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A2 xx BROWDER TESTS RGHT OF SPEECH Party Managers Decline to Disagree With Principle Exercised. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. *The action of the Columbia Broad- casting System in granting time on a Nation-wide network to Earl Browder, secretary of the Communist party, has stirred up a good deal of controversy, but so vital is the principle of free- dom of speech that from neither Re- publican nor Democratic managers has come any word of disapproval. Indeed, Chairman Fletcher of the Republican National Committee has let it be known that when officials of one of the broadcasting companies several weeks ago told him they would have to give time to the Communists if they sold him a period on the afr, he replied that they should give the Communists time by all means. Representative Hamilton Fish, lead- ing anti-Communist speaker in Con- gress, concedes that the Communist party cannot be shut off the air as a matter of free speech, but he ques- tions the purposes of the Communist party. As a matter of fact, anybody who heard Mr. Browder's speech could have observed that had the same utterance, with just one or two minor changes, been given by Secretary Ickes or Dr. TTugwell, it would have been exactly in line with the speeches that have been made on the radio by other prominent New Dealers for the last year and a half. Matter of Viewpoint. From the viewpoint of the New Deal, therefore, it was a good thing to have the Browder speech broadcast, because the New Deal party’s argument might well be that there now is no need for communism, since the New Deal vir- tually covers all the main items enumerated by the Communist party spokesman, From the viewpoint of the opponents | of the New Deal it was a good thing to have the Communist leader speak | his doctrine because of the re- semblance between New Deal expres- sions and Mr. Browder’s points. Since both the New Deal party and the Republican party benefit by the utterance, the discussion hereafter of what is or is not communistic is some- thing which the radio audience is bound to find of interest. Summarized, Mr. Browder argued that the Communist party was: 1. Against labor-saving machinery. 2. Against increasing unemployment. 3. Against subsidies for war pur- poses. 4. Against Wall Street, the Du Ponts, Mellons and Rockefellers. 5. Against the Supreme Court. 6. Against the American Liberty League and the “reactionary forces of both parties.” Communist “Pro” Planks. Then Mr. Browder declared the Communist party was also: 1. In favor of the Federal Govern- ment assuming responsibility “that every able-bodied worker shall be given a job at union wage-scales.” 2. In favor of guaranteeing the farmer a market “at fair prices for their produce.” 3. In favor of a Federal system of *old-age, unemployment and social in- | surance sufficient to maintain the American standard of living and paid | for out of the profits of capitalists.” | 4. In favor of a farmer-labor party. 5. In favor of the plan of John L. Lewis for industrial unionization. 6. In favor of legislation “along the lines of the Frazier-Lundeen bill now before Congress, which every one knows was originated by the Com- munists.” 7. In favor of equal rights for Ne- groes. 8. In favor of the youth bill worked out by the American Youth Congress. Talk Has Familiar Ring. There were in Mr. Browder's speech paragraphs that read almost identically with arguments made by prominent New Dealers recently. Thus Mr. Browder said: “When you hear the blood-and-thunder denunciations of the Communists, remember that the same accusations were made against Lincoln when he led the struggle against chattel slavery.” ‘The New Deal argument has been that President Roosevelt, like Lincoln, 1s attacked for emancipating the peo- ple from slavery except that it is eco- nomic emancipation now rather than freedom for a particular racial group. The principal inconsistency in Mr. Browder's speech is that after de- nouncing the financial interests, he insists that Wall Street “has strength- ened its rule under Franklin D. Roose- wvelt,” which will come somewhat as a surprise to Chairman Landis of the Securities Exchange Commission and his co-workers. ‘The nearest point that Mr. Browder eame to hinting at some kind of rev- olutionary force to accomplish Com- munist ends was in the following sentences: “Such a Farmer-Labor party would not require that we all agree on a complete program. It would not yet take up the full program of Socialism, of revolution, for which many are not yet prepared. It would