Evening Star Newspaper, July 29, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8 Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair tonight and tomorrow, not much change in temperature; gentle northwest and north winds, becoming variable to- ‘morrow. Temperatures—Highest, 84, at noon today; lowest, 69, at 5:30 a.m. today. Full report on Page A-9. Closing N. Y. Markets,Pages 14,15& 16 Entered as sect No. 33,326. TAX L CHANGES ARE MADE PBLI BY COMNITTEE Additional Levy on All In- comes $50,000 and Up Is Proposed. 75 PCT. RATE APPLIES TO $5,000,000 SUMS New Schedule Submitted as Ways and Means Group Is Called for First Session. By the Associated Press. Proposed new tax rates, tapping in- comes as low as $30,000 and taking away three-quarters of that portion of an income over $5,000,000, were made | Ppublic today by the House Ways and | Means Committee. | The new schedule has been tenta- | tively approved by committee Demo- | crats who previously had agreed not to Jevy additional taxes on incomes under | $150,000 and to apply the maximum 75 “ per cent rate only to incomes over $10,000,000. At present the tax on a $56,000 in- come is $9,500. The proposed new schedule would make it $9,560. The present levy on $1,000,000, how- ever, is $533,000, whereas the new tax would amount to $641,000. - | Committee Called. | The proposed new individual in- come tax schedule was made public as Chairman Doughton called the| first meeting of the full committee to consider the bill drafted to carry out President Roosevelt's idea of wealth distribution. The measure, tentatively approved by committee Democrats, puts new taxes on inheritances and gifts in addition to those already imposed on estates and gifts; steps up the levies | on corporation profits and assesses corporations from 13% to 14% per cent on their net income. At today’s meeting the committee finished reading only about one-third | of the 96-page bill. Doughton said after a subsequent meeting today he would introduce the tentative draft of the measure. It was reported that by a strict party vote of 16 Democrats to 6 Re- | publicans the committee had retained in the tentative bill the graduated income-tax schedule. Corporation Incomes. Under present law, all corporation net income is subject to a flat tax of 13% per cent. President Roosevelt had suggested that be replaced with # graduated tax ranging from 103 to 163, per cent. Committee Democrats, however, balked, finally accepting the 13V to 14Y, graduation, which some termed | ment as a specie) attorney or & special | & “face saver.” As the bill now stands, | any corporation which had a net in- | come of under $15,000 a year would ; pay 13% per cent tax; an income above that amount would be taxed 14)4 per | cent. Democrats pushed their work on the bill and expressed confidence it would be enacted this session. Senator Vandenberg, Republican, of Michigan, called the plan “as grim a hoax as ever was perpetrated on the country” and demanded that consid- eration of taxes be postponed until next Winter, when they can be studied | in connection with the budget for the mext fiscal year. “Our bills for the next fiscal year should be courageously reduced to the minimum permitted by our un- avoidable necessities,” he said. “Then | our taxes, if possible, should balance this budget.” Vandenberg, often mentioned among Republican presidential possibilities, denounced the tax plan as a “sterile ‘political gesture” which would raise “only a little extra pocket change” and declared “we chatter of taxes in ‘millions to offset known deficits in billions.” | Democrats insisted the bill should | ‘be passed now for two reasons: First, they said it would show the President | ‘was sincere when he advocated the taxes; seconc, they argued that busi- ness is picking up and the time has ‘come to think about a movement to- ward paying off the 'piled-up debt. These discussions ware stimulated by the fact Congress had its first chance today to get an official peep | at the bill, which Democrats say will raise about $270,000,000 annually. Efforts to Change Plan. Republican committee members, convinced their seven-man minority ‘would be snowed under by the Demo- cratic 18-man majority were about hopeless of changing tne bill in the committee. They planned, however, to