Evening Star Newspaper, November 30, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. ' (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; lowest temperature tonight about 34 de- grees; colder tomorrow night. Tempera- tures—Highest, 46, at 12:30 p.m. yester- day; lowest, 33, at 7:15 a.m. today. Full report on page A-4. Closing N.Y.Markets, Pages 13,14 & 15 ch e No. 33,450. FRANCE'S SUPPORT OF BRITAIN ON OIL REDUCES TENION INMEDITERRANEAN Duce Seen “Changing Tune” After Warning by Paris Against Unprovoked At- tack on England’s Fleet. WAR NEWS HINTS AIM TO EXPEDITE CAMPAIGN Italy More Optimistic Despite Franco-British “Front”—Mus- solini Calls Cabinet to Discuss Money—Easing of Italian Re- strictions Is Indicated. BACKGROUND— World pressure, in which degree of determination holds key to its eflectiveness, has been piling up against Italy since invasion of Ethiopia. Britain, vitally concerned because of colonial empire, has stiffened League of Nations policy, sought bold expression from France. Mussolini, desperate at threatened oil embargo, hopeful of French hesitancy, threatened re- prisals. Real test, Britain vs. Italy. Policy of United States, based upon neutrality law forbidding shipment of “war materials” to belligerents, important. By the Associated Press Franco-British collaboration has eased international tension in the Mediterranean, informed sources in London said today. Talk of a crisis in the relations of Great Britain and Italy over the ques- tion of an oil embargo on the Fascist domain by the League of Nations sim- mered down on the heels of France's frank warning to Italy against any unprovoked attack on Britain's Medi- | | terranean fleet. British satisfaction was expressed with what one commentator referred to as “Mussolini's change of tune,” but on the war front new evidence cropped up to support the belief that the Italian premier intended pushing nis cam- paign of occupation in Ethiopia to a swift conclusion. Attack Reported Planned. Only yesterday well informed Ital- fan sources said Il Duce planned to attack the British fleet in Mediter- ranean waters if Downing Street, mainspring of the League sanctions movement, pressed for the imposition of an oil embargo on Italy. ‘The French response to that was speedy. Observers saw in the atti- tude of the French government fur- ther evidence of Paris’ increased co- operation with the British in an ef- fort to end the East African conflict by outside economic and financial pressure on Italy. Ever since the start of the war Brit- ish diplomacy has engaged in a cam- paign of weaning France from the belief that her national security de- pended on alignment with Italy. To- day official circles in Paris conceded the possibility of conversations be- tween Premier Pierre Laval and Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin to strengthen the “common front” to- ward Italy. New Peace Chance Seen. Some British circles saw in the latest developments the chance of re- newed peace negotiations. From the war front, however, came ‘word that the new Italian commander in chief in East Africa, Gen. Pietro Badoglio, who replaced Gen. Emilio de Bono, would initiate fresh con- quests of Ethiopian territory. A Reuters (British) News Agency dispatch from the Ethiopian town of Jijiga, one of the goals of the Italian Somaliland army, quoted the com- mander of the area, Nasibu, as say- ing Italian operations have been limited to air maneuvers since No- vember 12. On that date, Nasibu’s communique Tead, the battle of Anele occurred, “which ended in complete defeat of the enemy.” It added, without con- firmation, that friction between reg- ular Italian troops and Blackshirts was ‘“‘causing great difficulties for the general staff of the enemy.” The na- tive Italian troops, said the Ethiopian chief, “are completely demoralized.” Ethiopia Reporis Victory. As for actual fighting, the Ethio- pian government reported a victory. It sald an Italian colunfh had been taken by surprise and defeated by Ethiopians east of Mount Mussa Ali, on the Eritrean frontier. The Ethiopians said they lost 20 soldiers, but killed 183 Italians in the skirmish. The United States Department of Commerce was informed that Italy (See WAR, Page 3.) BOLTON SAYS TOWNSEND PLAN IS NOT PROVED G. 0. P. Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Says It's Economically Weak. Brths Associated Press. WILLOUGHBY, Ohio, November 30.—Representative Chester C. Bol- tom, Republican, Ohio, chairman of the Republican National Congressional Campaign Committee, says he is not convinced that the Townsend old- age pension plan is financially sound. Bolton, participating at a forum here last night, said he' subscribed heartily “to the fundamental objec- tives” of the plan, but hesitated to indorse two features of it: The pro- posed tax to finance the pensions, and the question whether this tax would not raise commodity costs, thus de- the value of the dollar. “I am deeply sincere in trying to find out if the plan is feasible,” said Bolton, “and have asked a number of Jeading economists questions about it Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. Mrs. Helen Fah Accident Thursday Fol- lows Visit to Home of Relatives. Fight for Custody of Children Attracted 3 ¢ Attention Here. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, November 30.— The death of socially - prominent Mrs. Helen- Fahnestock from injuries suf- fered in a fall from a third - story window was disclosed today as officers began an investigation of the tragedy. Mrs. Fahnestock, 34-year-old mother of two children, was taken to a New York hospital several weeks ago for | treatment of a nervous disorder. She | and Snowden A. Fahnestock were divorced in October. Hospital officials gave her permis- sion to visit on Thanksgiving day the East Sixty-fourth street home of her Spring Knapp, who also are prominent in New York society. At their home Thursday night she aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Edward | floor, and fell from the window of & WASHINGTON, nestock Dies In 3-Story Fall in New York MRS, HELEN FAHNESTOCK. —Hnrrri.t:Ewingklr’holp:_ visited a cousin, ill in bed on the third nearby room & few minutes later. Her brother, Charles Moran, jr., T (See FAHNESTOCK, Page 3.) LIVERMORE BOY'S ARNY 15 FAVORED LIFE N BALANCE Mother, Under Guard, Says Note From Ex-Husband Unstrung Her. By the Associated Press. © SANTA BARBARA, Calif, Novem- ber 30.—Mrs. Dorothea Wendt Liver- more was quoted by officers today as saying she shot her 15-year-old son, probably fatally, while “unstrung” by ! a letter from her former husband, | Jesse Livermore, Wall street operator. | A .22-caliber bullet near his spine, | the son, Jesse Livermore, jr., was be- ing kept alive by an artificial lung. | Surgeons prepared for an emergency | operation as a last resort. In the same hospital, Mrs. Liver- more was questioned by District Attor- | ney Perry Heckendorf and Under- sheriff Jack Ross. “False Accusations.” “He accused me of many false things,” they quoted her as saying. “He said I kept his letters from our sons, too. He said a lot of things. I got the letter Thanksgiving day. It upset me, unstrung me. That’s what it did. “I didn't intend to kill my son. My son just dared me to do it. That's all. And I guess I did it.” No formal record of her staterhent was made, since she was under the influence of opiates administered by physicians, but sheriff’s deputies planned to Temove her from the hos- pital today for more questioning. She was held on a technical charge of suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon. A deputy guarded her room. The elder Livermore reached the bedside of his son early today after a dash by airplane and motor car from St. Louis. At that time the boy was reported to have “rallied slightly.” District Attorney Heckendorf said he would ask Livermore to sign & complaint charging the 38-year-old matron with assault with intent to | commit murder. Possible Murder Charge. “If the boy dies, she will be charged with murder,” he declared. Between spells of unconsciousness, young Livermore attempted to absolve his mother from blame, whispering— “She didn’t mean to hurt me. It was my fault, I guess. It was an accident.” The boy, who said he spent most of Thanksgiving day away “because there was so much drinking going on at home,” returned at midnight and remonstrated with his mother for her drinking, District Attorney Hecken- dorf learned. “We quarreled about it. There were other things, too, I didn't like,” the wounded youth said. Y D. B. Neville of New York, who said (See LIVERMORE, Page 2 FREIGHTER IS BEACHED Rigel Goes Into New Bedford, Mass., Harbor. NEW BEDFORD, Mass., November 30 (#).—Leaking badly, the freighter Rigel was beached about 25 feet off the State Pler today. . From a position in Buzzards Bay she had reported her holds leaking badly and the Coast Guard cutter Algonquin was sent to her assistance. Before the Algonquin arrived, the Rigel ran into New Bedford Harbor and was beached on a bar off the State Pier. The Rigel, in Boston Wednesday from Scandanavian ports, via Port- 0 DEFEAT NAVY 80,000 to See Colorfull Game in Philadelphia Today. By the Associated Press. | PHILADELPHIA, November 30.