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ROOSEVELT KEEPS REAGTION SECRET Says He Was Not Aware of Race—Snell Sees End of New Deal. By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt commented to- day in response to inquiry at his press conference that he was unaware of yesterday’s Rhode Island election un- til he read about it in the papers. He offered no other observation on the Republican victory in the first congressional district. Likewise, he declined comment on the State vote rejecting a public works bond issue. He said he had not heard detalls of the proposed issue and it may have been good or it may have been bad. Rhode Island’s eleczzon of a G. O. P. Representative was hailed today by Republicans as a portent of what will come later. Democrats rejoined that the balloting yesterday lacked na- tional significance. The End, Says Snell. “It is the beginning of the end for the New Deal,” said the Republican leader, Representative Snell, men- tioned as a possibility for presidential nomination next year. Representative Crowe of Indiana, as vice chairman of the Democratic Con- gressional Campaign Committee, said. on the other hand, that the result was “probably just a quirk where a district is returning to the party it used to suppart. Western and Central States —and the South, of course—probably will be solid for Roosevelt next year. 1f he has any losses, they will be in the East and New England particu- larly.” In a statement, Chairman Bolton of the National Republican Congres- sional Committee said voters of the first Rhode Island district “gave con- clusive evidence that they are awake to the unconstitutional and unsound trend of the New Deal. They respond- ed in such overwhelming numbers as to leave no doubt that the feeling was not local, but was indicative of widespread resentment toward New | Deal philosophies and practices.” Other Comment. Other comment gathered by the As- | sociated Press: Speaker Byrns—I don’t regard that election as any criterion as to what may happen throughout the country next year. Rhode Island has always been regarded as a Republican State. Patrick J. Hurley, Hoover cabinet member—The result was exactly as expected by nearly every one familiar with New Deal policies. Senator Gerry, Democrat, of Rhode Island—The processing tax came into it, and, I think, the death sentence and this so-called revenue bill, which is very destructive, did too. End of Session Asked. Representative Maverick, Democrat, of Texas—It's just going Democratic. The trouble is that Congress has been staying here too long and the New Deal is getting some | undeserved unpopularity. Congress should go home. Gov. Eugene Tajgnadge of Georgia— The result is just what I expected. Representative Joseph W. Martin, Republican, of Massachusetts—Little | Rhode Island points the road down which will travel the presidential pa- rade of 1936. The vote in Rhode Island was a repudiation of the New Deal policies which have brought destruc- tion and despair and retarded re- covery. Col. Frank Knox, publisher of the| Chicago Daily News—My first reac- | tion was “Thank God the people of Rhode Island cannot be bought.” It was the most scandalous attempt, | S | money when you vote ‘yes’ to all refer- through relief funds, to buy votes that I have ever known. bare-faced attempt to bribe voters. ‘The principal fight was the New Deal vs. the American system of Govern- ment. The American system won and will repeat mgain next year. Elections (Continued From First Page.) litical bellwether for the country in 1936, but certainly the election of | yesterday will put more heart in the Republicans than anything that has happened since Michigan, in the 1934 election and last Winter in municipal elections, went strongly over to the Re- publican side of the fence. There is! reason to believe, however, that the | people in other New England States | feel much the same toward Roosevelt and the New Deal as do the people here. Furthermore, there are reports which indicate that the opposition to the New Deal all through the Eastern section of the country is spreading rapidly. From New Jersey comes the word that if the national election were held today it would go against Roosevelt. Had Democratic Leanings. ‘Together with the true import of what happened yesterday in Rhode Island and the extent of the turnover, it must be remembered that Rhode SPECIAL NOTICES. 