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EARLY INFLATION ACTION DOUBTED Chance for Congressional . Acticn at This Session I Grows More Remote. L .By the Associated Press. Belief that the rest of the world can ot b put back on a gold standard un- | Jess the United States lets go much of | its stock of gold, was expressed to the | House Coinage Committee tocay by | Senator Wheeler, Democrat, of Mon- tana. Consequently, he said, silver; |Holds Costigan Amendment sheuld be remonetized. Meanwhile, currency inflation by this | Congress beceme even a more remote | possibility as sponsors of immediate | BINGHAM ASSALLS BAN ON PAY SLASH Would Imperil Jobs of Many U. S. Workers. (Continued From First Page.) has recommended continuation of this “gdministrative furlough” authority for other year. Drafts Reorganization Plan. Senator Byrnes, Democrat, of South Carclina, late yesterday drafted a new reorganization plan, under which the authority of President-elect Roosevelt to consolidate and abolish bureaus would be even broader than was recommended by the Economy Committee. The committee plan provided that cash payment of the bonus let it be | Congress within 60 days of the istuance known they would postpene furiher ac- |of a reotgnnlnticx; fi"’" could pushl enccial session in the | “copcurrent” resolution to stop the o untiliithe fepecial SEeam | order. Such a resolution does not re- prin | quire signature of the President. Byrnes N now proposss to strike out the reference to a “concurrent” resolution, simply providing that reorganization orders would take effect 60 days atfer they are reported to Congress. This would mean that Congress could veto a reorganization order only by “joint” resolution, which would require the signature of the President who had issued the order. Thus, the President in turn could veto the resolution by which Congress was seeking to forestail a reorgenization crder. In such 2n in- stance, Congress could vote to pass the resclution notw.thstanding the veto, bul such a motion reguires two-thirds. Cites Plight of Jobless. Senator Barkley, Democrat, of Ken- tucky, supporting the Bratton amend- ment, pictured farmers and others who are unemployed throughout the coun- try as being in a much worse situation than Government employes under civil cervice and said it was imperative that Congress reduce Government expendi- “ertheless, bonus advocates, silver | ionists and various cther grcups} which seek cheaper money worked to| prep:re the way for scme expansion] plan in the new Corgress. - “To put the rest of the world on the | gold stancard,” Wheeler testified. !«hl.s.‘ ¢ and France would have to give | up « part of their gold 2nd it is sheer | nonsense to say otherwise. i o Comparison. | of silver is no mew | Going off th2 > recommend, ‘cal thet there is Sces on. 2 | “The single standard—gold—is a new | experiment which first came into the | Western Hemisphere in 1863 | Discussing the inflat ects of his| 16-to-1 free silver coinage plan which| the Senate rejected when offered as an | amendment to the Glass bill, Wheeler | id “Remonetization of silver is the safest and amoet ‘way In the world to get in- flation. You can help the debtor class, by a simple inflation of the currency| and a reduction of the legal content of | the gold dolior, but you cannot help world_commodily - prices, and that is/ where our trouble li 3 i Cermany and France tried these methods, he continued. but “didn't af- orld commodity prices to the ¢ degrce.” | Says Prices Would Advance. ; ation of silver,” Wheeler t & raise world commodity | pric: 60 per cent of the peo- ple of the e silver as practically ir only tick. A i here is not one other piece gis- lation pending bofcre this Cong: hat | would incrcase the cost of production in other ccuntries, and I defy anybody to! cite me cne. | “When this country remonetizes | silver at a ratio of 16 to 1, the price | of silver the world over will go to $1.29. | naturally will increase the cost | oduction abroad and benefit the | aanufacturer, taking from | other ccuntries the n'h'anttges‘ e cepreciated currencies they now | now can ship into the United | omestic produeers | bec cost, tutl her | silver is worth o little in the terms of | cur gold dollar that she cannot buy | anything. 4 | “Remonetize &l and ‘raisz its price and you change that. Our pro- | ducers can compete withf China in our | own markets, and China can afford | to buy things from us." | Gets Economist’s View. | eler said that in a recent con- | ticn with a leading econcmist, “I | “The next Congress is going you et.her one of two thirgs— 1s paper inflation cr bi- | sm. Which would you prefer?” | of our b'gzest banks he was natural'y inst any kird of inflation, but he cconcmist-banker, Wheeler said. | tallsm “bocause that | iment, and agreed that | bi-metallism could ke maintained on any ratio the law should specify.” | tures to balance the budget. Barkley | veterans. called attention to farmers who are losing their homes through foreclosure. Costigan said he knew faithful Gov- ernment employes who also will lose their investments in their homes if they are forced to take another 5 per cent reduction. < Barkley replied that they, ot