Evening Star Newspaper, August 17, 1935, Page 2

EATH OF LBERTY VSONEDBY LS Coercion Economic System in Wake of New Deal, Says Ex-Secretary. What’s What Behind News In Capital Morgenthau Adventure in Silverland Perplex- ing to Himself. By the Associated Press. CHAUTAUQUA, N. Y. August 17. =—Ogden Mills, Secretary of the Treas- BY PAUL MALLON. ury under former President Hoover, in a speech today pictured the New Deal as sounding the death knell of indi- | vidual liberty in the country by cre- | ating an all-powerful “economic sys- tem based on coercion.” adventures of Secretary Mor- | genthau and the silver specu- lators have lately become so mystifying that the Treasury Secretary himself is supposed to be perplexed. His agents have noticed that every Mills for the most part confined his | month or so a wild story is started remarks to analysis of the New Deal | mysteriously that he is going to let and told his audience at Chautauqua | the speculators down and not pay Institution that “we find ourselves them good profits on their holdings. confronted with issues that cut so deep | These stories are usually followed im- as to threaten not only the form, but | mediately by confidential news from the spirit of our institutions.” | the “four honest men” in London that He did, however, suggest remedies | they havé a lot of selling orders on for what he described as “the )n-{:hand (The honest four meet at a equalities. defects and weaknesses that | certain time each day and fix the exist.” | price of silver for that day. They are These included reforms in the bank- ing structures and financial practices, encouragement of increased produc- tion. suppression of crime and all un- fair predatory practices, a stable mone- tary system, higher wages and stricter immigration laws. Transformation Seen in U. S. “The Roosevelt policies,” he said “both in their immediate consequences and ultimate implications, mean a revolutionary transformation of our form of government and of our eco- nomic life. When Mr. Roosevelt says he means to establish a new social order, he must mean that America is to abandon its free institutions and its voluntary economic system in favor of an authoritarian government and an economic system based on coercion, on the obedience of the many to the few. There is no other social order to which to turn, and there is no mid- dle ground.” The authoritarian government, the former Treasury head said, “‘means the death of individual liberty.” Taking direct issue with New Deal claims that administration policies were intended to meet emergencies. Mills said he could not accept that explanation as “the determination to push forward even as the emergency wanes” is “to0 obvious to permit any such interpretation.” The New Deal is gaining control he said. over agriculture, industry and the banking system through such leg- islation and agencies as the Agricul- tural Adjustment Administration. the Wagner labor law, the Guffey coal bill and the banking bills. U. S. Held in Business. “In addition, the Federal Govern- ment has gone into business on its own account in competition with pri- vate industries, it has sought directly and indirectly to bring purely local enterprises under its jurisdiction and it has used its mammoth relief fund to bring political pressure on and to weaken the authority of the local and State officials. “The aim is clearly to create an all-powerful central government ex- ercising complete control over the economic life of the Nation through control of credit. control of business, control of labor and control of agri- culture. State and local governments will become mere shadows.” He struck at the President’s dis- tribute-the-wealth program, citing the case of Henry Ford. “From a modest start.” Mills said, “this one man, Ford, has added im- mensely to the national wealth, first through the creation of immense productive establishments, and in the second place, through the annual ad- dition of units of new wealth. That wealth is truly shared, first, by the hundreds of thousands that partici- pate in the progress of its production and, in the second place, by the mil- licns within whose reach he has brought the inestimable boon of low- cost transportation.” SRR S Congress (Continued Prom Fi quarters as likely to lie over until the next session unless controversy sur- rounding it is settled swiftly is the utilities bill. So far, Senate and House conferees have been unable to agree on any compromise on the administration’s proposal for mandatory abolition of