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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) asional rajn to- Cloudy, probably occ night and tomorrow; not much ch temperatures; gentle northwest and winds. Temperatures—Highest, 66 p.m. vesterday; lowest, 45 today. Full report on page Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 17,18&19 Entered as sec: post office, Wi No. 33,237. N.R. A EXTENSION [0 APRIL 1 VOTED BY SENATE GROUP Finance Committee Reports Measure Opposed by Administration. CURB ON PRICE FIXING ORDERED INTO MEASURE Control of Intrastate Commerce to Be Removed in Re- vising Law. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. By a vote of 16 to 3 the Senate Finance Committee today determined to prepare and report favorably a joint resolution extending the N. R. A. until April 1, 1936, ‘The action taken by the committee was contrary to the advice given by | Donald R. Richberg, head of the N. R. A, and Secretary of Labor Perkins during a conference with the President and members of the Senate at the White House yesterday. Rich- berg advocated a new law extending and revising the N. R. A. to be effec- tive for two years. ‘The joint resolution will contain, in addition to the extension of the life of the N. R. A. until April 1, 1936, three propositions, as follows: Price Fixing Limited. 1. No price fixing shall be permitted in any code of fair competition ercept those which deal with mineral natural resources and now having price-fixing provisions. 2. That no trade engaged wholly in intrastate commerce shall be eligible for a code of fair competition. 3. The President shall have a cer- tain number of days to review the ex- isting codes of fair competition and see that they are amended to carry out the first two propositions. Senator Harrison of Mississippi, chairman of the Finance Committee, declined to say what President Roose- velt would do if such a joint resolu- tion were sent to him by Congress. It is believed, however, that the Presi- dent would approve it. Since the N. R. A. will expire on June 16 unless given additional life by Congress, the President would have to sign any measure sent to him to ex- tend the agency or see 1t go out of existence next month. With only a month and a half intervening and the ange in north at 5 at 4:30 am, A-11 ond class matter ashington, D. C. Abandonment of P chases Petitioned i Homesteads for W By the Associated Press. PRESHO, S. Dak., May 1.—A peti- tion signed by 167 residents of Stanley and Lyman Counties was sent to Sec- | retary Wallace today in protest against the “South Central South Dakota land adjustment project,” part of the Gov- ernment land-buying program. Declaring they do not wish to leave | their homes, the signers asked that | “the plan to buy any land within this | proposed project be abandoned.” The petition said the Agricultural Adjustment Administration proposed to buy 15 to 20 townships in Lyman and Stanley Counties—“the greater | portion of which is known to be of | Ch Dakotans Protest A. A. A. Plan To Move Them From Farms)| WASHINGTON, olicy of U. S. Pur- n Effort te Retain hich They Slaved. the very best agricultural lands in this section of’the State, with no definite reason given for buying same except that the soil con substance called selenium. The damage from selenium was dis- counted, the petition said, by the resi- dents’ own experimenting. “We came here to establish and maintain homes for ourselves,” the petition said, “and now we do not wish to be shoved out alter many years of hard work and sacrifice.” Copies of the petition were sent to Senator W. J. Bulow and Represent- atives Fred Hildebrandt and T. B. Werner. POPULATION SHIFT AGENGY 15 FORMED Roosevelt Picks Tugwell to Head Rural Resettle- ment Unit. By the Assoclated Press. Establishment by executive order of the Rural Resettlement Division to aid in administering the $4,000,000,000 work-relief program was announced today by President Roosevelt. This division, charged with moving people from unprofitable communities to places where they can live under | better conditions, is headed by Rex- | ford G. Tugwell, Undersecretary nl‘ Agriculture. Mr. Roosevelt also said at his press conference he had asked Morris | Llewellyn Cooke of Philadelphia to set | {up the Rural Electrification Division. | Cooke is a member of the Natural | Resources Board and an authority on ! power. He had planned to go to Eu- | rope, but agreed to estabish the divi- | sion before making the trip. To Spend Fund by July 1, 1936. Discussing the works program, Mr. | Roosevelt explained he expected to abide by a rule of spending the money | by July 1, 1936. Meanwhile other executive orders were awaited before the full program could start functioning. BUSAES IS ASKE 10 A UTAITES !T. V. A. Foe Appeals to C. of C. to Fight New Deal on Power. BY J. A. FOX. The utilities irterests of the coun- try today called for the support of | American business as a whole in their |war on the administration’s power program. As the convention of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, for | the second successive day, provided a forum for a general attack along the New Deal front, Wendell L. Will- kie, president of the Commonwealth & Southern Corp., with vast holdings in the South, bespoke aid for those he represents. Concurrently a group of utilities representatives was expec- ted to go before the Resolutions Com- mittee of the chamber to urge a strong declaration on the power issue, in opposition to the Wheeler-Rayburn holding company bill. Platform Is Offered. From William B. Bell, president of the American Cyanamid Co.. the cham- ber heard a five-count recovery pro- gram in which- the first plank de- ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D C, W FUEHRER ASSRES WORLD I ADDRESS Hitler Pleads for Closer Union of Nation in May Day Speech. GERMANS “NOW BECOME NEW PEOPLE,” HE SAYS “Strength Not in Tanks, Cannon and Marching Battalions,” He Tells Multitude. (Copyright, 1935, by the Associated Press.) | BERLIN, May 1.—Reichsfuehrer Hitler told more than a million per- | sons gathered at his feet in Tempelhot | Airdrome that Geimany desires only | peace with other nations. “Just as we restored peace within Germany,” he said, “we want peace | abroad, because only then can our | domestic works be a success.” It was a cold stormy day. listening multitudes were lashed by a thunderstorm, but Hitler, bareheaded, stood high above them oi. a rostrum | and pleaded for a closer union of the nation. His voice was husky but easy to understand as he spoke with solemnity through microphones which carried his voice to every section of the Reich. “May other nations understand,” said Hitler, “that the Germany of to- | day is not the Germany of yesterday. | | Therefore, fellow citizens, I ask you to | bind faster the band of the com- munity. Do not forget that you are members of one people as ordained by God.” | “Now a New People.” The Reichsfuehrer proclaimed that the German nation had “now become a new people.” “We are a people without raw mate- | rials, without colonies, without capital. without foreign bank deposits.” he said. small wages and high taxes, but we do have one thing, namely, our Ger- | man people. . “We, therefore, tell other countries: ‘Don’t fear we want anything from you. We are proud enough to say that the highest thing we have is something you could not give us if you would, namely, our people.’ “As leader of this people, I know of no more precious task than to make Germany happy again. Even | ‘The | “We know nothing but sacrifices, | DNESDAY, MAY 1, 1935—FIFTY PAGES. REICH AIM PEACE, BORAH SUPPORTS LYNCH BILL FOES Southern Senators Jubilant When Idahoan Leaps Into Deadlock. By the Associated Press. o Star *ok ko | SAY! YouNs ‘LN, N'T You GOING ARETo t;w ,_u U. S. Opens Drive On Ring Offering Bogus Maple Sirup By the Associated Press. BUFFALO, N. Y, May 1— Like revenue agents of the pro- hibition era, 16 agents of the State Department of Agriculture and Markets searched Western New York today for members of a ring believed responsible for flooding the area with fake maple sirup. The drive was ordered after George Green, 43, of Buffalo, was Rallying to the Southern cause, Senator Borah, Republican, of Idaho, tion, declared in the Senate today that enactment of the anti-lynching bill would “deal a blow to our principle of government, the importance of which could not be overstated.” Taking the floor as th: Southern filibuster against the bill went into | its seventh day, he said he had formed | a” conclusion when first the bill was brought up in 1922 that it was uncon- stitutional ‘The whole Senate Judiciary Com- mittee at that time, he said, reached the same conclusion. a leading authority on the Constitu- | given a three-month prison term yesterday at Batavia for selling a glucose-and-water mixture as sirup. Authorities said Green was only a member of the ring, that they wanted the “higher-ups,” who are responsible for sale of the imitation sirup. MAY DAY MARKE The only evening aper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 130,056 Some Returns Not Yet Recetved. UP) Means Associated Press. TWO 6©ENTS. HOUSE COMMITTEE FAILS TO APPROVE D. . CRIME REPORT Shake-up of Police Com- mand