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MARTIAL LAW ENDS IN BATON ROUGE Last of Louisiana National Guardsmen Depart From Capital. By the Associated Press. BATON ROUGE, La. July 9.— Martial law was ended today In Louisiana’s State capital. The military rule which has existed in East Baton Rouge Parish smce January 25 was terminated when the last handful of Guardsmen on duty relinquished supervision of the parish court house and evacuated the cap- {tal. Their departure followed revocation yesterday by Gov. O. K. Allen of his martial law proclamation issued six months ago when Senator Huey P. Long charged that political foes and the Standard Oil Co. had plotted to kill him. Revocation of the edict did not be- come known until the soldiers’ de- parture today. Nearly a thousand soldiers were con- eentrated in Baton Rouge to guard a dramatic “murder plot” hearing Long conducted within a ring of bayonets and machine guns. After conclusion of the hearings large numbers were sent home and the number on duty gradually dimin- ished until less than a dozen finally remained to lounge about the main corridor of the court house. (Continued From First Page.) Rankin, Democrat. of Mississippi. criticizing O'Connor on the ground his opinion regarding the procedure in Maine would be to ask for the State . authority, snd that he would | 80 to the Legislature end ask for it.” | Then, with sn arm over the back of his chair, the former Governor described how Corcuian left toward the Senate and how he and Gruening walked toward the House. Gruening, he said, seemed “much disturbed” and tola him he vhought he, Brewster, would be making a “serious mistake” if he did not vote for the President. Goes on House Floor. Gruening told him he would he “a man without a country” and aban- doning all his old friends, Brewster asserted. The Representative said he considered that a “perfectly legitimate argument.” Then Brewster said he went to the House floor and told Representative Edith Nourse Rogers, Republican, of Massachusetts, what had taken nlace. e added he had discussed the bill with Corcoran three or four times previously, first about three or four weeks before. “What did he say then?" O'Connor asked. “He said the President felt the death sentence was absolutely funda- mental and the most profound issue before the country,” was the reply. “He knew my background and I told him I would be glad to discuss it with him.” House Leaders Listen. Among those who listened from the sidelines were Representatives Rayburn, Democrat, of Texas, chair- man of the House Interstate Com- merce Committee and co-author of the original Wheeler-Rayburn utili- ties control bill, and Rankin, who led the unsuccessful cloak room campaign for mandatory abolition of “unneces- sary” holding companies and who had predicted the House investigation would be an “idle gesture.” Turning to the meeting in Corcoran’s office, Brewster said among those present were Benjamin V. Cohen, P W. A. expert, and Charles West, Presi- dent Roosevelt's contact man on Cap- itol Hill. Afterward, he said, he called Gruen- ing and arranged to have breakfast that he had voted against the admin- tstration in the utilities bill fight, had | said the inquiry “will probably be an | idle gesture.” O'Connor flung back | that Rankin had voted for the earlier | resolution. { Last night the New Yorker vowed | that he would spare no one in inves- | tigating any attempt to “intimidate or influence votes.” ‘When Representative Blanton, Dem- | ocrat, of Texas, asked what would be | done if the charges against Corcoran were found to be true, O'Connor said: “Then he would be confronted with the statute making it a crime.” The Senate meanwhile neared a de- eision on whether to agree with the House action—opposed by President Roosevelt—in voting to give the Se- curities Commission discretionary au- thority over the future of holding | ‘companies. | ‘The House bill would let the com- mission decide whether some holding companies should be abolished. The Senate bill—backed by President Roosevelt—would automatically elim- inate in seven years those deemed “unnecessary.” Also the Senate approached a vote on whether to institute an investiga- tion of its own into lobbying in gen- eral, including that of the utllitles bill. As the House inquiry began, Brew- ster related that on July 1, after his arrival in Washington by plane in time