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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy and not quite so warm today and tomorrow, probably local thundershowers; gentle winds, mostly southeast and south. Temperatures— Highest, 91, at 3 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 60, at 5 a.m. yesterday. Full report on page 6. he WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION unday ar, “From Press to Homé Within the Ho The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday mofning to Washington homes by The Star’s exclusive carriér service, Phone National 5000 to start immediate delivery. Means Associated Press. — No. 1416—No. 32,149, Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. ( WASHIN GTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 8, 1932 —102 PAGES. = F HOOVER AND MILLS SPEED ECONOMY AT SURPRISE PARLEY WITH PARTY CHIEFS Shape “Further Methods of Co-operation” to Expedite Revenue Bill and Savings, | Says Treasury Secretary. “BIPARTISAN” PROGRAM MAPPED AT CONFERENCE Democrats Absent From White House Session of Senate Lead- ers—Adoption Tax Bill Cited as Type of Ac- tion Desired. (Copsrighted, 1932 by The Assoclated Press) President Hoover and Secretary Mills at a special conference with Republican senatorial leaders last night discussec further “methods of co-operation to bring about prompt enactment of the revenue bill and economy legislation.” The words are those of the Secretary of the Treasury, who was delegated spokesman as the group broke up after an hour and a half discussion embracing the legislative situation. Those who sat down with Mr. Hoover and Mr. Mills in the Lincoln study were Vice President and Senators Watson of Indiana, Smoot of Utah, Reed of Pennsylvania, Bingham of Con- necticut, Dickinson of Iowa— along with Walter H. Newton, the presidential secretary who deals especially with Capitol Hill. Avoid Political Matters. One after another of the conferees declared on leaving the White House that political matters had not entered into the deliberations. Secretary Mills, questioned as to the course of the co-operative endeavor, said it would lead “eventually” to bi- partisan co-operation toward the ends sought. He refrained from saying whether any specific conclusions had | been reached. | Secretary Mills cited the abrupt adoption of a compromise tax bill by the Senate Finance Committee Friday as the type of co-operation set as the oal. gAskl’d whether the President was pleased with that bill, he returned | Jovially, “well, 1 haven't lost my job et { It was practically a bill recommend- | ed by Mills at an executive session | that the Finance Committee approved | without ado after days of work on the | House tax bill in which it reversed itself repeatedly. Mills seemed to expect the bill to be reported to the Senate in a very short time. Lauds House Bonus Action. The Treasury chief also expressed ap- | proval of the manner in which the | ouse Ways and Means Committee | ned thumbs down on legislation to h the veterans' bonus. | at'’s a real committee,” he said. | ys was | “a member of the House from | fidentiy that “the Rules Committee isn't | that | hough declining to give detalls of | program that may have been agr upon, Mills hinted that the administr tion ‘expects the Senate to do_muct more in the way of slashing the Federal | outlays in the se of revamping the emasculated econ he Mills served on the President de- message portions of in the bill Economy bodied Special House of “Less (Cor PASSENGER FLIGHT 30,000,000 direct and | , Column 5.) d on Pa OVER SEA PLANNED : Pilot Expects to Carry Four in | First Commercial Transat- lantic Enterpr nnett 1 Harbor | lief pilot ed Alr Serv- hangar at plane fiying 3 of 100 miles per speed MINE PAY éUT DENIED Colorado Industrial Commission Upholds Present $6.72 Scale. DENVER, Mt A —The Colorado Industrial Commwissicn today denied the petition of Nc n Coloraco coal mine operators to cut the basic daily wage of miners from $6.72 to $5 ‘The operators claimed the reduction ) preparin of Compromise |} 'CITY HEADS PLAN FIGHT TO SAVE DISTRICT BILL Will Strive to Have Eliminated by House—Crippled Capital Tl (This is the first of a series of articles cn the District of Columbn appropriation bill for 1933. as from the House lo the Senatc. 