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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Porecast.) Local thundershowers this afternoon or night; cooler ton! and cooler. at 5:30 p.m. yes a.m. today. » ight; tomorrow fair Temperatures—Highest, 91, : 68, at 5 Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 No. 32,168, post _office, Entered as second class matter Washington, D. C. WALKER TESTIMONY McLean Divests Self of All His l RELIEF HEARINGS ON PURCHASE Q| Tmterest in Post) (N GARNER'S BILL STOCK IS REFUTED Friend Says He Bought 300 Shares Which Mayor Said He Never Owned. SEABURY IS CHEERED AS HE SUMS EViDeNCE Prober Holds City Executive's Statements “Vague'—Charges Sherwood Implied Guilt. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, May 27.—Park Com- fnissioner Walter R. Herrick, a close iriend of Mayor Walker, testified today before the Hofstadter Committee that the bought for Walker and with the 'or's money 300 shares of Interstate t Co. stock, which was issued in Herrick's name and part of which was posted as collateral for a loan to the *Equitable Bus Co. Walker denied on the stand yester- day and Wednesday that he had ever ‘owned the stock, directly or indirectly. Just before Herrick took the stand, Beabury, in reply to a motion by Demo- cratic members of the committee that all testimony taken since April 26 be stricken from the record, declared that Walker's testimony had been “vague on all points” and that Russell T. Sherwood's “flight in the face of ac- cusation was some evidence of guilt.” Cites Safe Deposit Box. “There is no reeson,” Seabury said, “why Sherwood should fear investiga- tion if he were the agent of others He knew he was being investigated in relation to the mayor.” Seabury insisted that it stands in the evidence that Sherwood had a Joint safe deposit box with the mayor. “True,” he said, “we have the state- ment of the mayor, unsupported by evidence, that, although it was in their joint names, nothing went into it. “In addition, we have proof showing that Sherwood was and had been for many years the agent of the mayor, and that in a writsen application for a posi-! tion he said he was an accountant mfi confidential secretary at $3,500 a year. Nearly Million Deposited. “You have evidence,” he added, “that from January 1, 1926 (the date Mayor Walker went into office) until he fled, nearly $1,000,000 went into Sherwood’s accounts, “You have undl.!]i)uted ::l‘%essg that one William J. Scanlan gof X com- mission on a city contraét, and that $6,000 of it went into the account of Russell Sherwood. “You have the mayor’s testimony that he could imagine no reason why any one should pay money to Sherwood. . You have the circumstances of the letter of credit, and you have the J. A. Sisto! matter, undisputed and undenied on the that those bonds were given the shown by Sisto’s and McKeon's testfmony.” “The mayor registered a mental Teservation,” Seabury added. “He said that if the stock went down he'd make good. That reservation was contra- dicted by Sisto and McKeon.” Seabury Is Cheered. Although the court room was less crowded than it was yesterday and Wednesday while Walker was on the stand, all seats were taken. Today's crowd apparently was more friendly to Seabury than the crowds of the last few days. He was cheered several times during his summary, and the Democrats who kept objecting were hissed. Herrick testified that J. Norris Oli- phant, a broker, suggested to him it would be a good thing to purchase Interstate stock. Oliphant, Herrick testified, said he wanted 25 shares for himself and suggested that Herrick take an equal amount. “He suggested I might be able to get an allotment through the mayor,” Herrick said. Says Walker Offered Aid. Herrick testified he took the matter up with Walker, and that Walker told him he would get him the right to buy stock in the company “if I didn't make a hog of myself.” He said it was his recollection that " (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) BELIEVED DEAD 16 YEARS WAR VETERAN RETURNS German Was Deported to Africa After Attempt to Escape From ‘War Prison. By the Associated Press. ENDINGEN, Baden, Germany, May 27.