Evening Star Newspaper, April 28, 1932, Page 1

“From Press to Home Within an Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. WEATHER. (U. §. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair, warmer tonight; minimum tem- perature about 48 degrees; tomorrow in- ereasing cloudiness, slightly warmer. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 59, at noon today; lowest, 44, at 4:30 a.m. today, Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 32,139. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ' ch WASHINGTON, D. €, THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1932—FORTY-EIGHT PAGES. MEYER CONDEMINS| INFLATIONTO PAY TWO-BILLION BONUS Says Reserve Board Can In- crease Credit for Busi- ness Demands. ¢ Foening Star. Yesterday's Circulation,- 125,241 S > e~ | TWO CENTS. HOUSE VOTES TO KEEP SATURDAY HALF DAYS FOR FEDERAL WORKERS SO A - HOUSE COAL RATE: IN'REVENUE BILL $17.50 suit. el S Committee, Approving $2-a- Declares That Banking Structure No. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. FORTESCUE JURY STILL DELIBERATES FATE OF QUARTET Effert to Reach Verdict Will Be Resumed This After- noon. F¥P (#) Means Associated Press. [ “Kidnaping™ Foiled | As Policeman Fells Wax Man Victim By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 28 —Police- man Joseph Haller nipped a “kidnaping” right in the bud to- day. 'He shot the victim, but the criminal escaped. In the early morning he heard the sound of crashing glass. Run- ning to the scene he saw two men apparently struggling from a building. Then one picked up the other and started for & parked car. Officer Haller leveled his pis- tol. The shot brought down the kidnaper’s victim. Haller pur- sued the fugitive, but was out- distanced. Then he went back to the wounded man. He was of wax, and wore a HOW BEAUTIFUL EVERYTHING LOOKS ~ Retention of Holi- | day Provision Approved. ALTERNATIVE TO PAY |ESTIMATES HOARDED FOR TIME REJECTED MONEY AT BILLION DEBATE FOR 4 HOURS AND RETIRE FOR NIGHT Measure Taken Up After Two Other Bills Are Considered. Judge Delivers Instructions Fol- lowing Impassioned Plea by Clarence Darrow. By a teller vote of 141 to 118, the House this afternoon ap- | The Tax-Writing Senate Finance proved the McCormack amend- | Committce slowed down today as it| ment to the omnibus economy bill, | argued over the controversial excise and 5 tariff duties, but it fixed & $2-a-ton rate | *LuCD: Tetains the Saturday hait for Government eme on coal imports, | holiday HONOLULU, April 28 (#)—' Jury considering second-degree mur- der charges against Licut. Thomas H. Massie, Mrs. Granville Fortescue, E. J. Lord and A. O. Jones resumed deliberations at 50 am. today | By the Associated Press By the Assoclated Press. Eugene Meyer, governor of the! Federal Reserve Board, told the Hou Ways and Means Committee today that board had sufficient p>wer under the law to increase the amount of cur- rency and credit to meet business de- Executives Go to Fredericks- burg and Mount Vernon. (2:20 p.m. Eastern standard time), with no verdict in sight. By the Associated Press. HONOLULU, April 28—A jury of 12 men of different racial origins, after four hours of deliberation, had not reached a verdict today in the trial of Lieut. Thomas H. Massie and three others charged with slaying Joseph Kahahawai for vengeance. Judge Charles S. Davis ordered the Jurors to retire for the night at 10 p.m. (3:30 am. Eastern standard time) and | to resume consideration of the evidence at 9 am. today (2:30 p.m. Eastern standard time). They received the case late yesterday afternoon. Massie, an officer of the United Btates Navy; his mother-in-law, Mrs. Granville Fortescue, society matron, and Albert O. Jones and E. J. Lord, en- listed men, are charged with slaying a native who allegedly had confessed par- ticipation in a criminal attack on Mrs. ‘Thalia Massie, wife of the officer. Instructions Complicated. After three weeks of maneuvering, challenging, arguing and pleading, the case went to the jury along with a somewhat complicated set of instruc- tions from Judge Davis. The court rules the jury could find the defendants, with the exception of Massie, guilty of second degree murder, guilty of manslaughter, or not guilty. For Massfe, Judge Davis said, the jury might make any one of these findings. plus a possible verdict of not guilty by Teason of insanity. A separate verdict for each of the de- fendants was ordered. Judge Davis also ruled that evidence regarding the as- sault upon th Wwife could be considered only as it re- lated to Massie's mental state. Relating to the defense confention Massie's mind went blank when