Evening Star Newspaper, March 5, 1936, Page 1

WEATHER. (U 8. Weather Bureau Porecast.) Fair and colder, with lowest temperature about 28 degrees tonight; tomorrow fair and colder; moderate north and north- west winds. Temperatures—Highest, 74, at 3:45 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 45, at 5 a.m. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News today. Closing New York Markets, Page 16 No. 33,546. CALL FOR TROOPS SENT GOVERNOR IN NEW YORK STRIKE Gov. Lehman Refers Appeal of Apartment Dwellers to Police Commissioner. SPREAD TO MIDTOWN AREA IS IN PREPARATION Bambrick Declares Zone Will Be Extended to Brooklyn and Queens Tomorrow. By the Associated Press. ALBANY, N. Y., March 5.—About & dozen appeals for National Guard or | increased police protection have been telegraphed to Gov. Herbert H. Leh- man by apartment dwellers and real | estate owners involved in the building service employes’ strike in New York City, the Governor's office reported today. Lehman referred the requests for further police protection to New York City's police commissioner, Lewis J. Valentine, his secretary, Walter T.| Brown, said. Brown did not disclose names of any of the persons appealing to the Governor. STRIKE SPREAD ORDERED, Bambrick Prepares to Call Out Areas Not Yet Affected. NEW YORK, March 5 (#).—Carry- ing out his promise of a “‘fight to the finish' following unsuccessful peace | negotiations, James J. Bambrick, leader | of the building workers’ strike, today. | ordered his district lieutenants to pre- | pare to call out employes in three sec- tions of the city, one of them the big midtown office building area. In the midtown or Grand Central district are located some of the city's largest skyscrapers, notably Rocke- feller Center, the Empire State Build- ing and the Chrysler Tower. Orders for the strike call also went out to field operatives in two other sectors as yet unaffected by the walk- out—Harlem and Washingten Heights. Tomorrow, Bambrick declared, the strike zone would be extended to Brooklyn and Queens. He added that | he had been notified by officials of the hotel employes’ union that work- ers in some of the city's largest hos- telries would join the walkout to- morrow. Decline to Arbitrate. Earlier real estate owners, through representatives, declined to arbitrate on the closed shop issue, one of three | demands the union is making. To the realty interest, Mayor La Guardia, who has strenuously sought & settlement of the strike, said: “I want to appeal to the real estate interests to consider this offer * * * “The minute the arbitration offer is, accepted the union will call off the! strike and go back to work. I cannot | see how any reasonable persons can reject any such offer.” | “The union is prepared to carry this fight to a finish,” Bambrick said. “We | will now redouble our efforts. | “The union’s offer to arbitrate was rejected. The union, in the interest of the general public, offered to take : the entire matter, involving points of dispute, and send it to an arbi-| trator * * *. “If the real estate industry will ac- cept that offer, we are confident that the various banks and the principal real estate owners will immediately see the fairness of the offer. If they will, in the interest of the general public, accept our offer at arbitration, we will immediately call off the strike.” Operators Stand Fast, So far as real estate operators are concerned, negotiations are at an end, said Walter Gordon Merritt, counsel to the Realty Advisory Board on Labor Relations. He said the board would not con- sider arbitration of any sort, and in reply to the mayor's appeal declared: “If he wants us to go down to City Hall again, we will naturally have to go.” Commenting upon the unsuccessful parley which broke down early this (See STRIKE, Page 4.) MOVE TO OVERRIDE SEED LOAN VETO DEFEATED Eenate Agriculture Committee Asks 330,000,000 From Relief Funds for Farmers. By the Associated Press. The Senate Agriculture Committee rejected a motion today by Chairman Smith, Democrat, of South Carolina to report President Roosevelt’s veto of the $50,000,000 seed-loan bill to the Senate for a vote to override. The vote was 7 to 3. The committee adopted a substitute proposal that the President be re- quested to make immediately avail- able $30,000,000 in emergency re- lief funds for 1936 seed loans to farmers. This motion carried by an 8-to-1 vote. Mr. Roosevelt has said $30,000,000 would be allotted, but so far has allowed only $7,000,000. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. BULLETIN (Copyright. 