Evening Star Newspaper, May 21, 1937, Page 2

A—2 *x T HE EVENING STAR, WASH NGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, MAY 21, 19317, ———-—-————————-——-—-——_——*——l——l___l__.__________,___fi____— NUISANCE' TAXES EXTENSION ASKED Revenue Receipts Put U. S. Ledger $9,000,000 in Red Daily, Report Shows. BACKGROUND— Growing up in “Topsy-like” fash= fon, national tar structure is filled with duplications and inequities. President frequently has mentioned thorough overhauling, with Treas- ury experts now scheduled to make ertensive recommendations next Fall. Meanwhile, need for revenue ne- cessitates extension of long list of nuisance tax which were extend- ed last in 19 Revenue from this source is about $400,000,000 yearly. By the Assoctated Press. The Tr iry reported today in- ternal revenue collections of $11.800,- 00¢ a day for the last 10 months, or $2.300,000 more than the daily aver- age a year ago. The receipts this year, not including customs duties, income from interest and similar items, failed by $£9.000.000 to level up with daily expenditures. At $20,8G0,000, the latter were $1,- 000,000 over last year. Aggregate internal revenue for the first 10 months of this fiscal year, the Treasury s . was £3.544,655.000, an e of $684,785,000, or 23 per cent, over last ye: The report was made public shortly after Chairman Doughton of the House Ways and Means Committee proposed A two-vear extension of “nuisance” taxes, from which part of the internal revenue fund is derived. ‘They cover such items as trucks, matches, electr v and chewing gum. Elimination of Some Sought. President Roosevelt had asked Con- gress not to let the levies, which it was estimated would provide $452,580,000 in the next year, expire at the end of June. Some of Doughton's committee s, however, sought to eliminate e & number of the “nuisance gned to produce $320,000,- , Democrat, of smen from oil States would meet soon to consider a change or omis N of taxes on gaso- Represent Michigan, sa tinue the levies on es and inner s, passenger cars and mo- auto access . Other d to eliminate the tax on articles made of fu Tax Receipts Climb. y officials said income tax climbed almost twice as in the last Democrat, of d to discon- or 44 per cen Taxes on Creased 54 while corporation income receipts rose 34 per cent to 063,000. Last year the Government collected $39.000,000 Jore from corporations than from in- dividuals. Officials said shift may have been due in part to the new tax on undistributed profits causing many corporations to pay heavy dividends toward the close of 1936. Liquor taxes provided $491.303,000, or $80,687,000 more than last year; tobacco taxes, $457,689,000, an increase of $47,301,000, and manufacturers’ axcise taxes, $360,491,000, an upturn A&t $54,281,000. 24 POLICEMEN JOIN BOYS’ CLUB DRIVE Maj. Brown Names Group to So- licit Funds From Govern- ment Employes. ‘Twenty-four policemen were desig- Tnated yesterday by Police Supt. Ernest it employes of the various Government departments for port of the $75,000 drive of the Metropolitan Police Boys' Club. They are: Lieut, H. L. Lohman, Sergt. B, Sheldon, and Pvts. W. G. Groomes, F. Morette, W. W. Whit- more, G. R. Browning, E. P. Hallman, R. W. Valentine, C. C. Johnson, W. W. Stiles, Joseph Russell, C. A. Stro- bel, F. E. Bendure, C. R. Burr, J. F. Boccina, W. R. Ostrom, H. A. Reed, C. C. Brown, J. F. Ryan, F. Ach, E. Rhue, A. Moore, W. P. Alls and H. W. Kegebein. Right Rev. James E. Freeman,| Bishop of Washington, was to address the Collection Committee on “The Youth Movement” at a luncheon at 12:30 pm. today at the Willard Hotel. Nearly 50 guests of the club made #n inspection tour of Camp Ernest W. Brown at Scotland, Md., Wednes- day. A portion of the funds raised will he expended for improvements ahd enlargement of the camp, which Qpens June 25. Among the group were Mrs. Gor- d@6n Hittenmark, Mrs. Hardie Mea- kin, Mrs. Leon Arnold, Mrs. Harvey Miller and Mrs. W. B. Wender. The group was led by Mrs. Ernest Brown of the Ladies' Auxiliary. —_ UNION CHARGES MADE A charge by the Social Security Board Union in Baltimore that two officers and two active members were forced to relinquish their positi -« be- cause of “union discrimination” will be heard before the Social Security Board—probably tomorrow—it was said today. The union, an independent organ- {zation, says the four were advised that “improper attitude” and “outside interests” were responsible for their being dropped. It seeks