offer some amendments for the purpose of building a record and then to enlarge that record by amend- ments from the floor. * One item they will single out for sttack is the proposed tax of 13% (See TAXES, Page 3.) SR e 10,000,000 HOMELESS IN CHINESE FLOODS Area About Size of New York | motino, which automatically shut off | ond class matter post office, Washington, D. C. Senate Smothers G.0.P.Proposal to Adjourn August 10| {McNary Motion to Take Up Measure Tabled on Robinson’s Request. By the Associated Press. The Senate today smothered a Re- publican proposal that Congress ad- journ August 10. A motion by Senator McNary, the minority leader, that the Senate take up a resolution by Senator Hastings, Republican, of Delaware, for the August 10 adjournment was tabled at the request of Senator Robinson, the Democratic leader. The vote was 52 to 10. All ten voting against the tabling | debate, were Republicans—Austin, | Dickinson, Gibson, Hale, Hastings, Johnson, McNary, Steiwer, Vanden- berg and White. Four Republicans—Capper, Frazier, Norbeck and Nye, and the Progressive, | La Follette, joined 47 Demograts for | the Robinson motion. | Although many Democrats favor an | early adjournment, they did not| want to be placed in the position of having one forced by the opposition. The House has voted down a similar | proposal. | The Democratic leaders also blocked | another Republican move which they | saild was political. Without & record vote the Senate | tabled a motion by Hastings to con- | sider his resolution calling on the | Secretary of Agriculture for informa- | tion bearing on the recent farmers’ | rally in Washington, which indorsed the crop control program of the New | Deal. JUSTICE 0B SEEN FOR PRETTYMAN Shift Reported Weighed to Help Handle A. A. A. Suits. | E. Barrett Prettyman, District cor- poration counsel, is under consid- | eration for appointment to an | important post in the Justice Depart- ment, it was learned authoritatively today | It is reported Prettyman may be shifted from the District Building to | the tax division of the Justice De- partment to aid Assistant Attorney General Frank C. Wideman in de- | fending the Government against the avalanche of A. A. A. tax and other suits which has swamped the-depart- ment since the Supreme Court’s de- cision invalidating N. R. A. | #ay Be Special Aide. | Indications are the corporation | counsel may be offered an appoint-| assistant to Attorney General Cum- mings, for assignment to tax litiga- tion. Prettyman ir familiar with the in-| tricacies of Federal tax Ilitigation, having served as general counsel of the | Internal Revenue Bureau before join- ing the District government. Justice Department Silent. Inquiries at Prettyman’s office today | disclosed that he left Saturday for a vacation at an ocean resort. There was no confirmation of the reports at the District Building. Officials at the Justice Department refused to com- ment for publication, but indicated some announcement might be expect- ed later. ‘The post of principal assistant to the Attorney General is vacant, due to appointment of Harold Stephens as a judge of the District Court .of Appeals, but it was established that Prettyman is not being considered for that office. HOSPITAL BUILDING BURNING AT TAKOMA Firemen Battle Stubborn Blaze in Apartment House at Sanitarium. Engine companies from Takonik Park and Silver Spring shortly before 3 o'clock this afternoon were battling a stubborn fire in a three-story frame apartment building occupied by em- ployes of Takoma Park Sanitarium, and located on the hospital grounds some distance from the hospital roper. It was believed all persons had left the building shortly after the flames | were discovered about 2:30 o'clock. ROBBER AIDED BY POLICE WICHITA, Kans., July 29 (#).—Po- lice were glad to cg-operate with the hold-up man. They returned a gold watch and a | TENSION IS LESSENED gold coin yesterday to a robbery vic- tim, Carl R. Bostrum, switchman. The loot had been mailed to officers with this note: “I have made a mistake—Hijacker.” State Under Water, Relief Head Reports. By the Associated Press. NANKING, China, July 29.