pledge itself to carry out only these few simple meas- ures which milllions of people are al- ready agreed upon.” There have been New Deal speakers like Dr. Tugwell who in addressing groups composed largely of the mem- bers of the End-Poverty-in-California movement spoke of the necesity of avoiding possible revolution in the event that the New Deal program was frustrated. Dr. Tugwell also spoke of the importance of doing away with “sterile morality of individualism” de- claring all who disagreed to be “tories, sutocrats and enemies,” and finally he made this appeal: “And we should succeed for once in establishing a farmer-worker alli- ance in this country which will carry all before it, which will reduce our dependence on half-way measures and allow us to carry through these re- constructive ones both agriculture and in industry without which our Nation cannot continue either free or prosperous.” ‘The Tugwell quotations are cited not in any discussion of their merits, but in relation to the controversy which is going on as to whether Mr. Browder’s speech should or should not have been broadcast. From the view- point of freedom of speech, it is bet- ter that what Dr. Tugwell said under the auspices of the Democratic State Central Committee at Los Angeles and what Mr. Browder said over the radio should not be suppressed, but that the people be permitted to know all sides of all questions and make up their ‘minds for themselves on the merits. (Copyright, 1936.) Oke Is 3-Pound Turkish Weight. | Panama. It was given out for publica- What’s What i ital in Capi Congressmen Talk First and Then Think on Tax Proposal. SECONDARY leader in the Senate was one of the few who rushed out with a state- ment approving President program. He thought ii was a good statement until some one’ pointed out to him that dividends are not subject to normal taxes, as his statement Conversely, a flock of Congressmen hurried forth with heavy attacks on the program because it would deprive corporations of all the reserves they when they learned that the tax was on future undistributed earnings, not past ones. ‘This unstatesman-like ignorance ex- lence. Note—Ome of the few mem- ers of Congress who really knows taxes is Chairman Sam Hill of the House subcommittee which is con- Behind News BY PAUL MALLON, Roosevelt’s corporation tax reform erroneously assumed. have built up. They turned pink plains the ensuing congressional si= sidering the legislation. A shrewd White House authority explained the whole background of the corporation tax reform program better than any one else. He boiled down all phases of the subject—(the dire predicament of Mr. Roosevelt being forced by the bonus and court decisions into championing taxes in a campaign year, the political advan- tage of attacking the big corpora- tions). These ideas and others he condensed into a simple sentence (not for quotation): “Mr. Roosevelt has been abdle to make an asset out of a political liability.” . The extent of enthusiasm in Con- gress for anything remotely connected with taxes is illustrated by what hap- pened the other day in a Senate com- mittee. The committee was called for a hearing about a new tax idea which might produce $200,000,000 of addi- tional revenue by an administrative change in the liquor tax law. At least, a certain private promotional agency was ready to testify that it would. Agency officers were on hand ready to explain. The distilling rep- resentatives were on hand to oppose. One Senator on Hand. One Senator appeared. He sat around for 15 minutes, half an hour, 45 minutes awaiting the appeurance] of the rest of the committee. At that point he arose, put on his hat and walked out, saying: “I am a busy man, but my 20 col- leagues on this committee are appar- ently busier—elsewhere. The hearing is off.” A few careful news readers were ex- cited by the recent story that the United States had signed away some of its protective authority over the Panama Canal in a new treaty with tion that way by official sources. The treaty itself was not made public. The inside story on it is that President Roosevelt wanted to take this step solely for the effect it would have on his coming pan- American conference. Panama is the last of the Latin American republics over which the United States reserved the right to in- tervene. That fact has been the basis of Latin American attacks against United States imeprialism, causing a lot of ill feeling toward us down there. It is true the treaty ostensibly re- nounces our right to maintain law and order in Panama. But when it is made public you will see it is a