1936, by the Associated Press.) BERLIN, March 5.—A high gove ernment official said today that Germany and Italy are seriously considering denunciation of the Locarne pact on the ground that it had been violated by the other contracting. parties. This source said that interna- tional developments next week will determine whether they will make an actual joint denunciation, and if so what consequences they will draw from their announcement. The Locarno pact, a series of seven treaties signed in 1925, guare antees the safety of Western Eu- rope and provides for mutual as- sistance by the signing parties against aggression. Parties to it are Germany, Great Britain, France, Belgium, Italy, Poland and Czechoslovakia. HIROTA, WAR FOE, CALLED TO FORM CABINET IN JAPAN Foreign Minister Is Recom- mended to Emperor by Prince Saionii. BACKGROUND— Modern Japan faced its great- est crisis last Wednesday when 1,000 Army insurgents, striking quietly before daybreak, killed three government officials to “re- move corrupt influences from around the throne.” Premier Okada, at first believed slain with the others, escaped when the as- sassins shot his brother-in-law by mistake. The uprising grew out of impa- tience of young militarists with relatively conservative policies of the elder statesmen. Selection of Foreign Minister Hirota to form new cabinet viewed as concession to demands for naval equality and more aggressive policy on Asiatic mainland. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, March 5—Emperor Hiro- hito charged Foreign Minister Koki Hirota today with the task of at- tempting to form a new cabinet to | liquidate Japan’'s governmental crisis, | precipitated by last week’s militarist attack on the Okada ministry. ‘The foreign minister was sum- moned to the palace this afternoon after the elder statesman, Prince Saionji, was received by the Emperor in an audience and recommended that Hirota be named to head a govern- ment to replace that of Premier Kei- suke Okada. Hirota’s efforts to form a cabinet progressed rapidly and at 10 p.m. he announced that cabinet posts were nearly half filled as follows: Premier, Koki Hirota; foreign affairs, Shigeru Yoshida; navy, Osmai Nagano; war, Count Juichi Terauchi: finance, Eiichi Baba, president of the Hypothec Bank, and justice, Naoshi Obara. New Privy Seal Keeper. Outside the cabinet, Kurahei Yuasa was named to succeed the late Vis- count Admiral Makoto Saito, assas- sinated last week, as lord keeper of the privy seal. Tsuneo Matsudaira was named minister of the imperial household to succeed Yuasa. The father of the new war minister, ‘Terauchi, was the late famous fleld marshal, Count Masakata Terauchi, the first Japanese governor general of Korea, war minister in four cabinets and premier from 1916 to 1918, Earlier, Prince Saionji had con- ferred with Admiral Mineo Osumi, minister of the navy, and Gen. Yoshi- yuki Kawashima, minister of war, presumably seeking the views of the army and navy concerning appoint- ment of Hirota to the premiership. ‘The foreign minister asked the Em- peror for time to reply to the com- mand that he seek a ministry, and left the palace. He was the Em- peror's sceond choice, Prince Fumi- maro Konoye having declined the re- sponsibility of the premiership on grounds of ill health. Selection Surprise. Hirota was distinctly a surprise selection, not having been mentioned previously in speculation over the premiership. Although he has sometimes opposed expansionist plans of extreme mili- tarists, Hirota has been popular with the majority of ‘army and navy ele- ments, and the strong statement of foreign policy he made to the Parlia- ment January 21 strengthened these ties. ‘Moreover, his youthful connections with patriotic societies apparently made him acceptable to powerful Right wing groups. Hirota, as for- eign minister in the Okada ministry, which continues in office until a new (See JAPAN, Page 4.. A ., — Nazi Terrorist Sentenced. VIENNA, March 5 (#).—Viktor Klima, a Nazi engineer, was sentenced to five years imprisonment today when found guilty of attempting to blow up a long-distance telephone exchange and gas mains in a terroristic plot. U.S. Buys New Canadian Silver; Whole Output Mayy Be Absorbed By the Assoclated Press. Secretary Morgenthau said today his agreement to buy newly mined Canadian silver through the Bank of Canada was expected to absorb the Dominion’s entire output. The production ,was estimated by Treasury officials at about 16,000,000 ounces per year. Morgenthau said the Treasury would fix the price to be paid for the metal rather than to be governed by the prevailing New York price.. The Treasury figure is about one-fourth A ) cent an ounce higher than that quoted in New York. The Secretary said it was “per- fectly possible” that similar arrange- ments might be negotiated with South American silver-producing countries. This Government now has an ar- rangement with Mexico to purchase that republic’s entire output of the newly mined metal. 