Evening Star Newspaper, July 30, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8 Weather Bureau Forecast) Fair and slightly warmer tonight; to- morrow fair and warmer, probably show- ers tomorrow night. Temperatures— Highest, 88, at 4:15 p.m. yesterday; low- est, 65, at 5 a.m. today. Full report on page A- Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14,15 & 16 No. 33,327. BLACK THREATENS NATION-WIDE HUNT FOR UTILITY CHIEF Warns Burroughs He Will| Arm All U. S. Officers With Subpoenaes. $791,000 EXRENDITURE AGAINST BILL REVEALED| Associated Gas & Electric Vice | President Is Puzzled by Col- league's Absence. Entered as second class matter vost office, Washington, D. C. @h ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION o Star WASHINGTON, D. €, TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1935—THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. Walter Johnson Facing End As Manager of the I ndians Alva Bradley Calls Con- ference to Determine Future of ““Big Train.” By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, July 30.—Alva Brad- ley, president of the Cleveland Indians base ball club, said today that Walter Johnson's future as manager of the fifth-place Tribe will be determined at a week end conference at Detroit. Bradley said he advised Johnson last night that he would meet him in Detroit to discuss the manager's fu- ture with the club “and the welfare of the Indians in general * The club president declined to dis- cuss possible successors in the event that Johnson should relinquish his post. “This doesn't mean it has definitely been decided to come to the parting | of the ways with Walter,” Bradley | said. “However, our directors feel that we have a tremendous investment and | we want to get down to brass tacks. | | so to speak.” “Everybody knows the high regard | I have for Walter as a man.” Bradley | continued. “He has done much for | the club, getting rid of some players | WALTER JOHNSON. list of casualties in a single season that has fallen to his lot. “Any fair-minded man would have to take all these things into con- sideration, in weighing Walter John- son’s future. I realize the Cleveland public wants & winner, but the fans are no keener to win than our di- rectors, myself or Walter Johnson. It seems it has just been one darn thing after another, with the result we are 9!, games behind the pace, | when candidly I figured we would be on top or close to it at this stage of the race.” -“I don't know what action will be taken. That will be determined at " (See JOHNSON, Page 4.) with By the Associated Press. The Senate Lobby Committee today threatened to arm every United States marshal and Federal agent with sub-| poenas for H. C. Hopson. dominant figure in the Associated Gas & Elec- | tric System. ] Earlier the committee received evi- dence that the Associated System had | spent $791,000 opposing the utility | bill, including a $25.000 fee to the| law firm of Patrick J. Hurley, Secre- | who were undesirable, as a result of tary of War in the Hoover administra- | their habits. s 7 o | “He has proved to me and the other 18, 960,00°~ | victions. ave often wondered how a-year vice president. testified again | wyjter carried on in the face of all that he did not know Hopson's where- | the tough luck he has had. I can't Sbouts. |rel:nll any manager encountering the Widespread Publicity Given. “It would be impossible that a man could be in the United States and | not know that the committee wanted | BUNGRESS .I-U u”"’ Mr. Hopson,” Black said, referring to| the widespread publicity given the| committee’s search for the official for | the past 10 days. I agree,” Burroughs replied. “Somebody can get in touch him,” Black said sharply. i “If we don't get in touch wit m, . . we e aing o turn over a subpoena | Short 1936 Session Tip Is every marshal and every other agent | A of the Government.” | Passed Along to Quiet Black added that there were some questions that only Hopson could an-| Nervous Members. swer, nddlllng emphatically: “We want ek siitad s him here ! “It puzzles me” Burroughs said,’ A quiet tip that Congress will be “but I can't understand why he doesn't | kept in session only three months come because there is nothing to hide.” | next year is being passed along by Burroughs protested that the com- | some Democratic leaders. They hope mittee agents had not at first at- (it will encourage members growing tempted to serve & subpo;m on I;Ilt_)p» | daily more enxious to get back home. son, but had merely asked to see him.