Evening Star Newspaper, April 15, 1935, Page 4

A—4 xx THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY, APRIL 15, 1935. BRITISH REPORT RECOVERY GAINS Budget Asks Three Billion for Year—Trade Ad- vances Cited. By the Associated Press. LONDON, April 15.—Neville Cham- berlain, chancellor of the exchequer, reported to the House of Commons today thai the past year “has been characterized by a substantial ad- vance toward recovery” a he “opened” the 1935 budget. The chancellor estimated the gov- ernment’s expenditure for the fiscal year of 1935-36 would be £729,970,000 —about $3,649,800,000. “The improvement in trade” said the chancellor, “has reached right down to the purchasing power of the people. I have been able to find only one direction where a new low record was established for trade, and that was in the time lost for trade dis- putes.” As he began his speech, Chamber- lain was roundly applauded and cheered, as was Prime Minister Ram- say MacDonald, who entered the House shortly after his 1eturn by air- plane from the Stresa conference. Export Record Set. Chamberlain placed the increase in industrial output during the last year at about 12 per cent and said British manufacturing production had set a new record, with exports increasing £30,000,000—about $150.000,000. “The cost of living,” he declared, “remained throughout the year sub- stantially below the Jevel of when this government came fh (August, 1931). There is no diminution in the thrift of the people.” Outside the House women carried sandwich boards on which were sug- gested a variety of ways to dispose of last year's treasury surplus. When Chamberlain arrived in an automobile gusrded by police he saw : “Cut out shell—shell restore cuts” and “work at T. U. (Trade Union) rates, not slave camp.” Chamberlain, however, was smil- ing as he rose to address the House and the members were loud in their cheers. Improvement Steady. “In any financial review,” he told them, “it is clear that the improve- ment has been steadily progressing and row has become substantial.” Pointing to improved living stand- ards in the country, the chancellor said the English used 80,000 more tons of sugar last year than formerly, smoked 6,500,000 more pounds of to- bacco, spent £2,750,000 more on en- tertainment and “washed their trou- bles away in 270,000,000 more pints of beer.” “Last year,” said Chamberlain, “I “said that the exchange equalization account showed a profit. I may re- peat that this year with emphasis.” Police guarded Chamberlain and the other cabinet members on their way to the House. The unusual pro- tection was caused by a tip received by Scotland Yard that members of the Anti-Capital Punishment League planned to intercept them on behalf of a petition presented to the House against & scheduled execution to- morrow. Increased expenditures in all gov- ernment departments, including a jump of £11,000,000 (approximately $53,000,000) in the cost of national defense, gave the public little hope Tor tax relief, Because of recovery, however, there appeared to be little prospect that any new taxes would be necessary. The budget for the old year fin- ished with a surplus of £20,000,000 (approximately $96,000,000). Actual expenditures were £708,879,000 (ap- proximately $3; 400 000,000). LIBERAL SECURITY COMPROMISE READY TO HALT RADICALS (Continued From First Page.) matching basis up to $15 a month for any pension paid under a State law meeting specified requirements. Among the requirements would be a minimum age of 70 up to 1940 and 65 thereafter. 2. A plan under which persons now working, and under 65, would pay taxes on their incomes—starting at 1 per cent and increasing to 3 per cent—for repayment to them in the form of annuities after they reached 65. Their employers would be com- pelled to match their tax payments, One proposed substitute is the re- vised Townsend plan. This would levy & 2 per cent tax on all business transactions, a 2 per cent tax on gifts over $500, and would set aside for pensions 10 per cent of income taxes. The money would be paid out to all persons over 60 whose incomes were under $2,400 a year. And the pay- ments would be an “amount not ex- ceeding $200 per month.” Supporters of the plan concede the taxes would raise