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The vote in the first congressional district only nine months ago elected Condon, the Demo- crat, by 70,507 to 49,107 for his Republican opponent. The first dis- trict has been held by Democrats ever since the State was redistricted in 1930, when the State had its repre- sentation cut from three to two seats in®the House. In the first district | lies one-hal{ of Providence, which has been Democratic, and many other in- dustrial centers which also have been | strongly Democratic. The sweep for the Republicans yesterday elected a | Republican mayor in Newport for the first time in 17 years. Henry S. Wheeler, the Republican nominee for this office, won with a vote of 5449 to 4,166 for Jeremiah P. Mahoney, Democrat. Risk carried the city with a vote of 4,637 to 4,106 for Prince. | Central Falls, a Rhode Island city which had been Democratic even in the days of the Harding landslide of | 1920, gave Risk a lead of 800 votes | over Prince. Woonsocket and Warren | alone gave pluralities to the Democrat. | It is true that the Democrats faced the burden in this election of a bitter | factional row, with Thomas P. McCoy, | a power in one section of the first congressional district, opposing the | nomination of Prince and denouncing | Gov. Green and his administration. While this may have had some effect in the McCoy strongholds, as in Paw- tucket, the trend against the Demo- | crats was just about as strong in other | parts of the congressional district. So the Democrats can scarcely claim these factional troubles as an alibi for the result. Indeed, McCoy came | through finally with an indorsement of Prince. The falling off in the Democratic | vote was tremendous in this election | as compared to the election in 1934, while the Republicans, on the other hand, polled almost as many votes as they did in the earlier election. The | | total vote cast was many thousands | | less than in the election last Fall, which was to be expected in a mid- Summer by-election. The candidates | | for office were nominated less than | | two weeks ago and the campaign last- | |ed only 10 days. Both Republicans and Democrats worked like beavers, however, during the brief period. The campaign of Gov. Green to put across the bond issues, however, had been under way a longer time. The bond issues, with the exception of that for direct relief, were fought tooth and nail by the Providence Journal and | the Bulletin. Indeed, these newspa- pers were the head and forefront of the opposition to the bond issues. A Democratic hand bill said, in part: “Don’t be fooled by the Journal and Bulletin. You are not appropriating | endums. All projects authorized by | the referendums must be submitted to | the Federal Government and ap- proved by President Roosevelt.” Ap- parently the voters took a different view of the matter and believed that if once they agreed to put the State in debt for these: projects, the money | would be used. Cotton Tax Factor. The mill towns of Rhode Island took a swat at the administration’s processing tax on cotton. There seems no other way of explaining what happened in these industrial | centers, which have been strongly Democratic in the past. Lincoln, a mill town in the Blackstone Valley, for example, went for Risk by 1,000 over Prince, although it went Demo- cratic in the 1934 election by 5,000. It has been contended by the Re- | publicans that the processing tax on cotton has helped to close the mills, | making it impossible for American mills to compete with foreign impor- tations of cotton cloths. Both Risk and Prince are veterans of the World War. Risk declared for the immediate cash payment of the soldiers’ bonus, while Prince was vague about the matter. Prince is of French extraction. But this did not appear to help him even in the towns where there are large numbers of Franco-Americans. When former Representative Condon resigned from the House to become a member of the State Supreme Court, he unconscious- ly opened the way for a test of the Roosevelt New Deal popularity yester- day, which might otherwise have been avoided. Last January the Democratic Assembly elected five judges of this court, which had been composed of five Republicans. It chose three Democrats and two Republicans. Con- don was one of the Democrats. The chickens have now