Evening Star Newspaper, May 30, 1937, Page 1

st WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Foreeast.) Fair and slightly warmer today: tomor- row fair and warmer, followed by local thundershowers late tomorrow afternoon or night. Temperatures, highest, 78, at 2 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 64, at 6:30 a.m. yesterday. Full report on Page A-10. Full Associated Press News and Wirephotos Sunday Morning and Every Afternoon. Sund ar h WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION (#) Means Associated Press. No. 1,680—No. 33,997. Entered as second ¢lass matter post ofice, Washington, D. O. GERNAN WARSHIP BOMBED AND FIRED IN' AERIAL ATTACK WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING Amelia Earhart Ready to Start West-East Trip Around Globe Battle Declared Provoked by Cruiser in Turning Guns on Planes. NAZI VESSELS WARNED TO SHUN REBEL PORTS Valencia Notifies Admiral Von Feschel His Ships Must Remain 10 Miles Off Coast. BACKGROUND— Spain’s bloody civil war which has raged since mid-July of 1936, has been marked by repeated charges that Germany and Italy, both Fascist, are aiding Fascist insur- gents. Non-intervention accord reached last December has had little effect in depleting surge of ! men and arms into Spain. Grow- . ing tension between the Spanish loyalist government and Germany and Italy has been evident since failure of Insurgent Gen. Franco to take key cities of Madrid and Bilbao. By the Assoclated Press. VALENCIA, Spain, May 20.—The Bpanish government announced to- night two of its warplanes had dropped four bombs on the German ‘“pocket battleship” Admiral Scheer at Ibiza in the Balearic IMands tonight after the cruiser opened fire, The exploding bombs set fire to the | ‘warship. The ministry of defense said the | planes were making a reconnaissance | over the islands. “On passing over Ibiza,” the minis- | try said, “the warship, anchored 200 | yards off the breakwater, opened heavy anti-aircraft artillery fire against the planes, which committed no act of aggression against either the ship or the city. “The airplanes responded to the attack by dropping bombs, four nl1 which struck the ship, causing ex- plosions.” The Admiral Scheer is one of the German vessels participating in the non-intervention control patrol to pre- | vent arms and men from reaching | either side in the Spanish civil war. At Berlin, official sources professed | to have no information of the reported | bombing. Answers German Protest. The Valencia government earlier | answered a protest from Admiral von | Peschel, commander of German war- ships in the Mediterranean, declaring the non-intervention control plan pro- vided that ships must remain at least 10 miles off Spanish coasts. Von Feschel protested that govern- ment planes had flown over German control ships several times “as if to attack.” This the Valencia govern- ment denied. The government also warned Von Feschel that it could not guarantee the safety of German naval craft par- ticipating in the international patrol | if they enter insurgent ports “with- out justification.” “‘Moreover,” the announcement said, “control of the island of Ibiza, ac- cording to decisions of the Non-Inter- vention Committee, is charged to the French Navy.” Reports Palma Bombed. The Valencia government also de- clared that Palma, on the insurgent- held island of Mallorca, had been bombed by government planes as a port “harboring ships used for the transport of war supplies to insur- gents” (Wireless messages from Valencia received in London said the planes which bombed the German cruiser were flying to Palma to make an air raid at the time the cruiser is alleged to have opened fire.) “BIG PUSH” AWAITED. Franco-Spanish Frontier Vigilance Tightened as Attack Nears. HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Fron- tier, May 29 (#).—Spanish insurgents tonight put into effect strict border vigilance because of what officers said was “a big attack” Gen. Emilio Mola planned to launch tomorrow morning. Officers declined to say anything more about the military plans, but asserted that until further notice no one would be allowed to cross from Bpain into France. Earlier, the defenders of Bilbao were reported to have inflicted heavy losses on the insurgents in routing an in- surgent advance guard near Orduna, on the Nervion River south of the Basque capital. (Four German aviators arrived at Bt. Jean de Luz, France, aboard the French :unboat Audacieuse to be re- leased in exchange for prisoners held by insurgents, (The group, taken to the French port from Bilbao, included Walter Kienzl, Gunther Schulze and Hans Joachim Wandel. Also aboard the gunboat was Leopold Galy, the French pilot of the Air Pyrenees pasenger plane, injured when his ship was shot down by insurgent air raiders last ‘Wednesday.) ITALY MAY ASK APOLOGY. Indemnities Also May Be Demanded for Spanish Bombing. ROME, May 20 (#).