enough to pay only $50 a month at first. Senator Barkley, Democrat, of Ken- tucky, in a radio address last night, assailed the $200-a-month plan as “fantastic and chimerical.” He also denounced the share-the-wealth pro- posal of Senator Long, Democrat, of Louisiana as a “whimsical pipe- dream.” FEDERAL ATTORNEY HIT BY SUPREME COURT IN OPINION (Continued From First Page.) officer in the prosecution of a criminal offense.” “The United States attorney,” the eourt said, “is the representative not ot an ordinary party to a controversy, but of a sovereignty * * * whose interest, therefore, in a crimingl prose- cution is not that it shall win a case, but that justice shall be done. “As such, he is in a peculiar and very definite sense the servant of the & law, the twofold aim of which is that .um, shall not escape or innocence suffer. He may prosecute with earnest- ness and vigor—indeed, he should do so0.” “But, while he may strike hard blows, he is not at liberty to strike foul ones. It is as much his duty to refrain from improper methods cal- culated to produce a wrongful convic- tion as it is to use every legmmlu means to bring about a just one.” A new trial was directed. Berger has denied he had any part in the alleged counterfeiting or passing of the notes. The transcript of the lower eourt proeeedl.nn showed that questions cited by the Supreme Court as ob- Jectionable were asked by “Mr. S8inger.” The record identified him as Henry Singer, assistant United States attor- ney of the Eastern New York district. A Marked for Assassination NICHOLAS TITULESCU. Notes of the D. Mrs. William H. Pouch, candidate for organizing secretary general on Mrs. William A. Becker's ticket, gave a breakfast this morning in honor of “the happy runners of 1931 vice presidents general who served in_the D. A. R. from 1931 to 1934. Mrs. James B. Cranshaw is president of the group and Mrs. Walter C. John- son, corresponding secretary. Mrs. Becker will be the honor guest at luncheon tomorrow of the West Virginia_delegation to the congress, and in the afternoon Mrs. Becker and her candidates will give a reception at the Mayflower for the entire dele- gation to the congress. Two important committees of the congress are the Credential and Reg- istration. Mrs. Roscoe L. Oatley is chairman of the latter, which is com- posed of Mrs. Clarence A. Weaver, Mrs. Frank S. Clark and Mrs. Allan Chandler. The Credentials Committee is headed by Miss Page Schwarz- waelder, with Miss Katharine Arnold Nettleton. Mrs. Harry B. Gauss, Mrs. George M. Rossman and Mrs. George R. Blinn, vice chairmen. Other mem- bers are Mrs. Clyde B. Aitchison, Mrs. Charles H. Armstrong, Mrs. George F. Authier, Miss Pearl L. Brooke, Mrs. Gaius M. Brumbaugh, Mrs. Johnston Campbell, Mrs. H. M. Chaney, Mrs. William Millar Cochran, Mrs. Russell Coutant, Mrs. Mary Cushman Darte, Mrs. Eli Dixson, Mrs. Harry Dowling, Mrs. Herbert B. Fairchild, Miss Shir- ley Farr, Mrs. J. P. Feiser, Mrs. Keyser Fry, Miss Claudine Hutter, Mrs. E. Wheeler Jenkins, Mrs. Walter N. Keylor, Mrs. Oliver H. Meyers, Mrs. R. T. Olcott, Mrs. Rex H. Rhoades, Miss Josephine G. Richardson, Mrs. William A. Rodenberg, Mrs. Frank B. Steele, Mrs. Arthur E. Sutherland, Miss Minnie B. Wade, Miss Constance ‘Weed. Mrs. James J. Davis, wife of Senator Davis of Pennsylvania, will entertain at tea tomorrow afternoon from 3:30 PIERRE LAVAL. A.R. Congress | Alexander, State regent, and the Pennsylvania delegation to the Con- gress. gress. Assisting her will be Mrs. Harry Ransley, Mrs. Robert Rich, Mrs. Roland Kinzer, Mrs. Charles M. Lea, sell, Mrs. S. R. Montgomery, Mrs. Harry Estep, Mrs. John Meikle and Miss Katherine Smith. ‘The League of Republican Women will give a reception Wednesday at the league headquarters, Sixteenth and Scott Circle, for the Republican members of the D. A. R. Mrs. Wil- liam Fitch Kelly, president of the league, will preside, and Mrs. Ed- ward Everett Gann will receive the guests. Assisting at the tea table will be Mrs. Daniel O. Hastings, Mrs. Robert P. Lamont, Mrs. Floyd Thurs- ton, Mrs. Harry Clay Ransley, Mrs. Charles Eaton and Mrs. William N. Doak. Others asked to assist are Mrs. James J. Davis, Mrs. Edward F. Colla- day, Judge Mary O'Toole, Mrs. Murray Boococke and Mrs. Ellis