come home to roost. Farley Sent Radiogram. Although NeW% Deal officials in Washington generally sidestepped the campaign, Postmaster General James A. Farley two days ago sent a “good luck” message to Prince while en route to Hawaii. Farley's radiogram read “Good luck to you in this campaign and best wishes for a successful career as Con- gressman from Rhode Island.” A check of the bond issues decided yesterday showed that only 5 passed, 2 were in doubt and 12 were defeated. The 12 bonds issue proposals de- feated, many of them by decisive mar- gins, included Gov. Green's compre- hensive forestry and parkway im- provements program, which called for co-operation with the Federal Govern- ment through proposed P. W A al-| lotments. P. B. Johnson Climbing., JACKSON, Miss., August 7 (#)— Paul B. Johnson. former member of Congress, went into second place and close behind the leader, Hugh White, Columbia lumberman, today on re- turns from 921 precincts of the 1,638 in the Mississippi gubernatorial pri- On. these returns the figures stood: ‘White, 44,170; Johnson, 42,190; Den- pestnes iso nlfl m%afill (fl "-.flsmmnn.v. “1 nis Murphee, Lieutenant Governor, “ | to be far more stable than an excess Tax (Continued From First Page.) fense of -administration tax plans as begun yesterday, Jackson today con«i fined himself to the proposed corpora= tion income taxes. Dealing first with the principle of | graduating such taxes, the witness de- | clared that 95 per cent of corpora- | tions paying taxes this year would | benefit by lower rates under the plan. | At the same time, he said, the total | revenue from this source would be | considerably higher than under the | present flat rate. It is the opinion of the Treasury | Department, its spokesman said, that “larger corporations are, by reason of their more stable revenues, better able 1 to anticipate and bear the burdens.” | Concentration of corporation assets | “is startling,” Jackson claimed, with “over 53 per cent of the value of all assets owned by 618 corporations, only two-tenths of 1 per cent of the num- ber of corporations.” “There is substantial evidence,” he continued, “that the depression has | hastened the concentration of cor- poration-owned wealth.” Effect on Common Stock. In connection with the complaint that graduated corporation taxes would unduly affect common share earnings, Jackson admitted that “it is difficult to learn the exact practical effect. The cost to commen stock- | | holders would be greater in cases where preferred stock is outstanding.” The bureau counsel next turned to | one of the departures of the Hcuse | bill from the presidential message, its failure to provide for intercorporate dividend taxes. Terming this idea “one of the vefy important recommendations,” Jack- son declared “dividends have long | been a favored source of income t both corperations and individuals. S long as corporate earnings are re- tained by the earning corporation, or are passed about by corporations which receive them free of tax, the Government's tax on the earnings is far from effective.” Assailing the part which holding companies often play in evasion of | taxes on earnings, Jackson declared “their effect on the revenue system is | demoralizing and destructive of good administration.” Hits Interfirm Exemption. | Probable effects of enactment of a | tax on intercorporate dividends were outlined by Jackson as follows: “It would implement the graduate | corporation income tax. If intercor porate dividends continue to be en- tirely exempted from taxation, there | would be a powerful temptation for large corporations further to L‘omph»i cate their capital structures. | “A partial withdrawal of the exemp- tion would be desirable as a means of encouraging the simplification of cor- porate structures. “The cost of this tax will be felt in | proportion to the abuse.” Coming to the increased excess profits taxes, which were not recom- mended by the President, but were in- cluded in the House bill, the Treasury | official refused to recommend the in- | crease despite attempts by Senator | King, Democrat, of Utah, to force him | into such a positiofly “I stand squarely on the President’s | recommendations,” Jackson replied. | “I neither oppose nor urge an increase | in excess profits taxes.” “As a revenue producer the grad- vated corporation income tax is apt profits tax. The