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U. 5. TAX FIGURES HELD DECEPTIVE Vast Number of Stockhold- ers in 618 Corporations Listed by Jackson. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Figures can do startling things when grouped to suit one's fancy. Thus Robert H. Jackson, counsel for the Internal Revenue Bureau, has told the Senate Finance Committee in con- nection with the pending tax bill that 618 corporations in 1932 owned more than 53 per cent of the value of all assets disclosed in 1932 tax returns by all corporations. On its face this looks like a small proportion of the corporations, and Mr. Jackson carries the calculation, which he calls “startling,” even fur- ther when he works it out in per- centages. For on that basis it shows that these 618 corporations are only two-tentns of 1 per cent of the total corporations First of all, the mere number of | corporations in existence is no more | a measure of the amount of wealth in America than the number of golf or country clubs. There are approxi- | mately 472000 corporations which | have taken out charters. Half of them are dormant or inactive. If Mr. Jack- son had been so disposed, he could[’ have said that only 618 out of 472,000 corporations owned haif the wealth | of the country. That, too, would have | been startling. More Important Point. But there is a much more important point that Mr. Jackson omitted to explain. Just how many persons are represented in the 618 corporations which own half the wealth? Just how many stockholders and how many bondholders are there in each cor- poration? And, incidentally, how many people are employed and what 1s the total pay roll of those 618 com- panies? This is very essential information. For instance, take the American Tele- phone & Telegraph Co. It has assets running into the billions, for it owns all the telephone companies and their | plants, reaching into 25,000 different | places. Yet in Mr. Jacksen's list of corporations reporting a Federal in- come the A. T. & T. probably is classi- fied as only one corporation. This is because in 1932 there was permitted by law a consolidation of income tax returns for all corporations owned by & parent company. Now, how many persons own the A. T. & T.? The latest figures show | that approximately 850,000 persons own the company. Take General Motors and General Electric. These are companies also with hundreds of thousands of stock- holders. And the statistics show that many persons own just a few shares | apiece. Indeed, in not one of these big companies does any man or group | of men affiliated with one another | own as much as 10 per cent of that company. It is reasonable to suppose, there- fore, that of the 618 corporations owning half of the wealth or assets of all corporations we may have any- where from 5,000,000 to 10,000,000 people as the real owners. Some esti- mates place the number of prefergpd and common stockholders up around 15,000,000. Millions of Stockholders. The larger corporations are the ones that float stock and bond isues to the public, so it is a fair assumption that almost all of these millions of stock- holders belong in the 618 corporations which own half the wealth of the country. Mr. Jackson says that in 1932 50 per cent of the income went | to 201 corporations. This must mean that the other 417 corporations didn't have any taxable income or pay divi- dends on their investment. Million: of stockholders know this, of course, because they didn’t get dividends and lots of them didn’t get interest either. Wealth and income are two differ- ent things. For wealth isn't subject to distribution overnight and the mere fact that a man owned a share of | stock or a claim check on a big plant didn’t mean he converted that share of stock into cash in 1932 unless he wanted to take a loss on his originai investment. Market values were at their low point that year. So the statement that 618 corpora- tions or their stockholders owned half the wealth of all corporations didn't mean they had such an amount to spend on thémselves or their families | or on their hobbies. | The distribution of the income re- ceived from the corporations which did earn a profit is an important matter on which, unfortunately, not enough information is available. If the Internal Revenue Bureau wosld trace what