—Oskar Daubmann, 36, German war veteran who for 16 years has been believed dead and whose name is en- graved on a monument to the World ‘War dead here, has written his aged parents that he has arrived at Palermo, Italy, alive and well. He said after sustaining serious wounds in the battle of the Scmme in 1916 he tried to escape from a French ‘war prison, was caught and deported to Africa, whence he now has reached Palermo. ‘The German consul at Naples con- firmed the story when Daubmann's parents believed they were being made victims of a hoax. PSITTACOSIS REAPPEARS IN BRESLAU, GERMANY Six Cases Reported—Scientist Who Examined Sick Parrots Among Victims of Disease. By the Assoclated Press. ‘BRESLAU, Germany, May Psittacosis, a disease about which little has been heard since the 1930 scare, has suddenly reappeared here. There are six cases in Breslau. One of thcse stricken is Prof. Carl Prausnitz, director of the Hygienic In- stitute, who recently examined two sick parrots which had infected their owners. The parrots came from a dealer who testified that they were bred in Ger- many and that he had not imported any for years. Hitherto psittacosis has been considered an exctic disease intro- duced from Brazil and other South American countries. In 1930 the Ger- man government imposed a temporary embargo on parrots. - Radio Programs on hge c4 27— Voluntarily Acts in Suit Brought by Wife to emove Him. Edward B. McLean, through his at- toineys, tocay voluntarily divested him- self of all connettion with the Wash- ington Post, one of the principal assets in the estate of his father, John R. McLeea. The action carries with it the sacri- fice by Mr. McLean of the authcrity given him in his father's will to veto a sale of the newspaper. Mr. McLean agreed to these steps in a stipulation fcr a decree in the suit brought by his wife, Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean, on behalf of their thres chil- dren, to oust him as a trustee of the entire estate left by his father. District Supreme Court Justice Jen- nings Bai'ey, who heard testimony in the case last week, will sign a decree in the case two weeks from tocay, if McLean has carried out his agreements by that time. GLASSFORD NAMED BY BONUS SEEKERS Chosen to Handle Mess Funds and Arrange for Housing Veterans. Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford last night stepped into a meeting of veterans laying plans for the bonus; demonstration here next week as chief i of police and emerged as their “secre- tary-treasurer,” chosen by them to handle their mess fund, arrange for their food and shelter and generally care for them. Glassford went to the meeting in Judiciary Square to “keep an eye” on the veterans to see that there was no disorder. But before he left he had made two speeches, had been elected as & leader and had been roundly cheered by the 100 or more who at- tended the “open air” conclave to lay | plans for pressing the bonus fight. ‘Today, as secretary-treasurer of the bonus expeditionary forces, the organ- | ization which was founded last night to fight for immediate cash payment of {the soldiers’ bonus—or adjusted com- pensation, as the veterans prefer to call it—Gen. Glassford called a meeting of his assistants to devise ways and means by which the 1,000 ex-service men now in the Capital and the additional thou- sands who are expected to arrive here | next week can Be housed and fed. Survey of City Ordered. | Four men. representing the veterans from the North, South, East and West, were asked by the police chief to meet with him at 4 o'clock this afternoon to canvass the possibilities of obtaining shelter and food. Glassford already has announced there are no District relief funds available and private re- sources are badly depleted. He ordered all precinct commanders last night to make a survey of the city and list all vacant buildings, especially warehouses, { which might be used to house the vet- erans. Preliminary to the afternoon confer- ence, Gen. Glassford toured the city | looking for a spot to encamp the vet- ! erans now here and those expected to | arrive next week. for the demonstrations. i He found four spots, any.one of which he believes would be ideal fcr a camp site. They are Fort Davis, at the top of Pennsylvania avenue hill in Southeast Washington; two sites near Alabama avenue and Twenty-second street southeast and the National Guard rifle range at Camp Sims. Should one of these sites be secured, Gen. Glassford said, he proposes to ask | { permission to construct barracks for | the ex-service men, the barracks to be built by the unemployed veterans out of lumber to be obtained from local wrecking companies. Wiil See Gen. Stephan. In connection with the possibility of obtaining the rifle range, he has sched- uled an interview for this afternoon with Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan, com- mander of the District National Guard. At their meeting last night, the vet- erans themselves suggested the police chief try to obtain a camp site for them. ‘To finance the building and feed the veterans, Glassford pwo&ed this after- noon that boxing or wrestling bouts be carded between the former soldiers, “either in Alexandria or out in Mary- land.” He said he personaliy would attempt to carry this idea through and take! charge