enjoyment of high rates of profits by smallgoncerns dur- ing prosperous periods enables them petter to withstand the heavier risks to which they are subject. We do not wish to discourage the growth of small concerns.” McFarlane Urges Increase. Representative McFarlane urged the increase of inheritance and gift taxes and the tightening of terms of col- lection of these taxes as proposed. ‘Wholesale evasion may be practiced under the present and pending laws, he said. Mayor McNair of Pittsburgh was the first witness of the day to oppose the legislation. The Federal Govern- ment took $79,000,000 out of Pitts- burgh last year and the new bill would take twice as much, he said. “You should have mercy on us,” he pleaded. “You are spending some of | this money, but in a way we don't| like. I saw Mr. Ickes yesterday and he told me we couldn’t have any money for projects until we put toll charges on some of the old bridges. “How are .people going to live in Pittsburgh or come to the city to shop if we charge them to cross all the bridges?” “When I levy taxes in “Pittsburgh | 37,740; Lester Pranklin, Dr. E. A. Copeland, 1,992. Rhea vs. Chandler. LOUISVILLE, Ky., August 7 (#).— Factions led by Thomas S. Rhea, vet- eran political warrior, and by the comparatively youthful Lieut. Gov. A. B. (Happy) Chandler today girded themselves for another month of tooth-and-nail fighting for the Dem- ocratic nomination for Governor of Kentucky. - Tabulation of approximately three- fourths of the vote in last Saturday’s primary gave Rhea, in round num- bers, 10,000 plurality over Chandler, but 35,000 less than a majority of all votes for the five candidates in the race. ‘The run-off primary is September 7. Republicans, who gave a thumping indorsement to the “slate” chosen at their “recommending convention” three months ago, nominated Circuit Judge King Swope of Lexington for Governor, and expressed hope that the intense rivalry of the two Demo- cratic ‘actions would work toward & Republican victory in the November general election. ] 15,465, and | | the form of proposed riders to the | ly willing to go along with administra- | | 8 non-inflationary bonus bill for con- | checked, Democratic Senate { the House provision exempting cor- | people at large have contributed to }wnrd of nations. What is true in | tent true in every city and town in we get police protection, water and garbage removal. When you take our money what do we get back? You talk of sharing the wealth. When you take ours we don’t get it back. That's confiscation.” “Could we arrange for you to run for President in 1940?" Senator Gore, Democrat, of Oklahoma, asked. “No, T'll run in 1936, McNair re- plied. “You need a Democrat down here.” While the Senate thus approached its work of redrafting the legislation, administration floor leaders started to clear the way for expeditious con- sideration of the bill there. Definite progress in this respect was made yesterday when Senator Robinson, Democrat of Arkansas and majority leader, announced that the Steering Committee had decided to make the soldiers’ bonus issue a special order of business in January. Thomas Hails Concession. Indication that this scheme eflcct-l ually will prevent this most lrouble-; | some problem from cropping up in tax bill was given by Senator Thomas, | Democrat of Oklahoma, the foremost bonus advocate, who hailed the pro- posal asa “big concession.” Evident- tion forces to this degree, Thomas said he doubted if any bonus rider | will be submitted for the tax bill, but that a committee of pro-bonus | members of Congress will meet with | administration leaders soon to dis- cuss the January plan. | Soon after the decision to bring up' | the bonus in January was announced, | Senator Byrnes, Democrat, of South Carolina, and Senator Steiwer. Repub- lican, of Oregon, joined in introducing sideration at that time. With the bonus danger seemingly | leaders | feel their greatest apprehension about he $3,000,000,000 farm refinancing proposal of Senator Frazier, Repub- lican, of North Dakota. From Senator Long. Democrat, of Louisiana, they fear some long-distance talking on the question of shaning the wealth, while liberalizing amendments are expected from Senator La Follette, Progressive, of Wisconsin, and others. With the inducement of an early adjournment, however, leaders cvpect enough sup- | port to table most