1 it will soon be taken up for con ation.) ARTICLE NO. 1. ONFRONTED with appropriation in yea sult of severe cuts m: 3 estimates by the District Commission to wage a vigorous f ave the Senate rehabilitate t bled District appropriation bill egarded at the District B nece: th to ents the 12 months be- ning July 1 The House slashed the District ply bill to the proverbial bone. but a mere skeloton of Commissioners had once “a balanced the House tri from gne estimates items totaling mi lion# & dollars and turned out an ap in sup- enate Replace Items wreatened. | propriation bill calling for $39.913.810, which is $5.797.825 less than the amount | appropriated for the current fiscal year and $4.173,109 under the figure rec- ommended for 1933 by the Budget cau, rcely an item urged by the Com- missioners and the Budget Bureau es- aped a cut. No increases were allowed, and the eliminations included all new construction with the exception of about $1,500,000 for a start on several | school buildings and a new bridge over the Anacostia River at Benning road. In effect, the bill as it left the House would place the District on a main- tenance basis in 1933 and nothing else. Would Cut Lump Sum, These cuts were made in order to| reduce the Federal lump sum contribu- tion from $9,500.000 to $6,500,000. The £3.000.000 cut from the lump sum was transferred from a charge egainst the United States Treasury to @ chargs against the revenues of the District and thereby saddled on the local tax paver. In other words, the action of | (Cantinued on Page 3, Column 6.) BONUS SUPPORTERS LAUNGH MOVE FOR SUMHER SESSION {Issue Killed by Committee’s Action on Patman Bill, Says Rainey. Determined supporters of the cash bonus plan yesterday began a move- ment for a Summer session to keep the proposal from the legislative death ar- ranged by its opponents. “The bonus issue is dead this ses- sion,” Representative Rainey, the Democratic leader, told newspaper men yesterday after he filed a report which dug a grave for the $2,000,000,000 pay- ment to veterans. Signed by 13 members of the Ways and Means Committee, it recommended that the Patman bill for a $2,400,000,- 000 new money issue to redeem vet- erans’ certificates “do not pass.” Supporters Press Issue. That made it virtually certain that the bonus will not be taken up at this session if Congress quits before the conventions, but bonus sponsors re- plied “Henceforth the slogan will be, ‘A vote to adjourn is a vote against the bonus.” " In voting against the bonus members of the Ways and Means Committee re- affirmed an adverse ballot of 15 to 10 Friday, thereby taking the most drastic parliamentary course for strangling the legislation. 2 Only one faint hope remained fop'a House vote before the national political conventions in June—a decision by the owerful Rules Committee giving the ted bills a special legislaiive status. Representative Patman, Bemocrat, of Texas, said he would appeal to this committee, but Rainey predicted con- going to approve it.” Predicts Hoover Approval. Patman said the fight would con- th “renewed enthusiasm” and . would not surprise me if the Pregident changed his mind and in- dorsed the bill within the next 30 or 60 Purchasing power m reach sses of the peor st the m Ri emocra Democrat 5, and ™ who voted e special views reports also are expected The prog n seriously presented (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) PENSIONS AGAIN FACED Vetoed M(‘\:\:Pfi M;_;IWBV Mo on Secon ; ‘”H';‘.FV hflv“”’ mo sident Hoo Cor be asked te ions bil E The ne next week he bill Hoover r Caribbean. () —The na- ed tonight that of unknown alf of the was moving Storm Ove Justice Department Gets By the Assoctated Pres NTA FE, N. Mex,, M: Ed Swope of the New Mexico Peniten- | tiary 't a law , but he won his | point in & tilt ) the legal experts of { the Department of Justice over the re- | lease of Albert B. Fall. Orders are orders with Swope, as the department has learned, and when they are down In black and white, it takes more than the Attorney General of the United States to get a prisoner out of Swope’s custody unless the courts or the President say otherwise. ‘The ruddy-faced, heavy-set warden ‘was necessary in self-protection and the miners countered with the statement “hat the present wage scale is not ade- acate & balked at Attorney General Mitchell's anouncement that Fall. former Secrc- tarv of the Intorior. eanvieted of brik /| after being rated nicely all the way by | WARDEN WINS FALL ARGUMENT; LEGAL EXPERTS GO TO COURT Member of Cabinet. BURGOD NG W KENTUGKYDERBYTO PLAUDITS OF 40 Hearts of Bluegrass Thrilled { as He Gives Col. Bradley i Third Victory. BY ALAN GOULD, Associated Press Sports Editor. CHURCHILL DOWNS, Louisville, Ky, May 7—The thorpughbred son of a royally-bred sire, Burgoo King came | down the stretch today with a smash- | ing drive to capture the rich Kentucky | Derby, duplieate the victory of his | daddy, Bubbling Over, in 1926, and give | the hearts of the old Bluegrass their | |greatest thrill in many a Southern | moon. | Burgoo King whipped the best that the East had to offer in an