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A2 == BRITAIN TO INVITE NAZIS INTO PAGT Plan Designed to Relieve Tension Over Arms and Security. By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, February 2.—Great Britain will formally invite Germany to join an inclusive European agree- ment designed to settle simultane- ously the problems of armaments, security and the Reich's return to the League of Nations, it was re- vealed in official circles today. It was said the invitation would be extended as soon as possible after the conclusion of the Anglo-French con- versations this afternoon. Under the new diplomatic method devised for attacking various prob- lems causing international tension, no single issue would be placed ahead of another. France is expected to soft-pedal security demands. Arms Reservation Made. Suggestions as to the release of Germany from the Versailles treaty’s military clauses were understood to have met with strong reservations on the part of France and a decision on the point was postponed until it becomes known whether Germany will accept a strict armament pact. Britain has taken the leadership in efforts to assure peace on the conti- nent, after a deadlock of many months between France and Germany. One What’s What Behind News In Capital Roosevelt Insists on Baby Bonds for Psy- chological Effect. BY PAUL MALLON. /J~HE New Deal has hit upon a new minor publicity promotion | idea—baby bonds. The plan is the President’s own, although that fact is sup- posed to be a secret. He suggested it originally in a conference of fiscal advisers at the White House. Some of them did not think much of it. For one, Governor Eccles of the Federal Reserve is supposed to have objected. No one can expect him to say so now, but the best banking circles have heard that he had two strong objec- tions: (1) That the public might get skittish at times and sell, as it did in the case of Liberty bonds after the war, and (2) that savings bank de- posits might be depleted. These are good. substantial financial objections. Nevertheless, the authorization was included in the new $45,000,- 000,000 debt law because the Presi- dent insisted. The Treasury has already started whooping it up. It asserts that it erpects to sell a billion in bargain counter lots from $25 up. Mr. Roosevelt is to buy the first one, probably at a cere- mony where pictures can be taken. If it works, the Nation will become [ THE EVENING BTAR, WASHINGTON, ARE ELECTROGUTED; First Dies at 7:50 A.M. Todgy in Chair at Richmond. (Continued Prom Pirst Page.) entrance and witnesses to the exzcu- tions were carefully searched. Even the guns of city detectives who entered the prison were taken away. Supt. Youell revealed that Mais wrote elght letters last night. Legenza wrote none, The crime for which the two gang- sters were put to death occurred -ear the Broad Street Station about dusk on the afternoon of March 9, 1934. Huband's truck was blocked as it crossed a rallroad bridge by the gang- ster cars and he was shot down in cold-blooded murder as he sat in the truck with raised hands. A colured companion, who was not injured, said Huband was unarmed. The gang gained nothing but worth- less canceled P. W. A. checks in the mail sacks they believed to contain securities. Huband was driving a Federal Reserve Bank mail truck. Other Gangsters Slain. “Big George” Phillips and George Kauffman, who aided in the crime, met violent deaths, the former shot by Washington police and the latter “taken for a ride” in Philadelphia. Arthur “Dutch” Misunas, an admitted | | with drawn_revolvers. D. ., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1935. NS AND LEGENZA| [ icavomrea_| PRATESLODT SHP, Presdent Than For Gift to Crippled Children SPREADING TERROR Threaten to Massacre 75 School Children When . Plane Arrives. Billie Estava Wil- liams, 1732 Church street, is shown at his desk with his letter from President Roosevelt in his hands. Before him on the desk are the toy soldier, the book and the small American flag that he loaned to the President. —S8tar Staft Photo. By the Associated Press, HONGKONG, February 2.