Urged in Findings of Probers. GARNETT, KINDLEBERGER REPLACING PROPOSED Delay in Passing on Document NEW UTILITY TAXES IN'D. G. PROPOSED }Plan Offered by Committee Directed at Utility Hold- ing Groups. Imposition of a 10 per cent tax on | dividends paid to persons holding | more than 10 per cent of the voting | stock of utility firms of the District was proposed today to the Commis- | sioners by a committee of municipal | officials detailed to study suggested in- creased levies on utilities, banks and | railroads here. | The plan is directed against utility | holding corporations which President | Roosevelt recently told Congress must | be abolished unless their “necessity” { could be established. | None of the three holding com- | panies involved in the proposed new District tax plan is in the “essential” | class, the Commissioners were advised Due to Members’ Desire to Read Transeript. BY JAMES E. CHINN. The House District Committee today refused to approve for the time being the comprehensive report of the spe- cial Crime Investigating Committee recommending a clean sweep of the police department’s “high command” and the immediate removal from office of United States Attorney Leslie C. Garnett and his Police Court assist- ant, Karl W. Kindleberger. The committee’s action came as a complete surprise and will delay for- mal consideration of the report for several weeks. The delay in passing on the report was said to be due to the desire of certaln members of the full District Committee to read the voluminous transcript of the 60-day investigation. Session Lasts Two Hours. Coples of the report were turned over to members of the full District Committee at an executive session which lasted for nearly two hours. At its conclusion, Chairman Norton issued | & statement explaining that the com- mittee took the position that the Crime Committee was a creature of the full District Committee and had no au- | thority to make the report publ: { But the report had by that ti | already been given out for publication. | after having been printed as a House | document. | Chairman Randolph of the Crime Committee, however, gave out for pub- lication a formal statement which he made to the full District Committee in | submitting the report. ~After review- | ing briefly the history and activities of the Crime Committee the state- ment said: | “In the conduct o7 the investigation BY TALK, VIOLENGE { manded an end of “so-called national | i f | economic planning,” which, the speak- theugh you foreign nations may offer | ™y "o tement brought smiles of de- D3 the commiftee, consisting of Audi- | the Special Committee had the aid Mr. Roosevelt said if a city asked | Senate in & mood to fight for weeks over revision of the national industrial recovery act, it appears that the joint resolution, with the modification indi- cated, is the best way out of & bad | situation. y | Harrison appointed a subcommittee | to get the joint resolution into final | form. It consists of himself, Clark of | Missouri and Hastings of Delaware. | The subcommittee was instructed to: report the joint resolution to the full | committee tomorrow morning. McNary Approves. Section 7-A, which assures to labor the right of collective bargaining, would remain in the law unchanged during the life of the joint resolution. Senator McNary, Republican leader, expressed his approval of the deter- mination of the committee to report out the joint resolution. He said he believed such action would shorten the Ppresent session of Congress by at least two weeks and probably considerably more. Senator Byrd, Democrat, of Virginia, one of those who voted against the motion, said he had opposed it be- cause it would authorize price-fixing in industries dealing with mineral re- sources, including ol and coal. Senator Nye, Republican, of North Dakota, who has been one of the critics of the N. R. A, said he favored the idea. A proposal offered by Senator Gore, Democrat, of Oklahoma to limit she pay of employes of the N. R. A. and other emergency agencies of the Gov- ernment to $4.000, except where the appointments wereé confirmed by the Senate. was defeated by a vote of 12 to 3. No roll call vote on the motion to report the joint resolution extending the N. R. A. until April 1 was taken. ‘The decision was made on a show of hands. The three Senators who are understood to have opposed the motion were La Follette, Byrd and Black. La Follette at the conference with | the President yesterday strongly urged that Congress proceed without delay to revise the whole N. R. A. act, in- stead of extending the act only until April 1 with the amendments