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NEWSPAPER RADID OWNERSHIP HIT Celler Opposes Policy on Ground of Giving “Great- est Freedom.” By the Associated Press. Ownership and operation of radio broadcasting stations by newspapers was opposed before the Communica- tions Commission yesterday by Repre- sentative Celler, Democrat, of New York. Celler testified as a witness for ra- dio interests fighting the application of the Brooklyn Eagle Broadcasting Co. for a permit to operate on the 1,400-kilocycle channel frequency now shared by four other stations. He said he approved of the Eagle as a newspaper, but did not think it should “own or possess any radio facilities.” “I am opposed to any newspaper owning and operating & station,” Cel- ler said. Asks “Greatest Freedom.” “It is a matter that is fraught with a great deal of danger, especially in these perilous times, when the great- est freedom should be given to the dis- semination of news. “There should be as many as pos- sible owners of radio facilities and newspapers, so that there cannot be any combination that will narrow that type of dissemination. Newspapers should stick to their own knitting. ‘They should not own and operate stations, and I would be for legisla- tion which would absolutely separate them.” Celler is chairman of the Board of Broadcasters of Brooklyn, formed by a combination of WARD, WLTH and WVFW, three of the four Brooklyn stations opposing the Brooklyn Eagle Co.’s application. The fourth, WBBC, has made a separate application for renewal of license. “Chain” Link Rumor. Celler said he first became inter- ested in the Brooklyn radio ®sta- tions when he heard the rights en- joyed by the four were to be turned over to & “chain.” Elsewhere in his testimony he said: “I do not believe that a newspaper’s function is to control radio. It would be a dangerous thing in this land if newspapers could reach out for mas- tery not only into the news columns but in the dissemination of news and whatever goes over the radio. That is a question of policy that I think I am qualified to dwell upon.” MRS. NORTON PLANS NEW D. C. MEASURES Declines Important Assignment to Continue as Chairman of Committee. Representative Mary T. Norton of New Jersey, the first woman to be chairman of any major House com- mittee, and chairman of the House District Committee in the last Con- gress, has definitely declined another important assignment, generally con- sidered in the light of a promotion, so that she may continue as chair- man of the District Committee. “I have no intention of quitting the District Committee. I intend to con- tinue as chairman,” said Mrs. Norton today. “I consider it a high honor and privilege to be in charge of leg- islation for the development, safe- guarding and proper regulation of the Nation’s Capital. I hope to con- tinue the job. We have made a good start on legislation that has long been needed. In the incoming Congress we will continue the work with a definite program of measures of major importance on which we will concentrate. I feel that I can con- fidently predict that the incoming Congress will pass important legisla- tion beneficial to the Capital City— and I have found that the great mass of people all over the country have a growing concern in all that affects their Capital.” MISSIONS FUNDS GIVEN Plea Made for Church Work in Mountains. “There are men, women and chil- dren in the Virginia range of the Blue Ridge Mountains who have never heard the name of Jesus,” declared Mrs. W. E. Barr, director of the Young People’s Missionary Volunteer Society of the Washington Sanatorium, in an appeal for funds to aid these moun- taineers. Members of the Sabbath school of the institution responded to her plea. “These unfortunates know little or nothing of an enlightened civiliza- tion, are hungry, ignorant, cold, naked and forlorn,” she declared. SPECIAL NOTICES. Mrs. Gerald P. Nye (left).and attended the Senate.munitions hearing yesterday. Miss Marjorie Nye, shown as they Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota is in charge of the hearing and the family came out to hear what was going on. —A. P. Photo. Obstacles Seen i n Obtaining Ratio for Adjusted Tax Rate Establishment of Relationship of As- sessed Valuation to True Value Held Particularly Difficult Now. The article which appears below {s the text of the pertinent parts of an address delivered Friday evening at the annual banquet of the Asso- ciation of Oldest Inhabitants by L. A. Carruthers, vice president of the Federation of Citizens' Associations and chairman of the Federation’s Committee on Fiscal Relations. Mr. Carruthers is a recognized expert in that phase of statistical comparison which he discusses here. 1t is most’ pleasing to note the in- terest and aggressive action taken on the part of the District Commission- ers