| A high majority leader in the Th:n;ice prjs!del; :c“’il :;5 z;ulcclozil\: i ;;ousde‘ ;z"k“fiu mt‘:my& nknow‘ll; an, prmaion ;| edge a. t the three-mon! buty when Black asked if the latter had ' word was };llngtng along. He in- any contact with newspaper publishers | sisted the estimate is accurate de- or writers, Burroughs agreed he could | spite any argumerits to the contrary. ot answer. ! The testified, however, that he knew | Hopson had sent a telegram to William | Randolph Hearst congratulating him | for his stand “on the administration | attacks on all higness.” The expenditure figures were pre- sented to the Committee from a list of the system's expenditures drawn up by company officials and commit- tee investigators. Previously, company officials had as- serted the expenditures against the bill were $700,000. | Hurley Payment Emphasized. Senator Schwellenbach, Democrat, | of Washington, emphasized the pay- ment to Hurley. “He is the man who is so outraged about what the Government is doing, isn't he?” Schwellenbach asked. “I don’t know, I'm not Mr. Hurley's brother,” O. E. Wasser, controller of the system, who was testifying, re- plied tartly. “If you got $25,000 you could be outraged against legislation, couldn't you?” Schwellenbach asked. “You could put on a pretty good show, couldn’t you?” Knows Little About Company. Over and over again the head of the Associated Gas & Electric Sys- tem’s treasury department told the committee “I don’t know” in reply to questions about the organization of the group as today’s hearing opened. Frank E. Martin said he did not know the system’s total assets or total outstanding indebtedness. Asked about some of the companies in the system, he testified he had never heard of them. Martin said he drew $175 a month a5 head of the system's treasury de- | partment, but added he had nothing to do with its financing. Meanwhile, committee members said the same absence of records they have encountered in their inquiry into the Associated System has been found in many of the other large utility com- panies. Data on Campaign Searce. Though expenditure by the power companies of more than $1,000,000 to defeat the Roosevelt holding company bill has been announced, Senators said committee investigators found the files See LOBBY, Page 3. Man Charged With Slaying Girl Defended on Insanity Plea. By th Associated Press. PEORIA, I, July 30.— Riotous spectators, who jammed the court house, today expressed their disap- As Ren Thurman, Thompson’s at- torney, brought statements from four witnesses who once worked with the t that his sexual obsessions, liking for indecent literature and The short session predictions, of urse, are made with next years election campaign in mind. With this year's long-drawn-out session still going strong, little time has been left for members to keep the home t political fires burning. No Major Plans Seen. “There won't be any major legis- | lation next year,” the Democratic wheel-horse said. “Nothing to speak of but the appropriation bills. They ! will go through as routine.” ‘The administration apparently de- termined long ago to get as many as possible of its bills through this ses- sion, regardless of high thermometer readings or how well the fish were biting back home. Meanwhile, adjournment of the present session is perhaps two-thirds dependent on the actions of the “Third House.” This “branch” of Congress is the group of special committees appointed to adjust House and Senate legislative differences. Three Big Bills in Conference. ‘Three more big bills—omnibus bank- ing, the farm adjustment amendments and the secondary deficiency appro- priation—were sent to conference yes- terday by the House. They raised to eight the number of major measures in the hands of conferees. The Senate agreed today to a conference with the House on the farm adjustment amendments and named as conferees Senators Smith, Bank- head and Murphy, Democrats, and McNary and Norris, Republicans. Only four more primary bills, wanted by the White House and regarded as virtually sure of reaching votes this session, remain on the legislative slate. These are the wealth tax, Guffey coal, gold clause damage suit ban and bus and truck regulation measures. The latter has passed the Senate but none of the other three had reached | & vote in either chamber. Among the other major bills still in conference are the social security and utilities measures, the Tennessee Val- ley amendments bill, the rivers and harbors bill and the air mail measure. HAT RIOTS FATAL 30 Persian Police Among Dead in Westernization Fight. LONDON, July 30 (#).