sug- | gested. President Roosevelt's recom- mendation to Congress was for a new N. R. A. law to run for two years. Harrison for Compromise. After the committee meeting Har- rison said he had championed the | passage of the proposed joint resolu- tion “as the best way out.” “I believe we can pass the joint resolution without a great deal of debate,” Harrison said. “It will con- tinue the N. R. A, in existence and full authority: it will give the Su- preme Court every opportunity to pass upon the constitutionality of the N. R. A. When we meet in January it is my idea that we can proceed immediately with the consideration of the N. R. A. law so as to revise it where necessary and extend its oper- ations further.” ‘Harrison expressed the opinion that under the operation of the joint reso- lution nearly all of the defects of the present N. R. A, law could be reme- died. Indeed, he said, 90 per cent of the criticisms revealed in the investi- which has been carried on by ¢ .committee can be met through the administration of the N. R. A. “1 haven't the slightest doubt.” sald ‘Harrison, “that under the direction of the President such changes will be made as are necessary.” \ Clark Author of Plan. . Clark made the original proposal tinat the life of the N, R. A. should nded by a joint resolution until or April. proposal which was discussed, which was not adopted, by the would have made the ad- funds for a three-year undertaking the Federal Government, in giving money for one year of work. would stipulate that it was not obligated to provide tunds for the second and third year's operations. Asked about cities which have reached their debt limit and are un- able to borrow, the President expressed confidence that for the most part these municipalities were improving their condition through increase in the tax- able values and by reduction in debts i through regular sinking funds. Not Worried About Detroit. The case of Detroit was mentioned | Mr. Roosevelt said he was not wor- | ried at all about this city now, whereas ?he was a year ago. He said the back | tax situation had changed the picture | for that metropolis and he believed everything is all right in the city's | financial status now. | Asked about the Illinois problem, he | | said he realized what the State gov- |ernment was up against and that he hoped Gov. Horner would get his legis- lation through. The President called a late after- noon conference of all principal aides to go over the program. Those summoned include Frank C. Walker, head of the Applications Divi- { sion; Secretary Ickes, chief of the Al- | lotment Board; Harry L. Hopkins, ad- |aministrator of the Progress Division; | Secretary Morgenthau, Tugwell, Daniel | | Bell, budget director; Rear Admiral | Christian J. Peoples, in charge of procurement, and Charles West, ad- | ministration liaison officer with Con- | gress. | The presidential orders establishing | the rural resettlement division—offi- | cially titled Resettlement Administra- | tion—authorized $10,000,000 for organ=- | izing and starting the set-up. Another executive order transferred | to this administration the land pro- gram division of the Federal Em- ergency Relief Administration. Meanwhile, Hopkins asked for an in]lutmem of $100,000,000 from the apprepriation to care for May re- | lief needs. Officials said President | Roosevelt was expected to allocate the money during the day. White-Collar Jobs, A three-point program has been drafted in what work-relief cfficials declared would be an attempt to pro- vide “suitable” employment for a large percentage of 750,000 “white collar” people now on Federal relief. ‘The officials said this program, re- volvin;, around research, education and recreation activities, would be one of the most important features of the works drive. Two hundred thousand professional, clerical and other people not con- sidered fitted for construction labor already are on work relief under Relief Administrator Hopkins. The research- education-recreation activities are ex- pected to absorb at least double that number under the new program, offi- cials said. Almost every Government Bureau has drafted tentative plans to attempt to use this supply of educated and skilled labor. In addition to those who are slated to be employed as timekeepers, supervisors, engineers and planners for construction projects, a large number of censuses and research projects has been proposed by Federal agencies. President Roosevelt yesterday turned over to the Civilian Conservation Corps $190,000,000 from the $4,000,- 000,000 fund to start men moving into new camps and mills to turning out material for them. The furd was designed to start the enrollment of 300,000 new men and purchase the equipment necessary to build 1,300 more camps to house them. Snow Falls in New York. MALONE, N. Y., May 1 (#).