of the matching. Gen. Glassford's election as secretary- treasurer of the “B. E. F.” came only a few hours after he had proposed to the White House and to Republican congressional leaders that an immediate i 10 OPEN TUESDAY Texan Says Plan Approved by Democrats Is Only “a Rough Draft.” SPEAKER WILL TESTIFY IN SUPPORT OF PROGRAM Measure Goes in Hopber Today and Committee Will Sesk Speedy Consideraticn. By the Associated Press. Acting Chairman Crisp today set Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of next week for hearings before the House Ways and Means Committee on Speaker Garner's $2,100,000,000 relief bill. On Tuesday the committee will hear those favorable to the bill, on Wednes- day those opposed and on Thursday ad- ministration officlals, including Secre- tary Mills and Charles G. Dawes, head of the Reconstruction Finance Corpora- tion. - The bill goes into the hopper today. The committee will seek to complete consideration quickly. “By next Friday we can begin work on the final draft of the bill in execu- tive session,” Crisp said. Hoover’s Speech Quoted. As plans went ahead for i the legislation, e newspaper men President Hoover had approved public works construction to relieve unemployment along the line of his bill Speeches made by the Chief Execu- tive in 1928 urging a billion dollar pro- gram were recalled by the Speaker and he quoted from Mr. Hoover's speech of fl;fiep[mcf l:" P.iolnAlm and his later address at Newarl August and Sep- tember of 1928. % | Garner said the printed measure ap- | proved by the Democratic conference yestercay was “a rough draft, which will have to be perfected,” and that many of the items carried in it would have to be elimineted. “Many things in the bill will have | to be cut out, while many other items will have to be inserted,” Garner said. “We compiled them from repcrts of the Army engineers and the Interdepart. mental Committee recommending them. We find that many projects have already been undertaken, whi'e others need to be undertaken.” cause it carries a tax of one-fourth of 1 cent a gallon on gascliné to meet the sinking fund requirements and interest on any bond issue ne (Continued on Page : REED BLOCKS FARM AID BALLOT AGREEMENT | Objects to Nye Move to Keep Sen- ate in Session Until Meas- ure Is Voted Or. By the Associated Press. Senator Reed, Republican, of Pennsyl- vania blocked an attempt in the Senate today to obtain an agreement to vote on farm relief legislation before the adjournment of Congress. Senator Nye, Republican, of North Dakota asked for an agreement that the Senate would not adjourn until it had voted on the McNary omnibus relief bill and the Prazier reflnance measure. Reed objected, saying “I don't think any Senator has a right to ask for such an agreement for a single measure when the Senate calendar is clogged with legislation.” Nye appealed to Reed to withdraw his objection, but Senator Bratton, Democrat, of New Mexico said he would object if Reed did not, for the same reason that the Pennsylvanian had. ‘The House Agriculture Subcommittee studying the tariff-benefit allotment plan of farm relief recessed today with- | out reaching any conclusions. ‘The group of five met behind clesed doors and will meet again tomorrow to put the plan in legislative form. LEBRUN CAI:LS ON EDGE President Guarded Closely on First Visit to U. 8. Embassy. PARIS, May 27 (#).—President Albert Lebrun, heavily guarded by detectives in view of Communist threats growing out of the Sccttsboro, Ala., case, paid his first visit of courtesy to the Amer- ican Ambassador, Walter E. Edge, to- day. 3 The President remained 10 minutes at the embassy end during his stay side- walks in the vicinity were cleared of pedestrians and additional police and detectives were on duty. vote be taken on the pending bill of Representative Wright Patman, Demo- crat, of Texas for payment of the bonus. He received little encourage- ment for his proposal, however, he said. ! Accepting the post, Gen. Glassford, nattily clad in gray and standing before (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) BANK NEGLECT CHARGES ARE GIVEN TO JURY State Examiner Accused of Failing in Duty in Closing of U. 8. Institution. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, May 27.