Evening Star Newspaper, June 26, 1935, Page 2

A2 wxw- WIDOWS MAY LOSE BY INSURANCE TAX Pursuit of Income Con- ceivably Can Embrace Life Policies. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. The most interesting question that has been raised by the President’s tax program is to what extent a man’s life savings, usually embodied in life insurance, can be protected against canfiscation. Two days ago I received a letter from a business man in Nebraska who argued that the burden would be so great he would feel inclined to cancel his life insurance policies. Today I have a communication from Leon Gilbert Simon, formerly president of the Life Underwriters’ Association and an authority on inheritance tax- ation, who takes issue with the Ne- braskan’s reasoning. Simon says there is no ground for apprehension because all that a man has to do is to have his wife take out the policy and pay the premiums with money furnished her by the husband. Then, in the event of the husband's death, the total amount of the policy is paid to her and there is no inheri- tance tax. Somewhat the same thing, of course, is practiced now by persons who name a beneficiary and then es- tablish what is really an irrevocable trust which is set up in such a way that the beneficiary cannot be changed by the person who is insured. But the Congress has said that the pre- miums in excess of $5,000 a year con- stitute a gift and as such are subject to taxation. Escape Device Provided. Still, a gift tax on the premiums last year is not likely to be as big & burden as the inheritance taxes on the full face value of the policy at death, so this is the method now be- ing used by many people Who have sought to avoid inheritance taxes. Simon declares the Supreme Court of the United States has held that where the insured person does not control or own the policies, the latter cannot be construed as a part of the estate of the insured. What he says i§ legally right and would be com- forting to persons who hold insurance policies if they could be sure a con- stitutional form of government were to be restored to the United States in place of the present dictatorship, in which decisions of the Supreme Court are treated as scraps of paper by both the legislative and executive branches of the Government. If it suits the purpose of the pres- ent administration to tax life insur- ance policies in excess of a certain amount, there will be no method of avoidance that could not somehow ceme under the ingenious dragnet of the New Dealers. Thus, for example, the giving of money to a man's wife or a member of one’s family for the plirpose of paying insurance premiums would be a simple prohibition to write into the law if it were desired by the a@iministration to overcome the avoid- ance of inheritance taxes. Today the sdles of stocks or bonds to one’s wife | afe banned as not being “bona fide” | transactions for tax purposes. Few Great Policies. /It is true that the holders of large insurance policies are relatively few in number and it is also true that most insurance companies would feel somewhsat relieved if they did not have to carry these large policies The difficulties they have had with suicides and with individuals of largc responsibility, whose wear and tear due to business worry increases the mortality record, make the life insur- ance companies less interested nowa- | days in writing insurance policies of large amount. The customary rule is & face amount eight times an annual income, so that an income of $25,000 ‘would permit $200,000 of insurance. 1t is also a fact that more than 90 per cent of the insurance policy- holders are in the very small amounts of from $5,000 to $15,000, which it is expectec by life insurance companies would surely be subject to exemption. So the soundness of the life insurance companies themselves is not involved. Indeed, the administration will find 1t necessary very soon to announce its attitude concerning exemptions and the limits to be applied if uncertainty is to be removed from the minds of the large bulk of policyholders. Life insurance has always been one of the best ways to build an estate, but Simon himself concedes that a man is poorly advised who makes his “estate” the beneficiary and that un- less the insured makes an assignment to a beneficiary and makes that as- signment irrevocable, he runs the risk of heavy inheritance taxes on large policies. This brings up some interesting domestic questions. A man might outlive his wife. Does the fact that he might recover by a will the right to assign the policy to some one else make the policy still within his con- trol? Also, he and his wife might become estranged. Can he recover the policy? Or, to put it another Wway, suppose he