their rein- statement, ndividual inco Congress in Brief TODAY. Senate: In recess. Interstate Commerce Committee eonsiders rail retirement bill. House: Resumes consideration of $1,500,- 000,000 relief bill. Ways and Means Committee studies tariff act administrative changes. Interstate Commerce Committee con- $inues hearing on rail retirement bill. Labor Subcommittee continues hear- fags on Ellenbogen textile bill Agriculture Committee holds hear- ngs on farm program. Rivers and Harbors Committee con- slders Bonneville Dam legislation. TOMORROW. Senate and House will not be in session, i Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. TIP. STARTER in the daily Federal Derby (our name for the pedestrians’ race down Con- necticut avenue each morn- ing) telephoned today to talk over & few secrets of the trade. Says he knows most of the entrants by sight if not by name, and the competition is between the same group practically every day, with a dark horse showing up only once or twice in a fortnight. The dark horses usually don't stand a chance, not having had ‘he in- valuable experience of old-timers. Novices can't tell when it's safe to Jjump between two speeding cars, when it’s not. Therefore they lose ground, or & leg or two, block by block, must get discouraged by the time they're nearing the office and see the other derbyites swinging safely down the home stretch. Our man this morning wouldn't give his name, and he wasn't particu- larly keen to tell what he considered the most important phase of a suc- cessful derby technique. He finally did disclose it, however. Said the important thing is to know how to ease around the little knots of walkers that form on corners when waiting for a traffic light to change. You B n fro i se, snorting |racers, and when the light flashes | vellow, spring out in front, beating the barrier by five or six strides. hat means a lot by the time you've raced all the way downtown. (C. Kurtsinger and War Admiral, | please note.) x ok ok % SYMBOL. 4 Washingtonian just back from a visit to relatives in the flood- | swept hamlet of Jefersonville, Ind., | saus that one resident down there who lejt the emergency “tent city” and returned home was immedi- ately intrigued by an object he saw | lodged up in the fork of a tree in his back yard. He poked around in the tree with a long-handled rake and brought doun a victrola record. The name of it was “Beautiful Ohio.” * % % THE MILITARY. N OFFICER in the Army Air | Corps School at Maxwell Field, Ala, wrote to a friend here yester- | 3l g him a glimpse of the language spoken in our military . the more to muddle you up. When a senior officer is making t an efficiency report on one of his er officers, for example, he can. not say that the chap is a swel | guv, a gentleman, a scholar and a | fiying fo Instead he must writ is devoted, dignified, diligent, diplomatic and discerning.” . .. (But he ain't got rhythm?) * ok % % NEW TYPE. N LIEU of the traditional absent- minded professor, we have at last unearthed a yarn about an absent- minded student. It was raining when he went into his classes at Columbus Law School the other night, raining harder when he came out and made a dash for the spot where he'd parked | his car. | He jammed the key in the car door, turned—but not really. It was stuck., Made two or three tries. No luck. Called to & couple of his friends came over to lend a hand. They accomplished nothing. The three then went to a nearby gasoline station and borrowed some oil to squirt into the stubborn lock. The key still would not turn. Event- ually a window vyielded to husky persuasion and the student climbed into the back seat. As he slid over into the front he suddenly yelped, “Lemme outa here. Lemme outa here. A radio. A radio!” His frends thought him a trifle balmy from overwork until they had hauled him out, were told his car had no radio at all, that he didn't know whose machine he had so neatly jimmied. floss se RENOVATION., Add historical notes on the eclipse of the Republican Roose~ velts by the Democratic Roosevelts: The first Washington home of the late Nicholas Longworth and Alice Roosevelt Longworth at Eighteenth. and I streets has been transformed into a restaurant.. The cafe’s name is “Monticello.” * ok ok % PALS. THE reporters down at police head- quarters are wondering who was responsible for an incidental that went out over the teletype system, telling of a hold-up and robbery and casually revealing the officers of No. 2 precinct