—| | The military took over foot ball's| battlefront today, to lay its barrage | on PFranklin Field in the thirty-sixth renewal of the service spectacle be- | tween Army's brilllant Mules and| Navy's rugged manpower. ! Eighty thousand spectators will| pack the huge stadium to the rafters | when the two elevens, trained to the| | minute for what promised to be the closest clash of their long rivalry, line up for the kick-off at 1:30 p.m. | (Eastern standard time). ,Fair weath- ! er with a slight wind blowing was in | | prospect. | Army's forces were an 8-to-5 choice | to increase their lead in the series to | 20 wins against Navy's 13 with 3 de- cisions deadlocked. Philadelphia was jammed. The million-dollar crowd here this week for the: Penn-Cornell clash as well as the service struggle packed every hotel. Restaurants were crowded. Traffic was slowed all over the city. Official Washington was to be well represented in the boxes and stadium | seats. Postmaster General Farley, | Navy Secretary Swanson; his predeces- | sor, Charles Francis Adams; Assistant War Secretary Woodring, and “gold braid” of both Army and Navy in quantities were expected. Why Army Is Favored. Three factors contributed to the edge Army held in the betting. | First was®the advantage in all- around ability held by the West Point | backfield, with Monk Meyer's tdple-‘ | threat monkeyshines the big gun in | the attack, ably supported by Ed Grove, Bill Groh and Clinton True. | Second was the eight-pound per man | | weight advantage packed by the Army line—the forward wall that stopped | Yale's fast forwards and held Notre | Dame’s charging advance. And third was the dry fleld, which distinctly favored the lighter West Point ball-carrying brigade. On the other hand, Army had only | | some 19 regulars of first-class caliber | compared to the shock-troop strength of Navy's squad, three deep in every position. Although the Annapolis backfield was below the par of its 1934 ag- gregation and contained no such bril- liant star as Buzz Borries, Coach Tom | Hamilton, nevertheless, had a bench full of experienged performers who have seen action in virtually every game this year. Fine Navy Halfbacks. In John Schmidt and Tom King Hamilton has a fine pair of halfbacks, both veterans. Schmidt also is a triple-threater, but he doesn't have| the ability of Meyer. Completing the Navy starting backfield were Dick Pratt at quarter and Frank Case at full, both holdovers. In the lines, however, rested the result of the fray. Both Hamilton and Gar Davidson, Army's pilot, ad- mitted as much. Navy was unable to hold Notre Dame's charges this year, and lost, 14-0, while Army held them even. Army smeared the Yale offensive for a 14-8 win, while the Elis nosed out Navy, 7-6. But as always in this traditional contest comparative records mean nothing. That was made elear only as late as a year ago when Slade Cutter booted the fleld goal that. gave Navy a 3-0 victory. Before the elevens take the field their brothers from West Point and land, Me., sailed from Boston for Al- bany, N. Y., after discharging cargo. District Pledges Support In National Safety Drive William A. Van Duzer Wires Council (See GAME, Page 3.) Capital Gladly Joins in War Against Accidents. Traffic Deaths to November 30—102; Same Period, 1934—118 Convinced of the value of an educational campaign in the interest of traffic safety as waged by The Evening Star, the District of Columbia has promised an active participation in the National Safety Council’s big program to reduce highway accidents 35 per cent by the end of 1940. The five-year drive, sponsored by the Chicago council, to start January 1, will seek through application of 38,000 lives. ‘The Chicago council's headquarters | at 20 North Wacker drive makes pub- lic an enthusiastic telegram from William A. Van Duzer, director of the District of Columbia Department that have arisen in my mind and all of ¢hem have laughed at me” - » tof Motor Vehicles-and Traffic, as fol- A S intelligent methods, proved by experience, to save at least — lows: “We gladly join the National Safety Council in its declaration of war against highway accidents. What is WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION B0, 3200000 AT WORK, F.ER.A. IS ENDED; BURDEN SHIFTED Roosevelt Address Hit by Fletcher as “Political Propaganda.” RELIEF EXPENDITURES IN STATES DEFENDED Fleming Knows Nothing of Source of President's “Bank Advice,” He Says. BACKGROUND— Created on May 12, 1933, with initial appropriation of $500,000,000, Federal Emergency Relief Admine- istration became greatest dis- penser of charity in history of America. Under energetic Admin- istrator Hopkins, agency has spent gore than $3,000,000,000; served as “parent” for C. W. A., Surplus Re- lief Corporation, and others: marked for discontinuance with conception of works program, spirit will go marching 6n in W. P. A. ‘The flow of Federal relief funds to the States will stop abruptly tomor- row when the administration’s goal of providing 3,500,000 jobs for the un- employed is reached and the F. E. R. A. comes to its long-heralded end. Announcement of the complete lig- uidation of F. E. R. A. came as an anti-climax to President Roosevelt's Atlanta speech yesterday in which he said the Government's job objective had been virtually attained, and gave assurance that the days of lavish ex- penditures had passed With the end of F. E. R. A, W. P. A. will stand