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THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MOXDAY, AUGUST 12, 1935. " A—2 wa¥ —_— . U. 5. DEFICIT GAINS DESPITE WIDER TAX Present Measure = Raises Just Enough to Pay Bills of Last 38 Days. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Soak the rich and soak the poor, and still only $500,000,000 of addi- tional revenue is raised, barely enough to pay the total deficits of the Fed- eral Government for the last 38 days—this is the story of the income tax bill just reported by the Senate Finance Committee. If there were any more eloquent What’s What Behind News In Capital Roosevelt Rounding Up Prodigals and Repair- ing State Fences. BY PAUL MALLON RESIDENT ROOSEVELT has Jately given some private at- tention to a disturbing condi- tion within his party organ- ization. This is supposed to be the inside explanation why the long-lost prodi- gal Senator McAdoo was invited to the White House alone for lunch way to hammer home the meaning of the gigantic adventure in spendingj public money embarked upon by the New Deal, members of the Senate op- | position have not yet discovered it. | In fact, it begins to look as if Mr. | Roosevelt might wish he never men- | tioned the subject of taxation at this | time. From a political viewpoint it | would have been wiser to postpone the | new tax bills till next January and | then make them effective in March, | 1937, after the presidential election | had been held and thus permit the | campaign to be waged without having the voters feel the pinch of taxation. | Whole Measure May Die. | But the Senate Finance Committee | measure is not what the administra- tion wants, and it is unlike the House bill, with its inheritance tax feature The problem presented by what the Senate Finance Committee has done | is so complicated that it would not be | surprising if the whole tax measure died in conference and Congress ad- Jjourned without doing anything at all to increase taxes. This would be very sensible procedure anyway, because no tax bill can be written and made real- ly effective from a revenue-raising standpoint if it is attempted in the haste that has governed the commit- tee meetings of the House and Senate since Mr. Roosevelt last month tossed | the tax at Congress. There ought to be. of course, a comprehensive tax measure, because the need for a balanced budget some time in the next two or three years is more than ever apparent now, as the borrowings reach an all-time high in the history of the republic. A well- | balanced bill, however, that gets large | Tevenue returns, cannot be drawn | without more time. If Congress ad- Journed now and came back in No- vember with its recommendations, there would still be time enough to Pt the new rates into effect in 1936 to affect incomes of the calendar year 1935 | But the painful truth which any | tax bill written now will emphasize | is that there simply are not enough tax revenues to balance budgets run- ning to 10 and 11 billion dollars a year, and that the only way to get a balanced budget is to cut expenses drastically. The administration does not want to eut expenses at present, with an elec- tion coming on. It fears the vote of those who would have financial bene- fits taken away. It fears, too, the ill- feeling that must arise when the vot- sums raised are mere drops in the | bucket, and that the budget even thereafter will continue unbalanced Just the same. Anybody examining the tax rates Just submitted by the Senate Commit- tee on Finance will find that they cut deeper than any tax bill the Govern- ment has ever had and that the im- | position of surtaxes to begin with $3.000-a-vear incomes is going to af- | fect a large number of voters, to say nothing of the increased number of | persons who will be added to the Fed- | seral tax list when the exemption mark Boes down, as it does in some cases in | the Senate bill. to incomes of $800 a year for an unmarried person. It used to be at $1,000. Married persons | have been exempt if their incomes | were $2.500 a year or less, but now | more may have to pay taxes, as the | Proposed exemption will stop at $2,000 | & year. | 3 Adjournment in Danger. | What will the final bill contain? | The question is very difficult to an. | &wer. Thus the House bill contains inheritance taxes, but increases the :!u on total estates of persons who e. The passage, however, by the Sen- #te this week of a bill different from that of the House seems a foregone | “conclusion, Rewriting the bill in €onference committee of both houses | @lso seems inevitable. This may mean 4wo weeks of discussion, all of which Mould delay adjournment, to attain which happy event there is at present ' & genuine drive. 