least, have lifetime civil servic> pos:tions. Eenalor Wheal coming to the de- fence of the Costigan restr.ction against pay cuts, cointed out that the average salary of all Government employes is onl” §1.4C0 2 year, and thet 72 per cent of the budzet for the past year was for war dedbts, war machinery or war Wheeler Is “Amazed.” “When you cut Government salaries,” Wheeler shoutzd, “you are noc¢ h:lping any of the farmers you have been talk- ing about. bacause you are no: restoring Lhct buying power of the people by wage cuts Wheeler declared that Congress voted to get the roilrcads, banks and insur- ancs compani>s loans through the R. . C. “Now,” he said, “vou want to grind down the workers further. I a ™ared to find on this side of t men who claim to be friends cf worers prorosing a cut for em- poves of thece Gepariments. “You are not going fo talance the budget whether vou cut. 5, 10 or 25 per cen’. and it i5 all nonsenss to talk 2bout brlancing the budsel while com- moditv prices are falling as they are,” Whe-lor eomtinuad. “If you balance it tocay, it will be unbalanced tomorrow.” he added. Senator Cuttirg declarzd that further reduction of Government alaries wou'd intensify the depr>ssion end encourage private indust-y to do likewise. ~ H:lds C:ts Too Great. ! Senator Cutting said he thought the Government pay ro'l a'ready has been | cut far too much. Cuitirg ra‘d he was | inclired to agree with .the view that| the Governmen: shculd expand its ac- | tivities and plac> more resgle at werk because cf the very depr-ssion which| has led so many peocle “into a panic about the neccssity for renchment."l Senator Neely, Democrat, of West Vir- | ginia, who tried two days ago to ban| Chamb | further pay cuts in salarie; under $2,000, | the records’ also joined yesterday in suppo:tng the| | By the Associated Press | ‘The shaded area on map indicates the Tennessee watershed, where President-elect Roosevelt proposes a vast internal development, encompassing reforestration, reclamation. water power and agricultural rehabilitation. Development of fertilizer possibilitics at Muscle Shoals was included in the proposal. Through devel- opment of huge flocd control basins, beginning at Cove Creek Dam, Mr. Roosevelt estimates the power to be produced at Muscle Shoals can be increased to between In addition, he believes the proposition would provide employment for 200,000 men in the Tennessee Valley alone. Picture two and three million horsepower. shows a view of the fertile Tennessee Valley as seen from Signal Mcuntain, near Chattanooga. —A. P. Photo. | HUEY LONG ALTERS LAYOUT AT HEARING Demands Table as Large as Committee Counsel’s at Election Probe. (An earlier story on this case appears on Page C-8.) NEW ORLEANS, February 3—In a| tense atmosphere, investigation by the special Senate Committee investigating charges of fraud in the Sepiember Democratic primary election cpened in the custom house tocay with Senato: | Robert B. Howeil, Republican of Ne- breska, presiding. At the outset, Senator Huey P. Long, | offered_as_counsel for Representative | John H. Overton. charged with being elected to the United States Senate ! through fraud, objected to the physical laycut. He demanded a table as large as that furniched the committee counsel. After | discussion, ths room was rearranged. | Senator’s Party Cheered. ! As Serator Long entered the room, followed by Representative Overton. | Gov. O. K. Allen and Seymou: Weiss. | political allies of Long, the crowd clapped their hands. Then several spectators booed and ore yelled: “Why | don't you vote on some of those bills?” Another spectator yelled: “Shut up,” and the heckler remained silent. | When Earl Christenberry, Long's sec- | | retary, took a seat at 2 small table next | to Long, some one told him the table | |GEN. CRONKHITE AND BRIDE | VIRGINIA HOME| DEPART FOR Plans for Trip Abroad Follow St. Patrick’s Rectory Ceremony. A. E. F. Division Commander Famed for Fight to Clear Son’s Name. Maj. Gen. Adelbert Cronkhite, U.| S. A, retired, 72 years old, and his| 47-year-old brice, Mrs. Gertrude Horne Crcnkhite, left Washington last nllht‘ for the general's home in Phoebus, Va., where they will spend some time before taking a wedding trip to France. | They were married yesterday after-| ncon at St. Patrick’s rectory, lfler‘ having obtained a marriage license at | the couri house earlier in the day. | The bride is a member of the Pitts- burgh Horne family, wealthy depart- | ment store owners. Gen, Cronkhite was in command of thz 80th Division, A. E. F. in France and holds decorations fre mlmd; and France as well as his own country. Retired 10 Years Ago. He was retired from the Army 10 years ago, et the age of 62, after a long fight to clear the military record of his only son led him into trouble with the War Department. A little-used section of the Revised Statutes was | used to retire him, over his charge that such action did him a “gross in- justice.” His son, Maj. Alexander Pennington | Stakes Life of Ministry on wa® reserved for John G. Holland, chief | Cronkhite, had met death in a mysteri- committee investigator. ous way while leading a party of the “Sit right here,” said Long with a|213th Engineers on a practice march | scowl. “We'll see, I docn't know |near Camp Lewis, Wash. The finding whether Holland is gunning this thing | of the inquiry board noted the majoi or not.” | had accidentally killed himself, a reflec- Gen. S. T. Ansell, retired, committee tion on a_man trained in the use of counsel, cffered ccurt records. which he arms, it contended. said bore on the Overten election. The family u?