has a wayward son or daughter who would be injured by a large inheritance. He could not change the beneficiary without the consent of his children. Well, the simple truth is that for large policies tns freedom of sction of the insured who pays the premiums will be impaired by the new legisla- tion, especially !f Lesvy inher:tance taxes are to be avoided. Small policy- holders, of course, should have exempe tion, and the numercus life insur- | ance agents throughout the country | will probably insis‘ upon fit. But what assurance has anybody now- adays that any exemption written by one session of Congress will not be removed by the next session? To touch life insurance and small inheritances is 10 touch a wnotical mainspring. The beneficiaries of most life insurance policies are women. ‘They are the ones who will tave to assert themselves if they wish to be protected against®conflscation of their estates, however large or however small. And unfortunately they can- not rely on the Constitution any more, because this document is no longer regarded as sacred in Wash- ington, so their only reliance lies in the selection of members of Con- gress who will not violate their oaths of office when they come face to face with executive pressure and political dictatorship (Copyright. 1935.) A Correotion. A story from Rockville in The Star yesterday stated Mrs. Lilly E. McCarty of Takoms Park had been granted an absolute divorce from E. Mason Mc- Carty, with the custody of her only *'child, Dulcie D. McCarty, 4. It was inadvertantly stated that the couple was married in Hagerstown in February, 1933, whereas the marriage | ga) occurred November 32, 1929, The Star Tegrets the error. 'y What’s What Behind News In Capital Roosevelt Tax Plan Is Hailed as Great Coup for ’36 Race. BY PAUL MALLON. F YOU get President Roosevelt's political brain trusters off in a corner they will readily confess his wealth-tax program is one of the smartest moves he ever made. ‘They explain the generalship behind it this way: The only real political danger presses President Roosevelt from the Left (not only Long, Coughlin and Townsend, but the following they represent). His strategy must continue to draw wind from their sails. His move will becalm them for 36, they must ride on his boat or walk. He need not consider the conserva- tive Democrats. They have no place to go except where he can take them. (The strict primary laws in the South are regarded as & protection against an independent movement.) As for the Republicans, he would like to pass them as far Right as possible, thus making them lose the Borah, Nye, La Follette, Nor=- ris following to him. Note—These views are not shared by all politicians, outside the Roose- velt entourage. In the first place, some disagree as to the extent of the danger from the Left. Improved business conditions might keep down any for- midable movement from that end. If better business will elect Mr. Roosevelt, the proposed tax against corporate bigness will not contribute to that end. Wealth Always Survives. Nearly all insiders agree the move | was economically doubtful. No poli- tician will care to defend vast wealth these days, at least not publicly. Yet| most agree that wealth is a Lwider. | the country. Not the Astor type of | wealth, which came from real estate | speculation, but the Harriman and Hill type, which built the rlllruds:‘ the Ford type, which built the auto- | mobile; the Radio City of Rockefeller. What influence will take the economic place of wealth is not yet evident, un- less it is the Government. | The answer to that probably is that | the tax pudding will not be eaten as hot as it is cooked. Wealth has always found a way to survive, Idea m Favorite One. Mr. Roosevelt’s pals now say his| | wealth-tax idea has been in his mind | for many years. He wanted to make speech on it in the '32 campaign but was talked out of it by his political advisers. A relief message he sent to the Legislature while he was Gov- | the same theories. Financial Contributions. Old-time politicians like to say that contributions are the sinews of war. If so, you can get a good squint at the muscular development of Democrats and Republicans by looking into their last financial statements. These show the Democrats collected roughly 60 times as much as the Republicans during March, April and May (Demo- crats, $781,061; Republicans, $3,305). The pay roll at Democratic head- quarters is $3,000 a week, which is almost as much as the Republi- cans collected in three months. The Democratic contribution list is full of large donations ($1,000 to $10,- 000 each), but the Republicans must have been robbing their children’s banks. Their gifts include such items at $3.64, $6.25, $3.89. Democrats