—Dispatches today, from Istanbul said 30 police- men and & number of civilians were killed in a riot at Meshed, East Iran (formerly Mash-Had, Persia), follow- ing priests’ denunciation of a govern- ment order that hats must replace the traditional native headgear. Six hundred persons were said to have been arrested. Problems of Philippines JUNIUB B. WOOD, widely known traveler and foreign eorrespund\enc. tells of the difficulties “and prcbable out- come of the islands under in- dependence in a series of nine stories beginning today in The Star On Page A-2 BREMEN INCIDENT - PROTEST RECEIVED | German Embassy Presents Formal Paper at State Department. By the Associated Press. A formal protest was made by the German government today against the | action of anti-Nazi demonstrators who tore the swastika emblem from the steamship Bremen at New York City | last Priday night and threw it in the | Hudson River. | A note protesting the incident was | sent to the State Department by Dr. | Rudolf Leitner, charge d'affaires of the German Embassy, under instruc- tions from Berlin. Acting Secretary of State Phillips informed newspaper men at noon that a communication had been received from the German Embassy. The note was said to have requested | that the State Department do every- | thing possible to make sure the men responsible be prosecuted vigilantly and punished. The State Department will take up the question .with the Governor of New York. | German government under pressure (of public opinion at home, de- | cided the State Department’s previous | expression of regret over the incident was not sufficient. Letter on Persecution. American sympathy toward the | maintenance of religious freedom and liberty of conscience in all countries | was expressed today by Phillips in a | letter to Jewish organizations which protested recently to the State Depart- men against alleged persecutions in Germany. Phillips said: “I have given careful study to the views embodied in the letter of July 26, last, which you presented on behalf of the Aemrican Jewish Committee, the American Jewish Congress, the B'nai Brith and the Jewish Labor Committee, with respect to recent oc- currences in Germany affecting vari- ous religious and racial groups there. “I fully understand your solicitude regarding the experiences which these groups are reported to be suffering in Germany. Americans “Sympathetic.” “The concepts of religious freedom and liberty of conscience for all con- stitate the most fundamental prin- ciples of our own civilization and political faith. This being. so, the American people are always sympa- thetic to the maintenance of those concepts in the United States as well as in other nations.” Earlier, Senator King, Democrat, of Utah, said he had requested action “within a very few days” on his reso- lution demanding an investigation of reports of religious persecution in Germany. “I have found much support in the Senate,” he said, “and have received more than 200 telegrams backing the resolution.” Representative Celler, Democrat, of New York, planning to address a meet- ing of German Jews in New York to- :lxht, called at the White House to- ay. He said afterward the President told him to go to the State Department and consult Phillips, who is believed to have prepared the statement on re- ligious freedom. It will be in reply to a letter from & delegation which recently called at the State Department. JEWS STILL mzsnb. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, July 30.—Seven Jews and anti-Semitic activity, it still continues in Germany. . One of Reichsfuhrer Hitler's troubles, for the moment, seems to EDEN TAKES PLANE FOR GENEVA WITH DEMAND ON [TALY Will Insist on Pledge to Explore All Channels for Settlement. FRANCE SEEKS TO SAVE ETHIOPIANS FROM WAR League Confronts Obstacles in Program of Moving Gently in African Dispute. By the Associated Press. LONDON, July 30.