—The case of Joseph A. Broderick, State superintend- ent of banks, charged with neglect of duty in connection with the closing of the Bank of United States, was given to the jury shortly before noon today. The case had taken eight weeks to present to the jury. Judge George L. Donnellan charged that if the jury found that the defendant, as “a rea. sonably prudent, conscienticus person,’ believed the practices of the bank's senicr officers would lead inevitably to insolvency and that the only salvation of the bank was to close it, then in failing to act he was guilty of neglect of duty. ‘The judge emphasized, However, that mere violation of the banking laws by the officers does not make closing mandatory if the superintendent be- lieves he can effect a remedy without 1 court added, closing. ‘The , ;'He cannot be found gullty for an hojyst mistake in judgment.” Speaker | Garner told | | NG EDITION o Star. WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1932—FORTY-EIGHT PAGES. *%kk —— ;\'\x\\\\ GAMPAIGN WORRIES - HIT REPUBLIGANS Writing of Acceptable Prohi bition Plank Is Center of Difficulties. By the Associated Press. ‘The campaign-year worries of the Re- | publicans, overshadowed for so long by the more spectacular tribulations of | the Democrats, have taken a front mt‘ | once more in national politics. | Writing a prohibition plank acceptable Senate Takes Up 20 Minutes Telling | Why It Was Tardy Members Eager to Cor-| | rect Impression on How Hard They Work. By the Associated Press. The Senate spent 20 minutes today telling the country how hard it works | and explaining why none of its mem- | bers was on hand yesterday when Vice President Curtis rapped the gavel at| 10 am. | Senator Fess, Republican whip, read [to the Senate the Associated Press| | story of Curtis’ calling an empty Sen- | | Small Steamer Grecian Sinks 'The reason our plan is sound is be- | alike to Republican wets and Republican | o+ "chamber to order and said it did | drys has proved harder than many €X- no¢ convey the right impression, pected. Campaign funds remain 8lmost | 1ok he did not deny the facts. non-existent. A {tully-qualified cam-| .p conveys the tmpression.” Peas | paign manager still is lacking. semlcr.fim, “tmcm:éumrg)tb&e cuonu,:cr'fd i:y Borah has decided not even to attend the press, y y, in- | the June 14 Chicago convention. On | different and unsolicitous, with no suf- | top of it all, a powerful group of stal- warts in Congress are complaining bit- terly that they have been left out of party councils. | ficlent regard for the public interest to be present when the Senate convenes.” | “several other Senators joined in, to tell how hard they and their colleagues | had been working. Senator Harrison, | Democrat, of Mississippi, said the Sen- FOUR SEAMEN DIE IN SHIP GOLLISION Off Block Island—32 of Crew Rescued. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 27.—The emall steamer Grecian, rolling down from Boston to Norfolk with a crew of 36, a cargo of general freight and no pas- | sengers, collided with the City of Chat- tanooga in dense fog and dangerous seas off Block Island early today and went to the bottom. Four members of her crew were Jlost. Three of the bodies were recovered by the Coast Guard destroyer Abel P. Upshur and a search was continued for the fourth. Some of the 32 men who were rescued were injured, as indicated gnndmuuror:mmonbythe %u of Chattanooga. | ived. were identified later as E. | L. Forrest, second assistant engineer, | “From Press to Home Within an Hour” The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s. Circulation, 122,399 TWO CENTS. 1.75 SALES TAX PLAN OFFERED TO SENATE; EARLY VOTE IMPENDS Walsh Ptoposes to Substitute General Levy for Special Excise Rates. FOOD, CLOTHES, MEDICINE, FARM TOOLS AND PUBLICATIONS FREE Hoover Urges Speed in Passage of Reve- nue Bill—Attitude on Manufacturers’ Impost Is Uncertain. (UP) Means Associated Pre By the Astocieted Press. The 1.75 per cent sales tax amendment to the general revenue bill was introduced today in the Senate by Senator Walsh, Democrat, of Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Senator awaited an opportunity to bring the issue to a vote. The Senate was to vote first on the proposed increases in postal rates in the bill. Wa!sh had carefully withheld the sales tax proposal until the special excise rates were voted upon. He wants to substitute the general sales levy for the excise rates. The sales tax proposal, for which its sponsors were claiming a bare majority, would exempt food, clothing, medicine, farm imple- ments and publications. Despite claims of the sales advocates of a majority, the opposi- tion was confident of beating the controversial tax. The fact that the House twice rejected it is playing a part in the Senate consid- eration, Doggedly driving through the revenue | bill, “Senate leaders determined to | forego the usual Decoration day holi- | day on Monday to speed the conclusion | of ‘the budget balancing legislation. President Hoover in a series of con- ferences last night and today with Sen- ate leaders, urged speed in disposition | of the tax measure. He conferred today 5 | with Chairman Smoot of the Finance BY J. RUSSEL YOUNG. | Committee