—Pirates who plundered the steamer Tungchow threatened to massacre the 75 mis- sion school children aboard if the British plane which roared overhead attempted a bombing, those aboard the ship said today. | The marauders held the children ! and $heir elders in a state of terror | for {'iree days before the plane from the British aircraft carrier Hermes ! frightened them away yesterday. Police broadcast a warning that another gang of pirates was proceed- ing toward Canton with the object of attacking a ship running for Shang- hal. Laborious interviewing in the bay, from the press boat to the passengers behind the port holes, revealed part of the story of the raid at sea. Police refused to allow reporters aboard. g Children Horrified. | | During the three days all aboard | were constantly watched by pirates | The children | behaved well, although horrified. ' The pirates had great difficulty in obtaining junks to transfer the booty ashore. They approached several by one, England hopes to bring other | as baby-bond conscious as it became nations into an agreement, with the | quintuplet conscious after the Dionne principles accepted by the French. phenomenon. But the eternally skep- Talks with the Austrians already are | tical bankers are saying the results arranged to open in London about ! will hardly be phenomenal. You can- February 20. Agreement Believed Settled, An official statement to be issued at the conclusion of the conversations today is not expected to reveal the de- tails of an agreement, but it was be- lieved a decision had been reached on the amount of armaments to be grant- ed Germany, and the methods of su- pervising arms and guaranteeing se- curity. Three reasons were set forth as to why the decisions cannot be an-| nounced. First, the desire to avoid giving Germany the imopression of a united Pranco-British front; second, the French Parliament's disapproval of any further concessions, especially before Germany’s plans are kngwn, and third, the need for consulting other nations. MRS. AMY S. WILSON SUCCUMBS AT 100 Former Capital Woman Lived in| Buffalo After Husband Re- tired as Doctor. Mrs. Amy Smith Wilson, 100 years | old, once prominent in Washington social circles, died in Buffalo, N. Y., today, according to an Associated Press _dispatch. Widow of Dr. James M. Wilson, prominent Washington physician, and attendant upon President Zachary Taylor at his death bed, Mrs. Wilson went to Buffalo 32 years ago with her husband when he gave up the practice of medicine here. Two weeks ago Mrs. Wilson suffered 8 heart attack, the first time in her life she had been forced to bed through {llness. She died in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Timothy E. O'Shea. She was born in New York City and educated at the old Spengler Institute there. After her marriage to Dr. Wilson in 1860 she came to ‘Washington. Dr. Wilson in later years gave up medicine for the ministry. Mrs. Wilson is survived by six chil- dren, all living in Buffalo. She will be buried in the family plot at Bing- | hamton, N. Y. ST S Former Burlesque Queen Dies. LOS ANGELES, February 2 (#).— | May Howard, 65, once & leading light in the Nation's burlesque circuits, died Festerday from heart trouble. Miss Howard, a friend of the late Marie Dressler, retired from the stage 20 years ago. Your Income Tax Publicity of Income Returns. Under section 55 (b) of the revenue act of 1934 every person required to file an income return for a taxable year or period beginning on or after January 1, 1934, must file with his return, whether taxable or non-tax- able, a correct statement on form 1094 of the following items shown upon the return: (1) Name and address, (2) total gross income, (3) total de- ductions, (4) net income, (5) total credits against net income for pur- w?es of normal tax, and (6) tax pay- able. required statement with the return the collector must, under the statute, . prepare it from the return, in which event $5 must be added to and col- ; lected as a part of the tax in the same | manner and at the same time as the tax. Requirements Mandatory. The statute further requires that the statements made on form 1094, or coples thereof, be made available to public examination and inspection as’ soon as practicable in the office of the collector with which they are filed. Although the commissioner is au- thorized to determine, with the ap- proval of the Secretary, the manner in which the statements, or coples thereof, shall be made available to the public, the requirements of the statute are otherwise mandatory and the com- missioner has no authority to exempt any person required to file an income return from filing with it a statement on form 1094 nor to waive collection of the additional $5 in case such state- ment is not so filed. Every person filing an income return should accordingly obtain form 1094 from the collector for his district, if such form is not mailed to him with the return form, and fill in all items correctly as shown on the return with which it is to be filed. Provisions Are Cited. ‘The provisions of subdivision (b) of section 55 of the revenue act of 1934 sre entirely new and it should be} In case of failure to file the | not make people have quintuplets through the power of suggestion