2 ounce—the coinage value, @h WASHINGTON, U. 5. WILL RETIRE JIMILLION ACRES 10 PROTECT SOIL Wallace Outlines New Farm Conservation Program to Leaders. 270,000,000 ACRES ARE LEFT FOR MAIN CROPS “Moderate Payment” to Be Made, Secretary Says—Share Crop- pers to Get Cash, Too. By the Assoclated Press, CHICAGO, March 5—Removal from production of approximately 30,- 000,000 acres of soil, depleting crops and an increase of that emount in soil building crops was disclosed to- day by Secretary of Agriculture Wal- lace as the 1936 goal of the adminis- tration's soil conservation program. A broad outline of the program was submitted by the Secretary in a state- ment read simultaneously before re- glonal conferences of agricultural leaders here and at Memphis, Tenn. The removal, Wallace said, would reduce the soil depleting acreage from a yearly average of 300,000,000 ecres to 270,000,000 acres in 1936. This, he said, would be ample at average yields to provide the Nation a supply of food and fiber to domestic consumption in the 1920-1929 period. 270,000,000 Acres Left. Farm leaders here said the 270,- 000,000 acres left in the production of major crops would be epproximately the same amount farmed last year under the A. A. A. crop reduction pro- gram, Similarly, the 30,000,000 acres to be devoted to legumes and similar crops approximates the number of acres retired last year. A classification of crops into two divisions—soil building and sofl ex- hausting—has been worked out and will be submitted .o the two meetings, said Wallace. A two-point system of conservation payments was proposed, the Secretary said. “Moderate Payment.” First, a moderate payment would be made for each acre, up to a maximum, planted to soil-conserving crops. Second, a larger soil-improvement payment per acre would be made for | land shifted from soil-depleting crops to soll-conserving crops, with the pro- vision that this payment be made only up to a specified percentage. The actual amounts which could be paid farmers per acre would vary ace cording to the productivity of the soil, said Wallace. In the South it would vary according to the soil-depleting crop from which diversion was made. Farmers renting for cash would re- ceive the entire payment. In the case of farms occupied by share tenants or share croppers, the proposal was for the division of payments between land- | lords and those actually occupying the | land. $470,000,000 Available. The “definite top” available for the conservation program this year, said Wallace, was $470,000,000. “If soil payments are made at the | rate of 75 cents to $1 an acre, these | payments would total from $75,000,000 ! to $100,000,000,” the Secretary ex- plained. “Allowance has to be made for ad- ministrative expenses in Washington and in the fleld. On this basis, there would be left for distribution as soil improvement payments somewhere in the neighborhood of $350,000,000.” This $350,000,000, divided among the 30,000,000 acres to be shifted to less (See FARM, Page 5.) SENATE RATIFIE LEAVE BILL REPORT Only House Action Needed to Send Measure to White House. ‘The Government employe leave bill advanced another step toward enact- ment this afternoon when the Senate ratified the conference report. Action was taken unanimously and without debate when the question was called up by Chairman Bulow of the Ctvil Service Committee. The House probably will act on the agreement later today or tomorrow, and the bills will then be ready for presidential signature. One bill increases annual leave from 15 days to 26 days, exclusive of Sun- days and holidays, with a limit of 60 days on the accumulation of unused annual leave. While the other bill reduces sick leave from 30 to 15 days a year, it applies this kind of leave more uni- formly throughout the service, and permits unused sick leave to be acu- mulated up to 90 days. Authority also is given department heads to advance 30 days, in addition to accrued leave in cases of serjous illness. Both the bills will take effect as of last January 1, under the conference agreement, instead of the Senate pro- posal to wait until July 1. Although the granting of additional leave for overtime work has been