certain utility companies, though they will try again Monday. The Senate passed the bill with this clause in it, the House rejected it. Other measures mentioned among those with dubious chances are riv- ers and harbors legislation, extension of Federal control over food and drugs, railroad reorganization, general oil regulation and a measure to set up a hew system of ship subsidies. Conferees of Senate and House gathered today for their first effort fo reconcile the stands of the two chambers on the tax bill passed after the President callec for “distribution of wealth.” Amendment Opposed by Majority. A majority of the House conferees Is against the amendment, offered by Senator Borah, Republican, of Idaho, to apply income taxes to future issues of Government securities. There also Is opposition in the House to the Sen- ate amendment restoring a free mar- ket in this country for silver, These 1ssues are in addition to major differ- ences over the taxes involved. Among those invited to tomorrow night’s conference, beginning at 8:30 o'clock, were: Vice President Gar- her, Speaker Byrns, Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratic leader; Chairman O’Connor of the House Rules Committee, Chairman Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee and Chairman Doughton of the House | ‘Ways and Means Committee. It was indicated by one of the con- fereés that any agreement reached, however, would be subject to possible modification if particular pressure developed for the enactment of any measure. PICKERING HONORED Marshall W. Pickering, chief clerk n the House mnority room. was hon- ored at~a birthday anniversary yester- day n the House Office Building. Pickering has been an emplaye of the House for 27 years. The party was attended by 150 of his friends, including P. S. Millspaugh, assistant general passenger agent of the Lehigh Valley Railroad; Maj. Ernest W. Brown, superintendent of ‘Metropolitan Police; Capt. Milton Smith, W. G. Ladd of lowa; Earl Venable, secretary of the Republican Congressional Committee; Robert Al- corn, president of the Retirement Board for Federal Employes, and Rep- resentatives Engiebright of California, Andresen of Minnesota, Pittinger of Minnesota, Reed of Ilinois, Reed of New York and Blackney of Michigan, A | known to be brokers, but their honesty | is a matter of assumption.) Mr. Morgenthau has tried to be a good fellow with them. As all the world kmows, he is the world’s biggest sucker buyer for them. He always buys but never sells and THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, HOWELL BARRED FROM EXCHANGES Chicago Trader Who Cor- nered Corn in 1931 Must Pay Penalty. By the Associated Press. The Grain Futures Commission to- day barred Thomas M. Howell, mem- ber of the Chicago Board of Trade, from trading privileges in all con- tract markets in the United States beginning September 15. Howell was found guilty of having violated the grain futures act by attempting to manipulate the price of grain and by concealing his trans- actions in the market by making false reports and by failing to report. He was accused of attempting to manipulate the price of corn in violation of the law in the Summer of 1931. Price Boosted 14 Cents. Government attorneys, in a hear- ing before the commission in June, charged that through the purchase | of almost 9,000,000 bushels of July | futures in 1931 Howell caused an in- crease in price of 14 cents a bushel. | The law requires that a trader must ! report to the Grain Futures Admin- istration the purchase of 500,000 or| more bushels of corn in any one| future. has promised not to let the price go down, even though the British quartet makes the market for him, But his agents are supposed to have discovered that the recent depressing | excitement in the market was pre- | ceded by a yarn, apparently planted | in a financial journal, predicting again that he would abandon the silver | policy. Shortly thereafter came news from London that a large number of Indian selling orders were on hand. It is understood that Mr. Morgen- thau's men are trying to find out whether these monkeyshines really originate in London or in the United States, and who is the monkey. Policy to Continue. Note—No one here believes the ad- ministration can or will drop the sil- ver policy until after the election next vear, no matter how much some of its economists would like to. President Roosevelt's breakfast ap- petite is reported to have been scanty lately. What generally ruins nis morning meal is a newspaper headline