alone, The real explanation of the infant bond prodigy seems to be that Mr. Roosevelt does not expect to sell enough to make any banking or bond market difference. He will not sell a billion or half a billion. There is nowhere near that much money in the bargain counter bond market. Hence the bankers need not worry. Politics Seems to Be Aim. But every purchaser of a $25 bond will become a bondholders in the New Deal. The psychological effects of that may be tremendous. A million holders of $25 Govern- ment bonds will become a million peo- ple thinking more or less in terms of Government expenditures and Gov- ernment debt. What money the Treas- ury would get out of it may not be worth the trouble, but the White | House may look forward to political !and psychological sextuplets, or even septuplets. That seems to be the \sole purpose. The two wild bills of labor (Green and Lewis) turned out to be a couple of smarties who spoiled the N. R. A. party the other day. The National Industrial Recovery Board took precautions to make its | labor hearings a quiet affair. To | make certain of it, the Advisory Labor | Board of N. R. A. actually furnished speeches generally for labor leaders. ‘This generalized assertion will be de- nied, of course, but it can be proved that the board at least furnished | figures on which several speeches were based. Also, it tried to get copies of all labor speeches in advance, and it | did get the important ones, except the two most important. Messrs. Bill Green and Bill Lewis machine gunner for the tri-State gang, was captured in San Francisco and admitted participation in the rob- bery, naming Legenza as the killer. After serving as State's evidence in the trials of Mais and Legenza he was sentenced to 35 years in prison. Mais and Legenza were captured in Baltimore, the former being shot six times in the arrest. After their con- viction here they shot their way out of jail while awaiting transfer to the death cells, fatally wounding one offi- cer and injuring two others in a withering blast of gunfire from smug- gled pistols. They returned to their old haunts in Philadelphia and New York and pursued their careers of murder and robbery. Police Trail Woman, It was Marie McKeever, friend of Mais, who unwittingly led Federal of- ficers and Philadelphia police to them, Legenza in a hospital and Mais in a hideout. Bropght back to Richmond, they were sentenced to die within 10 days, the minimum allowed under the | law. It was recalled here that Legenza, who admitted that crime was his pro- fession, had said: “I don’t like women in gangs. They always get you in trouble.” His statement was prophetic. Offi- cers trailed a woman to their lair. She, with two others arrested with the gangsters who died today, are held in Philadelphia for complicity in the kid- nap-murder of William Weiss. Five Local Crimes Listed. Following is a list of crimes at- tributed to the Tri-State gang: Baltimore, hold-up of a car barn, loot, $2,000. Baltimore, about $2,000. Washington, brewery hold-up, loot, about $3,600. Baltimore, hold-up of a biscuit firm cashier, loot, about $4,000. ‘Washington, hold-up of a drug com- pany messenger, loot, $4,000. ‘Washington, hold-up of a drug com- pany messenger, loot, valueless can- celled checks only. ‘Washington, post office robbery, one man wounded, loot. cancelled and worthless checks. Baltimore, bank robbery, loot, $13,- 500. brewery hold-up, loot, $30,000 Loot in Cigarettes. Petersburg, Va., truck hold-up, loot, decided to let the board hear their speeches from the floor. They paid their respects to N. R. A. in rather caustic language. Lewis called the N. R. A. a failure, demanding the 30-hour week instead. Next day, the board tried to re-es- tablish subtle disciplinary quietude by confining speeches to 15 minutes and ito the subject of hours and wages. | That failed to work also. The next | industrial witness was on the stand { an hour. = The fastest thing that was put over | in the N. R. A. hearings was at the | expense of a union labor leader (not Green or Lewis). This witness did |not want to discuss the subject as- | signed to him by the Labor Advisory Board, but the board persuaded him to do it. Much data had been pre- | pared for him by the board and he used it all with confident assurance that he had the New Deal's own figures. Imagine his surprise when A. D. ‘Whiteside, member of the N. R. A. Board, lit into these same facts and figures. The witness was unfamiliar with them, tripped and stumbled. It shows you cannot always safely eubmit the facts and figures of one New Deal agency to another. States Must Pay Share. There is another reason’why no one needs to worry about Congress boost- ing