as convivial fellows, well met. Seems a stranger here had nipped a few too many and climbed into a taxi to go to Union Station. He says the driver took him out to a vacant lot, stuck a gun in his ribs and took away wallet, topcoat and hat. Later the victim wandered into a hotel lobby, stood around a while. The manager decided the police could be & help. Judping from the written incidental, they were. It says, “the manager had him taken to No. 2 sta- tion to make report—he had several drinks.” * koK ok TARPOONED. UNDER heavy fire of heckling about his bespatted colleagues in the State Department, & minor foreign service official spiked the razzberry very neatly at a dinner party the other evening by remarking, “It seems to me that State Department employes are more spat upon than spatted.” Dickens’ Home Is Museum. The house where Charles Dickens lived in London 100 years ago is to- day a museum, containing the most comprehensive Dickens library in the world. ¢ CANADA FAVORED TOSTART AIR RACE Mattern Cables Paris to Revise Plans—Hepburn Held Receptive. BACKGROUND— New York originally was selected for take-off of the proposed air derby, sponsored by the French air ministry and the Aero Club of France to commemorate the Lind- bergh flight, but the Department of Air Commerce announced dis- approval. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May 21.—Aviation cir- cles buzzed with comment today over an announcement by Jimmy Mat- tern, noted flyer, that Canada prob- ably will be the starting point for a trans-Atlantic air race to Paris. Mattern, who twice attempted a round-the-world flight, said last night prominent Canadian business men were interested in launching the race and that he had cabled French officials to revise plans accordingly. The Chicago pilot said he and Henry T. (Dick) Merrill, trans-At- lantic flyer, conferred yesterday with Toronto business men. Mattern said Mitchell Hepburn, prime minister of Ontario, also was receptive to the proposal. Mattern said he would enter the race as a representative of the State of Texas, while Merrill would com- pete as the official Canadian entry. | He added there were 22 entries, most {of them representing European gov- ernments. Pierre Cot, French air minister, announced & year ago the prizes to- taled about $140.000, with $70.000 going to the fiyer making the best tin.e. Mattern said a commercial airline was planning regular trans-Atlantic flights and that “it seems that cer- tain interests were afraid our race would steal their thunder.” “You may be sure we're going to hold this flight, regardless of ob- Jections,” he added. SWITCH IS DENIED, French Air Ministry Opposed to Start in Canada. PARIS, May 21 (#).—The French air ministry said today it “would not authorize switching the point of de- parture from the United States” in the projected New York-Paris air race. The statement followed reports that Jimmy Mattern, globe-circling avia- tor, and Dick Merril], of trans-Atlantic fame, seeking to have the race start in Canada, had cabled Pierre Cot, French air minister, offering their aid. DETAILS §AVING OF $500,000,000 Representative Sauthoff Urges Adoption of Economy and Tax Program. B the Assoctated Press Representative Harry Madison, Wis., Progressive. estimates he Government would net about 500,000,000 under an economy and taxation program he has proposed. Speaking on the House floor late yesterday, Sauthoff declared farms and homes could not carry the in- creased real estate taxes which would result if the Federal Government failed to supply sufficient relief funds. Paring the Federal relief program, he said, would increase the burden of the States and boost real estate levies, He proposed the following program: 1. A surtax on net incomes exceed- ing $4.000 annually. 2. A power tax on radio broad- casting stations, 3. “Endeavor to collect” $100,000,000 a year from debtor nations, offering in exchange to scll small amounts of helium for medical purposes. 4. Cut the Government franking and printing bill 50 per cent to save $34,000,000 annually. 