happens to all the corpora- tion dividends, and particularly those 201 corporations which had half the taxable income of the country in 1932, some more “startling” disclosures would be made. Charity and Philanthropy. The probabilities are the Treasury ‘would find that a substantial amount went to charity and philanthropy, that a large amount went to the life insurance companies to take care of the contingent demands of millions of policy holders, either through death payments or loans, that many millions of dollars of profits went into new enterprises or aided in sup- porting going concerns that mneeded capital, thereby ncreasing employ- ment or preserving jobs for many who already had them. 1t is always the alleged crime of the profit side that is emphasized by the administration here. Mr. Jackson spoke of the 73,291 corporations that had reported taxable incomes in 1932. He didn't mention the tens of thou- sands of corporations which lost money and dug into capital and re- serves to keep their plants going. The latest figures, for instance, show that in 1832 the amount lost by American corporations was $7,796,686,752. while the amount of profit by another more fortunate group of corporations amounted to $2,153,112,819. Here we see the profit and loss system in act- ual operation. Taxes and the threat of pyramiding more taxes have much to do with the failure of businesses, for it gives them & load which they cannot carry in competition with othér businesses that have some special advantage in loca- tion or manufacturing process. Then comes more unemployment. To pile up the economic structure with taxes s to stifle its growth. The graduated income tax on corporations which Mr. Jackson advocates might help to What’s What Behind News In Capital G.O.P. Leaders Discuss Knox-for-President Campaign. BY PAUL MALLON. HE undercover spread of the Knox-for-President campaign is the main topic wherever Republican bigwigs stop to gossip. Originally it centered in the Midwest. Within the last few weeks it has extended East. Among those supposed to have joined up lately are Bill Donovan and Jim Watson, two well-known lieuten- ants in the Republican army of old. Qne of Mr. Hoover’s ex-mentors has been expressing the opinion in party councils that the Chicago editor iy already so far out in front that he cannot be headed of. That is an isolated view as yet. However, the movement has grown so formidable that it is developing in- side opposition and even a whispering campaign. Soft-vbiced antagonists are questioning Col. Knox's party record, saying he once supported a Democratic candidate for Governor, and sugh things. Poll Taken in Indiana. ‘The open nature of the race among Republicans was indicated by a na- tionally unobserved poll out in In- diana a few days ago. A member of the Indiana Re- publican Editorial Association sent out 500 straw ballots to editors, district and county chairmen and vice chairmen asking them to vote their preference for the momina- tion. On the 280 ballots which were returned there were votes for 37 different persons. Conse- quently, no one candidate could have received very many. out, but it is understood that Frank second and Senator Dickinson third. (ONLY THE BEGINNING, FOLKS/ ,, Republican authorities are not pay- ing much attention to the Lucas poll on presidential candidates. At first they thought it was a stunt to promote they are not so sure. lately. He has no known factional connections. The regularly constituted Repub- lican authorities were amazed to note on Mr. Lucas’ list of Republican presi- dential prospects a man of whom they had never heard—an Arthur W. Little of New York. Technique Decentralized. It has not been noticed publicly, but the Republicans have been operating under an interesting decentralized po- litical technique. No central control leadership has been attempted. The na- tional committee here is active, but only in trying to keep the bare threads together. In the main, House Republicans go their way, Senate Republicans theirs. Prominent party men out in the country conduct themselves indi- vidually, and not as part of & network. The various sectional conferences way. Links between the groups are largely casual and personal. tageous., It permits sectional leeway. can accept the farm program while Rhode Island rooters oppose