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1S KGNS HONT BILSGVEN NEAS Hunt Turns to Carolina as Visit to Home Here Is Fruitless. (Continued From Pirst Page.) ducting _investigations th Carolina, where Means during a rendezvous which he claimed {0 have had with the diknapers, and in El Paso, Tex, where he met Mrs L 7 in a further purported attempt in the baby ral officers were interested par- ticularly in a report that Means stopped at an El Paso hstel in which a man Fleischer, fugitive of the Detroit s wife ad- Mrs. money, nor bers of the $50 age handed night, in the J. Means b; X presence of Fathe Catholic priest, ar At Means' in: with widely varying serial “Tip-Off" Saves Jewels. Less hope is had for rest the $4.000 addition: Me- n penses McLean s s her jewel hanks to a timely “tip-off whi prevented her from going through with an agreement to pawn the jewelry for $35,000 with which to “reimburse the kidnapers” for their inability to dispose of the $50,000 in recorded currency given them by Col. Lindbergh. She had even gone so far as to wrap 8 glittering array of jewelry in a bun- dle, preparatory to pawning it, when Ter suspicions led her to drop the whole plan and call on Means for return of the $100,000. In order to obtain the $100,000, it is reported, Mrs. McLean put up one of 4 her properties as security with a local ! bank. YACHT CONTINUES SEARCH. Lindbergh Party Believed to Have Set Monday Deadline. NORFOLK, Va., May 7 (#)—Another week end, the ninth since his negotia- tions were started, today found John Hughes Curtis prepared for still an- other cruise out to sea in an effort to bring about the return of the Lindbergh baby from kidnapers. The yacht Marcon left and returned vesterday on a trip through the Vir- ginia Capes. The yacht was at sea about four or five hours. The weather, which has interfered with their work on other trips, was said to be good for sailing maneuvers yes- terday. Results of each cruise are kept guarded by members of the party The Very Rev. H. Dobson-Peacock, . associated with Curtis and Rear Admiral ‘Guy H. Burrage, retired, as the inter- mediaries, said “it may be so” when asked if Monday or some near day has been decided upon as a final date. The Ledger-Dispatch said it learned that next Monday has been set as a dead- Jine. The paper said notice to that effect has been served on the “go-be- tweens.” The alternative, the paper added, will be to throw the fuil police power of the Federal Government and various States into the breach. With guards helping to conceal their movements at the naval base and with only the sea apparently sharing their secret while away, the yacht party is tirelessly leaving and refurning on re- peated trips by water. For the most part_members of the group. which is Teported to include Col. Lindbergh, re- main at the naval base between trips in readiness to make still other cruises. Lieut. George L. Richard of the Naval Air Station and Edwin B. Bruce of El- mira, N. Y., are also actively engaged in the maneuvers, while Capt. Kenneth ‘Whiting, in command of the air station, is known to be co-operating. SEARCH AIDE “DISAPPEARS.” Col. Breckenridge Pays Mysterious Air Trip to Pitisburgh. PITTSBURGH, May 17 (#.—Col. Henry S. Breckenridge, aide to Col. Charles A. Lindbergh in the search for his kidnaped son, “disappeared” in downtown Pittsburgh last night a half hour after he arrived. Col, Breckenridge landed at the County Airport in a plane piloted by Maj. T. J. Lanphier. Breckenridge, who gave his name as “Mr. Brown,” hired an automobile and sped to the dowrtewn district Police Supt. Peter P. Walsh, who par- ticipated in the police chiefs' conference in New Jersey and sald there he be- lieved he could establish valuahle con- tacts in the kidnaping case, also could not be located. Efforts to learn whether Brecken- ridge had come to confer with Walsh were met with the statement that “Mr. ‘Walsh will not be home this evening.” COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 7 (#).—Maj. T. J. Lanphier brought his plane down here last night after a flight from urgh. He denied Col. Henry . ckenridge, aide to Col. Charles A. Lindbergh in the search for his son, was a passenger when the plane landed at Pittsburgh. MISS DANIEL MARRIES U. S. CONSUL AT ST. JOHN Richard P. Butrick, Graduate Georgetown University and D. C. Girl United. By the Assoclated Press ST. JOHN, New Brunswick, May Miss Gretchen Alice Daniel of Wash- ed in Trinity Richard Porter consul at St of day ited States to re April 1, was ate at Sha bride is a da larenice Danlel The bride 1 er, Mrs Cathedral graduate of Gi in Washington with W. Wallick of 4515 Butrick is a THREE OF KREUGER'S ASSOCIATES ARRESTED ng in Covering Up True Financial Affairs of Huge Enterprises Charged. By the Associated Press. STOCKHOLM. Sweden, May Three business associates of the late Ivar Kreuger were held in custody yes- terday after a court exzmination, at which prosecution counsel asserted that “many persons must have known of the Kreuger swindles." The three prisoners are Carl Lange, Sven Huldt and Victor Holm. They have been accused of assisting Mr. Kreuger in covering up the true finan- clal condition of his huge business enterprises. “They did not believe in Kreuger's business skill” said the ution ), “but in his skill {n in North andy visited | M- | ration of | Italy “Deeply Hurt” By British Ban on Language in Malta By the Associated Press. ROME, May 7.