as the Government'’s re- lief unit, and the responsibility for the needy, aside from the 3,500,000 on work relief, will be turned back to the local governments. F. E. R. A, since its set-up in Ma; 1933, has spent more than $3,000,00 000 in alleviating suffering, and its death, by coincidence, comes during the absence from Washington of not only the President but Relief Admin- istrator Harry L. Hopkins. Both, how- | ever, were in touch with developments. Attack by Fletcher. Administration leaders found in the end of F. E. R. A. as well as the Presi- dent’s speech many reasons for making | favorable comment. The only serious attack came from Henry P. Fletcher, chairman of the Republican Nationa! Committee, who described Mr. Roose- velt's address as “sheer political prop- aganda.” “The sudden interest in economy now shown by Candidate Roosevelt,” | he declared, “springs not from a de- sire to cease his political spending and squandering but from his tardy reali- zation that the long-suffering citizens are about to call a halt.” But to Chairman Buchanan of the House Appropriations Committee the speech was & “splendid review” of Mr. Roosevelt’s “accomplishments.” “I do mot believe,” he said, “that the President’s address was as much a campaign speech as it was an at- tempt to assure the people that the administration is not going to spend any more than it has to effect re- covery.” One of the features of the Presi- dent's speech which attracted much attention in Washington was his state- ment that bankers advised him back in the dark days of 1933 that the public debt could safely be extended to between 55 and 70 billion dollars. Bank Advice Discussed. Robert V. Fleming, president of the Riggs National Bank, who recently was elected head of the American Bankers’ Association, said he did not know the source of this advice and felt certain no officials of his organi- zation had given such estimates. That statement also stirred Chair- man Fletcher, who pointed out the daily average deficit since July 1 through November 15 was $12.865,000, and asked: “Will the President take the coun- try into his confidence and name the bankers who said in 1933 that the country could stand a debt of between 55 and 70 billion dollars?” ‘Taking issue with still another por- tion of the President’s fiscal discus- sion, Fletcher said: “The statement of the President that the so-called recoverable assets will be used for the purpose of re- ducing the public debt is misleading. These assets so far as they are re- coverable at all are not available for the reduction of the public debt so long as the Government operates at & deficit.” Referring to Mr. Roosevelt's re- marks on the credit of the Govern- ment, Fletcher said the President probably referred to the “low rate of interest at which the Government is operating.” “This rate of interest he con- tended, “is the result of the admin- istration's manipulation of the mar- ket for Government bonds and its forcing of obligations upon our com- mercial banks. $ “Credit of U. S. Good.” “But the credit of the United States is an entirely different thing from the credit of the Roosevelt administra- tion. * * * Mr. Roosevelt continually confuses the United States of Amer- ica and the American Government with his own temporary and experi- mental administration.” Announcing the liquidation of F. E. R. A, Aubrey Williams, assistant chief of W. P. A. and F. E. R. A, said the entire 3,500,000 unemployed would be at work by tonight. He conceded that direct relief would be continued in December—that the final allotments made yesterday may be used next month for what has been called the “dole.” ‘Two problems, however, still face the work relief high command-—one transitory and the other permamwent. They are: 1. Some able-bodied needy must continue to receive the dole for & time in localities where job quotas have not been filled, while everywhere delay in actual payment of work- relief salaries will require similar ex- 5 e 29, | Edith Maxwell | murder case in the nearby town of BOY KILLS FATHER INNEW WISE GASE Whipping Murder Is Similar to Shotgun Slaying. By the Associated Press. BIG STONE GAP, Va., November 30.—A 16-year-old Wise County boy.‘ charged with the shotgun slaying of | his father in their Wildcat Valley shack, today told a story of self-| defense, paralleling the account given | by the 21-year-old defendant in the celebrated Edith Maxwell whipping | Wise. The boy is Abram Falin, who told | Deputy Sheriff Dan Bostic upon voluntarily surrendering last night, | that he slew his father, L. N. Falin, when the latter knocked him down | and threatened to kill him with a | pistol. The officer said he found the elder | Falin lying face downward, a 32-| caliber revolver in one hand, at the house. The gun had not been fired. | The mountaineer's son was quoted by Bostic as saying that his father | had become enraged ¢t him in an| argument over the family automobile. | Gash on Head Is Treated. The boy today nursed a large head gash, which was treated by Dr. J. A.