Evening Star Newspaper, July 23, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. . (U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair tonight and tomorrow morning; local thundershowers tomorrow afternoen; not much change in temperature. Tem- peratures—Highest, 91, at 3:45 p.m. yes- terday; lowest, 74, at 5 Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14,15 & 16 No. 33,320. post office, W GOERING DISBANDS GERMAN VETERANS N CATHOLC DRVE Steel Helmet Feared as Church Unit Is Smashed. REICH PEOPLE’S UNITY DECLARED DISTURBED Fight on Jews Is Pursued, With Ban on Children Going to Athletic Grounds. (Copyright. 1935, by the Associated Press.) BERLIN, July 23.—The organiza- tion of Catholic War Veterans was dissolved in Prussia today by govern- mental decree, and officials of the Steel Helmets—the German organiza- tion corresponding to the American Legion in the United States—said they feared their own body. through- out Germany, would be the next to be | smashed. | The dissolution of the Catholic vet- erans was ordered by Premier Her- mann Wilhelm Goering of Prussia, who is also German minister of avia- tion, as a further step in the Nazi campaign to purge Germany of “poli- tical Catholicism.” It was said that Goering's action undoubtedly would be paralleled by the governments of the other German states. The decree gave as its grounds that the unity of the German people was disturbed by the existence of separate veterans’ organizations. Dissolution | a.m. today. Entered as second class matter ashington, D. C. 1 Impeachment Row ' Boils Up in House | With Fish Rebuked |Warren ‘Assails Attack on President—Rich Strikes Back. | By the Associated Press. A Dbitter political dispute over whether President Roosevelt had vio- lated his oath te support the Consti- tution and whether he and his con- gressional leaders should be im- peached threw the House today into an uproar. Representative Warren, Democrat, of North Carolina started the ex- change by referring to a newspape: interview given by Representative Fish, Republican, of New York. in which the latter said that if the (See IMPEACHMEN > STRIKES SPREAD; TRDOPS RULECTY Ch WASHINGTON, D. C, FRENCH FAVORNG ITALAN ECONOM RULE OF ETHOP Concession in Treaty Urged in Return for Pledge of Independence. |ROME ENVOY SPURNS SELASSIE RECEPTION | France and Britain Looking to | League for Solution as Diplomats Confer. Actual rupture of already strained| Italo - Ethiopian relations was brought nearer today with the re- fusal of the Italian Minister in Addis Ababa to attend the recep- tion marking the 44th birthday an- niversary of Emperor Haile Selassie. Resentment swept the populace of | the Ethiopian capital. Soldiers Tighten Grip on Terre Haute—Boulder Dam Crews Quit. By the Associated Press With military control tightened on ‘Terre Haute's general strike, more workers walked out today on the Boulder Dam construction and a strike call was awaited by engineers on ves- | sels of the Southern Steamship Co. There was a scattered reopening of business houses in the Indiana city, where organized labor called a Paris authoritative French quar- | ters disclosed that France is seeking ' a treaty giving Italy economic domi- | In nation of Ethiopia in return for Italy's pledge to respect Ethiopian independence. This is considered | the sole remaining means of pre-| venting war in Africa. France and Great Britain looked to the League of Nations for a solution | of the Italo-Ethiopian problem. Diplomats of both nations conferred as (o & course of action at Geneva. Treaty Seen Sole Solution. ¢ Foenin ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION TUESDAY, JULY 93 1935—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. FH¥ The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 121,705. Some Returns Not Yet Received (#) Means Associated Press. CAB ZONE RATES OF 2070 70 CENTS FIXED IN DISTRICT Charge of Dime Extra for Over Two Passengers Is Permitted. EXCESSIVE LUGGAGE FEE ALSO GRANTED Union Drivers Immediately Pro- test, Claim Fares Should Run Up to 80 Cents on Zone Plan. ‘The Public Utilities Commission to- day handed down its decision in the taxicab rate ccntrovery, fixing a 20-to- 70-cent zome charge schedule with some new supplementary charges, and immediately drew a challenge from union drivers, who want 20-80. The commission order, issued after TWO CENTS. UTILITY ‘LOBBYING' LAIDTO DEAD MAN IN SENATE PROBE | “Signer” of Anti-Holding Company Bill Telegram Declared Deceased. YORK RAILWAY CONCERN | SPONSORED MESSAGES | Declared to Names of Employes as Senders. A. G. E. Subsidiary Mentioned. Have Furnished By the Associated Press Quay C. Haller, York, Pa.. represen- tative of the Assoclated Gas & Elec- tric Co.. testified before the Senate Lobby Committee today that the | names for 700 