Evening Star Newspaper, September 10, 1935, Page 11

LONG TAX PROBE 10 BE DROPPED Government, However, Will| Continue Inquiry of Friends and Associates. BY REX COLLIER. The income tax investigation of | Huey Long's financial affairs todsy came to an abrupt close, but the death of the Louisiana Senator will in no way affect the Government's ic- quiry into alleged income tax evasions | by friends and associates of Long. In fact, the dropping of intensive | investigative activities in connecticn | with Senator Long’s income of the past several years may tend to speed up collateral investigation of finances of some members of the so-called Long “machine” in Louisiana. This acceleration would result from release of agents assigned to the Long in- quiry and their transfer to other pending cases. The intelligence unit of the Inter- nal Revenue Bureau has about 20 special agents conducting the income tax investigations in Louisiana, and many of this group have been con- centrating on Senator Long. Seven Under Indictment. The inquiry already has resulted in the indictment of seven of Long’s rters, including Seymour er of the Long polm(‘al‘ organization. One of the indicted men, State Representative Joseph Fisher, was convicted several months ago and is serving an 18-month sen- tence in the penitentiary. Abe L. Shushan, intimate associate of Long and president of the New Orleans Levee Board, will be the second of the indicted group to face trial. The Shushan trial has been postponed several times, but is ex- pected to begin in the October term of Federal Court in New Orleans. Others under indictment for alleged «iolation of Federal income tax laws are State Senator Jules Fisher, uncle of State Representative Fisher and one of the signers of the famous “round robin” against impeachment of Long while Governor, and John P, Henry B. and Willis W. Nelson, brothers, holders of State highway contracts during Long's regime as Governor. Jury Held in Readiness. The Federal grand jury in New Orleans meanwhile has been held in readiness for examination of addi- tional witnesses and evidence mar- shaled by the corps of investigators operating under direction of Elmer L. Irey, chief of the Intelligence Unit, and A. D. Burford, agent in charge of the New Orleans field office of the unit. Indicative of the weight attached to the Louisiana cases was the ap- pointment within recent months of two special assistants to Attorney General Cummings to collaborate in the prosecutions. Former Gov. Dan Moody of Texas was made a special assistant to aid the United States attorney at New Orleans in the trial of Representative Fisher, and several weeks ago Cummings appointed Amos W. W. Woodcock, former prohibition director, as a special assistant to Join in the forthcoming trials. There have been reliable reports that further indictments of persons in Long's “inner circle” are antici~ pated in official quarters. Bank rec- ords of several prominent Louisianans ere said to have been subpoenaed by | investigators, and many prospective witnesses have been’ interviewed. The inquiry into incomes received by Long and others of his “empire" began | during the last year of the Hoover | administration, but it marked time during the transition from that regime to the Roosevelt administration, when | it was resumed with vigor. | BANKHEAD ACT TESTED MACON, Ga., September 10 ().— The Bankhead cotton production con- trol act, a phase of the A. A. A, is to face a constitutional test in United States District Court here today be- fore Judge Bascom S. Deaver. Legality of the act, with specific | reference to the penalty of six cents per pound on cotton produced in eexcess of a farmer's individual Fed- eral allotment, is attacked by Gov. Eugene Talmadge and others in a suit for injunction against its en- forcement. The petition claims the penalty tax §s “an intricate part of a scheme to accomplish an unconstitutional pur- pose” and not a revenue-raising meas- ure, and that it is repugnant to va- rious provisions of the Constitution. Woman's Cub to Meet. SILVER SPRING, Md. September 10 (Special).