A. Yost. ‘The New Hampshire and Vermont delegations will be entertained tomor- row afternoon from 4 until 6 o'clock at the Mayflower by Mrs. -Henry Wilder Keyes, Mrs. Warren R. Austin, Mrs. Fred H. Brown, Miss Doris Gib- bin, Mrs. Charles A. Plumley, Mrs. Charles W. Tobey and Mrs. William N. Rogers. A luncheon will be given in honor of the Alabama delegates at the Cosmos | Club Wednesday at 12:30 pm. It is| sponsored by the women of the Ala- bama Society of Washington. All Alabama women residing in Washing- ton and vicinity are cordially invited to take part. Among the honor guests will be Mrs. Zebulon Judd of Auburn, Ala. candidate for first vice president of the D. A. R; Mrs. Val Taylor of Uniontown, Ala.: Mrs. Sam Hobbs, wife of Representative Hobbs, and Mrs. Joe Starnes, wife of Representative Starnes of Alabama. until 5:30 o'clock for Mrs. William TEXTILEINDUSTRY REVOLT IS URGED Official Prefers Jail to Pay- ing Process Tax on Cotton Goods. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, April 15.—The first open defiance of the administration’s cotton processing tax was voiced today by James Sinciair, president of the Fall River Cotton Manufacturers’ Associa- tion, who said: “I am willing to go to jail for refusal to pay this tax my- self.” Sinclair, who is also treasurer of the Charloton Mills in Fall River, proposed that Northern and Southern manufacturers refuse to pay the tax| “unless President Roosevelt shows an inclination to sid the textile industry.” “I am in a ‘Boston tea party’ mood,” Sinclair said. Sinclair’s openly-stated defiance of the administration’s processing tax was the first expressed by manufac- turers who are fighting for removal of the tax, elimination of the North- South wage differential, establishment of higher tariff barriers and a solu- tion for overproduction. Manufacturers Meet. Northern manufacturers of CO!WI'L‘ goods responded to a conference call of the Policy' Committee of the Na- tional Association of Cotton Manu- facturers today to plan relief for the industry in New England and its 100,000 employes and their families. Gov. James M. Curley’s warning that “unless Governmeat aid is given to the textile industry at once not a spindle will be turning in New Eng- land in six months” sounded the keynote of the manufacturers’ cam- paign against the processing tax, Japanese importations, overproduction and North-South wage differentials. While manfacturers sought aboli- tion of the processing tax and es- tablishment of higher tariff barriers against Japanese importations, labor leaders and Gov. Curley declared elimination of the wage differential would cure the ills of the industry. The Governor estimated that the wage differential cost New England manufacturers $250,000 more per week for labor than it did Southern mill men. Dexter Stevens, vice president of the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers, representing Northern manufacturers, was asked to preside over today's meeting of the associa- tion’s Policy Committee, called to speed up the relief campaign. Gov. Curley and New England man- ufacturers, including Frederick C. Dumaine, treasurer of the Amoskeag Mills at Manchester, N. H, were to News of D. A. R, Full reports of the D. A. R. Convention, April 14 to 21, inclusive Mail—Postage Pre- paid U. 8., Mexico and Canada ’s...... 35¢ Foreign ........ . $1.00 Leave orders with Star representative at Consti- tution Hall or The Eve- ning Star office, 11th 8t. and Pa. Ave. N.W. meet at the State house in an effort to foster a plan to bring Southern wages up to the New England standard. Three New England mills employ- | ing 3,810 workers announced they | would close because of the processing | tax, foreign importations and low market prices. They were the Berk- shire Mills of Adams, employing | 2,900; Greylock Mills, North Adams, | 500, and the Hope Mills, Scituate, R. I, 410, The National Association of Cot- ton Manufacturers reported there were 194 mills operating in New Eng- land in 1933 and officials estimated in the last two years. The assoclation’s figures disclosed 208,685 workers were employed in 1923 in contrast to 91,566 in 1933. Russell Fisher, secretary of the as- sociation, declared Northern manu- facturers were paying $2.56 per