—Two | er says, “finally ends in a system for | determining whether there are more votes for the administration among the Southern cotton planters or among | the textile mills of New England.” | Bell's speech had been anticipated with interest by the business men, be- | cause his company is that in which |} | Lewis W. Douglas, former budget di- | rector, became a vice president after | his resignation when he found himself out of agreement with Federal spend- ing policies. “I believe that you men, represent- atives of all phases of American busi- ness, should have as lively an interest in preventing the passage of this leg- islation as the industry does itself,” Willkie said in an address in which | he declared continuous agitation | against the utilities companies had caused securities to depreciate by bii- lions of dollars in the last few years, and that the proposed legislation would result in additional losses of like magnitude. Bank Legislation Hit. Banking legislation and the pro- duction control policies of the Agri- cultural Adjustment Administration also came in for their share of criti- cism. Willkie said that “unqustionably but it is clear that the progress has | halted” due to apprehensions over | the future. Recalling that in his inaugural address President Roosevelt had in- spired the country with “that chal- have to fear is fear itself’ "—Willkie added: “I want to say to you with as much sincerity and solemnity as I can com- mand that in my judgment there is only one thing that has halted the Nation's economic recovery, and that is the very thing which the President told us he would eradicate from our hearts. The thing that is holding us back is fear.” Urges Threats Be Lifted. Willkie, whose company’s units are faced with the competition of the Tennessee Valley development, said that if the utility business were freed from “three major threats,” all of which, he added, are “artificially in- voked by the Government,” the electric utility business will do more to lift this country out of the depression than any other indu.str{, He listed these “threats” as the passage of the Wheeler-Rayburn bill, (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) JURY SCHEDULED TO GET LAMSON CASE SATURDAY State Presses for Death Sentence in Californian’s Trial for Wife Murder. By the Associated Press. SAN JOSE, Caiif., May 1.—Analy- sis of the prosecution evidence con- tinued today in the summation of the case by which the State pressed for a second time to convict David Lam- son and sentence him to death for wife murder, John Pitzgerald, chief deputy dis- trict attorney, was to be followed in the closing arguments by Edwin V. McKenzie, defense attorney, who said he would need more than a day to sum up the evidence presented in the 11 weeks of the trial. Final argument for the prosecution will be made by Deputy District Attor- ney A. P. Lindsay. Superior Judge R. R. Syer said he would submit the case to the jury Saturday if arguments were completed by Friday afternoon. Lamson was convicted at his first trial and sentenced to death, but the inches of fresh snow covered Malone today. The temperature was 28. | State Supreme Cowrt granted a re- tral, the country has made some progress, | | me whole continents, I would rather be the poorest citizen here. United in Common Duty. “With this people we will be able to fulfill the great task ahead. You may wonder why. on a day like this, theless, called together. is symbolically to show that we are not divided into city and country, into workers, farmers and tradesmen, arti- sans and students, but that we are members of one people, united in the | common duty to fulfill our task in the world with such strength and talent as Almighty God gave us. “We were a people that was impo- tent because we were disunited. That made us play ball with foreign na- tions. Small states could cast humil- iation upon us and deprive our citizens of their rights. Our economic life was ruined. All that once had seemed good had become bad. “But now we have become a new people. Great ages always result from strong leadership, but the best of lead- ership must fail if there is not be- hind a united, strong people. Our strength lies not in tanks, cannon and marching battalions, but in the unity of our people and its idealistic faith. “In 1919 we started as a small group decried as idealistic fanatics. Our (Continued on Page 5, Column 6.) | ARABS AND JEWS CLASH | lenging sentence—‘the only thing we | Four Settlers Hurt in Repulsing Marauding Band. JERUSALEM, May 1 (Palcor Agen- cy) —Four Jewish settlers were wound- ed, one of them seriously, in a clash last night with Arabs who were charged with trying to steal sheep in the Jewish settlement of Ein Vered; near Tel Mond, in the Plain of Sharon. growing, Arabs. The trespassers are said to have come from the same village as the Arabs who seriously wounded a watchman at the Jewish settlement of Ramath Hakovesh February 14. The colonists believe the two inci- dents related. Jewish watchmen on the plantation, | which is devoted largely to orange | drove off the marauding | light to the faces of Southern Sena- tors who have been fighting bitterly against having the Senate consider the measure, having openly conceded | there was enough support to pass it if it should be brought to a vote. Plead for State Rights. “To my mind,” Borah said, “if this | type of bill can be sustained by the | Supreme Court, we have utterly broken down all State sovereignty. I can see no escape from that conclusion.” Earlier, Southern Democrats drew | from Senator Costigan, Democrat, of Colorado, a statement that many prominent colored lawyers and others lation. Costigan, co-author of the bill with Senator Wagner, Democrat, of New York, said he had consulted, among | others, with Walter White, secretary |of the Association for the Advance- | ment of Colored People. A new threat to final enactment of the bill arose today. Representative Sumners of Texas, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said any Jegislation putting lynching under | Federal law “should be studied with extreme caution.” A number of anti-lynching bills are pending before Sumners’ committee. | No action has been taken on any of | them, YANKEES LEADING GRIFFS, 1-0, IN 2D | Pettit Wobbles in Opening In- ning and Forces Runner Across. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, May 1.—The Yankees took a one-run lead in the first inning of the final game of the series and were leading the Nationals, 1 to 0, at the end of the second frame. A single by Rolfe, followed by Sel- kirk's double, a pass to Gehrig and a wide pitch, which hit Dickey, gave the Yankees their tally. Surgery Severs To Relieve Human Suffering BY HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE, Associated Press Science Editor. PHILADELPHIA, May 1—Surgery on the nerves of pain offers hope of reducing human suffering. ‘The operations possible were re- viewed today by Francis C. Grant, M. D., of Philadelphia, at the meeting of the American College of Physicians. Some of the fibers which form the bundles of nerves, just as separate fibers form threads, carry the sensa- tion of pain. Others give the move- ment orders. By cutting the pain fibers in the spinal cord, pAin can be stopped in the legs and up into the pelvis. Touch and position nerve fibers remain un- impaired, and the movements of the legs are not interfered with, Another operation severs the roots of some of the nerves, but is seldom used because, while it relieves pain, it interferes with movement. Seeking to block the “pain path- ways” through the nervous system is the latest method of attack. This has been done successfully for some pelvic malignancies and for angina pectoris. Paralysis agitans, or shaking palsy, can be foretold by finger signs, accord- ing to A. M. Ornsteen, M. D,, assistant { 1 Pain Nerves professor of neurology, University of Pennsylvania. This illness, with its rhythmically trembling hands and shaking head, is not confined to the elderly. It also attacks the young after brain inflam- mations. The fingers will give the first indications of the onset in three ways. With hands hanging at the sides, relaxed, the fingers of one hand will be more bent than those of the other. With arms stretched out in fromt, palms and fingers extended, the fingers on one hand will be differently spaced than on the other. Or, if with all all digits closed, except forefinger and thumb, the tips of the latter two touch and open, one hand will be slower than the other. All these are very early diagnoses, valuable for the person threatened with an attack. A new 10-minute test for hidden cancers was described to the physicians yesterday by Benjamin Gruskin of Temple University, who said it has worked successfully in 95 per cent of the cases in which it was tried. A hypodermic injection of an ex- tract from connective tissues of em- bryos of animals is made under the human skin, and blisters result. If the edges of the blisters form boot- like projections, cancer is present. »” {Warning of