it. Republicans Surprised. Republicans were more surprised success. Their advance private reports indicated they would only cut down the Democratic majority and probably lose on most of the bond issues. In- stead, their 21,406-vote defeat in 1934 was turned into a 14,000 victory, which means a turnover of more than 35,000 votes in less than nine months. The Democrats were so confident that Postmaster General Farley sent a telegram to the Democratic congres- sional candidate before election vir- tually congratulating him on his ex- pected victory. MURRAY. One of the sharpest of old-time Washington politicos has a theory about how the American people elect Presidents. He swears they tend to- ward opposites every four or eight years. The mild McKinley was succeeded by the rough-riding Roosevelt, who was in turn followed by the soft Taft. Then came the inflexible, scholarly ‘Wilson, the jolly Harding, the tight- lipped farmer Coolidge, the business promoter Hoover, the friendly Roose- velt, the—-2? Guffey Coal Bill Faces Fight. The reason that the House com- mittee has beep so shy about voting on the Guffey coal bill is that the committee has already voted unoffi- clally and the result was not satis- factory. The premilinary nose counting showed 10 Democrats for reporting the bill and 8 against. The Republicans were 6 against and 1 for. This makes the committee line-up 14 to 11 against the bill, or it did a few days ago, before the New Dealers went to work ardently to change the line-up. Within a week after the House framed the new tax bill to raise $270,- 000,000 a year in revenue, Congress approved legislation to spend $175,- 000,000 more money. Extra expendi- tures included $45,000,000 for the Spanish War veterans, $120,000,000 for frontier air bases, 40-hour week for postal employes and miscellaneous legislation, including $764,000 to pay the City of New York for a Civil War debt. ‘The Treasury never gets ahead of Congress. prevent many who are rich from be- coming richer, but there is no assur- ance at the same time that the poor will not be made poorer. (Copyright. 1935 ) —_—— Movies in Prisons. Motion pictures will be shown in prisons of England. Calhoun Fund Now $1,384.53. A $5 contribution by J. S. Gruver today increased to $1,384.53 the relief fund for the family of Sterling Cal- houn, colored hero, who drowned in a futile attempt to save the lives of two children, \ | | The detailed results were not given | Knox ran first, Senator Vandenberg | THE HEADED FOR FIGHT Senate Committee Backs Treasury in Turning Down Plan. By the Associated Press. A new Senate~House tussle appeared to be in the making today—this time over bulk sales of liquor. The Senate Finance Committee, in voting last night to report the ad- ministration’s liquor control bill to the floor, turned thumbs down on allowing sale of liquor in kegs and barrels as voted by the House, By its action, the committee sided with the Treasury Department, which had asserted it would require an “‘army” to enforce liquor regulations if anything but. package sales were permitted. Differ on Bootleg Effect. The House provision would permit clubs and hotels to buy liquor in wooden containers and resell to patrons. Advocates of this argued it would break up “monopoly,” reduce liquor prices and thus combat the bootlegger. Opponents contended it would encourage bootlegging and other illicit practices. Also stricken out of the measure by the Senate committee was a House provision for a single liquor adminis- trator to work under the Treasury at a salary of $10,000. The Senate com- | mittee voted for a three-man agency, independent of the Treasury, each member to receive $10,000. The Senate Committee decided not to make malt beverages subject to control by the new liquor board and voted to require Senate confirmation of all board employes receiving more than $5,000. Liability Curbed. As a protection to newspapers, | magazines and radio broadcasters, the committee exempted them frem lia- bility for any misstatements contained in liquor advertisements submitted to them. Most of the House provisions pro- hibiting a liquor manufacturer from jrequumg a dealer to handle only the manufacturer’'s brands were agreed to by the Senate Committee. The House language was modified, however, to permit a manufacturer to bid for a