in securing a more equitable ap- propriation on the part of the Federal Government to meet its obligation to the District government. As Commis- sioner Hazen has just stated, it will be extremely difficult to secure a ratio of | assessed valuation of taxable property to true value, but this will be neces- sary before an evaluated or adjusted tax rate can be secured. The plan ordinarily followed in se- curing this ratio is to compare the actual or sales value of a typical num- ber of properties with the assessed valuations of the same properties. In arriving at this ratio many ele- ments must be taken into considera- tion; distress and condemnation sales are not representative of true value and should be elimjnated. A sufficient number of different classes of prop- erty and in different locations of the city should be secured in arriving at any trustworthy conclusion. To estab- lish a ratio of assessed valuation to true value is extremely difficult in normal times, but under present con- ditions, with the greatly increased number of distress sales, it is prac- tically impossible to determine the true value of property based on the accepted ruling that the true value of property is the amount for which it will sell when you have a willing buyer and a willing seller. Assessments Changed. ‘The present economic condition has resulted in numerous and drastic changes in the assessed valuation of taxable property, in many States and cities, resulting in new and revised laws on the classification of prop- erty to be taxed in accordance with the use to which it is put; a tax limitation, constitutional or statu- tory, limiting the rate of levy which may be applied; the exemption from taxation of the property of home owners up to a certain amount; the horizontal reduction of assessed valu- ations to conform to the shrinkage in real estate values; and in some States legislation changing the basis of as- sessed valuation to true value. In other communities assessed valuations have been kept at pre-depression levels in order to protect their bonded indebtedness limitation based on as- sessed valuation of taxable real prop- erty or because of .a low tax limita- tion rate which requires a high assess- ment in order to produce necessary revenues. Realizing the many difficulties in securing and the questionable value of an equalized tax rate, based on a ratio of assessed value to true value, some agencies engaged in compiling statistics on this subject have discon- tinued the practice and are using the actual rate of levy and for compara- tive purposes a per capita levy; other agencies particularly in an advisory capacity are recommending that no publication of a statistical nature in- clude tax rates, because of the unfair and misleading comparisons that re- sult from the publication of such sta- tistics and recommend as a substitute for either actual or equalized tax rates a per capital comparison only. It is contended by some students on this subject that the tax rate is merely a mathematical factor, to be used in amount of that product, which is the amount of that products, which is the tax levy, or anticipated tax receipt, and assessed valuation on which it must be imposed have been deter- mined. Scientific Basis Urged. It is highly important that the amount of the Federal obligation be determined on scientific and perma- nently established principles, that the amount be fixed and certain, in order that District officials may anticipate, with a reasonable degree of accuracy when compiling the budget, the ap- proximate amount of revenues that may be derived from that source. It is most pleasing to note the interest taken by the President in this subject and the survey which he has indi- cated that he will have made in order to determine the amount of this obli- gation, and undoubtedly the agency designated to make this survey in determining the amount will use in addition to evaluated or equalized tax rate per capita and other stand- ards of measurement. S On the assumption that taxes while levied against the property of an in- dividual are “passed on” and paid indirectly by the entire population, it is believed that the per capita method of presentation, in which you have a definite and fixed tax levy and a known population, will result in a per capita figure that is accurate and comparable, and on which a fair and just comparison can be made. This survey will be made in the interest of equity and justice, and I am sure that we have nothing to fear from the results of it, and it is further be- lieved that much lasting good will be the final outcome. ‘INDESCRIBABLE HORROR’ DECLARED DISCOVERED IN GALAPAGOS TRAGEDY (Continued From Pirst Page.) 