literary mas- terpiece. In theory, we promise not to infringe upon Panama’s sovereignty in any way. In practice, we will con- tinue to take whatever steps we deem necessary for the protection of the Note—Ordinarily, you would expect the Army and Navy to throw up its guns at any renunciation of canal protection. Nary a gun has been turned skyward because of the Panama treaty. Both forces well know that if they have to occupy Panama to pro- tect the canal, they will occupy it. The State Department can furnish the ex- cuses afterward. The President’s program has in- duced many a taxpayer to give thanks that the New Deal devisers have for- gotten about the income tax. These thanks are premature. The devisers will tell you off the record that the political time to hoist the income tar rates will come after the election is over. Furthermore, the technical groundwork for such a hoist is being laid in the present program. The current scheme would, in effect, transfer the corporation taxes to the individual taxpayers. It would aban- 2. now firmly established, newsstands, city-wide. BLUE STREAK Noon Edition THE,_ EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1936. COMMUNIST TALK | HIT BY DR. WALSH Earl Browder’s Attack on Roosevelt Held Against Wishes of Stalin. In one point only did Earl Browder “depart from the instructions of his superiors in Moscow” during his recent radio broadcast, Dr. Ed- mund A. Walsh, S. J., of Georgetown University dec! last night in replying to the “united front” speech of the secretary of the Communist party of the United States. “He attacked, instead of supporting President Roosevelt, whereas the policy of Moscow is just the opposite,” the Georgetown educator asserted. At the eighth Congress of .the Com- | munist International which Browder attended as an American reprsenta- tive last August in Moscow, Dr. Walsh said that “Comrad Dimitrov, guiding spirit of the congress, when referring to political conditions in the United States, had laid down the general principle: “‘“The Communist party should sup- port the election of President Roose- velt beacuse his defeat might enable the forces now opposing our forces to give us a body blow.’” Stalin Leadership Hit. Devoting a considerable portion of his weekly lecture on communism to the speech of the American Commun- ist leader, Dr. Walsh said: “Under the leadership of Mr. Stalin, (Presidium) of the Third International and Mr. Browder’s superior, the Exe- cutive Committee on that occasion instructed the American delegates to lay less emphasis, for the time being, on the revolutionary purposes of communism, but to seek for a ‘united front’ of all the discontented and thus lead them gently, not harshly, into the Communist fold. “The American Communist Party is not and American political group, but a section of the Communist Inter- national. By its statutes all members are obligated to follow the general line laid down by the Executive Committee during the recent meeting in Moscow.” Except for his attack on President Roosevelt, Dr. Walsh said that the American Communist leader had “ful- filled to the letter” the instructions of Moscow in his radio broadcast of Thursday night. “Mr. Browder very wisely refrained from telling the workers and farmers that over 4,000,000 of their fellows were deliberately sentenced to the lingering death of starvation in 1933 for daring even to think the offensive language which he employed Thurs- day against the President of the United States,” he said. $102 Per Year Wage. Referring to the standard of pros- perity in Soviet Russia to which he said the Communist invited the American worker, Dr. Walsh quoted reports from Moscow that the normal wage for 25,000,000 Russian industrial and office workers during 1935, meas- ured in purchasing power, ranged from $90 to $114 per year. “That means an average annual wage of something like $102, or $8.50 per month.” he said. “The average in- dustrial wage of an American worker, even at a bare subsistence level has been at least $1,000 per year, while on relief during unemployment his average dole is $28 per month, while in New York State it reaches $60 per family.” The American worker will be par- doned, Dr. Walsh said, if he prefers even unemployment in America. “And he will not be shot, exiled nor enslaved as workers and peasants have been in Russia to an extent that has appalled the conscience of humanity.” He added, “He will not be subjected to the virutality of a cynical dictator- ship that has peopled Siberia far beyond the worst tyrranies of the Tzars". Speaking to an audience that over- flowed in Gaston Hall and was parti- ally accomodated in a second hall where loud speakers were installed, Dr. Walsh announced that next Friday he would comment on the recent news- paper interview with Joseph Stalin in which he warned of a Japanese- Russian war, _— U. S. SOCIETY CLEARED Poland Unit of M. E. Church South Free of Suspension. WARSAW, March 7 (P).