dealer's good will by supply- ing him with a sign not to exceed $100 in cost annually. which have been held have received | rence,” national advice back stage, but they | have not been controlled in the usual | in spectacular display on the night than you were at their Rhode Island | The legislatian, designed to replace the old Federal Alcohol Control Ad- ministration which fell under the Supreme Court's N. R. A. decision, probably will be taken up in the Sen- Mr. Hoover for renomination, but now | ate the first of next week. The conductor | of the poll, Robert Lucas, was formerly | a Hoover counselor, but has not been | METEORIC SHOWERS ~ SOON TO BE VISIBLE Golden Tears of St. Lawrence Will Be Streaking Through Skies in Next Few Days. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, August 9.—The | golden tears of St. Lawrence will be streaking through the skies again the next few nights. They are the Perseid meteors, Showers of swift streaks of yellowish light, they are visible each year be- tween August 10 and 12. Sometimes | they are visible for weeks. There are untold billions upon bil- | lions of them. They string out in an | orbit as a continuous circular stream | for several billions of miles that ex- | tend far beyond the planet Neptune. The name, “Tears of St. Law- was given to the Perseids because they flashed through the sky of August 10, 258 A.D., just after St. Lawrence, the martyred deacon, was The master political minds consider [ put on a gridiron under the rule of this method wise and highly advan- | Valerian. This year the hours of this free For instance, Midwest grass rooters | Sky show are limited by the moon. One must stay up after the midnight | setting of the moon to witness the . meteoric showers. | Astronomers say they are just bits of cosmic dust, perhaps the size of a grain of sand. —_— e BAIL HELD UNNECESSARY FOR 400-POUND MAN U. 8. Commissioner Releases De- fendant in Impersonation Case in His Own Custody. | By the Assoctated Press. NEW YORK, August 9.—United States Commissioner Garrett W. Cot- ter took one look yesterday at Nicholas Clemente, arraigned on an imper- sonation charge, and decided ball wouldn't be necessary. Clemente weighs 400 pounds and the commissioner came to the con- clusion promptly that, even should the defendant want to hide himself away, he was too big for the task. “A man of your weight should keep out of trouble,” Cotter said, paroling him in his own custody. GUARD BIRTI'.IDAY F;LANS Family Reticent on Celebration for Son at Maine Estate August 16. By the Associated Press NORTH HAVEN, Me, August 9.— Excluded from prying eyes, little Jon Morrow Lindbergh will celebrate his third birthday anniversary on Au- | gust 16, At the Summer estate here of his grandmother, Mrs. Dwight W. Mor- row, attended by his father, Cal. Charles A. Lindbergh, and members of the family, the child was jealousy guarded from contacts with the out- side world. No indication of what the family had planned for young Jon's happiness on his birthday came from anv mem- ber of the household or from friends on this little island. The same silence prevailed on Jon’s last pirthday anni- versary. Inquiries at the home were met with the usual reticence. Senate: Considers Walsh “little N. R. A.” bill. Finance Committee works over tax bill in executive session. House: Cnddmndv*m \ - EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Reprinted From Yesterday's Late Editions. Upper photo shows how rangers lowered the seriously injured Robert Tate from the face of Half Dume They removed the victim by tying rope from tree to tree or rock He and Elizabeth Lorimer were marooned on s ledge a night and almost a day before being rescued. The man nearest the camera is bending over Tate, his head being Mountain to the floor of Yosemite Valley, Calif. to rock, and carefully slid him down concealed. . 6. ER KEG SA'.E PRUV'SU Mountain Rescue Scenes in Yosemite Copyright, A. P, Wirephotos. in a stretcher. Below: Rangers and Dr. A. E. Sturm examining Tate. IDAY, AUGUST 9, 1935. | SHORTAGE OF FOOD FEARED BY NAZIS Prices Reported Steadily Rising—Officials to Con- sider Problem Soon. By the Assoclated Press. BERLIN, August 9.—A deficiency in certain German food supplies was de- scribed by an authoritative source to- | day as a possibility, with a definite shortage of fats and fruits already ex- | isting and with vegetable crops in doubt. 