Evening Star Newspaper, January 3, 1933, Page 7

1. INGNE TS * WA NOW BEPAD 2,500,000 More Persons | Must File This Year { Than Last. By the Associated Press ‘With the holidays just over, the Gov- ernment today came forward with a reminder that Federal income taxes can now be paid, and must be paid before March 15. Income tax blanks have been mailed to those who paid in the past, and there is a big supply on hand at the local office of the deputy collector of internal revenue, room 1102, Internal Revenue Building, Twelfth street and ; Constitution avenue. More Liable This Year. Many more persons will be forced to pay this year than last on account of the lowering of the exemptions in the new revenue act now in force. The new rates will be 4 per cent on the first $4,000 of net income and 8 per cent on the remainder after ex- Jemptions have been deducted. The sur- tax begins with 1 per cent upon net incomes between $6,000 and $10,000 and increases to 55 per oent for in- comes in excess of $1,000,000. The old rates were 115 per cent on the first $4,000, 3 per cent on the next $4,000 and 5 per cent on the next $4,000, with the surtax rates starting at $10,000 and increasing to a maximum of 20 per cent. Exemptions Reduced. The new law reduces the exemption for single persons from $1,500 to $1,000, or in case of the head of a family or & married person living with husband or wife, reduces the exemption from $3500 to $2,500. Credits for de- pendents remain at $400 each. The reduction of the exemption is expected to require approximately 2,- (500,000 additional persons to file re- }turns this year who were not required to do so under the old law. COLOMBIANS START CAMPAIGN ON LETICIA Four Naval Vessels, Carrying 1,000, Reported Sailing Up Ama- zon to Attack Peruvians. By the Associated Press. PARA, Brazil, January 3.—Four Co- lombian naval vessels carrying muni- tions, supplies and 1,000 soldiers, under Gen. Vasquez Coba, were reported to have safled up the Amazon yesterday toward Leticia, on the Peruvian border. The movement was regarded as the beginning of a drive to recover Leticia country over which Colombia has been in dispute with Peru for some weeks. ‘The Peruvians were said to have a ' THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Bermuda Suffragists Saddened in Protest FORCED AUCTION SALE MORE LIKE A FUNERAL. fiscated by the police because Mrs. John Morrell and Mrs. Terence Misick refused to pay their local govern- TTH bowed heads and funeral trappings, Bermuda women suffragists attend the auction sale of furniture con- v V ment tax as a protest against the non-enfranchisement of Bermuda women. —Wide World Photo. RESEARCH CENTERS ON GOLD RECOVERY Mines Bureau Also Reports | Finding Huge Supplies of Potash. By the Assoclated Press. The dominant economic position of the gold industry, accentuated by the depression, has led the Bureau of Mines to focus research activities on gold re- covery. Bureau officials point out that there | has been extraordinary activity in the reworking of old gold mines in the United States and in the opening of placer mines in all States where there is any promise of the yellow metal. Small-scale miners have been given considerable assistance by the bureau. In one month alone about 800 per- sonal inquiries were handled and every month hundreds of persons have been calling for information on gold mining at the bureau's field offices in Denver, Salt Lake City, San Francisco and Joplin. Methods Improved. The flotation of gold has been studied by the pureau’s experts, particular at- strong force, including airplanes, in the disputed area. ‘To safeguard its interests, Brazil has 400 soldiers at the frontier, 1,100 more men are on the way up the Amazon and 500 are ready to sail soon. Gen. Almerio de Moura, in command of 2,000 Brazilian troops ordered to pro- tect Brazilian neutrality along the Pe- ruvian and Colombian, frontiers, said his only orders were to keep peace on Brazilian soil. The principal object of the Brazilian “detachment of observation,” said the general in an interview as he left for the frontier, will be to prevent the “in- vasion and transit in Brazilian waters of foreign troops, arms and munitions.” JAMES M. LANG DIES AT HOME IN INDIANA New Yorker, Who Rose From Slums to Bank Presidency, Had Colorful Career. By the Assoclated Press. SULLIVAN, Ind, January 3.