he con- fronted the native with a pistel and heard him confess, Judge Davis fn-| LD structed that if a plea of insanity had been introduced, the burden cxtyprou( Wwas on the prosecution to show the naval officer sane. o The jurist warned the 12 men that N0 man may take the law into his own hands and the alleged fact that the deceased ravaged the wife of one of the defendants cannot be considered.” Second Degree Ruling. To justify a second degree murder verdict, Judge Davis ruled, the jury would have to conclude the prosecution had proved the four persons killed Ka- Rahawal and that they had intended to | kill him, | However, the jurist said it would be ‘unnecessary for the prosecution to have proved premeditation if it had shown the defendants entered into an agree- ment, the reasonable consequence of which was the slaying. It was ruled all defendants could be convicted of second degree murder or manslaughter if the -jury found that they conspired on January 7 last, the day before the abduction and slaying, to kill, to threaten with a pistol or nap the native, providing it determined that the killing was the result of such | conspiracy. Judge Davis said if the jury decided Massfe killed Kahahawal and was in- sane at the moment, and had not plan- ned the killing, then none of the de- | fendants could be convicted unless the | prosecution had proved a conspiracy to | do things, the rcasonable consequences | of which would be Kahahawai's death | The penalty for second degree murder, | the charge upon which the four werc | brought to trial, i= 20 years to life im- prisonment. Manslaughter calls for a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. Darrow Makes Final Plea. An intense plea in support of the in- sanity defense of Lieut. Massie and in behalf of the unwritten law, made by Clarence Darrow, and a flery demand | by Public Prosecutor John C. Kelley for | conviction of the quartet, preceded the | instructions. i Darrow, who in his seventy-fifth year | came out of retirement to defend the four, argued the pruelling events pre- ceding the abduction and Killing w not the work of the accused and that | therefore they could not be blamed. He asked the jurors to apply the golden rule. Bringing tears to the eves of his| listeners, Darrow reviewed in detail | how Mrs. Massie was bruised and beat- en in the attack: how the ordeal had preyed on Massie's mind, and how ugly | rumors about Mrs. Massie's character sprang up after a_jury had disagreed as to the guilt of five men accused by_her. Darrow attacked the witness stand (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) e Resumption of Rail Service Or- dered After Tariff Dispute. BUENOS AIRES, April 28 (#)—A representative of the Trans-Andean Raflway, which was abandoned last week because of failure of Chile and Argentina to agree on tariff rates affecting inter-country freight ship- ments, informed the foreign minister todey that instructions were received from the directors in London regarding resuming service. It was said traffic would begin again provisionally this week pending new negotiations for a settlement of the tariff difficulties. —_— “Patriotic Lohn” Approved. Coming Here Tonight. By the Assoclated Press FREDERICKSBURG, Va., April 28.— Colonial Fredericksburg today allured the hosts of States executives, home- ward bent after attending the Gov- ernors’ Conference in Richmond this | week. | A trip to three historic shrines and | a return visit to President Hoover, who | addressed them yesterday, will bring to a close the twenty-fourth conference which has been attended by a number of the Nation's foremost political figures. The Governors plan a visit to the home of Mary Washington, mother of the first President, and later to place a wreath on her grave. The old law office of another Presi- | dent, James Monroe, also will be visited in Fredericksburg. mands. He voiced strenuous opposition to the Patman bill to inflate the currency by $2,000,000,000 to pay the remainder outstanding on the soldiers’ bonus. Meyer estimated a billion dollars were being hoarded and said the banking structure should be unified under one chartering, regulatory and supervisory | power, eliminating State corftrol. Mrs, Meyer Present. As yesterday, when Mrs Ogden Mills came to hear her husband, the Secre- tary of the Treasury, teslify against the bonus, Mrs. Meyer was present today | to hear the head of the Reserve Board Representative McCormack, Demo- crat, Massachusetts, asked Meyer about banking practices. “I believe our banking structure should be unified under one charting and regulatory and supervisory power,” Meyer said. “Would