—In the presence of Premier Mussolini, Foreign Minister Dino Grandi yesterday voiced “the unanimous sentiment of a nation deeply hurt” by the British restrictions on the teach- ing of the Italian language in schools of Malta. Ttaly was unable to do any- thing. Signor Grandi said. be- cause it was a purely British af- fair. He made this declaration before the Chamber of Deputies. He expressed the hope Great Britain would reconsider Italy looks upon Malta as es- sentially Itallan. PRESIDENT DOUMER [ES DURING NIGHT Successor Will Be Named on Tuesday—Funeral to Be Held Thursday. ™ [ (Continued From First Page.) | Doumer came out of the coma and rec- | ognized his family. He made a pathetic effort to bid them farewell. but was un- able to speak and fell back, exhausted. A moment later he was dead. Body to Lie in State. The body was taken immediately to the palace. It was placed in the green salen, where it was to lie in state and where the French people would have their last opportunity to look upon the kindly, white-bearded face of the man who was one of France's most demo- cratic Presidents, and who rose from poverty, the son of a railway section boss, to become chief executive of the republic. The first to leave the hospital was Mme. Doumer. She was supported by her two daughters and was wringing her hands in anguish. The members of the cabinet followed the body as it was taken from the hospital to the palace. Premier Tardieu, upon whom the chief executive burden now falls, was ex- tremely pale. He showed the strain of his own recent illness. Two members of the cabinet were weeping openly. A crowd of about 200 was waiting outside the hospital in the early dawn In it were representatives of most of the foreign diplomatic delegations in France. M. Pietri announced that the President died from cerebral compli- cations, which set in rapidly after mid- night. The cabinet ministers remained at the palace while the body was being laid out and before they left Premier ‘Tardieu had called a meeting for 11:30 am. today. Session Delayed. Under the constitution the Senate and Chamber of Deputies should be sum- moned to elect a new President within 48 hours, but with the run-off election for members of Parliament to be held tomorrow, the emergency session was delayed to Tuesday. Albert Le Brun, president of the Sen- ate, was prominently mentioned as a possible successor of M. Doumer. He himself was suggested as a candidate for the presidency last year and he fol- lowed M. Doumer as President of the Senate, when the latter was finally chosen President of the republic. Morning newspapers which went to T'press too early to carry accounts of the President’s death printed editorials expressing an opinion that was heard frequently in popular discussions later, that the time had come for France to be less liberal in opening her frontiers to “cranks” who come here to commit ‘murders. Men and women wept openly in the streets as the word passed around that the venerable President had died dur- ing the night. M. Doumer's simple, democratic qualities made him,.to the French people, the personification of the highest virtues of family life and ideal citizenship. Assassin Was Bold. Various eyewitnesses of the shooting yesterday eed that the assassin, Dr. Paul Gorgolov, made no attempt to conceal his gun. They also told of the gayety of the opening of the book sale of the former soldier authors, which was transformed into a scene of horror by the tragedy. “All the authors were at the coun- ippe Giarardet, a writer, “assisted by a number of beautiful women wearing the latest Spring owns. The tragedy fell like a bolt of President Doumer, exactly | | hardly entered the first salon when the series of shots burst out like the cracking of a whip. “Dr. Gorgolov had shot the President right in the middle of the crowd, firing over and under the arms of the people who stood around him. “The athletic Claude Farrere, noted author, tried to save the President and was struck by a bullet himself. The President had fallen to the floor, which was running with blood. “The assassin was captured and dragged outside. There was neither panic nor tumult, only feminine shrieks. Everybody seemed crushed with horror. An attempt upon the life of a man so unanimously respected and revered for the dignity of his life and his devotion to his country seemed impossible. Governments Express Sympathy. “With tender precaution, as a soldier would be carried from a battlefield, the President was carried away. M. Dou- mer, who gave four sons for France duridg the war, had sacrificed also his own blood. By a cruel fate he was struck down in the midst of the former soldiers, among whom, at least, he might have thought himself thoroughly | secure.” | Messages of sympathy from many governments, including one from Presi. dent Hoover of the United States, poured in last night. They came from Chancellor Bruening and President Von | Hindenburg of