‘d‘\tmn was a source of A - great pride to the general, and he did Long's Objection Overruled. | not believe his scn had died in any such | Senator Long objected on the ground | manner as the records said. He sought | that records cited were irrelevant and | help from the War and Justice De- | had no bearing on the case, but Chair- ' partments, with the result that two man Howell overruled him. saying: men were arrested, one of whom con- | “The chairman rules that anything fessed killing the major, who was their | that throws light on this subject offered commander. #either was convicted. | By the Associated | MAJ. GEN. ADELBERT CRONKHITE. DALADIER HOLDS EQUILIBRIUM GOAL Fast Action to Restore Fis- cal and Moral Balance. PARIS, February 3—Premier Dal‘ltfl staked the life of his cabinet today on | strong, swift action to restore “budget- ary and moral equilibrium ” His ministerial declaration, whicli' :he read in the Chamber and which was read in the Scnate by a member of the | upper house, pledged energetically to| quiet the country’s unrest, put &he | budget in good shape and participate | in the Wo:ld Economic Conference. | to the committee shall bs entered into | Native of New York. A possible reference to the debts was| contained in discussion of the Economic | | the allegation that President Paul von Gen. Ansell told the committee the | The general was born in Litchfield, | Conference, in which France will par- | election fraud charges included the N. Y. and was graduated from the Lticipate and “whose work is destined to DECEIT CHARGED BY HITLER'S FOES Catholic Centrist Leader Says He Obtained Dissolu- tion Decree by Trickery. By the Associated Press. ! BERLIN, February 3—The powerful | Catholic parties took their first thrust today at Chancellor Adolf Hitler with | Hindenburg was led into dissolving the Reichstag on the basis of false infor- mation, that they refused to tolerate the Hitler cabinet. Msgr. Ludwig Kaas, léader of the Catholic Centrists, in letters of pro- test to the chancellor and the President, | sald Hitler's Junker-Nazi coalition cabi- net deliberately broke with the Centrists | at the height of negotiations, before | the dissolution decree was granted by | the President. | This charge was echoed in an indig- i nant speech by Dr. Heinrich Held, pre- | mier of Bavaria and leader of the | Sugi Bavarian Populists, the Centrists’ allies, | t Eichstatt, Bavaria. Plan One Year of Grace. It was sald in political circles that | the two Catholic parties planned to give | Hitler one year of grace—he asked for | four in launching his campaign for the new Reichstag elections March 5. It was believed the alleged disclosures that the President was deceived would bol- ster the Catholic election front. Wednesday's negotiations ostensibly were conducted by Hitler to win cup- port of the Catholic parties, as he lacked 46 votes of a majority in the Reichstag. The ministry of justice post had been left open three days in the expressed hope the Centrists would accept it. Shortly after an announcement they had ref:sed to enter the cabinet, the Reichstag dissolution decree was issued |y the case of some taxes would be | by the President. Hitler's announced election stretegy is to capitalize immediately on the cur- rent enthusiasm of his followers. See- ing a possibility for a clear majority without aid of the Nationalists, he told | FOR TAX RELIEF Hoover Believes Interstate Conference of Legislators May Find Solution. 17 Minutes Required For Visit. and Speech By Chief Executive By the Asscciated Press. President Hoover traveled four miles and made a speech today —all in 17 minutes. With a motor cycle escort to take him past traffic signals, he motored two miles from the White House to the Shoreham IPRESIDENT HOPES BRITAIN OPPOSES PARIS ARMS PLAN {London Unwilling to Make New Commitments Involving Continental Europe. By the Assoclated Press. GENEVA, Switzerland, Pebruary 3.— The British government is not disposed to undertake any new engagements to buttress security on the continent, Capt. Anthony Eden, Britlsh under- secretary of state, declared today at a meeting of the world disarmament con- ference, thus disclosing the existence of another obstacle to realization of the Frerich disarmament plan, This British declaration followed Hotel in about five minutes. His speech before the Inter- state Legislative Assembly re- quired about the same length of time and he returned to the pronouncements yesterday by the Ger- man and Italian representatives reject- ing or fundamentally criticizing the French thesis that arms reduction must ‘White House as speedily as he had traveled on his first journey. (Continued Prom First Page.) a 'ltcent tax the decrease was 13.3 per cent.” Mr. Edmonds suggested a uniform 4 cent tax on gasoline