for action on the utilites bill, his secretary told him Corcoran had called his office and used very strong language, demanding that he vote for the utilities bill, Works Threat Recounted. “I had her put down the conversa- tion and called Corcoran, who said he wanted to talk to me about the utili- ties matter. and I told him I would | be very glad to talk to him,” Brewster said. He went on that in that con- ersation by telephone Corcoran said | he felt very strongly Brewster should | vote for the holding company bill. Brewster quoted him as saying in the first conversation. “If you do not vote for the death sentence I shall find it necessary to stop construction of the Passamaquoddy Dam.” Ferdinand Pecora, investigator for the Senate before going on the Securi- ties and Exchange Commission and later on the bench in New York, was present as a spectator. Brewster said while he was talking with Corcoran Dr. Gruening called on the other telephone and asked for an appointment and that Corcoran said he would like to be present. “Won't you come into my room?" Brewster quoted Corcoran, who, he #aid, could hear the conversation on the other phone. “Where?” Brewster said he asked. Meet in Statuary Hall. “I have a little office in the office ©f the Democratic whip, Mr. Boland,” Brewster said Corcoran told him, sug- gesting that he and Gruening go there. Brewster said it was so arranged and that he went over to the Capitol, then near 2 p.m, shortly before the teller vote on mandatory abolition of holding companies. “As 1 entered statuary hall,” he re- lated, “Corcoran and Dr. Gruening were coming from the other direction. “There were quite a few people earound. A page, I remember, came up and said there would be a vote pretty soon. Mr. Page (William Tyler Page, minority clerk of the House) passed by. I mention these things to show the background. “Gruening, I believe, spoke first. He said he believed I would make a great mistake if I did not vote for the death sentence. Threat Repeated, He Says. “Corcoran interrupted him: Let me speak with brutal bluntness. If you do not vote for the death tence I shall find it necessary to stop con- struction on the Passamaquoddy Dam."" Brewster enunciated slowly for the attentive committee. Then, the former Maine Governor went on, Gruening broke in saying: “I think you should do it on your en “But Corcoran _interrupted Dr. Gruening again,” Brewster declared. “He said if I did not vote for the measure he would find it necessary to ‘stop Quoddy’.” Brewster said Corcoran then went into legal details of the Passama- quoddy situation, involving the ne- cessity of the State authority. Brewster said matters of policy had been discussed witn Corcoran from time to time. “Action of ihe State Legislature was involved,” inverrupted Representa- tive Mapes, Republican, of Michigan. Authority Net Pushed. “Yes, P. W. A. had prepared an act,” Brewster said. ‘“‘Changes were made after it lefc P. W. A. that re- stricted the sole suli.ority that was to be created. Corcoran was detail at the President’s direction. He had determined that it was not ex- pedient to push the authority. “Corcoran said that if I were going to vote against the death senience, A |in the Speaker's lobty the next morn- with him the following day. At that time, he said, he told Gruen- ing he “felt the situation was getting embarrassing and that my relations to the death sentence were being ex- aggerated, but that if he and Corcoran felt my vote was so important I would be glad for them to explain to me fully the President’s posttion. “A week before the vote I was called to Bangor for a legal case,” Brewster continued. | “Quoddy, in the meantime, we | thought was practically ready to go.” | Refused to Be Counsel. He said Corcoran originally had | asked him to act as Quoddy counsel, | but he refused because he had too many other activities and could not | accept pay in addition to that as a member of Congress. Instead he| recommended two Maine attorneys. | While at Bangor, Brewster said, Corcoran went to his Washington | office and called him up to ask that | he send to all Congressmen a letter and a speech by Senator Borah, Re- | publican, of Idaho on “the comstitu- | tionality of this matter.” il Corcoran told him, he sald, that he was anxious to have the material g0 out under his signature. Ten minutes later Corcoran called him back and read the proposed