Evening Star Newspaper, May 5, 1932, Page 1

WEATE (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and somewhat cooler tonight; to- motrow increasing cloudiness, probably Temperatures—High- showers at night. est, 78, at 5:15 p.m. 56, af 5:30 am. tods Full report on page B-5. — Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 1ER. yesterday; lowest, ay. ch ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ng Star, “From Press Wi The Star's carrier every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. to Home thin an Hour” system covers Yesterday’s Circulation, 125,184 S No. 32,146, Fntered as second clags matter post office, Washingtoh, D. C WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, MAY 9y 1932—FORTY-EIGHT PAGES. ok kK (®) Means Assoc ted Press. TWO CENTS. MEANS HE EXAGENT AGCUSE OF TAKING MONEY, FROM MRS. MLEAN 10 RECOVER FHLD Rover to Demand $100.0003 Bond to Effect Release Ofi Former Investigator for U.; S. Department of Justice. CHARGED WITH CLAIMING CONTACT WITH KIDNAPERS | Author of Hardiné “Expose” Is Taken Before Commissioner Tur- nage After Being Arrested in District in Order to Obviate Ex- tradition Proceedings. Gaston B. Means, former De- partment of Justice operative during the Harding administra- tion, was arrested today under United States commissioner’s war- rant on a charge of larceny after trust in connection with $100,000 paid him by Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean, wife of a Washington publisher, to produce the kid- naped son of Charles A. Lind- bergh, noted aviator. Means was taken to the Depart- ment of Justice, where he is be- ing questioned by J. Edgar Hoo- ver of the Bureau of Investiga- tion. He later will be taken before U. 8. Commissioner Needham Turn- age, where U. S. Attorney Leo A. Rover will ask that he be required to post a bond of $100,000. According to Rover, the war rant charges that Means shortiy - jon of the child! represented to Mrs. McLean that he was in contact with the ab- ductors and received the sum of $100,000 from her on his assur- ance {hat he could secure the re- turn of the child. Means was taken into custody by epecial agents, who had lain in wait | i LD IN $100,000 LINDBERGH PLOT Former U. S. Agent and Accuser BORAH PROPOSES 35010 PROGRAN TORESTOREWORLD iDIsarmament, Reparations | Settlement and Stabilized | Silver Necessary, He Says. |GOLD MENTALITY HIT N CROWDED SENATE |Senator Warns of Continued Dis- tress Threatened by Gloomy GASTON B. MEANS. Reports From Geneva, i | By the Assoctated Press. A three-fold program for world economic recovery, disarmament, settle- ment of reparations and restoration of silver was presented to the Senate today by Senator Borah, Republican, of Idaho. Addressing a crowded Senate chamber, Borah discussed world affairs, stressing | | particularly the “gold mentality,” which, | he said, had been in force since 1925. “I venture this opinion,” he said, “that unless armaments are reduced so that burden is lifted, unless reparations are settled so Europe can start on eco- | nomic recovery and unless silver is re- | stored to the place it' occupied prior | to 1925, to restore to sorhe extent the | purchasing power of one-half the world, there will not, in my judgment, be any ready return to prosperity.” Gloomy Geneva Reports. He referred to what he described as gloomy reports coming from the Geneva Disarmament Conference and warned that unless an agreement to cut arma- ments is reached the effect will be felt | throughout the world, and investors | would be wary. | “I do not know how long the people will be wiling to carry the burden | they are now carrying,” Borah con- | tinued, “but we must not be unmindful of the fact that the masses everywhere, | including our own country, are be- MRS. EVALYN McLEAN. MASSIE, RELEASED, ORDERED 10 DUTY Navy Will Not Take DisCi-!|*"w; 4o not accompiish things gen- . ‘ - lly in tBis“‘country by revolution, plinary Action Against Per- | S e can be no doubt of & general sonnel Freed Yesterday. feeling among the peoples that the governments are not meeting the task before them.” | Serious European Conditions. The Navy today issued orders to| Asserting economic conditions Lieut. Thomas H. Massie, directing | Europe are serious, he sald: = h “In some of those countries there e the San |, “Circulating medium. Some are in for him on this side of the District line ever since secret issuance of the warrant yesterday. The warrant was sworn to by a Go! ernment investigator, who appeared be- | fore Commissioner Turnage, after con- ference with Rover. ‘Means has been under surveillance at his home, 112 Leland street, Chevy Chase, Md. The arrest was made in the District of Columbia in order to obviate extradition proceedings. The