—The Polish government yesterday lifted a suspension on the American Methodist Soclety in this country, acknowledging the ban was was applied through a “misunderstanding.” ‘The society, supported by the Methodist Episcopal Church South of the United States, was suspended: last month after Polish authorities had gone over the organization’s books and said they found “certain irregu- larities,” such as transfer of funds to America without “sufficient explana- tion.” A school and mission in Warsaw and an orphanage outside the city were affected by the order. don the corporate tax system and set it up within the individual income tax system. As any tax expert can tell you, that would put all the corporate and who is one of the Board of Directors | POS TAX PLAN PERIL DECLARES C. OF C. Would Turn Established Methods “Upside Down,” Says Statement. BACKGROUND— Two major expenditures mot bearing official blessing of admin- istration have been occasioned this Winter by action of Supreme Court and by rebellious Congress. First of these was necessity of financing nmew farm program to replace that invalidated by court. Second was cash settlement of bonus obligation, passed by Con- gress over veto of President. Result was request by President Jor new tax revenue calculated to offset these obligations; suggestion being made that levy might be im- posed upon undistributed corpo= rate profits. . By the Associated Press. In guarded comment on the Roose- velt tax program, the Chamber of Commerce of the United States said today it' would “turn upside down” es- tablished methods of producing reve- nue and cause “important problems” for taxpayers. The chamber, in its Washington review, urged the administration to present its full 1937 budget before voting taxes, contending that if the budget was “kept within bounds, it would be unnecessary to produce any- thing like the new millions now pro- ed.” Before the chamber spoke, House leaders, encouraged by evidences of crystallization of Democratic senti- ment back of the President’s proposal for taxing undistributed corporation profits, forecast its adoption. Indications of Difficulties. The chamber did not pass final judgment on the plan, contending “the outlines of this gigantic undertaking are still too sketchy to permit of de- termining its broad sweep.” But it said there were “indications of many difficulties.” . “There is much doubt of their feasi- bility,” the chamber added, in com- menting on the President’s proposals. “Searching questions are being asked as to this or that possible effect and as to methods of protecting business firms and the country from possible dangers.” ‘The country must be assured, the organized business group said, that the plan “will not contribute to instability by accentuating booms and depres- sions.”” There must also be protection, it said, against “any effort of Govern- ment to take such proportion of the net earnings of private enterprise as will seriously cripple the production of new wealth and income.” House chieftains were not yet ready to forecast the exact form in which the proposal for a drastic tax on un- distributed corporation profits would be framed, but they expressed confi- dence the basic features would be ap- proved. Chief point of attack on the Presi- dent’s proposal for raising $620,000,000 annually was that it would discourage corporation from setting up reserves to tide them over lean years. In reply, Democratic leaders con- tended that even with an average tax of 332 per cent on undistributed profits, corporations which laid aside a third of their income for a rainy day would pay less taxes under the President’s proposal than they do at the present time with an average tax of about 16 per cent on all profits. ‘Would End Corporate Tax. The administration program would repeal present corporate income taxes and certain other levies. to induce corporations to distribute profits in dividend form, by laying a tax, perhaps averaging 33!; per cent, on undivided profits held in the treas- ury. Once in the stockholders’ hands, the dividends would be subject to in- come and surtaxes. Clashing views on the program were expressed last night by Chair- man Doughton, Democrat, of North Carolina, of the House Ways and Means