let- ter to him, he said. When he refused to let it go out, Brewster said Cor- coran “showed some feeling.” Tells of Telephone Call. While waiting for several days in Bangor for Quoddy to go through, Brewster continued, he receiyed a tele- phone call from his secretary in Wash- ington and was informed Corcoran had told the secretarv nothing would be done on Quoddy until after the utilities vote. Flying back to tiie Capital inmedi- ately, Brewster said he saw Corcoran ing when the Hcusc was in session. Chairman O’Connor of the com- mittee remarked taut only members and the press were allowed in the lobby while the House was meeting. ' Brewster said Corcoran asked him | to speak to Senator White, Repub- | lican, of Maine. He said he saw White and told him Corcoran, who had done much for Passamaquoddy, would appreciate it if White would re- frain from voting on the pruvision for abolishing “unneccessary” nolding companies, as it was understood he was against it. Brewster insisted he merely transmitted Corcoran’s request and did not himself urge. White not to vote. Says No Threat Involved. Brewster said the “only claim Cor- coran had on us was that he was doing good work on Quoddy and that there was no persuasion or threat in- volved in the White incident.” Up until the “brutal blunt” conver- sation, Brewster said there was noth- ing in Corcoran's attitude that he would criticize. Corcoran, taking the stand, de- scribed Brewster's threat statements | as “baseless.” He added that at the Capitol meet- ing between himself, Brewster and Gruening, Brewster told them that after a visit to Maine “my political situation is so delicate T don’t believe I can vote for it,” (the provision for abolishing “unnecessary” holding companies). Corcoran explained that instead of threatening to hold up Passama- quoddy as Brewster charged he merely pointed out to him that this was the first intimation he had that Brewster had changed his position, and under such circumstances naturally could not trust Brewster to carry through on assurances he claimed had been given of holding off Republican suits in Maine against the project and lin- ing up Republican members of the Legislature on legislation for it. Corcoran said he was glad to know that the conversations in Statuary Hall with Gruening present were the the basis of the charges. He added THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, Brewster Reasserts Charges ICKES MAY ACT IND. C. STRIKE Interior Building Walkout May Involve 350 Men, Angry at Contractor. Facing a general strike of about 350 building trades workers employed on improvements in the Interior Depart- ment Building, national parks officials in charge of Federal building opera- tions were planning today to call on Secretary Ickes to intercede. The walkout, due to the awarding of & contract to a Baltimore concern “| sald by local labor to be employing non-union men, started among elec- tricians at 7:30 p.m. yesterday and became general among all workmen on the job this morning. The Industrial Power & Equipment Co. is the Balti- more concern which was awarded the low-bid contract to change the electric current in the building from direct to alternating. Employes of two other contractors, JULY 9, 1935. LIBERAL POLICY INCODES PLEDGED Trade Commission Rules Will Be Uniform, Davis Says. By the Associated Press. A policy of liberality in writing voluntary codes for business was enunciated today by Chairman Ewin L. Davis of the Federal Trade Com- mission It is with this attitude, t h e chairman said, that the com- mission is study- ing recent in- quirfes from about 80 indus- tries as to the commission’s agreements, which are simi- (% lar to N. R. A. 7 codes but lack labor provisions the Harwood-Nepel Co. of Washington and the York Ice Machinery Co. of Philadelphia, who are instailing new elevators and air conditioning the building, joined in a sympathetic strike until labor troubles are adjusted. Officials of the Nationa! ks Office claimed they knew nothing of the strike until the men failed to show up for work this morning. They intend to confer today with officers of the Washington Building Trades Council in an endeavor to settle differences and resume work on the building. If their efforts do not prevall, Secretary Ickes, it was understood, will be called into the picture. A letter was being prepared for his signature asking the Baltimore concern to