—Sources close to the government said tonight Italy may demand from the Spanish gov- ernment an apology and possibly in- demnities for families of six Italians killed in the air bombing of the Ital- ian naval auxiliary vessel Barletta off Palma, Island of Mallorca. The Rome government asserts a Spanish government airplane made the attack. A protest was made yes- terday to the Non-Intervention Com- mittee in London, to which the apol- ogy would be made, Radio Programs, Page F-3. Special Dispatch to The Star. Noted Flyer Reverses Route on Second Trial Due to Weather—Will Fol- low Equatorial Route. MIAMI, May 29.—Amelia Earhart, who arrived here from California a week ago on a leisurely shakedown cruise of her rebuilt “fiying laboratory,” Announced today that she is ready for another try at serial globe girdling honors, but will reverse her route this roughly approximating the equator. time and attempt a west-east flight Final tests of the navigation instruments in her Wasp-motored Lockheed Electra monoplane were being mades- today at the Miami Municipal Alrpon| and it is possible she will take off to- morrow morning en route to South | America and Africa, but she said it was more likely the start would be made Monday or Tuesday. | Miss Earhart also disclosed that Capt. Fred J. Noonan, veteran aerial navigator who instructed all of Pane, American Airways flight crews in thst‘ company's conquest of the Pacific, will accompany her throughout all stages of her projected flight. Noonan was one of the three men aboard the “flying laboratory” with her when she took off from Oakland on March 17 and flew 2,410 miles to Honolulu, the ' first leg of an East-West attempt to fly around the world, and he was in the ship when the landing gear collapsed and partially wrecked it on the take- off from Hawaii for Howland Island, but it was Miss Earhart's intention then to complete her globe-girdling adventure alone after crossing the Pacific and reaching Port Darwin, Australia. The present change of plans, she said, is due to weather prevailing at this time of year over the course origi- nally mapped out for her flight. More specifically, her decision to fly from West to East resulted from the immi- (See EARHART, Page A-3.) CONGRESS FEARS AUTUMN SESSION Court Bill Disposal and Wages-Hour Measure Hold Answer. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Fear Congress may be kept here all Summer and well into the Fall is growing among Democratic Sena- tors and Representatives. The coming week, however, prom- ises & number of happenings that may throw light on the situation. The Supreme Court—under attack in the Roosevelt court bill—adjourns for the Summer recess Tuesday and Associate Justice Van Devanter goes on the “retired” list, leaving a vacancy to be filled by the President. Joint hearings on the administra- tion's minimum wage and maximum hours bill for labor will begin be- | fore the House and Senate Committees on Labor, also on Tuesday. The Senate Judiciary Committee is | expected before the week closes to report adversely the President's court reorganization bill and place it on the calendar, The House will have a showdown | Tuesday, unless the administration again postpones it, on the administra- tion's $1,500,000,000 relief bill, which insurgent blocs have amended ma- terially. There is prospect, t0o, of some early action on the President’s plan for the reorganization of the executive de- partments of the Government. President’'s Course Important. It is obvious that if the President continues to insist upon going ahead at the present with the court bill, the executive departments reorgani- zation bill, the labor bill, not to men- tion a number of other legislative recommendations he has sent to Con- gress, that body may be still here| when snow flies. No one has yet been able to pry out of the administration leaders just what their course will be in regard to the court reorganization bill. The attitude of the opponents of the meas- ure is that they will not delay a vote on the President's original measure, believing they have it beaten, but that they will filibuster for weeks and months if a compromise is advanced that might have a chance of pass- ing the Senate. Some of the opponents of the court bill want the issue decided before Con- gress adjourns—they do not wish it to go over into the congressional cam- paign of next year. Other opponents would be entirely satisfied to have the court fight go into the campaign, be- lieving they would gain strength thereby. The first group are fearful that if they have to go up against President Roosevelt's great populariy and be recognized as opponents of his, they may be in danger. The labor standards bill, which was sent to the Congress last week with a considerable fanfare of trumpets, has struck a number of snags. It does not look as well to members of the (See CONGRESS, Page A-5.) CHILD DIES OF POISON Three Sisters Critically Ill—Gar- den Spray Blamed. MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 29 (#).