—Death has closed the colorful career of James M. (Col. Jimmy) Lang, who rose from the slums to a bank presidency and then saw his success topple through charges of embezzlement and forgery. He died New Year night following a heart attack. He was 76 years old Lang was head of the now defunct Citizens’ Trust Co. of Sullivan and a leading citizen of the town for half a century. In 1928 the elderly banker suddenly disappeared but returned a year later and faced two trials. Both juries failed to agree and the prose- cution was dropped. “Jimmy” Lang was born in the slums of New York City and his real name was Alois Teavivich. Lang testified at his trials that when he was 5 years old | he was picked up on the streets and taken to a children’s aid scciety. With five other boys he was sent to Indiana and was bound out to James Wesley Lang, a farmer, whose name he took After his period of bondage, Lang worked his way through Valparaiso University and became a teacher. He entered the banking business in 1882. In Pebruary, 1928, Lang disappeared from Sullivan. A few days later his bank was closed. He was finally brought back from Morgantown, N. C., by Oliver Steele, a friend During his year's absence, he worked in a restaurant, as a clerk in a hotel and mowing lawns and doing odd jobs. LABRADOR COMMUNITY HAS NO DEPRESSION| | St. Pierre and Miquelon Prepare, for Arrival of New Chief Executive. By the Associated Press. ST. PIERRE-MIQUELON, January 3 —Residents of this Prench community | are getting ready for the arrival of | their new chief executive, M. Georges Barillot, who is due to take charge of the affairs of St. Plerre and Miquclon within the next few weeks. The Islands of St. Pierre and Mique- | lon, a few miles south of New Found-| land, make up the only French colony in_North America M. Barillot succeeds Henri Lantot, | ?'9))2% had acted as governor since March, | Business in the province was gener- | ally satisfactory during 1932. There | was a_heavy importation of liquor from | Canada, much of which is supposed to have eventually reached the United | States There has been practically no un-| employment and no suffering from hun- ger or cold thus far this Winter. Prep- arations now are being made to furnish meals to any one in need until March or April, when work will start again, SCPAEENT A iy DIES IN PLANE CRASH Pilot of Ship Is Not Expected to Recover From Injuries. WICHITA, Kans. January 3 () — Forest Mangon, a filling station opera- tor, was killed and Wayne Dalrymple, engineer for the Stearman Aircraft Co. here, was injured dangerously late yes- | lie: terday by the crash of Magnon’s small airplane. Witnesses said it went into ® spin at an altitude of 200 feet. Physi- clans mruud belief Dalrymple, the pllgt, ld not survive. tention being given to methods of in- creasing the grade of concentrate. Metiods of recovering gold from re- fractory ores and improved ways of amalgamation also have been devel- oped. The gold research work, of course, is only one of several special studies of metallurgical processes conducted by the bureau. Scott Turner, director of the bureau, says that in order to meet the competition of richer deposits in other parts of the world, domestic pro- ducers of several metals must in large | measure employ cheaper and better mining and - metallurgical methods. The bureau recommends that “new ana cheaper production methods for do- mestic metals, threatened with foreign competition, be vigorously pushed. The direction some of these new develop- ments can take has been indicated by the work already done, To expedite it by adequate support would be good economy.” Potash Deposits Found. The five-year Government search for domestic potash supplies, of benefit to farmers as fertilizer was concluded in the last fiscal year. This work, Turner says, can be credited with three definite accomplishments. He lists them as follows: Discovery of vast resources of potash ores capable of supplying all domestic requirements in a national emergency: birth of a domes- tic potash industry which, it is believed, can be maintained and expanded in the face of forelgn competition, and positive insurance against profiteering by foreign monopolists at the expense of American farmers. TENNESSEE LEGISLATORS SLASH OWN SALARIES Facing $11,000,000 Deficit, Assem- | bly Begins to Cut Deep Into All Expenditures. By the Associated Press. NASHVILLE, Tenn., January 3.