3 v The authority said staples, like | bread, grain and meat, were in a good position, but that prices were rising. steadlly and that the work- ingman was having difficulty getting what he wanted. Three high Nazi officials—Count ‘Wolf Hendrick von Helldorf, head of Berlin police; Julius Lippert, state commissioner for Berlin, and Prussian State Councillor Goerlitzaer—were un- derstood to be meeting Monday to con- sider the questions of food. ‘The government policy appeared to be to restrain Prices of staple com- | modities, letting prices for foods| which could be classified as luxuies | rise as a sort of disciplinary measure. | Cite “Horrors” Abroad. While the Reich press turned again | to “other nations’ horrors and riots” | Destruction OHIO FLOOD LOSS SET AT §3000.000 Increases as Waters Move Toward Ohio River. By the Associated Press. ZANESVILLE, Ohio, August 9.— The toll of destruction from Ohio's worst flood in 22 years mounted high- er today as the crest of the swollen waters here moved on toward the ©Ohio River. With two persons known to have drowned, another missing and three others dead as indirect results of the flood and the series of storms that preceded it, unofficial estimates of property damage ranged upward to- day from $3,000,000. More than 1,000 persons who re- sided in the path of the flood now are homeless and other hundreds are under orders to flee for safety to higher ground. Zanesville Threatened. All last night the raging waters of the Muskingum River swirled against levees protecting Zanesville, con- stantly threatening to break through, while National Guardsmen stood watch to give an alarm should a break occur and C. C. C. workers labored to strengthen weakened sections. In the “lower pool” of the Muskin- and hailed liquidation of the Danzig- | Bum, south of Zanesville, below the Poland customs dispute as a victory junction of the Muskingum and the for the German cause, the Nazi drive | Licking River, the water level was 33.6 against “state enemies” presented sev- eral new aspects. [ After yesterday's dissolution of nu- merous Stahlhelm (Steel Helmet) vet- erans’ groups, the local Steel Helmet organization at Weidar "ds.ssulvedi itself.” | News of dissolution of the Steel Hel- | | met unit at Buenos Aires also reached | the Berlin organization. A priest named Reckmann was sen- | | tenced to four months’ imprisonment, and a Catholic chaplain named Holt- kamp to two months at Gladbeck be- cause “they tore red notices against political Catholicism from billsoards.” A monk. Isidor, of the Franciscan Monastery at Waldbreitbach, center | of one of the numerous money smug- | gling trials, was arrested because “he as leader of the Institute for Feeble Minded Persons ordered some inhab- itants to destroy notices or paint them black.” Labor Front Preferred. A measure against the Catholic | Workers’ Asggociation was taken by the City of Wattenscheid, which an- nounced that work orders would be | given only to members of the German Labor Front. All Berlin morning newspapers an- | | nounced the “Danzig-Polish agree- | ment” with sych comment as “retrac- |'tion of Polish customs measuves against Danzig—Danzig therefore nul- lified counter-measures.” | Details of the agreement reached | yesterday between representatives of | the Free City of Danzig and Warsaw, however, were withheld for the pres- ent from public scrutiny. } | (A four-part agreement for settling the dispute provided that Danzig can- | cel & decree permitting German goods | to enter the Free City without pay- ing customs, that Poland cancel its prohibition collecting Polish customs | fees at Danzig, that payment of ratl- road rates beyond Danzig territory {be paid in Polish zlotys, and that| | negotiations be made for financial! management of the port exclusively in zlotys.) | Nearly all newspapers displayed prominently accounts of strike dis- orders at Dallas, Tex., under such | headlines as “Women Turned Into | Hyenas—Cultural Disgrace to Texas.” :Contributory Old-AgeiPension []HRU"ER LEADS f System Operation Explained Man Working 45 Years at $100 Monthly Salary Would Get $53.75 Monthly Until Death. By the Associated Press. | By way of example, this is how the contributory old-age pension system in the