in charge of the bill. President Hoover today was advised | Although the sales tax was seriously iscussed at the W - by two members of the Senate that ing of the p,i.,di‘,i,’g‘“f;fl n‘::‘:»sr::;r there seems to be a growing sentiment | publishers, there is no indication that in favor of a sales tax as the best me- | De is going to come out for the levy un- Sales Tax Is Growing In Favor, Smoot and Copeland Tell Hoover dium for raising revenue to balance the | budget. | These advices came from Senator Smoot of Utah, chairman of the Sen- ate Finance Committee, and Senator | Copeland, Democrat, of New York. | These two Senators called at the White | less the Senate finds itself in very se- rious difficulty on raising the necessary revenue. Senator Hawes (Democrat) of Mis- sourj introduced an amendment to the revenue bill which in effect would ex- cempt checks under $100 from the pro- posed 2-cent tax. It would tax checks of $100 and up. House separately. Senator Smoot was | Levy on Furs Approved. the President’s first caller, arriving at | the Executive Office before 9 o'clock, | ReWMIng to the excise schedule, the The head of the Finance Commitiee | Senate adopted & 10 per cent fur tax. said afterward that he went over the | A substitute was accepted for the House All of these things have added ma- | ate had sat the night before until 10:15 Portsmouth, Va., Charles Crowley, | entire situation respecting the revenue | terially to the natural irritations of a' time of great political stress. In large) measure they have diverted attention during the present week from the con- tinuing Democratic strife over the presi- dential nomination. Roosevelt Gaining. This does not mean that the Demo- cratic problem has grown any simpler. It is moving along for convention solu- tion about as everybody expected. The | weex saw Franklin D. Roosevelt cap-| ture the Delaware delegation of six, and he stands to add 20 more tomorrcw | from Utah and Colorado. On the basls !of the Roosevelt claims, that will make | a total of 599, or 21 more than a con- | vention majority. Speaker John M. | Garner was given Texas, bringing his total to 90, and Alfred E. Smith re- | ceived formal pledge of New Jersey's | 32, making him 94. | It takes 770 to nominate. Of the 122 remaining to be selected after this | week, Roosevelt has a chance to get 98. | If he does it will bring him so near the needed two-thirds that one or two | " (Continued on Page 2, Column 8) | SPIKE WEBB TO COACH OLYMPIC BOXING TEAM Appointment of Naval Academy Man for Fourth Straight Time Is Announced. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 27.—The appoint- ment of H. M. (Spike) Webb of the Naval Academy as head coach of the American Olympic boxing team for the fourth straight time was announced to- day through Olympic headquarters by William P. Kenney of Boston, manager of the boxing team. Webb will be assisted by James (Spider) Roach of the Olympic Club, San Franciscq, Bob Sullivan of Holy Cross was named as trainer and Dr. Hugo Bezdek of Penn State as assistant manager. Final tryouts for the American team are scheduled at San Francisco, July 20, 21 and 23. HOW PO "WINDS politics are closely watched. be on, every the oul will be repeated this year. NATIONAL Read T Watch for These Throughout the Nation trends in National and State The great national conventions are approach- ing. Presidential candidates are to be nominated, and then the race will being interested in The Star's forecasts have become nationally known and every State in the Union have been engaged for this cam- paign, and each week their dispatches will appear in The Sunday Star, with convenient digests. IF YOU WOULD KEEP INFORMED ON Special Political NON-PARTISAN . . . INTERESTING . . . ACCURATE LITICAL BLOW! good citizen tcome. Correspondents of note in POLITICS he Star | please me. and Senator Watson, Republican, of Indiana, said seven committees had been meeting yesterday morning. As Fess continued, Chairman Smoot of the Finance Committee stood beside his chair, impatient to resume consider- ation of the tax bill. Finally, Senator Reed, Republican, of Pennsylvania, said: “There's no use complaining, let's get back to work on the bill.” Fess insisted that the story had car- ried an inference that was not justifi- able and was “terribly dangerous in producing the wrong impression.” The story to which he referred had pointed out that the Senate had mus- tered a quorum at 10:10 am. after melinbers had been summoned by a roll cal GARNER WELCOMES KNOCKS AS GOOD SIGN Speaker Says Present Wave of Criticism Shows Healthy - Condition in Country. By the Associated Press. NEW HAVEN, Conn., May 27.