Evening Star Newspaper, June 23, 1935, Page 5

KENTUCKY FLOODS LEAVE FOUR DEAD Mother and Three Children Drown as Father Swims to Safety. By the Assoclated Press. DAWSON SPRINGS, Ky., June 22. ~Leaving four persons dead, Ken- tucky's sixth flood threat of the year sloshed southward tcaight before a trail of undermined dwellings and sev- ered highways. Menace lurked in certain western streams which still rose. ‘The wife and three children of Jack Grey drowned in a swollen drainage ditch at Bardwell. Their boat cap- sized. Grey made the bank after try- ing to save his wife. Two Days’ Rain Ends. ‘Two days of heavy rain ended early today with rivers mounting to flood stage, Nortonville partly under water, crops beaten to earth and several dozen families forced from home. Rallway stations in Slaughters and Nortonville were under water a few hours for the first time in history. The flood took 950 miners’ jobs when it washed out a track at the North Diamond and Fox Run Mines at Earlington. Pive houses were wrecked and 25 turned over at Jenkins, the loss was put at $20,000 Boyle County's crop loss was estimated at $50,000. An abrupt change of weather to- day brought respite to the Norton- ville area. The water, which stood two feet over the road, ran off in a few hours. It left mud on many floors and houses sagging where their foundations were cut away. Crews Hasten Repairs. Thiry crews hastened repair: on big washouts in through highways ‘est. they crumble and cut off all traftiu One road fronm. Nortonville to Louis- ville was cut through entirely, a 20- foot hole hiding under three feet of water where the right of way had been. English (Continued From First Page.) Diego, Calif., was still in a critical condition last night. Hospital attaches reported Mrs. English’s spinal cord was twisted in addition to her broken back. Lieut. English was the captain of the Bear of Oakland and returned with Admiral Byrd several weeks ago. He was absent from the apartment at | the time of the plunge, arriving soon after his wife had been taken to the hospital. Starr also made a statement to| detectives in which he said he went to the English apartment early in the afternoon, and that he and Mrs. English had three drinks. He said Mrs. English asked him about the grounds for divorce in the District, and that he told her he did not know about the District divorce While they were talking, he claimed, | Present session. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JUNE 23, 1935—PART O 1 by terrific winds. Taxes (Continued From First Page.) Means Committee. I have not con- | sulted the Ways and Means Com- | mittee about it. I do not think, how- | ever, that long hearings should be necessary. It is a question of policy, and if the policy is once adopted, then it remains only to decide upon the rates of taxation. “There are two reasons why legis- lation carrying out the President’s tax first is that it would put business on notice definitely what the taxes would be, particularly with 1eference to the corporation taxes. The second is that | the revenue is needed by the Govern- ment.” | ‘Would Leave it to President. | Speaker Byrns would not, however, predict that the tax program of the laws. | President would be taken up at the He left the impres- he saw some pistol cartridges in the | Sion that conferences would be held roll of Mrs. English’s stocking, and | by the Hcuse leaders and with the that he took four of them away from | President when he returns to Wash- her. These four cartridges later were found in his pocket and a fifth was found on the spot where Mrs. English struck the ground. Scream Precedes Fall. Starr said Mrs. English went into the kitchen of the apartment to mix more drinks. He stated that he did not know anything was wrong until he heard a scream and ran to the window and looked out and saw Mrs. | English lying on the ground below. Scattered on the ground and side- walk where Mrs. English fell were several rings. off her rings and held them in her hand. Mrs. English attempted to jump from a window in a New York apart- ment about a year ago, Starr said, but was prevented from doing so by himself and another man. On this occasion, he said, she took off her rings and attempted to throw them from the window. This story is re- ported to have been corroborated in a telephone conversation with a woman friend of Mrs. English in New York yesterday. Last night, however, Capt. Thomp- son sald he had asked New York po- lice about the previous attempt to jump. He showed a telegram from Chief Inspector Sheely of the New York police, in which Sheely said he had been unable to find any record where Mrs. English had attempted suicide there. Capt. Thompson said Mrs. English had attempted suicide at least twice in the last year, however, and that on both occasions she had taken her rings off and held them in her hand. Clifford W. Brown, an empioye of the Italian Embassy, just across the street from the Embassy Towers Apartments, where the English apart- ment is located, told the police yes- terday he saw Mrs. English sitting on the window ledge, and that she appeared to be trying to reach an awning rod on the window in the apartment next to hers. He said Mrs. English graboed for the rod, missed and fell. Police quoted Lieut. English as say- ing that he had met Starr only once and that his wife had told him that she became acquainted with him in New York. English was in Little America at that time. Starr came here from Chicago. Completely Installed in 6 Rooms This low price includes an 18- Boiler, 6 radi: in_ Red Flash 300 ft. radiation, janitor drafts—completely installed by expert mechanics as low as . . . automatic This Is an American Radiator First Quality Police believe she took | | ington. | “If this tax legislation is taken up, |it will lengthen the session of Con- gress, of course,” said the Speaker. There Is a great and growing desire among th2 House memoers to wind up the business of the present session as soon as possible, If the tax program | goes over for consideration and dis- | position until the January session of | | Congress, House leaders feel that it | should be possible to have an adjourn- | ment by July 15. If the President saw fit he could | call the Congress in special session | next Fall to deal with the tax pro- ! gram. During the congressional re- | cess, study could be given by the | Ways and Means Committee to the tax program and & bill could be pre- pared for submission