adjust differ- ences. John L. Nagel, assistant chief of | staff engineers for the National Parks | Office, explained he had received no| notice from the local union stating the cause of the strike, but was aware, he said, that the union men employed | refused to work beside non-union men put on tne job yesterday. ol Officers of the Bullding Trades Council last week protested the award- | ing of the contract, claiming that the second and third low bidders were | | Knfs L marey “We want. to | be as liberal as possible within the | law,” Davis declared in an interview | giving the first official indication of | the commission’s plans for codifica- | tion since it was designated by the | President last week as the Govern- | ment's arbiter for industry, succeed- |ing N. R. A. Uniform Rulings. “The commission’s rules will be ab- solutely uniform,” Davis said. “They shall be stated broadly enough so as | to apply to all industries alike. We | are giving closest consideration to many suggestions, such as open pric- | ing, sales below costs, uniform dis- | | counts, loss leaders, and other mat- | ters which the commission has not permitted in its codes before.” As to questions whether the com- |2 mission’s policy was more liberal than in former years, Davis said the “only |5: policy we have had was to administer the laws entrusted to us fairly.” He agreed, however, that changes in the | commission membership might alter | methods of administration. C. of C. Urges Co-operation. In past years some critics con- Washington concerns employing union tended the commission’s agreements labor. Assistant Secretary of Interior | ggye pysiness virtually no freedom Above: Representative Brewster as he took the stand at the congres- sional inquiry into lobby activities to reassert his charges that Thomas Corcoran threatened to delay the Passamaquoddy project unless Brewster voted for the abolition of “‘unnecessary” holding companies. Below: Thomas Corcoran (right), who denied the charges made by Representative Brewster. He is shown talking with Ferdinand Pecora —Underwood & Underwood Photos. Brewster-Corcoran Row Ends Anti-**Power Trust” Teamiwork Lobby Hearing Presents Drama Which May Be Called “When Reformers Fall Out”—Versions Differ. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. An amazing picture of what goes on behind the scenes in legis- lative battles on Capitol Hill was painted today as the House Rules Committee began its inquiry into the charges of administration and power trust lobbying on the *“death sentence’ clause in the holding company bill. The story told today by two princi-,,: pal_witnesses. Representative Ralph’ ©O. Brewster of Maine and Thomas C Corcoran, braintruster and an attor- ney for the R. F. C., might have been entitled “When Reformers Fall Out.” Brewster and Corcoran in the past have been determined foes of the power trust Brewster fought the power interests in Maine, where he was Governor and where he sought repeatedly and unsuccessfully to be elected Senator. That was in the days when Samuel Insull was all- powerful in the utilities business. Corcoran Assigned to Help. Corcoran was assigned to help work out the plans for the Passamaquoddy Dam for the production of electric power through operation of the tides and also to help in the fight to put| through the administration’s public forceful speaker. painted Brewster as a double-crosser. governed only by a desire to protect his political fences The story he told of Brewster's con- versation at the time the “threat” was supposed to have been made brought from Brewster an impulsive: “You're a liar.” It was on this note that the hearing ended today, with the understanding that the committee would resume again a 10 a.m. tomorrow. Acted Under Instructions. Corcoran told his story of his deal- dramatic force. | When Corcoran admitted to the | committee he had been working at utility holdl 3 utility holding company bill, he said Y 0ICRE: company; bill | anything he had done had been under Brewster and Corcor: Ve togeiher 1t wan Soreiamnd e onE | the tastruction of Chairman Wheeler Dearing, on the drive for t | of the Senate Interstate Commerce qw‘::m = m"“o;h;;l:;sf:?oz.