Germany, from the Ital- ian Ambassador, who was instructed to express his government's official re- grets; fram Madrid, from London and from Pope Pius XI at Vatican City. Ambassador Walter E. Edge of the United States, accompanied by Norman Armour, counsellor of the American embassy, called at the presidential | palace at 10 am. to express the official | | condolences of the American Govern- ment. | After a wilting bombardment of ques- tioning, which lasted well into the night |and included much rough handling. | all police were able to get out of the assassin, Dr. Gorgulov, was that he illed the President so France might | declare war on Russia. Expelled From France. | “European states seemed favorable to Boishevism,” he finally declared, “so | | I decided to kill the President and cause France to declare war on Russia. I had }no accomplices. I carried another pistol {and a vial of ison in my pockets. |T planned to kill myself because I knew my life had been finished." He said he was born 37 years ago at | Braviscala, Russia, in the Caucusus, and was trained as a Cossack. He served with the Czar's army on the Austrian front during the World War, he said, end later studied medicine at Praguc, Czechoslovakia. It was gathered that | be had lived in several European cities, | including Parls, until 1931. He was | expelled “twice from France about that time for practicing medicine without a license. With his SBwiss wife he then went to Monaco where he organized what he called a party of “Russian Fascists and Anti-Monarchists.” He advocated what e onlled Green THE EVENING IFRENCH ELECTION | 5 S TOMORRON Run-off to Be Held Despite! Nation’s Sorrow in Death of President. By the Associated Press PARIS, May 7.—France will hold its | runvoff election to choose a new Parlia- | ment tomorrow in silence and in sorrow. | | The death of President Paul Doumer, | venerable head of the republic, has | stilled all political differences, even | though today was the eve of the crit- &f-l second ballot of the general elec- tions. i | At the first word of the attack on | the Tresident the political parties and | the groups declared an unofficial truce. | Meetings were abandoned. Important speeches were merely handed in notes to the press. Today's papers contained little about the political campaign that has been waged in every department of France for weeks. Government Blamed. Royalist on the Right and Communist on the Left alike jolned in detestation ! of the crime. The extreme Left, in- . stanced by the Communist organ L'Humanite, seized on the assassin's, declaration that he was a Russian Fascist to charge that the French gov- ernment was responsible by “protec- tion” of white Russians in Paris. where there is a large colony of them. “For our part,” Leon Blum, head of the important Socialist party, in his cwn Populaire, “we should be ashamed to abuse the declarations of a madman to stir up public opinion against the White Russians in Paris, whose military organizations enjoy so strange a tolerance. For it is once more & question of cne of those madmen without a straitjacket whose menace prowls around the heads of all states and surprises even police precautions.” What effect the assassination will have on the results of the second ballot tomorrow no one will know till the returns come in. Out of 615 seats in the Chamber, 361 are still to be filled Yet in his death Paul Doumer may have done more to still party differences in a time of world crisis than he was able 1o do even in life. Sought Moderate Union. Doumer’s simple and unassuming | was endeared him to Frenchmen and French women in every degree. In the | last cabinet crisis, when Premier Tar- | dieu succeeded Pierre Laval, he sought to secure tor France a stable govern- ment which would unite the moderate | forces. “A succession has been opened,” comments Le Journal, “in the middle of | grave external conjunctures and in the full tide of internal battle. Already the political chiefs have declared a truce. If, as one great dramatist said, there is some good in even the worst things, if misfortune brings together in common affiiction the men who are tearing each other to pieces—may not Paul Doumer once more have served France in reconciling her children?” The cabinet met today with Premier | Tardieu to discuss the whole situation, as well as to arrange funeral details. . Lectures on Christian Science. A lecture on “Christian Sclence: The Revelation of Real Manhood" was delivered last evening in Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist, by Paul Stark Seeley, C. S. B, of Portland, Oreg. He was introduced by Mrs. Mary Bertha Marschalk, second reader of Fourth Church. STAR, WASHINGTO (From the 5:30 Edition of Yesterday's Star.) Scene, taken from an adjoining pier, showing pler 54, on the North River, New York, at the height of a terrific blaze that gutted the structure today despite the concentration of fire apparatus brought ou fireboat, one of three which answered the fire calls, is shown as it concentrated its str (Story on First Page.) N, B. € RDAY, Compromise Tax Bill Estimate of Revenue It Will Raise Is $1,010,000,000, With $1,241,000,00 0 Needed to Balance Budget in 1933. By the Associated Press. ERE is the compromise tax bill and the estimates of revenue it will yield. Income taxes Normal tax, 3, 6 and 9 per cent—surtax maximum 45 per cent, $155,000,000. Corporation, 14 per cent (no exem- tions), $52.000.000. Administrative $80,- 00,000. ¢ Estate and gift taxes, $5,000,000. Excise taxes Lubricating oil, 4 c 000,000. Chewing gum, 3 per cent, $3,000.000. Automobiles, trucks and accessories, 4, 3, and 2 per cent, $73,000,000. Brewers' wort, 15 cents a gallon: malt sirup, 3 cents a pound; grape concentrates, 20 cents a gallon, $97.