— Drastic economy in Government, the war _cry from every campaign stump in Tennessee, assumed definite form yesterday as the General Assembly at- tacked an $11,000,000 treasury deficit by slashing its own expenditures. | Soon after the Legislature had con- convened in reguler 75-day biennial session the Heuse adopted a resolution fixing the maximum pay of its em- ployes at $6 a day, as compared with $10 in previous years, and a Senate resolution was drawn to hold such salaries between $250 and $5 and abolish “junketing committees.” Both resolutions would sharply reduce the number of legislative aids. Frank W. Moore of Hamilton, ac- cepting the House speakership, said that “to my mind this is not so much a time for rejoicing over a personal victory as a time for dedicating our services to the taxpayers of Tennessee. | We have a tremendous task facing us.” RESIDENT OF MONTERREY TAKES HIS LIFE IN TEXAS Death of Arthur L. Fiederick in Leap From Hotel Is Held Suicide. By the Associated Press | SAN ANTONIO, Tex,, January 3—A | verdict of suicide was returned by E.| H. Talbert, justice of the peace, after | an inquest into the death of Arthur L. Frederick of Monterrey, Mexico, who plunged from an eighth-floor window of the Plaza Hotel yesterday. | Despondency brought on by a pro- longed iliness was offered by Talbert as | a possible motive for the act | Talbert said that a note left by the | dead man addressed to his wife, in Des Moines, Towa, stated that he had beem in bad health and that he believed what he was doing was “for the best.” Another note was addressed to Mark A third note, addressed to Phil Messen- the disposition of business affairs there. ILLINOIS NEEDS FUNDS CHICAGO, January 3 (#).—Illinois will need about $92,000,000 for 1933 re- lief work, to an estimate yes- terday by Wilfred S, Reynolds, executive secretary of the Iilinois Emergency Re- f Commission. The estimate did not include funds usually obtained locally. Reynolds' estimate said about $12.- 000,000 would be needed for down-State EDUCATION GROUPS' JOB IN '32 WAS AIDING SCHOOLS IN SLUMP Struggle Has Been to Maintain Previous Standards and to Expand Progress Further Throughout Entire United States. The year 1932 was a busy one for organizations of teachers and parents whose headquarters are in Washington, | but whose work reaches out over the | entire country. For each of these u‘ was & year of struggle to maintain and | expand educational progress. The de- | pression early was seen to be a threat | Child Welfare Magazine, has been pub- | year. | to schools, and to protect these through | lished regularly, and various books and | helieved responsible. the crisis was the main concern of the | Pamphlets issued from national head- | leaders and members of each group. | The National Education Association, a professional ‘organization of teachers, | including in its membership practically | all of the superintendents and ad- ministrative officers of the schools of the United States and about one-fifth away from school because of financial emergencies.” ‘These sentiments have governed the policy of the congress through the past 12 months, and no step has been neg- lected in an endeavor to follow the deal indicated by Mrs. Bradford's state- en The official organ of the congress, quarters in the N. E. A. Building. The District of Columbia Congress of Parents and Teachers, a branch of the National Congress of Parents and Teach- ers, also had a busy and eventful year. Cites P.-T. A. Principle. of the class room teachers, devoted its Mr_s,“ J. N. Saunders, president, has energies during the year to keeping the | Said: “The physical, mental and moral schools open and functioning in spite of | education of the children of our Nation general economic stress, Two conven- | 1 the underlying principle on which D. C, TUESDAY, '3 STRENGTHENED Republic Showing Definite Development Along Liberal Lines. By the Associated Press. MADRID.—The 20-month-old Span- ish Republic enters 1933 with an in- crease in strength and definite develop- ment along liberal legislative lines. Probably the outstanding accomplish- ments of the government in the year just ended were the enactment of the Catalonian statute, giving considerable autonomy to about 2,500,000 residents of the four Catalonian provinces, and the agrarian reform expected to allot lands to approximately 1,000,000 labor- ers in Spain. The Catalonian statute is considered to be the first step in a plan that will eventually make Spain a nation of fed- erated regions, more closely bound to the central government, however, than the American system of States. Al- ready other regions are preparing stat- ute projects. Agrarian Reforms Disputed. ‘The agrarian reform has been the subject of animated pro and con con- troversy. Conservatives hold that it is impracticable and too costly for the | voung republic, which was pledged a irnlnlmum of 50,000,000 pesetas (about $4,000,000) yearly to carry it out. An- | other sybject of dispute connected with the reform has been the confiscation of | the lands of Spanish nobles, especially of those of anti-Republican affiliations. This was & recent drastic congressional measure. The agricultural