applied by the Federal Government, which would turn 3 cents back to the States. Mr. Edmonds said, in his opinion, sales tax in general should be imposed and collected by the Federal Govern- ment, either with an allocation of portion of the revenue to the Sta divided upon the basis of sales, if such basis can readily be determined, or, if not, upon the basis of population. Income taxes, whether personal or corporate, and States taxes, he said, can be dealt with by allowing a deduc- tion of a certain percentage for State taxes actually imposed and paid. Property taxes and licenses, he con- tinued, belong to the State, and should be dealt with by the State exclusively. Pleads for Home and Farm. Another speaker at the opening ses- sion was Clyde L. King, former secre- tary for revenue and finanee of Penn- sylvania, who told his hearers that “we must take the greater burden of taxa- jon from home and farm,” declaring that these sources pay more than one- half of the total tax burden. To do this, Mr. King said he belleves it will be necessary for the States to go into flelds now occupied by the Federal Government. He pointed out that until this past year State governments had had a valuable tax source to themselves in the levy on gasoline, but that now this had been invaded by the Federal Government. Another problem, he sald, which must be considered is that of relief, nec sitated by the depression. He empha- sized that this is costing more than the States can save otherwise or can raise equitably by taxation. Robert Murray Haig, professor of po- litical economy &t Columbia University, gested as a solution of conflicting taxation the assignment to the Pederal Government of all those types of taxes in the administration of which it pos- sesses a substantial advantage as com- pared with the States, with provision for such a division of yield with the States as is appropriate to the functions assigned to them on the basis of ef- clency. Federal Administration. “Transiated into a specific tax pro- gram.” Prof. Haig said, “this arrange- ! ment would require, I feel certain, the | Pedesal administration of most of the | taxes on sales and consumption, and B4 ct, the Federal administration of death duties and personal and cor- porate income taxes as well.” | There are objections to this program, he said. the most serious of which he | described as the fear that “no just and | satisfactory basis of distribution can be | agreed upon.” He added that solution | relatively easy, particularly as regards | gasoline taxes, personal income tax and death duties. “For example,” he said, “all States impose gasoline taxes, approximately on the basis of consumption within wait upon the conclusion of additional pacts guaranteeing security. “In the search for new safeguards for pegce,” said Capt. Eden, “we must | not overlook those which already exist. Cites Present Treaties. “There is first, for those of us who are members of the League of Nations, its covenant which is expressly binding upon us all. There is next the pact of Peris to which almost every gov- ernment in the world has subscribed. | There is finally for certain countries |of Western Europe the Treaty of Locarno “The importance of the guarantces given by that treaty may seem by com- parison slight in some countries. They do not seem so in mine. It would be a mistake to underrate the significance of the Locarno treaty.” Nevertheless, he expressed approval of the idea of the formation of other regional security agreements, but added, | “My government conceives that in its membership in the League and its sig- nature to the Locarno treaty it has gone as far as it could and should in assuming definite commitments in Europe. | "I can give no hint of encourage- ment, therefore, that it will be possible for us to modify this attitude or to | undertake new obligations and new commitments to which the public opin- ion of my country is unalterably op- posed.” | He argued that European disarma- ment would be an effective guarantee for European peace. | Time for Real Action. | “This” he said, “is an experiment { which I belleve world opinion would wish us to make, and which economic | forces scon will compel us to undertake. The time has now come to quit talking disarmament and to begin acting dis- armament.” ‘The French plan was stoutly defended by Edouard Benes, representing Czecho- slovakia, who asserted it offers a com- plete system of security through the extension and organization of inter- | national peace, at the same time pro- | viding a degree of real disarmament in | proportion to the extent to which security is realized. | Taking up the French plan yester= | day the delegates heard Count Rudolf | Nadolny, spokesman for the German chancellor, Adolf Hitler, flatly reject a | fundamental principle of this sch-me, | namely, that disarmament must go crm |in arm with the establishment of ad- ditional guarantees for international security. After asserting that the League of Nations covenant had pledged the na- tions to a progressive disarmament as | the best way of maintaining peace and | guaranteeing security of all states, | Count Nadolny expressed regret that | the French plan did not contain con- | crete proposals for genuine qualitative nor quantitative disarmament and that it provided no means for a limitation of war materigl. |GOV. MURRAY WINS FIGHT | TO OUST COMMISSIONER Oklahoma Executive Sent Bill by Costigan amendment. new salary cut, whether in the |ment cr” private incusicy, means a, | further d>creace in the purchasing and | He said every 26 Goven?!