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LEAVES “GARDEN OF EDEN.” Dore Koerwien Grieves Over Loss of Nudist Mate. GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, December 11 (®)—Dispatches from San Chisto- bal Island in the Galapagos Archi- pelago last night said Dore Koerwien, the loss of her mate, the nudist philosopher, Pried- rich Ritter, was sailing from their “Garden of Eden” back to Guayaquil and civilization. Boarding the yacht Velero III of Capt. G. Allan Hancock, she revealed for the first time details of the death of Ritter, the former Berlin dentist who put into practice his theories of raw food diet and natural living. He died, she said, from poisoned meat. She planned to return to Germany for a short visit, then come back to Lonely Island, where she and Ritter were neighbors of the mysteriously missing “Empress” Eloise Wagner. To an Associated Press correspond- ent at San Cristobal she told how Ritter died in her arms November 21 and was buried in a shallow grave before the door of their little dwelling. “On November 18,” Frau Koerwien said, “Ritter went out to hunt and killed a wild pig. Part of it he gave to his hens, which ate it and several hours later died. “On seeing all his hens dead, and being accustomed to depend on them for his chief sustenance, Ritter ate what had been the finest of them. After a few hours he realized he had been poisoned.” It is generally believed Dr. Ritter took to the grave with him the secret of the disappearance of Baroness Wagner, and likewise the possibility of clearing up definitely the strange death of two castaways on lonely Marchena Island. After Ritter's death, Frau Koerwein said, she placed a message in a barrel Dignity of Supreme Court Shattered by Laughs in Code Case ‘The atmosphere of the Su- preme Court is usually one of dignity and restraint—but there were good-natured chuckles from the robed justices during part of the arguments on the oil code case yesterday. F. W. Fischer, portly, red- haired lawyer from Tyler, Tex., hammered the code with words and gestures, .representing the Panama Refining Co. He caused even the Chief Justice to smile when he said he wasn’t able to discover a copy of the petroleum code until he finally found one “in the hip pocket of an agent sent down to Texas from Wash- ington.” It was a question in his mind, he said, whether a “man can be prosecuted” for violation of an order “issuing from some coi mission up here in Washington.' which served as the island’s mail box, asking for help. With it she placed a dollar to pay some passing boat to send the message by wireless. Fish- ermen, however, apparently stole the bill, she said. She was rescued by Hancock, who set out from Los Angeles with his ex- ploring yacht November 23, when news was published of the Galapagos mysteries. She came aboard the yacht in a highly emotional state, supporting herself with a stick. Seeing on the beach a small burro, which Ritter had captured and domesticated, she threw her arms around the animal's neck and wept. WOMAN FACES DEATH LEWISBURG. W. Va., December 11 (#)—The mfl{'x't death sentence for & woman ‘est Virginia’s history is to be imposed upon Frances Williams, 29, colored, mother of a 6-year-old son. The woman was convicted of slaying wunk:rm Mitchell, colored quarry ‘worl . GWENBY BRTAN Useléss and Unwise to Pay Debt Installment at This ~ Time, Says Note. By the Assoclated Press. Great Britain has formally notified the United States that she will default on war debt installments totaling $379,361,776 due Saturday. Pending a general revision of the entire intergovernmental debt struc- ture, the British note, made public by the State Department today, said Great Britain considers it ‘“useless” and “unwise” to make the payments. They consisted of the regular $117,- 670,763 due December 15 and $261,- 791,011 on which Great Britain al- ready is in defaut. Finland is the only country expected to pay. She is the only debtor nation not in default. Welcome U. S. Assurance. “His Majesty’s government,” the note said, “welcome the assurance that the United States Government are fully disposed to discuss any proposals that may be put forward in regard to the payment of this indebtedness, and that such proposals would receive careful consideration with a view to their eventual submisison to Congress. “In June last, His Majesty’s govern- ment explained the circumstances which had forced them to decide to suspend payments under the funding and moratorium agreements pending the final revision of the war debt set- tlement. “In that note it was stated that re- cent events had shown that discussions with & view to a final revision of the settlement could not at that time use- fully be renewed. Position Again Renewed, “His majesty’s government have again most carefully reviewed the po- sition, but they regret that they have reached the conclusion that the con- siderations which governed their de- cision six months ago apply with equal force today. “Accordingly they feel that it would be useless, and therefore unwise to initiate negotiations at present, but they will continue to watch for any effective opportunity of taking steps in that direction” Dispatches from Paris yesterday said the French cabinet was drafting a note for delivery to Secretary Hull in which France would announce no payment on the $22,308,312 falling due Saturday or arrears accrued from four previous defaults, totaling $163,- 616,841, ITALY TO FOLLOW SUIT. Government Indicates Stand Against Payment December 15. ROME, December 11 (#).