that eliminate State control?” asked McCormack. “Yes.” Will Visit Mount Vernon. After a luncheon at Kenmore, home of Col. Fielding Lewis, gunmaker for the Revolution, and his wife, Betty Wash- ington Lewis, only sister of the first | President, the Governors this afternoon | will continue by automobile to Mount | Vernon. At the Tomb of George Washington the Governors will listen to a tribute | from Gov. Pinchot of Pennsylvania, | after which Gov. Harvey Parnell of Arkansas will place a wreath on the grave. At 8 o'clock they will attend a formal dinner at the White House, and will be greeted by President Hoover, who yes- terday, in Richmond, a redis- tribation of taxation and reduction in | Federai, State and local expenditures. Beated at the table will be the Presi-| dent, outstanding candidate for the Re- publican nomination, and Gov. Frank- D. Roosevelt of New York, fore- most among the Democratic contenders. Congratulated President. ‘They met yesterday after the Presi- dent’s speech and the New York Gov- ernor congratulated the man whose job he hopes to take next March. “Very good speech, Mr. President” he said as he came forward to greet Mr. Hoover, Last night, however, during a speech | in which he said that “Agriculture is| of primary importance” in the Nation's welfare, Gov. Roosevelt asserted: “What a pity that recent national leacership and, therefore, recent na- tional thought has so little heeded that precept.” Gov. Norman Case of Rhode Island was re-elected chairman of the Execu- | tive Committee of the Conference and | California was selected for the confer- | ence next year at an executive session (Continued on Page 3, Column 3. | | ROOSEVELT FIELD HANGAR | AND 10 PLANES BURNED Two Mechanics Injured in $185,- 000 Airport Fire Following Explosion. By the Associated Press. ROOSEVELT FIELD, Long Island, Y. April 28—Fire destroyed & hangar and 10 airplanes at this field to-ay with a loss totaling $185,000. The hangar, formerly known as the John Hay Whitney hangar and later designated as hangar “A” was c sumed by flames in less than an hcur following an explosion of undetermined cause shortly after 9 am. Carl Schneider, former German Wer Meyer recalled that in 1923 he told | the Hcuse Banking Committee . that “nothing could be more disestrcus” than a competition between the State and national banking system based ‘on a | competition of laxit=" “That is what has happened since,” eyer said. “I am entirely in favor of maintaining ' State’s rights to the extent that th can be maintained. But with the growth in financial and econcmic conditions, you need flexibility of decentralization. “This banking function is one of them. The use of checks today adds to this argument for federalization of banks, Bankers Not Interested. “Speaking frankly, the banters have not been much interested. ey have favored maintenance of the dual system in order to play one against the other.” “Do you think the country could stand a reasonable inflation of the currency?” McCormack asked, “I think currency is secondary to a| credit expansion and that is now going | on,” Meyer said. “That is, the basis is | being laid for an expansion of credit.” Meyer said currency “artificially in- Jjected would drive gold out of the coun- try and offset the paper.” “Flood country with undesirable | currency and you tend to eliminate gold,” he sald. Meyer emphasized that the Federal| Reserve Board is empowered to expand currency and credit in accordance with business demands. Representative Rainey of Illinois, the Democratic leader, presiding over the hearing. told Meyer Attorney General Mitchell had refused to rule on the constitutionality of issuing currency against gold reserves now backing exist~ ing currency. Opinion to Be Submitted. “It is the only Government depart- ment that has refused to assist this committee with its experts,” Rainey said. “I don't see why the Economy Committee shouldn't materially curtail | the Justice Department.” Meyer said the board’s counsel would submit an opinion on this question. Meyer testified that at the present | time the world's gold supply is larger In comparison with the volume of bus ness than at any time before in histo: Raising his “voice with emphasis, Meyer said { -The best thing Congress can do ‘o | Testore confidence, which will restore | | business, is to indicate clearly that it will not tinker with the currency.” Meyer said, in reply to questions, that | the Reserve system has not yet em- ployed the Glass-Steagall act 10 the ex- tent of issuing currency on Government bonds. Meyer estimated the amount of hoarded money at $1,000,000,000. Be- fore