the old-age pensions out of sight. ‘The bill now provides, and will in the end stipulate, that Federal contribu- tions must be matched by the States. In view of the existing financial con- dition of State governments, it 1s highly improbable that the lid will be blown too high. ‘You can get an idea of what to ex- pect from the States in the fact that 28 States now have old-age pension systems, in which the average pay- ment is $19.74 a month. Attorney General Cummings gave the textile labor delegation a private fill-in on his attitude toward prose- cuting New Deal labor cases a few days ago. Said he, in effect: “There | is an impression abroad that the Jus- tice Department is reluctant to pros- ecute these labor cases. Nothing is farther from the truth, We are ready and eager . . . all we want is good cases . . .” He then mentioned the famous Houde and Weirton cases, now $30,000 in igarettes Bowie, Md,, bank robbery, no loot, building burned. Norlina, N.'C. truck robbery, loot, $35,000 in cigarettes. Hyattsville, Md., robbery of $750 in machine guns, rifles and ammunition ; from a Government armory. Richmond, aold-up-murder of Ewell M. Hubbard. Richmond, ‘Whelton. Philadelphia, kidnap-murder of Wil- liam Weiss. ‘To these crimes the men have been linked through their own admissions murder of Madelyne ( Robert Mais (upper) and Walter Legenza, Tri-State gang leaders, were executed this morning in the State penitentiary at Richmond. Mais denied being present when E. M. Huband, driver of a mail truck, was shot, but admitted help- ing plan the robbery. Legenza, accused as the actual slayer, re- tained his stoical silence to the end. —A. P. Photos. .. DRIVE O SEE MORE POLICENEN Organized Campaign Open- 1ing Monday to Include Radio | Talks by Leaders. | An organized city-wide drive for more policemen in the District will be | launcred Monday by the Merchants & | Manufacturers’ Association, it was an nounced today by Sylvan King, mem ber of the Board of Directors. In an endeavor to acquaint the peo- ple of Washington with the situation here, Maj. Ernest W. Brown, superin- tendent of police, will broadcast over Station WRC Monday at 1:15 pm., in the first of a series of radio talks. Prominent civic leaders will follow. The broadcasts will be under the aus- pices of the Merchants & Manufac- turers’ Association. ] Mr. King said a special committee will be called within the next few | days to map out a general campaign | plan whereby the people of Washing- | ton will be apprised of certain facts in connection with the Police Depart- ment. It is pointed out that pelice- men have to spend time in so-called national emergency work, around the White House, embassies and legations, | whenever social functions are in order, and in the parks and various other places when they might be attending | the affairs of the local government. Speakers sent out by the Merchants & Manufacturers’ Association will ap- pear before various civic organizations | to enlist their support in a concen- | trated plea to Congress for more po- licement. | “I don’t believe that Congress itself | knows the situation here,” Mr. King | ! said, deploring the fact that Washing- | ton taxpayers must furnish police pro- tection for governmental affairs while the local scene remains in need of more police. | “Just because this happens to be the | capital of the United States we face this condition,” he said. He made no further comment | Automobile Manufacturers’ Associa- which veered off. The pirates fired at one junk with rifles, but the junk replied with a small cannon. Finally a large junk came alongside and the two chiefs of the band boarded it. After the plane caused a panic the marauders escaped in the ship’s small boats. Loot Worth 40,000 Mexican. The loot was believed to have been worth about 40,000 Mexican silver dol- lars. A Russian guard aboard the Tung- chow was slain because he shot and wounded one of the pirates. Teachers aboard the Tungchow in- cluded the Chefoo school headmas- ter, J. N. Duncan: the headmistress, Mrs. K. O. McNair; Mrs. H. M. Priest- ly, Mrs, L. M. Williams, Mrs, H. G.| Henderson, and Doris Rouse. MISSED REAL PRIZE. CHEFOO, China, February 2 (#).