5. Cut $200,000,000 from the Army and Navy appropriations. o WORLD FAIR FUND NOT AGREED UPON President Already Vetoed $5,- 000,000 Bill as Being Excessive. By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt said today he had not agreed to a substitute figure for the $5,000,000 Federsl appropri- ation for participation in the World Fair in 1939 in New York City. Last Wednesday he vetoed the ap- propriation on the ground it was ex- cessive and also for the reason that the bill authorizing it gave an ad- ministrative commission composed largely of members of the Senate and House complete authority to spend the money. ‘The President told his press con- ference Grover Whalen, chairman of the World Fair Corp., had recom- mended a lower appropriation to him yesterday, but that he had referred Wkhalen to Congress. Whalen said yesterday he would ask Congress for $3,000,000. Sauthoff, G.W. U.CO-EDS TO HOLD ANNUAL RIDING SHOW Events to Start at 1:30 P.M. To- morrow at Meadowbrook Grounds. The annual riding show of the George Washington University woman students is to get under way at 1:30 pm. tomorrow at the Meadowbrook Show Grounds, on the Fast-West Highway. A silver loving cup will be awarded the student with the highest number of points, as well as ribbons and tro- phies for the winners in each class. President Cloyd H. Marvin will present the prizes. Events will include beginners’ hack, advanced hack, open hack, Women's class, open jumper class, student hack and pairs of jumpers. The show is sponsored by the Riding Club and the Department of Physical Education for Women. In addition to university students, girls from Ar- lington Hall, Cathedral and Chevy Chase Schools will participate in the program. Maj. A. W. Roffe, com- manding Oavalry officer at Fort Myer, will be grand ringmasteny Athletic Association hack class, jumper | take-off from the beach. damaged, Stevens still had the ashore. (. &P.OFFICIAL SILENT ON UNION A. F. of L. Charter Declared Issued to Telephone Operators Here. Officials of the Chesapeake & Po- tomac Telephone Co. maintained si- lence today in the face of an an- nouncement by William Green, pres- ident of the American Federation of Labor, that a local union charter has been issued to telephone operators employed by the company. “A campaign of organization has been carried on quietly, efficiently and | successfully for some time. A wage scale has been formulated and was approved by the telephone operators at a recent meeting. The rates in this scale are comparable to rates paid for similar service by the Govern- ment to telephone operators in the District of Columbia. The workers | maintain that a prosperous corpora- | tion like the Chesapeake & Poto- | mac Telephone Co. should pay wages to their telephone operators equal to | at least the rates paid for similar | service to those employed by the | Government in the District of Colum- bia. “It is rumored that an attempt is being made by the representatives of the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. to counteract this effort of the workers to organize by inspiring at least the formation of an ‘employes’ organization. This move on the part of the company representatives will be closely watched and any action taken along this line carefully in- vestigated. The formation of an ‘em- ployes’ union through the influence of company representatives would be & violation of the Wagner disputes act. “The American Federation of La- bor is watching the situation closely. It will give to the telephone operators employed by the Chesapeake & Poto- mac Telephone Co. who are attempt- ing to organize for mutual helpfulness and protection, full co-operation and support. The American Federation of Labor will be of assistance and give all possible encouragement to the or- ganization of the telephone operators.” The new charter, Green said, was issued by the International Brother- hood of Electrical Workers, Having about 3,000 employes, the company has dealt with an employes’ association for several years. Operators have beeft included in membership of this organization along with other employes. . ADVERTISING MAN TALKS Frank Romer Is Heard by Adver- tising Club. Catering to individual peculiarities will increase business, Frank Romer, advertising authority, told a meeting of the Cosmopolitan Club yesterday at the Carlton Hotel. Lawrence Choate also spoke on ob- servance of “Life Insurance Week.” Arthur Defenderfer, president, pre- sided, |} Aerial Fishing Hazards Don Stevens, noted glider expert, went on a fishing trip in his powered amphibian glider at Venice, Calif., after a perfect Stevens became excited. slipped, fell through the wing of his powered amphibian glider, and in a moment found himself the skipper of an amphibian derelic, L. o e Though he was thoroughly soaked and his glider was badly baracuda when he was pulled —Wide World Photo. CONSPIRACY CASE