—The first authoritative estimates of the havoc wrought by the flood in the Yangtze Valley were announced to- day by Shiaying Hsu, cheirman of the National Government Famine Re- lief Commission, who said 10,000,000 persons had been made homeless and property amounting to 500,000,000 Chinese dollars (about $190,000,000) destroyed. Hsu made no estimate of the num- ber of persons drowned. The chairman said 38,600 square thiles. approximately the size of New Nork State, was under water. It was estimated 5,000,000 persons ‘The ladies are going to have to wear more clothes at the Riverside Sym- phony concerts—if they want to help the acoustics. William P. Haiber, who supervised the erection of the floating musicians’ platform and reflecting shell, is con- vinced an audience dressed in more were concentrated in refugee camps and riots were feared unless addi- 'mu“ relief was promptly forthcom- [ open air concerts were untll feminine fashion Che & henit WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION g Star WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JULY 29, 1935—THIRTY PAGES. APPEAL O HITLER SEEN MODERATING NAZIS' NEW PURGE Von Blomberg Tells Chief of Impression Created Abroad by Drive. AFTER MINISTER’S TRIP Decree Issued to Allow Non- Aryans to Serve in Mili- tary Units Is Hailed, By the Associated Press. BERLIN, July 29.—The tension among Jews, - Roman Catholics and the World War veterans of the “Steel Helmet” was considerably eased to- day by the news of a “social” visit of Gen. Werner von Blomberg to Reichsfuehrer Hitler. Von Blomberg, minister of war, called on Der Fuehrer in the latter's Bavarian Mountain home for a long talk. The general feeing prevailed in poltiical circles that Von Blomberg had pointed out to Hitler the inter- national impression created by the drastic measures in the last fortnight against “political Catholicism” and the Steel Helmet by the personal attacks | upon Jews. Von Blomberg and Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, head of the Reichsbank, are understood to be the two men- who chiefly press their energies toward moderation, with the assistance of the foreign office. Non-Aryans Admitted. That Von Blomberg's efforts are not without success is indicated by decree issued today under the cap- tion: “An order concerning the ad- mission of non-Aryans to active mili- tary service.” It was signed by Von Blomberg and Wilhelm Frick, minister of the interior, and, at least theoretically, makes possible the taking ot non- Aryans into the army, navy and air| force. The decree was regarded as the first breach in the war against non-Aryans. It admits the possibility of accept- | ing non-Aryans to active military service when such men have only two | Jewish grandparents. The decree lays down for the mili- tary force the same definition for a non-Aryan as is already contained in the law respecting public officials. In other words, any one with at least one of his four grandparents of non- Aryan origin is regarded as non- Aryan. However, under the decree, excep- | tions may be made if applicants have | “not more than two compléte non- Aryan, especially Jewish, grand- parents.” This means, for instance, that a young man whose father is an Aryan and whose mother had Jewish parents | may apply for admission to the army, vy or air force with hope of suc- cess. Details of Ruling. | The decree stimpulates: “Persons, | both of whose parents have Jewish blood, or who have three Jewish grandparents, will not be drafted for active service. In so far as they pass muster, they are, without exception, | assigned to the Ersatz (reserve) No. | 2. The muster takes place irrespec- tive of the race to which a person belongs.” A non-Aryan, in whose favor an exception may be made, by the new decree, will, after passing muster, be informed he is considered fit for serv- ice. But he will first automatically be assigned to reserve No. 2. It is then up to him to apply for admission to active service within two weeks. Persistent rumors circulated that Heinrich Himmler, chief of the secret police and dominant figure during the 1934 Nazi “blood purge,” would re- place Prick as ministeor of the in- terior. It was generally considered that (See GERMANY, Page 4.) COL. KNOX WILL MAKE POLITICAL TALK TONIGHT Publisher Mentioned for G. 0. P. Nomination Guest of San Fran- cisco Union League. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, July 29.