—Anthony Eden took off from Croydon Air Field for Paris today en route for Geneva to demand an Italian pledge to explore every possible channel for a peaceful settlement of the Italo-Ethiopian con- troversy before resorting to war. Britain's minister for League of Nations affairs intended otherwise to insist upon a full dress debate at the League of Nations Council session to- morrow of the entire dispute—a “show down” which the Italian delegation | was reported to have been instructed | to avoid at all costs. Britain's Condition. Only on this basis, it was under- stood, would the British governmen* agree to postpone discussion of the main issues at the League Council session tomorrow and accede to Italy's desire to limit the Council’s action to a routine appointment of a fifth arbi- trator to the Conciliation Commis- sion. . The commission, however, if Ttaly had its way, would be empowered to discuss only minor frontier incidents. A feeling prevailed in British circles that Mussolini was only playing for time and that his willingness to re- new direct negotiations with Ethiopia | was intended simply to delay League action in the crisis until too late. A French view that further private diplomatic exchanges might avert war was not shared here, British circles It was reported reliably that the| | would be both futile and costly to the League's prestige. Ready for Obligations. | British circles considered it certain that, barring an eleventh-hour com- promise, Eden would tell the League Council that Britain was ready to tul- Al all its obligations under the League Covenant if other members agreed to do likewise. Some quarters viewed pessimistical- ly the possibility of a rupture involv- ing Italy’s withdrawal from the League ‘within the next 48 hours. to meet Premier Pierre Laval for a preliminary discussion of the crisis, | before proceeding to Geneva. FRANCE URGES COMPROMISE. Mild Protectorate Sought to Stave Off War, PARIS, July 30 (#).—Official sources said today that France is trying to save Ethiopia from the terrors of war by arranging for that nation the mildest form of protectorate accept- able to Premier Mussolini of Italy. These same authorities said Premier Pierre Laval told the French cabinet that war seemed inevitable unless Il Duce gets what he wants. Given Power to Settle Dispute. Laval received from the cabinet the power to negotiate a settlement at the League of Nations Council meet- ing which opens at Geneva tomor- Tow. On today's program of French ac- tion in the Italo-Ethiopian crisis was s conference between the French premier and Anthony Eden, British minister for League of Nations affairs. The two diplomats were to leave to- gether for Geneva tonight. ‘The premier gave his ministers little hope that the League would be able to effect conciliation of the two na- tions, but he said he thought it pos- sible that Emperor -Haile Selassie would agree to Italian control if he retains his throne and is spared too great a political humiliation. The French government ordered re- inforcements for its garrisons in (See ETHIOPIA, Page 5.) LAKE WRECKS CITY Waves Drive Residents Into Hills as Buildings Totter. EDMONTON, Alberta, July 30 (#). —High winds drove lake waters down the streets of the town of Slave Lake and the residents into the hills, reports received here today said. Pounding five-foot waves threatened to undermine buildings and smash down lesser structures. The post office was wrecked by seas yesterday and the sacristy of the Roman Catholic Church tilted dangerously toward les- ser Slave Lake. The principal = hotel remained in operation although the ground floor was reported - under several feet of ‘water. 4 Enemy Ships feeling that without a pledge of sin- | cerity from Il Duce, further delays| raignment in Baltimore today as the | Eden arranged to fly first to Pasis, | 7 /. 