PAIR ACQUITTED Hanes and Janis Held Not Guilty of Securities Regis- tration Wrong. After deliberating more than 17 hours, a District Court jury today re- turned a verdict of not guilty in the trial of Harry E. Hanes and Milton Janis, both of New York, on a charge of conspiring to make a misstatement in a registration statement filed under the securities act of 1933. ‘The trial, which was the first of its | kind in the country, had been in pro- gress three weeks. Documentary evi- dence introduced by the Government was §0 voluminous it was taken into the court room daily in a wheel cart. Hanes, who is general manager of the Standard Appraisal Co., and Janis, a salesman for a stock underwriting concern, were indicted in connection with the registration statement of the Continental Distillers and Importers | Corp. Dan F. Reynolds, well-known Washington lawyer, was indicted along with Hanes and Janis, but, because of his poor health, was not brought to trial. $40,000 Stock Sold. According to Securities and Bx- change Commission officials, some $40,000 of stock in the distilling corporation were sold, although the concern never began operation. ‘The alleged misstatements con- cerned the value and description of the corporaticn's property at Shrewes- bury, Pa. Reynolds, Hanes and Janis were charged with conspiring with Ira Janis, now dead, and Daniel Reich, president of the distillery, to misrep- resent facts in the concern's registra~ tion statement filed with the Federal Trade Commission December 29, 1933, Neither Reich nor Ira Janis was in- dicted. Jury Out Many Hours. ‘The case was given to the jury by Trial Justice F. Dickinson Letts at 5:35 pm. yesterday after a lengthy charge in which the jurist reviewed the entire history and legislative back- ground of the securities act in order to give the jurors an understanding of the spirit as well as the letter of the law. ‘When the jurors had been unable to reach a verdict by 11 p.m., they were locked up for the night and resumed their deliberations this morning. At 11:20 am. today the foreman an- nounced that a verdict had heen reached, but because of delay in at- torneys reaching the court the verdict was not returned until shortly after noon. Janis was represented by Attorney William E. Leahy and Hanes by At- torneys John J. Sirica and Richard Doyle. e Air Liner Crash Kills 2. BERLIN, May 21 (#)—Two persons were killed and four injured yesterday in the crash of & passenger plane en route from Stutigart to Friedrichs- hagen., RASKOB EXPLAINS PROFITLESS'DEALS Was Anxious to Get Out of Debt and Pay Notes, He Says. By the Assoctated Press. NEW YORK, May 21.—In his “anxiety to get out of debt,” and pay off notes, John J. Raskob testified today, it was “natural” that the cross- sales of securities between him and Pierre 8. du Pont, following the 1929 stock market panic, would end with only a small monetary difference one way or the other. The Government, contending the cross-sales of blocks of stocks were fictitious and were made with a pre- arranged illegal understanding for repurchase, seeks a deficlency tax of $617,316 from Du Pont and $1,026,340 from Raskob. In its “exhibit A,” the Government's chart of all the checks exchanged in the transactions between the two in- dustrialists, the balance in Du Pont's favor after almost $30,000,000 had changed hands was only $46.86. Questioned by U. S. Lawyer. Raskob’s attorney, Col. Joseph M. Hartfield, took the former chairman of the Democratic National Commit- tee, through the maze of cross-sales before turning him over to Mason B. Leming, chief of Government, counsel, for cross-examination, Col. Hartfield handed Raskob the elaborate chart prepared by the Bureau of Internal Revenue and | asked: “When did you first see any compu- tation of any kind showing only a $46.86 difference in your transactions with Mr. Du Pont?" “It's been within the last year. When I saw a chart prepared by the Government in this case.” “Did you ever make such a compu~ tation?” “No,” Raskob replied, “I never gave 1t any thought at the time.” Raskob then declared the Govern- ment's chart was not correct, even on the face of it, explaining why by gOINg into the details of his transac- tions. | | First Cross-Sale. In the first cross-sale, made on De- cember 13, only two weeks after the panic brought chaos to Wall Street, Raskob sold stocks worth $4,606,000 and bought stocks worth $4.582,750. These stocks were repurchased on the following January 6 and Du Pont paid