measures of the gov- | ernment have been forced to some ex- | tent by the intransigeant attitude of the farm workers, the largest working class in Spain. There have been increasing strikes, sabotage and disorders among the farm laborers, impatient for relief from the general business depression and the unemployment situation. The govern- ment believes that the enforcement of | the agrarian plan will alleviate this | condition. | General unemployment in Spain has | increased appreciably in the year just | ended. It is estimated that more than | 800,000 workers are idle. This figure is approximately 100,000 more than last General decline in business is Suffering Less Than Others. | Commerce and industry, taken as a whole, did not suffer as much during 19‘32 in Spain as in other major coun- tries. The Stock Exchange finds stocks and | bonds at values a small per cent below last year. Because of the unsettled | conditions deriving from the formation of a new political system, there has been little industrial or commercial ex- tions were held, one in Washington under the auspices of the department of superintendence, February 20 to 25, and the other at Atlantic City for all | the parent - teacher movement was | founded, and a brief resume of the ae- : tivities of the District of Columbia Con- gress curing the year just closing will the departments of the association, | demonstrate the fact that this motive June 25 to July 1. Both dealt with the | 18§ been its incentive and its goal. practical problems of the schools as| S,Ty",’.fih; ::'—:';lflr:}]lng_;c:{:;g?::;‘ SOiacked by Mis annthl sitwp. | on heath, with spectal emphasis on the | Continued 1931 Studies. | exceptional child, in which several ex- | The association also continued studies | perts from the Federal Office of Edu- begun in 1931 centering on the influ- | cation participated. In safeguarding the | pansion. Agricultural products and crops have been good this year. Wheat production was one of the greatest in modern times, with approximately 46,000,000 metric quintals. The consumption of the country is estimated at about 39.- 000,000 quintals yearly. However, much foreign wheat was imported because of its quality for mixing in the production of flour. One of the notable achievements of JANUARY 3, 1933. SPAN 15 ENTERIG | 7o NEW YORK AVENUE o7 FIF TRENTH THE MOST MODERN MEN'S WEAR STORE IN AMERICA We Are Discontinuing Business BECAUSE of the inability of : the Parker-Bridget Co. to secure the additional capital needed to carry on, it is necessary to discontinue the business. Our Entire Stock is to be Liquidated BEGINNING tomorrow morning, our entire stock of men’s and boys’ cloth- ence of the depression on childhood, and outlined plans for continuing | present policies for safeguarding the | welfare of the young. These studies | and plans were published under the titles: “Facts on School Costs,” “Esti- | mating State School Efficiency,” “Ad- | ministrative Practices Affecting Class | | Room Teachers,” “The Economic Wel- fare of Teachers,” “Trends of School Costs,” “Childhood and the Depression,” “Studies in State School Administra- tion” and “Report of the Department of | Supaflnkndente Committes on School 08ts.” The deliberations of the two conven- | tions of the association were printed in a report running to 1.200 pages. This book, with the published research | studies, was made available to educa- tional authorities and interested lay- men throughout the Nation. A new research study on the social | and economic objectives of American life was undertaken during the year by the association, and a large group of educators and many em'nent persons not directly conneeted with school work are participating in the survey. e N. E. A, headquarters are at Th | | 1201 Sixteenth street northwest. | The Progressive Education Associa- | of the Summer Round-up Committee cannot be overemphasized, as it in- cludes a May day examination of the pre-school child in order that any de- fects may be detected and corrected before the school career is started. The year 1932 was a banner one in this work, both in the number of examina- tions' made and of defects corrected. Another outstanding activity was the student aid work, the slogan for which was Keep every child in school’” This con:mittee was able to meet the many | demands upon its resources, though the calls for its aid have been greater than in any previous year since it was or- ganized 16 years ago. | physteal education of children, the work | the year was the overhauling of the educational system by Minister of Pub- | lic Instruction Fernando de los Rios. | He has elaborated the courses of in- struction, based on experience gained from visits over a period of years to the United States and other countries. Several thousand new schools are be- ing built and more planned. 