—Col. Frank Knox, Chicago publisher who has been mentioned as a possible Re- publican presidential candidate in 1936, will be the guest of honor to- night at & union league club banquet. Col. Knox was a week end guest of former President Herbert Hoover, who also will attend the dinner. Despite his admission that his talk tonight will be poltical in nature, Col. Knox, as have other Republican lead- ers who have called upon ex-President Hoover recently, insisted his visit with the former President was ‘“purely social.” 4. Heavy Clothes Concert Need To Soak Up Reverberations pensing with heavy clothing. The situation was remedied to some ex- tent, he said, by draping materials over the backs of chairs. 5 I CAN ‘THINK OF BETTER WAYS To PASS TH' SUMMER THAN BEING THE SENATES CHRONIC AUDIENCE ! 'Wheat Harvesters Race Sun ‘ N0 \\\“ NN N To Save Crop From Heat | Armies of Men in Many States Working Night and Day Amid Droning Ma- chines—Relief Lists Wiped Out. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 29.—Farmers of the Midwest and all the hired hands they could get raced against the sun today for the 1935 wheat crop. In hot, stifling, dazsling-bright daylight hours they bent every ef- fort to cutting the grain before high temperatures ripened it too much. | At night flickering lights picked out the shadows of men and women and machines working straight through. During all the 24 hours droning mo- tors and slower, chi ones drowned out the calm sounds of the farm land as the harvest moved for- ward. weather, brought on a | jam which called for all the power | | the farm belt could muster, in both | men and finesse. The grain ripened suddenly, and continued hot weather | meant the crop would “shatter”— | | the heads of the wheat would spread | and the bare kernels tumble to the | ground—unless it was harvested | quickly. Men were needed and without de- | lay. The annual transient harvest | gangs of experienced men weren't suf- | ficlent. Relief officials responded by shutting down relief projects with an ultimatum of “No work, no food.” The flow of men fo the flelds be- gan immediately. In one South Da- kota county 400 of 500 men cut from (Se¢ HARVESTERS, Page 10.) GRTH ACAN W DAV TENNS P Allison and Van Ryn Bow to Hughes and Tuckey in Five Sets. By the Associated Press. WIMBLEDON, England, July 29.— England won the coveted Davis Cup— emplematic of the world’s tennis su- premacy—for the third straight time today when the new doubles combina- tion of George Patrick Hughes and C. R. D. Tuckey defeated the Amer- ican pair of Wilmer Allison, and Johnny Van Ryn, 6—2, 1—6, 6—8, 6—3, 6—3, in the challenge round doubles match. The victory gave England the necessary third win in the five-match series. ‘The Britons® victory was the final crushing blow to America’s hopes of recapturing the cup lest to Prance in 1927. The veteran team of Allison and Van Ryn, winners of the all-England doubles title in the past, was highly favored to take Hughes and Tuckey mainly because the Britons had never played together before in cup com- petition. Prove Formidable Opponents. Instead, they found out quickly they were up against a formidable pair. ‘Tuckey, the newcomer to interna- tional warfare, displayed a booming serve that proved a perfect comple- ment to his partner’s fine forecourt game and they raced through the first set as Van Ryn weakly hit many easy shots into the net! After that shaky display the Amer- icans settled down and played bril- liant tennis in the second and third sets, serving and volleying beauti- fully. Trailing 0—3 and then 3—S5, the Americans broke Hughes in the deuced ninth game of the third set and then Allison held his delivery in the tenth to square the match. The next two games were virtual dog fights, which saw both sides hold service, gnd then the Americans tore h their rivals’ defense to win the set, sweeping the next two games. Shots Packed With Dynamite. The first six games of the fourth set followed service, and then the Britons ran through the next three T (See TENNIS, Page 4) Readers’ Guide Page. .B-14 CARNIVAL OUTING ENDS IN SLAYING Wife Kills Former Maryland Trooper in Dispute Over Photo. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. LAUREL, Md., July 29.