‘ | Committee and of Chairman Rayburn v | of the House Interstate and Foreign :l’:t'x'lo‘:%ol?;o :‘l:nl:.louud in Brewster's| o o e Committee The split came over Brewster's fail- |, Brewster. in his testimony. said he ure to spesk for or vote for the death | 130 been asked by Corcoran to urge Senator White of Maine not to vote ;e:]';";'" clause in the holding com (on the “death sentence” clause when . the holding company bill was before Brewster, h | House, are responsible for the investi- | 53¢ IhEs (i T En—. EiC | who like himself is a Republican. The S, m:{‘;";fi?i:kfie:‘ffi | idea was that Corcoran had been ex- Oscar L. Chapman, who had charge of approval of contracts, refused, | however, to meet their demands. Virgin Islands (Continued From First Page) not averse to buying & man off if it can be done discreetiy.” | In a long recital of instances de- signed to support his charges of graft, fraud, inefficiency and failure in the | island administration, Yates testified the Governor had sought to have pre- pared a list of charges involving Mor- ris Davis, whom he identified as an anti-Pearson “agitator.” and put them out as a newspaper story under Yates’ name. The witness said he refused to do it He accused Pearson of trving to in- | fluence a correspondent of the New | York Times against sending articles i detrimental to Pearson’s regime, add- ing that Pearson succeeded in having a member of the Colonial Council appointed in the correspondent’s stead, although the man was later replaced by the Times. Yates said Pearson threatened an | editor of the principal anti-admini- stration newspaper, the Emancipator, with prosecution for libel. He de- to co-operate. Recently, however, the | United States Chamber of Commerce urged business to make use of the| agency's codes. | Davis emphasized the necessity of | legality. “It would do neither busi- ness nor the public nor the comm! sion & bit of good to permit illegal agreements.” | “The law of trade practices is de- veloping slowly,” he added. “Through ’ court tests we slowly are adding to 5. the rules which are lly enforce- able. We are careful not to permit | statements in agreements that we do not believe are lawful and our record | in the courts shows the accuracy of our judgment.” Taxes (Continued Prom Pirs ) it be primarily for the purpose of bringing our national budget nearer to a balance, let it avoid any impli- cation of class legislation, and let it be paralleled by an application of lhe\ brakes on reckless spending of Gov- ernment money.” | ‘The President’s new tax program encountered a protest, meanwhile, from the leadership of the American | railroad industry. | clined to say under questioning wheth- | ar he thought any Emancipator articles were libelous. Yates also alleged that part of the Federal relief food sent to the islands found its way to the British Island of Tortola in the Virgin group. “The food distribution was one of the worst features in the islands, ~he said. “Hundreds complained to me per- sonally they were unable to secure | food. They complained it was being diverted to Tortola.” He added that many residents of the British island were employed on | States islands. Espionage System Charged. | Senate investigators have been told enemies. The accusation was made by Yates, in support of charges of corruption, ministration. In his testimony against Pearson, | Yates said yesterday: | “He told me he had ways of getting | letters from his enemies. He said Cstholic fathers were among the | worst of his enemies on the islands. He led me to believe he had an es- | pionage system which would uncover | all base things against him.” the dam after it had been completed by the Federal Government. The neglect and faflure in the island ad- | Inconsistency Charged. Robert V. Fletcher. general counsel for the Association of Railway Execu- tives, contended the graduated taxes the President wants to apply to cor- porate income would penalize bigness in the railroad field after Congress had encouraged mergers. | Fletcher prepared a formal argu- /ment for submission to the House | Ways and Means Committee, which yesterday heard estimates that 29 al- ternative schedules based or a four- | fold tax plan advocated by the Presi- ! dent would raise anywhere from $118,- #gs with Brewster swiftly and with | Federal public works on the United | 000,000 to $901,000,000 a year. Secretary Morgenthau, who had re- ceived from committeemen a list of | the different schedules with a request Lhet:‘l’“"l In the interest of the|ina; Gov. Pearson employed an es- | to say how much revenue each would leath sentence