recounting the antics of Congressman | O'Connor, who turned the Hopson | utilities chase into an opera bouffe. White House attaches say the President does not particularly mind having his leaders, like Rules Chairman O'Connor, fight- ing against him on principle. But what scalds his composure in this case is a recollection of some aggravating personal relations. As all news readers know, Mr. O'Connor’s brother Basil received a $25,000 attorney fee from utility peo- ple, who now agree it was the best ! money they ever spent. Also, readers must know that this same Basil O’Connor formerly was the law part- ner of the President himself. What they may not know is that Mr. Roosevelt once wrote a letter to | | | | almost 9,000,000 bushels. | troduce | efforts by Purchase of 5,000,000 or more bush- | els, officials said, would result in an investigation by the Business Couduct | Committee of the Chicago Board of Trade. Market Corner Charged. Attorneys contended Howell bought under his own name a total of 4,995,- 000 bushels of July futures, and| through accounts in the names of | members of his family and friends! purchased amounts of less than 500,- 000 bushels until his holdings totaled This, it was said, gave Howell a| corner on the market. e PITTMAN TO PRESS crowds in New York received word of the tragedy. SILVER INQUIRY | Senator Promises Early Start of Probe Into Government Buying Policy. By the Associated Press Senator Pittman, Democrat. of Ne- vada indicated today that an inquiry. ordered by the Senate. into the effects of the Government's silver-buying }pflllt_\', would begin shortly. e inquiry, he said. would study } the effect on imports and exports, do- | mestic and foreign prices and inter- | natic al exchange. Pittman. who in- | t~~ resoluti n calling for the inquiry, “1eads the Investigating Com- mittee. Trez ary Probe Blocked. Adoption of the resolution blocked Senator Thomas, Demo- crat, of Okiahoma. to obtain a special investigation of the Treasury Depart- ment’s operat’ons under the 1934 sil- | v - purchase act. He sought such an inquiry as a result of the recent slump ! in the price of the metal. | Secretary Morgenthau will be asked by the committee named yesterday to explain how the purchase act is being administered, Pittman indicated. Aft- er that it will study the effect of the { act on the world situation, paying| special attention to China, Goal for 1934. ‘The goal! of the 1934 act was the purchase of silver until the Govern- Basil O'Connor demanding that the Roosevelt name be removed from the | law office door and stationery. The name was taken off the door the d""t before inauguration, but the memorics of both men have not been similarly effaced. This may explain why Representa- tive O'Connor has dared to go beyond | the usual bounds of political respect { for a party leader in the utility fight Also, it is what makes the wildcat wild. | Search Brings Surprise. | The unadvertised high light of the | Hopson search occurred when the | Senate’s pursuing beagle, Sergeant | at Arms Jurney, eased himself unin- vited into the hotel room of B. B. Robinson, utility lobbyist. There in | | | | | the lobby lair he failed to find the | object of his search, but encountered | more surprising game in the persons of Mr. Roosevelt's own secretary, Mar- | vin McIntyre, and Assistant Treasury | | Secretary Roberts. The President’s two ! sdlies were apparently recreating and | | relaxing, of all places, in the camp of the enemy. The official explanation for this | pseudo-treason apparently is that Mc- | Intyre's duties are broader than have | | been publicly defined. He has often | |in the past been in the company of | |strange people. Once he was de- | tected dining with a banker, and, as | every one knows, bankers are worse than utility people. { Apparengly he is the presidential | scout and liaison man with whatever | enemies happen to be current with | the administration. | A man of the hour two years ago | | was Prof. Rogers, the silverite. At {least he was the man of the half | hour, Prof. Warren, the commodity dollarite, being the other half. Rogers dropped into the White House to say good-by the other day, as he was sailing jor Europe to be a delegate at the League economic wmeeting. The doorman said good-by to him. So did the newsmen and & presidential secre- tary who wes rushing past. But apparently the President was busy. Times change. Another evidence of fleeing years was offered by Senator La Follette's tax speech. He denounced ex-Secretary Mellon for advocating years ago an expansion of the income tax system to low wage earners. Yet that was | the purpose of La Follette's own pend- ing amendment reducing exemptions to $800 for single persons. A sour newsman always refers to s certain prominent politician as “that | major who returned from the World ‘War disconsolate because it wasn't big enough for him.” (Copyright. 