—Govern- ment circles indicated today that Italy would follow the lead of Great Britain and France in defaulting on its war debt installment due the United States | December 15. Italy was called upon to pay to the | United States next week $30,570,196 | on a total war debt of $2,008,103,288. 'NEW TRIAL SOUGHT IN CODE CONVICTION Battery Maker Liable to Fine of $5,000—Appeal Planned if Motion Is Denied. By the Associated Press. HARRISBURG, Pa., December 11.— A motion for & new trial yesterday halted sentencing of Fred C. Perkins, York battery manufacturer, who was convicted in Federal court of violat- ing the “Blue Eagle” code for his industry. Perkins, who was charged with pay- ing his employes less than the mini- mum wage of 40 cents an hour pre- scribed by the N. R. A, is liable to a maximum fine of $5.000. Judge Albert L. Watson fixed Thurs- day for arguments on a rule for the Government to show why Perkins should not be granted a new trial. There have been indications that the case will be appealed if a new trial is denied. It is understood the appeal will challenge the constitu- tionality of the N. R. A. Perkins, who refused to sign the to pay the code wage, spent 18 days in jail last Summer until bail was provided after the Government filed charges against him. o \CATHOLIC DOCTORS APPROVE RHYTHM Physicians’ Guild Views Birth- Control Method as Within Ethics. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, December 11.—The ap- proval of the Catholic Physicians’ Guild has been given the “rhythm method” of birth control. Rev. John A. O'Brien, head of the Newman Foundatton on the Univer- sity of Illinois campus, last night told the 500 Catholic and non-Catho- lic physicians who attended the clin- ical discussion sponsored by the guild that “the objection that it would re- duce the birth rate is based on the assumption that married couples are not now employing other methods.” He said it shows that “God has made possible the regulation of the number of offspring, but using na- ture’s laws instead of abusing them. Dr. Joseph A. Tobin, president of the guild, said the method was the only one that “can be justified either on scientific or ethical grounds.” . WOMAN GETS 2 YEARS IN BIG MAIL RAID Mrs. Ida Schaefer Pleads Guilty to Aiding $234,000 Sacra- mento Robbery. By the Associated Press’ SACRAMENTO, Calif., December 11.—Mrs. Ida Schaefer, who was in- dicted more than a year ago on charges of having aided in the $234,000 rob- bery of the Sacramento post office, pleaded guilty yesterday and was sen- tenced to serve two years in a Federal reformatory in West Virginia. She appeared in court with her attorney, Hugh Smith, of San Francisco. She was named in an indictment that charged her husband, “Gloomy Gus” Schaefer, Roger Touhy, William P. Barry, George “Red” Kerr and John Doe with having robbed the local post office February 9, 1933. Schaefer and Touhy are serving terms in Illinois for having aided in the kidnaping of John (Jake the Bar- ber) Factor in Chicago. code, claiming it would bankrupt him | Because they refused to work to their legs. streets, Police Judge R. A. Patrick of Paintsville, mountain youths to stand on a street corner with 25-pound balls tied He relented later because of the cold, but when the youths were told to remain in jail or clean up a pile of bricks they said they would remain imprisoned the rest of their lives. Oscar Pelphrey, James Price and William Dills. out fines for drunkenness on the Ky., ordered these They are (left to right) —A. P. Photo. HIGH RANK NAVAL OFFICERS IN PROBE Join House Group in Study Charging Misfeasance in Aircraft Buying. By the Associated Press, Secretary Swanson today sent two high-ranking Navy officers to co- operate with the House Military Af- fairs Subcommittee in studying new evidence concerning alleged mis- feasance by another Navy officer. The exact nature of the evidence was not disclosed immediately, but it was said the officer accused of the misfeasance had been connected with Navy aircraft purchases. The committee, investigating al- | leged irregularities in War Depart- ment expenditures, received the new evidence just a few ddys ago. Immediately a letter was written to Secretary Swanson, outlining the accusations and asking if he wished to