- 000.000. i Radios and phonographs, 5 per cent, $11,000,000. Miscellaneous taxes Telephone and telegraph messages. 5 per cent on all telegrams; 10 per cent on telephone messages of 50 cents to $1, 15 cents $1 to $2, 20 cents over $2; amendments, a gallon, $35,- 15 per cent on leased wires; 10 cents per cablegram, $23,000,000. Admissions, 10 per cent on all tickets above 10 cents, $110,000,000 Oil pipe lines, 3 per cent of transpor- tation charge, $6,000,000. Stock transfers, 4 cents $22,000,000. Bond transfe £00,000. Stock and bond issues, 10 cents per $100, $8,000.000. per share 4 cents a $100, $5,- bove $100, $10.000,00 Bank checks and drafts, 2 cents each, £95,000,000. | Importtaxes | Crude rubber, 5 cents a pound, $53.- | 000 3 | o 000,060 Postal increase: | ‘One cent increase in first-class post- age; 1922 rates on second-class postage and other minor changes, $160,000,000. Total, $1.010,000,000. Anticipated budget saving, $231,000,- 000. Needed to balance budget vear, 1933, $1.241,000,000 |a coal, copper and lumber, $6,- in fiseal HOOVER OBTAINS RESULTS IN DRIVE FOR ECONOMY PLAN (Continued From First Page) means of saving Russia from the Bol- sheviks. This was to secure control of the country for the peasants. “I am a great Russian patriot,” he| said. “I know you will kill me, but my duty was to do what I did.” President Doumer will be buried| ‘Thursday with full national honors, the cabinet decided. Edge Expresses Sympathy. In addition to his call at the presi- dential palace, United States Ambas- sador Edge sent the communication to M. Tardieu, who is virtual head of the state until a successor to the President is elected, saying the United States Government learned of the President’s death with the greatest distress and he was instructed to convey to the government and people of France “the profound grief and sorrow of the Gov- ernment and people of the United States.” “President Doumer has to a singular degree exemplified for the American | people the finest ideals of the Prench race.” the Ambassador added. “His heroic sacrifices during the war and his devotion to the highest interests of the state commanded our profound ad- | miration. “He had shown himself invariably. | through his long years of public serv- {ice, a warm and close friend of my | country.” The Ambassador concluded with a request that the condolences and sym- pathy of the American Government be conveyed to Mme. Doumer. Nations throughout the world joined France in mourning her loss. Belgium declared an official period of eight days' mourning. Poland set her flags at_half staff and decided to send an official delegate to tne funeral. In London the King canceled a theater engagement and similar marks of re- spect came from other countries Claude Farrere, the author, who was wounded in trying to protect President Doumer, passed a bad night at Beaujon Hospital, but will recover. The surgeons had not yet removed the bullet in his shoulder. ASSASSIN IS UN | OWN. Moscow Publishes Story of Doumer's Death Without Comment. MOSCOW, May 7 (#).—Today’s news- papers published without comment dis- patches from Paris telling of the as- sassination of President Doumer No one could be found here who knew Paul Gorgolov, the aseassin, or the “Russian Pascists” the anti- bolshevik organization which Gorgolov said he headed. ‘The sorrow of France at the death of President Paul Doumer found a bond of sympathy today in official circles here { Although the beloved “pere” of| France was less well known personally | in the capital than some other recent French leaders, the news of his assas- sination stirred officials deeply and, throughout yesterday and last nighe leaders of this government inquired continually of his condition. President Hoover, who sent a message of sympathy to President Doumer im- mediately after hearing of the attack, kept informed of reports from the Paris hospital and today will express the condolences of the people of this country to the sorrowing populace of the French Republic. Senator Watson of Indiana, the Re- publican leader, announced he would introduce Monday, when the Senate convenes, a resolution expressing the sympathy of that body. POISON FOUND IN HOME. MONTE CARLO, May 7 (®.