elim- inated, the Civil Service Commission is directed to keep a record of the amount of overtime from July 1 to the end of this calendar year, so the next Congress will know the extent of over- a’.fi and give further consideration 3 ) TWO CHILDREN BURNED WAVERLY, Tenn., March § () — Two children—a month-old girl and a 2-year-old burned to death last night when fire destroyed their farm home 12 miles west of here. e Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C, CUTS IND. . BILL BACKED BY TABER ASGOOD FOR CITY Admits He Has Not Read Report of Hearings on Measure. ASKS HOUSE TO GIVE “FAIR” CONSIDERATION Says Health Items Slashed Be- cause Money Not Econom- ically Spent. BY JAMES E. CHINN. A prelude to the impending battle in the House over the “Blantonized” appropriation bill for the District came today in the form of a tribute to the work of the subcommittee which framed the measured by Represent- ative Taber of New York. ‘Taber, ranking Republican member of the full Appropriations Committee, defended the cuts made by the sub- committee and appealed to the House to give the bill “fair” consideration. He admitted, however, he had not read the report of the hearings on the bill and that he was not an expert on District affairs. Taber opened his speech by declar- ing it is traditional for the press and various organizations in Washington to “berate” every chairman of the subcommittee on appropriations which handles the District supply bill. He also pointed out that a storm of pro- test followed the House action sev- eral years ago in passing the four Mapes tax increase bills. What Committee Did for D. C. “Everywhere I've looked I have seen articles indicating that the daylights had been cut out of the District funds,” he said. “I do want the House and the people of the District to know what this committee has done for them.” He then explained that the bill calls for $1,650,210 in excess of the appro- priation for the current fiscal year, and that it raised the Budget Bureau total by $908,283. “I believe the subcommittee studied the situation in the District and the cuts recommended represented money that wasn't necessary in the interest of the District.” Health Cut Was Economy. Representative Snell, minority leader of the House, interrupted Taber to point out that the criticism that im- pressed him related to the cuts in the items for the protection of public health. “Those are things that the people of the District have to pay for,” he declared. “Why can't we give it to them?” ‘Taber explained that slashes were made in the public health items be- cause the subcommittee did not be- lieve money appropriated for that purpose was being spent economically. Representatives Bankhead, majority leader, pleaded with the House not to offer amendments increasing their | recommended appropriations without fair consideration of the needs. Mrs. Norton to Lead. A fight to rectify some of the major injustices in the “Blantonized” 1937 District appropriation bill was expected to be started in the House today when amendments to the measure are con- sidered. Efforts are to be made, it is under- stood, to restore the Federal obliga- tion toward the expenses of the Na- tion's Capital to the $5,700,000 figure appropriated for the current fiscal year, and to increase a number of (See SUPPLY BILL, Page 5.) — NORWEGIAN FEARFUL HIS LAND MAY JOIN WAR Former Premier Charges Big Pow- ers Increase Danger and Urges Scandinavian Stand. By the Associated Press. OSLO, Norway, March 5.—Dr. Johan Ludwig Mowinckel, former premier of Norway and former president of the League of Nations Council, charged to- day that the big powers were increas- ing the danger of war. He said the conditions under which Norway en- tered the League of Nations were bro- ken by the big powers’ armament and secret treaties, He made the statement in a vigor- ous debate in the Storting (Parlia- ment) concerning Norway’s obliga- tions toward the League. “It is doubtful,” declared the vet- eran statesman, “as to whether Nor- way can continue her traditional neu- trality and maintain her isolation if war breaks out. “If there is war, all Scandinavian countries should issue & joint declara- tion refusing to follow Europe’s war The Noon ‘Edition of The Star is the only newspaper in Washington containing - the day report and news wirephotos of the Associated Press with all of .the news up to the minute of going to press before 12 o'clock. The sale of the new BLUE STREAK edition is now firmly established, newsstands, city-wide. If you are not able to get a copy promptly, please advise the