—A tin-type photograph, taken at a firemen’s car- nival and placed in a cardboard frame over the caption, “A Barrel of Love,” started a domestic argument which led to the fatal shooting yesterday of Wade Le Roy Smith, 26, former Maryland State policeman, by his wife, Dorothy, Prince Georges County officers disclosed today. The shooting occurred, police said, a few moments after the wife had prayed that she might die if her husband could not love her 4-year-old son, Vincent, child of a former mar- riage. Free on Bond. A coroner’s jury tonight will decide whether Mrs. Smith, attractive 24- year-old beauty parlor technician, is to be held for the grand jury. Prince Georges County authorities released her on $2,000 bond after she had surrendered and told her story to State and county police and State's Attorney Alan Bowie. According to police, the enraged husband, who had been quarreling with his wife for half an hour, drew an automatic revolver when he heard his wife pray aloud to die, and said: “So you want to diel All right, Il kill you!” Changing his mind, however, Smith is said to have shouted, “No, you g0 to the chair first!” and placed the gun in his wife’s hand. A mo- ment later, as Smith is said to have been rushing at his wife as if to choke her, he was shot through the heart. Gives Statement. Mrs. Smith gave a written state- ment of the affair to Prince Georges County Police Sergt. Ralph Brown, but declined to sign it. According to Brown she said: “In company with four other per- sons, my husband and I went to the {Huddleston Seeks to Break | “We were lucky and won a set of dishes at the carnival. Wade and I had our picture taken together. (See SLAYING, Page 3.) CLINIC STONE LAID $1,000,000 Eastman Gift for Chil- dren in Paris Reality. HOUSE VOTE ASKED ONCOREN HPASSE Utilities Conference Deadlock. By the Assoclated Press. | A resolution asking the House to vote on whether to insist that Ben- | jamin Cohen, P. W. A. attorney, and | all other outsiders be excluded from the Conference Committee considering the utility holding company bill was introduced today by Representative Huddleston, Democrat, of Alabama. Sessicns thus far of the Senate and House conferees attempting to recon- | cile differences over the legislation have broken up in a row over whether Cohen should be permitted to sit in on the meetings. The Senate insists on bis right to do s0 and a majority of the House members dispute this. Huddleston told the House the Sen- ators were “obdurate” in refusing the House conferees an executive session unattended by an outsider. Representative Cooper, Republican, Ohio, and Holmes, Republican, Massa- chusetts, have sided with Huddleston. Huddleston asked for immediate consideration of the resolution. Meanwhile, no new date has been | set for resumption of conferences on | the bill. Some Senators have predicted President Roosevelt would intervene to save the measufe. MAN DIGGING WELL BURIED BY CAVE-IN| Body Is Recovered After 42- Hour Search—Workers Endangered. By the Associated Press. MATTITUCK, N. Y., July 20.—The body of Richard Hojanccki, buried alive when a well in which he was working collapsed Saturday, was re- covered today after 42 hours of con- tinuous digging by firemen and neigh- bors. Frantic efforts Saturday to effect & rescue were balked when the exca- vations made to reach Hojanccki caved in repeatedly. He was digging a well to provide water for his Summer cot- tage near here when the accident happened. Hojanccki was caught at the bottom of the 20-foot shaft he had dug when the ground collapsed Saturday night. Firemen and others dug all through the night and all day yesterday in the hope Hojanccki was still alive, but when they finally reached him last night he was dead. Before his body could be removed a new coliapse of | earth burled it again. Earlier in the day a wooden shaft sunk by rescue workers collapsed and three men narrowally escaped being buried. Hiccoughs Continue 12 Days. FORT SMITH, Ark., July 29 (#).— ‘Taped to a hospital bed. Frank Ogles- by, relief worker, expsrienced his twelfth successive day of hiccoughing today. As the attacks continued, Oglesby showed little interest in the flocks of letters and messages suggesting sure L] The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. ko [TALIAN SOMALIS Addis Ababa Troops Also Said to Be Marching for Eritrea. GENEVA SEES SELASSIE CONCESSION TO ITALIANS | Failure to Invoke Article 15 of Covenant in Reply to League Is Cited. By the Associated Press. ADDIS ABABA, July 29.