\use of dummy candidates, who an- | Military Academy in 1882. He served | 'a mounced for cffice and chose election | in the Indian and Spanish Wars, and' commissioners and then withdrew from | tock the 80th Division to France after the race. | training at Camp Lee, Va. It was the ROGSEVELT IS READY FOR FISHiING CRUISE Legislature Creating New Highway Organization. Nazi leaders: “Don't give the opposition time to begin, and maintain a vigorous offensive.” their borders and there is considerable complaint about evasion. Suppose the | Federal authorities would consent to| render practicable within the frame- work of a general adjustment the sepa- rete seitlement of engagements and | By the Associated Press. | consumntive power of the pcople, end | such_decreace means a fucther | numb:r of persons IN FLORIDA WATERS loyed. —(Ceniinued From cmploye: B Interpreted by Bration. it en end to_unemployment and f“g: In the debate which followed the| Congesac: SIhe SO0 1;1{*-0"“ d“r“ | adoption of the Costigan ban against Ariznsas Valleys are in Ius mind 10T | wage cuts or additional furlough:, Sen- the next steps if the experiment proves | gtcr Bratton, auther of the 5 per cent| g i‘;;-h";r::’glt = tflf r{s"éflaflzfl‘fut. interpreted the restriction as fol- St e m"ll& yrhite| “A cabinet officer might say to an ouser on the top cf Pine Mountaln | emolove, ‘Under this amendment I am | te eppreadl roblen not impos = ;_‘}‘\-"r Pfif;snffiym"“d Moley, economic | trative furlough in order Jo do it.| e 2sent. | o it heial)the eimlomatiomosts | mareire L GolEEd OO e Mr. Roosevele has consulied during the | = The vote by which the Senate adopt- last 24 hours with Robert Dunham. ey the Costigan amendment follows: Chicag> indusirialist, and Judge Robert | * veas (42)—Ashurst, Barbour, Black, W. Bingham, Louisiville publisher. who | plaine, Borah, Brookhart. Bulow, Ca 113;'}25 ‘;ifig o ed for Berlin and | per Caraway, Copeland, Costlgnnk. Cou- 5 TESpeCiNELy: & p. | zens, Cutting, Dale, Davis, Dickinson, = e ohnson, Keen. Keyes, lette, Mc- Tennessce slated for Secretary of Scate, | . Meary. Matoalt. Neely. Nye, Oddie, st Pace) Scnater Glass of Virginia for Secretary of the Treasury, James A. Farley cf | New York for Postmaster General and | Miss Francis Perkins of New York for | Secretary of Labor. The other jobs | centinued to be shuffled around. Pest Slated for McKee. Meanwhile the “baby cabinet” of Un- dersecreiaries and_Assistant Secretaries | is taking shape. This is believed to in- clude Prof. Moley and Sumner Wells | for the State. Department. Howard | Bruce of Maryland for Treasury, Au- thor O'Brien of Washington for War Department, Jemes O’Mahoney of Wyoming for Post Offic: Department, Vincent Astor and Vincent vahlman, cld, 111, publisher, for the Navy. 1 Rcper of South Carolina and Gore of Chicago for commis- sioner of Intornal Revenue, Felix Frankfurter ¢f Harvard Law School for Solicitor General and Joscph V. M:Kee, former acting mayor of New York, for director of the budget. - Mr. Roosevelt sails tomorrcw morn- | ing from Jacksonville for a fishing | cruise of 10 days aboard the yacht Nourmahel of Vincent Astor. During the cruice Roosevelt headquarters will be established at Miami, to which he mél repcrt for the press each day by | radio, Naticnal Chairman Farley, Fraak L. ‘Walker, party treasurer; Edward J. Flynn, Bronx Jeader, and a host of cther Democratic chieftains will en- camp at Miami during the week. PR RO ALMA RUBENS’ MOTHER GETS LIBEL SETTLEMENT By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, February 3.—A mil- lion-dollar suit, brought by Mrs. Theresa Rubens against the Photoplay Publish- ing Co., charging libel in connection with the magazine's story of the funeral of her daughter, the late Alma Rubens, film actress, has been settled cu of eourt. The amount of the settlement was not announced, but attorneys for Mrs. Rubens said it was “a satisfactory and substantial sum.” Mrs. Rubeyfiben;lel;gs &er mhml: memory was e , pul tried mms perio xg;l'n, 1;5. ::;“' m U] lor ul Iajled to T Reed, Reynolds, Russell, Schall. Schuy- ler, Smith, Steiwer, Wagner, Walsh of Montana, Wheeler and White. Nays (29)—Austin, Bankhead, Bark- | ley, Bratton, Bulkley, Byrnes, Connal- ly. Coolidge, Fletcher, Goldsborough, | Gore, Grammer, Hale, Harrison, Hast- ings, Kendrick, King. Logan, McKellar, Moses, Norris, Robinson of Arkansas, Sheppard, Townsend, Trammell, Tyd- ings, Vandenberg, Walsh of Massachu- setts and Watson. GARNER TO BLOCK TARIFF-INCREASING BILLS FOR PRESENT ) foreign money on the American market. The Republicans in caucus bound them- selves to support some such legislation and a petition has been signed by 150 members forcing a vote February 13 on m,filnn vp the automatic tariff-increase Earlier this week Floor Leader Rainey announced the Democrats would hold