| Gilmer here last night, as he awaited transfer from the Big Stone Gap lock- up to Wise, the county seat. There he will be placed in the same jail with Miss Maxwell, a school teacher, who last week was sentenced to 25| years' imprisonment for killing her father, Trigg Maxwell, in resisting a | whipping. Like the school teacher, who claimed her blacksmith father was “roaring drunk” when she hit him with a slip- per heel, young Falin said his father was Intoxicated, Bostic stated. The deputy said he noticed “the| old man had been drinking” when the | latter came to see him near 5 p.m. yesterday relative to service of a war- rant charging a Scott County man with breaking into Falin's small store. “I didn't think then that he was drunk enough to lock up,” the officer explained. ‘The boy came back to Big Stone Gap last night and Dr. Gilmer stitched up the cut in his head., He then surrendered to Bostic. Argued About Car. ‘The argument which preceded the slaying, Abram was quoted by Bostic as saying, began when the Falins’ motor car broke down on the road a half mile from their home. “The old man accused the boy of letting the water in the car run dry, but the boy said that the breakdown was caused by the leaking of grease around the spark plugs,” Bostic said. “When they got to the house on foot the old man hit the boy over the head with a gun and swore he was going to kill him,” the officer said. Bostic said the boy got up from the floor and went into another room to get a double-barreled shotgun. Com- ing from the room he met his father, who had the pistol in his hand, and fired. His father fell mortally wounded. “The boy told me that his father shot first, but none of the cart- ridges in the pistol had been fired when I took it from Falin’s hand,” the officer said. Cases Are Similar. The case resembled in & number of aspects the Maxwell one. The comely college-educated young woman contended at her trial that she “loved and respected” her father and hit him with a high-heeled slip. per only after he threatened her with & knife and seized her by her hair at their home in Pound, Va., the night of July 21. X ---B-14 -6-7-9-10 Comics __. Cross-word Puzzle Lost and Found ¢ Foening Star SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1935—THIRTY PAGES. %# | REALLY MUST CULTIVATE GEORGE AND FIND OUT How HE SQUELCHES Philippine Status Raises Problem in League Sanctions By the Assoclated Press. GENEVA, November 30.—The new status of the Philippines today raised | a problem for the League of Nations | general staff handling sanctions against Italy. ‘The question was asked whether the island should be treated as an inde- pendent state and a non-member of the League, or whether Manila will | continue to be advised through Wash- | ington. The matter was left to the prefdent of the committee to work out, prob- ably in consultation with United States officials. The committee is chiefly in- terested in the Philippines because of the rubber production there. France announced all its colonies and protectorates are fulfilling the sanctions terms excepting Morocco. Great Britain is studying whether sanctions can be applied to places | like the Sudan and Rhodesia. PERSIAN MINSTER LODGES PROTEST Demands Arresting Officer Be Punished—Hull Ex- presses Regret. Punishment for the Elkton, Md. policeman who handcuffed him lnd! otherwise “insulted” him was de- manded today by the Persian Minister, Ghaffar K. Djalal, in making a for- mal protest to Secretary of e Hull. | The Minister was arrested on a speeding charge at Elkton Wednesday. Secretary Hull expressed this Gov- ernment’s extreme regret over the in- cident and promised to make a thorough investigation. Djalal left the State Department satisfied, he told newsmen, with the steps that had been taken. Demands Punishment. He added, however, that he con- sidered punishment of the arresting officer would be necessary to give him full satisfaction for the indignities which he said he suffered. The Persian envoy said he gave a| brief outline of the incident to the | Secretary and would supply a detailed letter of explanation to the State De- partment outlining the improprieties to which he said he was subjected. Secretary Hull had said earlier at his press conference that he regretted extremely the incident, regardless of the circumstances involved. He has asked Gov. Harry Nice of Maryland for an official report, which un- doubted will be followed by a formal apology from this Government. Foreign envoys enjoy immunity from arrest. ‘Was Passenger in Car. ‘The Persian- Minister complained to newsmen that both he and his wife were insulted by the arresting officer when his machine, en route to New York from Washington, was stopped. “I was a mere passenger, sitting in the back seat,” the envoy said. “If the officer had to arrest my car, his duty was to proceed against my driver. “All T did was to ask to be al- lowed to communicate ‘with the State Depertment and I was told to ‘Shut up, you damn fool.’ I was then pushed back into the car and handcuffed. “He called my wife a foreigner when she sought to protest. “But,” he added with a smile, “my wife happens to be English and she (See DJALAL, Page 3.) Boars, Half Wild, to Be Hunted In Wisconsin Woods Tomorrow By the Associated Press. SPOONER, Wis., November 30— You've read about elephant hunts, lion hunts, tiger hunts and ’‘coon hunts on the banks of the Mississippi, but today's attraction is a (50 per cent) wild boar hunt in the woods of Wisconsin. Wild boars, which furnished the sport for royalty back in the middle ages, had to be raised to order for this 1935 (50 per cent) wild boar hunt by J. D. Eastwald, veterinarian, who crossed one wild boar purchased from & 200 with 10 domesticated sows. Eastwald, chairman of the Wash- burn County Board, invited 30 friends P The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. | the vicinity of the Loring home, at| | 3110 Beech street, Mountain Rainier, | Eastwald said hunting boars in France (P) Means Associated Press. PR REDMOND AGAIN 10 BE QUESTIONED Loring Case Prisoner’s Auto Said to Bear Stains Resembling Blood. BACKGROUND— On November 4, two days before wedding date, Corinna Loring. 26, public stenographer, disappeared from Mount Rainier home. On November 9 she was found dead in nearby woods, cruelly battered. Police of Mount Rainier and Prince George® County reported no prog- ress at solution of mystery, called in Lieut. Itzel, ace Baltimore de- tective. Relatives, suitors, friends questioned, many clues studied; not even motive yet established. | Although virtually eliminated by | police as & suspect in the Corinna | Loring murder, Victor Harrison Red- mond, 42-year-old Washington res-| taurant manager, was expected to be questioned again today as a result of the discovery of stains in his small | coupe. Lieut. Robert W. Hicks, criminol- ogist, assigned to the case, found the stains on the canvas top and seat| covers during an examination of Red- mond’s car. He also announced he had located two pairs of women's gloves beneath the seat, together with two single gloves. Held in Assault Case. Redmond is in the Marlboro jail awaiting hearing on a charge of at- tempting to assault a young girl in Sunday. Lieut. Hicks planned to examine the stains on Redmond’s coupe today in an effort to determine whether they were caused by blood. The gloves also are to be shown to members of the Loring family to determine if they belonged to Corinna. Hicks also sald he found 14 strands of hair in the car, none of which matched Miss Loring’s. He said it would be about 24 hours before he could determine the nature of the stains. While Hicks is running down the latest clue in the case Lieut. Joseph Itzel, Baltimore detective, directing the investigation from Upper Marl- boro, plans to question several per- sons who believe they have “leads” that may be of benefit to police. He hopes to return later to Baltimore for the week end. State’s Attorney Alan Bowie said those to be questioned today included two Mount Rainier women who re- ported seeing a sedan being driven toward Saddleback Ridge November 4, the night Miss Loring disappeared. Her garroted body was found there five days later. Cleared of Suspicion. Redmond, who denied any connec- tion with the Loring murder, was vir- tually cleared of suspicion yesterday when two members of the Loring fam- ily, George A. Loring, father of Co- rinna, and Leo Lo Jacono, her brother- in-law, viewed him in the Marlboro Jail. Both said they had never seen the man before. Police say he has been identified’ by several children, however, as the man who attempted to grab a small girl from the street in Mount Rainier last Sunday. Baltimore police arrested Redmond as he was sliding down the rainspout of his father's home. His automobile was abandoned near his Washington home, in the 6900 block of Piney Branch road, and taken to the sixth precinct, where Lieut. Hicks ex- amined it. (Picture on Page A-2.) A captain during the World War, convinced him it was “the greatest sport in the world.” “This first hunt is strictly an ex- perimental proposition,” Eastwald sald. “The number of animals re- leased will depend on how quickly they are run down, but at least six will be set loose.” He said only the male half-breed hogs, weighing more than 100 pounds, ‘would be released. “There’s no ques- Yesterday’s Circulation, 131,286 Some Returns Not Yet Recelved. TWO CENTS. TAX COMMITTEE ASKS PUBLIC HELP IN SETTING LEVIES Increase to Provide Perma- nent Improvements Seen Needed Here. S S e COMMISSIONERS’ AID ALSO SOUGHT IN REPORT Present Low Level of Funds Available for