investigation which preceded suance of the warrant was_ conducted under direction of John M. Keith, spe- cial agent in charge of the Washingt field oftice of the Bureau of Investig: tion, who acted on orders from J. Edgar Hoover, director of the bureau. Secrecy Shrouds Arrest. Means' arrest w effected with the greatest precautions for secrecy. The fact the warrant was issued was sup-| pressed until the paper had been served. | Means has had a colorful though | hectic_career. He has served two terms of two years | each in Atlanta penitentiary for con-{ spiracy to violate the prohibition laws | and for attempted bribery in connecti with operations of the Craeger Glass Casket Co. He was released from prison_July 19, 1928, after serving an| extra 30 days in lieu of payment of two fines of $10.000 oath at that time After his release he published a sel 2l book, “The Strange Desatn Harding,” purporting of. inper workings of Hardin he book since been repudiated by a “ghost author employed by Means to do the iting Means first gained notoriety as leged “confidential agent” of Count von Bernstoff, German Ambassador, and pt. Boy-Ed, of the German et | 3 . prior to America’s entry into | the World War. In 1917 this connec- | tion was disclosed during an action | to revoke the license of the Burns De- | tective Agency alleged v practices on the ground that M an employe of the agency. the German government agency was serving its enemy ish governm ) t | | | an expose the eans, | while the | s declared war fous times 1 of Ameri in view of his re- (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) SHIPPING PREFERENCE IS CHARGED T0 B. & 0.| Road Indicted With Flour and Cereal Firms Under Elkins Act. By the Associated Press. . NEW YORK, May 5—The Federal grand jury today returned six indict- ments growing out of alleged violations of the Elkins act by the Baltimore & ©Ohio Railroad Co., Jeceph Moskowitz, a commission dezler in flour; Harry Kulla, manager of Jacob Kulla Sons, | flour dealers, and the Kellogg Sales Co., distributors of prepared cereals. The indictments charge that unlaw- ful concessions were made by the rail- road to the other defendants through the device of canceling storage charges. by which means the defendants re- celved preference over other shippers. The Elkins act provides for a fine of $1.000 to $20,000 for each offense, The year sentence for income tax evasion | ward to a clerical job or work in the | John H. Sorrells of New York, ;xecutlve W.LR.‘.” P P PI" “ setts lvefl:&» Do('tflyn the ¢:x=£.l umber of offenses charged the B. & 6. in the indictments total 25, !the Honclulu Naval District ‘meer Hollywood Physician Faces He took a pauper’s | prominent Hollywood a | personages, w0 be! has | | actress, is to be t | cution witness. thical | National was serving | the Brit- | practically in a state of barter. Rear Admiral Yates Stirling, jr.| Borah then declared: U. S. N, commandant of the Honolulu “It has already been foreshadowed Naval District, recommended that Lieut, | (DAt the Lausanne Conference can not Messie be transferred to the mainland hope to succeed.” Turning to the gold problem, Borah and the Navy Department speedily acted | asserted “there must be some relief from | upon this | this gold mentallity.” . . | "He said the United States and France, The department announced that DO yi¢h g population of 170,000,000, swned recommendations have been made by about 70 per cent of the world’s gold, Admiral Stirling to transfer A. O. Jones compared to the 1.400,000,000' who hold | and E J. Lord, enlisted men, tried | the_other x30 ger cemk.‘ o “It is significant thal e abnormal | and r-leased with Lieut. Massie, from v Secretary | flow of gold into the United States and | | France marked the beginning of the“ Adams indicated that the Navy will |fall of commodity prices and the; not institute disciplinary action against | liquidation of securities. Deflation be- naval personnel involved in the Massie Ban then, is continuing and seems fair ase In view of this, the department (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) to go on. Cause of Fright. “It seems clear to me that the fright which still obtains was engendered by | this gold disturbance. A fall in prices is like & glacier—once started it sweeps all before it. “I don't know how to pay the gold indebtedness of the world so long as the gold is held by two nations. Debts must be paid either in gold, in kind or in services. “While I am a believer in the protec- | tive tariff, it is obvious that our tariff | will not permit payment in kind. There | is no opportunity to render payment | by services. “We are up against an impossible situation unless there cap be a large supply of money. “England was forced off the gold| standard last September. Dire prophe- cies were heard before that occurred of what would happen. It is the only bright spot today on the horizon, That great nation which was committed to the gold standard since 1849 departed | from it and it is the only nation today that seems to be on the road to re- covery. NARCOTICS TO ACTRESS Trial Today—Alma Rubens’ Mother to Testify. By the Associated Press LOS ANGELES, Calif Jessie Citron, May 5.