Committee, and Representa- tive Snell, Republican, of New York, minority leader. Doughton said in a radio speech: “The existing system is unfair and expensive to the majority of stock- holders, and majority of corporations. * ¢ * It prevents the small stock- holder from receiving a fair annual return on his investment.” Snell declared the new plan was “one more verse in the New Deal's unchanging theme—‘soak the saver.’” It is impossible, he said, to balance the budget by “political vegeance.” The Nation needs curtailment of ‘ex- penditures, he declared. In some quarters there were de- mands for modification of the Presi- dent’s proposal to permit corporations to retain a moderate proportion of their profits in their treasuries, with- out being penalized. Under one plan, which has the backing of Representative Vinson, Democrat, of Kentucky, & member of the subcommittee studying the tax program, & tax of 16 per cent might be levied against the first 10 per cent of profits withheld from distribu- tion. The next 10 per cent would pay a higher rate, up to perhaps a maximum of 40 per cent for all be- yond a certain percentage such as 30 per cent. Corporations now pay income and other taxes aggregating about 16 per cent of all their income. individual income right out in the open in one place. Jacking up the rates later would thus limit present evasions, produce heavier revenue. Mr. Roosevelt’s devisers think far ahead. (Copyright. 1936.) De 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 Claims Wealthy Escape. In proposing that these existing taxes be repealed, President Roosevelt contends they have permited wealthy stockholders to escape levies by leaving profits in the corporations instead of taking them out as dividends and pay- ing high bracket income taxes on them. In drawing up suggestions for Con- gress, Treasury experts favored sched- ules ranging from 20 or 25 per cent on the first $2,000 of undistributed profits up to 35 or 40 per cent on all over $40,000 a year. They bave opposed any exemptions. “ONCE A POLICEMAN—" Laid-off Columbus, Ohio, Officers Seize Man on Hold-up Charge. going to press before 12 o’clock. The sale of the new BLUE STREAK edition is through newsboys and If you are not able to get a copy promptly, please advise the Circulation Department, Na- Oke is'a Turkish measure of weight K tional 5000. COLUMBUS, Ohio,, March 7 ().— Richard Coyne, 22, was in jail last night because two laid-off city police- men just couldn’t quit policing. The two, W. E, Barr and George 'Hilton, furloughed for lack of city funds, continued following & hold-up “tip” on a polite gunman who took only part of a merchant’s money Feb- ruary~28 with the comment that he did not wish to be “hoggish.” Tonight they arrested Coyne, though they had been off the force all week. The patrolmen placed & robbery charge against Coyne, » It would seek | Young 'Roosevelt Denies Engagement s RASS Before going down the harbor in a cutter to greet Miss Ethel du Pont (left, with a doll in her arms) when she arrived from Nassau yesterday, Franklin D. Roosevelt, jr., whiled away the time by flying around New York. He is shown stepping from the plane. He denied they were engaged. DODGE RE-ELEGTED CHEST PRESIDENT Third Term Given Official for First Time—Willett Chosen Again. For the first time in the history of the local Community Chest a presi- dent yesterday was elected for a third term, when Clarence Phelps Dodge, placed in nomination by Corcoran ‘Thom, jr., acting chairman of the Nominating Committee, was selected unanimously to head the Chest for the ensuing year. Herbert L. Willett, j director of the Chest, also was unani- mously re-elected. In nominating Dodge, Thom paid tribute to the unceasing vigilance with which the president has devoted him- self to the affairs of the Chest for the past two years, He called atten- tion to the fact that Dodge main- tains no office save one at the Chest and that practically his en- tire time is given over to the Chest and other forms of welfare work. Thom told of progress made under the leader- | ship of President Dodge and of general improvement in the conduct of welfare work as a result of his inspiration. The elec- tion followed. Other officers elected at yesterday's meeting of the Board of Trustees, held Mr. Dodge. jat the United States Chamber of Commerce Building, were as follows: Commissioner George E. Allen, Maj. Gen. Frederick W. Coleman, Mrs. Charles A. Goldsmith, Col. West A. Hamilton, Dr. Willlam McClellan and John Saul, vice presidents; E. Joseph Aronoff, secretary. H. L. Rust, jr., was elected treasurer at the