caucus on the subject. It was his declered intention to band the party ‘majority -against considering the sub- ject before the new .administration takes over. ever, he canceled the caucus call and said it might be held after the com- mittee hearings were dver. Condemned by O’Brien. (Continued From First Ps said members who vote for it might as well vote to take the United States off the gold standard. Garner said inquiry among many Republicans who signed the tion to force a vote on the Crowther bill disclosed a reaction that would prevent its being taken up for passage wi the discharge motion is voted on.Mon- day after next. The testimony of administration offi- cials and :mem! the Tarift Com- Later the same day, how- | act hen | retaliation for the trade bers of :;nuiwen Garner nai:ll:hld resulted in ts would esucus on the agree and was dipchnxel. - proposition, “if it is necessary.” . Senator Long interrupted to com- | ment that “dummy candidates were used by both sidcs,” in the challenged | primary in which Representative Over- ton defeated Senator Edw.n S. Brous- sard. Gen. Ansell replied he would make | no such admission “as the truth will| bl! more conclusive than such admis- sion " Senator Long said they could save time if the committee would rule on the dummy candidate angle at once. ““Time would be saved if the Senator | kept quiet.” Ansell said “It would shorten the time and dura- tion of the hearing and hence his counsel pay,” Long retorted. Crowd Cheers Retort. Senator Long charged that Gen. Ansell was taking “a lot of time” be- cause he ‘“wanted his job to last longer.” “The Senator knows that is not true,” | said the general. “We are here for a| fair hearing, free from perjury and | intimication and that is what we are going to have. The Senator knows I | go not want a job nearly as much as he | oes.” “But I can be elected and you can't,” said Long. | “I have never run for office and never | desire to run for office under your cir- | cumstances,” the general feplied as the crowd cheered. Ccmmitteeman Howell said he would clear the chamber if the crowd did not keep quiet. Representative John H. Overton then was called to the witness chair by Gen. Ansell. SENATE ACTS TODAY ON JOHNSON MEASURE FOR AMERICAN GOODS (Continued From First Page.) stop appropriating money to encourage production of cotton. Unless the farm- ers. can sell something in order to get money, how are you ever going to re- vitalize industry in the cities. Parmers are amcng the best customers for goods produced in factories in the cities.” The Maryland Senator said the Ding- ley tariff act, the Fordney-McCumber tariff act and the Smoot-Hawley tariff had been passed with increased tariff duties, and that each time the countries of Europe had retaliated by raising trade barriers of their own. Senator Smoot, Republican, of Utah, replied to Senator Tydings, declaring that the trade balance which is now in A count lor many years. He said the fact that the imports into America had fallen off was not due to the Smoot-Hawley act, but to conditions t the world, with everywhere unable to gay for . In a measure the Johnson amend- ment, which is virtually the same pro- as the Wilson “ American” i1l recently passed by the House, is in barriers which have been reared by foreign nations against American-made goods: Roosevelt Plans at Variance. It atlopted and it should become law, the Johnson amendment will mark a from the le | Johnson only American divisio to be called into | the line three separate times during the Meuse-Argonne offensive. ‘The Cronkhite family is related to others who, lkewise, boasted long Army records. - Gen. Cronkhite's father was Col. Henry McLean Cronkhite, de- scended from a Dutch ancestor, who set- tled in the colonies in 1642. Among | other relatives are Maj: Gen. Alexander C. M. Pennington of Civil War fame; | Col. John T. Grebel, first Union offi- cer killed in the* Civil War, and Joseph C. Swift, who stood first in the first class ever graduated from the Military Academy. TECHNOCRACY IS HIT IN TALK BEFORE CLUB The weak spot in technocracy is that | it offers no solution for conditions to- | day except to claim that the country should be run by engineers and not by politicians, Art Brown, director of pro- motion and associate editor of Nation's Business, tcld a meeting of the Cosmo- politan Club at the Carleton Hotel yes- terday. It is sheer nonsense to think that civ- ilization is facing ruin because of the machine,"Mr. Brown said. The influence of the machine always has been taken into consideration, he stated, and we now have greater wealth in this coun- try than ever before “in spite of the| stock market crash and other depress- ing events.” William L. King, retiring president of | the Cosmopolitan Club, was presented with silver candelabra and E. E. Down- han, retiring secretary, with a desk set. existing trade barriers. On that ground it was assailed by some of the Demo- crats in the Senate last night and will be so assailed again today. However, proponents of the Johnson amendment may say, on the other hand, that the adoption of this virtual Gov- ernment embargo against the purchase by the Gcvernment of foreign goods |as will give