2 VIRGINIANS FACE Accused of Abducting El- | derly Bachelor in Effort to Collect $8,000. BY REX COLLIER. Two Arlington County men—one of them paroled from a life term in Virginia State Prison—awaited ar- | Federal Bureau of Investigation checked their alleged confessions that they kidnaped a veteran employe of | Arlington Cemetery in a vain attempt to collect $8,000 ransom. | The victim of the first kidnaping in | the Washington area since passage of | the Federal “Lindbergh law™ is Ben- | jamin H. King, bald-headed elderly | bachelor, who rested from his experi- ences today at the home of his brother, Oscar King, at Piscataway, Md. ‘The prisoners, who, Justice Depart- ment officials announced, made “full confessions” yesterday to “G” men, | are George Hewitt, in whose ram- | shackle dwelling near Fort Myer King | was a boarder, and W. W. Wood, who lived nearby. Both are painters. Hewitt Paroled in 1934. | Hewitt was committed to the Vir- ginia State Prison in 1919 to serve a life sentence for murder and was | paroled in July, 1934, Justice officials asserted after checking records of the Identification Division of the F. B. I. | Wood has no previous record in the | criminal files. Warrants were issued | in Baltimore late yesterday charging the pair with kidnaping and con- spiracy to kidnap King. Hewitt was arrested Tuesday of last week when he accompanied King— reputedly well to do—to a bank in Marlboro in an alleged effort to in- duce him to withdraw $8,000 for “ransom.” Maryland police had been tipped off by the bank that Hewitt's actions with King were suspiciious and an extortion scheme was believed to be involved. . Hewitt protested he was innocent, and King told police that Wood, dis- playing a pistol, had forced Hewitt and himself into a car, had driven them through Washington to his brother’s home in Southern Mary- land and had ordered him to get his bank book there and then go to Upper Marlboro for the $8,000. “G” Men Enter Case. Because of the interstate kidnap- ing angle, special agents of the F. B. I. were notified and J. Edgar Hoover, investigation director, ordered thorough inquiry. Arlington County police lay in wait for Wood at his home near Fort Myer and picked him (See KIDNAP, Page 4.) _— GILLETT NEAR DEATH Former Speaker and Senator, 83, Victim of Leukemia. SPRINGFIELD, Mass., July 30 (#). —Former United States Senator Fred- erick H. Gillett remained critically ill today at Springfield Hospital, where he has been a patient for three weeks. Hospital physicians said he might not live many hours. The 83-year-old former Speaker of the National House, in which he served 32 years before being elected Senator from Massachusetts in 1924, was admitted to the hospital July 10, suffering from leukemia and a kidney ailment. F og-Pefwtrating Ray May Spot 50 Miles at Sea presence of a large portable search- light mounted on a motor truck and on the lighthouse grounds. Pirst hints of the experiments leaked out through a bulletin of the Bu- reau of Lighthouses containing in- structions mariners. AN SEE THERE! HAS STARTED! /h # b 7 3 Recruiting Legion For Ethiopia Leads KIDNAP CHARGES ™ oo B, SANP SLAYING One Stabbed as Women Resent Suggestion Spouses Fight. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, July 30.—The threatened war between Italy and Ethiopia had a repercussion in Boston today as one man was stabbed in & street | battle. | Hostilities broke out as a self- styled recruiting officer for a pur- ported Ethiopian foreign legion, wav- ing a handbill, approached two col- | ored women on the street and tried | to sell them the idea of their hus- | bands fighting for Ethiopia. The women showed such a burst |of anti feeling that their hus- | bands, bringing up the rear, piled into | the “recruiting officer” without fur- ther ado, police said. Clarence Jefferson, 36, one of the husbands, wound up in a hospital on | the danger list. The other husband, | Harold Fortune, was more fortunate. Police were seeking the “recruiting | officer.” LIBERTIES GROUP REPORTS ATTACK |Writers Opposing Alabama Anti-Sedition Law Tell of Shogting. By the Associated Press. CLANTON, Ala., July 30.—A party of five writers investigating alleged infringement of civil liberties in Ala- bama and Georgia reported to Sheriff J. R. Hardy today their car was fired upon 10 miles south of here by two men in another automobile. Bruce Crawford of Horton, Va., act- ing spokesman for the party, said they left Birmingham early.today for Montgomery in hopes of seeing Gov. Bibb Graves regarding the anti-sedi- tion bill now pending on his desk. Twe Shots Hit Car. He said that shortly after their car passed Clanton another car pulled around in front of it and that one of two men in the car fired “at least six shots at us, two of which struck our car.” Crawford said that the members of his party were so excited