and the whole public | pionage system against his political | raise, outlined the estimates. | He suggested taxes would apply to inheritances, gifts, high incomes of | individuals and corporation incomes. End Sought This Week. | | The committee is trying to finish| hearings this week so it can go to work Monday to decide which of the | | 29 schedaules, if any, it should approve. Fletcher, the railroad spokesman, | argued against applying to the rail | lines the suggested new graduated | taxes, which would range from 10 to | 1712 per cent, depending on size of | income. The present rate is a flat 13% per cent. “It seems-to me” Fletcher said, had been finally led to vote against | CCCin8LYy helpful in getting the Passa- the President and the death sentence clause in the holding company bill be- cause: Pirst, his Anglo-Saxon instinct for fair play demanded that innocent stockholders in holding companies e | not thrown to the lions. Second, because Corcoran had threatened, with “brutal frankness,” Just before the vote in the House was taken, to do something about holding up the Passamaquoddy Dam, unless Brewster‘voted for the death sentence. Replying to a question from a mem- ber of the committee regarding what he (Brewster) had said when Cor- coran had made this threat, the Maine Representative said: “I don’t know whether I am a pacifist, but at such times I shut up. Brewster had issued press statements in New York and Boston saying no witnesses had been present. Tells of New York Meeting. He told how he had met Brewster long before he came to Congress in Gruening’s New York apartment while the latter was editor of the Nation. He said he was given assurance that if Brewster ever came to Con- gress he was the “one man who could be relied upon to fight the so-called power trust.” He asserted that time and time again he had heard from Gruening in Wash- ington that Brewster was the chief champion of the President’s power program. “Mr. Brewster was the great anti- power trust champion,” he asserted. He told how he had participated fn White House conferences attended by Rayburn and Wheeler and that the latter had asked him to assist in getting the utilities bill through Con- gress. About the time the bill went to hearing before the Senate committee, he said, Wheeler told him that Brew- ster had said he could “handle” Sena- tor Whité and to man know if his Action speaks louder than words. I felt just as I felt when Samuel Insull tried to put pressure on ‘me in Maine. 1 walked down the aisle in Statuary Hall into the House and to the teller, casting my vote against the death sentence.” Corcoran, brilliant, dramatic, a ‘Wheeler, he added, asked him to keep in touch with Brewster on that point. Brewster, Corcoran said, told him that “on this holding company bill T've got White under obligation” and that White can't be re-elected with- out a trade of votes in the next elec- tion. He quoted Brewster as saying, “If you have any trouble, know.” The committee adjourned until to- morrow morning after Corcoran con- cluded his reply to Brewster with a statement that the Maine Republican had made his charges in a press re- lease carefully prepared before he went on the floor of the House. Corcoran told the committee he would be glad to undergo any cross- examination or to have it allow Brew- ster and himself fo éross-examine each othgr. A ) Just let me; maquoddy project | State of Maine. Versions Differ. | It was a very different aspect which | Corcoran gave this White incident in his testimony. He insisted that Sena- tor Wheeler had told him that Brew- ster had said to him (Wheeler) that he could “handle” White in the Senate committee. So, according to Corcoran. Senator ‘Wheeler told him to keep in touch with Brewster and see what could be done with Senator White. When the time came, Corcoran said, he sug- gested that Brewster take the matter up with White. Corcoran said Brewster had said “I've got White under obligations to me. He will nee:l votes in my district when he comes up for election again.” “Naturally, I went to Brewster,” continued Corcoran. The story told by Brewster and Corcoran regarding the.r common ef- fort to push along ihe Passamaquoddy project differed in some respects. Brewster said he had brought two attorneys down frora Maine at the request of Corcoran to talk over cer- tain legal aspects of the project. Cor- coran, on the other