,000 to $5,000. DUNCAN RECOVERING PARIS, April 27 (#).—The condition of James H. Duncan, superintendent of the American War Cemetery a! Suresnes, who shot himself yesterday, was reported “very satisfactory” today. Maj. Francis Fisk of the United States Army Medical Corps visited Duncan at the hospital this rorning and said unless there were unforeseen complications his recovery Whs asssured. Heavy frost for the National Capi- tal's suburban areas and light frost for the city are predicted for tonight in what is expected to almost & record cold snap for t,:x ime of the year. The minimum perature tonight is expected to drop to about 34 degrees. ‘The city awoke this morning to find the temperature down to & minimum of 39 degrees at 6 a.m, with a chill wind whipping in off the mountains, where heavy snowfall was reported within 100 | miles of the Capital, with below freez- | ing temperatures. Records of the Weather Bureau for 20) years show no cooler April 27, though imum has bees FROST IS FORECAST FOR TONIGHT | Temperature of 39 at 6 O’Clock This Morning Equals Low Record for 20 Years. minimum for April 27 for the past 20 years. Airway weather stations on the ‘Washington-Pittsburgh Airway reported heavy snow and biting cold winds in the mountains. At Buckstown, Pa., 100 miles from Washington, there was one inch of snow on the landing field at 8 am., with the temperature down to 25 degrees and snow still falling. At Pitts- burgh the snow had stopped, with a white blanket over the Spring greenery. Frostburg, Md., and Keyser, W. Va., re- perted snow and temperatures of 24 degrees. The temperature in the National Cap- ital rose very slowly during the morn- ing and at 10 a.m. it had risen only four degrees above the 6 o'clock minimum. The forecast is for fair weather to- . | night, with a snappy temperature, ac- by moderate northwest FOES OF PAY CUTS OPEN BITTER FIGHT AGAINST GAG RULE Party Lines Broken by Lead- ers in Vigorous Appeals on Omnibus Bill. DEBATE MAY BE HALTED TO FORCE ITS PASSAGE A. F. of L, Federal Employes and Postal Big Four Hope to Defeat Plan. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. | With galleries crowded by Govern- ment employes facing drastic pay slashes, the elimination of holidays and promotions and other curtailments, the House today engaged in a bitter battle over the omnibus economy bill, which, it is claimed, would save $200,000,000 in Government expenditures. The question of adopting & special rule, generally declared to be a “gag rule,” which would make in order in the legislative appropriation bill an amendment of 71 pages of highly con- troversial legislation affecting all |phases of the Government, was vigor- ously debated. Leaders on both Democratic and Re- publican sides have broken party lines in vigorous appeals either for adoption of the rule or its rejection. Rule Likely to Be Rejected. Before the vote is taken it seems probable the rule will be rejected. i The House is voting first on the pre- vious question. If that is adopted, the next vote will be on adoption of the rule. The previous question is likely to be voted favorably. If it is not adopted, then the rule will be thrown open for amendment. The previous question automatically shuts off any debate on the amend- ment. Before reaching this legislative st on motion of Renresentasise Banknens, in charge of the rule, d at the sug- gestion of Minority Leader Snell, the House adopted an amendment some- what liberalizing the rule by giving the Economy Committee a right to make all perfecting amendments without in- fringing upon the four amendments al- lowed under the rule on each title in the bill. Confident of defeating the gag rule was expressed by leaders of the op- position after a conference with Rep- resentatives of the American of Fuderst Exspioyes, the Big 4 Orpani: eral loyes, 4 - zations of P&pl ‘Workers, and the A{z{\;«;wln P n. p rty-eight members of Congress at- tended munu under th:h’ lead- nfl of an of Ex- pen Committee, Con. nery of the Labor Committee, :R:mmn Mead of the Post Office Com-~ mittee. Representative La Guardia, Republi- can of New York, who led the success- full fight against the sale tax and for protection of postal employes from slashes in the Post Office Department appropriation bill, is leading a “lone- wolf” fight agai the bill, but is in sympathy with mi proposals of the other coalition group. Both Groups Confident. Both the Mead-Cochran-Connery group and Representative La Guardia expressed confidence today that the rule will be defeated. . If and when the economy rider comes up under the special rule, the | | I (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) OFFICERS INDICTED IN PRINCE GEORGES Two Constables Accused in Protec- tion Case—Deputy and Chief's Son Face Hold-up Charges. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md,, April 27— Two constables, a deputy sheriff and the son of the chief deputy were named in a group of indictments returned by the Prince Georges County grand jury late yesterday. The charges contained in them are the result of alleged hi-jacking activ- ;xnils and “protection” given a dance all ‘The constables indicted were Harry Sweeney of Piscataway, and William Hendley of Oxon Hill, who were charged with malfeasance in office. Sweeney and Hendley are accused of taking money for their services ia maintaining order at the Sunnybrook Dance Hall in Oxon Hill district. Both constables expressed amazement today at their indictment, each claim- ing the proprietor of the dance hall offered them money for their services, that they never demanded compensation and that they did not know they were doing wrong when they accepted morey. Charges of hold-up and robbery pre- ferred following an alleged hi-jacking last month resulted in an indictment against Deputy Sheriff Newton James and Thomas Vernon Garrison, son of Chief Deputy Thomas H. Garrison. James and Garrison were arrested by County Policeman Ralph Brown on complaint of a Washington bootlegger. They have repeatedly denied the charges against them, contending that they were “framed.” {HOOVER VETOES BILL GRANTING PENSIONS Says Measure Gives Allowances to Those Unable to Comply With Laws. By the Associated Press. President Hoover today vetoed a bill granting an increase in pensions to soldiers and sailors and in some cases granting new pensions. Mr. Hoover said the measure con- tained. .367 items establishing “special pensions and increased allowances to persons who have not been able to com= ply with the general Jaws.” He added it also contained some meritorious cases, but he vetoed the bill because of a number of undeserving Most of these, he added, wumw 3 3