—It was re- ported, without confirmation, today | that a number of native Somalis had | rebelled in Italian Somaliland and had | started for Ethiopla in the region of | Ualual. | (It was at Ualual, last December, | that both Italians and Ethiopians were slain in a frontier incident.) | Rumors were current that Ethiopian | troops were headed for the frontier of Eritrea, the Italian colony on mei East, but the war office did not con- | firm this statement. { ‘The movement of troops created a | profound impression on the popula- tion of the capital. The people| cheered the soldiers vehemently. | ‘Troops under the command of Ded- jazmatch Haptemikael, former cabi- | net minister, came in from the ukei Rudolph area. Martial preparations reacbed a high | pitch as an Ethiopian Army estimated | at 10,000 arrived from Gamu Province. | They were outfitted with new rifles, modern khaki uniforms, machine guns | and artillery. They departed in high | spirits for an unannounced destina- Government officials in general de- | nied any knowledge of a clash at | Walkut, as reported in the London press. | CONCESSION CLAIMED. _ | Geneva Cites Failure to Invoke Article 15. (Copyright. 1935, by the Associated Press.) GENEVA, July 29.—League of Na-! tions circles said today Ethiopia made a major concession in its dispute with Italy by refraining from insistence that the Council dig to the bottom of the controversy. Emperor Haile Selassie, in his latest communication to the League, contented himself with getting back to the arbitration attempts. He asked at its session three days hence | that the League Council define the powers of the deadlocked Conciliation Commission. | Limitation Opposed. | In answer to the Italian contention that the commission should restrict discussion to frontier incidents, how- ever, Ethiopia demanded that no such | | limitation be imposed. | ‘The “King of Kings” had the right to call for a Council investigation of the East African crisis under article 15 of the League covenant, under which the Council eventually would | .make recommendations for a settle- | ment. | If the Council approved such rec- | ommendations unanimously any na- tion defying them would be pro- nounced an aggressor. League sources interpreted Ethi- opia’s move in pointing the Council meeting Wednesday toward a decis- ion on the arbitrators’ powers as a maneuver to put Premier Benito Mus- solini in an awkward diplomatic posi- tion. | Geneva realized that even a settle- | ment of frontier incidents by arbitra- tion would not necessarily liquidate the underlying problem created by Il | Duce’s reported ambition for a virtual protectorate over Ethiopia. League representatives said post- ponement of Council action would give England and France more time to seek a broad political compromise between Italy and Ethiopia. Ethiopia's new communication, sent (See ETHIOPIA, Page 4.) SON OF CALLES LOSES IN GOVERNORSHIP RACE Gen. Fortunato Zuazua Defeats Him by 10-to-1 Vote in Nuevo Leon. By the Assoctated Press. MEXICO CITY, July 29.—Plutarco Elias Calles, jr., son of the former President and “strong man of Mex- ico,” was declared the loser today in his contest for the governorship of the state of Nuevo Leon. Gen. Fortunato Zuasua carried the election by a margin estimated at 10 to 1, and observers interpreted it to mean the loss of nominal control of another state for Gen. Calles, who withdrew from the political scene re- cently after a dispute with President Some sources expressed a belief that it was the final blow to:. the power which the former Presidéent wielded cures. ON THE ETHIOPIAN FRONT wmthgungonumthevflmf.mo\mmnmtmmrmm Italian Eritrea and Ethiopia, emanating? Will the Ethiopians fight? Do that they have no chance of against the weapons of modern warfare? A courageous young French woman, Marcelle Prat, well-known penetrated Ethiopia across the Eritrean border to obtain a close-up picture of the conditions under which war would be fought and to learn the temper ‘What she saw and what she heard are strikingly presented in & series of six articles. they think their cause is hopeless, successfully