th» anti-hoarding drive, he said | M pilot, was taken to & hospital at Mineola, badly burned. He and John D. Egurre, who also was burned, but not so badiy, were the only persons in the hanger at the time of the explosion. Both are mechanics. The fire departments from four near- by Long Island cities were of no avail against the flames fed by gas fumes from the burning planes. The hangar, supposedly fireproof with concrete walls, quickly crumbled. Schneider was working at the time on the $50,000 amphibian plane Pegasus owned by Whitney. It and another smaller plane owned by Whitney were destroyed. Also among the burnea planes was one valued at $20,000 owned by George Kent, jr., of Jericho, N. Y. lh&s figure was $1,500,000,000. | _"The Federal Reserve system is ca- (Continued on Page 2, Column 8) | PS TO DEATH | | CLERK LEA | Woman Employed by Soviet Agency in Gotham Building. NEW YORK. April 28 (#).—Pauline Lodge, 45, a clerk in the employ of the | Amtorg Trading Co. fiscal agents in | the United States of Soviet Russia, | leaped to her death today from the eighteenth story offices of the compan; | at' 261 Fifth avenue e MOVED FARTH Honor as Result of | | By the Associated Press. | White House social arbiters today re- vised the seating list for President Hoover's dinner tonight to members of the Governors' Conference, replacing | Gov. Roosevelt of New York, whose seat | was but cne removed from Mr. Hoover, with Gov. Pinchot of Pennsylvania, Mrs. Pinchot, who was defeated for Republican nomination to the House in Tuesday's Pennsylvania primary by Representative McPadden, will sit at the Chief Executive's left hand. The original list was based upon the BUENOS AIRES, April 28 (#).—The ROOSEVELT’S SEAT AT DINNER ER FROM HOOVER Pinchot Gets Place Previously Set Aside for New Yol;k. New Arrangement. | their States’ earlier entrance into the | Union. | It was decided later to retain the | precedent of seating Governors at | White House functions on a ranking based primarily upon the date of & ‘suu.-'s entrance of the Union Gov. Pollard of Virginia, will be | glven the seat of honor at Mrs. Hoo- | ver's right because he was host to the Governors’ Conference. Gov. Buck of iDell‘le’e. whose State was the first |to enter the Union, will be at Mrs. ‘Hoover‘s left, with Mrs. Buck imme- ‘dhtely upon the President’s right. | Gov. Roosevelt, leading aspirant for the Democratic presidential ncmination, f Deputies has approved the | ranking given the Governors at their | will sit about six scats' away from the gr);]\'.a':}nb;xre:r- mfi".umnnnn?p‘ 500,000~ | Richmond conference. Thus some mem- | Chief Executive, with Gov. Ritchie of 000 peso (about $300,000,000) internal | bers cf the conference's Executive Com- | Maryland, another Democratic candi- *“patriotic Joan" intended to pay back mittee, of which Roosevelt is a member. | date, nearby. salaries of public employes and other governmental expenses. were placed ahead of other Governors who wouldsoutrank them by virtue of The President 1s ex; pect! in an ibout 53 guests, = \ | MacDonald, prime minister of Great 'CUBAN HOPS TO TUNE 'NEWARK-PARIS PLANE, j stop flight from Newark, N. J., to Paris | DELEGATE BLOSSOM TIME. STINSON DELAYS. LEAVING CENEVA ) | Sailing Date Not Changed as Yet, Though Plans Are Not Revealed. By the Assoctated Press. GENEVA, Switzerland, April 28— Henry L. Stimson, American Secretary of State, decided today to postpone his departure from Geneva until Satur- | day “cr later.” 1‘ Mr. Stimson conferred with Ramsay | Britain, and Dr. Heinrich Bruening, chancellor of Germany, and later lunched with the American delegation to the World Disarmament Confer- ence. It was not immediately apparent why Mr. Stimson decided to delay his leave taking at Geneva, nor was it revealed whether he had also postponed his sailing for the United States, which was arranged yesterday for Wednesday, May 4, from Cannes, on-the-diner Vul- cania. It was assumed, however, he would adhere to his sailing schedule, merely holding cff on his departure from Gen- eva for Cannes. FRANCE SIDESTEPS, Avoids Pressure to Force Armament Reduction. | BY EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER. By Cable to The Star. | oners with some pride, waving his gun. Victim of Hold-Up Captures Bandits, But Lands in Jail Tan Who Turned on Al-| leged Robbers Arrested for Carrying Gun. ‘They all went to Police Court in the same wagon today —two confessed | bandits and their intended victim, who had captured them by displaying a “deadly weapon.” | John R. Jackson, colored hacker, told Judge Ralph Given that one of two passengers last night poked a gun in his ribs. He