unwield; field of 20 starters, whipped them all | soundly and gave his owner, Cob/Ed- | ward Riley Bradley, the master‘of Idle | Hour Farm of Lexington, i6nors 'that no turfman ever before ha$ gained. | An unexpectedly big €rowd of 40,000 ; roared its tribute to Bradley's third victory within a n years, a record | for all ne. tion to the con- quest of Bul g Over in 1926, the | Bradley entrf of Behave Yourself and | | Black Serfdnt ran one-two in 1921. | Bagenbaggage, another Bradley horse, ran gefond to Bubbling Over. ¢~ Taking full command in the stretch | | Jockey Eugene James, & former Louis- | ville newsboy, Burgoo King left little | | doubt he was the best of the 3 olds in this 58th running of America’s most colorful horse race. | The big chestnut son of Bubbling Over-Minawand finished 5 good lengths in front of his nearest Eastern rival, | Economic, owned by J. H. Locheim of | New York. | " Econcmic, after setting the pace for the first mile and then being unequal | to meeting Burgoo King's finish, saved the place by the margin of a head over | Stepenfetchit, main hope of the stable of Mrs. John Hay Whitney of New York, (Continued on First Sports Page.) CAPITAL WARMEST | GITY IN COUNTRY. Sets Record With 91 Degrees as Cooler Weather and Rains Are Forecast for Today. Washington was the warmest city in | the United States yesterday, the official | thermometer at the Weather Bureau ! registering a maximum temperature of | 91 degrees, the highest recorded thus| far this year. | Warm weather was general through- | out the country, however, and several cities—including Richmond, Va; Ra-| leigh, N. C.; Augusta, Ga., and Lynch- burg, Va.—were close behind the Capi- with maximum temperatures of 90, | he lowest temperature registered here | was 60, recorded between 5 and 6 am. The forecast for today and tomor- | row was “not quite so warm,” with gen- | tle southeast and south winds. Local | thundershowers were considered prob- le by Weather Bureau officials, who that if the rain did not material- | e, the sky would be partly cloudy. Order to Release Former! taking, would be released upon the ex- piration of his year-and-a-day sentence without complying with the terms of the commitment, which specified con- ?::Pmrnl until disposal of a $100,000 ine. Swope replied emphatically that Fall would remain in prison, notwithstand- ing the views of the Department of Jus- tice that its orders should be obeyed. On second thought, the department today obtained modification in the Dis- trict of Columbia Supreme Court of the commitment to permit Fall's release without payment of the fine or taking a pauper's oath and serving an extra “ Takes Command in Stretch. | | Canadian Officials | otk 30 days. | Warden Swope indicated he would |comply with the court order, but he took nothing for granted and sald he rould wait until he inspected the papers which are expected to arrive by airmail OUTSIDE CONGERNS FORBIDDEN T0 VOTE LOCAL GAS STOCK Commission Moves to End Control of Company Just Before Meeting. LONG STATEMENT MAKES STARTLING ACCUSATIONS Chase Bank Officials Charged With Delaying Rate Cut for Months, Just two days before the stockholders’ meeting of the W: ton Gas Light Co. the Public U Commission at noon yesterday issued a sweeping order to the owners of the majority of its stock to refrain from voting it. The stockholders’ meeting takes place tomorrow morning. This surprise move was intended to wrest the control of the local gas com- pany from the extraordinary ramifica- tion of corporations and trusts where it now lies, and to put 1t back into the reach of the commission’s control. Al- though an action toward this end was ordered last year, the form it took came unexpectedly. suit would be filed in equity court un- der the La Follette anti-mery<: act for- bidding ownership, control or voting of stock in local untilities by f. vy or holding corporat Under the present status, if the foreign corpora- tions wish to take the case to court, the shing- ies burden will be upon them of proving! that the facts found by the commission, upon which the order is based, . are untrue. / The commission found that control of the gas company Is now jn Ch Harris-Forbes Corporation of New Yo an affiliate of the Chase Nafional Bank, the Public Utility Holdifg Corporation of America, the Centigf Public Service | Central Public Co. of Delaware of Maryland: the Service Corporatioj Southern Cities Pablic Service Co.; the Westfield Trust: the Washington & Suburban Coggbanies, and others. Issi 14-page Statement. Preceding tne formal text of the ordergtompelling the corporations and trug® named to divest themselves of the stock and to refrain from Voting it e commission published a 14-page