anti-utility bill tele- | grams from that city had been fur- nished him by E. A. Barnitz, vice pres- T T STILL HAS FOLLOWERS! FIVE D, C. PROJECTS ‘STEPHENS NAMED two weeks’ study of a contradictory | ident of the York Railway Co. from mass of evidence taken at public hear- ings, is to be effective tonight at mid- night. It call: for charges of 20, 30, 50 and 70 cents in the present con- ference zones. Just & few minutes after the com- mission made known its order, Adolphe Hohensee, business representative of the Cab Drivers’ Protective Union, de- clared taxi drivers “will not work under a scale of charges that will give them only $15 a week.” Hohensee protest meeting at Typographical Temple Monday night. e commisslon’s decision is de- a list of its employes | Earlier, testimony had been received | that & representative of the Metropoli- tan Edison Co. had paid for anti- | utility bill telegrams at York, “signed” | among others by one person now dead and another not living in the city. Few Signed by Senders. Hailer conceded under questioning that only about 300 of 1800 telegrams sent to members of Congress from York had actually been signed by the I plans to call the union men into a senders. He said he asked Barnitz to get “an expression” from his employves on the bill and Barnitz “passed the “holiday” in sympathy with 600 work- PARIS, July 23 {(#).—Authoritative | SR Th ) Nazi Violence Unabated. signed to place into use the zone rate word on.” Meanwhile, the Nazi fight against Jews was carried on with unabated violence. Some 500 Jewish children between the ages of 6 and 14 today were informed by the social welfare workers who were to take charge of them at various suburban stations that they could not go, as has been their custom, to the athletic grounds on the outskirts of the capital because they were non-Aryans. Daily, through vacation period. these children of the poor have been trans- ported to the sports grounds called Oberschoeneweide and Wuhlheide, to play in the sunshine. Two days ago, however, a number of Aryan childrea assembled before the Wuhlheide and hurled stones at the Jewish children inside. A con- siderable number of the children thus attacked have parents who are Polish citizens. ers of an enameling plant who struck quarters disclosed today that France for union recognition. Troops on duty Seeks a treaty giving Italy economic | approach 2,000. At Las Vegas, Nev., machinists in the Boulder Dam development ieft | work to support steel workers, car- penters and other workers who struck for $1 an hour for skilled and 75 cents an hour for unskilled labor. “Rotten conditions” was given a3 the reason for the proposed strike call among engineers emploved. by the Southern Steamship Co. Frank A Sayre, a vice president of the National Marine Engineers’ Bene- ficial Association, said engineers on | the company’s eight or nine ships in operation awaited final word from the general headquarters. The New York Shipbuilding Corp., in Camden. N. J., reopened its yards today to admit workers no longer in sympathy with the strike in progress there for eral months. There were domination over Ethiopia in exchange for Italy’s guarantee of Ethiopia's nominal independence. This treaty is sought, it was said, as the only likely preventive of war. ‘These same sources said that France | intends to use the forthcoming session | of the League of Nations Council at Geneva for the negotiation of the treaty. Would Guarantee Sovereignty. In it. Italy would be given special | privileges including immigration rights | and in return, would have to guaran: tee the sovereignty of the Ethiopian | | Emperor. While this suggestion would be akin to a protectorate, the French source: concerned said they hoped it would circumvent Emperor Haile Selass| objection to an outright protectorate. The intention of France to block any | RECENE FINAL 0.K. Treasury Approves $1 ,236.-‘ 713 Jobs—Relief Program Starts August 1. | Inauguration of tne District work- relief program as a part of ‘he new Federal plan ‘or tae unemployed was made possible tofav when Treasury officials approved use of $1.236,713| for five highway prcjects designed to give work to approximately 2,500 men Commissioner Gesrge E. Allen said e now hopes the new program wil be under way by sugust 1. Ap- parently, only cstapiisnment of defi- | nite pay roll maciinery in connec- | tion with the Treasury Department W | ciate Justice of the District Court of | |ley as assistant EALS JUSTICE Cummings’ Assistant Gets D. C. Place of Late Justice Hitz. Harold M. Stephens of Utah. first assistant to Attorney General Cum- mings, today was named an Asso- Appeals by President Roosevelt. Stephens will succeed the late Jus- tice William Hitz. From June, 1933, to June, 1935, Stephens acted as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the