1870 Code Replaced. A temporary penal code was placed | in effect to replace the old code of 1870 {‘unm a Republican instrument is com- pleted. The most important change in Qpenn] law was the suppression of the | death penalty and the increase of pun- ishment for usury. The divorce law, | of problems of parenthood. “The congress has mantained a com- | passed last year, has been gradually mittee to care for the children in the |used by the Spaniards, unaccustomed Juvenile Court every day the court was | to this legislation. in session. It also has a Child Guid- | As the year closed Congress still ance Committee. A new committee on | faced difficult complementary laws to student welfare and juvenile delin- | the constitution, such as the regulation quency among high school students has | of religious orders, formation of a law been organized. |for a tribunal of constitutional guar- “There have been study groups es- antees and the electoral law. tablished for parents for the discussion The government proceeds with a defi- nite left swing. The power now in Parliament is exerted by the govern- Stress Music Appreciation. mental coalition of Socialists, Radical “This past year, also, there has been | braces private as well as public schools. | {17 to 20. | Ralph M. Pearson J. Milnor Dorey, Le | libraries and in all other legislation con- | tion, organized in behalf of “the newer | much stress on teaching music appreci- | practices in education,” also has shared | ation. The congress not only indorsed | in the struggle against the economic | but chaperoned ‘the Washington Sym- distress of the period. Its field em-| phony concerts for children. “The need and value of spirituai edu- | Annual Parley in Baltimore. ‘ f:é‘“{;:‘;‘f" ise was greatly stressed dur- | The association’s twelith annual con- | “The congress has issued a monthly | ference was held at Baltimore, February | bulletin and a monthly news release. | Twenty-four subjects were| “In matters of legislation the con- considered by discussion groups led by | gress has maintained its belief in the | competent specialists. _Speakers were | elective board of education bill, in the | Dr. Eugene Randolph Smith, Dr. Mary | enlargement and development of play- | Dabney Davis, Dr. Thomas Alexander, | grounds, in the establishment of branch | Roy E. Bowman, Miss Pauline Brooks | cerned with the care and welfare of | Williamson, Miss Sally Lueas Jean, Dr. | children. | Lois Hayden Meek, John J. Jenkins, “Fhe congress co-operated with the D. Frederick, a brother, in Fort Worth. | ger of Monterrey, directed him as to| Dr. Fannie W. Dunn, Dr. Harry Allen | Overstreet, Dr. Hughes Mearns, Dr.| George 8. Counts, Dr. Laura Zirbes, Miss Marion Miller and Burton P. Fowler, president of the association, | New regional groups of the organiza- | | tion were established at Pittsburgh and Buffalo. The first of a series of regional conferences was held in New York. No- vember 18 and 19, with Dr. Williamr Heard Kilpatrick, Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes, Bruce Bliven, Dr. James Harvey Robinson, Hendrick Van_Loon, Dr Frankwood Williams, Dr. Ira S. Wile, Miss Constance Warren, Dr. George 8. Stevenson, Dr. Henry C. Patey, Dr. A Gordon Melvin, Dr. Jesse H. Newlon, Miss Margaret Gustin and Dr. John L. Childs participating in the program. ‘The official magazine of the associa- tion was published as usual. Miss Ann Shumaker is editor. Headquarters are at 716 Jackson place. A third defense of the schools and of | children active throughout 1932 was the | National Congress of Parents and Teach- | ers, organized in 1897, “to promote child | welfare in home, school, church and community” and “to bring into closer relation the home and the school, that parents and teachers may co-operate intelligently in the training of the child | and to develop between educators and {the general public such united efforts as will secure for every child the high- est advantages in physical, mental, moral and spiritual education.” Mem- bership is reported to be in excess of 1,506,000. Cengress at Minneapolis. | The national convention of the con- gress was held at Minneapolis. May 15 to 20. At that meeting Mrs. Hugh Bradford, president, said: “The year which has rolled by has in many ways been a crucial one for our organization | as well as for business and professional organizations. For when events so change the course of our customary 1iv- ing that new values must be placed on | the things which