Circulation Department, Na- tional 5000. U.S. CEASES FIGHT TO CONDEMN LAND ™ < Seremen | 0BBY UNIT SHOW Appeals From Court Bans : Senate Probers, Under Fire, on Slum Clearance Method Are Withdrawn. The New Deal today withdrew its | fight to win Supreme Court approval for Federal condemnation proceed- ings in low-cost housing projects in & sudden decision to transfer to local governments responsibility for acquir- ing land. J The shift in policy was made known by P. W. A. housing officials soon after Solicitor General Stanley Reed asked, and received, Supreme Court permission to withdraw Government appeals from lower court decisions forbidding Federal condemnation for slum clearance and low-cost housing Projects. Condemnation Ban Remains. ‘This action, growing out of projects in Louisville, Ky., and Detroit, left in effect the prohibition against Fed- | eral condemnation proceedings. While reminding that the existing decision against the Government ap- plies only to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals area, P. W. A. housing officials acknowledged no further Fed- eral suits will be filed. ‘Wherever municipalities are unable to defray all the costs of acquiring land for low-cost housing projects the Government will render financial as- sistance, housing officials said. “The Government’s action today does not affect the current slum clear- ance and housing program in any way,” they said. | ‘Th. future housing policy, hinging on obtaining land through local hous- ing authorities, however, is being worked out in the bill which Senator ‘Wagner of New York s now preparing for introduction in the Senate. Housing Projects Unaffected. ‘The 49 slum clearance and low cost | housing projects now being constructed | by P. W. A. at a cost of $130,000,000 remain unaffected. - Eight condemna- tion porceedings had been brought by the Government during the past 15 months, two in Atlanta, two in Mont- gomery, Ala,, three in Cleveland and one in Indianapolis. In each of these | cases the land was condemned by agreement with the owners as a/ method of obtaining title. In the District of Columbia the one | condemnation case pending never actually reached the court. Property owners in Southwest Washington, where P. W. A. was planning a slum clearance project, brought action in the District Supreme Court and suc- ceeded in thwarting the Government'’s move. SPAIN FINES WOMAN Slur Against New Premier Said to Have Occurred on Street. MADRID, March 5 (#).—The Span- ish government imposed a fine of 5,000 pesetas (about $650) yesterday upon Dona Maria Luisa Otalora, the wife of & son of Gen. Milans del Bosch, for an alleged slur upon the new Left premier, Manuel Azana, when she passed him in the street. “There goes that odious fellow,” the defendant was charged with saying. through newsboys and THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1936.—FORTY-SIX PAGES. Yoy BoYS OUGHT To KTEP THOSE, PETS OuTSIDE! 1 Consulate Refuses Douglas Fairbanks By the Associated Press. PARIS, March 5.—Attaches of the United States consulate refused today to marry Douglas Fairbanks, sr., movie actor, and Lady Ashley, former act- ress. The consulate officials told Fair- banks that they did not have the right to perform the ceremony. Previously French authorities had refused to make an exception for Fair- banks and Lady Ashley to the French | laws governing marriages. Friends of Fairbanks said the actor intended to try to get the ceremony performed in some other European country. TIRE SALE PRACTICE ORDERED STOPPED F. T. C. Tells Goodyear to Halt Price Favoritism to Sears-Roebuck. By the Associated Press. ‘The Federal Trade Commission to- day ordered the Goodyear Tire & and desist” from discriminating in price between Sears, Roebuck & Co. and Goodyear’s retail dealer customers for automobile tires. P. W. Litchfleld, Goodyear presi- dent, announced immediately his com- pany would appeal the decision to the Federal courts. “Were it permitted to stand,” he said, “the decision would wipe out a widely used trade practice under which a substantial proportion of the country’s total retail business is done.” Contract Expires in 1942. The company is ordered to stop selling the tires to Sears, Roebuck “at net realized prices, which are lower than the net realized prices at which the said respondent (Good- year) sells the same sizes of tires of comparable grade and quality to individual tire dealers or other pur- chasers.” At present, Goodyear has a contract with Sears-Roebuck expiring in 1942 which, the commission has alleged, gives that compeny benefits that have resulted in the destruction of small retail dealers, to whom the purported (See TIRES, Page 4.) e POST REMAINS OPEN Treasury Undersecretaryship Not to Be FiHed at Present. By the Associated Press. Secretary Morgenthau said today the post of Undersecretary of the Treasury will remain vacant for an indefinite period. The Treasury head is planning to leave Washington late this month, simultaneous with the President's planned fishing trip, for a short va- cation. He plans to visit Sea Island Beach in Georgia. Readers’ Guide Page. After Dark._-.eo.