by check to Raskob in the amount of $5,254,125. Raskob had to pay $5,989,- 500 to get his stocks back. He esti- mated he was short of cash and gave a note for $700,000, paying the rest by check. ‘There was a second smaller cross- sale on December 26 with repurchase | the following January 27—in which Du Pont sold at $1,560,000 and bought back at $2,020,000; and Raskob sold for $1569,000 and bought back for $1,600.000. In the block of securities he pur- chzsed from Du Pont November 13 | were 56,500 shares of General Motors, | 50,000 of which Raskob sold the next day to Archmere, Inc., a holding com- pany wholly owned by Mrs. Raskob. | “The Government's calculations in | its chart,” Raskob explained, “credits me with receiving the interest on the 56,500 shares of General Motors. This | is a mistake as it ignores the fact that "50.000 shares were sold to Arch- mere and the Interest went to Arch- mere. This, in itself, throws the Gov- ernment’s chart out of balance by around $50,000." MICHIGAN AVENUE RAIL OVERPASS RITES SET Brief Speeches and Music to Fea- | ture Ceremonies at 4 0'Clock Tomorrow. A musical program and brief speeches will be high lights of dedi- cation exercises tomorrow at 4 pm. in observance of the opening of the | new Michigan avenue northeast rail- road overpass. Arrangements for the ceremonies have been made by a committee of the Michigan Park Citizens’ Associ- ation, headed by John F. Hillyard. ‘The music will be furnished by the Elks Boys' Band. The principal ad- dress will be made by John J. Hurley, president of the Michigan Park Citi~ zens' Association. Leo A. Rover, for- mer District attorney, will preside and the Rev. Alvin Lamar Wills, rec- tor of the Church of Our Savior, will deliver the invocation and benedic- | tion. Miss Lorraine Carhart will cut | & ribbon formally opening the over- | pass. HOTEL FOUNDER DIES | NEWARK, N. J, May 21 (@) — | Charles P. Meyer, & co-founder of the old Waldorf Hotel in New York City and author of the “Royal Cook Book” containing recipes of dishes served to European royalty, died yesterday. He would have becn 94 next Tuesday. 29 Trout Caught In Mystery Pond Given President Glass-Bottomed Boat and Airplane Facilitate Unusual Feat. By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt received today | 29 trout caught from a glass-bottomed | boat last night in Mystery Pohd, Os- sipee, N. H. A committee of three flew here with the fish. They were Erborn Wood, owner of the pond, which gets its name from the fact that the temperature of the water seldom changes more than a de- gree or two; Robert St. John, execu- tive secretary of the Democratic State Committee, and Spencer Treharne, Concord business man and pilot of the plane. Just to show he meant what he said, Wood, 57-year-old sportsman, went to Mystery Pond yesterday, swished the trout from its 75-foot depth and start- 1 ed off with them to Washington. A few days ago Wood engaged a plane for the trip, leaving the matter of catching the fish until yesterday. His newly-constructed glass-bot- tomed boat drifted on the pond during La Guardia Suggests German Press ‘Filth’ Go to Sewer Official By the Assoclated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, May 21— Mayor Fiorella H. La Guardia of New York suggested today that German press comment on as- serted immorality in New York high schools be referred to the New York sewer commissioner. “Statements such as those made in the German press” said La Guardia, “‘can only be referred to Commissioner Binger, who has charge of the sewage disposal in New York City. “No decent person can answer, or even comment, on such filth.” MACKNIGHT GIRL SHAKY AT TRIAL Closes Eyes and Sways as Defense Opens—May Ac- cuse Sweetheart. By the Assoclated Press. JERSEY CITY, N. J, May 21— | Seventeen-year-old Gladys MacKnight | almost collapsed at her murder trial jury she would turn against her former choir boy sweetheart and ac- cuse him of wielding the hatchet The girl closed her eyes and swayed, and police matrons, holding her by the arms, helped her from | the room as a luncheon recess was | calied. The State had rested its case, and | Gladys' lawyer, had told the 12-man girl's story would be the stand in her own defense. He said she would accuse her co- defendant, Donald Wightman, 18, of wielding the hatchet which killed her mother. Says Knife Not Mentioned. Counsel for the red-haired boy sought to show in early questioning of the young couple did not mention the knife