—Bricks may be a bother to some, but Speaker John N. Garner terms them a “healthy sign.” “The country is throwing a lot eof bricks at us, but I don't mind that a bit,” the Speaker, one of the three lead- ing candidates for the Democratic pres- idential nomination, said in an inter- ;‘iew published today In the Yale Daily ews. “Do you know, I alwzys have loved a good fight, and so all of the cartoons, editorials, letters and word-of-mouth attacks don't_bother me. They rather It'’s a_ healthy sign when Ppeople take =0 much interest in"the af- 1airs of the country.” ‘There i one thing that does bother him, the Speaker said, and that is the large amount of “personal” mail he receives. Garner's advice to young men is “get the best possible education and then go in for work they really like.” “Do you know, a fellow who is trying to make a success of a job he doesn't like is just loping uphill.” He said he was having “the time of his life” on his own job in Congress. U. S. AGENT ARRESTS DR. CLARENCE CRAFT Alleged to Have Threatened Nar- cotic Inspector With Gun in North Carolina. By the Associated Press. HICKORY, N. C., May 27.—Dr. Clar-’ ence Christian Craft, 52, member of Comdr. Peary’s expedition to the North Pole in 1908 and associated with many United States Government geodetic surveys, was arrested and jailed today when he is alleged to have threateneda hldenl narcotic inspector with a re- volver. He was charged with an assault with a deadly weapon. The charge was pre- ferred by John Dickson of Charlotte, Federal narcotic r for this dis- trict, with whom Craft quarreled in a with ;xd with the Carnegie Institute at y to October in 1908 he was magnetic observer on Comdr. Peary’s ship Eerik, going ag far North as Green- land on the e\u‘:unnefl North Pole, | Zanry Lowes, ordinary seaman, Ports- steward, Providence, R. I; Jim Mer- riweather, mess boy, Philadelphia, and mouth, Va. Story Told by Radio. ‘The story of the collision was told graphically in radio messages picked up here by the Radio Marine Corpora- tion. The first, from the City of Chat- tanooga, said: “‘At about 1:50 ard time) we Grecian and she sank in a few minutes off Block Island. We anchored. Crew and passengers (of the City of Chatta- nooga) all right.” Block Island is about 10 miles off the Rhode Island coast. The collision oc- curred about 5 miles in a northerly di- rection from the island. A few minutes later the City of Chattanocga radioed: “We are blowing three blasts at in- tervals and searching for members of the crew not yet rescued with lights lndhbolts." i She gave her position as latitude 41.05, longitude 71.31 west. Damage Is Unknown. At 3:33 am. the steamer Ontario asked the City of Chattanocga if she needed any assistance. The City of Chattanooga replied: “We do not need any assistance. The master of the Grecian is safe aboard the City of Chattanooga. The damage | to our ship is unknown, but considered | slight. Fcur members of the Grecian's crew still unaccounted for. The United States cutter Upshur has arrived and is assisting in the search for the missing men.” Shortly .afterward the City of Chatta- nooga radioed: “To all ships in the vicinity of Block Island: Please watch for survivors.” Then the City of Chattanooga radioed the Upshur: “Have you a doctor aboard?” The Upshur, one of the crack craft of the Coast Guard, replied that she had. The Greclan was a steel screw steamer of 2,827 net tons, built in 1900 and operated by the Merchant & Miners’ Transportation Co. between Boston, Baltimore and Southern She left Boston last night. The City of Chattanooga is a much newer craft, having been built in 1923. She runs on the Savannah line between (Continued on Page 2, Column 5) NICARAGUAN SCORES STIMSON STATEMENT Sandino Aide Challenges Assertion Marines Are Not Engaged in Active Combat. By the Associated Press. | MEXICO CITY, May 27.—Dr. Pedro Jose Zepeda, foreign representative of Gen. Augustino Sandino, Nicaraguan in- surgent leader, today called on Col. Henry L. Stimson, American Secretary of State, to explain his statement of yesterday, in which he said American Marines in Nicaragus no longer were engaged in active combat against San- dino. “Secretary Stimson declares the Ma- rines are not fighting Sandino, and that reinforcements are being sent down only the forthcoming Nic- " Zepeds said. various works for the Government | violal ‘The vivid contri trip to the| cable JEET— A | bill and the budget balancing, and that | to be crowded tomorrow afternoon during his talk with the President the | sales tax subject was touched upon.