— Five-year-old Ruth McGhee died in a hospital today of what doctors be- lieve was poisoning, while three of her sisters lay seriously il Hospital attaches said Ann, 3; Peggy, 7, and Rosalie, 8, were in a serious condition. Dr. Ben Davis of the hospital staff said the parents, Mr. and Mre. Earl McGhee, expressed belief the children might have eaten vegetables and fruits from a garden which had been sprayed against insect pests. STEEL STRIKE BILL CLOSE T0§3,000,000 Little Prospect of Accord | Within Next Few Days Is Seen. BACKGROUND— Launching organization drive in mass production industries first among automobile factory em- ployes, John Lewis’ Committee for Industrial Organization now is de- voting equal attention to the steel concerns. With company officials loathe to hald production during a period of almost unprecedented activity, the C. I. O. speedily won contracts with subsidiaries of giant United States Steel. Drive now is di- rected against three of the largest “independents,” who are bitterly fighting unionization moves. B the £ssociated Press. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, May 29— The cost of the steel strike soared into millions of dollars tonight against a background of pickets pacing & 500- mile front where at least 72,000 men are idle in the Nation's greatest manu- facturing industry. ‘While companies and strikers locked horns on the union’s “strike or starve” strategy designed to remove a few thousand men remaining in the mills, & survey set at more than $3,000,000 & single week's losses in the atrike as measured by wages and profits. ‘The Federal Government took defi- nite steps in the paralyzing strike sit- uation by dispatching two National Labor Relations Board attorneys to Cleveland to help Regional Director Ralph A. Lind investigate charges by steel union leaders that Republic Steel Corp. was guilty of unfair labor prac- tices. The attorneys, Robert Erdahl and Christopher Hoey, took up digging into the evidence. The investigation will determine whether a labor board hearing will be held. With the walkout moving into its fifth day and little apparent prospect for settlement before it has lasted a week, figures indicated a loss of at least $2,340,000 weekly in wages. The basic wage for Northern steel mill workers is $5 a day for five 8-hour days, with time and a half for the sixth day, which virtually all mills have been utilizing to keep abreast of orders unequaled since 1929. Three Companies Involved. The three companies involved—Re- public Steel Corp., Youngstown Sheet & Tube and Inland Steel Co.—were losing at the rate of $1,189,384 on the basis of their first quarter earnings this year. This yardstick, admittedly fallacious in part, was however, the best avail- able. The three compenies reported net profits of $15,461,861 for the first three months this year, and their operations have continued into the Spring at about the same level, steel men said. ‘The Steel Workers’ Organizing Com- mi tightened its strike strategy today in all the six States affected in an effort to drive remaining workers from the mills and shut all the plants of the companies, from which the union is seeking signed bargaining contracts. Republic, which, with the other com- panies has contended a signed contract (See STEEL, Page A-5.) e Hoover to Get Honorary Degree. KALAMAZOO, Mich., May 29 (#).— J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Bureau of Investigation in the De- partment of Justice, will receive an honoray doctor of science degree at the 101st commencement at Kalama- 200 College June 14. The F. B. I chiet will deliver the commencement address, speaking on “Adventures in Scientific Law Enforcement.” William J. Nolan Gets Parole; Faces New Trial on 23 Counts William J. Nolan, former head of the bankrupt Nolan Motor Co., who has been serving a prison term for bribery, has been granted parole, ef- fective immediately, the Board of In- determinate Sentence and Parole an- nounced yesterday. Nolan was sentenced in' District Court to a prison term of from four months to a year on a charge of brib- ery growing out of a divorce action filed against him by his wife. He began his term in Lorton Reformatory December 18. In announcing its decision, the Parole Board said it had received a large number of letters from prom- Complete Index, Page A-2. [ 4 inent citisens urging his parole “and has received no contrary expressions.” 