—Dr a physician to 1d Beverly Hills was called into Federal Court today for trial on charges he fliegally supplied « to the late Alma Rube; Mrs, Theresa Rubens I once m pal prose- Dr. Citron w the death of M 1931, delayed his trial indicted in 1930, but in January, Proof of Relief Need. “All of that seems proof of the fact| to me that there must be some relief from this gold mentality.” “We are always being reminded.” Borah said, “that our national wealth | is $400,000,000,000. The fact that we have this national wealth is proof pos-{ itive that the policies under which the national wealth is being administered are unsound. “I do not believe that we can re- store better conditions in this country y increasing taxes and providing (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) DRY PARTY MEETS JULY 5 Prohibition Convention to Be Held at Indianapolis. INDIANAPOLIS, May 5 (#).—The uadrennial national convention of the will be held in In- it was learned here national a Proh | dianapolis tod from | chairman ition par D. Leigh Colvin, CHICAGO’S HOODLUM CHIEFTAIN NOW JUST PRISONER NO. 40886 | “Scarface Al” Capone Enters Atlanta Penitentiary to! i Serve Eleven-Year Term. It starts with first call at 4:45 o'clock in the morning and ends with “lights It includes meais at Assoctated Press. | | ATLANTA, May 5—“Scarface Al" | Capone began a new life today as con- | vict No. 40886 in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. | B odd jobs, and possibly an evening's en- BONUS PAYMENT | Hoover “‘seemed interested” in it. The Chicsgo gang leader was just one of 3,100, as he was put tarough exami- naticns to see whare he would fit into the priscn microcosm. Capone stepped into the pricon office last night and, as far as the public was concerned, he might have been stepping from the face of the earth for a period of about seven and a half years, long _encugh for evemn the noto- riety of a Capone to become dim. As Capone began serving his eleven- his story became the . sto: f all the other prisoners, rx‘p tertainment of moving pictures, boxing or_amateur theatrica's. Capone checked in his flashy and ex- pensive clothing and wes given a uni- form of cotton shirt, trousers and jacket, all grayish blue. He must sub- mit {o a prison haircut and remain in quarantine for three or fcur weeks. FRANK YoU NEVER AGTION DEFERRED Committee Vote Friday. | Archibald Roosevelt Hits | “Legalized Racket.” By the Associated Press. A frontal attack upon the expendi- ture of vast sums of Federal money for the benefit of war veterans was made tcday by Archibald B. Roosevelt, a son of the former President, while the House Ways and Means Committee was deferring action on a measure for full payment of the bonus. Roosevelt, representing the National Economy Committee, a private m’zm-l ization, put an appeal before the Presi- dent and the heads of the House and | Senate. He urged a drastic cut in the | billion dollars he said was spent yearly for veterans' benefits and proposed | that action be taken to cut off pay- ments {o veterans suffering from in- Jjuries not incurred in war service. | Vote Put Off Until Friday. | ‘The House Ways and Means Commit- | tee put off until Friday a vote on the Patman plan to issue additional cur- rency to redeem the two billion dollars outstanding on soldiers’ bonus certifi- cates. Acting Chairman Crisp said he be- | lieved the committee wculd either re- port the bill favorably or unfavorably. Along with the Patman plan the committee is considering a proposal to authorize issuance of bonds to retire the new currency should the value of the dollar drop too Jow. Roosevelt declared in a statement left with the President that “a vast legalized ‘racket’ has been foisted on the pecple. whereby one-quarter of all the revenue received from the whole Nation is being expended for the benefit of less than 1 per cent of the people.” He also presented the President a petition backed by the National Econ- omy Committee. Roosevelt said Mr.