social security bill is designed to apply to “Bill Jones”: | Suppose young Bill, is 20 when the bill goes into effect and makes an | average monthly salary of $100 until| he is 65. He will get a monthly pen- sion, until his death, of $53,75. Payment of Taxes. In detail, here is what will happen to him: In the calendar years 1937, 1938 and 1939, he will pay a salary tax of 1 per cent, or a total of $36 for the three | perhaps 10 years more. If he does, he will get back $6.450. When Bill Jones dies, this is what | will happen: His average annual salary will be| multiplied by the number of years he | paid taxes. In other words, if he | dies after he has paid taxes for 45 years. $1.200 will be multiplied by 45—giving a total of $54,000. Arbi-| | trarily, the bill stipulates that Bill| Jones' estate shall be entitled to 312 | per cent of that, or $1,890—less any | amount he received in pensions before | he died. $1,890 Base Figure. It Jones dies before he gets back | Anti-Nazis Gather, NEW YORK, August 9 (&) —An anti-Nazi gathering in Madison Square Garden last night cheered six men {"accused of having torn a swastika flag from the bow of the Bremen, called for an American boycott of the Olym- | pic games in Germany, cabled Adolf | Hitler a “demand” for the release of | anti-Nazi pesoners there. | A telegram also was sent to Secre- tary of State Cordell Hull protesting | the imprisonment of Lawrence B.| Simpson, an American seaman, who was arrested for distributing anti- | Nazi literature in Hamburg. — WOMEN'S TOURNEY Miss Margaret Russell Is 4 Up Ovér Miss Miley in Cleveland Golf. By the Associated Press. years. In 1940, 1941 and 1942, he will| 51890 in pensions, what he actually pay 1!z per cent, or $54, In 1943, 1944 | recejved is deducted from $1,890 and | and 1945, the tax will be 2 per cent, or | the balance paid to his heirs. If he | $72. In 1946, 1947 and 1948, the tax )iyes yntil he gets back all of the | will be 21 per cent, or $90. From 1949 | ¢1 890 and more, his heirs get nothing. | FOR JON LINDBERGH, 3| to 1981, inclusive, the tax will be 3| per cent, or a total of $1,188 for those 33 years. Thus, In 45 years, Bill Jones will| have paid in $1,440. All the time his | employer will have been matching his | tax payments, so the total paid to the | Federal Treasury will be $2,880. | At 65, Bill Jones can expect to live | If Jones should die before he| reaches 65, his heirs would be entitled to a payment of 312 per cent of the total wages on which taxes had been paid. For instance, if he died after 10| years, he would have paid taxes on| $12,000. His heirs would be entitled | to 3% per cent of that, or $420. Pensions (Continued From First Page.) pension problem during the recesa:‘l Senators King, Clark, George of Georgia, Keyes of New Hampshire and La Follette of Wiscorisin. The House members are Repre- sentatives Doughton of Ncrth Caro- lina, Hill of Washington, Cullen of New York, Treadway of Massachu- setts and Bacharach of New Jersey. Senator Clark pointed out today that the pay-roll taxes for the Fed- eral old-age insurance system do not start until after December 31, 1936, so there will be ample time to seek a solution of the private pension issue before the Government plan gets into operation. Millions Required. For the current fiscal year the grants to the States and the District for a variety of welfare purposes will call for a Federal appropriation of approximately $94,491,000. The larg- est items in this total are $49,750,000 for matching State pensions to aged needy persons, and $24,750,000 for Federal aid to States which extend home care to dependent children. The balance will be distributed for health activities. ‘The taxes to be levied on employes and employers to build up the Fed- eral -old-age insurance for | year will be $1,706,300,000. those still at work will start in 1937, Mhth*numwurr.