1 “ President Roosevelt probably did Mot intend in the first instance to dave tax legislation this session. But Benator La Follette and his group dnsisted, and by doing so put Mr. Boosevelt in the awkward position of having to back down publicly on his ©own recommendations or insist on a $ax bill now. So, when the Senate has acted, the promise or assurance Miven Mr. La Follette that there | ‘would be action at this session by the | AHouse and Senate will have been ful- dlled. Mr. Roosevelt then will not e to blame if the measure dies in fonference between the two houses, = As for the millions of persons to be | effected by the unscientific rear- | rsnglfment of surtaxes, especially on | small incomes, they, too, would not | be disturbed if the tax bill went ove: till business were a bit better. And it is rapidly improving. (Copyright. 1985.) PRESIDENT DISCUSSES ADJOURNMENT PLANS | Goal Set as August 20 May Be Exceeded by Several Weeks, Leaders Believe. By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt and Speaker Byrns had a chance at a White House luncheon today to go over the legisla- tive situation with a view to early adjournment. While August 20 remains the goal, the best estimate of those who inade & week-end survey was that at least two more weeks will be required. This was the judgment in Senate | quarters. | el . SIAMESE PRINCE DIES BANGKOK, Siam, August 12 (#).— Frince Anuvatana. chatrman of the Tegency council administering state affairs for 11-year-old King Ananda. uled today, ' Anuvatana, the most elderly mem- Ler of the council, was a cousin of former King Prajodhipok, who abdi- ceted his throne last March. He served as the former ruler’s privatz secretary and was aide de camp to former Queen Btmhlh'nml the other day. It is said that Postmaster General Farley, or his Western scouting trip, again came across the bad situation existing within the California organ- | ization. He tipped the White House and Mr. McAdoo was called in for | consultation, in preparation for the President’s September trip into the land of sunshine eternal, except when it rains. Similarly. the President made at least a half-way step some weeks eailier to welcome wayward Gov. Tal- madge of Georgia back into the fold. Rounding Up Prodigals. While these are the only two notice- able gestures so far, it is not a very deep secret that Mr. Roosevelt is start- g on a round-up of party prodigals in preparation for the ‘36 campaign. Democratic high commanders real- ize they have permitted their rela- tions with State organizations to de- teriorate alarmingly. There is, for instance, the situation of the Democratic Governor of Ohio, who, it is whispered, might put two or three candidates into the presi- dential primary out there. Also a bad condition in Iowa, where indictments and graft charges have caused an upheaval. The Louistana situation is. of course, considered beyond repair. In many another State, however, the mnational headquarters has reason to doubt the efiiciency of its State organizations. A national spokesman here called the State contact man in Rhode Island on the telephone a week or so before the recent election and asked if there was anything the national organization could do to help up there. The answer was “No. No. Everything is fine.” It seems to be half settled at the White House that President Roosevelt | will go to the Coast by the Southern route. Also that .he may return through the Panama Canal. Thus the ! Ohio, Iowa and other darger zones would be avoided until some prelimi- he is slipping. This curtails radically the political speech-making possibilities of the trip. the hand for Senator Robinson in ' Arkansas and a lot of good publicity ! for th> Roosevelt-Garner ticket from a stop at the Vice President’s home in Uvalde, Tex. Note—The strategists now consider Senator Harrison as good as re- elected in Mississippl. He does not need any help. Mint Opposed Coins. It may never get out officially. but the office of the director of the mint did not care very much for Treasury Secretary Morgenthau's idea about oining doughnut half-pennies and Instead there will be a wave of | INCOMESINU . JUMP 3 BILLION Commerce Department Es- timate Covers All Phases of National Income. ‘The American people enjoyed an income raise of $5,000,000,000 in 1934 over the previous year, with a large part of the total income going to labor. This was estimated by the Com- merce Department, in a survey of all phases of national income, showing that the total 1934 figure was $49,440,- 000,000, the highest since the $61,433,- 000,000 in 1931, and compared with the 1929 boom year peak of $78,576,- 000,000. Out of the total 1934 income, labor got $33.109,000,000, or 67 per cent, as compared with 65 per cent in 1929. The figure of $1,394,000,000 in relief wages was responsible for 2.8 per cent of the 67. so that regularly employed labor received 64.2 per cent. The relief wages included those paid by the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Civil Wotks Administration, emer- gency relief projects and adminis- trative pay rolls. But $302,000,000 | paid out by the Public Works Admin- istration was grouped ufder the con- struction industry. | Highest Since 1931. Labor's income of more than $33.000,000,000 was highest since its| 1931 figure of $39.444,000,000 and | compared with $51,088,000,000 in peak | 1929. | “While income paid out declined 43 per cent from 1929 to 1933." said lht‘ report, “the Bureau of Labor Statistics indexes of the cost of living and of | wholesale prices decreased 23 per cenH’ and 31 per cent, respectively. The net | decline from 1929 to 1934 in income paid out was 37 per cent, pared with a decrease of 20 per cent | in the cost of living and 21 per cent | in the level of wholesale prices. * * * | “The 1933 to 1934 changes tended | to reduce the disparity of the trends | 1 | 1929, labor income declined 43 per | cent by 1933 and increased 14 per cent from 1933 to 1934, while property income fell off 40 per cent by 1933 and | increased only 2 per cent in 1934. l “Exclusive of work relief payments, labor income increased 11 per cent g Lytle, Sioux City contractor impli- | from 1933 to 1934." | With the exception of electric light and power, the report said the income | paid out by each major industrial group increased in 1934, Of agri- culture it said: “Income paid out in 1934 to the agriculture industry increased 10 per | cent, but there is evidence of a much larger increase in the total income produced than in the income paid out in this industry in 1934. * * * There is | evidence also to indicate that large business losses shown in 1932 for the agriculture industry have been elimi- nated and that business savings oc- curred in 1934." In dollars the report put agricul- ture's income at $3,299.000.000 for 1934, compared with $2.993.000.000 in 1933 and $6,157,000,000 in 1929. “Available data,” the report con- | tinued, “indicate a marked decline in both 1933 and 1934 in business losses, | which in 1932 equaled aproximately | $10,000,000,000. * * * A tabulated sample of published corporation re- | ports showed business losses in 1933 were less than half of the 1932 total and in 1934 were further reduced to a point between one-fourth and one- | fifth of the 1932 figures.” Small Business Prospers. Aside from labor, the next largest share of the national income went to , owners and partners of unincorporat- | ed businesses, professional persons and | other self-employed persons. This de- | clined 41 per cent from 1929 to 1933, | ! but increased 10 per cent from 1933 to 1934. In 1934 payments to this class were $8,103.000,000, compared | | with $12,424,000,000 in 1929. Their | proportionate share gained from 15.8 as com- | - square mills. A confidential report to | Per cent in 1929 to 16.4 per cent in that effect is supposed to have been submitted to him, officially or unoffi- | cially. The objection was based on me- chanical obstacles. machine system would have to be es- tablished to make the new coins. This may be one reason why the Treasury was not very anxious to have hearings on its proposed bill. Another was that hearings would give the bankers an opportunity to show what co~iplications the new fractional coins would add to their business. Even so, the bill might have gone through Congress without trouble ex- cept that it was so vaguely drawn that it gave the Treasury powers be- yond those strictly needed for the coinage of doughnuts. ‘The recluse of the cabinet is Labor Secretary Perkins. She is so averse to publicity that her own Democratic publicity organization is unable to get anything out of her. Recently the ‘women'’s division of the National Com- mittee decided that the Labor Secre- tary was getting the worst publicity of any cabinet member. It schemed to build her up quietly. To eflect that purpose three dif- ferent attempts were made to get information about her home and her life. Each application was turned down by her secretary, even the one that came from the official Democratic magazine of the na- tional committee. This establishes a new record for political shyness among putilic officials. Usually they are willing to pay for such advertising. What President Roosevelt’s oil mes- sage to Congress meant was that the States will be given an opportunity to work out production control, if they can. The oll crowd within the New Deal is not very enthusiastic about the State compacts, but had no other ideas. That explains why Mr. Roose- velt's message was 50 short, in fact, the shortest he has sent to Congress this session. Underlying skepticism seems to be based on the fact that the pacts are gentlemen's agreements and there seems to be some question whether every one in that industry is a gen- tleman. (Copyright. 1935.) Officer Eats Cereal by Case. KANSAS CITY, Kans, August 12 () ~Police Capt. Stanley Beatty likes one certain cereal and one certain cafe where he eats breakfast. Recently the latter was out of the: former, so the captain ordered 10 cases delivered to the cafe. “Don’t worry about it” mot being eaten,” he told the wr'hm. A new minting | | anticipated, 11934, Salaries in mining, manufacturing, | | construction and water and rail trans- | portation were less, proportionately, | in 1934 than 1929. They were 6.5 per | cent of the Nation’s total income last | | year, as compared to 7.2 per cent in 1929 The proportions going as wages | to workers in these industries fell from | 219 per cent in 1929 to 18.1 in 1934. | Dividends fell from 7.6 per cent of | the national income in 1929 to 4.6 in | 1933, but rose slightly to 4.7 in 1934, | 'COOLER WEATHER PROMISED CAPITAL! Showers