the United States a further trading basis when it comes to dealing with foreign nations in an effort to remove trade barriers. In the vote yesterday on to suspend the rules to mal the Jchnson amendment on an appro- appropriation bill 18 Democrats voted with Senater Johns:cn of California and the great buk of the Republicans, while only 15 Democrats voted again:t the Johnson proposal. Four Republicans. three of them “Rooseve!t Republicans"— Blaine, Cutting and La Follette—and the other, Senator Borah of Idaho, chairman of the Foreign Relations Com- mittee, voted against Senator Johnson’s the motion ke in order as, -the leader of the Senate; Senstor Harrison of Mississippi, slated to be chairman of the Pinance Committee in the next Congress and to handle all tariff and revenue , and Senator Costi- | cialists, " upon whose favor | WOMAN ROUTS BANDIT | hand, disputes born of the war." His precarious cabinet faced the So- it is de- pendent for life, but with whom the premier broke over his program when he was forming the ministry. Discussing foreign policy. the premier said: “We wish security, our complete security, the security of all peoples who, if they are to have equal rights, must have equal duties.” TRYING TO SEIZE PURSE Stcre Manager, Held Up on Way Home, Exchanges Blows With Masked Man. By the Associated Press. WAKEFIELD, Mass, February 3.— Miss Frances De Fazio, sue of the few woman chain stcre managers in New England, gave so much betier than she received in an exchange of punches | with a masked would-be robber last night that he took to his hee’s, leaving o deciions andithe sk ece $50, with er. Miss De Fazio was taking the eve- ning’s receipts to her home for safe- keeping. From behind a tree a masked man sprang at her and attempted to wrest her bag, containing $50, from her grasp. Miss De Fazio fought with one the robber with two, but after swapping punches for a few seconds, th2 robber fled. —_— BRITISH PLANNING DEBT DRIVE IN U. S. TO GET REDUCTION (Continued From Pirst Paze) Chambeglain’s statements that he does not regard the debts talks in March “a great swapping deal.” The five members of the cabinet who will confer with Sir Ronald will not be the mission to Washington, it was authoritatively stated today. A govern- ment spokesman said it would be im- possible, from a governmental view- point, to send them to the United States. BULLITT MAY BE ENVOY. VIENNA, February 3. (#).—Rumors have been drifting about Vienna to the effect that Wil C. Bullitt will be the next United States Minister to Austria. He has been I for a residence here, according to house agents. ‘However, he also was hére long before School Decrees Issued. In line with this policy, the severe measures taken against Communists yes- terday were followed todav by a series of decrees to promote “discipline and obedience” in Prussian schools. They were issued by Hermann Goering. Nazi cabinet member, who is commissioner for the Prussian ministry of interior. These decrees revive corporal punish- ment in the schools and call for careful selection of teachers and various ad- | ministrative reforms. The raids o Communist headquarters and the suppression of demonstrations continued, as did the casualities from | street fighting between Nazis and Com- munists and Socialists. A weman in Duisburg was slain by shots after re- fusing to comply with a Nazi order to keep “windows down.” Householders were ordered to keep their doors and windows rhut under threat they would fred upon during a parade last night | of 5,000 Nazis in Berlin, Feur Hurt in Clash. Prince August Wilhelm, the fourth son of the ex-Kaicer and an enthusiastic Nazi leader, and Count Wolf Hendrick von Helldorf reviewed the parade. There were- persistent rumors Count von Helldorf, leader of the Berlin storm | troops, would be appointed chief of | police of Berlin. Four persons were injured in a Nazi- Communist clash in Hamburg and there was considerable unrest in Lcuback | where workmen had gone on strike in | protest against errests of leaders. | Eleven persons were wounded when | Nazis opened fire on a Socialist parade | in the Ruhr. SR RS RR FARMERS’ PLIGHT PERILS SCHOOLS, COMMITTEE TOLD (Continued From First Page.) and farm implements at less than a nickel apiece, restoring them to their owner. He said steps which might “stop the onslaught todgy might not stop it tomorrow.” “The small business men of our country czre just as bad off as the farmer,” he continued. “It's actually getting serious and it's dangerous. “There’s no one thing now that can change the situation. This is just one step in the right direction.” Scttle said he had had high hopes | hig! that the Reconstruction Finance Cor- | poration would improve matters, but said tha money bel:nl;}:cn;g“ by the corporation apparent v being put into eom’."t'm.e and not getting out where it will help the id Tells of Confusion. Earl C. Smith of the Illinois Agricul- twnmm(mmo(umphmw the A representative of the Institute of American Meat Pack: at a | to find Alva Truman Taylor, 15-year- | additional rate on behalf of the States, the yield of which would be distributed according to estimated gasoline con- | sumption. In the case of the personal |income tax, the State of residence | should be a satisfactory basis for dis- tribution. In the case of the death duties, it should be possible to arrive at a basis for the distribution from a Federal-collected tax, which would per- mit the elimination of the costs of dual administration involved in the present | crediting arrangement. Under this | heritance tax, for instance, there is a | reciprocal arrangement between Fed- ‘enl and State governments.” The speaker said conflicting taxation produces wastes, inconveniences and perhaps inequities. 