November meeting. The Board of Trustees elects nine members of the Executive Com- mittee, three of whom are named each year. The Nominating Committee presented the names of H. Lawrence Choate, William J. Flather, jr., and Miss Anne Carter Greene, who were unanimously elected for three years. Holding over are Bernard Wyckoff, Lloyd B. Wilsoni and Mrs. Charles A. Goldsmith, two years, and Mrs. John Jay O'Connor, Marcy L. Sperry and Corocran Thom, jr., for one year. Arthur Hellen presided in the ab- sence of President Dodge until the election of officers, when he turned the chair over to Secretary Aronoff. The report of the pres- ident, read by Di- rector Willett, re- viewed the pro- gressof the Chest during the past Yyear. The retir- ing treasurer, William J. Flather, jr., gave a brief recapitu- lation of the fi- nancial affairs of the Chest. Director Willett, in his report, said through March Mr. Willett, that collections cent of the amount pledged, as com- pared with collections of $778,860.74 or 47.82 per cent for the same period in 1935. This shows a gain of 0.7 per cent over last year and a mone- tary gain of $79,465.41. He stressed the early start that has been obtained on plans for the next campaign. He told of the meetings of the Campaign Committee and of plans evolved by the publicity, speak- ers and civic interest units under the chairmanship, respectively, of Joseph D. Kaufman, Mrs. Leonard B. Schloss and William W.'Wheeler. He praised the activity of Campaign Chairman Coleman Jennings and sald that the campaign would be organized this year earlier than ever before in the history of the Chest here. —_— ASKS RENO DIVORCE Mrs. ‘Howard C. Gronberg of 1801 Sixteenth street yesterday flled suit for divorce in Reno, Nev., against her husband, an engineer with the Na- tional Broadcasting Co., according to ‘word received here, Married here in April, 1934, the couple has no children, friends stated. Mrs. Gronberg charged cruelty and asked & $500 property settlement and Testoration of her maiden name, Ruth Barnes, Gyonberg is said to be in Florida, . (9 amounted to $858,326.15 or 48.52 per | hours. ~—Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. TRAFFIC CONVICTIONS RECKLESS DRIVING. Kenneth Jordan, 724 Eighth street, $25 or 25 days. THIRD-OFFENSE SPEEDING. Harry A. Miller, 32 Oakwood street, $25. SECOND-OFFENSE SPEEDING. George F. Funk, Maryland, $20. Charles E. Ackerman, Maryland, $15. Stanley Lawson, Virginia, $15. FIRST-OFFENSE SPEEDING. Raymond M. Beck, Maryland, $10. Lee A. Christian, 2227 Twentieth street, $10. Roscoe A. Farley, 1334 V street, $10. | William A. Dowding, Kennedy- | Warren Apartments, $10. John H. Johnson, 2204 Cathedral avenue, $10. Samuel Cardia, 1217 B street south- east, $10. John W. Warring, 121 Seventh | street northeast, $10. Philip C. Geraci, 4613 Ninth street, $10. (81 Charles H. Gordon, 1806 R street, 0. Clyde E. Settle, 2437 Nichols av- enue, $5. Bosworth A. Plaisted, 2224 Minne- sota avenue southeast, $5. Max Finkelstein, 1011 Rittenhouse | street, $10. Aylmer T. Crickmer, Maryland, $15. George G. Cyr, 1308 Sixteenth | street, $10. Maurice P. Freeman, 3327 Q street, | 810 Bernard Deakin, 820 C street south- east, $10. Maurice J. Kossow, 3206 Wisconsin avenue, $15. Vernon E. Gill, 1102 R street, $5. George H. Tavman, 1349 Massa- chusetts avenue southeast, $5. Arthur R. Harrison, 3021 Otis street northeast, $5. Albert Raber, 221 Jefferson street, $10. Kennon J. Moran, 1716 West Vir- ginia avenue northeast, $10. Frank B. Anderson, 1228 I street, $10. John A. Gabrill, 1230 Florida av- enue northeast, $15. Paul Hohman, 5618 First place, $10. Edwin N. Cherrington, Maryland, $5. ‘Thomas C. Lancaster, 6300 Thirty- third street, $10. SUSPENDED PERMITS. Douglas A. Byrd, 2329 N street, 15 days. Jack H. Farmer, 21 Sixth street northeast, 30 days. John H. Grant, 323 L street north- east, 30 days. Walter H. Hackett, 2438 Tunlaw road, 30 days. Harry Hall, 1520 East Capitol street, 15 days. Thomas H. Henderson, 2014 Fifth street, 30 days. John H. Hipkins, 415 Delaware av- enue southwest, 15 days. TOKIO IS ALARMED i London Naval Conference, and other Robert E. Lucas, 1622 D street southeast, revoked. Domnick C. Odds, eighth street, 30 days. John V. Tutching, 9118 Colesville road, 30 days. 2818 Thirty- Roller Skating Record Made. Alexander Murray, aged 19, of Methi- hill, Scotland, completed 662 hours of continuous skating in Denbeath Savoy Skating Rink. He broke the existing Scottish roller skating endurance record of 66 hours. The runner-up, R. Jackson, Denbeath, skated for 33 The “National Scene BY ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH tremulous excitement of Mr. Hamilton Pish and other country-savers will be hard to sustain if they listened to the 2 radio speech of Mr. Earl Browder, secretary of the Communist party in America. Mr. Browder was a cooing dove. As gentle a8 Dr. Townsend, he was not nearly so disturb- ing or upeetting in his proposals to change our national economy as the worthy doctor. No wonder the Broadcasting Co. gave him time. Father Coughlin, along with Prof. Tugwell and any number of other New Deal spokesmen, far out-distance him in radical suggestions. If the New England stations could have known what he was have refused to permit his hackneyed platitudes to flatten out on the overworked air. Every one was tuned up to hear him howl: “Burn the court house.” Instead he lit & stick of incense to the desirability of & Farmer-Labor party. It was comic Alice Longweorth. sati-climax, (Copyright, 1936.) BY CABNIET HITCH Hirota Is Believed Seeking| a Line-up to Compromise With Army. By the Assoclated Press. TOKIO, March 7.—A conference expected to determine whether Koki | Hirota will abandon or continue his | efforts to form a cabinet to liquidate | Japan's crisis was held today when Count Juichi Terauchi visited the premier-designate. Count Terauchi, selected by Hirota to become minister of war, had with- drawn under pressure from high mili- tarists, who opposed some of Hirota's | choices. After the Terauchi-Hirota confer- | ence a war office authority said there | were indications Hirota was seeking a | cabinet line-up to compromise with | the army, but the negotiations might drag on for a day or two longer. Because of the army’s opposition to Hirota’s cabinet slate and the be- clouded political prospects governors of the Tokio Stock Exchange voted | to remain closed. ‘The sudden hitch in the formation of a government to succeed that wrecked by insurrectionists’ bullets last | week created tension throughout the capital. Bluejackets arrived in Tokio by train from the Yokosuka naval base and officers explained they were re- placing landing parties which have been guarding naval property since February 26. Strong guards were posted about the navy office and residences of Ad- miral Prince Fushimi Admiral Osumi Nagano, who just returned from the PROBE FOLLOWS APARTMENT BLAZE Fire at 2138 California Street Starts in De- serted Room. The Fire Board today investigated a three-alarm apartment-house fire which caused $5000 in damage, attracted a throng of fashionable watchers, including gentlemen in cut- away coats, and disrupted traffic on upper Connecticut avenue yesterday during the late afternoon homeward rush. The flames destroyed a fourth-floor bed room at 2138 California street an hour after a colored maid and the 4-year-old child who lived there went out for a walk, leaving the rooms va- cant. Mrs. Mary Knox Willett, lessee of the apartment and mother of the child, Dickey, was at work downtown when the alarms were turned in. A thrilling rescue of a Maltese cat which sought escape in an attempted climb up the brick wall to the roof brought cheers from the hundreds of spectators in the street below. The cat, saved by an unidentified fireman, subsequently disappeared. Boy Turns in Alarm. Fifteen-year-old Leon Hill of 4022 Thirty-fourth street, Mount Rainier, Md,, broke the firebox glass with his fist to turn in the first alarm, after a friend, Louise Thigpen, 12, of apart- ment 302, shouted that smoke was coming from the fourth floor. The children were playing in front of the building when Betty Jane McGuire, 13, of apartment 109, a companion, cried: “Look, it's burning up upstairs!” A few minutes later Thomas Smith, colored, janitor of the building, looked up . from the sill of the second-floor front window he was washing and noticed the smoke. He ran to the apartment, saw it was empty, and then rushed to turn in the alarm. As the engines clanged up Califor- nia street, Chief Barker of the Second Battalion saw flames leaping out of the window. He jumped from the moving fire truck and ran for the fire- box to turn in the third alarm. Meanwhile, Mrs. Claud McSwain, owner of the maltese cat, was asleep in the apartment next to the Willetts' She awoke, choking on smoke. In the hall she heard a fearful cry of “Fire!” She rushed from her apartment and fled to safety down the back fire escape. Nobody Injured. The cat had climbed to the ledge outside Mrs. McSwain’s window some minutes earlier. For 20 minutes it held its front claws dug into the brick wall while it stood with its hind feet on the window sill before the fireman