we have lightly treat- | ed as the necessities of life, we are apt to find that there is difficuity in deter- | mining for ourselves and for others the essential values of life and of our serv- | ice to each other. * * ¢ With a reali- | zation that the needs of children are | greater now than in time of luxurious | prosperity, there has been an earnest | endeavor to minister not only to the | physical needs but to maintain in each | community a morale which stands be- | tween fear and security for children. | Our organization has been a stabilizing | influence to the Nation, and the minds | apd hearts of many worried rents | have been uplifted in thanksgi be- | cause the parent-teacher association, | though not normally devoting itself wi philanthropy, has determined that ml this crisis children should not suffer for | and the rest for Cook Cousjty, lack of food or clothing nor be drawn ! Bicentennial Commission in honoring George Washington, and endeavored to follow a consistent policy of co-opera- tin with all civic and educational or- ganizations in the District of Columbia 21“ their efforts for the welfare of chil- ren.” The District of Columbia also has offices in the N. E. A. Buil PREDICTS DRASTIC CUTS AS ROOSEVELT PROGRAM Arthur Mullen, Nebraska Commit- teeman, Avers President-elect Promised to Start Action. B the Associated Press. LINCOLN, Nebr, January 3.— Arthur Mullen, Nebraska Democratic committeeman and Western campaign manager in the recent national cam- paign, last night predicted that Presi- dent-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt would take an active part immediately in re- ducing Federal expenditures. . Mullen, addressing a Democratic leg- | islative caucus, said Roosevelt told him Tess ing. in a recent conversation that on Janu- | ary 2, he would begin to assist in cut- ting expenses of the National Gavern- ment. The Nebraskan quoted Roosevelt | Socialists, Left Catalans, Galleagan Autoncmists and Premier Azana's Ac- cion Republican party. MISSING BOY RETURNS CAMBRIDGE, Mass., January 3 () —Albert J. Moorshead, 17, of Newton, Kans,, for whom police were asked to search yesterday after he had been re- ported missing since Friday, returned last night to the home of Walter Langer, where he had been staving. Moorshead, who was suspended No- | vember 20 at Browne and Nichols | School for deficiency in studies, said he | had been staying at a rooming house | since obtaining a job last week. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. | Meeting, Petworth P. T. A., Petworth | School, Eighth and Shepherd streets, 8 pm. | Buffet supper. Women’s National Press Club, Willard Hotel, 6:30 p.m. Meeting, Southern Cross Chapter, U. D. C., Willard Hotel, 8 p.m. | Meeting, Alpha Sigma Lambda Fra- | ternity, Willard Hotel, 8 p.m. Meeting, Optometric Society, Raleigh Hotel, 7 pm. Meeting, St. David's Society, Powell Junior High School, 8 p.m. | * Meeting, Botanical Society of Wash- | ington, Cosmos Club, 8 p.m. TOMORROW. Meeting, Washington Chapter, Del- phian Society, Willard Hotel, 10 am. Luncheon, Rotary Club, Willard Hotel, 12:30 pm. Meeting, board of lady managers, George Washington _University Hos- | pital, Mayflower Hotel, 10:30 a.mn. Luncheon, Lions' Club, Mayflower |and the quotation drew applause from | | the Legislators. as saying, “I'll show you how We're | potel 10:30 p.m. going to cut the costs of government,” | o Luncheon, Monarch Club, New Co- lonial Hotel, 12:15 p.m. STOPS SON'S COUGH “Let ME tell mothers,” she writes gratefully “My son had a severe cough. We tried all kinds of cough medicine but he found no relief. Having heard the announce- ment over the radioabout Smith Brothers” Cough Syrup, I got a bottle. After the ¢hird dose my son’s cough was greatly relieved. Soon it stopped completely. I'd be glad to tell mothers about Smith Brothers” Cough Syrup.” Mrs. Ida Schlosser,6922Berthold Ave.,St. Louis,Mo. SMITH BROTHERS Cough Syrup 35 ing and furnishings is to be liquidated. To effect this, radical reductions have been made in every department of the store. 'Nothing is reserved. THE quality of our merchandise is well known. We carry only the better grades of clothing, furnishings, hats and shoes. THE sale begins at 8 o’clock tomorrow morning. Extra salespeople will be here to serve you quickly. The usual courteous Parker-Bridget Co. service will prevail in every respect. ALL sales are final; all transactions for cash only. By order of the court, I invite private bids on the store fixtures and good will of the Parker-Bridget Co. FRANK M. LOW Ancillary Receiver Free Parking at the Capital Garage While Shopping Here New York dvenue at Fifteenth