—The first Fall meeting of the Woman's Improvement Club of Silver Spring will be held Thursday evening in the hall of the Silver Spring Volunteer Fire Department Building. STOP THOSE CHOKING ASTHMA #) ATTACKS Quick relief comes as ‘warm medical smoke from Dr. Blosser's Medical Cigarettes (no tobaceo) pene- trates clogged breath- ing passages, loosens phlegm, clears. econ- ‘ gestion. Effective for breaking congestion caused by Catarrh, Hay Fever, and Head ocolds—At all druggista. ACID MAY BE WHAT AILS YU Tired and Pepless? Blood Is Robbed by Acidity. | '00_much acid can make you feel | more miserable and rotten than almost any other one thing. Too much acid sours your food, makes vile gases that | cause heartburn and pains. You don't | get the good out of what you eat and you lose strength and ene: )l;b. milk_of Forget things like bi- magnesia_and other s one-drug | remedies that only give relief from the symptoms of too much acid. ~They often irritate stomach linings and bring on a larger flow of hvdrochloric acid. Get rid of sour acid and keep rid of it for good by taking some water with a teaspoonful of Placidan in it several times a day. eswt!lllt’ before you go to sleep. Your food will digest so well that nourishment will flow back into | Like Plaster, By the Associated Press. CLANTON, Ala., September 10.—Six- year-old Dorothy Snyder, daughter of a Clanton miil worker, is suffering from a malady which has made her neck hard “like a plaster cast,” but | doctors disagree as to the cause. One physician—Dr. V. R. Cragg— sald it looked like a case of myositis ossificians—a condition turning mus- cles to apparent stone, but Dr. J. R. Penton said his preliminary examina- | tion led him to believe the ailment was sclero dermo—a disease causing the skin to become hard and thick like sole leather. Dr. Penton said he planned further examinations for defi- nite diagnosis. Dr. V. R. Cragg of Clanton said his examinations revealed the child was suffering from something “very much like” myositis ossificans, although the disease was rare. Dr. Penton said Dorothy, a pretty child, apparently was in good health otherwise and was able to play, but that the hardening condition was spreading. Cases of myositis ossificans—*“turn- your body and build up strength and | vitality, leaving the waste in your bowels ‘moist and ready for glorious | morning relief. | Placidan prepares your food so well | that you won't need indigestion pills, tablets, liquids, laxatives or purgatives. get up in the morning like & ock, fresh, clean and ready to | eal breakfast. All drug stores | Placidan. IMPORTANT: Say NO if something| else is offered to you as being “‘Just as good” | Insist on FLACID You | ave taken the substitutes before and they did you no good. | YEARS THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1935. Girl’s Neck, Becoming Hard Baffles Doctors ing to stone"—are practically incur- able, but sclero dermo, purely a skin disease, is curable. e i GOES BACK TO TEACH |Sally Brown Quits Films After One Picture. HOLLYWOOD, September 10 (#).— Sally Brown would rather be principal of a grammar school than star of a | movie studio. She said yesterday she was dropping screen work after her one and only | role before the camera to accept a school promotion at Hermosa Beach, Calif. Miss Brown, sister of Mrs. John D. Spreckels, 3d, of Coronado, Calif., won & screen test recently when studio scouts saw her picture on a news- paper society page. She was given a part in & Uni- versal production. TO PAY! COMMUNITY CHEST OFFICIALS TO MEET Chairmen and Team Captains to Hear Mrs. Robertson at ~ Dinner Tonight. A rally of area and division chair- men and team captains of the Com- munity Chest Metropolitan Unit has been arranged for tonight by Bernard Wyckoff, chairman. The rally will be in the form of a dinner at 7 pm. in Barker Hall at the Y. W. C. A. The principal talk will be by Mrs. Thomas E. Robertson, president of | the Board of Directors of the Florence Crittenton Home. Her subject will be “The Relation of an Agency to the Community Chest.” Tonight's meeting will be the first official rally of the Metropolitan Unit |in preparation for the Community Chest campaign in November., It is probable that Clarence Phelps Dodge, president, and Herbert J. Willett, jr., director of the Chest, also will speak. Russia Builds Schools: Russia is building 270 new schools. APPOMATTOX ELECTS Hyman Again Chosen President of Club. Leonard G. Hyman, 1451 Corcoran street, was re-elected president of the Appomattox Club, Inc., for his third consecutive term at the recent annual election meeting. Also chosen as officers were Alberf A. Browne, vice president; William B. Edelin, secretary; Thomas R. Parker, treasurer; George R. Keys, financial secretary; Charles H. Carter, social secretary, and Roland B. Price, ser- geant at arms. Members of the club elected to the advisory council include William L. Dulany, Dr. Gorham C. Fletcher, Wil- liam H. Mayo, Dr. Le Count R. 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