— Pirates who terrorized the steamer Tungchow chose the wrong boat, it was indicated today as another craft the same line came into port laden | with silver. The China Inland Mission School opened with prayers of thanksgiving today when it was learned schooi children on the ship were safe. The China Navigation Co.’s Liang- chow, with 2,000,000 Mexican silver dollars aboard, arrived in port today nd the belief was expressed that the irates had been after that steamer. RICHBERG SCORED AS LABOR TRAITOR BY MINERS’ HEAD (Continued From First Page) chief actor in the whole code pro- ceeding, does not speak for labor, nor is he authorized to act for labor. The Executive Council regards Mr Richberg as out of sympathy with the aims and purposes of labor.” The statement also was critical o1 Dr. Wolman, chairman of the Au- tomobile Labor Board, with which A.F. of L. leaders have severed rela- tions. The board recently conducted employers’ elections in nine Detroit plants and announced figures showing only a small percentage of the workers | recorded themselves as affiliated with | the A. F. of L. President Roosevelt, who did not call { A. F. of L. leaders into concultation before he renewed the code with amendments designed to sprezd em- ployment, said last night that he had been apprised fully of the organiza- tion’s attitude in ietters he received. A decrease In Winter unemployment | was seen in a statement issued by the tion. It said the plan to introduce some new models in the Fall instead ot Winter would “throw any unavoid- ILLIE ESTAVA WILLIAMS, 6 years old, of 1732 Church street, today is in receipt of & letter from President Roose- velt—a letter thanking Billie for the loan of his best soldier, a good book, and a little American flag. On his own initiative Billle some time ago began saving pennies for the little boys and girls in the President's camp—down Georgia way. When he had saved what he thought was suf- ficient to help a good cause, Billie enclosed the pennies in a box with his bes. book, a tin soldier, and the flag. These he sent to the White House. As a reward for his thoughtfulness, ks Boy of Six Billie got & reply from the Presdent. It read: “My dear Blllie: “I think it was perfectly splendid of you to lend me your best soldier, a good book, and the little flag for my birthday, and to send the pennies for the little crippled children. (Signed) “Pranklin D. Roosevelt.” ] Billie is a first-grade pupil at St. | Paul's parochial school. His foster | mother says that sometimes the teacher believes Billie is not up in his | studied, but Billie's mother, cherish- ing this letter from the President, feels that a 6-year-old who can carry on communication with the President of the United States is some boy. Coasting Victim WILLIAM MOHR. YOUTH, 14, IS FIRST COASTING FATALITY Injured in Collision of Two Bobsleds. The first coasting fatality of the year occurred yesterday with - the death in Washington Sanitarium, Ta- koma Park, Md, of l4-year-old William Mohr. William, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. or the admissions of other members | understood that those provisions do|in the courts, and promised to push not authorize inspection of income re- | forward five additional cases sub- of the band. A score of other similar acts have been thought their work. ———— R. F. JUNKER DIES Father of Sligo Park Hills Wom- an Dead in New York. Richard F. Junker, 66, father of Mrs. E. Francis McDevitt of Sligo Park Hills, Md., died Thursday after- noon of a heart attack at his home, in Rockville Centre, Long Island, N. Y. Mr. Junker was with the Internal Revenue Bureau in New York for many years and was well known in governmental circles in Washington. Besides Mrs. McDevitt he is survived by his widow, Mrs. Marie B. Junker, and a daughter, Mrs. Arthur M. May, both of Rockville Centre, Long Island. PRSI Sam—— ARMY OFFICER DIES Capt. John Beveridge, Jr., Fu- neral to Be Held Tomorrow. Funeral services for Capt. John Beveridge, jr, Army Air Corps, who died yesterday in Walter Reed Hos- pital after a long illness, will be held at 2:30 p.m. Monday in the chapel at Arlington National Cemetery, fol- lowed by burial with full military honors. Capt. Beveridge, a native of Jersey City, entered the Afl’m sivx'm}dcgu at the of or] ar and mmnm.mmflrred to the Air Serv- ice of the Regular Army in 1920. He had been stationed at Maxwell Field, Ala,, up to the time he was brought to Walter Reed Hospital last May. ‘The following Air Corps officers will act as honorary pall bearers: Capt. Carl W. Connel, Capt. David 8. Seaton, Capt. Otto G. Trunk, Capt. Harold L. Clark, Capt. James C. Cluck, Lieut. Thomas M. Lowe. ACCUSED MAN ENDS LIFE FRANK B. ELSER DIES; CONNELLY COLLEAGUE Coauthor of “Farmer Takes a Wife” Former New York Times and A. P. City Editor. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, February 2—Word reached here yesterday of the death of | Frank Ball Elser—who has served | the Associated Press and the New | York Times as city editor and a'so was & war correspondent—in St. | Georges, Granada, British West In- dies. Elser began his newspaper cacecr on the Fort Worth Telegram. Ulti- mately he came to New York where he served the Associated Press as city editor until he went abroad as a World War correspondent. He served as a correspondent with Gen. Pershing on his Villa expedition into Mexico, returning to the United States to become night city editor of the Times. He resigned Lo devote his time to writing. Elser collaborated with Marc Con- nelly on “The Farmer Takes a Wife.” He is survived by his widow and & son and a brother, Miximilian, and & sister, Mrs. Hammett Huntington Hardy of Fort Worth, Tex. TU. 8. Commissioner Dies. RALEIGH, N. C,, February 2 (P).— Robert A. Kohloss, 62, United States commissioner here and former divi- sional director of prohibition forces in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming, died yesterday after a long illness. By the Associated Press. LANCHOW, Kansu Province, China, Huge Deserts in Central Asia May Bloom Again, Hedin Says' = able slack periods into the Summer| B Mohr, 31 Woodland avenue, Ta- months when the effect on employes koma Park, was injured Wednesday Will be less burdensome than in Win- when two bodsleds collided on Elm ter months as at present.” i avenue. Physicians said the boy, While it said the amendments did who was a student at the Takoma not represent a complete solution of Academy of the Washington Mission- the problem of seasonal peaks and ary College, was injured internally. valleys of employment, it called them Mr. Mohr is secretary-treasurer of “most promising toward offsetting the the Columbia Union, Seventh Day effects of the automobile buying Adventists. habits of the people which cause the industry’s production to fluctuate.” ALIENATIOIN.IS CHARGED | CAPITAL N:ATIVE DIES— Dr. Cline N. Chipman Defendant | pgiss Alice E. .Yohnslon‘ 3429 ;‘hlrty; 000 | fourth place, a life-long resident of In1$00,000 Buit | Washington, died Thursday at her Claiming his wife's affections had home after a short iliness. She was been alienated, Robert M. Tolson, 4912 the daughter of the late George J. New Hampshire avenue, today filed and Annie Barron Johnson. suit in District Supreme Court for Educated at Waverly Seminary, she $50,000 damages from Dr. Cline N. was a member of the Guild of the Chipman, 1420 Rhode Island avenue. American University and the Our Tolson asserts he was married in Plag Chapter, D. A. R. She is sur- 1914 and that his wife, Mrs. Grace | vis by isters, Mrs. Robert Mor- E. Tolson, left him last May 22. He | yis Rishards and. Mrs R charges Dr. Chipman Induced his wife ' oy S L b Lt B Wwife Simpson, both of Washington. to desert hsmw | Puneral services were to be held The suit, filed through Attorneys gt the Gawler Funeral Chapel this Ralph H. Case, Levi H David and afternoon at 3:30 o'clock, followed Allen B. David, states the Tolsons by burial in Oak Hill Cemetery. Dr. have two children. Robert M., jr, 19, Charles Warner of St. Alban's Church and Donald C. Tolson, 16. was to officiate, N R, completed. Ohio Dam Bid $292,335. NEW PHILADELPHIA, Ohio, Feb- ruary 2 (#).—R. Glavina of Charles- ton, W. Va., yesterday submitted the lowest of 18 bids for construction work on the Clendening Dam of the Musk- ingum watershed conservancy district. The figure was $292,335. Officials said this was $102,183 under the estimate. Congress in Brief By the Assoclated Press. TODAY. Senate (in recess). Judiciary Subcommittee hears John ‘Workers, on_30-hour 5 Finance Committee studies social security. Agriculture Committee confers on exports. Eight Republican Appropriations committeemen meet to plan curb on President’s spending powers under | $4,880,000,000 public works relief bill. L. Lewis, president of United M.\M| He said he was kidnaped by Mon- gols, captured by a rebel Mohamme- | House (in recess). Ways and Means Committee scans turns by the public, but inspection only of the statements required to be filed on form 1094 with the returns. Inspection of returns is governed by subdivision (a) of section 55, which provides, in effect, that income returns made under the revenue act of 1934 shall be open to public inspection only to the extent expressly provided by law or as authorized in regulations approved by the President, and this provision is similar to the provisions of preceding revenue acts. Under existing law and the regula- tions approved by the President, in- come returns are not open to inspec- tion by the general public. mitted by the delegation. The delenfll:n left, hopeful but not n 0] Several disinterested observers late- ly returned from Germany report that Hitler continues to stand merely because no one cares to take the trouble or risk of givin him a putsch. The thinking classes of Germans regard him as @ stop-gap, mot as a permanent ruler. con- sider him a good joke on France, and Goering as a joke, dut not mecessarily @ good one. Most of the others in the government are laughed at. Every one keeps a Hitler picture in - Pebruary 2—Immense deserts of Cen- TAMPA, Fla,, February 2 (#).