5 Segregation Discussed. Henry F. Long, commissioner of cor- porations and taxation of Massachu- setts, discussed the problem of segre: gating taxes properly collectable by Federal and State jurisdictions. _ “It would seem to be high time.” he said, “that all taxing jurisdictions make a determined effort to find their actual governmental requirements ard to a just them to their actual ability to pt If there is any thought that all-our cit- izens should be contributing something toward meeting governmental cost, then a general sales tax, universally ap- plicable throughout the United States, would eet the requirements of those who feel that a wider-spread tax con- sciousness is necessary to curtail gov- ernmental expenditures.” William B. Belknap of Goshen, Ky., president of the American Legislators’ Association, in his welcoming speech, said that the organization is trying to br:ng about a proper regulation of tax- ation. Tonight, at & dinner. members of a subc ttee of the House Ways and Means Commiitee, which is studying double taxation, will be guests. There also are luncheon and dinner meetings scheduled tomorrow. Out of this conference the partici- pants are hopaful that there may be some group formed to confer with Fed- eral officlals on the general subject o} co-ordinating tax systems. ATLANTA YOUTH SOUGHT BY WASHINGTON POLICE Washington police today were iskelg ol h school student of Atlant?, Ga., said to be hitch-hiking to this city with an ambition to Pll{ in an inaugural band. ‘The boy is said to have left yesterday He was dressed in a high school band uniform when he left Atlanta. TEXAS PRIMARIES SET Dates Chosen to Pick Nominee for Garner's House Seat. UVALDE, Tex., February 3 (#).—The Democratic Executive Committee of the Inhwmchlnm'iinfiew The general election for XY add to their tax on gasoline, collected from refineries at slight expense. an | crediting plan, which applies on in- | be the | all OKLAHOMA CITY, February 3.— ! Gov. W. H. Murray yesterday won his fight to oust Lew Wentz, wealthy Re- publican and his political foe, from the State Highway Commission. The Oklahoma House passed the Sen- ate highway reorganization bill creat- ing a new road commission and the | measure now goes to the Governor. The announced purpose of the measure was to provide for the removal of Wentz, & Ponca City oil man. However, the Democratic commissioners, Sam Hawks and J. F. McKeel, 2lso will be legis- lated from office. Wentz, serving a six-year term under appointment in 1920 by Gov. W. J. | Holloway, declined to resign when Mur- ray became Governor. | Last Spring the Governor removed | Wentz by executive order and appointed | Miss Maud Thomas of Beaver to suc- ceed him. The State Supreme Court, hewever, held Wentz had a right to the office. | |[Your Income Tax No. 5 k Normal Tax and Surtax Rates | The normal tax rate is 4 per cent on the first $4,000 of net income in ex- | cess of the personal exemption, credit | for dependents, etc.; and 8 per cent on | the remainder of such excess’amount. The surtax rates—in computing which many taxpayers make mistakes, usually to their own disadvantage—begin on | net incomes in excess of $6,000. The rates increase in accordance with the | amount of net income included in varying so-called income-tax brackets. On a net income of $6,000 or less there is no surtax. On a net income in ex- cess of $6,000 and not in excess of $10,000 the rate is 1 per cent of such excess. The surtax upon a net income | of $10,000 is $40 and upon a net income in excess of $10,000, and not in excess of $12,000, the rate is 2 per cent in addition of such excess. The surtax on a net income of $1,000,000 is $491,- 460, and upon a net incume in excess of $1,000,000, in addition 55 per cent of such excess, the maximum fate. | Many taxpayers make the error of | applying the maximum rate instead of the rate provided for in the bracket in which their net income is included. | Following is an example of how to compute the tax on a net income of | $14,500, the taxpayer being single and | without dependents: | Net income ....... Less personal exempt Balance taxable 4 per cent normal t $4.000 ... 8 per cent normal {ax of $0.500 ... Surtax of $140 on’ ‘$14,000. pius 4 per cent on $500 in'excess of that amount . 14.500 511600 1,050 ‘The earned-income credit allowed in- | dividuals - under the revenue act of 1928 is entirely omitied from the reve- nue act of 1932. Therefore, no earned- | income credit may be taken for the calendar year 1932 or succeedihg tax- able years. Taxpayers are advi read carefully the instructions on 1040 relating to the instructions thereon, bef ing their returns.