that they could not state whether the other car bore an Alabama license, nor could they remember the color or make of the automobile. Graves Orders Probe. C. B. Powell, jr, Birmingham at- torney, phoned Gov. Graves and re- peated the story told by Crawford and asked for State police to protect the writers, who were remaining at the Clanton Hotel. ‘The Governor telephoned two high- way department motor cycle patrol- men at Clanton to investigate. Billy Smith, Clanton newspaper man, said the car in which the writ- ers were riding had two holes in a fender that resembled bullet holes. NEW PACIFIC COAST DOCK TROUBLE SEEN American Comintern Delegate Foresees Bitter Struggle in September. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, July 30.—New labor troubles among the seamen and port The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. ~TVE \ BEEN TELLING YOU } TH PROCESSION FHF (®) Means Associatsd Press. Yesterday’s Circulation, 121,548 Some Returns Not Yet Received. TWO CENTS. SENATORS 10 QUiz MORGENTHAU ON TAX BILL CHANGES | Cite Failure of $275,000,000 Measure to Follow Roose- velt Views. {DRAFT REPORTED BY HOUSE COMMITTEE Provides Increased Surtaxes Be- ginning at $50,000—Doughton Presses for Passage. By the Associated Press. The Senate Finance Committee to- , day called Secretary Morgenthau to appear tomorrow to “explain” the new $275,000,000 tax bill and tell why it does not contain President Roosevelt's suggestions for new graduated cor- poration income levies and higher WOMAN ADMITS Mrs. Smith Confesses Shel Killed Lang and Cut Up Body. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 30.—Gaunt, be-| spectacled Evelyn Smith today con- | fessed, Assistant State’s Attorney | | Charles S. Dougherty said that she| ! alone strangled Ervin Lang to death and dismembered his body. | Calmly the 47-year-old former bur- | | lesque dancer admitted after hours of | | questioning, said Dougherty, that she and her Chinese husband, Harry Jung, | | took Lang's body in a trunk by auto- | | mobile to a swamp near Hammord, | Ind. | The torso was found in the swamp | early in July, the severed legs and the trunk a few days later near Munster, Ind., five miles south of Hammond. Mrs. 8mith proved an enigma to prosecutors. After cooly confessing, they said, she wise-cracked: “Well boys, I'm heading for the last roundup.” Faced With Mrs. Dunkel. The confession came after Mrs. Smith, arrested Saturday in New York and returned to Chicago by plane late | yesterday was confronted by Mrs. Blanche Dunkel, 43-year-old mother- in-law of Lang. Mrs. Smith said that her only reason for doing the “job” was $500 which Mrs. Dunkel said she promised her for what police authorities described as a crime that outdid the best thrillers of fiction and screen. But, Mrs. Smith said, she wasn't paid $100 “on acocunt” as contended by Mrs. Dunkel. While Mrs. Smith was cutting Lang's body to pieces Jung, she said, sat outside in a motor car, “scared stiff and shaking like & leaf.” Dougherty reported that the former burlesque queen admitted: That Mrs. Dunkel, wrathful be- cause he was unfaithful to the mem- ory of his dead wife, Mrs. Dunkel's daughter Mallie, who died in Decem- ber, 1934, offered Evelyn $500 to “get rid of” Lang. Lured to Apartment. That they lured Lang to Mrs. Smith's 721 Barry avenue apartment on the near North Side after he had spent the evening with 21-year-old Josephine McKinley, to whom he had become engaged, an act which had aroused Mrs. Dunkel's jealousy, and plied him with liquor until he be- came unconscious. ‘That she (Mrs Smith) then gar- roted Lang by knotting a rope around his neck and strangling him to death, after which she placed the body in a closet, fearing to carry it outside to a car in which Jung awaited because of a party being given by neighbors. then next morning she procured a hacksaw, and with this and knives she severed the legs of Lang's body, putting the legs and torso in a trunk. (Police investigators previously had That from a nearby hardware store | surtaxes. This action was taken a short while after the House Ways and Means Committee had formally approved the measure. Chairman Doughton said he hoped to bring it up on the House floor tomorrow for debate. The Senate committee started hear- ings today. From L. H. Parker, chief of staff of the Joint Congressional Committee