worker week more than Southern mills, al- though the code called for only a $1 difference. Labor leaders, however, generally have charged that manufacturers pald minimum wages regardless of skill or experience. Francis J. Gorman, vice president of the United Textile Workers of America, speaking at Burlington, Vt., attacked the manufacturers’ claims. He declared a solution of the wage differential would end distress in New England and predicted a Government survey on hours and wages “to be re- leased soon” would prove his con- tention. Mail the Home | | Any of our stores will mail your May Clndy h iln buy. quality elndy Be 25¢ 50 Fannie May 1010 E St. N.W. 3305 14th St. N.W. 1317 E St. N.W. 1354 F OPEN EVENING: - Mrs. Davis is a member of | the Reception Committee of the Con- | Mrs, Clyde Kelly, Mrs. James M. 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The plan was to attempt to cross the Italian frontier at different points, go to Stresa and kill Mussolini, then proceed to Geneva and kill Laval, NEW TRAFFIC BILL PASSED N SENATE {Measure Creating Charge of Negligent Homicide Goes | to House. | ‘The Senate today passed the Com- missioners’ bill to create a new traffic offense, “negligent homicide,” designed to bring about speedier prosecution in fatal automobile accidents. The meas- ure still requires action by the House. The new small loans regulation bill again was postponed, when Senator Norris, Republican, of Nebraska, said it was too important to be taken up on the unanimous consent calendar. Chairman King of the District com- mittee declared District officials and local organizations favor the bill. One objection was sufficient to prevent ac- he thought. it should be given further consideration. tended to take the place of the charge | of manslaughter in those cases where | the circumstances do not show willful | or wanton carlessness. In urging the | bill, | that under the present code it is hard |to get jurles to convict drivers of manslaughter, because of the heavy penalty which that offense makes possible. the manslaughter charge leads to de- iay because it requires an indictment | by the grand jury before trial. Negligent homicide would carry a lighter genalty, namely, one year im- prisonment, or a fine or both. It would speed up disposition of fatal accident cases by allowing the coroner to commit persons either to the Dis- trict Supreme Court or to the Police Court for trial. The bill further pro- vides that even when a person is charged with manslaughter, the jury could bring in a verdict of negligent homicide if the members felt the de- the higher penalty of manslaughter. Another section of the bill provides that the speed of the vehicle be con- sidered in the light of the circum- stances at the time of the fatality, thus not excusing or relieving a driver merely because he was driving at a legal rate of speed when the accident occured Folks a Box of candy promptly. You pay for the Ty BI’I::EI. ll it $] 150 $250 Popular centers of fruit and nut, butter cream, cocoanut creams; all made fresh daily here in Wash- ington by our own Fannie May girls. HOMEMADE CANDIES 606“’ box l Candy Shops 1406 N. Y. Ave. N. 1704 Pa. Ave. N.W. St. N.W. 621 F St. N.W. S AND SUNDAYS, A FRANCE WILL SEEK ACTION BY LEAGUE Condemnation of Germany for Arms to Be Asked by Laval. (Continued From First Page.) the confidence of the French gov- ernment that the Council would “take decisions concerning the present state of affairs and will safeguard the future.” League officials expressed confidence an agreement could be formulated to interpret the League covenant so that a nation violating its treaty obliga- tions could be isolated economically and financially. Council Members Confer. Unusual activity was apparent at League headquarters and about the hotels as members of the Council conferred on the procedure to be taken and the character of the reso- lution to be adopted. Laval talked at length with Dr. Ed- uard Benes, Czechoslovak foreign minister, and Nicholas Titulescu, Ru- manian foreign minister, who is also president of the Balkan and Little Entente. A series of conferences last night among representatives of the Balkan and Little Ententes and a talk be- tween Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet com- missar for foreign affairs, and Dr. Benes gave rise to rumors discussions were in progress concerning a new system of alliances embracing Yugo- slavia, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Bul- garia, Turkey and Russia. Council leaders said it was planned merely to fix the agenda at this aft- ernoon’s session and name Salvador de Madariaga, Spain’s delegate to the League, reporter for the French pro- test against the German rearmament program. ALLIED UNITY SEEN. Six Points of Agreement Listed in Communique. STRESA, Italy, April 15 (P —A determined unity among the three great Western European power; was seen in conference circles today o the most significant contribution to pvace resulting from the tripartite conver- sations of Great Britain, France and Italy. Six points of agreement were listed in a communique issued after the tion, however, and Senator Norris said | The negligent homicide bill is cop- | ied from the Michigan law and is in- | the Commissioners pointed. out | ‘They also pointed out that | gree of carelessness shown by the | driver was not sufficient to warrant meetings closed: Miss Jane Addams (left), noted pioneer of welfare, and Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink, beloved former opera star. shown in an interesting study as they discussed a benefit concert in Chicago. —A. P. Photo. STABBED MAN DIES Germany’s rearmament moves. 2. Pursuance of negotiations for “the development which is desired in the security of Eastern Europe.” 3. Consultation in case of a threat - to the independence and integrity ur| to Be Returned Here. Austria and the summoning of & | Ossie Hammond, 34, colored, who conference at Rome to conclude l[‘“ stabbed February 11 during an Danubian accord. | s, Further study looking toward | altercation with Ella McDaniels, 30, completion of the Western European l colored, of the first block of Fenton defensive air pact. | street northeast, died Saturday. The 5. Recognition that Germany's uni- lateral abrogation of the military | C0l0red woman was sentenced to & clauses of the treaty of Versailles| Year and a day at Occoquan Work “hm}1 undermined publ{icl confidence | House for the assault. She will be n the security of peaceful order” and | retyrned to Washington soon to ap- reaffirmation of their desire to work | for an international n‘:re:mem. on Pesr, abian, Inducst i Bamn S iitoalof arrianiEnts death. Depending upqp the verdict of g o a6 tates | the_coroner's jury. a more serious | = Hecommencation he & charge may be placed against her, | affected that they consider the de- | police said today. sires of Austria, Hungary and Bul- Z garia for increased armaments. Woman Serving Term for Fight Grand Dames Discuss Relief ARN[]“] [; HANS[N, ACCOUNTANT, DIES Was Chief of Work for Com- munications Board—Na- tive of Denmark. Arnold C. Hansen, 56, chief ac- countant of the Federal Communica« tions Commission, died suddenly yes- terday at his home, 2516 Cliffbourne place. Born in Marstal, Denmark, January 17, 1879, Mr. Hansen came to the United States as a youth. He was graduated from New York University and received the degree of LL. B. from George Washington University. Mr. Hansen was for several years controller of the New York Dock Co.,, then the largest warehouse company in the country. He severed this con- nection in 1920 to ¢pen his own office in New York, but came to Washington not long after as an Internal Revenue Bureau senior suditor. Mr. Hansen supervised the investi- gation of communications companies in 1933-34, which lead to the creation of the communications body o. which he became accounts’ chief last Oc- tober. In early days he was accountant and auditor for the Erie Railroad and the Bush Terminal Co. of New York, entering the New York office of the Interstate Commerce Commission in 1908. He served as chief until his resignation in 1915. Mr. Hansen was a member of the Scottish Rite of Jersey City, N. J.; senior deacon of Federal Lodge No. 1 of Masons and a member of Almas | Temple. His widow, Mrs. Ida Kornhoff Han- sen, and a son, Arnold, survive. His mother, Mrs. Emilie S. Hansen, and | & sister, Mrs. Arthur Krug, live in Garfield, N. J. 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