____B-6 Amusements _._______] B-16-17 Answers to Questions_..__A-8 Comics —oooeemeoo Editorial ... Washington Wayside_.._A-12 Women’s Features......C-4-5 " g Star and Wirephoto Services. Circulation Over 140,000 Rubber Co. of Akron, Ohio, to “cease | F¥P WIRES DESTROYED Defend Their Seizure of 5,000,000. BY REX COLLIER. Raked by a barrage of criticism | amination of 5,000,000 private tele- | grams, the Senate Lobby Committee | today sought to show this action was Justified because utility interests de- stroyed important “lobby” telegrams. ‘Through sentatives of the Crew-Levick Co., subsidiary of Henry L. Doherty’s Cities Service Co., the committee brought out that numerous telegrams reporting on a widespread campaign by company employes against the ‘Wheeler-Rayburn holding company bill last year were “burned or other- wise destroyed.” Chairman Black charged that not juntil the committee had obtained copies of the telegrams from the tele- | graph companies was it able to obtain | any information from Crew-Levick | admitting existence of such messages. | Rigorously Quizzed by Black. | N. G. Williams, division sales man- | ager in the Washington area for | Crew-Levick, testified, under rigor- ous examination by Chairman Black, | that orders were sent out to all em- | | ployes to get their relatives, friends and others to send letters and tele- ‘g;x‘lm opposing the holding company | i Each branch of the firm was in- structed to make reports twice a day | by telephone or telegraph on “letters | secured, telegrams sent or promises obtained.” It was a large number of such tele- graphic reports that company officials destroyed, it was testified “Is it just & coincidence that simi- | lar telegrams sent in this campaign | | all over the country by subsidiaries | | of the Cities Service Co. were de- stroyed?” inquired Black. Chambersburg Salesman on Stand. “I don't know,” replied Lloyd 8. | Cook, & salesman for Crew-Levick of | (See LOBBY, Page 3.) - ENGAGEMENT REPORT IS DENIED BY MRS. SABIN | “Unfounded and Untrue,” Social Leader Says of Dispatch She Would Wed Davis. “Unauthorized and unfounded” was the declaration made today by Mrs. Charles H. Sabin, prominent social | leader, in answer to press dispatches of yesterday announcing her engage- ment to Mr. Dwight W. Davis. The purported engagement was first announced by a New York newspaper, bui was almost as quickly denied by Mrs. Sabin, who at present is residing in Washington. (P) Means Associated Press. following disclosure of its mass ex- | interrogation of repre- | TWO CENTS. EAPERTS SUBMIT PLANS FOR 2 BIG ADDITIONAL LEVIES $446,000,000 Income anc $221,000,000 Farm Taxes Proposed. MERE SUGGESTIONS BY ADMINISTRATION Chairman Hill Says Treasury and Agriculture Suggestions Were Desired. | By the Associated Press. Administration experts submitted to a House Ways and Means Subcommit- tee today suggestions for raising up to $446,000,000 additional revenue from income taxes and $221,000,000 an- nually from farm processing taxes. Chairman Samuel B. Hill, Demo- crat, of Washington, emphasized to reporters that the figures and sched- | ules were mere suggestions for pose | sible sources of revenue submitted to the subcommittee because it wants | complete information on all methods of obtaining money to meet President Roosevelt's tax proposals. The income tax material came from Treasury experts, while Agriculture Department officials supplied the | processing tax estimates. | The Treasury experts, Hill said, also turned in figures to show how a 1 per cent general manufacturers’ excise | tax would bring in around $180,000,008 | a year, while a 5 per cent tax would | yield about $910,000,000. Application Limited. Hill said the proposed excise levies would not apply to liquor and tobacco, | already taxed, nor to food, clothing \ and medicine. The present yield from | excise taxes, he said, is about $380,- 000,000. In the income tax field, he said. it was estimated $45,000,000 would come in should the exemption of a single man be lowered from $1,000 to $800 