over Mexico for more than eight years. which threats of war are defending their land of the natives. P Means Associated Press. Watch for this series on Ethiopia, beginning todsy on Page A-4 in The Star. AY'S SUNDAY'S e s b TR 1T TWO CENTS 3,805,000 PROFIT LAID T0 MISSING UTILITES WITNESS Hopson Took Cash and Passed Dividends, Sen- ate Probe Told. EFFORTS TO LOCATE A.G. E. LEADER CONTINUE Officials of Company Say Magnate Has Not Been Seen in Week. By the Associated Press. Evidence that H. C. Hopson, domi- nant figure in the Associated Gas & Electric System, took profits of $2,805,000 during the depression, while many of the dividends were unpaid, was received today by the Senate Lobby Committee It also heard from a number of officials of the Associated System and affiliated companies that they did not know where to lccate Hopson. Even officials of his personal com- panies said they had not seen the utility magnate for 10 days or 2 weeks. Committee members quickly pointed out that that was about the time the lobby inquiry started. “Is he in the custom of disappearing like this?” asked Senator Schwellen- bach, Democrat, of Washington. “It is not unusual.” replied one of the witnesses, H. A. Stix, accountant for Hopson Cos. Justice Aid May Be Asked. Justice Department aid may be en- listed in the search for the official. whose testimony is desired by the com- mittee. Carl Estes, Texas newspaper pub- lisher, hotly denied he had been paid for speaking against the Wheeler-Ray- burn utility bill. ‘The committee refused to permit him to read a prepared statement ac- cusing it of “mud slinging.” He testified that the Texas Pow & Light paid $225 a month for ad- vertisements in his magazine, Eal Texas Oil, but indignantly denied he was influenced by his advertisers. “I want to say that I will eat with, walk with, talk to, fight with, speak on radios about or argue with any one I want to about anything, any time I please, regardless of how much mud is thrown at me or by whwm,” he said in his statement. Saw Hopson Week Ago. P. 8. Burroughs, vice president of A. G. E, said he saw Hopson a week ago yesterday. He said he had been trying since to locate him through his family. “I have no doubt he will show up,” Burroughs said. “As soon as he learns the committee wants him—in fact, I'm surprised you haven't heard from him.” Testimony on Hopson/s profits was given by 8. C. Ross, agceountant for the New York State utility investigation. Senator Schwellenbach, Democrat, of Washington, also placed in the record o statement that between 1924 and 1929, Hopson got half of a profit of $1,357,000 in one of the companies in which he had invested only $45,000. Operating Firms' Pay. Ross testified the operating com- panies had paid about $8,000.000 dur- Hn. the depression years to Hopson's companies for services apd had no discretion about the amount. He presented much testimony of the private companies charging several times what the services cost them. They charged two-and-half times what they paid their men, he said, with one exception. It was through this system, Ross said, that Hopson controlled the system. Many of ths officers of the private companies, drawing big salaries from them, were alsc elected officials of the holldlngd and cperating companies, he sal “It is & fair inference,” Ross added, “that the primary allegiance of these men was to the companies from which they received their income, rather than to the stockholders who elected them officials of the operating and helding compenies.” Patton Prepares Statement. As the Senate Committee resumed, its inquiry, Representative Patton, Democrat, of Texas, was busy com- piling an itemized statement of his finances since January 1 for presen- tation to the committee. He has tes- tified he bought Government bonds valued at $3,000 during a period, when his salary as a member of Con- gress was only about $3,100. He told reporters today his total income for that time would be be- tween $4,000 and $5,000. Before Ross testified, the committee (See LOBBY, Page 3.) DEWEY OPENS WAR ON GOTHAM CRIME Special Term of New York Su- preme Court Is Convened to Name Grand Jury. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 29.—The Nation's metropolis became today a battlefield for a relentless war on vice and crime.