pleaded nervousness and requested the hold-up man to point the gun some other way while he searched his pockets for money. ‘The man obliged, but Jackson pulled his cwn gun from his pocket in place of money. “Stick 'em up!" said Jackson, repeat- ing the command he had just obeyed. Meanwhile, a crowd gathered, and the police were called. Jackson called attention to his pris- “Where'd you get that gun?” de- manded an officer, just before all three were tdken to the precinct. ‘There the alleged hold-up men, wlml gave their names as James Grimes and | Gladstone Nesbit, were lodged behind the bars, But along with Jackson's prisoners went Jackson himself, charged with carrying a deadly weapon. Grimes and Nesbit pleaded guilty to attempted robbery and were remanded to the grand jury, while Judge Given placed Jackson on probation. BERLIN, Aprit 28 —France once more has sidestepped the concentric pressure being brought to bear by the United States, Great Britain, Italy and Ger- wany in the question of disarmanient but none the less the German claim for | equality of status is a step nearer real- ization. This is the opinion of German official circles following French Premier | Andre Tardieu’s inability to go to| Geneve. ‘The Germans feel the French, for the first time, are on the defensive and | therefore it will not be long before{ they will have to make the first of that series of armament concessions to Ger- many which will end only when Ger- (Continued on Page 3, Column 7.) Lou Reichers Takes Off From Mon- treal, Expecting to Dine in Havana Tonight. By the Associated Press MONTREAL, April 28.—Lou Reich- ers, early bird of the ocean flight aspir- ants, took off today for a little practice hop of 1,768 miles to Havana. He hopes to change his heavy flying togs for flannels and eat dinner in Cuba’s sunny clime tonight. His en- tire baggage consists of flannel trousers | and a tooth brush. Reichers, who will attempt a two- next month, came here yesterday from | that city in 2 hours and 4 minutes The distance is 340 miles, so the Arling- ton, N. J., man went right along, even | though the weather was unfavorable. The plane, capable of 205 miles an | hour cruising speed, is owned by Bernar | Macfadden, publisher. _Reichers be- lieves he will land in Havana within eight hours. He expects to fly by way of Albany, Newark, Washington, Raleigh: N. C.; Florence, S. C.; Savannah, Ga.: Jack- sonville, Miami, Key West and across a water gap of 112 miles to Havana. Friends, Believe Wees Is Safe in Paraguay. ASUNCION, Paraguay, April 28 (#).— Donald 8. Wees, who has been exploring the Grand Desert of Paraguay for the Harvard University Museum, has not been reported in nearly a month, al- though he was due to return here on April 15. His local representatives believed, however, that he would arrive soon from the Upper Parana River at the point where he planned to emerge from the jungle on the Brazilian border. EX-REPRESENTATIVE DIES BIRMINGHAM, Ala., April 28 (#).— Truman H. Aldrich, 84, former mem- ber of Congress and widely known in geological work, died here today. However, | Bankhead, Democrat, of Alabama. HASTINGS RESUMES BANKHEAD ATTACK Answers Claim That Alleged Irregularities Were Mere “Fly Specks.” The Senate today refused to un- seat John H. Bankhead as Senator from Alabama. By the Assoclated Press. Senator Hastings, Republican, of Dela- ware, today resumed in the Senate the campaign to unseat Senator John H.| Hastings was chairman of the Elec- tions Subcommittee that recommended the seat be declared vacant. ‘The election of Bankhead is contested by former Senator J. Thomas Heflin, whom he succeeded. Hastings took the floor in answer to arguments by Senators Bankhead, | George, Democrat, of Georgia, and | Bratton, Democrat, of New Mexico, that | Bankhead is entitled to the seat. Assails “Fly Specks.” A statement by one of the Bankhead partisans that charges of irregularities such as folding ballots and marking them with a pen instead of pencil were “mere fly specks,” drew his first retort. “Here are a few of the things I think | are mere fly specks,” Hastings said, as- serting the committee found a number of ballot boxes had no slots in which | votes could be put and that in some | counties mail boxes were used. “If a condition like that were dis- covered in Pennsylvania, immediately it | would be declared a scandalous condi- | tion,” he added. “But it's called noth- | ing in Alabama.” Haslings then compared the William S. Vare case from Pennsylvania with the pending contest and asserted that | the “Senator from New Mexico (Brat- ton) threw out votes where there was a particle of suspicion of fraud. Vare was elected but the Senate denied him his seat. “They say the Senate has nothing to do with the primary. Then they give | as a distinction between that case and this. that Vare himself was tainted with fraud, tainted with leprosy,” he con- tinued. “Too much money was used. That was the distinction. There was nothing in the personal character of Vare for the Senate to throw him out.” DYNAMITERS HUNTED Attempt Made to Blow Up Ca- nadian-Pacific Train. NELSON, British Columbia, April 28 (#).