re- ported found in the mother's hand Gladys, who. the State charges, hacked Mrs. Helen MacKnight to death while Donald held her, was calm as the t defense to begin. Donald smiled cheerfully at h parents when he entered the cour room. Bayonne Detective Capt. Thomas McGrath testified under cross-examination that Supt. John J. Rigney, head of the Police Depart- ment’s Bureau of Identification, showed him a knife the night the pair were at headquarters and said: “This is the knife Mrs. MacKnight 1s supposed to have had in her hand.” y what the | today as her lawyer revealed to the | which killed her mother. | R. Lewis Kennedy, | hen she took | that Bayonne police | me drew near for her | NAZIPRESS SHOUTS FOR PAPAL AGTION Broadsides on U. S. Cath- lics, Jews Renewed After Attack on Hitler. BACKGROUND— A speech Tuesday by George Cardinal Mundelein Catholie bishop of the Chicago diocese, branding Hitler as a “paperhanger” and Goebbels as “crooked,” loosed a storm of anti-Catholic fury in Germany and brought informal representations to the State De- partment. By the Associated Press, CHICAGO, May 21.— Germany's controlled press heightened its thun- der to include American Jews and Catholics today, while Catholic prel- ates of two American States joine those of other sects in defendin: George Cardinal Mundelein's attack on the Nazi government Nazi newspapers demanded the Vate ican “call to order” Cardinal Mundee lein, Catholic Archbishop of Chicago, who touched off the international con- troversy Tuesday with a condemnation of “malicious propaganda” he declared the Nazi leaders were directing at the church. In Vatican City prelates said the ailing Pope Pius XI has completed and might publish at any moment a diplo= matic paper designed to give docu- mentary evidence that any violation of the Vatican-German concordat of 1933 was on the part of Chancell Hitler's regime and not of See. The pact was intended to ou the sphere of the Germar.y, especia training of youth. spokesmen have char ment abridged the treaty by attem ing to deny the church the privil of religious training for youth. “Hair-Raising Immorality. This alleged government ence with the church’s y was assailed by Car in his address the Holy See woul | against the Cardinal press attacks Renewed Nazi | sailed Catholics | and Mayor Fiore New Rork i cardinal | several weeks ago matic repres ities. The official German news agency circulated thr ut G item captioned “Hair-Ra rality in New York High It described an investigatio charges that there had been whole= sale bootlegging of contraceptives among Brooklyn high school students. Bro n has chiefly by pt= 28 Catholic Asks About Possible Attack. Col. George Vickers, attorney for ‘Wightman, asked: “Did you hear any one say that was the knife used by Mrs. MacKnight to make a lunge at Gladys and Donald?" he answer was: “I didn't hear that.” t “Didn't any one ask this prisoner (Donald) about an implement nf death of violence had been committed?” “No." “Did either you or Detective George Seeley ask this prisoner what the knife had to do with the case?” No» “Capt. McGrath, did you purposely void asking him?” “No,” was the reply. Father Aids Girl. Edgar MacKnight—ne Iooks like pictures of the “average American father” reading a paper and puffing a pipe—was in the court as prospective first defense witness for his daughter. Bayonne neighbors of the Ma 1Kxngm's though at first he would | never lift his hand to save his cool- lue-eyed daughter, but the man who | came home from work last July 31 | and found his wife's body, could not “turn & cold shoulder” on his child. Heeding a paternal impulse, he hired one of the leading lawyers in Bayonne, came to court, wearing spec- tacles and & neat, conservative oxford- gray suit, to sit at the defense counsel table, C. C. C. HOUSE VOTE HIT AS ‘BACKWARD’ Civil Service League Asks Re- versal of Action Putting Civil- ians Outside Service. Assailing as a “backward step” the action of the House in putting all servation Corps outside of ctvil serv- ice, the National Civil Service Reform League today called on the Senate Committee on Education and Labor to reverse this action in a measure pend- ing before it. The House, in what the league de- scribes as an ‘“‘unfortunate amend ment” to the Conservation Corps bill, voted against civil service for the agency a week ago. The league asserts that the corps 1is “gradually deteriorating through a growing policy of basing appointment and retention of employes