1835.) “Wall” to Cost 300 Millions. France's new “Great Wall of )’ being constructed from Stras! w0 S a distance of 60 miles, will cost at least $300,000,000. 8 » | fundamental democratic policy and ment's stocks equaled in value one- third of its gold holdings. Thomas estimated that $3.000,000,000 worth would have to be bought. Approxi- $2,000,000.000 now is in the However, the act provided that buying should cease if the price of the metal went above $1.29 an ounce. At the suggestion of Pitiman, Thom- as was included on the Investigating Ccmmittee, others being King, Demo- crat, of Utah: Borah, Republican, of | Idaho. and McNary, Republican, of Oegon. The committee was given $10.000. Iml;by (Continued From First Page) questioning yesterday. Among other things the Senate nvestigators dis- closed evidence that Patrick J. Hur- ley. Secretary of War in the Hoover cabinet, who has served as an Asso- ciated Gas attbrney, went to Florida and was given a “pep talk” by Hop- son. The reason for the “pep talk.” tele- grams introduced in evidence indi- cated, was Hurley's fear that the As- sociated system “might get the worl f if it sent a representative when the | House Interstate Commerce Commit- | tee was holding hearings on the utili- ties measure. Hopson explained Hur- ley felt the utilities witness would not | be given time to make proper answers to committee questions. Chairman Black of the Senate Committee disclosed numerous tele- | grams from Hopson to William Ran- | dolph Hear . about the New Deal and | its policies. He was especially inter- ested, however, in one dated May 31, which said: “Hope you will do your utmost to prevent possible attempt at dictator- ship which seems to many to be fore- cast by the suggestion that there will | be a series of announcements as to| proposed course of action to meet the | crisis which defeated New Dealers | alleged is about to occur as a result of | the Supreme Court’s decision (on N.| R. A)." On July 2, the Hearst editorial ap- peared. Black produced a copy of the paper and had the title and first para- graph read into the record: “Which—American democracy oOr personal dictatorship? “The latest .decisions of the Su- preme Court should arouse all loyal | American citizens to a full realization of how entirely the so-called Demo- cratic administration in Washington has abendoned demccratic pri.nclples‘ and how utterly it has discarded the the furdamental American constitu- tional policy of strict limitation of Pederal powers.” Howse: Considers Guffey coal bill amend- ments. FARM SALE REVOLT PROBE. DEMANDED U. S. Officials Indignant at Failure to Act After ; Second “Outrage.” | By the Associated Press | KANSAS CITY, August 17.—Federal | officials here sought help today from | Attorney General Homer S. Cummings | to punish farmers who so far have halted two foreclosure sales and mauled sale authorities. Randall Wilson, assistant district at- ! torney, wired Cummings the Depart- ment of Justice Division of Investi- gation had refused to investigate “this infamous outrage.” “We request that you direct the bureau to investigate this matter im- mediately.” read the telegram | | The plea was i specific connectton | with the open defiance at Plattsburg, | Mo., Thursday of a sale order issued by Federal Judge Merrill E. Otis of Kansas City. Yesterday & group of more than 100 beat and drove out of town J.| Lyman Andrews and E. C. McKissick ! of St. Joseph, Mo.,, who had gone to | Maysville, 30 miles to the east. to sell | a farm for an insurance firm thl) held a mortgage on the property. After Andrews and McKissick fled, | bloody and with their clothing torn, the throng voiced defiance of Judge Otis. “That's what'll happen to the next Federal judge who shows up around here,” yelled one man amid cries of | approval. Judge Otis is to speak Sunday at an old settlers’ reunion at Hopkins, 50 miles north of Maysville Judge Otis disregarded the threats and announced he would fill the en- gagement. At the same time, he or- dered a recently recessed Federal grand jury to reconvene to investigate | the crowd action. = The reason Director J. Edgar Hoo- ver of the Division of Investigation | failed to order an inquiry was not given by Wilson. 