anti-trust division. He succeeded William Stan- to Cummings last month. system followed by most of the taxi- cabs, accordine to testimony taken at The employes he said, were notified their names would be used for the the hearing. Hohensee contended for messages unless they told their bosses | adoption of a 20-40-60-80 scale, which | they would object has been followed by some of the op- The testimony about the dead man erators. was given by Luther A. Cole- Control Steps Sought. man, Postal Telegraph manager at The commission indicated in its York for 28 years, after Chairman order the uniform rates and zone de- Black of the committee had said per- | cision is but a first step in its efforts | sons from “all over the United States” | to gain satisfactory control over the had denied sending anti-utility bill taxicab industry. Riley E. Eigen, telegrams to which their names had | commission chairman, announced that been attached | the commission is considering an ap-| Black said the matter might be re- peal to Congress to give the regulatory ' ferred to the Communications Com- body power to limit the number of|mission because it “will be impossible cabs which may operate in Washing- | for this committee to go into every | ton; ;o rrqu\lre taxi Dgerawrs to pm; case, even those received up to date.” | vide financial responsibility; to control 8 or abolish the rental system, under Compuiy Sont Siupas, which cab drivers now obtain ma-| Coleman said 766 telegrams oppos- chines for their business, and to gain in€ the utility bill were sent from | control over taxicab “associations” and | York and all but five had been paid | require them to keep books and record | for by the Metropolitan Edison Co., The action against the Catholic 2 ; on their business so that the commis- | & Subsidiary of the Associated Gas & | no serious disorders. Of a usual force | effort by Great Britain or other powers Stephens, formerly a Salt Lake City veterans followed close behind another decree which provided that student. in higher schools need not attend re- Ligious exercises. Decree on War Veterans. Regarding the war veterans, the of- ficial decree read: “The Prussian premier, on the basis ot a decree for the protection of the veople and the state dated February 28. 1933, has dissolved the Reichsbund of Catholic Front Fighters, including its subdivisions, because the formation of confessional organizations of veter- ans is calculated solely to lead to the splitting up of the unity of the people (Volksgemeinschaft) and to carry | confessional divergencies into the fed- | erations of veterans.” An official order, issued by the edu- cation ministry, proclaimed: “For all male and female students of higher schools attendance at morn- | ing prayers. school worship Pperiods school masses and festivals of a re- tigious character arranged by schools will henceforth be optional regard- less of whether these are conducted on work days or Sundays in school | of about 4,600, estimates of those who | returned to work varied from the | company's statement of 550 to the strikers’ statement of 320. In Durham, N. C, the American | Federation of Hosiery Workers called | a strike at the Durham Hosiery Mills | after the third refusal of the man- agement to restore pay cuts. TEAR GAS DISPERSES CROWD. | Guard Quells Terre Haute Disorder— Business Resumes Gradually. TERRE HAUTE, Ind, July 23 () —National Guardsmen used tear gas for a second time shortly before noon | today to disperse a crowd assembled | at a stamping mill whose labor trou- | bles fermented the * general | called in this city. ‘The presence of a score of National | Guard companies served today to re- | lax the grip of a general strike callea Monday by local labor unions. There, was a gradual resumption of | business, although transportation cervices were still tied up and mer- strike | es or nearby churches. | 2 5 hotises 0F DEarhy in | chants in outlying districts hesitated | to precipitate League action in the | conflict was indicated in high quarters | which said they feared such action would cause Italy to wreck the League | by resigning from it. | Said a French personage close to the | government: “The peace of 400,000,- | | 000 Europeans is more important than | war in Ethiopia.” Invoking Article 15 Rejected. The idea of invoking Article 15 of | | the League covenant, regarding the in- | | vestigation of disputes between na- | tions, was rejected by authoritative | | French as “too dangerous.” | Premier Pierre Laval and Sir George (See ETHIOPIA, Page 3.) KARPIS BELIEVED HEAD | OF GUNMEN IN FIGHT| | { Police Officers in Nebraska Dis-| able Bandits’ Car, but Three Escape. By the Associated Press. FAIRBURY, Neb., July 23.