Expected Tomorrow Aft- ernoon—92-Degree Tempera- ture Seen Today. Today promised to be hotter, but | less humid than yesterday, but to- night will be warm and there s little hope of relief from the current hot weather before tomorrow afternoon or night. The Weather Bureau expected a | maximum temperature close to 92 | degrees today, which would be 6 de- gress hotter than yesterday's top, but | the official humidity reading at 8 ]n,m, today was 2 points below yester- | day morning. That, however, was | higher than usual. | Bunday's high mark was 86 de- | | grees recorded at 3 p.m. The coolest | recording in the past 2+ hours was 69 degrees at 6 o'clock this morning. Humidity readings are taken only twice daily, at 8 am. and 8 p.m. Yesierday the recordings dropped from 93 to 75, and this morning at 8 o'clock was back up to 91. Local showers are expected tomor- row. While no general rainfall is the bureau said, the weather in the entire District area should become cooler either in the afternoon or night. Senate: Debates Walsh bill to impose labor standards on Government contract- ors. Finance Committee works on tax bill. House: Works on minor bills. TOMORROW. House: Considers special rules. | Foreign Relations Committee meets at 10:30 am. to consider Rio Grande Canal bill. TOMORROW. Debate on two Federal alcohol bills. Civil Service Committee, executive, employes. onluvouuleruofnm& IOWA GRAFT RING PROBE LAUNCHED Special Attorney General Begins Inquiry in Charges Against 42. By the Associated Press. SIOUX CITY, Iowa, August 12.— Maurice J. Breen, special attorney general's assistant, launched an in- quiry today into the investigation by a grand jury that has returned 18 indictments containing 72 counts charging graft against 41 persons. Meanwhile, continued illiness of District Judge W. W. Scott of Daven- port further delayed the ouster trial of W. D. Hayes, suspended Sioux City mayor whose removal was recom- mended by the special jury. Jury te Get Findings. Attorney General Edward L. O'Con- nor, himself indicted by the grand jury, appointed Green on approval of the State Exccutive Council and at the behest of Sioux City petitioners, who, contended that grand jury testi- mony had been “purchased and per- jured.” Breen's findings will be laid before the next Woodbury County grand jury, which convenes in September. The special grand jury will recon- vene a week from today. Most of its indictments involved charges to pro- mote State-wide gambling and a slot machine monopoly under offical pro- tection. Its investigatic reached into the State House at Des Moines, with the indictment of O'Connor and his first assistant, Walter — Maley. Accused of Failure to Act. The removal action against Hayes was based on charges that the former r yor knew of but failed to act against alleged vice and graft within his administration. Hayes countered with charges that contractors, surety companies, Special Prosecut - H. M. Havner, former Re- publican attorney general, and Verne or the earller period. ~Relative t0| parenall, Cedar Rapids, editor, had ! formed a “conspiracy” to remove him from office. Hayes charged the pur- pose was to obtain advAntageous set- timent of paving fraud suits he had instituted. Marshall called Hayes a “liar.” C. cated in the charges, “ridiculous.” Security called them (Continued Prom Pirst Page) maximum as a reward for stabilizing employment in his establishment. Establishment of the employers' pay roll tax gradually, at 1 per cent in 1936, 2 per cent in 1937 and 3 per cent thereafter, instead of applying the maximum 3 per cent rate imme- diatefy. The national bill and the State laws already enacted apply the tax gradually. Other Points at Issue. Other essential features remaining to be settled are: ‘What number of employes should be fixed as the rule for deciding whether an employer is subject to the law? The House bill fixes it at four. In the national bill the House contended for four, and the Senate for 10. As finally agreed in conference, the na- tional bill would recognize any State law that fixed eight as the number, but States are free to go lower. How many weeks of benefit pay- ments to an unemployed worker should be allowed annually? The Elleabogen bill allows 26 weeks, whereas State laws thus far enacted have approxi- mated 15 or 16 weeks. This question is tied in with the House provision levying a tax on the District Govern- ment to supplement the employer's tax, and to provide the longer period | of weekly benefit payments. None of the States, however, has imposed a State tax up to this time. The House bill was drafted with the idea of developing a so-called model plan to be studied by the rest of the country. The Commissioners have ob- jected strenuously to making the Dis- trict an experimental laboratory in this field of comparatively new legis- lation. They argue that since Wash- ington is not a large industrial center it is not typical of areas where the | greatest unemployment problems are likely to arise. They also have urged the Senate not to require the District | go further at the outset than the | States. 