'JOBLESS ON MARCH TO DEMAND WORK| Sccialists and Communists In- cluded in 5,000 Staging New York Demonstration. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, August 17-—Calling Hugh S. Johnson, New York City's works progress administrator, a “strikebreaker,” several thousand un- employed workers marched today from Union Square to headquarters of the W. P. A. to demand work and relief. On their own statement, the march- | ers—estimated by Inspector Charles L. Neidig of the Police Department at i 5,000—included both Socialists and |y ‘Communists. For more than an hour before the parade the crowd was harangued by speakers who predicted the W. P. A. | “strike” which collapsed would be | “Johnson’s Waterloo.” | The route of the parade, described as the first of a series of public dem- | Af onstrations incident to attempted | D. C, SATURDAY, AUGUST Mourn Loss of Husband and Father yright, A. P. Wirephoto. Mrs. Will Rogers and her daughter, Mary (face hidden), pictured as they left Stamford, Conn. in an automobile for an unannounced destination in New York City this morning after detraining there to ‘avoid They were at Skowhegan, Me., where Mary was appearing in Summer stock, when they »Man Killed NELSON B. KLEIN, Veteran agent of the Department of Justice, who was killed in a gun battle at College Corner. Ohio. Klein wounded George Barrett, the suspect, and Barrett was captured by a brother agent. THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature; gentle east winds, Maryland—Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature Virginia—Partly cloudy tonight: to- morrow partly cloudy, possibly showers ' in west and south portions; not much change in temperature. West Virginia—Partly cloudy with occasional showers tomorrow and in west portion tonight; not much change in temperature. Report for Last 24 Hours. Temperature. Ba Degrees. = 8 EH Yesterday— pm X pm _ Midnight Today— E E Record for Last 24 Hours. (From noon yesterday to noon ioday ) Highest 1:15 p.m. yesterday today; Noon at 5:30 am year Record Temperatures This Year. Highest. 45. on July 20 Lowest. —<. on January 28. Humidity for Last 21 Hours. (From noon vesterday to noon today.) Highest, 90 Per cent, at 1:15 p.m, yes- terday Lowest. 52 per cent. at 5:3 River Report. Potomac and Shenandoah muddy today. Tide Tables. United Stat ) am. today. Rivers (Purnished by s Coast and Tomorrow. . 10:55 a.m . 5ilXam . 11:20 pm. 534 pm High Low High Low Sets. ] Sun, Sun. today tomorrow 7100 today__ 36pm. 9:0RKam. Automobile lights must be turned on one- half hour after sunset. Precipitation. Monthly precipitation in_inc Capital (current month to date. Month. Ayerage. ~Record— 709 ,hgl in the 19: 5 stoppage of work on W. P. A. projects | because of wage controversies, led to the W. P. A. offices at the Port of Au- | 9o thority Building in Eighth avenue and | back to Union Square. A police detail | flanked the marchers. Telegrams embodying the demands were dispatched to Mayor Fiorella La Guardia and Harry L. Hopkins, F.E R. A head. HENRY SPIAK PROMISED USE OF HIS LEGS SOON| Operation on Cripple, Objected To | for Years by Parents, Proves Successful. By the Assocfated Press. YONKERS, N. Y., August 17.—As a result of a single operation, Henry Albany, N, Atlanta, Ga. Atlantic City ~ Baltim 128 R =3I 123 Spiak, 14, was told by doctors today | ra. an, that he may look forward to being able to stand soon and to walk with a crutch. Court after reversing parental objec- tion, was performed by Dr. George Anopoi. The first surgery was cohcentrated | in the lower left side. Henry has :: been cripled below the hips for nine years since an infantile paralysis at- tack. = 17, 1935. rs U, AGENT SLAN GILSON GARDNER, HOTFIGHTS INPATH - OF A.F.OFL.PARLEY Two Controversial Issues to Flare at Convention in October. By the Associated Press EDITOR, DIES AT 66 Writer Stricken by Heart Attack—Funeral Plans Yet Incomplete. Gilson Gardner, 66, widely known editor and author, died last night in| ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., August 17, Rty :‘o;m;:,l -ltl}»r( a hearll‘* —Two hot fights on the floor of the a . He en. or several | American Federation of Labor - months. Stricken yesterdoy at his | vention here in October ,r.,b([n S,‘Z home, 1819 Arlington Ridge 10ad, | pect now that the federation's Exec- Arlington Ridge, Va., he was rushed | ytive Council meeting has adjourned. to the hospital, where he died a few| Should the federation approve, B s without qualification, the