4 ¥ Nolan, along with two of his former business associates, was indicted April 5 in 23 counts on charges of forgery, uttering, false pretenses amd conspir- acy to commit false pretenses. Granting the former auto dealer im- mediate freedom, the Parole Board said: “One of the main purposes of parole is to aid in the rehabilitation of men who have enjoyed s good standing in the community. * * * “The board feels from an examina- tion of the record that this applicant is not of an anti-social type and that he could safely be paroled. ®* * * It may be that the new charge against him will prevent such a plan from being carried out, but this is & mat- ter which cannot be determined now.” P TRUCE ON RELIEF SNAGGEDBY SPLIT ONHIGHWAY FUND Administration’s Attempt to Work Out Compromise Fails in Parley. $150,000 IS SOUGHT FOR ROAD PURPOSES Agreements Reached on Plans for Flood Control and Public Works. BACKGROUND— First beset by economy bloc that sought unsuccessfully to cut fund Jrom $1,500,000,000 requested by President to $1,000,000,000, Fed- eral relief appropriation bill was attacked last week by House bloc secking to earmark bulk of fund. Riding over House leadership, bloc succeeded in jorcing passage of numerous amendments, includ- ing slash in salary of Administra~ tor Hopkins. At last minute, leaders forced postponement of final vote on bill until coming week. By the Assoctated Press. Failure to reach an understanding on expendityre of funds for highways | last night blocked an administration attempt to work out a compromise on the riddled relief bill. A round of conferences at the White House -nd Capitol ended without a decision by leaders of a House bloc to withdraw amendments that tenta- tively earmarked $505,000,000 of the $1,500,000,000 relief fund for public works, flood control and road projects. The administration desires a free hand to allot the $1,500,000,000 as it deems advisable. A series of proposals and counter- proposals produced what both sides described as a satisfactory arrange- ment covering public works and flood control. Whether a complete agree- ment can be obtained probably will not be known unti FHause Roads Committee meets Tuesday. A majority of the Roads Commit- tee was described as wanting high- way construction carried on under directian of State highway commis- sions on a contract basis. President Roosevelt, it was said, in- sists that such work not be done un- der contracts, contending too much money would be spent for materials. The administration was said to feel that county highway boards should select road projects and then apply to W. P. A. to supply 100 per cent of the unskilled labor. Chairman Cartwright of the Roads Committee led the battle to earmark $150,000,000 of the relief fund for highway purposes. House Majority Leader Rayburn told reporters clustered in his office last night that on public works the administration had agreed to carry out projects ‘“‘wherever there was a moral obligation on the part of the Government to do the job.” That means, he said, that the ad- ministration would go ahead with all projects for which bond elections have been authorized or held. Representative Beiter, Democrat, of New York, who led the fight that ear- marked $300,000,000 for public works, said he was well pleased with the administration offer and that it would permit the carrying out of projects to cost some $150,000,000. Representative Starnes, Democrat, of Alabama, who sponsored the amend- ment earmarking $45,000,000 for flood control, said the administration had given assurance that at least that amount and perhaps more would be spent. Thomas Asks \ , MAY 30, 1937—NINETY-TWO PAGES. * Rogmson Ceusoe! IF 1 COULD ONLY GET THIS HEAT TURNED N MY COURT BILL! 111404 1T LooKS LIKE JusTice Ropwson 7 , Wages Paid D. C. Women Found Under 1923 Statute Minimum; Survey Covers 200 Establishments Em- ploying More Than 12,500—Study An- ticipates Law’s BACKGROUND— In 1923, Supreme Court invali- dated law by which minimum wages for women employed in Dis- trict could be fixed. During past Winter, court up- held similar law for State of Wash- ington and announced that opinion constituted reversal of that in- volving District statute. Steps to make reafirmed law eflective here were taken immediately, survey of eristing wage scales being ome of Arst developments. ‘The compensation received