Impending War Given in Big Soviet Demonstration. | By the Associated Press. | The greatest military demonstration | In the history of Soviet Russia at Mos- cow, holiday speeches throughout Ger- | many, a bombing in Vienna, rioting | in France and widespread police pre- | cautions against possible disturbances | were consulted in drafting the legis- | in the United States marked May day | throughout the world today. In Moscow spokesmen delivered somber warnings of impending war, | while nearly 700 military planes | droned over Red Square and the ma: sive Red Army passed in review. Klementy Voroshiloff, Soviet com- missar for defense, told Russian work- | ers that war “hangs like a heavy cloud | over humanity.” and he assured his comrades and told the world that “if war is imposed upon us. the enemy will get acquainted with our Red Army.” Stalin Reviews Tanks. if that acquaintance is distasteful,” he added. From the tomb of Lenin Joseph Stalin, the dictator, reviewed the dis- play of squat, rumbling tanks; the heavy bombing and light pursuit | planes, fleet armored cars, lumbering | field guns, anti-aircraft and endless waves of infantry that surged past the reviewers' stand. Dr. Johann Thanhofer, a high offi- cial of the Austrian chancellery, lost his legs 1n & bomb explosion last night in Vienna. The government issued pardons to 600 minor political of- fenders. A detective was slain and five others wounded in rioting at Bagnolet, | France, last night, after Communists | tried to force their way into a Rightist political meeting. London and Tokio had quiet demon- strations. 1,400 Police on Duty. Police Commissioner Lewis J. Val- from more than 100,000 persons ex- pected by May day celebration &u- San Francisco’'s May day interest | centered around the mass demonstra- tion of Ray Morency, who was killed in the Stockton warehousemen'’s strike. Seven thousand union members were expected to March. Other demonstrations planned for the Pacific Coast were to be held in Seattle by the Unemployed Citizens’ League, in Spokane by the All Work- ers’ Union, International Workers of the World and Socialists, and another parade, Communistic, up San Fran- elsco's Market street. %:‘y officers were assigned to patrol jonstration points in Los Angeles. 3 e National Capital was compara- free of political disturbances. only daytime demonstration was scheduled for 3:30 p.m., when the May Day Communist Committee was to hold an open-air mass meeting in Franklin Park. “SWALLOWS” PRESIDENT Three-Year-Old Boy “Loses” Cam- paign Button. LOS ANGELES, May 1 (#).—“T've swallowed President Roosevelt,” tear- fully exclaimed 3-year-old William Perez yesterday, pointing in the di- rection a small Roosevelt campaign button had just disappeared. Dr. Phil W. Shumaker removed the button in five miautes. » 1Y entine in New York assigned more ’ than 1,400 police to May day duty and | announced that he expected no trouble | thorities to march in the city’s parade. | tor Daniel J. Donovan, Assessor Wil- liam P. Richards and People’s Coun- sel William A. Roberts. Other Recommendations. ‘The committee, reporting on other proposed changes in corporation tax- ation, also recommended: 1. Assessment of a 6 per cent tax on net corporate revenue of utility con- | cerns as well as a 4 per cent levy on | their gross receitps. 2. That the assessment on bank de- posits be reduced from $5 a thousand | to $4 a thousand, on the personal intangible tax basis, and that the savings banks be used as “collection agents” of the Government for this { purpose. The report also deals with | proposed uniform taxation on all types of banks, but suggests there be no change at this time. The committee also decided defi- nitely taxes now paid by steam rail- roads are very low and do not bear “a fair and just proportion” of Gov- ernment cost, but was not ready to | recommend a change. This is being studied. | "1t the District Commissioners ap- | prove, the committee will proceed with the draft of three separate bills dealing with taxation of the utility roads. The report developed from study of the utilities tax measure now before committees of Congress, The group of District officials esti- mated the proposed boost in taxation on utilities would bring into the city treasury some $1,540,000 additional in revenues. They asserted the present | system of taxation bears no substan- tial relation to ability to pay. Foreign Holding Interests. In spite of the La Follette “anti- merger” law, which forbids holding companies to gain control of Washing- ton utilities, the committee said, “practically every utility operating in the District is owned and controlled | by foreign holding interests.” The committe found that all of the stock of the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co., which has no bonded deot, is owned by the American Tele- phone & Telegraph Co.; that the North American Co., a holding corpora- tion, controls the Washington Railway (Continued on Page 6, Column 2.) FINDS AMAZON COLONY Northwestern Professor Discovers Southerners Descendants. CHICAGO, May 1 (#).