2 Bill Limits Are Fixed. The House bill would apply to per diem workers in the District goverA- ment, but would not apply to other employes of the District or Federal | governments. Members of the Senate Committee already have made known that they | will change the bill to apply the pay roll tax gradually here as elsewhere. Senator King has said he is de- sirous of having the bill conform as nearly as possible to the wishes of the District. Other members of the committee who have given special study to the subject, are Senators Copeland of New York and Capper of Kansas. The House bill would allow the board to raise the employer's tax as (high as 5 per cent after 1940 if he had a poor record for keeping men at work regularly, and in the House committee it was intended to allow a reduction from the normal 3 per cent rate to 1'; per cent to an em- ployer who stabilizes work. At that time, however, the national bill made no provision for lowering of taxes and the House struck out the reduction feature of the Ellenbogen measure, Before the national passed, however, the conferees adopted a provision permitting tax reduction credits, and also left States free to adopt the separate company reserve method of handling unemployment in- surance if they prefer that to the State-wide pool system. The Ellen- bogen bill is based on a pool system. Deductions Autherized. © What the national bill does is to levy a Federal pay roll tax on em- | ployers and then allow employers to deduct from that tax 90 per cent of any similar tax imposed by local law. The balance kept by the Federal Gov- ernment is to offset the cost of grants to be made by the Government to | help States meet the administrative cost of operating unemployment in- surance plans. If local old-age and blind pension bills are enacted, the Federal Govern- ment will match local pension pay- ments up to $15 a month. In other words, it will pay half of a $30 pen- sion. ‘The Senate committee on Wednes- day also may act on several other House bills, including a- series of in the law governing jury service, 10 pending amendments to the liquor control act and the pro- posed semi-annual mechanical inspec- tion of '““'i"“"* Camera Stops Flying Torpedo be invited to inspect their navy. By the Associated Press. Hope that the budget will be bal- anced next year was expressed today | by the one Democratic member of Congress who has more to do with | the budget than any otner legis- | lator. Already this session, with one other money bill yet to pass, Con- # gress has appro- priated $8.153- 000,000-—twice as much as the or- dinary budget. A total of $4.880.- 1000,000 of that % was in the big work-relief fund. Looking over the session, Chairman Buchanan, Democrat, of Texas of the House Ap- propriations Committee, which starts all appropriations bills through Con- gress, remarked: “I think there's a good chance of a balanced budget next session.” Question About Relief. Asked about reports that $2.000.000,- 000 would be asked next session for ANNAPOLIS STORE NEAR-RIOT HALTED A torpedo is caught by the camera in midair as it starts on its whizzing journey from the tubes of the British H. M. 8. Comet at Chatham, England, during rehearsals for Navy week, when thé English populace will Buchanan Sees Balanced Budget And End of Relief Next Year relief, which might throw the budget out of balance again, Buchanan re- plied: | “Asking for that and getting it are two different things. Of course, I think we could scrape up $1.750,000,- 000 or $2,000,000,000 and still have a balanced budget. | “I figure that the country has re- covered so much that we won't have to spend s0 much next year and that | we can stop lending and begin to col- | lect some of the loans we've made. Our income is increasing, too, of course, but I'm not figuring that in on the budget balancing.” ‘The last bill put through by Con- gress, the second deficlency measure, appropriated $272,901,000 against | budget estimates of $399.449,000. Predicts Economical Government. “That was the first step toward real economy and retrenchment on ex- penditures, and if the House will back up the Committee on Appropriations we will have an economical govern- | ment from now on.” Buchanan said. | He insisted, though, that “we can't balance the budget until we get folks off relief.” “I'm hopeful that they'll all be put te work and taken off relief soon,” Buchanan continued. BORAH FAVORITE ‘ INPOLLOFG.0.P. —A. METHODIST UNITY PARLEY O OPEN P. Photo. | 1 i Session at Evanston Mayj | Lead Way to Joining | ‘ of Forces. 1 By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 12.