—] of millions of H. Grant, 45, of Wilmington, N. C., "““"m‘:m il hanged himself with his necktie in | Persons, "'mn"“" the county jall yesterday sn hour by harnessing dlnvmflnl m after he appeared before County Judge | Sven Hedin, explorer, today G. H. Cornelius, on charges of issuing his arrival from Chinese Turkestan. five worthless checks totaling $22. Judge Cornelius had postponed the hearing and said he would appoint a lunacy commission to examine Grant. trip of my entire life.” He explored his office, but you can tell the varying degrees of disaffection for him by the varying degrees of prominence given the pictures ¢ dan army, and fired at repeatedly by | hostile tribesm en. The 70-year-old explorer’s principal | interest was in his dream for a motor economic security. YESTERDAY. Senate (in recess). Munitions Committee told that ship- builders and steelmakers ;‘v;r:‘. solicited HOUSE APPROVES SECONDFUNDSBILL 900 Million Provided for Treasury-Post Office Departments. | By the Assoctated Press. | The House passed and sent to the : Senate yesterday the $903,225,508 | Treasury-Post Office appropriation | bill for the fiscal year 1936. | The second of the nine regular | supply measures, it carried $175,761,- | 149 for the Trewsury. | An increase of around $4,000,000 was allowed the Coast Guard for com- batting liquor smuggling. Ocean and foreign airmail subsidies were not re- duced, pending administration action resulting from the recent investiga- tions of those contracts. ‘The House added $2,000,000 to en- |able transfer of substitute postal | clerks and carriers to regular posts at higher salaries, $900,000 to permit in- creasing from $2 to $3 daily the travel allowance of railway postal clerks and 1 $300,000 for new and extended rural mail routes. ' Takoma Park, Md., Boy Fatally \COLLEGE DIRECTOR 'BEATEN IN ARKANSAS |International ~Labor Defense Member Also Attacked at Sharecropper Meeting. | By the Associated Press. | MEMPHIS, Tenn, February 2.— | Lucien Koch, director of Common- | wealth College, Mena, Wrk., reported | today that he and Bob Reed, a Com- | monwealth student and a member of | the International Labor Defense, were Funeral arrangements are being ' beaten with pistols and other instru- | ments last night as the result of a meeting of the Southern, Tenant | Farmers’ Union at Gilmore, Ark. Koch said he was taken from the | union’s meeting at Gilmore, where he and Reed and others were addressing | about 200 sharecroppers, mostly Ne- groes, in a Negro church. He said he | and Reed were not members of the union, but went into Arkansas to sup- port the move to “organize the South- { ern tenant farmer.” “I was pulled out of the meeting and beaten with pistols and fists,” Koch said. “Reed came out to in- quire into the disturbance and he, too, was beaten.” Scientist Dies FORMER G. W. U. PROFESSOR DEAD IN CONNECTICUT. DR, ALBERT MANN, Internationally known scientist and once professor of botany at George 1" Washington University, who died yesterday at his home in Middle- » town, Conn. Dr. Mann, who was 81, had been since 1919 a re- —~search associate of the Csrne; Institution here. While in Wash- ington Dr. Mann had lived at the Mendota Apartments. SOCIAL SECURITY FUNDS FACE CUT |“Unearned Annuities” Hit in Proposed Federal Expenditures. By the Assoclated Press. While critics of President Roose= velt's soclal security program sought higher benefits, administration officials were reported today to be drawing & plan to cut proposed Federal expendi= tures by several hundred mililon dollars a year. The recommendations were not in final shape, but one informed Capitol source understood they would call, among other things, for elimination of Pederal donations for “unearned annuities.” Under the administration plan, as now before Congress, a man of 45 could begin providing against his old age by paying into the old-age pension fund. At 65, he would start getting the money back, plus payments from the Federal Government equal to the additional sum he would have con- tributed had be started paying when he was 21. These payments from the Government are called “unearned annuities Actuarial calculations showed, officials said, that they would cost huge sums. Declared Unfair Competition. Another reason for the proposed change, members of Congress said, is an objection raised by some legis- lators who argue the annuities would be unfair competition with insurance companies. Another change considered in ad- ministration