| Senator Smoot would venture no pre- | dictions as to what the outcome would | be regarding this form of tax. Neither would he make any prediction as to the possible disposal of the revenue | legislation or whether sufficient Tev- | enue was going to be raised to bal-| ance the budget. Copeland Backs Levy. Senator Copeland called regarding a | New York State matter, but while hei was with the Executive he reminded him that during the past week or so| there has been a notable increase in | sentiment for a sales tax. The New | York Senator told the President he| personally favored it and considered it the soundest way to raise the revenue | Tnecessary. “There seems to be no sound argu- ment against a sales tax, and I believe | that the country at large is commencing | to understand it better,” Senator Cope- | land sald. “If Congress does not provide for a sales tax, then it will have to re- sort to some outrageous and ridiculous income tax to raise the revenue neces- | sary. I think more people understand now that a sales tax would not be a burden upon the poor people as was originally thought.” | Confers With Heath, President Hoover, following his con- | ference with these two Senators, con- | ferred with Ferry K. Heath, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of the public buildings program. It is un- derstood that the President wished to check up with Mr. Heath on the present | status of the public buildings program throughout the country in view of the recent developments in both the House and Senate in regard to the building program and unemployment. WIND WRECKS CHURCH Severe Blow Hits Arkansas Town. But No One Is Hurt. OZARK, Ark., May 27 (#).—A church was blown from its foundation, a gaso- line filling staticn was demolished and trees were uprooted by a severe wind that swept this town last night, but no one was injured. Numerous plate-glass windows in the business district were smashed and telephone service was disrupted. Shop Early Tomorrow Morning For your own comfort and convenience, shop early tomorrow morning, as the stores are sure with Government employes, who are out at 1 o’clock on Saturdays and who will take that oppor- tunity to supply their holiday needs for over the week end. The stores are stocked with all manner of new and attractive articles for the Summer season. Yesterday’s Advertising (Local Display) The Evening Star. . . 58,96'4 2d Newspaper. .. .. 33,963 provision so as to make the tax pay- able by the fur dresser. Smoot esti- the levy would yield about $15,000.000. Senator Blaine, Republican, of Wis- consin, opposed the fur tax as a levy on the “essential wearing apparel of those least abla to pay.” He said he was mnot talking about ermines, but the fur used by the lum- berjack, the miner and other workers who use fur to keep warm. Shortly after the House convened, Representative Blanton, Democrat, of Texas, said on the floor he wanted to call attention to the “propaganda” in behalf of the sales tax. “There has been no change in the House on the sales tax proposition,” Blanton said. “I want our Senators to understand there has been no change. “It is a futile thing for some Senators over there to try to put it back.” At about the same time, the Senate was rejecting an amendment by Blaine to exempt from the fur tax coats cost- ing less than $40 and caps, gloves or mittens less than $4. House Provision Stricken. ‘The House provision for revaluation of depreciated estates was then stricken from the bill by the Senate in accord- ance with the recommendations of the Finance Committee. That provision was designed to relieve estates, the value of which have depre- ciated since the decedents died. _ Senator Reed, Republican, of Penn- (Continued on Page 5, Column 2.) SPLIT IN PARTY VOTE BURIES HAWLEY BILL House Ways and Means Group Kills Act to Increase Tariff. By the Assoclated Press. The Hawley bill for an upward ad- Jjustment in tariff rates against nations with depreciated money was rejected today by the House Ways and Means Committee by a 16-to-9 vote. Acting Chairman Crisp did not make public the individual votes of the members, but said party lines were split on_the ballot. The Department, declined to make any recommendation regard- ing the Hawley bill, but John L. O'Brien, chairman of the Tariff Com- mission, vehemently opposed it at & hearing last week. ABSOLVES WALL STREET Economist Prescribes Liquidation and Thrift to End Slump. MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 27 (#). Stephen 1. Miller, New York econcmist, told a convention v Arkansas, Jiissis- sippi and Tennessee bankers yesterdey that “Wall Street cannot be blamed for the depression. “Wall Street as a whole,” he said, “must be considered as ‘just another industry.’ ” Liquidation, stoppage of extravagance, vision and patience will end the de- pression, he said. He advised against struction, et al t the soldiers’ bonus. e o Seek American Gold. WARSAW, Poland, May 27 () —As a result of newspaper stories 'S