—Dr. W. N. Naas of the Geology Department of Northwestern University reported to- day that he had found during an ex- ploring trip a colony of descendants of aristocratic families of the South living in the Amazon jungle. The colony. he said, is in the willage of Santerin, 600 miles inland on the banks of the Tapa Jos River, a tribu- tary of the Amazon. Readers’ Guide Editorials ... Amusements Comics Finance .. Lost and Found.. Paul Mallon. Sports .. This Changing World Washington Wayside. Women's Features... i | and assistance of tae five newspapers of Washington, the religious, civic and legal organizations and numerous pub- lic spirited citizens. The Special Com- mittee wishes #t this time formally to | express its grateful appreciation to those who have thus assisted. Step in Right Direction. “The work of this Special Committee is a step in the right direction. If the public officials and the citizens of Washington, who are in a position to do so, will carry on and improve upon the opportunity that has been pro- vided, Washington can, within a rea- | sonably short time, become a model of law enforcement. “The Capital City of this great | Nation belongs truly to the people of the 48 States as it does to those of us | who live here or come here on official | business. Because this is true, the | members of the special committee have felt a sense of patriotic service in the earnest devotion which they have given to this endeavor. “It has been a privilege to have |thus served the Capital and the | Nation.” | AR official = statement issued by | Chairman Norton, at the direction of | the full District Committee, follows: | “The motiorn was made and carried “They must not reproach themselves firms, the banks and the steam rail- | that the committee extend to the Spe- | cial Crime Invesigating Subcommittee a vote of confidence and appreciation and commend them for their valuable and constructive service to the District of Columbia. In view of the impor- | tance and widespread interest in this | report and in order that proper con- | sideration may be given to the report, | it was the consensus of opinion that the hearings be printed immediately, and pending the printing of these hearings no action will be taken on the report.” After the meeting of the District Committee, Representative Werner, Republican, of South Dakota, who served on the Crime Investigating Committee, issued a brief statement, which said: | “I wish it clearly understood that I | do not concur with the conclusions of | the report in a number of instances.” Werner refused to be specific, but it |is known he objected principally to | the recommendation for the removal of Garnett. Makes 30 Recommendations. The report, in addition to asking a clean sweep of the police depart- ment “high command,” and the im- mediate replacement of United States Attorney Leslie C. Garnett and Karl Kindleberger, his assistant in charge of police court prosecutions, contained more than 30 recommendations. ‘The report urges, for the purpose of efficiency, that the administration of the Police Department be “taken out of the hands of the officials who have given the city the best years of their lives,” but calls on the Commissioners to retire immediately only those offi- | cers above the rank of captain who | have reached the age of 60 years. This suggestion will affect Maj. Ernest W. Brown, superintendent, and In- spectors Thaddeus R. Bean and Albert J. Headley. The only other officers above the rank of captain who escape are Inspectors James F. Beckett, Frank 8. W. Burke, chief of detectives; Lewis 1. H. Edwards, personnel officer, and William G. Stott, property custodian. ‘The Police Department also was un- compromisingly condemned in the re- port to the full committee. The committee declared it was not satis- factorily administered, and that there is a weakness in the administrative (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) Earhart Flight Delayed. MEXICO, D. F, May 1 (#)—Bad weather today caused a postpone- ment of Amelia Earhart's take-off in an attempt to fly non-stop to New York. Her husband, George Palmer Putnum, said she probably would not start for New York before PFriday. A