—Seventeen years of work by a small handful of men may culminate this week in the | unification of more than 8,000,000 | people into one denomination of American Methodism Representatives of the three branches of Methodism now existant will as- semble tomorrow in suburban Evanston for a three-day conference. in which it appears, so state those close to the negotiations, that a plan acceptable to all three groups may be ratified. Even ratification of such a plan by delegates from the Methodist Episco- pal Church North, the Methodist Episcopal Church South and the Methodist Protestant Church would | not necessarily mean consummation of the amalgamation of the three units until perhaps 1944. | That date would mark the centen- | nial of the schism of the north and | south branches of the church, caused | in 1844 over the question of slavery The Methodist Protestant Church seceded from the mother church in 1828 over the question of lay rep- resentation. It was in Evanston 17 years ago that the first steps toward the restora- | tion of the Methodist church to a | single unit were taken, |Grocery Official Beaten as:Hoover IS Sixth in Replies yoeimtsimmtaneane o impube He Discharges Managers and Clerks. | Secial Dispatea to The Star. | ANNAPOLIS, August 12.—Dismissal | of several chain store managers and | clerks here Saturday night led to a | nearly riotous disturbance when G. to Questionnaire by Lucas. Results of & poll of county and local | Republican leaders ranking Senator Willlam E. Borah. insurgent Repub- lican, of Idaho, as the leading choice for the 1938 Republican presidential | ual members of the three branches of | | Methodism, the original of the com- | mission that will convene again to- | | morrow in Evanston, began looking toward unification. Dean James A. James, one of the members of that first conference and currently a member of the commission as representative of the Methodist A A A CASESNEAR - THOUSAND MARK Administration Prays for Supreme Court to Meet and Decide Question. By the Associated Press. The A. A. A. today prayed for the Sapreme Court to convene and clear the problem of its constitutionality 8s the number of legal assaults on the adjustment act neared the 1,000 mark. Led by wheat millers, cotton gin- ners and meat packers, processors of every “basic commodity” have joined the fray. The Justice Department, harassed by every weapon in the processors’ armory of legal cases and precedents, has thrown shock troops—lawyers from {its Washington tax division— into the fight, which has invaded dis- trict courts throughout the country. Cases Pass 900 Mark. With a Supreme Court test still months away, the total of A. A. A suits has already risen past the 900 mark. Most of the attacks have sought to stop the Government from col- lecting the tax unmtil the Supreme Court decides the constitutionality of A.'A. A. The taxes are levied on manufacturers and other “processors” to finance benefit payments to farmers in the New Deal’s crop-control pro- gram. Senate-House conferees seeking to straighten out differences between the two houses on the pending A. A. A. amendments reached a new agreement over the week end, which they hope will prevent a fight in the Senate, Senate Changed Bill. Originally, the House voted the ad- ministration plan to bar all suits to recover processing taxes. The Senate changed that to let processors sue if they could show they had not passed the taxes on to consumer or producer. At first the Senate-House conferees decided to require processors to file claims with the collector of internal revenue, whose findings would not be reviewable by the courts, except in case of error. The new agreement says the commissioner’s findings shall not be final, but merely a report on the case. Senator Borah, Republican, of Idaho, who had attacked the first conference agreement as “nullifica- tion” of the Senate amendment, said the new one was 4 “decided improve- ment,” but he reserved judgment until he studied it. The number of pending suits against the taxes has decreased col- lections. June processing taxes, col- lected in July. represented a decrease of $11,000,000 from the May total and a greater drop in July taxes is indicated. ROOSEVELT F;ETURNS AFTER CRUISE ON BAY Senators Say There Was No Spe- cific Discussion of Legislation on Trip. By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt was back in the Paul Gunby of Mafion was knocked | nomination, with former President bill finally | | down and beaten by angry persons in | the American Store on West street. Gunby, assistant superintendent of | groceries of the American Stores, Inc., has headquarters in Baltimore. He | entered the West street store shortly Gordon Noble, manager of the store, and Willlam Thompson, clerk, that they were discharged. According to witnesses Noble asked: “Why are you firing us? Haven't we | done our duties satisfactorily?” It was reported that Gunby replied: | “We have found that Annapolis men | he began to say something about | bringing Baltimore men here to ope- | rate the stores, several persons grabbed him and he fell under a barrage of blows. toward the door but some one threw the door shut and locked it. He got to his feet and was hammered again by half a dozen people in the store. Police Commissioner Arrives. As a crowd gathered outside, Police | Commissioner Thomas G rivéd. Gunby, bleeding slightly, was Commissioner Basil gained entrance, Within a few minutes the crowd out- side had mounted to more than 700 Fersons As some in the crowi were heard to shout, “Let's crack the windows and throw everything into the street,” Commissioner Basil and Patrolmen Walter Musterman and Moreland