attempts to tamper with the legislation. Urges Gift Exemption, Hope that the Senate Finance Com- mittee would see fit to leave in the bill | | poration gifts to chdrity up to 5 per cent of the corporation income was | expressed in a telegram 1eceived by the committee from David H. Pyle, representing 116 non-profit voluntary hospitals in New York City. In part, Pyle said: “Corporations recognizing the serv- ice rendered by the hospitals to the the maintenance of the hospitals. To | deprive the hospitals of this source of income would affect all citizens of this city and would add to existing oper- ating deficits to the point of enforcing | limitation of service and lack of ade- | quate care. It would further add to | difficulty of continuing the voluntary hospitals. To permit any of them to | close would place American hospital | | service in a class with the more back- | New York is to greater or lesser ex- this country. On behalf of the volun- tary hospitals of this city and country and those they serve I urge the en- actment of the proposed amendments to the revenue act of 1934 providing reasonable exemption of corporation gifts on income tax returns.” UTILITY CONFEREES REPORT PROGRESS Discussion of Death Sentence Is Omitted at First “Peace” Meeting. By the Associated Press. Meeting in peace for the first time since breaking up in a row a week ago, conferees on the Wheeler-Ray- burn utility bill today polished off a number of minor agreements but left off discussion of the provision for abolishing some holding companies until later. Emerging from the conference, at- tended both by the Senate members and the House members who previous- Iy had bolted because of the presence of Ben Cohen, P. W. A. attorney, Chairman Wheeler of the Senate group said they “moved right along.” In compliance with earlier agree- ments, both Cohen and other coun- selors of either side were excluded from the hearing, only the Senate Committee clerk rémaining. To Cobh, Plymouth, Havre, Hamburg 14; Sept. 11; Oect. 9 Manbattan, A u“xl 52,: ; "(x T B e Senty 43 Oct. 2 Oct’ 30 Agents Everywhere UNITED STATES LINES D. C., | such bequests are taxed. The rates | P. Detwiler, Brackenbridge, Pa WEDNESDAY, STOCK GIFTS RISE ASNEW TAXLOOMS John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Leads With $1,000,000. Others Listed. By the Associated Press. Corporation officials and large in- vestors have given away millions of dollars’ worth of stock in recent months. This was disclosed today by reports to the Securities and Ex- change Commission. Under the new tax bill now pend- ing in Congress such gifts would, if made in the future, be subject to heavily increased taxation. John D. Rockefeller, jr., led the list with & $1,000,000 gift of Socony Vacuum Oil Co. shares in March, while Henry J. Fisher, chairman of the board of the McCall Corp., New York publishers, was next with a $700,000 gift of McCall common in June. The gifts are shown in connection with reports which officials, directors and holders of more than 10 per cent of a corporation’s securities make monthly to the commission when their security holdings change. Recipients Not Disclosed. The reports show only gifts of se- | curities. Names of the recipients are not disclosed Under existing law only givers of | start at 3; per cent on the first tax- able $10,000 and range to 45 per cent on the portion over $10,000,000. The bill recently passed by the House would also tax recipients at rates| ranging from 3 per cent to 57 per | cent. Charles S. Woolworth, Scranton, Pa., was another substantial donor. He gave some $600,000 in shares of F. W. Woolworth Co. A gift of about $320,000 was made by F. B. Hentsch- ler, East Hartford, Conn, in United Aircraft Corp. stock. William K. Vanderbilt, New York.