Still in Debt. The Democrats are muscle bound with a lot of debt ($441,976), while | the Republicans owe only $14,086. The Raskob mortgage was reduced $10,000 last quarter, but the Rooseveltites still owe him $45,000. Next largest creditor is none other than Joseph Kennedy, chairman of the Securities and Ex- change Commission. He is owed| $35,376. The news in these figures is that the new treasurer, Forbes Morgan, is making good, but the committee is spending money so fast that the debts are being paid slowly. Rejected Contribution. You may mot believe it, but the Democrats have actually rejected a campaign contribution. No an- nouncement was made about it, but a check for $1,000 was returned to Harry M. Warner, the movie man. It seems that the check arrived just about the time that Mr, Warner’s firm was indicted by the Justice Department for viola~ tion of anti-trust laws. Mr. War- ner was a leading contributor in the 32 campaign. What our diplomats see in the London-Berlin naval agreement is the ultimate death of the League of Na- tions. Japan and Germany have de- serted. Italy is threatening to. Now John Bull has turned from the original League idea of multilateral LoNDON-BERLIN NAVAL-AGREEMeNT agreements to bilateral pacts. The League serves as a children’s court in international affairs. It set- tles minor border disputes among small nations, but it is too weak to handle the adult powers. England’s Policy. The travels of Capt. Anthony Eden to Paris and Rome are in accord with with England’s traditional policy. Her game has always been to play first with one side and then with the other on the continent, thus meintaining herself as a balance of power and pre- venting any continental nation from getting too big. Now that she has made a naval agreement with Ger- many, she will sidle up to the French and Italians. Our diplomats are only casually interested. (Copyright 1935.) Diet Brings Long Life. James Boyle, who has died in Done- , Ulster, aged 106, was reared on oat bread, sweet milk, “borty,” msde irom potaioes, and-paten “gtarabout.” | ernor of New York contained some of | . THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1935. Asks $500,000 in Love Suit | [OHINESE IN BATTLE YATES 15 VIGTOR INOPENING ROUND Defeats Emery, ’33 Champ, as Collegiate Titie Play Begins. BY W. R. McCALLUM. CONGRESSIONAL COUNTRY CLUB, June 16.—In a struggle that went 21 holes, Charles Yates of Geor- gia Tech, defending champion, de- feated Walter Emery of Oklahoma, 1933 champion, in the first round of the national intercollegiate golf cham- plonship here today. Emery came to the eighteenth tee one up, but missed & four-foot putt that allowed Yates to tie him. On the twenty-first hole Yates got a par 3, while Emery was trapped, and after reaching the green his putt struck Yates’ ball and almost rolled in. John Banks, Notre Dame, whipped Robert McLaughlin, Buffalo, on the final hole 1 up, while G. A. Menard, jr., of Penn State, was upsetting the title aspirations of Erwin Laxton of North Carolina by 3 and 2. Jack Malloy of Princeton trimmed William Flynn of Northwestern by 3 and 2. Harry Gandy of Oklahoma, who many predict will win the tourna- ment, beat John Wasko of Pittsburgh, 3 and 2. Ed White of Texas, runner- up last year, beat John Boyd of Bow- doin, 2 and 1. Charles Kocsis of Michigan, one of the co-medalists, won on the eighteenth when H. L. Beyer, jr, Penn State, missed a 3- footer to win the hole and square the | match. Woodrow Malloy of Mickigan | won from Dannals, Georgia Tech, 3 and 2. Winfield Lay of Notre Dame beat Arthur St. John of Oklahoma, 3 and 1. Wilson Marks, Princeton captain, holed a 2-footer for a bird 3 on the | Georgia Tech, 1 up. Bobby Riegel, 19-year-old Richmond boy who won the Southern champion- ship last week, was beaten by R. B. | Parker of Princeton, who barely got That it pioneered the development of‘ Tt Fehell tob muient. oniibe) niy=oft last night. Parker won by 3 and 1. Riegel was 2 down at the turn and was unable to catch the Princeton lad over the final nine. John Fischer, 1932 champion, won by 4 and 3 from Jack Hoerner, Stan- ford giant. Joseph P. Lynch, George- town captain, was beaten on the seventeenth by Bob Cochran of St. Louis, 2 and 1. Lynch was down most of the way and made a game stand over the last nine, which fell two holes short of squaring the contest. Lewis Johnson, College of Charles- one of the three co-medalists. Fred Haas, Louisiana State, whipped Dana Seeley, Michigan, 2 and 1. TRADE CHIEFS ASK MONEY STABILITY | Sibley and Filene Lead World Chamber's Farm Dis- cussion. | By the Associated Press PARIS, June 26.