organization r. Gardner for many years was an | of mass production industry workers official In the Scripps-Howard rews- | by industry. rather than by craft? paper chain. He had geen an as- | Should the machinists in the automo- sistant to E. W. Scripps, founder of | bile industry belong to the United the organization, and edite¢ the pub- | Automobile Workers rather than to lisher's personal papers. | the Machinists’ Union, for instance? He held the presidencies of the| Should the federation approve the | Penguin Club and of the Home School | council’s recognition of the building Civic League of Arlington County,|!rades department headed by J. W. where he had made his home since | Williams as the “legal” department. or 1920, for two terms. He belonged also | Should it recognize the department hours later. to the Illinois bar and the Press Club. Mr. Gardner, who was born in Chi- cago, was educated at Willlams Col- lege and Northwestern University. In the early part of his career he was correspondent at various times for the Chicago Daily News, Chicago Mail, Chicago Journal, the United Press and the Scripps-Howard papers. In Africa in 1910, 'Mr. Gardner met Col. Theodore Roosevelt on his emergence from the White Nile, and had the first political interview which Roosevelt granted in Africa. Subse- quently he became a close friend of | the famous Rough Rider. Besides his newspaper writings, Mr. Gardner wrote numerous magazine ar- e He was the author of the , “A New Robinson Crusoe.” Surviving is his widow, Matilda Hall Gardner. Funeral arrngements been completed. | FAIR, WARM WEEK END IN PROSPECT FOR CITY have not | SUUSPECT GIVES UP Nelson B. Klein Dies in Gun Fight—Accused Man Faces Early Trial. By the Assoclated Press COLLEGE CORNER, Ohio, August |17—The Government planned an early trial today for George W. Bar- rett, held as the killer of Federal Agent Nelson B. Klein, 37, in a furious gun battle here last night | H. D. Harris, acting agent in charge of the Cincinnati office of the Bureau of Investigation, said Barrett, who gave his home as Lockiand, Ohio, would be brought to trial as “quickly as pos- sible” under the Federal statute im- posing the death penalty upon con- viction for the slaying of a Govern- ment officer. Klein, an agent of the Department of Justice, was seeking Barrett for questioning concerning automobile thefts, night. Donald C. McGovern, another Federal agent, was with Klein. Deputy Sheriff Charles B. Walke said Barrett ran behind a garage wall when Klein approached. Barrett | opened fire from behind the wall, the deputy said, and Klein and McGovern returned it Kiein fell with six bullets in his body, but his own pistol fire had shat- tered Barrett's leg bones. Walke said Barrett surrendered with the state- ment: “I beat him to the trigger.” CLEANED UP THEFT RINGS. Klein Was Fifth Agent to Be Killed in Two Years. In recent months Nelson B. Klein had cleaned up a ring of automobile thieves operating in Southern Ohio and Northern Kentucky, it was said { here. Earlier, he had werked on the | kidnaping of Alice Berry Stoll, Louis- ville society matron seized last Fall by Thomas H. Robinson, jr. still at large. A Federal agent since 1926, Klein is survived by his widow and three children. He lived in Southgate, Kv., but his home before entering the Justice Department service was in Atlantic City. Only nine Bureau of Investigation agents have lost their lives in line of duty since 1908. but Klein is the fifth to die in the last two vears, due, officials said, to the more active work now undertaken by them. All of the department’s agents will be invited, as in past instances, to | contribute $10 to a fund for Klein's widow. No sizable sum otherwise would be contributed to her support, unless Congress should so act. ;JONES‘ BODY IDENTIFIED Emissaries View British Journal- ist Slain in Mongolia. KALGAN, Inner Mongolia, August 17 (A —Emissaries sent to Paochang | to identify the body of a slain white man telephoned today that it was the body of Gareth Jones. kidnaped 5% | British journalist and one-time secre- % | tary to David Lloyd George. Shot to death, Jones was found four | days ago near Paochang. Some au- | thorities believed his captors slew him because they suspected treachery froin those who sought to ransom him. SN e Guffey Bill (Continued Prom Pirst Page.) effort, he told colleagues he had swung 30 votes from ‘no” to “ay Boland was one of the few Demo- cratic chiefs actively at work for the bill. Several others opposed it. One said privately: “T