‘ gave 5000 shares of Western Union | common, with a recent market value | of some $200,000. L. W. Mesta, Pnts-} burgh, gave 5,200 shares of Mesta Ma- chine Co., valued at $175,000. C. H. Howard, jr., and Mrs. M. Morley How- ard, St. Louis, each gave 2,831 shares of General Steel Castings Co. stock. R. E. Blake, B. A. Gray, E. J. Hopkins, {P B. Jamison, officials of Interna- | tional Shoe Co.. St. Louis, gave a total of 4,200 shares of the company’s stock. Hopkins gave 1,200, each of the oth- ers 1,000 Lorimer Makes Gift. Samuel Bickford gave 19,000 shares of Bickford's, Inc., common; Samuel Robinson, Philadelphia, 3,700 shares | of American Stores Co. common; Samuel Zemurray, New Orleans, 2,616 United Fruit Co. common; George H. Lorimer, Philadelphia, editor of Saturday Evening Pcst, 5,000 Curtis Publishing Co. common. | R. R. Deupree, sr., Cincinnati, 1,000 Procter & Gamble Co. common; W. 1,536 Allegheny Steel Co. common; Charles H. Hodges, Detroit, 1,000 American | Radiator and Standard Sanitary Co. common: J. W. Warwick, Cleveland, 1,000 City Ice & Fuel Co. common; Joseph 8. and Robert A. Young, Allentown, Pa. 1930 each, Lehigh Portland Cement Co. commcn; George R. Anthony, Detroit, 1,000 Wolverine Tube Co.; G. O. Bailey, 636 shares; B. Glass Gold, 251; J. N. Lambert, | 522, and Frank J. Tormey, 702, Snider Packing Corp. common: all reside in Rochester, N. Y.; Stanford W. Phelps, Rochester, 3,000 W. B. Coon Co. o= e LIQUOR SALES VOTED Schuyler, Nebr., Approves, While Pierce Kills Proposal. SCHUYLER Nebr., August 7 (#)- ! |a dose from the opium bottle, it is | refilled with water. In special elections held yesterday, Schuyler voted 212 to 67 for the sale‘ of liquor by the drink, and Pierce, | Nebr., voted 1€1 to 137 against drink sales ( Only 25 per cent of the registered voters cast ballots. Sixteen Nebfaska communities now | have approved drink sales, while eight | have banned officially such sales. 1 AUGUST 7, 1935 Testifies WOMAN TAKES STAND IN DICKINSON SLAYING. Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. FLORENCE JACKSON, The former burlesque house dancer, was the first of three women com= panions of Willlam Lee Ferris, charged jointly with the slaying of Howard Carter Dickinson, to testify in her own behalf at Detroit. Ferris has testified Dickinson shot himself. The woman testified yes- terday that Ferris could not find “some papers” he wanted after Dickinson was shot. WOMAN DESCRIBES DICKINSON SLAYING Ferris' Companion Says She Saw Him Stand Over Victim and Fire Shdt. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, August 7.—Florence Jackson, one of the woman defendants on trial with William Lee Ferris in the | slaying of Howard Carter Dickinson. New York attorney, admitted under cross-examination today that she saw Perris stand over Dickinson's body | and fire a shot. ‘This contradifted testimony the 24-year-old former burlesque dancer gave on direct examination Tuesday that she heard a shot while she was ! behind the death car but did not see Dickinson shot. Before court opened today Florence Jackson's attorney had announced that “under cross-examination my client will testify that Ferris stepped from the car and shot Dickinson in cold blood and that he did so with- out provocation.” If the prosecutor did not bring out this statement, Miss Jackson's attor- ney said, he would do it himself on | redirect examination. There have been indications throughout the trial | that the attorneys for the four de- | | fendants planned a policy of “every | one for himself.” Opium Habit Broken. ! SIANFUL, Shensi, China (#).—The | “two-bottle” system of curing opium addicts is proving effective here in a | woman's treatment center. It involves | the use of a bottle filled with water and another containing an opium so- lution. Whenever the addict is given | LAWYERS’ BRIEFS RUSH PRINTING BYRON 8. ADAMS TWO TO ANSWER SHOOTINGCHARGES N. H. Shank, Ball Player, and Colored Man Held in Gas Station Case. Norman H. Shank, 33, former minor league base ball piayer, and George Kennedy, 38, street, were ordered held fo the grand jury when arraigned in PBlice Court today in connection with the shoot- ing yesterday of a filling station pro- prietor. Shank, who at one time played with | Dover in the Eastern Shore League, is said by police to have shot William | S. Hafner at his gas station at 210 K street southwest. Shank drove up to the station and greeted Hafner, whom he has known for a long time. He followed Hafner to the rear of the station and while the proprietor leaned over to drain oil from a barrel shot him through the shoulder, police charge. Leaving Hafner lying wounded, Shank drove away and met Kennedy, who, it is charged, hid him in a house in the first block of Bingham street southwest. Police found Shank under a bed in the house. Shank said the gun was accidentally discharged as he reached into his pocket for his wallet. had been drinking. 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