Capital Work Cited by Surveyors. The District’s Special Tax Commit- tee today asked the Commissioners and the public to decide how much taxes should be boosted to meet what shall be determined to be the desired amount of the program of permanent improvements annually for the next 10 years. In a partial report to the Commis= sioners, released at noon today, the committee outlined the trends of ris- 0 ing maintenance cost and the present low level of funds available for Capital improvements, such as schools, li- braries and hospitals, and indicated the need of a considerable increase in revenues. It showed an outline of expected permanent improvement needs calls for a calculated average of between $7,500,000 and $8,500,000 per year for the next decade, whereas the current appropriation allews only $5,500,000 for Capital outlay. Would Determine Policy. ‘The committee, however, told the Commissioners the question of how much should be allowed annually for such expenditures was “a matter of policy,” which should be determined before any suggestions were presented by the committee as to a8 new tax program. The group recommended that the report be made public and that citie | zens generally and responsible or- ganizations in particular be requested to give the Commissioners their sug- gestions on these two questions: “What are the future necessities of the District as to maintenance and | operating expenses? “What are the future necessities of the District as to capital outlay?” The committee also recommended that a public hearing be held at an early date. The committee said it would then be in order for it to con< sider a tax program to raise the reve enue required. Gauge for Revenues. The committee revealed i had started off on this premise, that the propriety of any tax must be mease ured by its necessity. “Your committee does not believe that taxes should be increased, either by increasing the rates of the present taxes or by the introduction of new forms of tax, merely because the sug- gested taxes could be borne by the tax payers, or because the government could spend the money if it had it.* The committee then gave a digest of its findings as to trends in financer during the past 15 years. It also see lected & period of 10 vears for the future for which to gauge expected increased needed revenues. Historical data showed that main- | tenance and operating expenses have | increased at the rate of 3.6 per cent per year in the past 16 years, from some $17,300.000 in 1920 to approxi- mately $35,600,000 for the fiscal year 1936, or a total increase for the 16 years of about $18,200,000. In other words, the committee found that if all | other items of expense, except schools, welfare, police and fire, continued to increase at the same rate as they have in the past 16 years the ine crease would amount to $200,000 per year, School Increases Cited. . The committee set out schools, wele fare, police and fire as the major items and said any attempt to hold main- tenance and operating costs to their present levels means to hold the cost of these departments to their present sums. To offset any suggestion in this direction, the committee pointedly stated the total enroliment in schools had increased about 50 per cent in 15 years. As to welfare cost, the committes said that while the cost of emergency relief may decrease, “no one can tell to what extent a permanent problem of relief will remain.” The committee also pointedly listed the fact District department heads had proposed for the 1937 fiscal year budget & capital improvement pro= gram to cost $11,700,000, whereas the sum appropriated for the present year was less than half of that. e VAN DUZER ASSAILS CARELESS DRIVERS Traffic Director Cites 10 Killed, 394 Injured in District Since November 1. Pointing out 10 persons have been killed and 394 injured in automobile accidents in the District since No- vember 1, Traffic Director William A. Van Duzer today unleashed a vigorous attack on the “carelessness and lack of judgment” of Washing- ton drivers. Van Duzer defended women drivers, pointing out they constitute 25 per cent of the total number of automobile operators and have been involved in only 7%, per cent of the accidents. “They are safer drivers because they are more careful. They dom't take the chances men take,” he said. Within the last 24 hours alone, Van Duzer pointed out, one person was killed and 16 injured in 46 accidents. Asserting three of the fatal scei- dents occurred on wet streets, Van Duzer sald drivers apparently have tion about their being wild,” he said. ‘The wildness of the game was dis- counted by State Conservation Direc- tor H. W. Mackenzie, who said an- imals so bred were hardly more than ) no judgment as to proper adjust- ment of brakes or the speed at whioh mshmnd‘ d run their automobiles on y days. ' il There has been a total of 801 dents. snoa Nosemsber M