take any action. Swanson replied by directing Rear Admiral Claude C. Bloch, Navy judge advocate general, and Rear Admiral Arthur P. Fairfield, assistant chief of the Bureau of Investigation, to study the evidence. Bloch and Fairfield spent more than two hours with the committee in executive session today. They de- clined to say what action they con- templated, if any. Neither Bloch, Fairfield nor com- mittee members would name the Navy officer involved. AVIATION PROGRAM MEETS APPROVAL Roosevelt Reported to Be Agreement—Air Defense Splits Officers. in By the Associated Press. e After a conference with his Aviation Commission, President Roosevelt was reported today to have approved its tentative conclusions on a general aviation program, the major proposal being for a Federal agency to regulate all civil aviation. The commission, headed by Clark Howell, sr., conferred at the White House for three hours yesterday, and upon leaving said the President was in apparent agreement. The conclu- sions of the aviation body have not been made public. While the Roosevelt-commission dis- cussion proceeded, another group, the | National Air Frontier Defense Asso- ciation, was listening to a disagree- ment between Army officers over what constitutes adequate air defenfle. Brig.. Gen. Charles E. Kilbourne, as- sistant chief of staff, War Plans Di- vision, told the association an Army Air Force of 2,320 planes would ade- quately protect the Nation. He said Maj. Gen. James E. Fechet, former Army air chief, did not represent the War Department’s official view when he declared 4,500 were needed. After Kilbourne and Fechet had left the meeting, Maj. F. Bradley of the War Plans Division of the general staff, explained 2,320 planes were con- sidered sufficient because it was un- likely any great number of sections of the country would be attacked simul- taneously. “CRUDE” EXTORTION JAILS 4 IN MIAMI Chauffeur and Companions Held After Trying to Cash $16,000 Check of Dr. Claret. By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla., December 11.—Four men named in a written confession as abductors of Dr. Santiago Claret are in jail today as the result of what police term “a mighty crude piece of work.” check Dr. Claret was forced to sign as he was held prisoner in an unfin- ished Miami Beach apartment house. ing bank officials to honor the check when it was presented by his chauf- feur. The chauffeur, booked as Roy Gray, was said by Detective Sergt. E. W. Melchen to have confessed. He was arrested at a bank where he sought to cash Dr. Claret's check. The others were docketed as Fred Gray, the chauffeur’s brother; W. R. Millard, Miami Beach, and Sam Gar- elic, Bayonne, N. J. Dr. Claret, former editor of the Havana newspaper, La Informacion, mtm at pistol point Sunday Exhibit A in the case is a QIS.WOJ Exhibit B is a note he wrote instruct- ' FOUR DIE IN CRASH OF CUBAN AIRLINER George H. Bunkar, 47, New | York Sugar Man, Among Victims. By the Associated Press. HAVANA, December 11.—A Havana- Santiago passenger plane carried four persons, including an American, to| death when it crashed yesterday in the | hills of Oriente Province. The three known victims were George H. Bunkar, 47, of Yonkers, N. Y., vice president of the Guantan- amo Sugar Co.. and the two pilots, Torres Navarro and Emeterio Vorilla. G. Grant Mason, jr., president of the Cuban National Aviation Co., operators of the commercial plane, said he be- lieved the fourth victim to be Jose Coll, inspector of the Cuban treasury de- partment. ‘Three persons were injured, Manuel Rodriguez, manager of the company's Havana airport; a steward named Car- denas and Cesario Ariola, also a treas- ury department official. Jose Cabus, | managing editor of the Havana news- | paper Accion, apparently escaped injury. Rural guards went by horseback to the scene and carried the dead and in- juged to Clarita. An eyewitness, Felix Martin Kinder- lay, said he first saw the plane yester- day about 7:30 a.m., apparently lost in the fog and clouds. The ship cruised about the neighborhood for two hours, he said, finally coming down through the clouds. It struck a palm tree, tearing off one wing, and hurtled | into the hillside. BUNKAR LEADER IN TRADE. YONKERS, N. Y., December 11 (#). | —George H. Bunkar, killed in a plane | crash in Cuba, was a member of & prominent sugar family here. A vice president of the Cuban Guantanamo Sugar Co., he spent | about half of each year in Cuba. His father, the late Albert C. Bunkar, as well as an uncle, the late George R. Bunkar, was an official of the National Sugar Refining Co. A grad- uate of Yale, he was 47 years old.| Surviving are his mother, his widow, Catherine Stevenson Bunkar, and three children. MOTHER ASKS WARDEN TO KEEP SON IN PRISON Father and Brother Join in Re- quest, Because of Hardships Due This Winter, By the Assoclated Press. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., December 11. —Supt. S. L. Todhunter of the Arkansas Penal System received a letter yesterday which he described as the most unusual request in his experience—a mother asked him to keep her son in the penitentiary. The letter, which also bore the signature of the father and a brother of the prisoner, pointed out that several requests had been made earlier in the year for a furlough, but askef that they now be disregarded. “Row that it is Winter, we would thank you if you will keep him, as there is no work and it would be hard for him to start over. It would bé -too much of a hardship,” the Colarado Governor Asserts Experiments With Convicts Appear Conclusive. By the Associated Press. DENVER, December 11.—The an- nouncement of the success of a tuber- culosis preventive, apparently as sim- ple to administer as smallpox vaccine, is expected to be made soon by Denver tuberculosis experts. Gov. Ed C. Johnson disclosed today that “human guinea pig” experiments with Colorado convicts, during which the tuberculosis serum was tested, seemingly are a success. In medical circles there were re- ports the formal announcement of the results will be made public soon. Doctors of the Natione® Jewish Hos- pital here, who developed the serum during experiments which took 15 years, adhered to their policy of si- lence, but they indicated to officials at the Colorado prison, where tests were made, that they have no doubt of the success of the preventive. Two convicts, who gambled their lives in the tests against a chance at freedom, probably will be granted par- dons early in January, Gov. Johnson said. ‘These men, Carl Erickson and Mike Schmidt, were first given “shots” of the serum last April. Then mil- lions of tuberculosis bacilli were in- jected into their blood. Prison officials said both men were in good health today and that they had shown no signs of contracting the disease. Denver tuberculosis experts said that the injections of the bacilli were sufficient to “impair the health of an ordinary person,” and that if the two convicts had not contracted tubercu- losis by this time the serum could be considered a success. Physicians said announcement of the results of the tests are expected to be made through the Denver Medical Society. — 'WHITE HOUSE ADDS SECRET SERVICE MEN Russell Wood, Former Hoover and Coolidge Guard, Returns to Capital. Russell Wood of the White House secret service, who has been guarding the child of James Roosevelt, eldest son of President and Mrs. Roosevelt, at his Cambridge, Mass, home, for more than a year and a half, rejoined the White House detail today. A secret service operative from the New York office has been assigned to relieve him at the home of James Roosevelt. Since the President has returned to the rebuilt Executive Offices last week, it has been discovered that the additional entrances to the office building and the additional hallways require extra guarding. Therefore, it was necessary to enlarge the White House sercet service staff by two men. This made it possible to bring Wood back. The other new guard appointed is William Simmons, formerly a mem- ber of the secret service detail in the Treasury Department, Throughout the Hoover administra- tion, Wood was one of two operatives assigned to guard Mrs. Hoover. Before that, he devoted two years to guarding John Coolidge, son of the late Presi- dent Coolidge. . 'BONUS ASSURED, SAYS VAN ZANDT Sufficient Strength to Override Possible Veto Already Prome ised, He Declares. By the Associated Press. DEADWOOD, S. Dak., December 11.—James Van Zandt, national com- mander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in an address yesterday con- tended there were sufficient votes romised” in both the Senate and House to override a possible veto by President Roosevelt of the veterans’ bonus bill. Van Zandt said the fact that there is such a promise “is the reason he (President Roosevelt) is offering us a compromise which we refuse to ac- cept.” “We demand immediate cash pay- ment of the bonus,” Van Zandt said. “It can be done without increasing our Federal budget, without increas- ing taxation, without doing one thing that will upset the recovery program of the present administration, “We ask you not to be deceived or misled by the charge that the pay- ment of this obligation will create dangerous currency expansion or in- flation.” Seth Parker Reports Quake. SAN FRANCISCO, December 11 (#).—The schooner Seth Parker, on a world tour, reported by wireless last night from the South Pacific “three severe earthquakes shook the ship badly,” Radiomarine Corp. said. The schooner gave her position as “in the vicinity of Marquesas Islands,” and mother wrote. the time'as midnight, G. M. 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