- 800,000. In that year the pay roll | tax will be 1 per cent on the employe and 1 per cent on the employer. When the maximum tax of 3 per cent each is reached in 1949, the total fer that | The Federal pay roll tax on the em- ployer under the unemployment in- surance program starts in 1936 at 1 per cent, and will amount to more than $200,000,000 that year. This tax will reach the maximum of 3 per cent in 1938, and in that year will call for more than $800,000,000. If a State fails to enact a local unemployment insurance law, employers in such a State will have to pay this tax into the Federal Treasury. If the State levies an unemployment tax, the employer may deduct that, up to 90 per cent of the Federal levy. —_— QUINTUPLETS SWIM All but Marie Are Born Swim- mers, Dr. Dafoe Reveals. CALLANDER, Ontario, August 9 (#)—Four of the Dionne quintuplets know how to swim, Dr. A, R. Dafoe said yesterday. All of his tiny charges with excep- tion of Marie swim every day in the pew bath tubs at Dafoe Hospital. “The four of them have no floating trouble,” Dr. Dafoe said, “and if they get ducked they don’t mind at all are born swimmers. All the do is to hold her hand 1 the babies will CLEVELAND, Ohio, August 9.— Miss Margaret Russell of Detroit, with | a four-leaf clover in her glove, held a | four-up lead over Miss Marion Miley | of Lexington, Ky., at the end of nine | holes in their semi-finals mwatch of the women's Western golf tourney at Westwood Country Club here today. The Michigan miss toon the sec- ond, fourth, fifth, sixth &nd ninth holes, but lost the seventh when she | dubbed an approach shot. Miss Miley, trans-Mississippi champion, needed 43 | strokes, 5 over par, for the nine holes, | while Miss Russell carded a 39, one over even figures. Mrs. D. T. Atwood of Chicago reached the turn even with Miss Marian Leachman of Vallejo, Calif., in | the other semi-final match. | Miss Leachman took an early lead with a birdie on the third hole and also won the sixth, but Mrs. Atwodd, | the former June Beebe, took the fifth | and ninth to square the match. Mrs. | Atwood had a 40 for the nine, while Miss Leachman carded a 41. LIFE SENTENCE GIVEN ASSAILANT OF GIRL| e | Fifty-Year-Old Street Employe, | Threatened by Mob, Speeded to Penitentiary. By the Associated Press. FRANKFORT, Ind, August 9.— Frank Nace, 50-year-old street de- partment employe, whose alleged at- tack on a 9-year-old girl brought a threat of mob violence here Tuesday night, received a life sentence when he pleaded guilty today. He was taken immediately to the Michigan City Prison. Nace was returned here secretly from Indianapolis, where he had been rushed for safe keeping when a mob began forming around the jail after his arrest. Few people were aware of his re- turn until after he had been sentenced and started for the penitentiary in custody of Sheriff Frank Rogers. The child is recovering. Harlow Romance Hinted. HOLLYWOOD, Calif, August 9 (P)—Fresh impetus was given today to rumors of an off-screen romance between Jean Harlow, platinum haired movie star, and the debonair William Powell. The two, known as ultra-sophisti- cates of the fillms, were sighted shop- ping in & Santa Barbara store yes- LONG MAY BE ISSUE BEFORE MISSISSIPPI White Seeks to Inject Louisiana | Senator Into Run-off Election for Governorship. By the Associated Press. JACKSON, Miss., August 9.—Sen- ator Huey P. Long of Louisiana ap- peared today as a possible focal point | around which the run-off campaign for | Mississippi’s governorship may be waged. Hugh L. White, millionaire timber | man, who will oppose Paul B. John- | son, former Representative, in a sec- | and primary on August 27 to determine | the State’s next Chief Executive, in a | statement issued last night sought to | establish Long as the sole issue for | the three weeks' campaign. | The complete unofficial vote gave | Paul Johnson, Hattiesburg lawyer, 110,207 votes, a plurality of 942 votes over his nearest opponent, Hugh ‘White of Columbia. ‘White received 109,265, Lieut. Gov. Dennis Murphree, 92326; Lester Franklin, 35468, and Dr. E. A. Cope- land of Jackson, 4,856. White's statement charged “Plat- forms are no longer an issue in this | campaign,” declaring the issues had | been boiled down to the lone question | of “Whether the voters of this State shall permit Huey P. Long of Louis- | iana to dictate the election of their | Governor.” Johnson released a statement sim- ultaneously in which he sald he had “not sought the interference of any one living outside of the State of Mis- sissippl.” MRS. LEO WALPER WINS PUBLIC LINKS TITLE Kenwood Club Member Defeats Mrs. Hope Wilkerson, 5 and 3, in Final Round. Mrs. Leo Walper of the Kenwood | Golf and Country Club today won the District women’s public links golf championship, defeating