upon poli- tical preferment.” It points out that the Society of American Foresters is on record as declaring that “the orig- inal non-political control of all ap- pointments on which the achievements and the still-surviving good reputation of the C. C. C. camps were dependent must be restored.” GROCERY STORE THEFT SUSPECTS ARRESTED One Is Recaptured After Dash for Freedom—=Stock of Pro- visions in Auto. Fired on when he fled from a police- man who suspected him of breaking into a grocery store, a white man was captured by other officers early today as he attempted to escape in an auto- mobile. Pvt. H. K. Dressendorfer, seventh precinct, said he arrested two men | when he saw them leaving the store, in the 4800 block of Conduit road, about 1 am. When he took tnem to a patrol box, one of them started to run, he said. The shot which the officer fired did not take effect, but the suspected burglar was caught by two other offi- a drenching rainstorm, while Wood, depending solely on fiy casting, hooked the presidential meal. The trout, ‘which measured from 9% to 16 inches, were immediately placed in sn ice- filled chest. 4 cers in & scout car when he was seen trying to start a machine a few blocks AWAY. Police said they found two revolvers | | Geoghan of Br that was found near where the crime | civilian employes of the Civilian Con- | Jews and Cath e agency said, | adding “This action cation furt unheard-of t by the Board of Edu: evidence of whi gs are possible in this | city under the eyes of the Jew, Guardia.” District Att M has been inves- tigating what he termed “an unusual moral condition” among Brooklyn high school students. School authorities declared his statement “greatly exa; | gerated.” | Trials of priests and lay brothers on “wholesale immorality” charges in Germany were labeled by Cardinal Mundelein as part of the Nazi propae ganda campaign against the church. He said the stories circulated made war-time atrocity accounts appear like | “bedtime stories for children™ in com- parison. ! Secret Police Begin Probe, | BERLIN, May 21 (#)—The power- ful Gestapo, German secret state po- lice, began today to seek detailed in- formation on German sources from which, it believed, George Cardinal | Mundelein obtained information | for his castigation of Third Reich's | attitude toward the Ca | Reproductions of | ican newspaper accounts here, sald the Chicago cardi tained his data about “immoralit trials of German Catholic monks and lay brothers and other material on the church-state situation from Ger- man residents, relayed through the Franciscan Sisters in Illinois. If the identity of any of these Ger- mans can be established, it was learned, they will be punishable un- der a German law which classes as treason the circulation of “false re- | ports” likely to do damage to fatherland Penalty Is Death. The penalty for treason headsman’s ax. What is regarded as even m probable is that the state will move | against organizations, ratier than dividuals, if it can establish what deems to be culpability. Many gious orders own property whica might | be confiscated. |~ “It probably never occurred to him | he was uncovering a case of treason” !“~volving the transmission of “false wirormation about important decisions of the state the newspaper Nach- tausgabe commented on intimations | of how the cardinal obtained his in- formation. Nazi Attack Called *'Sill NEW YORK, May 21 (#)—District Attorney Willlam F. X. Geoghan of Brooklyn today labeled the attack of the Nazi press on school conditions in Brooklyn and on Mayor La Guardia as “silly and baseless.” New York schools are above re- proach, he said, save for certain “‘out= side evil influences” which his office is combating. Geoghan declined to amplify this statement. LINDBERGH’S PLANE DRAWS TOURIST BANDS ‘Men Remove Hats, All Talk in ‘Whispers, Says Guard in Smithsonian., By the Associated Press. Bands of tourists flocked to a ram- bling red building today to stare at the metallic symbol of an American ideal—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh’s “The Spirit of St. Louis.” Ten years after Lindbergh’s New York-Paris flight, his trim little plane hangs from the ceiling of the Smith= sonian Institution—a spread-eagled piece of silver in the room's deep gloom. ‘The people beneath it talk in whis- pers. “They always do that” said a guard, “and the men take off their and about $35 worth of groceries in the can . 4 [ hats. There's something about it that gets them.” s