| | Besides Roosevelt, among the 139 | other prominent cigners of the petition are John W. Davis, E. Roland Harri- man, Joseph P. Day, Elihu Root, jr, | and Gen Palmer E. Pierce. Roosevelt is secretary of the Economy Committee. He contended to the Pres- ident that at least $450,000,000 could be | saved from veterans payments “without | injustice.” | Roocevelt, himself a veteran, plans to | present similar petitions and statements to Vice President Curtis and Speaker Garner of the House. Text of Letter. The letter presented the President by Roosevelt said his organization had | watched with growing concern “the failure of the Government to face the | issue of economy and especially the failure to grapple with the question of drastic reductions in the approxi- mately $1,000,000,000 which is being expended for veterans’ benefits.” “The recent reckless action of the Hnuse of Representatives has been fol- lowed, as you know, by a new depre- ciation of the dollar in foreign ex- | change, 5o that today the dollar stands at a discount in comparison with the PFrench, Dutch, Swiss and Belgian cur- | rencies,” his letter said. | “As citizens with a pride in the coun- try, we deem this condition incompati- | ble with the dignity of the nation and marking a virtual breakdown in re- sponsible government.” Roosevelt said the President’s recent | appeals for patience on the part of the Government had been noted, adding “but, we cannot agree that patience is any longer a virtue.” WIFE DIES ON HEARING OF HUSBAND’S DEATH Couple, Married 40 Years, Had Expressed Wish to Die at Same By the Associated Press. PINE BLUFF, Ark., May 5.—Former Circuit Judge W B. Sorrells and his wife, who had been married 40 years and had expressed the wish not to out- live each other, died & few minutes | apart today. The judge suffered a heart attack about 3 am., and died an hour later. | When Mrs. Sorrells realized he was Time. He can expect an assignment at the end of that period to either the laundry |or the tailor shop. If he behaves him- se'f and shows sbility, he can look for- library with opportunities for study and reading. dead, she fell into the arms of her son, W. B. Sorrells, jr,, editor of the Pine Bluff Commercial, and & few minutes later she was dead. Another son is editor of the papers. Cross U. S. Flight Puts Governor in Hospital With Cold By the Assoclated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, May 5.— The “flying Governors' " 23-hour flight from Washington to Laos Angeles last Saturday was too much for one of the pair, Gov. James Rolph, jr., of California. He is in a hospital suffering from a cold contracted on the trip. Dr. John Gallway, physician, said Mr. Rolph's illness was not serious. Gov. Fred Balzar of Nevada was Ralph's partner on their re- turn from the Governors’ Con- ference in Richmond, Va. ASKS PRESIDENT'S BEER TAX VIEWS Tydings Wants Statement on Prohibition Before Bill Is Passed. By the Associated Press. President Hoover was called upon in the Senate today by Senator Tydings, Democrat, Maryland, to state his views on prohibition before the tax bill is passed, and it is too late to tax beer, He sald Secretary of War Hurley and Ernest Lee Jahncke, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, had indicated President Hcover would agree to “some sort of wet or modification” platform, while Chairman Fess of the Republican Na- | tional Committee had said the party wou'd remain dry. “It is rather a sad commentary on democracy,” Tydings said, “that with a great question like this the President of the United States is absolutely silent. Fess Reads at Desk. “No man in the country knows whether he is going to be for a con- | tinuation of this glorious experiment or advocate some change. “Is there any one in this chamber who can state how the Chief Execu- tive stands on this question?” Fess, sitting at his desk reading, ap- parently paid no attention to Tydings. Tydings said the Finance Commit- | tee was struggling to raise sufficient taxation “while bootleggers grow rich, | was planning to tax automcbiles, radios, theater admissions and gambling.” Gives Tax Estimate, “We can do that, but we inustnt| touch the sacrosanct ring of law vio- lators,” Tydings said. “Taxes on $500,000,000 and make all these nui- sance taxes unnecessary. “I1 don't want to hear after this ses- sion is over the Chief Executive has Cxumf' out and said he favors modifica- tion “If he is going to, now is the time and not on the death bed, because it will be a death bed repentance after we have sandbagged industry for §1,200,- 000,000 instead of getting half of that from beer.” The galleries applauded, and Vice President Curtis warned against a dem- onstration when Tydings said: “It is my belief that if the Anti- Saloon League, so called, which wields some power in certain parts of this country and in my State along with the others, could be put on a boat and sent to the North Pole for about a year, | Congress would_repeal the eighteenth amendment within 24 hours.” _— Envoy's Leg Amputated. SHANGHAI, May 5 (#).