circles, it was said, is a transfer of the unemployment insur- ance fund from a social insurance board to the Treasury. Witnesses had told congressional committees that if the board administered the money, it might seem like charity. Word also reached Capitol Hill that administration officials might urge the exemption of farmers, domestics and casual workers from the pensions and job insurance provisions on the ground that to administer the plan for them would be too difficult. It was em- phasized that this change had not finally been decided upon. and that the others might be modified. President Opposed. In the face of continuing drives for the Townsend plan and other pro- posals to boost the administration’s “ante,” the President took a stand last night against eny increase in the $15 a month the Government pro- poses to contribute to old-age pen- sions. The White House attitude is that this should be the limit because payments will reach $585000,000 a year by 1980. The President em- phasized the States could contribute more than their $15 share. A survey of various estimates showed today that, under the security plan now before Congress, more than $5.000,000,000 eventually will be col- lected or appropriated in the United States every year for old-age pen- sions and unemployment insurance. Administration spokesmen, explain= ing the bill to congressional commit= tees, have not estimated the total cost, but the $5.000,000,000 figure is reached by adding their estimates of various items. The total would include pay- ments by the Federal Government, the States, employers employes and others. Chief Criticism. Despite the size of the sum involved, chief criticism of the program has come from those who did not consider it liberal enough, rather than those who felt it was too expensive. Actually, the plan would not reach full size in the matter of benefits and cost until about 1980, when the young persons who would begin to contribute in 1937 would reach the retirement age. The plan calls for a gradual start. The pay-roll tax to support unem- ployment insurance would begin in 1936 at 1 per cent and rise to 3 per cent by 1938, or earlier, if business conditions warranted. The taxes for old-age insurance would begin at 1 per cent in 1937 and rise gradually to 5 per cent by 1957. Federal appropriations would total i only about $100,000,000 the first year, | but would reach about $2,000,000,000 by 1980. Plan to Raise Money. Here is the way the money would be raised by 1980 if the plan is adopted and carried forward as now drawn: Non-contributory old age pensions: For those who cannot come under the contributory system. It is estimated the Federal Government will by then be contributing about $500,000,000 annually, ‘which will be at least matched by the States. Contributory old age pensions: A tax of 5 per cent on pay rolls will be levied by the Federal Government, half on employers and half on em- ployes, estimated to yleld $2,000,000,« 000 in good times. To this, it is esti~ imated, the Federal Government will have to add $1,500,000,000, making a total of $3,500,000,000. Unemployment insurance: The Government will levy a 3 per cent pay roll tax on all employers of more than four workers, which is designed to induce the States to set up systems of insurance with this tax as a mini« mum. It is estimated that in good times this would yield $1,000,000,000 a year. These are the three major features. In addition Federal appropriations are proposed for dependent children, de- pendent mothers and others, and there is a voluntary annuity plan, —_— G. 0. SANFORD SUFFERS SERIOUS HEART ATTACK Capital Man, 30 Years in Rec- lamation Service, Stricken on Montana Trip. By the Assoclated Press. HELENA, Mont, February 2.— George ,O. Sanford, Washington, D. C., chief of the engineering divie slon of the National Reclamation Bu reau, was reported in a serfous but not critical condition here today after a heart attack. He was given medical treatment at his hotel room after he suffered the attack last night. He had arrived only a few hours before to investigate the State's irrigation and reclamation problems. Mr. Sasford left here Tuesday and expected to be gone two weeks, divide ing his time between Helrna and Boise, Idaho. His wife said he hsd been taking treatment for a heart allment, but had never before suffered an acute attack. Sanford, who resides at the Kenee saw Apartments, has been an em- ploye of the National Reclamation Bureau 30 years. | Botanical Society to Meet. ‘The Botanical Soclety of Washing- ton will hold its 263d regular meeting at the Cosmos Club Tuesday night. Speakers will include F. C. Meler, C. & Cottam and C. O. Erlanson.