hand, left the impression that it was Brewster who had insisted upon havirng this Maine legal talent and that Brewster had paid their expenses. Raises Suit Aspects. Time and again Corcoran told the committee Brewster had given him promises that he, Brewster, would guarantee to handle the Maine Repub- lican Legislature and also prevent any antagonistic suits being filed against the Passamaquoddy project. It was on the basis of these guar- antees, Corcoran said, that final de- cision to go ahead with the Quoddy project had been made. Had it not been for these guarantees an effort would have been made fo have the Maine Legislature provide for s “Maine Authority” to take power from b through for the point made by Corcoran was that the | “that Congress already has shown on its completion was unable to dis- | pose of the power. ‘When Corcoran found, he said, that Erewster was not going to speak for the death sentence clause or vote for it. he felt that he could not trust Brewster to carry out his pledges re- garding the Passamaquoddy project. The story teld by Corcoran was to the cffect that Brewster had been very | iriendly to the death sentence clause when the supporters of that clause liad invited him to a meeting to dis- cuss a plan of battle. He insisted that in the end, however, Brewster had declined to sign a letter supporting the holding company bill because it mentioned Senator Hastings. Spoke “With Emphasis.” “You can't expect me to say any- thing about Hastings,” Corcoran quoted Brewster as saying, “for Hast- ings controls the money for the Re- publican campaign.” Corcoran sald he had fully expected Brewster would speak in the House upholding the death sentence clause and When he became convinced that Brewster would not do 8o, he admitted he spoke with considerable emphasis. Hint Supporting Witnesses. Both Brewsfer and Corcoran left the impression with the commtitee that witnesses could be called in support of their statements. Corcoran’s final shot at Brewster was that he had told Brewster: “You know I cdn't trust you to keep your pledges in regard to the Passa- maquoddy dam now.” Corcoran said Brewster had replied: “I know it” and had added, “would it be all right if I duck back and do not vote?” did,” safd Corcoran. It at this point that Brewster exploded, shouting: “You're a liar!” ¢ Government might have found it had | clearly in many legislative acts that put $36,000,000 into this project and | it thinks rail carriers should be big I said that I didn’t care what he{ per cent, depending on the amount concerns, financially. It has approved mergers and done other things to con- centrate railroad capital and income. “And now it apparently is proposed | that Congress penalize railroads for | doing the very thing it encouraged the railroads to do.” Morgenthau had estimated that the 10-to-17% schedule would raise $66,- 900,000 to $102,200,000. Under $100,000 Incomes Spared. A subcommittee which presented the 29 schedules to Morgenthau appar- ently felt no attempt should be made to increase taxes on individual in- comes under $100,000, for no sched- ules went below that. At present, income between $100,000- $150,000 is subject to 8 maximum tax of 56 per cent. One of the new sched- ules would increase that to 58 and another to 59 per cent. ‘The larger changes, however, would be on income above $1,000,000, which now is assessed a flat 59 per cent. One proposed schedule would make income between $1,000,000 and $2,- 000,000 subject to a 67 per cent levy, another 74 per cent and a third 76 per cent. In one case, the portion of an in- come in excess of $10,000,000 could be taxed 94 per cent and income from $7,500,000 to $10,000,000 could be taxed 92 per cent. Gift Taxes Flexible. Inheritance and gift taxes also offered some interesting alternatives. There is now no inheritance tax and the gift levies range from 0.75 to 33% per cent. One pending sched- ule would set both the gift and in- heritance taxes at from 7T to 84.36 involved. In one case the inheritance rate would depend on the income the re- cipient of a legacy already had. \ Tax Schedules ROBERT L. HOYAL. MRS.R. L HOVAL GETSE .. PIS Named Director of Women’s Division of National Committee. Chairman Henry P. Fletcher of the Republican National Committee has announced the appointment of Mrs. Robert Lincoln Hoyal as director of the women’s division of the Republi- can National Committee, to