swept it to safety. ‘Twenty minutes after he firemen arrived the blaze was under control. Its origin was undetermined. Nobody was injured. Downstairs, on the third floor, Olga | Dmioltireff, 16, heard the apartment house alarm. “I didn’t worry,” she said. “Some- body rang the alarm the night before Thanksgiving and it was false. Then 1 thought about the new piano we had just bought. I didn't want anything to happen to it.” Jacqueline Jones, 16, lives on the second floor. She hurried into the street to watch activities. “I just had a sweater on, and I got cold,” she told reporters. *“So I went up the fire escape to get my fur coat out of my apartment.” Olga, Jacqueline and Elizabeth Smith and Margaret Smith adminis- tered first aid to two women in the hallway, who asked for ammonia. Injured in Fall From Ladder Wilmer Humphreys, 61, 926 Eighth street, was injured slightly yesterday when he fell from a ladder while painting at 612 H street. He was treated at Casualty Hospital. naval chiefs. - Guffey Act (Continued From First Page.) has been repeatedly attempted and as consistently condemned by this court.” “The proponents of this act,” he added, “wrote into it penal provisions for the double purpose of coercing ac- ceptance of the code by all bituminous producers, and of denying them the | right to test the validity of the code| and act in advance of such acceptance. “This court has héld that this latter objective may not be accomplished consistently with due process.” “Congress seeks to regulate the la- bor relations in a productive industry purely local in character,” the brief said, adding, “This was beyond the reach of the Federa] arm.” Regulation Held Indispensable. Pennsylvania, the largest single producer of bituminous coal, empha- sized in the brief signed by Attorney General Charles J. Margiotti that some form of governmental regula- tion is indispensable not anly to save the industry but other disastrous con- sequences to the States involved, as well as the Nation. —_ Silver Production Gains. Despite strikes in the industry, sil- ver production in Mexico increased last year. going to say, they would never Your Income Ta Checking Delinquents. The Bureau of Internal Revenue has at its command many -sources for checking up delinquent taxpayers. One of these is the “information at source” provision of the revenue act, under which persons, “in whatever ca= pacity acting,” are required to re- port to the commissioner of Internal Revenue at Washington, D. C., pay- | ments to another in any calendar year of $1,000 or more if the recipient of such payment is single. If the recipie ent is married, reports need not be made unless the payments aggregate $2,500 or more. If the marital status of the payee is unknown to the payor, the payee is considered a single person for the purpose of filing an information ree turn. Complete List Required. Fixed and determinable income in- cludes wages, salaries, royalties, pre- miums, rent, interest, etc. A separate return of information for each em-. ploye is required of employers. The requirements are not limited to pe=~ riodical payments, but a single paye ment must be reported. Corporations are required to make a separate report of dividends or dise tributions for each individual, fidue ciary or partnership holder who was paid $300 or more during the calen= dar year. All persons or organizations acting at any time during the year 1935 as broker or other agent in stock, bond or commodity transactions (including banks which handle clearing orders for depositors or custodian accounts) are required to fille returns of infore mation on form 1100 with respect to all customers, depositors or accounts for whom or which business was transacted during the year. Separate Forms Set Up. A separate form 1100 must be pree pared for each customer, depositor or account for whom or which business was transacted during the year, and must show the name and address and other information provided for in the form. Information returns are carefully checked with individual returns of taxpayers. Thousands of delinquent returns and additional revenue amounting to millions of dollars have been secured as the result of the exe amination of information returns. For official advice and help in your income tax problems call at room 1002, Revenue Building, Twelfth street and Constitution avenue, the office of the deputy collector of internal revenue, where Government experts will help you make out your income tax re- turn, administer the oath, and the cashier will receive your payment., 15 pm. L} Office hours there today § am. to s,