es- corted Gunby to his automobile near- by. All the tires were flat. Pclice kept the crowd back as the car was finally backed tc a garage, where it was discovered that the tires | would not hold air. Gunby Boards Train. venson of Linthicum Heights, another American Stores emp!oy2, to the W. B. & A. short line station. Many per- sons trailed the men to the train, but Gunby boarded it, leaving his automo- bile behind. | It was nearly two hours after the disturbance that the crowd finally dis- morning. Today there was no signs of picketing and it was reported that Jack Sappington of Glen Burnie would become manager of ithe store. Noble said that he and Thompson were discharged “without reason and without even a week’s extra pay.” It was reported that Aubrey Bullen of Weems Creek, a clerk at a Main street store, was dismissed, as was Benja- min Woods, manager of the Eastport American store. Denton R Zepp, man- ager of one of the Main street stores, stated he had resigned. |3 HANGINGS IN DAY SCHEDULED IN MISSOURI Sheriff in One County Moves Up Execution to Avoid Conflict With Neighbors. By the Associated Press. KENNETT, Mo., August 12.—Sherift Tom Danoldson has made it possible for Southeastern Missouri officials to see three hangings in one day. Two men, Roy E. Hamilton and Eddie Gayman, are to die for murder at New Madrid at 6 o'clock Friday morning. C. D. Ward, colored, con- victed of criminal assault, was to be hanged at the same time here. The sheriff, .however, moved the time forward to 8 o’clock, and officials, after viewing the double hanging at New Madrid, will be able to drive 40 miles here and see their third execu- | after 10 p.m. Saturday and notified | don’t produce in these jobs,” and as| Gunby is said to have crawled | Basil ar-| pleading with his adversaries when | Commissioner Basil then sent an | | escort with Gunby and Edward Ste- | persed in the early nours of sund-y' Hoover in sixth place, were added last night to the fire of political discussion which blazed up in Washington over the week end. The poll, compiled by Robert H. Lucas, former executive director of the Republican National Committee. acting on his own initiative, was made public while many members of both parties were viewing as a bid for the 1936 Republican nomination Mr Hoover's challenge to President Roose- velt to disclose his intentions with respect to amendment of the Consti- tution. Opinion of Parly Leaders. Mr. Lucas explained that his poll was a tabulation of replies he had received in response to a request for expressions of sentiment by local party leaders on the 1936 nominee. The tabulation follows: | 1st 2nd Che. Che. Senator William E. Borah of Idaho Senator L. Towa Representative Hamilton Fish, jr.. of New York __. Herbert Hoover Col. Frank Knox, publisher of the Chicago Daily News | Gov. Alfred M. Landon of Kansas Ex-Gov. Frank O. of Illinois = | Ogden L. Mills, ex-Secretary | of Treasury ... | Theodore Roosevelt, former Assistant Secretary of the Navy Senator Arthur H. Vanden- | burg of Michigan | Representative James ‘Wadsworth, ex-Senator of | | | 247 121 55 18 106 Lowden 47 66 108 30 152 1,565 Replies Received. The request for expressions, Mr. Lucas announced, was sent by him several weeks ago to 2,400 county chairmen, 300 city leaders and 500 “young Republicans” in all States ex- cept Georgia and Mississippl. Replies, he said, had been received from 1,565 pected. The replies on which he based his tabulation, he added, repre- sented expressions from 1,036 counties out of about 2,600 canvassed. Many. he observed, reported divided senti- ment. In addition to his request for ex- pressions as to presidential prefer- ences, Mr. Lucas disclosed that he had included in his letters to the county and local leaders a demand for the “ousting of Charles D. Hilles and J. P. Morgan & Co. from control of the national committee.” Commenting on the preference re- plies, he re:narked that several Re- publican leaders had suggested Col. Charles A. Lindbergh as a candidate, apparently unmindfu’ that he would be too young to take office if elected, having been born February 4, 1902. Other suggested additions to Mr. Lucas’ .st were former Gov. John G. Winant of New Hampshire, former Gov. Henry S. Canfield of Missouri, Repres® ative-elect Charles F. Risk of Rhode Island, Gov. Frank P Mer- riman of California and former Sen- ator Otis Glenn of Illinois. — 14 Italian Miners Drown. GROSSOTO, Italy, August 12 (#).