take effect August 1. Mrs. Hoyal is Republican national committeewoman for the State of Arizona. She has been active in political work for a number of years. She was a Regpublican presidential | elector in 1928 and carried Arizona's electoral vote to Washington, Mrs. Hoyal has a national ac- quaintance not only in political circles, |but in other activities. She served jfor six years as national legislative | chairman of the American Legion { Auxiliary, was national vice president | of the auxiliary for one term and then Here are some examples of the tax schedules submitted by the Treasury experts to the House Ways and Means Committee yesterday, with the esti- mated ylelds from each. There were other schedules presented, but these cover those designed to produce from $5,000,000 to $728,000,000 from in- heritance and gift taxes; $28.900,000 from higher taxes on incomes over $100,000 and $102,200,000 from gradu- ated corporation taxes. Inheritance Tax. Estimated yield, $5,000,000. Bracket (in Thousands of llars) Up to 300 _ 75 28.000.008. Percentage of Tax to Inheritance Over 10,000 - Estimated Yield—8$7 Amount of Inheritance Amount of Tax (Dollars). 2RK 000 A50.500 5.000.000 0 10.000.000 Estimated | 800,000, 219000 426,000 A4R 600 1.40K.000 1R 000 TRR.000 8 000 Graduated Capital in Tax. timated increase in revenue $102.- Percentage f Tax of T Over WIDOW OF JUSTICE 1000 -~~~ GETS HITZ ESTATE Sons of Jurist Willed Property Through Tryst Fund on Death of Mother. Leaving his entire estate to his widow for life, the will of Associate Justice William Hitz of the United States Court of Appeals was filed in District Supreme Court today. Justice Hitz died last week of a heart attack. He directed that all of his personal effects, his library and jewelry be given his widow, Mrs. Esther Porter Hitz. and left the rest of the estate in trust to the American Security & Trust Co. and John Lord O'Brian. The trustees are directed to pay the income to Mrs. Hitz during her life- time. After her death the estate will go to two sons, William and Frederick Hitz. The will was filed through the law firm of McKenney, Flannery & Craig- hill, with which Justice Hitz was asso- clated before his appointment to the bench in 1916. ,r[/ 7 = = {MENS WEAR)] | was elected national president. She also served as chairman of the Na- tional Child Welfare Committee ot that organization for two years. Mrs. Hoyal is also a member of the Daughters of the American Revolu tion and was presiding officer of th Women's Patriotic Conference on Na tional Defense in which 42 women organizations participated in 1931 She also served as State preside: of the Arizona Business and Profe sional Women's Club. 'NEW DIESEL TRAIN High-Powered Speed Creatio: Built for G, M. & N. Rail- road Service in South. Another new development in the rail transportation field will be on exhib: tion here tomorrow when the Guif Mobile & Northern shows “the Revel" the high-speed, lightweight streamlined train for service in the South. Diesel-powered and constructed in general along the lines of the eariler speed trains now operating in the | Northwest. the Rebel differs in that its units are independent rather than articulated, or hinged. The train came in today for a pri- vate showing aad will be open to public from 9 am. to noon tomor- row at Union Station. It is one of two trains that the G.. M. & N. is to use between New Or- leans and Jackson. Miss. The Amer- | ican Car & Poundry Co. is the build- er and the project is being financed with Federal funds SAGER IS FOREMAN OF NEW GRAND JUR" Other Members of District's In | quisitorial Body Are { Announced. Charles D. Sager, 3826 Cathedr { avenue, is foreman of the new Dis | trict grand jury named yesterday. Other members of the new jury are Michael D. Sullivan. 928 Hamilton \sueel‘ Miss Kathleen B. Howse, 4326 | River road; Crawford H. Davidson, | 5101 Seventh street; Louis Rudden, 526 Peabody street; Hirsh Periman 1438 Columbia road; Thomas J. Gib- son. 6405 Seventh street; Charles C. Columbus. 5524 Fourth street; Walter F. Crouch. 2917 Cathedral avenue Philip N. Garfinkle. 5520 Thirteenth street; David V. Abbott. 2404 Four- teenth street: John F. Donovan, 107 K st Wilson E. Zambreny, 11( Eleve; street southeast; Robert G Hudson. 3848 Calvert street Norman H. Gotthardt, 127 R street | northeast: Mrs. Anna R. 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