—A deadly poiscn in sufficlent quantity to wipe out the whole population of Monaco was found by the police today in a search of the apartment which was the home of Paul Gorgolov, the man who killed President Doumer. The assassin's wife was arrested last ht, but after hours of desk. Nodding toward it a correspond- ent asked, referring also to his special message of vesterday “A message a day, Mr. President?” “Yes, and they are getting better and better.” the President replied jokingly, before losing his smile. Meanwhile, the special House Econ- omy Committee was to meet this after- | noon to discuss prospects of new re- trenchment recommendations which could be made effective beginning July 1. Backs Joint Conference. Chairman McDuffie, before the meet. ing, expressed accord with suggestions advanced by Senate leaders that mem bers of the House be invited to a joint conference on economy. “I will welcome any suggestion that means economy to the taxpayers in times like this no matter whom the | cheng it said. Japanese airplanes from | suggestion may come from,” McDuffie said. | This Jent weight to the idea that if | a joint conference can be arranged a program of economy might be decided upon on which the House and Senate might take concurrent action as an emergency measure to be effective on all appropriations available beginning the first of the fiscal year. | In definite fashion, the Senate Ap- | propriations Committee has set itself | to begin work Monday on a pile of ap- propriation bills sent over by the | House, all of them to be cut and passed within the next five or six weeks. With them will be considered the House economy bill, an anemic wreck now, but facing restoring treatment, that plans at least widening and mak- ing effective the power to be given the President for reorganizing Government agencies. Provision also is to be made to allow a limited interchange of appro- priaticns among branches of each de- partment. Upon these two points the President pins most hope of achieving economy without great inefficiency and injustice, New Pay-Cut Bill Offered. While the President’s appeal was go- ing out to the Nation, Senator Connally, Democrat, of Texas, was introducing & | new pay-reduction’ bill affecting all salaries upward of $1,500 in both civil- ian and non-civilian branches of the Government. The schedule proposed follows: Sal- aries from $1,500 to $5,000, a 10 per cent cut; from $5,000 to $8,000, 15 per cent: from $8,000 to $10,000, 20 per cent, and $10,000 or more, 25 per cent. This would reduce members of the House and Senate from $10,000 to $7,500. The bill weuld apply for one year only. Senator Connally previously ha troduced a bill which did not reach as low as yesterday's measure. Putnam Brooch Stolen. HOLLYWOOD, Calif, May 7 (#).— Nina Wilcox Putnam, the author, told police yesterday that a brooch, valued at $600, had been stolen from her. Cameraman Misses Picture of Shooting To Defend Doumer By the Assoclated Press. PARIS, May 7.—Louis Piston, gray-bearded dean of Paris news photographers, missed the picture of a lifetime yesterday, but he was being heaped with honor for it today. The veteran cameraman, a per- sonal friend of the late Presi- dent Doumer, was right next to him when the assassin ,began shooting yesterday. He might have had a picture of the shoot- ing itself, but instead he smashed the assassin with his camera and stunned the man, enabling others to overpower him, Piston was on the job at the Elysee Palace today, but "l:lm and again he was interrupted by cabinet ministers, high officials and others who stopped to eon- gratulate him. | tCopyrignt, APANESE LAUNCH MANCHURIN DRIE Airplanes and Infantry Open General Atack on Rebel Forces. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, May 7.—A dispatch to the | Rengo News Agency from Harbin, Man- churia, today said Gen. Nakamura's Japanese brigade disembarked 10 miles west of Fangcheng today and opened a | general attack on the rebel forces under Generals Ting Chao and Li Tu. ‘The rebels were entrenched in Fang- Harbin were co-operating in the attack ‘The navy department meanwhile ordered the special service ship Notoro and four destroyers to return to Japan from Shanghal. KOO LEAVES FOR KIRIN. CHANGCHUN, Manchuria, May 7 (#).—The new Manchurian government has withdrawn its warrant for the ar- rest of Dr. Wellington Koo, Chinese as- sessor with the League of Nations In- tigating Commission, on the under- standing he and his five associates would refrain from political activities. When the commission left for Kirin, Dr. Koo went along. STATE LIKENED TO U. s 1933, by the Associated CHANGCHUN Manchuri Henry Pu-Yi likens the young state of Manchoukuo to the United States Press.) |in its infancy. The last of the famous Manchus, recalling America’s struggle for inde- pendence, said the overthrow of Brit- ish rule was not accomplished over- night. He foresaw & long struggle ahead, but a successful one to accom- rlhh a separate entity for Manchuria n the family of nations. He declared the war lord, Chang Hsiao-Liang, who ruled Manchuria be- fore him, “knows that the government he gave the people was unfair; that they were greatly overtaxed, and had little or no freedom 'RELEASING OF FALL AWAITED BY FAMILY Wife and Two Daughters in Santa Fe Hoping for Freedom Tomorrow. By the Associated Press. SANTA FE, N. Mex, May 7—Al members of Albert B. Fall's family were here today in anticipation of his possible release from the New Mexico State Penitentiary tomorrow. Convicted of taking a bribe in con- nection with leasing the naval oil re- serves