—Japanese surgeons today amputated the right leg of Japanese Minister Mamoru Shige- mitsu as a result of injuries he received from a bomb thrown into the reviewi: stand at a celebration in Hongkew Par] last Friday. Ship Reported on Fire. NEW YORK. May 5 (#.—The | schooner Amelia M. Pereira, out of Gloucester, Mass.. was reported afire off Faulkners Island in Long Island Sound last night. The steamer Plymouth, which sent the message, sald it had picked up the six members of the schooner's crew. | beer alone would raise HOUSE GETS ARMY moves 2,000 Officers From Active List. By the Associated Press. | Slashed by many milllons under President Hoover's budget estimates, the last of the big regular supply bills for 1933—that for the War Department— was reported to the House today by its Appropriation. Committee. Cutting 2,000 officers off the active list and making other sweeping reductions, the measure carries $386,983.000 for maintenance of the Army and its non- military activities. It is $58,789,000 be- low current appropriations and $24.- 380,000 less than the budget estimates. The reduction brings to $160,000,000 the amount deducted by the Democratic- controlled committee from President | Hoover's requests for 1933 funds. Only | the second deficiency appropriation bill remains to be presented. $105,444,000 Non-Military Fund. Of the total, $105,444,000 is for non- military work of the department, in- cluding & lump sum of $60,000,000 for | the improvement of rivers and harbors and $32,000,000 for the Mississippi Val- ley flood control project. Not one budget estimate was | creased. and no item not recommended | by President Hoover was included in the measure, | In his repcrt Representative Collins of Mississippi, Democratic chairman of | the subcommittee, pointed out that ap- proximately $222,000,000 of the amount | in- allotted to the Army goes for the pay, | | expenses and subsistence of personnel. | Besides cutting to 10,000 the number of officers, the bill proposes suspension of camps for Reserve officers’ training, suspension of citizens' military training camps, suspension of 14-day training pay for organized reserves, a $5.555,000 | curtafiment of transportation of troops | and officers, a $3.219,000 reduction in subsistence allowances, in fiying pay totaling $112,500. $54,738.000 for Air Corps. Although the amount allotted Air Corps activities is $54,738,000, the gen- eral expenses, including outlays for work on the five-year expansion pro- gram, are set at $35541,000. The report said this expansion pro- because it would require 2,058 airplancs to maintain the 1,800 in active service, there being 1212 per cent unserviceable | at all times. At present the Army has 1,602 planes. “Where is the money coming from relatively new but most potent com- ponent of the Regular Army?” the re- port asked. “It will cost money, and with a limited budget the question be- comes a serious one, and it would seem that for some time to come we must look within the Army organization it- self to find the necessary funds.” Militia Bureau Gets $31,413,000. The bill carries a total of $31,413,000 for the Militia Bureau, $1,645,000 less than the budget estimates. Nearly all goes to the Naticnal Guard. It pro- vided no funds for the national rifle matches, usually costing $500,000 a year. ‘The allotment for the citizens’ mili- " (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) BILL, CUT MILLIONS $386,983,000 Measure Re- and feduction | gram could not be completed in 1933, | properly to equip and round out this | {OPER CENT CUT |SMOOT ESTIMATES POLICY OF SENATE INBALANCE TODAY Vote Indicated on Move to Rescind Order to Slash Treasury-P. 0. Bill. EFFORT MADE TO AVERT WHOLESALE DISMISSALS | e | | Fund Bill Holds Interest as Econ omy Plan Awaits Consideration by Subcommittee. With the House omnibus economy bill awaiting consideration in a Senate | Subcommittee, chief interest today centered on the outcome of the move- ment launched in the Senate yesterday to modify, or rescind entirely, the' order for a 10 per cent cut in the| $1,059,000,000 Treasury-Post Office ap- propriation bill. Senator Bingham, Republican, of Connecticut, had a resolution pending yesterday to give the Appropriations Committee more latitude in applying the cut, by urging it not to make re- ductions which wculd seriously dis- |rupt the Postal and Customs services, and Senator Glass, Democrat. of Vir- ginia, suggested an amendment asking the Committee not to raduce appro- priations to a point where the Trea- sury and Post Office Departments “would be required to make the whole- sale dismissal of Government employes proposed by the heads of these de- partments. At the same time, however, Senator Oddie, Republican, of Nevada, in charge | of the Treasury-Post Office bill, offered | a resolution for the outright repeal | of the 10 per cent reduction order, and indications today were that a vote | | may come first on the clear-cut issue | of sustaining or reversing the reduc- tion order. Seeks Reconsideration. Senator Oddie today received a state- ment from W. O. Woods, Treasurer of | the United States, explaining that a | 10 per cent cut would necessitate dis- charging 74 employes and would seri- ously handicap the office. Testimony has also developed that many postal employes would have to be dismissed if the 10 per cent cut proposal is adopted. Senator McKellar, Democrat, of Ten- nessee, who originated the proposal for a 10 per cent cut in all appropriations, | has been taking issue with this and similar cleims, and arguing that in the | case of the Post Office Department the | reduction could be made in mail carry- ing contracts instead of by reducing | personnel. | | Situation Outlined. Briefly, the situation regarding the appropriation bills is this: The Agri- cultural bill passed both the House and Senate before the agitation for a 10 per cent cut below House figures be- gan, but the conference report on the Agricultural ofll is still awaiting action. ‘T e Senate then Inaugurated the 10 | per cent reduction rule on the Interior, State, Justice, Commerce and Labor ap- propriations. The House accepted the | Senate’s action on the Interior bill, and 1 it has been signed by the President. The State, Justice, Commerce and Labor funds, all carried in one bill, are await- | ing House action on the Senate reduc- tions. The omnibus economy bill, seeking further Government retrenchments in various directions, including the 11 per cent pay cut in Government salaries with an exemption of $2,500, is in- corporated in the legislative appropria- tion bll. It will be considered, there- fore, by the Legislative Subcommittee of the Scnate Appropriations Committee, of which Senator Jones, Republican, of Washington, is chairman. Other Sena- tors on this subcommittee are Smoot, Republican, of Utah; Hale, Republican, of Maine; Oddie, Republican, of Nevada; Steiwer, Republican, of Oregon; Dale, Republican, of Vermont: Davis, Repub- lican, of Pennsylvania; Broussard, Democrat, of Louisiana; Bratton, Demo- | crat, of New Mexico; McKellar, Demo- | crat, of Tennessee; Morrison, Democrat, | of North Carolina; Thomas, Democrat, of Oklshoma, and Byrns, Democrat, of South Carolina. “AQUARIUM” SPEAKEASY IN NEW YORK IS RAIDED | | “Goldfish Bar,” Worth $25,000, Is | Dismantled, Quantity of Liquor Seized. By the Associated Press. | 'NEW YORK, May 5—Federal agents | today dismantled & speakeasy in West Fifty-Second street known as “The Aquarium” because its bar was a glass |tank filled with goldfish and other | under-water fauna. A score of patrons | were permitted to leave, two employes | were arrested and a quantity of liquor | was seized. The furnishings were val- ued by the Federal men at $25,000. = . | Radio Singer, 94, Dies. TROY, N. Y, May 5 ().—Calvin | Dater, 94, who until a few days ago broadcast programs of old-time ballads | from a Troy radio station, died today. 'SCULPTOR SNORT By the Associated Press. Gutzon Borglum, sculptor of Phil Sheridan a-gallop, today said wrathful things about Joseph Hergesheimer's re- cent book, which terms the general's famous Civil War ride a mere walk. “He's crazy,” said the carver of mountains. “There's no particle of truth in any discount of the drama of that ride. But it's very fashionable among authors to discredit well known events in the lives of great men.” A brilliant bronze of Sheridan, done by Borglum years ago, stands in Sheri- dan Circle, fashionable Massachu- SHERIDAN'’S “RIDE” WAS WALK Borglum Declares Action Statue Here Is Correct and Flays Hergesheimer. S AT CLAIM battle of Cedar Creek on October 19, 1864. Sheridan’'s son, then aide to President Roosevelt, posed for it. The general's widow looks down on that | statue from her window. | By Hergesheimer’s version the statue is historically wrong; the ride itself was | ot minor importance and executed at & walk, with many halts. The famous Sheridan quotation, “We sleep in our tents tonight, or we sleep in hell!” also | is dénied by the writer. Borglum insisted that while executing the statue he had at his elbow an eye- TAXBILL SHORTAGE AT 100 MILLIONS Senate Committee Called Back to Hunt New Reve- nue Sources. IN RATES RIDICULED Even Higher Increases in Income Tax Suggested After Survey of Legislation. By the Associated Pres: The revised revenue bill today was declared $100,600,000 short of the goal of balancing the budget by Chairman Smoot of the Senate Finance Commit- tee and the committe was called back to look for new taxes. Smoot