—Three “The obligation to participate | these arrangements therefore no longer exists.” | Various interpretations were placed on the decree—that it mignt be an- other attempt to break the hold of | parochial schools, that it might be an effort to curb religious resentment among youths, or that it might be a | concession to neo-paganists, paving | the way for more general teaching of | the “Germsnic” religion. The decree, at any rate, was con- sidered to loosen further the tradi- | ticnal German links between the | state and schools and religion. This decree followed another, issued by Wilhelm Frick, minister of the in- terior, ordering Catholic and Lutheran confessional youth organizations to cease all mass appearances in public and to discard their uniforms and emblems. The well drilled Nazi press, mean- while, fanned the flames of anti- Semitism with allegations of Jewish *racial irregularities.” Typical of this attack were dis- patches from Wesermunde, reporting the arrest of a 49-year-old Jew for attacking an Aryan girl, and from Breslau, asserting that a 78-year-old junk dealer kept five girls in his home fck immoral purposes. “Direct Action” Persists. “Direct action” persisted in North Berlin, where windows of stores owned by Jews were plastered with stickers and signs bearing such slogans as *You old Jew sow. This is a Jewish store, Aryans don’t buy here.” That the anti-Semitic campaign was making great inroads into business was indicated in a remark by two business men on Berlin’s great “white way,” the Kurfuerstendamm. A Jewish clothier told the Associated Press that his recent sales have been only 25 per cent of their normal vol- ume. An Aryan restaurateur said his trade has fallen off “considerable be- cause patrons seem afraid that the riots portend unsettled conditions in many phases of German life.” Protest to Be Sought. Representative Celler, Democrat, of New York today sought the aid of colleagues in an effort to persuade President Roosevelt or Secretary of State Hull to protest to Germany against treatment of religious groups there. Celler, who urged an economic boy- cott of Germany in a House speech yesterday, said he would call a meet- ing “very shortly” to organize a group and to prepare a petition to * President. ) gunmen believed heauea by Alvin Kar- to open their stores until assured of protection for their property. The Terre Haute Retail Merchants’ Association, which has 150 members who give employment to approxi- mately 1500 persons, voted to reopen. None of the utility services was im- paired. There was no morning newspaper the doorstep, however. J. E. HOG PRICES JUMP T0 5-YEAR PEAK $2.25 Processing Tax Brings Out- lay to $13.25 Per Hundred- weight. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, July 23.—Choice me- dium weight hogs sold today for a new high price of $11 per hundred weight, highest in five years. This meant that when the process- | ing tax of $2.25 per hundred weight on for their top quality porkers. The last time there were $11 hogs on the Chicago market was in Sep- tember, 1930, &nd at that time there was no processing tax. On Septem- ber 22, 1930, the same quality hogs sold for $11, and earlier that year, | September 11, they brought $11.10. was added, buyers were paying $13.25 | pis, unofficial “public enemy No. 1,” fought a running gin battle with two police officers twdiy in Fairbury streets. A shotgun charge fired by Assistant | Chief of Police Foster Helvey disabled the bandits’' car, and the three fled on foot while Helvy and Chiet of Police Joe Cook stopped for more am- munition. Helvey said he telieved the same trio last week kidnaped Sheriff Emil Ackman of Fairpury, anc Ackman de- clared one of his abductors was Kar- pis. Karpis is sought for the $200,- 000 kidnaping of Fawsrd G. Bremer, St. Paul banker. | DAM STRIKE GROWS Machinists at Boulder Project Join in Walkout. LAS VEGAS, Nev., July 23 () — Striking workmen on the huge Boulder Dam project increased their | forces today. | Joining steel workers, carpenters and other tradesmen, the machinists left the job yesterday and the truck drivers indicated they might walk out ;tndlyA i The 800 strikers are asking $1 an hour for skilled trades and 75 cents an hour for unskilled labor. The average wage paid on the dam is 71 cents an hour. 7 Pay roll figures showed that 830 men still are working. Forces in Me (Copyright, 1035, by the Associated Press.) LONDON, July 23.