and sentenced to one year and a day, with time off for good behavior, Fall will have completed his prison term Sunday. Warden Ed Swope of the penitentiary contends Fall must take a pauper’s oath and serve 30 days more or pay $100,000 fine, which was imposed as a part of his sentence. Washington officials said Fall should be rel 3 Mrs, Jouett Elliott, Fall's daughter, has been in Santa Fe since Fall was committed to prison July 20 last year. Mrs. Fall and Mrs. C. C. Chase, his other daughter, joined her last night, coming from El Paso. Mrs, Fall has been conducting a restaurant there. ‘Warden Swope said he had received no orders from Washington concerning Fall's release. He said he would con- tial pardon or parole g ice en Telease, Conveyances, 50 cents per $500 value MAY 17, by more than four alarms. A ms of water on the burning pier. —A. P. Photo. SENATE AWAITING - TAX CONPROMISE |Finance Committee Ready to Present Report Early [ in Week. | With the door closed to all further rate changes, the Senate Pinance Com- mittee is prepared to report to the Sen- | ate early next revenue bill which it made over yes- terday in the record period of one hour. After hearing Secretary of the Treas- ury Mills assail the measure as pre- viously written, the committee quickly | rewrote a brand-new biliton-dollar bill, | patterned to meet confiicting views and | to balance the budget. Compromises | were made here and there to readjust a schedule of rates that had been written and rewritten many times in two weeks of turbulent sessions. Due Tuesday or Wednesday. The bill probably will be reported | Tuesday or Wednesday. Expeditious action is anticipated in the Senate. | Both Democratic and Republican lead- | ers joined in supporting the measure, | which also got informal approval from Secretary Mills. The vote for the new program in the committee was 13 to 4. Even the controversy over the sales tax has been laid aside by a gentle- | men's agreement to speed the compro- mise measure. Senator Reed, Republican, of Penn- sylvania, a_staunch advocate of the controversial sales lévy, entered an agreement in the committee yesterday with the foes of the sales tax not to | press for this substitute if the compro- | mise plan were accepted. It was a move solely in the interest of ending the series of committee reversals on rates. Reed agreed that he would not per- sonally cffer the sales tax on the Senate floor, but he reserved the right to talk for and vote for the sales levy if it were offered. | Income Taxes Modified. | In the compromise measure, income taxes were modified from their high | level of Thursday; “punitive business | taxes” were eliminated or changed; & dozen “puisance” taxes in the House bill were killed, and the July 1, 1934, limit on the life of the new excise rates and postal increases was restored. To offset the losses from the income |and nuisance taxes, the committee added a 5 cents a pound levy on rub- ber imports; cut down the exemption from the 10 per cent admission tax to include 10 cent tickets, and hiked | up_farther the automobile rates. | | "The tour tariff ftems—oil, coal, cop- | per and lumber—were left in the bill, | but were not included in the compro- mise program. | The bill's yleld is estimated at $1.-| 004,000,000 exclusive of the tariff items. -— WIMBLEY GETS LIFE, CROWDER 30 YEARS Pair Sentenced for Second-Degree Murder in Death of Former's Wife. (From the 5:30 Edition of Yesterday's Star) District Supreme Court Justice James M. Proctor this afternoon sentenced | Harry C. Wimbley to life imprisonment | and John M. Crowder to 30 years for | the murder of Wimbley's wife in_the | Chesapeake & Ohio Canal last Sep-| | tember 17. Wimbley, formgr Baltimore prohibi- | tion informer, and Crowder, a native of St. George Island, Md. were con- victed last week of second-degree mur- der in connection with the drowning of Mrs. Wimbley. | Asked if he had anything to say be- fore sentence was passed, Wimbley said: “I don't think I got a. fair and im- | partial trial and was not guilty of the | erime, so have nothing to say.” | In sentencing Crowder, Justice Proc- | tor said he was in “a little different | position and there was some distinction to_be made.” Defense Counsel Louis L. Whitestone and Cedric Johnson noted an appeai. |ANN HA;’(DWG EXPECTED TO GET DIVORCE TODAY | Cruelty Charge Followed State- ment Actress’ Fame Had Over- shadowed Bannister's Career. By the Assoctated Press. RENO, Nev, May 7.—Into court, out ain and back to Hollywood by air- plane with a divorce from Harry Ban- nister was the announced program of Ann Harding, motion picture actress, here today. . Hearing of the suit she filed yester- day, after flying from Hollywood, was scheduled for 10 am. It was filed after Miss Harding embraced her hus- band at the airport. Her quick trip to Reno was made | possible by Bannister who resided here the six weeks required by law. He ar- rived shortly after both announced they planned divorce because her fame had overshadowed his career. In her complaint, the blonde actress charged cruelty. The court was asked wl lv‘pruve :1’:1 agreement Jror custody of & 4-year-old daughter, Jane. They were married in New York City 31, 1926, week the compromise | - KIDNAPED YOUTH RETURNS T0 HOME Parents of Gustav Miller De- clare $50,000 Ransom Was Not Paid. By the Associated Press. JOLIET, Ill, May 7.