by woman workers here is predominantly lower than the standards of the minimum wage law voided in 1923, the Women's Bureau of the Labor Department said last night in making public the re- sults of a survey just conducted at the instance of the House District Com- mittee. ‘The study was made in anticipation of the reinstatement of the minimum Reinstatement. wage law following the recent Supreme Court decision upholding - this type of legislation. It covered the prevail- ing wage and hour standards in nearly 200 establishments employing more than 12,500 women in a representative pay period in April. Factories, stores, laundries, dry-cleaning plants, beauty parlors, hotels and restaurants were included. “The great majority of these woman workers were found to be earning less, and in many instances, considerably less, than the minimum wage rates required for experienced women when the law was invalidated in 1923, the report said. “Wide variations charac- terize both hours and earnings of | women in the different industries today.” Median Wage Varies. The median week's wage—half of the women earning more and half earn- ing less—varied in the nidustries (8ee MAXIMUM WAGE, Page A-9) Head Floating On Water Is Doll, Police Discover By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 29.—Radio patrol cars, an emergency police squad and a police launch screeched up to the One Hundred and Forty-fifth Street Bridge over the Harlem River today after a workman reported seeing a head floating in the water. Commandeered row boats joined the launch in nosing in an hour hunt, to the accompaniment of advice from on- shore spectators. Finally a patrolman sighted the head. Easily, so that the propellers would not cause it to sink, the launch crept up. A seine was carefully cast. It brought to the surface the head of & life-sized doll. Agency to Find Jobs Elsewhere for D. C. Idle Labor Bureau, Under Oklahoman’s Plan, Would Aid in Ascertaining Worker Need in Localities; Transportation Would Be Provided. BACKGROUND— Mecca of transient unemployed, Washington has found relief needs one of most troublesome obligations in time of increasingly acute flscal strain. While public and private relief ' agencies press for increased funds in 1938 D. C. supply bill, vouching Jor need at same time, other local organizations back limited amount approved by House as part of nec- essary economy in District govern- ment. BY J. A. O’LEARY. +An agency to locate jobs in other parts of the country for some of ‘Washington’s unemployed was sug- gested yesterday as a partial solution of the District'’s relief problem by Senator Thomas, Democrat, of Okla- homa, chairman of the subcommittee handling the 1938 District appropria- tion bill. The plan occurred to the Oklaho- man after Friday's hearing in which s dozen spokesmen for various or- ganizations argued for and sagainst an increase in the $1411,500 relief fund now in the bill, to aid employ- ables who are out of work. . Senator Thomas' proposal is based on & belief that a considerable num- ber of persons were attracted to Washington during the depression in the hope of finding employment here. The subcommittee chairman pointed out that s placement bureau might be able to find opportunities else- where for some of these jobless. Relief Fund a Problem. He recalled that when he was.in Florida some time ago, he found there was a demand in that section then for labor to work in the fruit orchards on the sugar cane fields. Later in the year, he said, there will be s similar need for workers in ‘Western “agricultural States. Ma ox- » pressed the opinion that some agency might b- designated to ascertain, with the aid of the Department of Labor, where such requirements exist. He said he recognized provision would have to be made for their trans- portation to the point where labor is needed. ‘The amount of the relief appropria- tion for the new fiscal year is one of the major decisions confronting the Senate group when it begins late this week to act on changes in the supply bill. After & week-end lull, the subcom- mittee will resume hearing civic del- egations Tuesday and Wednesday. Hoping to end the hearings Wed- nesday, Chairman Thomas will call the Commissioners back_ into confer- ence Thursday for a general discus- sion, Visit Children’s Home. The subcommittee then will be ready to vote on proposed increases and other amendments to the House text, and these decisions will deter- mi.e to a large extent the size of the deficit the District must meet through the new tax program, subject, of course, to final conference with the House. During yesterday's recess, Chair- man Thomas paid a visit. to the tem- porary