—Coincident with concentration of Italian troops in East Africa, Great Britain is massing what naval experts rate as the strongest, fastest fleet ever assembled in the Mediterranean. Terse official announcements dis- closed today that tne capital ship strength in the Mediterranean is being increased at least 80,000 tons and that the fastest ships soon are to be cen- tered at Malta, a base which-com- mands the Italian routes to the Red Sea. British experts said that although many more capital ships were sent into the Mediterranean until 15 years ago. they could not compare to the present contemplated fleet because they were Britain Concentrating Naval diterranean Sea smaller and lacked modern war equip- ment. Officials asserted the move had no connection with Italian military ac- tivities. They said it was but a co- incidence that announcements point- ing to a thorough shake-up of the Med- iterranean fleet became public after the Italo-Ethiopian conflict arose. ‘Without infringing on any of its treaty obligations, Britain also fs strengthening its home fleet by reas- signment of war vessels’ stations. ‘The signing of the naval agreement with Germany granted Reichsfeuhrer Adolf Hitler a navy virtually on a par :é:h the past strength of the home t. Besides its past strength of five bat- tleships, the new Mediterranean flect, (See BRITAIN, an%) and some other adaunistrative mat- ters remain to be dcne | The five highwav piciects dea! with a variety of types cf work, affecting | hundreds of Washingten streeis. One | is for cleaning, c-s:'Lg and iepair-| ing sides of rosds, tor whica there is an allotment of $106,616. Tllr“ second is for construction of shoulders | | to roads, planting of g=ass and <hrub- | bery adjacent t> b'ii.ways, $431,636. Street Widening Provided. | Another project is for w\dening! streets and repairmng gutters, at a cost of $217,068. rre fourth is for | nursery work, such as trimming trees | and mowing 2rass, at a cost of $90,- | 000. The last of the five is fos minor | grading and finishing newly graded | streets. at a cost of $39:,393. | Meanwhile, Commissioner prepared to forward to the Works Progress Administration 27 other projects for employment of 2962 men and women at an estimated cost of | $2,395713. At the same time, he is waiting for Treasury approval for two sewer projects which would give work to 1,000 men at a cost of some $564,000. To date, District officials have ap- proved projects having a total cost of a little more than $4,000,000 and de- signed to provide work for 6,400 men. Many more projects costing millions will be prepared for submission to Federal officials. The District has some 16,000 employable persons now on relief who are to be transferred from the old work-relief program to. the new Works Progress system. Two Sewer Jobs Pending. The five highway projects, about to | be started, and the two sewer projects, still awaiting Treasury sanction, have been before Federal agencies for some weeks. They were sent there prompt- | ly after Allen was made District ‘Works Progress administrator. The 27 additional projects to be forwarded by Allen were selected late yesterday by the District Projects Board after a protracted study of a total of 105 proposals submitted by District and Federal departments. The board, Allen to speed up consideration of uch proposals, consists of Capt. | Howard F. Clark, assistant engineer | commissioner; William C. Cleary, administrative assistant to the Dis- trict Works Administration, and Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, auditor, with Ross Haworth, Allen’s administrative as- sistant, as Project Board secretary. Complete details of the 27 pending proposals are not to be made public until Federal approval is forthcoming, officials said. The board, however, an- nounced the following classifications had met with their approval and would be approved by Allen: District Water Departme (See PROJECTS, Page Readers’ Guide Page. ...B-16 B-12 B-12 projects ) Amusements .. Comics . % Cross-word Puzzle . Lost and Found.. Mallon . Radio . .. Serial Story . Service Orders Short Story Sports .. Allen \ s HAROLD M. STEPHENS. —Underwood & Underwood Photo. | HOLSE T GRLP AGREE N PLAN Inheritance Levies Call for Exemptions—Total May Be $100,000,000. | By the Assoéiated Press. House Ways and Means Committee Democrats agreed today on an inher- itance tax plan which would apply lower rates to widows, sons and daughters than to others and zaise in the neighborhood of $100.000,000 & year. | lawyer, was born in Crete, Nebr. March 6, 1886. He was educated at the University of Utah and Cornell, and took his law degree at Harvard in 1913. | He began to practice in Salt Lake | City and mn 1915 was named assistant | prosecuting attorney for that city. | From 1917 to 1921 he served as judge of the third judicial district of Utah. YANKS LEAD TIGERS "IN FIRST GAME, 4-2 | Johnny Allen Settles Down After Bad Start as Mates Peck at Rowe. | By the Associated Press. ! NEW YORK, July 23.