—Gu Miller, 22, kidnaped April 20 and held for a | reported $50,000 ranson, returned home | this morning and his wealthy parents declared not a cent was paid his ab- ductors. | His mother, Mrs. Fannie Miller. and his brother, Martin, met him at the Deer Park entrance of the Starved Rock State Park, about miles | southwest of Joliet, and ve him | home after a note from the abductors notified them where he could be found. Kidnaped Near Home. | Gustav, who was abducted as he was | leaving the home of Miss Katherine | Mesirow, his fiancee, just two blocks { from his own home, 'said he was kept handcuffed in the basement of a house within three or four hours' drive from | Joliet, but was very well treated. | " His release culminated a relentless | search carried on by his father, a weal- | thy wholesale grocer, independently of the Jollet police, whose proffers of as- sistance he Spurnci. Mysterious tele- | phone calls came to the Miller home | from the haunts of the “42” ging in | Chicago and other localities. Anonymous Call. Yesterday, Martin M anonymous call from C ing him to go to a ce: dress which he was told not to dis- close. There a note awaited him with | further instructions to meet brother at the State park. The first ransom demand made by the kindnapers shortly after the abduction was reported to be $50,000. Eventually it was reported, the kindnapers came down to $10,000 and the family agreed to pay $7.500, but its members were emphatic today that nothing had been paid. received an nstruct- TELLS KIDNAP TALE. Student Returns to Lead Prom With Abduction Story. MINNEAPOLIS, May 7 senior prom, chief social ev | University of Minnesota, went on last night without a grand march and with- out its traditional leader But it wasn't because Richard Mo- rean, copresident of the senior class, who was to have led the march, didn't show up. He did, appearing just before midnight at the ball room in St. Paul with a tale of having been kidnaped Wednesday night by four men and taken to a cottage in Wisconsin. They released him last night and he took a bus to St. Paul Frank P. Nicoll, grandfather of Mo- rean, offered a reward of $500 for ap- prehension of the abductors. POSSES STILL SEARCH FOR MISSING YOUTH Report That Boy Was Seen in Mid- dleburg Is Found to Be False. Special Dispatch to The Star. FAIRFAX, Va, May 7.—Allan Gruver of Hyattsville, son of Mrs. Elizabeth Gruver, who was killed Thursday morn- ing in an auto accident on the Little River Pike, is still missing after 48 hours. A posse of more than 50 fire- men from Vienna and McLean and | volunteers yesteday searched the woods on both sides of the road for several miles A report that the youth had been seen at Middleburg was investigated by Sheriff E. P. Kirby and found to be false. Young Gruver was bleeding from cuts when last seen. HOUSE DESIGNATES DISTRICT DAY MONDAY Pending Measures of Controversial Nature Will Be Brought Up. Speaker Garner stated today Monday has been definitely designated for District day, on which pending bills of a controversial nature will be brought up. Chairman Norton of the District Committee expressed confidence that the so-called street railway merger bill will be passed. Play to Be Presented. ‘The Pierce Hull Players will present “Her Husband’s Wife” on the evenings of May 26 and 27 in Pierce Hall, Six- teenth and Harvard streets. The pla: ers include Fritz Firey, Jean Christie, Charles C. Gillman, Wilbur Betts, Ruth Gilber and Robert Hayes. James Rogers is business manager. Train Enters Town Blockaded by Snow For Three Months By the Associated Press. SILVERTON, Colo., May T three-month snow blockade was finally broken yesterday when a railroad train entered this little mountain mining town. For two weeks in February Sil- verton was isolated by 30-foot drifts. Then food was brought in by pack mules and sleds. The Denver & Rio Grande Western branch line between Durango and Silverton later was cleared up to & point 16 miles from Silverton, but it was not until yesterday that the entire line was reopened. his | that | HUGHES MAY NOT - BEBISHOP HERE Methodist Committee Ap- proves Resolution to Reduce Retirement Age. By the Associated Press. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, May T<A reduction in the retirement age for bishops, approved by the Episcopacy Committee of the Methodist Episcopal General Conference, provoked today a wave of speculation on Episcopal ers and left in doubt the gener- expected assignment of Bishop Ed- ughes of Chicago to Wash- Under present Methodist discipline, bishops are retired at the General Con- ference nearest their 73d birthday an- ersaries. The new resolution mak: reiirement mandatory at the quadren- 1 nearest the bishop's 70th birthday versary. The ruling, if accepted by the con- ference, is believed in _authoritative quarters to be a serious obstacle to the appointment of Bishop Hughes to the Washington Episcopate, considered the most important in Methodism. Bishop Hughes is not the only gen- eral superintendent whose