tatement of facts leading up to its nclusions as to where control of the company now rests. = The statement of facts contains startling charges as to the control exer- cised over the local company by iis foreign owners. Among them are that a reduction in the rates for gas, agreed upon by the local company, was de- Jayed for months because agents of Chase-Harris-Forbes Corporation re- fused to approve it; that the annual meeting of the stockholders of the company was delayed from January until May by the same persons A summary of the statement follows Early in 1929 Albert E. Peirce, presi- dent of the Central Public Service (Continued on Page 2, Column 8) TWO HURT IN NEW BLAST Link Locomo- tive Explosion With Others. ST. THOMAS, Ontario, May 7 (). Walter Willsie, fireman, and Thomas Howe, engineer, were injured seriously | today in an unexplained exglosion of the botler of a Michigan Central Rail- locomotive. The blast came while officials were investigating a series of bombings in the last 10 days. Joe Moczulski, 17 victim of an explosion Thursday night at the Catalano Fruit Warehouse at London, was buried there today. An- er bombing at Crowland caused the h of three men last Saturday. The train explosion occurred while the train was traveling about 40 miles an hour. The cars remained on the rails An attempt will be made to it with others in the province. TODAY’S § PART ONE—26 PAGES. General News—Local, Natiomal Foreign Schools and Colleges—Page B-4. PART TWO—S8 PAGES. Editorials and Editorial Features. Serial Story, “Tangled Lives'—Page 6 Army and Navy News—Page 6 Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 6. D A. R. Activities—Page 6. American Leglon—Page 7. Marine Corps News—Page 7. Organized Reserves—Page T. Disabled American Veterans—Page 7. Public Library—Page 8. PART THREE—12 PAGES. wa de link and | Society Section Women in Official Life—Page T. News of the Clubs—Page 8 Kathleen Norris' Article—Page 10. PART FOUR—8 PAG Amusement _Section—Stage, Music and Radio Music News—Page 3. In the Motor World—Page 4. Aviation—Page 4 W. C. T. U. Notes—Page 4. Spanish War Veterans—Page 4. Naval Reserves—Page 4. Y. W. C. A. News—Page 5. Y. M. C. A. News—Page 5 District National Guard—Page 5. Veterans of Forelgn Wars—Page 5. Radio—Page 6. Fraternities—Page T PART FIVE—4 PAGES. Sports Section. Screen 12 PAGES. Financlal News and Classified Adver- tising. PART SEV Magazine Section Notes of Art and Artists—Page 10. Reviews of New Books—Page 11. Crossword Puzzle—Page 13. The Boys' and Girls’ Page—Page 14. Highlights of History—Page 15. Those Were the Happy Days—Page 16 GRAPHIC SECTION—$ PAGES. World Events in Pictures. COLORED SECTION—8 PAGES. Keeping Up With the Joneses; Tarzan; Mr. and Mrs.; The Timid Soul: Moon Mullins; Reg-lar Fellers; Little Or- phan Annie, 'and Mytt and Jeff. —16 PAGES. annual | It had been expected & reign util- | .| to be a re < Se0 o AN ) N 3 Do~ - - ARE CHECKED BACK |Fetleral Agents Seek Kidnap- | ing Connections—Money | Search Vain. | Activities of Gaston B. Means at the | time of the Lindbergh kidnaping and | subsequent thereto are being investi- | Bated by Federal authorities, in connec- | tion with their efforts to recover $100.- {000 which Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean | paid Means as a ransom fund | "Means is said to have claimed | in touch with the kidnapers, th | he was in New York during part of the afsie” negotiations and that he s: ome of the $50,000 paid Col. Lind- bergh's agent Special agents of the United States Bureau of Investigation yesterday were conducting an intensive search in the | South for the “rough-looking,” heavily |armed man whom Means introduced as {cne of the kidnapers at a meeting with | Mrs. McLean in Aiken, S. C. Check El Paso Report. A check also was being made on a veport that Harry Fleischer. “Purple” {gangster, wanted for questioning in onnection with the Lindbergh abduc- tlon, occupied a rcom in the same hotel where Means was registered in El Paso, Tex. [Mrs. McLean went there to meet him on a promise that the baky would be delivered, she says. Meanwhile Government investigators were making a wide search for the $100,000 which Mrs. McLean asserts Means took from her in an allegedly | fake plan to secure return of the Lind- bergh child Means' Chevy Chase home was ran- | sacked Friday evening in a futile hu | for the money, and the quest yester- | day was extended to North and South Carolina—scene of some of the “ne- gotiations.” An inquiry of local banks vesterday | fatled to reveal any safety deposit | boxes registered in the name of Means, 1 Investigators are said to lean toward the belief that the money is buried | probably far from Washington. Ridi- | culing