—Leaders of the | American delegation to the World Congress of the International Cham- bers of Commerce took the stand to- | dav that stabilization of world cur- | rencies must ve the first step toward international trad> reccvery. Thomas J. Watson, president cf the International Business Machine Corp., | replying to an assertion by British cotton industry representatives that | stabilization is of secondary import- ance to a wholesa.e rise in comraodity prices, declared: “Stabilization is not a cure-all, but we must begin somewnere, and the breaking down of currency walls brings necessary relief tc world taade.” Harper Sibley, piesident of the United States Chamber of Commerce, and Edward A. Filene, Boston dele- gate, led discussions of the inter- natiopal congress on sgricultural pro- duction and distribution methods. Filene, Boston merchant, told the congress that the world must adopt a system of distribution capabie of supplying an outlet for mass produc- tion. The Bostonian’s plea for world adoption of a voluntary chain system of independent stores for distribution and purchase created a stir at the congress and brought approval from many leading European merchants. Filene cited as an example the United States, where, he said, “un- sound radicalism until recently failed to get a hearing and the recent success of radicals is basically due to bad distribution.” He said that unless production found an adequate distribution, the standards of living would drop, and “the masses would not only listen to agitators, but would tend to become agitators them- selves.” Sibley, speaking on agricultural production, said: “Other nations may not find it practicable or wise to follow a curtailment program similar to that of the United States, but so long as surpluses continue, prosperity cannot return without some form of produc- tion control.” e PALISADES LAND GIVEN NEW YORK, June 26 (#).—John D. Rockefeller, jr., yesterday gave New York and New Jersey 700 acres of land along the Palisades, waiving conditions he set up in an original offer two years ago. The gift was announced by the In- terstate Park Commission. The value of the land was set at $18,000,000. ‘Through dummy corporations since 19325 Rockefeller has been acquiring the land to preserve the scenic beau- ties of the Palisades against incroach- ment by apartment and office building construction. Congress in Brief TODAY, Senate. Considers - motion- to debate ship subsidy bill Finance Committee studies tax-the- wealthy proposal. House. * Pushes passage, - Senate. . May debate proposed new taxes. Finance Committee probably will meet on-taxes - ° Appropriatior. Subcommittee con- tinues work on second deficiency bill. ship subsidy bill toward -TOMORROW. mmmmnlmm District Committee mects in special session at 10:30 am. to consider mis- cellanecus bills ’ 7 | eighteenth green to lick John Rldley,‘ ton, 8. C., won by 4 and 3 from Tom | Draper, jr., of St. Louis. Johnson is| Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. | with her son, Frederick Louis Miss Mary Schirp, who is suing George H. Hatch, cotton millionaire, for $500.000, alleging breach of promise. She is shown in New York Lloyd, 4, previous to submitting to blood tests to determine whether Hatch may be the father of the boy. 'To Aid Mothers Employment as | keepers"” | women and girls on relief rolls this Fall. Earifer F. E. R. A. experiments in | providing a helping hand to sick and | unemployed mothers in their homes | have proved “so eminently successful,” | according to Mrs. Ellen S. Woodware, “visiting house- | service is to be continued on a wide | Administration. Already approximately 6,000 of these visiting housekeepers and assistants are organized under emergency home- making projects in 43 States, as one of the kinds of employment to be given to thousands of women on relief rolls. The plan serves a dual purpose. It provides employment for needy women and girls and an indispensable service to mothers in distress. The visiting housekeepers have cared for the sick, cleaned house, helped prepare food, remodeled gar- ments, cared for children and in gen- eral, Mrs. Woodward says, performed all needed household tasks. Few States Ignore Plan. Some of the States have gone about this service in rather a large way. Others are just beginning to accept the idea, as in Maryland, where only one homemaking project has been re- ported. Virginia, with 32 projects employing 139 woman workers, is among the States that have fallen into line more readily. The District of Columbia, Connect- icut, Rhode Island, Delaware, New Mexico and Oregon have ignored the service in planning work relief. It was reported, however, that Commis- sioner George E. Allen, newly ap- pointed works progress administrator for the District, is considering the plan in providing future work for women on the locel relief