—A crowd of 50.000, biggest American League gath- ering here this year, saw the Yankees take a lead over the Detroit Tigers in | the first game of a double-header here sion will know the details of their | operation. | The commission’s statement merely said: “It is the purpose of the commis- | sion to request of Congress at the next session legislation vesting the com- mission with authority to regulate the taxicab industry fully.” Chairman Elgen said the commis- | sion did not contemplate asking Con- | gress to allow the commission to re- | quire meters. “Congress already has spoken on | that question,” said Elgen. Two years ago, & previous commis- sion ordered the metering of all cabs. This was appealed to court and the | commission’s order finally was sus- | tained there. But, meantime, Con- | gress forbade the commission to use | 1ts appropriation to enforce the order, and therefore, the Court of Appeals :aid the commission could not do so. New Ban Set Up. ‘| Congress at this session attached a further “rider” to the appropriation bill decreeing that the commission could not use its appropriation for the Electric Co. He was asked if he recognized any signers of the messages. He called off several names, in- cluding a Charles E. Small, whom he said had been dead “about two years.” Small, he said. formerly was connected with the Farmers' Fire | Insurance Co. Coleman also said he knew another signer, a meter reader for the electric | company, and a Miss Clara Boll, a retired insurance company employe. Another telegram was signed by Harry Read, former president of the | Read Machinery Co.. who, he said, | had been living in Baltimore four or five years. | Irvin Stewart, | Communication Commission's tele- | graph division, told reporters his | office would be glad to try to comply | if any request is made for an investi- | gation of sending telegrams to which fake names have been signed. If such an investigaticn were made, the commission unduubtedly would | leave to the States involved th2 ques- | tion of prosecution of any cases of chairman of the licensing of taxicabs this fiscal year |law violation that m:gbt be uncovered. To carry out the accepted theory | t0d8y- The acore was SR s except under s uniform rate and zone" There is nothing 1: the act per- created last week by | that immediate families should pay | less taxes, the committee agreed that up to $50,000 left to sons, daughters | and widows should be exempt from | taxes, while only $10.000 left to other | persons or institutions should be free | from taxes. | The first $10,000 over the $50.000 | left to immediate kin, however, would | be taxed 4 per cent, the levy in- creasing by steps to a maximum of 75 per cent on all over $10,000.000. | On those not related by blood to | the decedent the initial tax would | be 4 per cent on the first $10,000 | over the exempted $10,000. In other | words, & $20,000 inheritance would | be subject to a 4 per cent levy on | the second $10,000. The rates on others than relatives eventually would be leveled out in the higher brackets to approximafe those on inheritances by next of kin. 'PLOT IS REPORTED FOILED IN GREECE Paper Says Officers Had Sworn to Defend Republic “Even by Weapons.” By the Associated Press. ATHENS, July 23.—The newspaper Typos said today that Saloniki au- thorities had uncovered a plot against the government in which officers and retired officers had signed a pronun- ciamento swearing to “defend the re- public even by weapons.” Governmental papers reported {rom London that former King George had unreservedly barred a monarchist coup d'etat, saying he would return to Greece only after a strictly impar- tial plebiscite. The King would judge himself as to whether the proportion of favorable votes was sufficient for restoration. LONDON, July 23 (#).—Former King George of Greece looked to Athens today for the next develop- ment in his negotiations to return to the throne. The former ruler was understood to have presented his conditions for res- toration in a series of conferences with Mayor Kotzias of Athens. A personal friend of the King said George would rem#in in England pending developmen! ' » | sixth inning. | The Tigers, 1934 champions of the league, needed to win both games to | take first place. | Johnny Allen, fast-ball right-hander, | who hadn't allowed an earned run in | his last 27 innings on the mound, was Joe McCarthy's pitching choice to op- | pose Detroit’s Schoolboy Rowe. | Allen’s brilliant record was ruined |in the first inning as first Manager | Mickey Cochrane and then big Hank | Greenberg smashed home runs. The Yankees, however, came back | to tie it up at 2-2 as Lou Gehrig | smashed his sixteenth homer into the right field bleachers and scored be- hiné Red Rolfe Allen set the Tigers down in order | in the second and third frames, get- | ting two of them on strikes, but the | Yanks nicked Rowe for another run | and a 3-2 lead in the third. The Yankees got to Rowe for an- other run in the sixth, however, to ificrease their Jead to 4-2. Philippine Vote Act Signed. MANILA, P. I, July 23 (#)—The legislative act arranging for the Philippine commonwealth elections, September 17, was signed today by Gov. Gen. Frank Murphy. Murphy, a champion of woman’s suffrage, had contemplated vetolng the act because it incidentally bars women from vot- ing. The act signed today appropri- ates $400,000 for the election of the Philippines first President and selec- tion of a National Assembly. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, July 23.—The un- answered questions about Wiley Post's flight to Moscow today included: ‘When will he take off? Will he have Will Rogers, actor- humorist, aboard as an aerial “hitch- hiker?” The famous round-the-world flyer’s new monoplane was pronounced ready to go into the air for Seattle, the first leg of the proposed 7,000-mile trip, but Post was more thgn usually taci- turn. Rogers likewise was silent on the subject, although his wife was said to have told friends he planned to fly with Post. Mrs. Post, is scheduled to accompany her husband. . < order which the commission was to issue. 20—30—50—70 cents for the confer- ence zones, the commission set up a scale for additional charges. These are: For personal services to passengers, 25 cents; for each trunk, 50 cents; for hand baggage, in excess of two pieces, 10 cents each; waiting time, 10 cents for each five minutes; for passengers in excess of two, 10 cents for each passenger per trip; for each stop over five blocks off the direct route, 20 cents; for each stop on the direct route, or for each one less than five blocks off the direct (See CABS, Page 3.) TWO KILLED IN PROTEST Thousands Parade to Force Mexi- can Governor to Resign. MEXICO CITY, July 23 (#—Two peasants were reported today to have been killed in Villa Juarez as & move- ment against Gov. Rafael Villarreal of Tamaulipas and municipal author- ities in the state gained strength. Three thousand agrarians paraded last night in the state capital, Ciudad Victoria, demanding the resignation of the governor, and 20,000 others were reported ready to march on the city unless Villarreal quits. Dispatches from Ciudad Victoria sald machine guns were placed on the government palace in preparation for any possible attack. Rogers Reported Ready to Fly With Post Over Top of World The flyer first sald he was planning the trip merely as a “vacation” jaunt, but later reports were he would map a proposed air route to the Soviet capi- tal by vay of Alaska and Asia. A large airplane company is sup- plying pontoons for his ship. Post observed yesterday that Rogers “was out here last week to look over the plane, and joked about putting 8 bed in the back and going along.” ‘The fiyer added his belief, however, that the actor would not make the trip. Post received telegraphic approval yesterday from the Soviet legation in ‘Washington on his application to carry a rifle into Si where, he has said, | he pians to b r In addition to fixing the rates at| | mitting it to insufute criminal pro- ceedings itself. Investigation Made. When hearings were resumed to- day, Chairman Black read a letter from a Western Union officiai say- ing the company was investigating about 1,000 instances at Warren, Pa., to determine how many persons actually signed ielegrams opposing the utilities bill. Previous testimcny had been that an Associated Gas en:ploye dictated several hundred telegrams, using names from the civy directory. Many of them went (o Representative Dris- coll, Democrat, ¢f Pennsylvania. Black said an inquiry showed about half of 250 persons interviewed had said they were against the bill and half were for it. “So Mr. Herron was about 50 per cent wrong,” said Senator Minton, Democrat, of Indiana. He referred to R. P. Herron, bond salesman of an Associated company subsidiary, who had testified he knew the persons \ (See LOBBYING, Page 10.) WALLACE SEES DIRE RESULTS IN TAX BAN “Almost Utter Destruction” of Seaport Cities to Follow, He Claims. By the Associated Press. WALLA WALLA, Wash., July 23.— Secretary Henry Wallace traveled into the wheat and copper country of Mon- tana today, leaving a warning that the Nation's seaport cities face “almost utter destruction™ if processing taxes are eliminated. “Elimination of the tax will mean not only 20-cent wheat,” the Agricul- ture Secretary warned, “but corre- spondingly low prices of cotton, pork and other agricultural commodities.” He said property values also would be undermined. Addressing a crowd of business men, agricultural leaders and farmers here yesterday, Wallace defended the tax and insisted it was fairer to consumers than a high tariff. He said the processing tax was’ only a small bur- den on the consumer compared to its extensive benefits to agricultural dis- tricts. He hinted that an export set-up, selling under a processing tax subsidy, re-established.