either to a spe- cial sessicn in the Fall or to the regular session beginning in January. Long’s Letter Read. With a wide smile on his face, Sen- ator Long asked that the reading clerk read to the Senate “a little letter” which he had sent to the President. In his letter Long said: “Yoour last message to Congress re- garding taxation of wealth, and ex- pressing disapproval of concentrated wealth in the hands of a few, so far as concerns your promise, presents nothing new, for such was your | promise prior to your nomination and | election, and even after your inaug- | uration. “We are now, and have been, how- ever, as far away from the realization of your promise as though it had never been made or remade, and only the force of your administration has brought about the defeat of the sev- eral proposals which have been made to Congress, the effect of which would | have written your pledge into law. “Now it may be that your continuous and oft-repeated promise to redistrib- ute wealth, and the equally consistent performance of your administration in suppressing and defeating all moves in that direction, may account for the fact that some of your leaders in Congress are quoted as regarding your message as intending nothing very un- usual. “All the words and phrases urging the redistribution of wealth, as used by Jefferson, Madison, Webster, Emer- son and by such lesser lights as my- self, are found in your messages. Such is the voice we hear. But the hand | | clock _for 285 Product Sudden windstorms which struck Texarkana, Tex., left four dead and several injured. Wind ripped into the municipal airport, shown in top and middle scenes, destroying hangars and planes. Several residences, one of which is shown at bottom, were battered down late yesterday the House and in the Ways and | | proposals should be taken up. The| matter what the impelling motive, he at the voting throttle, whenever the} issue for the redistribution of wealth | has come to the Congress under your administration, has operated the same as would the hand of the Astors, the Rockefellers, the Morgans or the Mel- lons.” Long Ready to Go Along. Long said that he was neither astonished nor offended that 48 hours after his share-the-wealth proposal had been voted on by the administra- tion forces in the Senate, the Presi- dent should “make some pronounce- ment which would meet the approval | of the public.” Long added that no was ready to go along with the Presi- dent, if he really would do something about redistributing the wealth. He | asked the President a series of ques- tions designed to show just how the President was willing to go along with the Long share-the-wealth program. Long said he would like to encourage the President to put the full force of his influence back of such a pro- | gram. He predicted that within & | week the laws could be passed. Long | said that he would submerge his own | personal feelings and go along, even though it ruined him politically. Refers to Mitchell Charges. Long in his letter referred to the charges made by fcrmer Assistant Secretary of Commerce Ewing Y. Mitchell that the President had di- rected the laying up of the Leviathan, with a consequent loss to the Govern- ment of $1,700,000, for the benefit of the Astors, Franklins and Roosevelts. In his speech to the Senate after the reading of his letter, Long charged that the President had still not sub- mitted a definite tax plan to the Senate to redistribute the wealth. He was interrupted by Senator Black of Alabama who insisted that the Presi- dent had presented a tax program. Long challenged Black to state it, | Black replied that if Long could not | understand it he would not waste his | breath trying to explain it to Long. | Senator Schwellenbach of Washing- | ton asked Long if he had done any- thing in Louisiana to break up huge | fortunes there. Long replied there were no big fortunes in his State. “Don’t give us the voice of Jeffer- son and the hand of Mellon,” shouted | Long. “That voice of Jefferson has been coming out of the White House | for more than three years.” Replying to newspaper storles that the President, with his tax plan, had | put Long and his share-the-wealth | issue out of business, Long said that | GOES TO ETHIOPIA George Hanson to Protect American Interests in Case of War. By the Assoclated Press. Big, jovial George Hanson, the State Department’s ace “trouble-shooter,” yesterday began the long trek to Addis Ababa, capital of Haile Selassie I, King of Kings and Emperor of Ethiopia. He plans to be on the job as charge d'affaires at the end of the African rainy season—a date which this year has special significance. If there is trouble between Italy and Ethiopia, it is likely to be in late September or early October, when the dry season makes troop movement possible in the African hinterlands. Job to Guard U. S. Interests. The protection of American inter- ests when, and if, Mussolini’s Black- shirts go into action against the mountain tribesmen who claim descent from King Solomon will be Hanson's job. Behind him is a record of “trouble- shooting” for the United States in China, Manchuria, Soviet Russia and other far-away lands where he has spent more than 25 years in the con- sular and diplomatic service. Confident of Hanson. American officials are confident that, whatever happens, the 200-pound diplomat from Hartford, Conn., will be able to handle the situation. Scattered through Ethiopia are ap- proximately 100 American business men or missionaries. The most im- portant American interests are those of the J. G. White Engineering Co., engaged in constructing the great dam at Lake Tsana, at the headwaters of the Nile, which will regulate the flow of water to the parched lands of Egypt and the Sudan. if the Chief Executive put him out of politics by such a move he could not do Long a better favor. “The day they pass a law to de- centralize wealth,” said the Louisiana Senator, “so that every man Wil have work to do, a comfortable home, something to eat and shelter, then my use in American public life has ceased.” Senator Norris of Nebraska, one of the Senators who has signed the round robin, in an interview, said that he hoped the President’s tax program could be put through promptly. “There can be no recovery,” said Norris, “until there is a decentraliza- tion of wealth.” ALL DREAMS REALIZED SAYS “UNCLE DAN” AT 85 By the Associated Press. SUFFERN, N. 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