Receiving Home for Children to get first-hand knowledge of the facilities there. The future use of the home is at issue in the pending sup- ply bill, the House having voted to abandon the institution July 1 and require the District to provide for the children through & system of board- ing homes. There are some indica- tions the Senate subcommittee may recommend that the receiving home be continued in operation for the time being. ‘The subcommittee hopes to be ready to report the supply bill to the Senate Appropriations Committee be- fore the end of this week. g PRESIDENT GOES TOVISIT MOTHER Relief Fund Discussed With Rayburn Before Departure. By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt left Washington last night for a brief visit to his Hyde Park, N. Y, home. His special train departed at 11 o'clock. He took advantage of a congressional interlude to spend the Memorial day holidays with his 82-year-old mother at the Dutchess County estate on the Hudson. He will return to Washington Wednesday morning. The President, aides said, would try to get plenty of sunshine and rest during his upstate journey to clear up all traces of the cold he contracted several days ago. The Chief Executive saw only one official caller during the day—Repre- sentative Rayburn of Texas, majority floor leader. They discussed ways of settling the House controversy over earmarking of relief funds. He also signed several secondary Dills and began writing a special mes- sage to Congress urging legislation to check tax evasion and avoidance. Secretary Marvin H. McIntyre, a communications officer, secret service sgents and two stenographers are ac- companying the President to Hyde Park. Mrs. Roosevelt is remaining to keep other engagements. Before leaving for the railroad sta- tion the President helped Mrs. Roose- velt entertain at & White House buffet supper for 58 members of the Roose- velt Home Club of Dutchess County, who have been sightseeing in the city. FIVE CENTS INGTON \TEN CENTS id X PLA \ $ [ N CAPITAL WILL PAY WARDEAD TRIBUTE More Than Score of Services | Scheduled Today—Holiday Traffic Heavy. The National Capital today will pay i honor to its war dead in more than | a score of Memorial day services in | all parts of the city, reaching a cli- max at 12:30 p.m., when more than 100 veteran and patriotic organiza- | tions will join in the annual exercises | in the Amphitheater in Arlington Na- | tional Cemetery. Wreaths also will be placed at a score of the Capital's | memorials to the Nation's military | leaders. Tomorrow will be observed as an | official holiday, all Federal and Dis- | trict government offices, the public schools and banks and business houses remaining closed. The outstanding | services tomorrow will be the annual | exercises at Battle Ground National Cemetery, Brightwood, at 3:30 p.m. Unusually heavy holiday traffic was | reported yesterday as thousands of , ‘Washingtonians left the city by rail, highways and airways. Automobile associations put extra personnel on duty to take care of requests for touring information, inspired in p:n‘ by forecasts of good weather for the | two-and-a-half-day holiday. There also was & heavy influx of tourists yes- terday and last night. Railroads and | airlines ran extra trains and airplanes to and from the city. Senator Clark to Speak. In the absence from Washington of | President Roosevelt, who is spending the day at Hyde Park, N. Y, and of Gen. John J. Pershing, who is in France, where he will attend the dedi- cation of memorials at American cemeteries, Senator Bennett Champ Clark of Missouri, one of the founders of the American Legion, will be the speaker at the Arlington exercises. The services, to be held under sponsorship of the Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Day Corp., with more than 100 affiliated bodies partici- pating, will be preceded at 11:30 o'clock by the laying at the Tomb | of the Unknown Soldier of wreaths | representing the participating organ- izations. These ceremonies will be in charge of Col. Wallach A. McCathran. Services in the amphitheater will be preceded by a musical program by the Drum and Bugle Corps of Fort Stevens Post, American Legion, R. H. Viancour, director, at 11:45 o'clock, and by a program by the United States (See MEMORIAL, Page A-4.) CONSULATé PICKETED Californians Protest Italy's Al- leged Part in Spanish War. LOS ANGELES, May 29 (#)—The Italian consulate was surrounded by a picket line today of some "5 men and women, carrying placards reading “Down with Mussolini,” and “Down with fascism.” Police sent 10 men to the scene, but did not interfere when they dis- covered picketing laws were being obs | served. Pickets explained they belonged to various organizations which opposed Italy's alleged participation in the Spanish war. Dying Driver Stops Bus Safely As He Collapses at Wheel Bt a Staff Correspondent of The Btar. FAIRFAX, Va., May 29.