future epis- copate the ruling leaves in question. It will, if adopted, necessitate the re- tirement of eight bishops in 1936 in- stead of the three who would retire under the present discipline. Bishops Herbert Welch, Pittsburgh: Thomas Nicholson, Detroit, and Fred- ck T. Keeney, Atlant are now scheduled to retire in 1936. To their number would be added the names of Bishops Hughes, Prederick D. Leete, Oklahoma; John W. Robinson, Delhi, India; Eben S. Johnson, petown, South Africa, and Matthew W. Clair, Covington, Ky. The passage of the new age discipline, | authoritative sources say, will probably mean that the Washington post will go | to one of the younger members of the | board of bishops. The name of Bishop | Francis J. McConnell of New York fig- | ured prominently in conference specu- ation. | The three bishops retiring under the present age limit at this conference are William F. McDowell of Washington, | Willilam F. Anderson of Boston and Charles Edward Locke of St. Paul. Acting Secretary of State William R. Castle in an address before the confer- ence described President Hoover's for- eign policy as one of support of “all sane progress in the ways of under- standing and peace " “The President, who can and must survey the whole ground, cannot cham- pion one method to the exclusion of others, but rather must and does sup- port all sane progress in the ways of understanding and peace,” he said. He described Mv. Hoover as.a sincere “lover of peace.” The administration disarmament policy he described as calling for reduction to a point where the Army is primarily for police pur- poses and only such defensive forces a permitted as would “make invasion difficult, if not impossible.” The conference called upon its mem- bers to raise a $1,000,000 fund for the support of the financially embarrassed Methodist program of missionary, edu- | cational and philanthrepic work. The million-dollar appeal is to be launched May 15 and continue until May 31. |GEN. CROWDER DIES AT HOSPITAL HER? AFTER BREAKDOWN (Contintted From Pirst Page.) | 12,000,000 men into the National Army. Earlier the decision of the United States to oversee the establishment of constitutional government in Cuba set | Crowder’s career on & course toward high diplomatic achievement. He | drafted personally many of the basic laws of that nation, and later beeame ithe first American Aml in Havana. Native of Missouri. Prom Edinburg, Mo., where he was born on April 11, 1859, Crowder was | appointed to the Military Academy at | West Point. He graduated in_June, | 1881, was commissioned a second lieu- | tenant of Cavalry and sent to duty on the Texas-Mexico border. He was sent from the border to his University of Missour! assignment. From the campus he went back to | fleld duty. This included scouting work in New Mexico and the Dakotas, where }!ndmm still were troublesome. | His bent for military law turned him toward the judicial aspects of the Army, and within 10 years after his graduation from West Point he was assigned as acting Hudgo advocate of the Depart- ment of the Platte with headquarters at Omaha. Thus began more than 30 | years' service in the Judge Advocate | General's Department. When the Spanish-American War | broke out in 1898 Crowder was sent as judge advocate to the 4th Army Corps | headquarters at Mobile, Ala. This outft | was scheduled for duty in Cuba, but | the decision on military occupation of the Philippine Islands sent Crowder, then a lieutenant colonel, to San Fran- cisco. There he was made judge advo- cate of the 8th Army Corps and sailed to the Philippines with that force. Served in Cuba. ‘Crowder then played an important role in the legal transfer of the Philip- pines from Spain to the United States, | For a time he was an associate justice of the islands' Supreme Court. In 1904 he was detached to serve as an observer for the United States with Japanese forces in the Russo-Japsnese conflict. Called back to the Atlantic division to become chief of staff in 1906, Crow- der was transferred to Cuba, where he supervised the Department of State and Justice under the provisional govern- ment headed by Gov. Gen. Wood. After an absence of nearly three years Crowder returned to the judge advocate general’s office, He was made chief of this department in 1911, and retained the title until he retired in 1923 to be- come Ambassador to Cuba. He resigned four years later because of LIl health, A Salvation Army band recently played in the courtyard of Buckingham | Palace, England. honest and ready Most to to earn rent and food dear ones. A bit of painting don jobs to be hired done, sands of others makes prosperity Washington. Stop Evictions! It's up to you to do it. As a rule persons are people will work bills. But they must have work to earn income. You can help those who are eager to work there, a basement whitewached, a garden dug up, a bit of sewing, oh, ever so many little The couple of dollars you spend that way when added to the few dollars spent by thou- and depression meet their obligations. hard to meet their and clothing for their ¢ here, a room papered would help immensely. the difference between in a city like Iy g TR e S s P g 5 0 et e