made his estimate after the committee had applied the brakes to further reversals in rates and had set- tled back to learn from the Treasury .Just what the bill did. Income Tax Boost Seen. He pointed to even higher increases in the income taxes 2s one way of finding the additional $100,000,000 which appeared to be necessary after the first survey of the - s Y rewritten legis Undersecretary of the Treasury Bal- lantine emerged from the executive session of the committee cautious about making an estimate, but he intimated more revenue would have to be found. He agreed the Senate Committee biil raised about a biilion dollars, rac- tically the amount provided by the House, but said even more money was ; required. At the outset of today's session. the committee put an end to its mer {round on the tax bill, laughed further proposals for reversals of pre: ous decisions and prepared to report out the measure. Then, with the bill apparently fin- ished, the committee listened to an ex- planation from Ballantine of what the bill would yield in revenue. Sponsors Lacking. ‘The bill was in such npe that no one apparently sponsored or favored it. Senator Walsh, Democrat, of Mas- sachusetts, summed up the situation, saying: “Action forced the tariff coali- tion to assume respcnsibility for the measure. “There is some heavy politics going on now,” he said. “No one wants to be blamed for the tax-increasing legisla- tion. Every ope wants to see it enacted. “There are three groups of thcught in the committee and in the Senate. “First, those who think the revenue necessary to balance the budget, in ad- dition to income taxes, corporate taxes and gift and estate taxes, should come from a widespread distribution of so- called nuisance, admission and luxury taxes. “Second, those who favor instead of nuisance and luxury taxes a manu- facturers sales tax, and third, those who support a combination of tariff duties and luxury taxes.” Leadership Needed. “It is becoming apparent that = situation may arise where no tax bill may pass the Senate unless one of these groups assumes leadership,” Walsh said. “Up to the present time the leadership has been directed by those who sought to draft the bill along the lines of the House bill, which made up the balance of the deficit through nuisance and luxury taxes. “The action of the Senate Finance Committee in including tariff duties has shifted the leadership from the first group to the so-called tariff group. “It looks to me now as if the fate of the bill depends upon shaping the bill by the tariff protectionist group and that they will have to pick up the nec- essary votes and assume the leadership.” Tariff Levies Restored. The committee yesterday put back into the measure four tariff levies and reversed its decision on a sizable list of other items. Then the bill was turned over to Treasury experts for re- figuring, Earlier at yesterday's session the committee had voted to make all the excise taxes permanent The tariffs written into the bill cov- ered lumber, copper, coal and oil. Cop- per imports will be taxed 4 cents a pound: lumber, $3 a thousand feet; oil, one-half cent a gallon, with propor- tionate levies on refined and by-prod- ucts, while the coal tax was set at $2. The other changes included elimina- tion of the jewelry tax; restoration of an extra 1% per cent on consolidated corporation returns; reductions in the rates on grape concentrates, grape juice, fountain sirups and ofl pipe line faxes, and extension of a 2-cent tax to all bank checks. ‘The ofl duty was cut down from the 1 cent a gallon provided by the House to !, cent. The coal tax provided by the House was retained, 11 to 8. Senator La Follette of Wisconsin, Re- publican independent, voted against all the tmport duties. Senator Connally, Democrat, of Texas, voted for all. Senator Reed last night estimated the Senate bill now provides $300,000,- 000 less than the billion dollars carried by the House measure. This estimate was disputed. GERMAN PARTIES KEEP CONTROL OF MEMELLAND Big Vote Defeats Lithuanian Forces in Election Closely Watch- ed by Larger Nations. By the Associated Press. MEMEI, Memelland, May 5.—The German parties won yesterday's elec- tions in this little country, whose bit- ter racial controversies have wide rami- fications in the politics of Europe. The combined Lithuanian parties se- cured only five seats. Conflict between the German and Lithuanian elements became an inter- witness of the ride, the late Col. Whit- man. “I am very careful to ascertain the truth about the men whose monuments I build,” snorted the sculptor, natioal issue last February when Otto Boettcher, German President of the for~ mer Diet, was by the Lithue anian ernor on a charge of e ing with® s foreign country-