and that of a married person from 1 $2,500 to $2.000. { Leaving exemptions as they are now, he said, and at the same time | boosting the normal tax from 4 to 6 | per cent, would add an estimated $121,000,000 to the Government's an= nual receipts. By lowering exemptions on surtaxes from $4,000 to $3,000, Hill asserted, and sharply increasing the rates in | income brackets up to $100,000, the ‘Treasury would get an extra $226,000,- , 000 annually. | (The normal tax as individual in- come now is 4 per cent; the surtax starts at 4 per cent and increases to 75 per cent on incomes of $5,000,000 and over.) “A combination of all these possi~ bilities if all income taxes would raise $446,000,000 additional,” he said. Farm Products Listed. Submitted by the Agriculture De= partment were proposed taxes on some 33 farm products and competing prod= ucts, or subdivisions of products. Some eight or nine commodities and prod- ucts were subject to the invalidated processing taxes. Included in the new list were wheat, | rye, flaxseed, hemp seed oil, perilla | oil, barley, oats, corn, hogs, cattle and | calves, sheep and lambs, paper bags, open mesh paper, rice, peanuts, sugar, ZEPPELIN ON TEST TRIP IN DENSE FOG Hugo Eckener Reports Wouldn't Believe It Worked So Well. By the Assoclated Press. FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany, March 5.—The immense new German Zeppelin, LZ129, took off in a dense fog this morning for test flight over Lake Constance and surrounding ter- ritory, with Comdr. Hugo Eckener at the controls. It landed after 2 hours and 52 minutes in the air. The famed commander of the Graf Zeppelin, reported to officials on the ground he “wouldn’t have believed it could work so well.” The first flight was made yesterday. The LZ129 had 85 persons on board today, including Ernerd Pick of the Zeppelin Works at Akron, Ohio. Pick announced the LZ129 had been insured for 6,500,000 marks (about $2,600,000), all with German firms. Human beings can be rated as ani- mals for experimental purposes, Con- troller General McCarl told the Secre- tary of Agriculture today in a decision in which he put his O. K. on an ex- penditure estimated at $350 for han- dling the two-legged “guinea pigs” at the Stantord University Hospital. The Agriculture Secretary had feared that the proposal might run afoul of a pre- vious decision by McCarl laying down barriers against payment for hair dye tests and blood transfusions, but the controller general said these were dif- ferent In asking for the money the depart- ment explained that the Bureau of Chemistry and Soils has been co-oper- ating since 1932 with the pharmacology department of the School of Medicine of Stanford, in San Francisco, in conducting toxicological and pharma- cological research on foods, seeds, in- secticidal and fungicidal materials and special chemical constituents derived from plant and other material. In these, animals have been used, with “remarkable results,” it added. Now, it was explained, “it is highly desirable to test certain of the insecti- cides to human subjects.” The only satisfactory means, it was continued, to do this is to put some patients in the university hospital, where a satisfac- tory and adequate control can be maintained. The hospitalisation ex- | the 4 Humans Animals,McCarl Holds, Allowing $350 for Experiments pense will be $3.50 a day and examina- tion of blood and other matter will cost $1 a day. 1 It was stipulated that the total cost shall not exceed $350 and the Secre- tary asked if the regular departmental appropriation would be available. Said McCarl: “Reimbursement for ‘services and supplies as may be neces- sary from time to time in the care and handling of experimental ani- mals’ is specifically authorized under the appropriation quoted. “The use of humans in lieu of ani- mals in the experiments and investi- gations required by the law, reported to be essential for the completion of the expepiments is proposed on a noa- personal service basis on substantially the same basis as for the care of the animals, that is, board, room and laboratory examinations. “No payment of salary is proposed and there is no privity between the Government and the human subjects selected. This does not constitute the employment of personal services and is not objectionable for the rea- sons stated in the decision you cite involving the temporary employment of a person to have her hair dyed with an advertised solution and of an operator to apply the treatment, or the decision cited therein involving the employment of persons for use in transfusion of blood.” »