on Taxation, it developed that the House bill measure narrowed the limits of the graduated corporation evy suggested by the Executive and contained an excess profits tax be- cause it was thought this was a “fairer test” of ability to pay. Start_at $50,000. Parker said the surtax increases had been started at $50,000 net income, in- stead of the $1,000,000 “‘example” sug- gested by Mr. Roosevelt, because only around $5,000,000 or $6,000,000 in revenue could be raised if the boosts started at the higher figure. He esti- mated the yield would be $45,000,000 by lowering the brackets to $50,000. Doughton said if he failed to get the bill up for debate tomorrow it would be taken up “Thursday at the latest.” “I hope we can get it passed by Saturday,” Doughton added. “If we don’t, we certainly can get it through by Monday.” Minority Report Forecast. Indications were Republican mem- bers of the Ways and Means Commit- tee would file a minority report criti- cizing the bill because of the conten- tion it would do nothing worth while toward balancing the budget. Although less than a dozen com- mitteemen were present when the vote was taken, all but one of the absentees left a proxy. The resulting vote wa: | 17 to 7. with the Democrats agreeing | solidly to approve the bill and the Re- | publicans to oppose it. The only member not recorded was Representative Lamneck, Democrat, of ©Ohio, who is ill. There had been forecasts that an | attempt would be made in the com- mittee to permit corporations to de- duct from their taxable income gifts made to Community Chests and char- itable organizations not operated for | profit. This did not materialize. Today's committee session lasted |less than 15 minutes. Committee | Democrats, however, already had | spent about two weeks working on the bill in secret sessions from which the Republicans were excluded. Terms Questioned. As the bill was reported, Represent- ative Scrugham, Democrat, of Nevada made public anamendment whict he will propose from the floor to de- duct from corporation income money derived from the mining of gold. Later, the House bill's surtax pro- visions reaching into income brackets lower than recommended by Pres- ident Roosevelt were questioned by Democratic Senators as the Senate | Finance Committee opened hearings on the measure. Parker told the committee the bill |increased surtaxes beginning at $50,000. “Have you followed the President's recommendations?” asked Senator King, Democrat, of Utah. Parker, who helped draft the meas- ure, said he followed the recommen- dations of the House Ways and Means Committee. “So you construed the President’s message to start the increases at $50,000?” asked Chairman Harrison. Cites Slight Income. “It was the declaration of the com- mittee,” Parker said, adding: “Of course, no substantial revenue can be obtained by graduating sur- |taxes from $1,000,000 up. That would raise only about $5,000,000 or $6.000,000.” The questioning developed tw | | (See SLAYING, Page 6.) Bingham Sees Baldwin. LONDON, July 30 (P).—United States Ambassador Robert W. Bing- ham discussed current international problems with Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin today in a half-hour confer- ence at 10 Downing street. The Am- bassador sails tomorrow for the United States. Readers’ Guide Amusements Comics Cross-word Puzzle . Editorials . Finance . Lost and Found Mallon .......... Radio Serial Story . Service Orders Short Story ....... Society .... ....A-8 14-15-16 .A-9 Vital Statistics .... Washington Wayside , ...A-11 Women's Fegtures. .B-10, B-12 (See TAXES, Page 4.) TYPHOON LASHES ORIENTAL CITIES Many Reported Injured in Foo- chow—Formosa Damage Heavy. By the Assoclated Press. FOOCHOW, July 30.—Many per- sons were reported injured tonight as the most severest typhoon in many years struck Foochow. TOKIO, July 30 (®.—A typhoon battered the island of Formosa today, inflicting severe property damage as it roared on toward China. Communications wefe disrupted, preventing an accurate estimate of the extent of the damage, but no loss of life was reported immediately. The typhoon—the third this sea- son and one of the worst ever to strike the capital city .| the island—plunged of Taihoku into darkness after the rising winds damaged the power house. The central section of the island suffered extensively. An unestimated