rolls. “It 1s obvious that the duty of aid- ing family heads in spending their funds to maintain, regain or establish a satisfactory home life is of im- measurable value not only to the relief families but to the communities as & whole,” Mrs. Woodward said. “There is probably no phase of woman's work which has struck deep- er into the roots of human needs than the work of the visiting housekeeper. Brighten Up Homes “The visiting housekeepers them- selves are taken from the relief rolls and can understand and appreciate the problems to be met in homes where resources are meager in the extreme. They have gone into homes where conditions of dirt and disorder were almost unbelievable and with- out any expenditure of money have brought about a remarkable trans- formation,” she said. Home-making projects, as they re set up in different places, naturally differ in organization and scope, de- pending upon the special needs of the families, local conditions and avail- able workers. They fall into two gen- eral types, Mrs. Woodward manual and educational. The manual project employes wom- en to go into homes where there is illness or other emergency and actual- ly do the housework and assist in the care of the patient and the chil- dren. The educational project is designed to teach better housekeeping methods to re! and encourage those families on fef who need help to work toward & better home life. The teaching is carried on by means of discussions and demonstrations, either in the in- dividual homes or in group meetings. While -the name “visiting house- acpes” lagoften used 1o designate 300,000 Visiting Housekeepers| 43 States Aiding Ill and Unemployed Mothers Under Emergency Plan. May Be Adopted for District. wait some 300,000 qualified | | assistant’ administrator in charge of | women’s activities, that the housenold | | scale under the new Works Progress | Under F.E.R.A. | both the manual and non-manual | worker, the former in some States is given the title which distinguishes her from the trained visiting house- | keeper, such as “home helper,” “moth- | er's helper,” “housekeeping aide” or | “home service worker.” \ It isn't every woman on relief rolls who is able to fill the important role of visiting housekeeper. A competent knowledge and practical experience in household duties is a first essential requirement to land such a job. Care- ful consideration, therefore, is given to the selection of workers on these emergency homemaking projects. COAL WALKOUT ENDED MERCER, Pa., June 26 (#).—The 325 striking miners of the Sharon Coal & Lime Co. last night voted to return to work. . This action followed a conference | between local leaders of the United Mine Workers of America and the | | compeny. After the vote to return to work it was announced by the miners that their “grievances had been adjusted.” They walked out of the company’s No. 5 mine in Springfield Township yesterday, charging union men were being discriminated against. Gets Five Years for Threat. + SPRINGFIELD, I, June 26 (#).— E. L. Bartlett of Quincy, Ill, charged with having sent extortion letters to Mrs. Adolph Mayme, prominent St. Louis woman, yesterday was sentenced to five years in prison by Federal Judge Charles G. Briggle on an in- dictment charging violation of the postal laws. Mrs. Mayme and her daughter, Dorothy, appeared as witnesses and described the receipt of letters from Bartlett telling of an alleged plot to kidnap the daughter. As Well as Like the North West Mounted, young William A. Weber of Montana, a strapping 6-foot deputy - sergeant-at- arms in the House of Representatives, always gets his man. Last night, Weber brought in John E. Barr, & wanted witness before the Patman “Super Lobby” Investigating Committee—and on the Hill today all the committee members and the Sergeant at arms, Kenneth Romney, are congratulating Weber, w9 got his man in the face of great difficulty. The arrest was made part of the com- mittee record. It is described by Patman, ‘When Weber went to the Barr home, in the 200 block of Spruce street, Takoma Park, Md., there was i Hf s She berated Weber, using, “‘unseeming language.” Not only Mrs, Barr attempted to chase Wel from the premises. She, too, went in search of rocks_ to stone the sergeant at arms. Politely Mr. Weber told Mrs. that he had important business her 4 25 i T ON CHAHARBORDER Engage Manchukuoan Force in Bloody Fight, Re- ports Say. (Copyright, 1035, by the Associated Press.) TOKIO, June 26—A Manchukuan frontier patrol of 80 men battled a Chinese force of 700 soldiers along the sanguinary Jehol-Chahar frontier todsy, advices to the Manchukuan war office reported. Rengo (Japanese) News Agency dis- patches from Hsinking said the Man- chukuan patrol was that which