Means' story of having turned it over to * 11.” a man claiming esentative of Mrs ge that Means has s he | officials ch: the money. Boy-Ed Report Recalled. | _In this connection it was recalled | here yesterday that Means is reputed to have buried in Trinity Church yard New York City, $1000.000 entrusted {to him for hiding by Capt. Boy-Ed notorious German agent Authority to dig up portions of the {yard at the Means home, 112 Leland | street, Chevy Chase, Md.. may be sought | Over the protestations of Mrs. Means, agents of the Bureau of Investigation | ana also partly destroyed a small pla house which Means was building, sup- posedly for his son. Tne play ho aroused suspicion of the officers because much of the construction with his own hands. The building had barred win- | dows, | The agents located an ol | opened it, but it proved emp |in a trunk. Unable to open the steel {door of the safe, the officers sent for a safe expert, who also failed to open | it. due to its ancient manufacture. The agents then pried off the hinges, only to find the safe empty. Means insists he was in touch with the kidnapers. He appears to have dropped efforts to make bond of $100.- 000 prior Tuesday. He expects he will be in- dicted, pointing out the grand jury heard only cne side of the story Fri- day, when Mrs. McLean, her attorney, | Nelson T. Hartson, and her butler, Gustav Griffoni, testified. Means conferred at length yesterday in jail with his attorney, J. William Tomlinson. He is permitted to talk with no one but his attorney and his wife While the bond was fixed at $100,000, s each willing to stand for the entire amount. FOREIGN WHEAT PORTION IN FRENCH FLOUR IS CUT Percentage Is Reduced from 45 to 40 by Official Decree to Millers. By the Associated Press. PARIS, May 7.—The amount of for- elgn wheat Prench millers may use in mixing their flour has been reduced from 45 per cent to 40 per cent by an official decree. France previously had lightened re- strictions on the importation of foreign wheat, by revising upward the propor- tion permitted in French flour from an allowance of only 8 per cent early this year. The rew Cocree places the quota where it was April 1. ACTONS OF MRS | made a thorough search of the house the administ | planned to sail tomorrc United States Attorney Rover will re- | quire Means to produce four bondsmen, | AMBASSADOR DEBUCHL | MRS, MASSIE BALKS PROCESS ~ SERVERS Eludes Court Order to Stay for Assault Retrial—Ex- | pected to Sail Today. By the Assoclated Press. HONOLULU, May 7.—) Thalia Massie was sought unsuccessfully today by police, who held a subpoena demand- ing her presence May 25 at the retrial of four Hawaiians charged with assault- ing her. Mrs. Massie had planned to sail to- \land with her hus- mor band, Lieut. Tho her mother, Mrs. Grany Fail to Find Her. Two policemen, Dewey Mookini and Arthur Stagbar, took the subpoena to Pearl Harbor after the public prosecu- tor, John C. Kelley, had been assured naval authorities would permit its serv- The Navy Yard is a Government never saw the woman they city with the assurance of naval authori- tier that they would be notified as soon as Mrs. Massie could be found. Mookini and Stagbar said they went | first to the gate of the navy yvard to check their guns. Then they drove to jon building and paid their respects to Rear Admiral Yates Stirling. PFrom there they traveled to the old ship Alton. Aboard the ship they found Lieut. of the knowledge that Means had done wassie and Mrs. Fortescite, but not Mrs fe. Both said they did not know wherabouts of Mrs. Massie. The men reported officers on the ship d they did not know where she had gone. Ma the Believe She'll Sail. Admiral Stirling instructed Capt. F. J. Horne, his chief of staff, to conduct a search. Since Massie party had ow on the liner friends were of the unanimous that Mrs. Massie would be all the Malolo. opinion to the grand jury's report aboard when it clears the harbor. Officials considered Mrs. Massie had no intention of remaining here for the retrial of her alleged attackers and had balked the efforts of the Territory to keep her from leaving with her husband and family. DEBUCH! CHOSEN FOR CABINET POST Ambassador to Take Port- folio of Foreign Affairs Within 3 Months. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. Ambassador Katsuji Debuchi been designated to be Japan's future minister of foreign affairs, replacing K. Yoshizawa, within the next two or three months, according to reports received yesterday from reliable quarters in Tokio. The pending promotion of Ambas- sador Debuchi to one of the highest positions any civilian can hold in Japan is not only an acknowledgment of the Ambassador’s successful career in Washingfon, but has an important po- litical significance. Split on Government Policy. In regard to Manchuria, the whole Japanese nation approves the govern- ment policy, but in regard to Japan's future policy toward the Western powers there are two distinct trends of thought. One group, led by the ultra-mili- tarists, is in favor of continuing a policy of defiance to the rest of the world, a policy of extreme imperialism, regard- less of how other nations, and espe- cially the United States, feel about it. They want to increase substantially the Japanese army and navy and are in- different toward the effect on other countries. A number of them go even so far as to desire an armed conflict with any of the Pacific powers hoping thus to establish forever Japan's su- premacy in Asia. This group, while not very large, is ali-powerful and has so far been able | to swing Japanese public opinion to its side. The present government, includ- ing Foreign Minister Yoshizawa, is more or less pledged to support its policy. “Big Five” in Opposition. Opposing this point of view are the business interests, headed by what is called “the Big Five.” These are the five leading commercial houses which ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) AKRON‘OFF AT 4 AM. FOR PACIFIC COAST Dirigible Heads Southwest If Weather Is Right, Crossing Rockies West of El Paso. By the Associated Press. LAKEHURST, J., May 7—The Navy dirigible Akron tomorrow at sun- | rise will start her flight to the Pacific Coast unless weather conditions are too unfavorable. Zero hour is set for 4 am. (Eastern standard time), Lieut. Comdr. Charles E Rosendahl said today. The ship, the exact route of which will depend on weather conditions, will head in the general direction of the | Southwest. She probably will cross the Rocky Mountains west of El Paso, Tex., at an altitude of 6,500 feet There will be 64 men in the crew, 14 officers in addition to Comdr. Rosen- dahl, and two naval officers as passen- cers s Progress of the flight will be messaged twice daily to the Navy Department at Washington. On arrival, the Akron will report to tne admiral of the Pacific fleet. The length of her stay is un- certain The smaller aircraft, Los will start South on @& training flight Monda FLOCK OF GENES CORNERED IN LILY CELL AND COUNTED Dr. Belling of Carnegie Ins ution Proves Existence of Hereditary Bodies Known Only in Theory Heretofore. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. | For the first time in history the genes, ultimate units of the living cell, have been visually counted. ‘This achievement of Dr. John Belling of the staff of the Carnegie Institu- tion of Washington was announced by the institution yesterday. Dr. Belling was able to see and count 2,200 dis-| crete ultra-microscopic bodies in th cell of a lily, itself less than one four- hundredth of an inch in diameter and far below the limit of unaided vision. | It was only four months ago that Dr. Belling, using a special optical ap- paratus, saw a gene, hitherto an en- tirely hypothetical body whose ex; d§ istence was assumed by biologists to account for various phenomena of heredity. for the first time. The an- nouncement made at the annual meet- ing of the institution here aroused the interest of scientists the world over. The gene occupies approximately the same place in biology as the atom in physics. It is the carrier of the unit factors in plant and animal heredity. Dr Belling has every reason to be- ieve that the minute objects he has een are genes. The number counted corresponds with the number theoreti- cally required to explain the various heredity factors which have been de- termined for the lily. Dr. Belling started his work with he chromosomes, chain-like structures ~ithin the ~2ll visible under the mi- (Coniizuxd on Page 2, Column 6.) IVE CENTS IN WASHJNGTON AND SUBURBS has Angeles, | TEN CENTS I ELSEWHERE SALES TAX FIGHT WILL BE RENEWED ON SENATE FLOOR Walsh of Massachusetts Will Offer Plan as Substitute for Many Special Levies. 1 OR 12 PER CENT RATE WOULD BE FIXED Watson Foresees Passage of Reve- nue Bill After Two Weeks’ Consideration. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. On the eve of the report of the revenue bill to the Senate by its Pinance Committee, Senator David 1. Walsh of Massachusetts, & member of that com- mittee, announced yesterday he was preparing an amendment for a general manufacturers excise or sales tax which he would offer from the floor of the Senate. The Massachusetts Senator is to take the lead in the fight to substitute such & tax for many of the excise or sales taxes on individual industries, still re- tained in the bill as approved by the Senate Committee. Senator David A. Reed of Pennsyl- vania, it developed yesterday, agreed in Friday's meeting of the Finance Com- mittee not to present his proposed 1 per cent manufacturers’ sales tax amendment after Senator Thomas of Idaho and other opponents of the manufacturers’ sales tax offered to sup- port the so-called Treasury compromise tax plan. Senator Reed, however, re- served the right to vote for and speak for a manufacturers’ sales tax amend- ment if it is offered from the floor. 