— Fourteen miners were drowned today in the lignite mines in the''nearby town of Ribolla when a subterranean torrent suddenly flooded the excava- tions. e Engineers were draining the pit in an !flu‘h recover the bodies. Episcopal Church North, said that' White House this morning after & should such ratification take place week end cruise about Chesapeake | it would be years before the plan|Eay with Relief Administrator Harry {would take effect. First, he said, it | Hopkins, a senatorial group and John would be necessary to lay the com- | Roosevelt, his youngest son, who has mission’s findings and final plan be- spent most of the Summer on a fore general conferences of the tiree “Working” vacation in the Tennessce churches. The Methodist Episcopal Valley. Church South does not have a general _ Senators Barkley, conference until 1937, Kentucky and Byrnes, Democrat, of He agreed that should “inter- South Carolina, the congressional denominational comity” be effected at members of the party, said there was the Evanston conference that the date’ DO Specific discussion of programs in- of 1944, marking the anniversary of Volved in the adjournment jam and the largest schism within the church, indicated their view that a couple of would be a likely one for the fina]l more weeks would be required to clear pending administration legislation. Democrat, of | consummation of the merger. | Bishop Edwin D. Mouzon, Charlotte, | N. C, of the Southern church: Bishop ‘Wfllllm F. McDowell, Washington, D. C, of the Northern church, and Rev. Dr. J. C. Bloomfield, Pittsburgh, of the Methodist Protestant Church. are respectively chairmen of their delegations to the Evanston con- ference, \ {GROU SE SEASON OPENS * | TO ECHO OF 10,000 GUNS | | Unseasonable Weather Caused Shortage of Birds for Britain's Big Social Event. | By the Associated Press. | LONDON, August 1Z—Ten thou- sand guns echoed over the Scottish | moors today to greet a significant day | In social Britain—the opening of the | grouse season. Enthusiastic as the grouse shooters ‘ere. however, they are face to face with the truth that the season will be & poor one. Unseasonable weather | bas caused a shortage of grouse. For a week, all visiting Americans | and others who could afford to lease | an estate or obtain an invitation from friends headed northward for one of the most distinctive features of the | British social year. | Simultaneously thousands of Scots | | prepared their own drive on the birds | before the title guests, who make the and several hundred more were ex- | month's shooting a fashionable and | in advices from Addis sporting event. J. P. Morgan is prominent among the scores of Americans participating in the sport. United States Ambas- sador Robert W. Bingham, now in America, has been a familiar figure at the opening for 20 years. King George is now at Cowes, but | will join the grouse hunters later. WOMAN, DISPOSSESSED, SLEEPS ON DOORSTEP| | Police Say She Must Move Furni- ture From Street Today, However. By the Associated Press. OAKLAND, Calif., August 12,.—Mrs. | Marie Rita Savage, 55-year-old Oak- land needleworker, slept for the third | straight night on the doorstep of the | home from which she was evicted by court order last Friday. | On the sidewalk and in the street | her furniture was piled, bedecked with | red lanterns placed there by traffic po- lice. “My dispossession was nothing but persecution,” Mrs. Savage said in- dignantly. Police warned her to move her furniture today. The eviction order was granted after | | officers of an Oakland bank claimed Mrs. Savage had been delinquent in Has ‘ BERLIN’S SISTER BURIED NEW YORK. August 12 4#)—Irving Berlin, the song writer, attended fu- neral services yesterday for his sister Mrs. Sarah Henkin, who leaped to her death last Priday from the roof | of her Brooklyn apartment Berlin flew here from Hollywood Saturday and planned to return today to rejoin his wife, the former Ellin Mackay. Ethiopia (Continued From Pirst Page) Italy and Great Britain—beginning Thursday—Haile Selassie referred to them as “the meeting to which we have not been invited.” “Although it is impossible to fore- tell the result of this meeting” he added, “the end of the rainy season is approaching. Despite all the means being employed to find a peaceful solution of the conflict, Italy con- tinues unceasingly to send troops and war materials to her two adjoining colonfes.” Between France, Land Offer Reported. PARIS. August 12 (#).—The Havas (French) news agency reported today Ababa that Emperor Haile Selassie was willing to make concessions to settle the Italo-Ethiopian conflict. | The Emperor is ready, dispatches said, to cede a section of the empire in return for an outlet to the sea and financial aid. The Emperor told interviewers that Ethiopia has always been anxious to develop its resources and loans are necessary to speed up the work of civilization. “But another means of aiding the economic development of the coun- try,” he was quoted, “is to obtain a port for Ethiopia. If it would fulfill our two aspirations we would see no objection to ceding part of Ogaden.” The district of Ogaden is the east- ernmost area of Ethiopia. Its frontier forms the northwestern border of Italian Somaliland and its area is, roughly, about 200 miles square. Smuts Fears Repercussions. DURBAN. Union of South Africa, August 12 ().—Gen. Jan Christian Smuts, minister of finance, said today an Italo-Ethiopian conflict “must have serious repercussions in the Brit- ish territories of Africa such as the Sudan and Egypt.” The former premier, in his first comment on the Italo-Ethiopian dis- | pute, stated: “There is no doubt in my mind .hat the invasion of Ethiopia by Italy would arouse anxious feelings all over Africa pu(mnu on the house since last May. b:t'een blacks and whites.” 4