Mrs. Hope ‘Wilkerson, 5 and 3, in the final round of the tourney played at Rock Creek Park. Mrs. Walper played the first nine holes in 47, 13 strokes above par, and was 3 up. She ended the match on the long fifteenth hole. The second flight was won by Mrs. terday—in the pots and pans depart- ment. " George Meade, who defeated Mrs. H. . Lenge, 3 and 1. . / feet early today, 8.2 feet above flood stage and still rising. Pressure on the levees temporarily was relieved slightly after midnight when the flood waters broke through a branch line of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad on the south side of the city and swept into an uninhabited bottom land to a depth of 10 feet. Troops and Red Cross Busy. In addition to about 200 National Guardsmen, six Red Cross disaster workers were on duty today in vari- | ous parts of the flood area between Massillon, in the north-central part of the State, and Marietta, where the Muskingum -flows into the Ohio River. Railroad service in the area re- mained virtually at a stand-stil] most roads were impassable, many lines of communication were down, and numerous villages were practi- cally isolated. Hundreds of homes had water 7 feet and more deep run- ning through them Work of rehabilitation was already in progress in areas to the north, where the flood crest has passed, but to the south the waters were still get- ting higher and spreading into pre- viously unflooded sections. PARENTS RECLAIM BRODE BOY’S BODY Victim of Fall Lowered From Peak on Ropes and Taken Down Slopes on Horse. By the Associated Press. MONARCH LAKE, Colo., August <. —From storm - whipped Lindbergh Peak, where he fell to death Tuesday the broken body of Willlam Brode. 15, son of a distinguished Southern family, was borne down treacherous trails on a pack horse after dawn lighted the mountains today. Weary searchers conquered storms and slippery trails and at the bottom of the peril-studded descent brought the boy's body to his parents, Mr and Mrs. Julien Brode, of Memphis Tenn. Shaken by a hazardous airplane flight into this glacier-scarred lanc of pinnacles yesterday, the parents quietly planned to send the body to Memphis. The Brodes arrived just as Baker Armstrong, of Houston, Tex., discov- ered the body in a granite crev near the summit of the two-mile-high peak. With the 50-hour quest among the crags ended, searchers lowered the body by ropes 1,000 feet from one perilous ledge to another and placed it on the pack horse. {NEW TYPHOON CARRIES HEAVY TOLL IN CHINA 200 Americans and Europeans Marooned in Kuliang Mountain Area. By the Associated Press. FOOCHOW, China, August 9.—An- other typhoon, sweeping torrential rains before it up the Min River Val- ley and exacting a heavy toll of life and property, marooned 200 Ameri- cans and Europeans in the Kuliang Mountains yesterday. It was the third such storm to at- tack this area in recent days. Fukien Province and the South China Coast suffered most. The stranded Occidentals were Summering in the hills 10 miles west of Foochow. Heavy damage from wind and water was reported at the American Meth- odist properties in Sienyu, 100 miles to the south. LABOR DISPUTE CLOSES ARKANSAS LUMBER MILL State Rangers Called to Plant at Crossett—Crowd Awaits De- velopments on Streets. By the Associated Press CROSSETT, Ark., August 9.—Sheriff | John C. Riley of Ashley County, an- | nounced today the plans of the Crossett Lumber Co., one of the largest lupber mills in the South, had closed tempo- rarily as a result of a labor dispute which brought State rangers to the mill last night. ‘The town was quiet when the mill failed to open as usual today, but a crowd estimated by the sheriff at “about 1,000” stood on the streets during the night and in the early hours of the morning, apparently awaiting developments on the heels of a threatened walkout yesterday. ‘Those who walked out yesterday, variously estimated at from 50 to 200, picketed the plant today. There was no disturbance. FLIGHT CUT SHORT Briton Halts in Cairo on Cape Town Quest for Record. CAIRO, Egypt, August 9 (#).—The British aviator Tom Campbell-Black abandoned today his attempt to set a record on a flight from Hatfleld Air- drome, England, to Cape Town. He landed here on & scheduled stap for refueling and found that one en- gine needed overhauling.