—Police searched today for dyna- miters who attempted to wreck an east- bound Canadian Pacific Raflway passenger train at Thrums, 16 miles east of here, last night. The train had just passed over a switch when a terrific explesion shat- tered the switch. The train was not Radio Programs oi Page C-2|ij damaged and none of the passengers jured. vote against A stock of the MARKET PROBERS MAP NEW TACTICS Steering Committee Orders Counsel to Submit Plans for Inquiry. Continuing to work in secret, the Steering Committee in charge of the Senate’s stock market investigation, in- structed its counsel, Willlam A. Gray, today to submit his recommendation for carrying on the inquiry. Gray conferred with the committee for an hour and a half. Chairman Norbeck announced they would meet 8gain tomorrow or the next day. No agents were employed and no plan was mapped out. No mention was made, Norbeck said, of his threat to call bankers before the committee and require them to show why they have not extended further credit un- der the liberalized credit laws passed by Congress. After the Steering Committee made | secret plans yesterday for its future conduct, Chairman Norbeck issued a vigorous statement assailing the big commercial banks-for g to pass on the newly expanded credit with which the Federal Reserve system is seeking to infuse new life into the country's business. Banks Accused of Hoarding. Norbeck chx!g!d the banks with thwarting the will of President Hoover and Congress, and with extensive hoarding. He based the accusation largely on the great shrinkage in the total of loans on securities made by | Federal Reserve member banks during recent weeks. From March 9 to April 20 they show a continuous decline emounting in all to $309,000,000. In contrast during the past three weeks, he said, the Reserve System has “man- ufactured credit wholesale.” His statement carried the definite threat that if “these banks keep on foreing liquidation and refuse credit made available to them" he would rec- ommend that the Banking Committes, making the stock investigation, go into this angle fully. Cites “Junk” Prices. “If this liquidation continues,” he said, “we must find out what part the bankers are playing in forcing down the value of American property to ‘junk’ prices. The bear raiders are bad enough. The bankers should not help them!” The shrinkage in loans, he added, “proves that part of the supply of securities, which has been causing the decline in all the security markets, has been coming from these banks and it is apparent that the action of the commercial banks in this respect is a major cintribution to the present lack of confidence and crippled condi- tion of business.” ARRESTED IN SHOOTING OF REPORTER AT CANTON By the Associated Press, CANTON, Ohio, April 28.—Jack Bommarito, 29, confessed bootlegger, was arrested today by officers investigat- ing the attempted slaying yesterday of Harry Bouklias, 43, employe of the Ohio Examiner, a weekly newspaper. Bommarito, according to police, lived at the address listed on an automobile license issued just 24 hours before the shooting to Jack Baleno. The license number, police said, was the same as that carried by & car in which two men fled after emptying shotguns at Bouk- lias. Bommarito also has a police rec- ord in Detroit, Prosecutor James M. Aungst said. Victor Poro, & friend of Bommarito's, also was arrested. The 10 per cent tax on cosmetics and | PIOYes, by striking out a pro- totlet articles in the House bill also was | Vision in the bill which would approved, but exemptions were allowed make the half-holiday law inop- for dentifrices and soaps. This cut an | erative during the fiscal year end- | estimated $8,000,000 from the $20,000,000 | expected from the levy. o | Taking up the jewelry tax, the com- mittee agreed to exempt flat tableware, both sterling and plate, but it declined to lift the tax applying to eyeglasses and spectacle frames. A final decision on | jewelry went over until the afternoon, Coke Exempted From Duty. ‘The tariff row was resumed as the coal tax was reachied, but a motion to | | eliminate the House duty on coal