first encountered 500 Chinese troops Mon- day, 200 more Chinese having arrived from Tushihkou while a larger Man- chukuan detachment was under or- ders to hasten to the battleground. The advices to the war office, also coming from Hsinking, capital of the Japanese-advised state of Manchukuo, said the bloody conflict was taking | place north of Tushihkou on the ill- defined North China frontier. Regulars Are Praised. Japanese regulars in garrison at Je- hol City sprang into readiness, but the general headquarters which con- trols the army high command in Manchukuo was depending on the Manchukuans to chastise alleged in- vaders. Maj. Gen. Kenji Doihara, chief po- litical negotiator for the Japanese military, was instructed from Hsinking | to present ‘resh demands to the | Chinese “for establishment of veace | and order in Chahar,” including with- | drawal of all Chinese troops in Chahar | to points “south of the Great Wall.” Which section of the Great Wall was meant was not specified. One | section crosses Chahar just south of | Kalgan while the other skirts the southern border of the province. If the latter was meant, the Jap- anese were demanding that the en- tire province be cleared of Chinese troops. Information is Denied. ‘That the situation rested entirely in the hands of the general headquar- ters at Hsinking was indicated by both the foreign office and war office spokesmen at Tokio. They insisted that they lacked offi- cial information concerning the Cha- har fracas. While vernacular newspapers were bannering the conflict on the Jehol- Chahar frontier, a martial atmos- phere pervaded Tokio. The citizenry rehearsed “air de- fense maneuvers,” scheduled to be staged officially July 6 and 7. Anti-aircraft machine guns sput- tered defiance at an imaginary enemy and clouds of defensive smoke screens rolled up. Scores of ambulances and fire en- gines shrieked through the streets to attend simulated casualties. Tonight Tokio'’s 6,000,000 persons | must douse all lights for 90 minutes. Fired on Border Patrol. A Manchukuan detachment was as- signed to the attack after Japanese sources charged that Chinese troops | violated the Manchukuan border and fired on a Manchukuan border patrol under the command of Japanese offi- | cers. Previously, Japanese general head- quarters had withheld orders for the attack pending determination of the fate of the frontier patrol of 80 men on which the Chinese were alleged o have fired. The number of casualties was not known. _ FARM DEBT BILL SHOWDOWN NEAR Frazier-Lemke Measure Sure to Pass House, One Demo- crat Says. By the Associated Press. A showdown drew near in the House today on the $3,000,000,000 Frazier- Lemke bill to refinance farm mort- gages through currency inflation. At least one Democratic leader openly conceded administration chiefs had little chance of stopping its passage. The bill was approved weeks ago by the House Agriculture Committee. Be- fore it could reach the floor it had also to be sanctioned by the Rules Committee. The latter committee, on instructions from administration | sources, refused the second-stage ap- | proval. Lemke Files Petition. Representative Lemke, Republican, of North Dakota filed a petition to force consideration of the bill on the floor. Needing 216 signatures—a ma- jority of the present membership of 430—he had 201 today, and predicted: “The petition will be completed by Thursday. That will give us a vote July 8, and when the roll is called I have no doubt that the bill wili pass by a huge majority.” A Democratic leader, Representative O’Connor of New York, had been holding the bill in the Rules Commit- tee, of which he is chairman. But today he said: “I guess they'll get that petition signed up; and it'll sweep through the House.” House Subpoena Holds Wife Lobby Witness “You can’t see him,” she said, “he’s not coming home.™ But Barr did come home, and as he drove up Spruce street Mrs, Barr rushed out to the car and waved her husband a warning: “Drive on,” she shouted. Weber rushed to the machine. An athlete, he came near overtaking it, but Barr stepped on the gas and out- distanced the runner. Advised to Surrender. Later, Barr—according to his own admission before the committee— reachéd John A. Logan, managing di- rector of the Food and Grocery Chain Stores of America, Inc, now under investigation. Logan advised Barr to surrender—which he did, but not be- fore Weber served the subpoena. Before Barr surrendered, however, the deputy sergeant-at-arms, after conferring with the committee, wrote out a new subpoena for Mrs. Barr and “served her, t00.” The Barrs were brought to the House Office Building last night at 8 o'clock, where Barr, before an execu- tive session, told committee members that he was employed by Logan at $50 'a week while working also in the Challenged Borotra Faces Defi for Duel. JEAN BOROTRA. PUBLISHER SCORES A A A.LEGISLATION “Interference” of Wallace in Advertising, “Vast Power” Hit. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 26.—J. D. Bar- num, president of the American Newspaper Publishers’ Association, io- day attacked an “attempted defense” by Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, of ‘“the vast powers sought in the pending legislation for the amendment of the agricultural adjustment act.” Barnum stated his criticism in a letter to the Secretary. It was a reply to Wallace's communication, wherein the Secretary rejected an amendment proposed by the publish- ers’ association, at his own request, preventing governmental regulation of advertising. Referring to earlier correspondence Barnum reminded Wallace that the Secretary had recorded himself as having “no objection to an amend- ment specifically providing that noth- ing in the act shall be construed as giving any authority to regulate ad- vertising.” “Interference” Pointed Out. “In my reply,” Barnum's letter said, “I pointed out to you that your department has interfered with ad- vertising. Not only have you and your associates on various occasions referred to advertising as economic waste, but, as I stated, you have interfered with it. I cited specific examples of such interference * * *” Barnum mentioned the depart- ment’s restrictions, “one of which, as approved by you, was declared uncon- stitutional by the Supreme Court in the Schechter case.” “Now,” the letter continued, “you state that, while you agree with the position taken in the (Publishers’) By the Associated Press. PARIS, June 26.—A challenge to | clash on the field of honor was flung | today at Jean Borotra, “Bounding Basque” of French tennis fame. | Didier Poulain, sports writer for the newspaper Auto, issued the call to arms to Paris’ favorite tennis player | just as the capital's favorite politi-| cian, Jean Chiappe, prepared peaceful | settlement of another projected duel. ‘ The proposed encounter between Chiappe, president of the Paris mu- nicipal council, and his predecessor, | Pierre Godin, was expected to be called off because of “insufficient grounds,” a representative for one of them Indicated. | Chiappe, former Paris police pre- fect, challenged Godin because of | criticism of his police administration. The defi against Borotra rose almost simultaneously with the apparent set- | tlement of the previous dispute. Poulain, who has been engaged in a | war of words with Borotra in Paris | newspapers, accused the tennis star | of insulting him in the columns of the writer's own newspaper. Poulain charged Borotra with “let- play singles in the Davis Cup compe- is playing in the all-England tennis championships. A decision in the dispute was not expected until the Wimbledon cham- pionships are ended and Borotra re- turns to Paris. MILLS WILL OPEN DESPITE STRIKERS Northwest Lumber Plants Ordered Reopened Under Troop Protection. | By the Associated Press. TACOMA, Wash, June 26.—Mili- tary and police forces concentrated at two possible storm centers in the Pacific Northwest lumbar strikes were on the alert today as plans were under way to .ecpen additional plants and mills. Equipped with riot sticks and tear gas, city, county and State police re- ported for duty at Portland, Oreg., be resumed. The concentration of officers were coincident with the re- jection of a proposed strike settle- ment by the Portland Sawmill and Timber Workers’ Union. Between 1,500 and 2,000 union men roared down an offer of a 5-cent wage increase end demanded written union recognition. Troops Protect Mills. National Guardsmen, equipped with tear gas and bayonets, patrolled the streets of Tacoma as operators ad- vertised for more workers. Approxi- mately 700 men have gcne to work in six reopened Tamoca mills, all oper- ating under the protection of troops and State policemen. Troop reinforcements were brought here from the Summer encampment. The only instructions to the sol- diers, however, were'to prevent gath-, ering of crowds and to keep traffic moving. In the only disorder yesterday Guardsmen hurled tear gas to dis- burse a crowd gathered near the mill | section, . Man Is Beaten. Longview, Wash., big lumber center near Portland, saw a :ough-and-tum- ble melee last night when sawmill and timber workers’ union members vis- ited a meeting of Con-Bell Lumber Co. employes. E. S. Wilson, former employment manager of the Long- Bell Co, was beaten up in fighting that followed his refusal to admit one of the A. F. of L. union men. One plant, the Seattle Box Co., with a crew of 100 men at work, resumed operations at Seattle yesterday, the | only activity in the industry there. Reopenirgs this week have been the only major steps toward ending the strike waich has affected almost all mills and logging camps in the Pa- cific Northwest, normally employing nearly 40,000 men. BROKEN NECK FATAL Mrs. Suzanne De Loche Dies of Injury in Diving. Mrs. Susanne De Loche, 25, of 637 G street southwest, died in Gallinger Hospital this morning of a broken neck suffered Monday when she dove into <hallow water at Seminary Run, near Alexandria. Mrs. De Loche was rushed to Alex- andria Hospital by her companions, from the ting down France” by declining w" tition, and sent his seconds to Wim- | bledon, where the “Bounding Basque” | where seven operators ordered work to | Bulletin that this legislation should not give %the Government authority to regulate advertising, you object to the proffered amendment on the the- ory that it will compel governmental regulation of advertising. If I thought it would give such power I should have been the last to suggest it. Asks Amendment Submittal. “But since you say it does, I now ask you to submit for consideration of the Congress an amendment which will make it clear beyond all perad- venture of doubt that those adminis- tering the act are without the power, directly or indirectly, to prohibit, reg- ulate, restrict or interfere with adver- tising, whether contemplated by con- cerns upon their own initiative or by a number of concerns co-operatively. Only by such an amendment may the situation be adequately met * * *. “I note your expression of the opinion that reither the present law nor the proposed amendments can be so contrued as to make possible the levy- ing of & processing tax on newsprint paper, and that you have no objection to the apprcval by Congress of the amendment which I proposed, for the purpose of making certain that no future order can classify newsprint paper as subject to the processing tax, I trust that in the light of your ‘sutzmem you will notify the Senate Committee on Agriculture and For- estry of your position. Tax Refund Opposition Hit. “In my letter to you I set forth other objections to this measure of fundamental importance. I expressed my personal cpinion, to which I ad- here, that tie provisions of the bill seeking to prevent the restitution of taxes illegally assesed and collected are offensive, unjust and unfair. You attempt to defend these provisions on | the theory that the refund of illegally | collected taxes ‘would constituted one of the greatest raids ever perpetrated upon the Tressury and upon the tax- payers.’ s * Carried to its logical con- clusion, this method of taxation simply | means that the Government at any time could knowingly and illegally assess taxes of any kind or descrip- tion, collect them and then retain them after its acts have been held to be unconstitutional by the courts, and as fast as one set of such taxes is held invalid impose another set, know- ing it to be invalid, as a substitute for the first group.” MRS. MOCKABEE DIES Mrs. Gertrude Mockabee, 40, was found in a dying condition in her home, 305 Eleventh street southwest, by her husband, John B. Mockabee, about 5 p.m. yesterday and died a few minutes later. Death resulted from an attack of heart failure. The fu- neral will be from the chapel of P. &, Taltavull, 436 Seventh street south- west, at 8:30 am. Friday. Requiem mass will be said at St. Dominic’s Church at 9 am. Interment will be iin Cedar Hill Cemetery. e BAND CONCERTS. At the United States Capitol by the United States Marine Band at 7:30 pm. Capt. Taylor Branson, leader; Arthur 8. Witcomb, second leader. March, “Old Comrades” . .Teike Overture, “La Gazza Ladra”...Rossini Marines’ hymn, “The Halls of Montezuma.” “Grand Military Tattoo” Xylophone solo, “Dance of the Comedians,” f{rom “The Bar- tered Bride' .. .Smetana Charles Owen. “Song of the Volga Boatmen,” arranged for military band by A Benert, Marine Band. “Jablocho,” Russian sailors’ dance from the ballet “The Poppy” Symphony, World"” Adagio, allegro molto. Largo. Scherzo. Finale, allegro con fuoco. (The first and fourth movements are arranged for military band by 8. Scharbau, Marine Band.) “The Star Spangled Banner.” At 7:30 pm. at the band stand Navy Yard, by the U. 8. Navy Band, Lieut. Charles Benter, leader; Alex- ander Morris, assistant leader, March, “Merry of Heart”...... Overture, “La Dame De Coeur” Cagnier Cornet solo, “Our Maud,” Valse Ca- price, Oscar Short Short PFantasia on: “Students Songs” Douglas. Valse, “Wine, Woman and Song” Strauss Fantasy, “The Midshipmen"” Buys Suite, “L'Ariesienne” Bizet Prelude. * Menuetto. Adagietto. Carrillion. Excerpts from: “The Red Mill” peody, “The Amertcan Ingian” Rha, 3 American Orem The National Anthem. May.