1 or 1'4 Per Cent Rate. Benator Walsh's .plan looks to a manufacturers’ tax of 1 or 113 per cent. The original manufacturers’ sales tax reported to the House from the Ways and Means Committee of that body was a 214 per cent tax. Senator Walsh will exempt from its operation food, cloth~ ing and some other necessities. Proponents of the manufacturers’ sales tax believe a majority of the Senate would accept such an amend- ment provided there was any assurance the House would finally agree to it after the bill had gone to conference. Last night there was no assurance whatever that the House would retreat from its earlier position in opposition to a manufacturers’ sales tax. However, individual members of the House, al- though they would not permit them- selves to be quoted, admitted the manu- facturers’ sales tax would be preferable to the special taxes and nuisance taxes [now included in the bill. This admis- sion was made by some of the members of the House who voted against the manufacturers’ tax when the bill was before that body. House Acceptance Doubtful. Supporters of the manufacturers’ sales tax are hopeful the opposition to many of the special taxes in the bill will finally align a majority of the Sen- ate in favor of the Walsh proposal. House leaders who supported the manu- facturers’ tax, including Representative Rainey of Illinois, Democratic leader of the House, are ready to vote for that tax again should the Senate include it in the revenue bill. They said yester- day, however, they doubted that the House would accept it. _Many members of the House have since their vote against the manufac- turers’ sales tax written letters to their constituents in an effort to justify their Pposition. This, it is said, makes it diffi- cult now for them to reverse their stand. It is a fact, however, that House mem- bers have recelved a flood of letters re- | cently urging them to adopt a general manufacturers’ sales tax as less burden- some. Senator Walsh sald the amendment he is drafting would make it possitle to eliminate I. the bill the special tax on automobiles, trucks and accessories, chewing gum, jewelry (the jewelry tax was carried in the House bill, but was eliminated from the bill by the Senate Finance Committee), lubricating oil, telephone and telegraph messages, radio sets, refrigerators, furs, grape juice, sporting goods, cameras, matches and some of the stamp taxes. He said, too, that it would make it possible to raise the exemption on admissions from 10 cents to 46 cents. Watson Promises Support. Senator Watson of Indiana, the Re- publican leader, said he would support :lhe ‘Walsh proposal when it is offered in the Senate. He added that he thought the manufacturers' sales tax the fairest and most efficient method of laising revenue needed to balance the budget. Discussing the revenue bill as it now stands, Senator Walsh said he believes the measure has been improved by the Senate Committee, particularly by the (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) RUSSIA GIVES TURKEY CREDIT OF $8,000,000 Agreement, Entered Into as Ex- periment, Will Involve Only Exchange of Goods. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW. May 7—A new economic alliance between Soviet Russia and Turkey, under which this country is extending an $8,000,000 long term credit to its Islamic neighhor, was an- nounced by Foreign Minister Tewflk Rushdi Bey of Turkey tonight. The credit s the first ever granted by the Soviet government, which until now has been a seeker instead of a giver of credit in the world market. It is based on an exchange of goods ia kind. withaut actual monetary pay- ments Under the agreement Soviet Russia will sell industrial tools, agricultural machines and fertilizers to Turkey, receiving as payment its cholce of ‘Turkey's natural resources, such as to- bacco, wool, fruits and minerals. The Turkish forelgn minister was vague as to the exact length of the credit, but mentioned 15 years as the possible term. He did not reveal the interest rate and other details. Rushdi Bey added that Soviet Russia had offered to grant a larger eredit, but that Turkey had no need for more at this time. He indicated the agree- ment would be in the nature of an ex- periment by both governments, Y 4