think the bill will pass, damn e Charles West, President Roose- velt'’s liaison man, had been hard at work for the legislation and was credited with wringing from Sen- ate Democratic chiefs an agreement | to bring the measure up on the Sen- ate floor. In debate yesterday, critics of the bill termed it “unconstitutional” and said it threatened a “drastic” boost in coal prices. Among them was Representative Treadway, Republican of Massachusetts. Supporters dehied this. Representative Vinson, Demo- crat of Kentucky, declared the late Chief Justice Taft, in Supreme Court decisions, had recognized congres- sional power to pass such legisiation. L] They met face to face last | Thundershowers May Break Heat Tomorrow—High Mark Today Due to Be 89. A fair and warm week end is the weather outlook for Washington. The maximum temperature this aft- erncon will be about 89, the same as the high mark yesterday, when two persons were prostrated. Passible local thundershowers were | predicted for tomorrow. Those overcome were Paul Hanes 26, of the Franklin Park Hotel, who was stricken in a cigar store at Four- teenth street and New York avenue and Miss Agnes Corcoran. 32, of 826 Kentucky avenue southeast. who was prostrated at Seventeenth street and Barney Circle. B FIVE TAXICAB DRIVERS FACE LICENSE LOSS Utilities Commission Charges Failure to Comply With Uniform Rate. Administrative action against five | taxicab drivers who have failed to comply with the uniform rate and zone order of the Public Utilities Com- mission has been started by the com- mission. Two cases have been referred to the District Cmomissioners for con- sideration of revocation of their busi- ness licenses. Three others, sent to the Commissioners about a week ago, have been forwarded to the Distric: License Committee for hearing The Utilities Commission has de- termined on this course of action ! rather than to take the drivers into court for fines. — SNAKE BITE FAITH SHOW AGAIN BARRED | i Sheriff Says Demonstration Holiness Tent Would En- danger Audience. By the Associated Press. EUSTIS, Fla.,, August 17.—Rev. J. V. Delong, on whose snake-defying faith demonstrations the laws of Or- ange County clamped down, an- nounced he would carry out the exhi- bition here, but Sheriff W. B. Gibson said he would not permit it. Delong said, after his demonstra- tion was halted at Ocoee Wednesday | night, that the performance would be given in the Holiness tent church here. He said he would handle two rattle- snakes, allowing one of them to bite his hand. Sheriff Gibson said he would bioc! the preacher's plan because it would endanger other persons. e |EIGHT PRISONERS FOUND TUNNELING UNDER WALL |Four Placed in Solitary After Plot Is Uncovered at Mich- igan Penitentiary. By the Associated Press. MICHIGAN CITY, Ind.. August 17. —Discovery of a plot to tunnel be- | neath the walls of the State Peniten- | tiary resulted last night in the plac- | ing” of solitary confinement of four long-term convicts. Warden Louis E. Kunkel of the penitentiary where John Dillinger, late “Public Enemy No. 1,” engineered the escape of 10 of his comrades in De- cember, 1933, confirmed the escape at- tempt. He said eight men were believed to have been involved and that they had succeeded in. excavating a tunnel 36 feet long and 18 inches in diameter. He said bad they gone 15 feet further the convicts would have dug beyond the prison wall. | — TULLY BOOK CONDEMNED in ing Volume. NEW YORK, August 17 (®).— Greenberg Publishers, Inc., were held for special sessions following a hear- | ing yesterday in Magistrate’s Court |on charges of having published an | indecent book—Ladies in the Parlor.” | by Jim Tully. Magistrate Jonah Goldstein in his decision held that “the pages of the book are replete with lascivious mat- o> The proceedings were brought by an agent of the Society for the Sup- pression of Vice. [} | and Metcalf, Republican. Publishing Firm Cited for Print- | | headed M. J. McDonough? The first of these issues was dis- cussed at length at the council’s exec- utive sessions, but all members agreed | to leave the show-down fight for the convention. Absence of John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers and leader of the industrial unionists from the meeting was thought by ob- serv to have had considerable bear- ing on this decision The council’s final action last night was to accuse the Commerce Depart- ment of “misleading” the people with a statement this week that labor's share of the national income last year was greater tnan it was in 