was | defeated, 10 to 8. The committee, how- (eiver. exempted coke from the import | uty. ‘The oil and copper tariff rates went over for future discussion. The vote on elimination of the coal import tax was: For _elimination: Republicans—Keyes, La Follette and Metcalf; Democrats— | Harrison, Georgs, Walsh of Ml.lu~‘ chusetts, Costigan and Hull. Against elimination: Republicans—Smoot, Wat- son, Reed, Shortridge, Bingham, Thomas | of Idaho and Jones; Democrats—Bark- ley, Connally and Gore. Would Tax Presidenf’s Salary. The committee yesterday decided to | levy income tax on the salaries of the | President of the United States and the Federal judges. | The new impost on hitherto ex-| empted Government officials was voted late yesterday after a drastic upward revision of the income tax schedules, from top to bottom. President Hoover is not affected, mor are judges now serving, but all who hereafter ateg into these offices will, if the clause approved by the whole Congress, bear a share of the cost of government. ‘War compensation payments to vet- erans also were included among taxable items. So far has the committee been push- ing its work that report of sthe bill-to the Senate tomorrow has been pre- dicted. By virtue of the increases adopted {e:krdny the Senators hoped today to be able to reduce or eliminate | several special taxes voted by the House | which have been partitulariy protested | muim interests and by Secretary Changes Now Made. Here is what yesterday's proceedings preduced: Increase in normal income taxes to 3 per cent on the first $4.000 income; 6 per cent on the next $4,000, and | per cent above $8,000. Present rates are 13, 3 and 5 per cent, respectively. The House voted rates of 2, 4 and 7 per_cent, respectively. New brackets were added to the graduated surtax schedule to provide | for a maximum of 45 per cent on in-| comes in excess of $1,000,000. The House had voted a maximum of 40 per cent on incomes over $100,000. The present maximum is 20 per cent. Reductions by th. House in the per- sonal exemptions from $1,500 to $1- 000 for single persons and from $3,-| 500 to $2,500 for married persons were approved. This adds & million or more taxpayers to the rolls. The corporation income levy was raised from 12 to 14 per cent. The House voted 13!, per cent. The added | tax of 1%z per cent on consolidated| returns by affillated corporations was eliminated. A 2-cent stamp tax on checks of more than $5 was approved. . The House provision subjecting cor- porate stock dividends to the normal tax was eliminated. The exemption from the gift tax was raised trom $3,000 to $5,000 and the House rates retained. Tke tax on lubricating oils was re- duced from 4 cents a gallon, voted by .the House, to 2 cents, applicable to all grades alike, URUGUAY FAILS TO ACT ON PAN-AMERICA PARLEY By the Assoclated Press. MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, April 28.— The government has taken no action on the proposal to postpone the 1933 meet- ing of the Pan-American Conferénce. The Uruguayan charge d'affaires at Washington, who will represent the country at the next union council, at which the date for the meeting will be fixed, was instructed that since Monte- video has been chosen as the place for the meeting, no initiative can be taken ‘here. KENTUCKY ASSURES VOTES FOR HOOVER RENOMINATION 25 Added by Blue Grass State to Those Pledged and Claimed Indicate Certain Victory. By the Assoclated Press. Hardly noticed in the flurry attend- ing developments in the Democratic race for the presidential nomination, President Hoover's list of delegates to- day had passed the number required for his renomination. Kentucky's 25 votes did the trick when they were added yesterday to his previously pledged and claimed total of 575, which was just three less than required to nominate. The status of Pennsylvania's Demo- cratic delegation, chosen in Tuesday's primary, was still much in doubt and subject to counterclaims by supporters of both Franklin D. Roosevelt and Al- fred E. Smith. There was no question that the Massachusetts three-to-on Roosevelt had boosted the Twum and had assured Smith of great in- fluence in the Chicago convention. But without loss of time the battle shifted to a distant front, concentrat- ing on next week's three-way primary contest in California between the back- ers of Roosevelt, Smith and Jokn N. Garner. Smith supporters in the East were urging on their Pacific Coast col- leagues. . However, as Smith himself -observed in comment on the result, it will take some -time for the full effect of the Eastern results to manifest themselves in definite reaction elsewhere