1929, In compiling this statement, the council said, the department included in “labor” income the salarfes of all s, including bank presidents. Executive salaries did not fluctuate nearly as much as did the average wage earners’ income, labor leaders con- tended The wage earner. the council added, | made only 52 per cent as much last vear as he did in 1929. Taxes (Continued Prom First Page) McCarran amendment in the Senate by whici: certain sections of the silver purchase act of 1934 would be re- pealed: third. substitution in the Sen- ate of heavily increased estate tax rates for the inheritance tax schedule oved by the Hc Without much doubt these is a matter o ment to adm at Throughout debate on Democ: and Republicans agreed with the principle of off the flow of tax-exempt Nothing was done about it. however, until the Idaho Repubiican submitted app the first of some embarrass- | proval was given by the narrow mar- ! gin of 40 to 39. Immediately the protest arose that this form of discrimination against Federal securities while making no comparable provision for State and | local securities would place the Gov- | ernment in an unfavorable position | for future financing operations. Fur- thermore, it was argued, the action would give an inflated value to out- standing Government issues, but would have an opposite effect on future issues. Even assuming the validity of these arguments, however, the fact remains that the Republicans have benefited strategically by the action of the Idaho Senator and his supporters. If the amendment is thrown out in confer- ence. on grounds however logical, the attempt to force the Government “to clean its own house” of what long has been regarded as an evil will give the Republican spokesmen a talking point they will not overlook during the coming 15 months. | In spite of these complications, it | is expected that the amendment will | lose out in conference On the McCarran amendment less trouble is likely, particularly in view ! of the finality with which the House vesterday voted down a motion by | Representative White, Democrat of Idaho, to bind the House conferees to agree to the silver proposal. The personnel of neither conference group | contains any outstanding supporters of | the program of the so-called silver bloc. The amendment probably will be abandoned The inheritance vs. the estate tax issue seems certain to force drawn- out consideration Following presi- dential recommendations in including an inheritance tax section in the orig- inal bill, the House Democratic con- ferees will be bound to stand by this provisi for a reasonable length of time at least. On the other hand the Senate conferees are aware that return to this provision in the bill probably would precipitate a fight on the Senate floor when they report | back, the minimum result being delay |in Senate approval with consequent ?dehx in effosts to clean up and ad- journ the Congress | oOn other provisions of the bill in its present form, it is likely that | trades can be arranged. The Senate, for instance, has increased the gradu- ation of corporation income taxes but decreased the graduation of excess profits taxes. It increased capital stock taxes, although the President made no such request, but it followed his wishes in imposing an intercom- pany dividend tax. Middle ground agreements on all of these revisions are not looked upon as potential dynamite when the conferees report back to their respective bodies. | The three issues mentioned earlier, | however, contain this dangerous qual- ity, and all or any one of them prob- | ably wifl cause some delay in adop- tion of the conference decisions. The extent of this delay will depend upon the nature of the agreement—and the | temper of their proponents or oppo- nents when the reports reach the floor. Conferees for the Senate are Sen- ators Harrison, George and King, Democrats; La Follette, Progressive, Those for | the House are Representatives Dough- [ ton, Hillend Cullen. Democrats, and Treadway and Bacharach, Republi- cans. While the legislation has reached this stage of near-enactment, oppo- nents of it outside the conference group continue to attack it. Speaking last night over a National Broadcast- ing Co. network, Representative Edith N. Rogers, Republican, of Massachu- setts, assailed particularly the in- creased death tax and graduated cor- poration tax provisions of the meas- ure. | | Rail Death Toll Small. British railways report that thefr death toll in the last year was one in about 100,000,000 pasengers. 4