and show whether the Roosévelt bandwagon can overcome the setback. e the major parties were thus engaged, out in Omaha, Nebr, the national Farmer-Labor convention nom- ted Frank ‘Webb of San ing June 30, 1933. | With galleries packed by Gov~ |ernment workers, the members | promptly took up their raid on the | economy bill where it had been interrupted last night by a panicky adjournment forced by the Demo- cratic leaders. Action Had Been Delayed. Action had been delayed for a cooling~ off period while the naval appropriation bill and the tariff bill were considered in the House. In the meanwhile, those in charge of the economy bill made desperate efforts to regain control while the coalition in opposition planned strategy to continue their onslaught to tear the highly controversial legislative proposals to shreds and tatters. Representative Loring Black, Demo- crat, of New York, offered a substitute to Mr. MeCormack’s amendment wkich provided that if the employes were forced to work an extra half day they should be paid for that extra service, Representative Wangen of North Caro- lina, chairman of the committee as a whole, sustained the point of order made by Represen:ative Doug'as, Demo- crat, of Arkansas, a member of the Economy Commitiee. Black Attacks Proposal. tive Black said: “The law giveth and the law taketh away, accursed b: the name of the law. That is the text for this bill. For years by law we have been building up for Federal employes a livable status and overnight we would reduce them to slavery. We cut them in salariss 11 per cent and then force an extra one-half day’s work without blty.hnflecnnfln(mannnwum cut. “President Hoover in his speech of acceptance promised the workmen plen=- ty of leisure. That promise he's kept too well as far as the jobless are con- cerned. As far as the Federal employe is concerned, he would take it away. “The Government is aiding in the fallacy of all work and no play by mak- ing it all work, no pay and no play.’ . e of the $327, 000,000 naval supply bill and the Dem: cratic tariff bill before taking up the half holiday problem. Speaker Garner said the House would meet again tonight to expedite action on the economy measure. Faces Bitter Fight. Despite desperate overnight efforts by both Democratic and Republican lead- ers to thwart the will of the House, as expressed in the approval last night of & $2,500 exemption on all Government salary cuts, the House faces another bitter fight over slashing the Federal pay roll. Party chieftains claim that they will be able to put through some modifica~ tion of the President's compulsory fur- lough plan. While these bipartisan leaders were endeavoring to muster a sufficient force to save something out of the wreckage of this first and most important cf the 71 pages of the economy proposal, the other coalition group leading the fight against the bill had a conference to de- termine their strategy toward prevent- ing the'routed leadership from regain- ing control. Rural Carriers Exempted. The hope of securing approval of the President’s furlough plan is based on the fact that the rural postal carriers have been exempt from the 30-day fur- lough without pay provision in the latest modificaticn of the furlough rec- ommendation, and instead as their con- tribution to the economy program are written down to lose three-eighths of their allowance, which is les sthan half of the original estimates of $17,500.000. ‘The real strategy in this modifica- tion affecting the rural carriers is that those sponsoring the economy bill hope thus to win over the members of the House from rural districts to support the President’s furlough plan. To meet this situation, the opposi- tion group, under the leadership of Crairman Mead of the Post Office, Chairman Connery of the Labor and " (Continued on Page 5, Column 1) NAVAL SUPPLY BILL PASSED BY HOUSE Motion for 10 Per Cent Cut in $326,000,000 Measure Is Defeated. By the Assoclated Press. The House today passed the $326.- 000,000 naval appropriation bill after defeating a motion to send it back to committee for a 10 per cent cut. ‘The vote on the motion for & further cut was 108 to 120. Representative Schafer (Republican) Wisconsin, of- fered it without comment, but the ma- Jority of the Democrats and many Re- publicans joined to defeat his proposal. A few moments earlier the House had defeated 122 to 111 an amendment by Representative Darrow (Repub- lican), Pennsylvania, to appropriate inat e e el Saarly ilon, Ohio, &% his FUNDIng mate bphia. $1,000,000 for initial construction on & 000 naval hospital st Philadel- 1 In discussing his proposal, Representa- .+