—Hal Rose Burris, 33-year-old driver for the Pan- American Bus Co., today brought 25 pessengers aboard his bus safely into a filling station here before collapsing at the wheel.” He died a few minutes later after being carried into the fill- ing station. Burris was driving slowly through Fairfax when he called to the porter on the bus and asked him to sit be- side him. At the Colonial Inn Burris drove the bus off the highway and stopped. The porter, assisted by at- tendants at the filling station, carried the driver into the station. Dr. E. 8. Waring, Fairfax physician, was summoned and arrived about 10 minutes before Burris died. Dr. C. A. Ransom, county coroner, issued a cer- tificate of accidental death but de- clined to discuss the cause. An agent of the company in Wash- ington, when asked if Burris might hava been overcome by carbon mon- q ) oxide ggs from the bus engine, said: “That was impossible, as 20 passen- gers had ridden all the way from New York to Washington, an eight-hour trip, in the same bus.” The porter told company officials that Burris told him when he was called to the front of the bus: “I want to get my passengers off the road. I'm feeling dizzy.” After he had driven off the high- way, Burris staggered from the bus and asked attendants to call a doctor. Officials of the company declared Burris died of heart disease, but Dr. Ransom announced he was conduct- ing a post-mortem examination. Burris had been with the Pan- American Lines for about four years and was with the old South Lines, owned by the same company, for seven years prior to that. He made his home with his wife at 1010 Elev- enth street, Washington. The body will be taken to Albe- marle, 8. C., for burial, it was said. & INCOMES FOR 133 10- Point Program Nearly Complete as 4nti-Tax Bloc Forms in House. TRADE ASSESSMENT IS REVISED UPWARD Sales Tax Advocates to Seek Real Estate Boost to Gain Own Ends. BACKGROUND— Adoption of a 2 per cent retail sales taz as the foundation of a one-year emergency tar program to balance the 1938 District budget was proposed last week by the Commissioners. This plan was re- jected by House District Subcom- mittee, which ordered income and business gross receipts levies as sub- stitutes. Speed is required, since new fiscal year begins July 1, and budget as passed by House leaves @ gap of more than $6,000,000 in Tevenues. District officials yesterday completed all but one element of a 10-point tax program, including a local income tax bill to apply as a starter to 1938 incomes, while a bloc was forming in the House District Committee to fight enactment of any income levy whate ever. While carrying out general direcs tions given by the special House group, the Commissioners’ advisers inserted in the income tax bill a provision which would require the making of initial returns and payments beiore October 1 of this vear, covering income received in the 1936 calendar year. At the same time they revised their plans for the business privilege tax, raising the proposed rates from one- half of 1 per cent to three-fifths of 1 per cent on gross receipts. The application of the income levy to 1936 is a brand-new thought in the tax crisis, resorted to in order to keep from waiting until late in the 1938 flscal years for receipts needed to meet the impending $5,- 000,000 or greater deficit for that year. The rates, ranging from 1 to 5 per cent, would be cut in half for the infe tial payments this October. New Sales Tax Strategy. Meanwhile, sales tax advocates in the House District Committee, who lost the first round of their hattle when the tax subcommittes decided to substitute an income tax, yesters day planned to fight back with a proe posal to increase the real eitate levy from $1.50 to $1.70. The strategy behind the nlan is to force the full committee, which will meet in special session Thursday to pass on the new tax program, to return to the sales tax rather than raise the real estate tax. Sentiment in the full committee against the income tax is said to be rather proe nounced. Many members of the full committee also are understond look with disfavor on an increase tn the real estate levy, feeling that real estate already is bearing its fair share of the tax burden. In view of tnis situation sales tax proponents are hopeful this plan will be restored to the tax program as a compromise, The full membership of the House committee will meet in special ses- sion Thursday to pass on the new tax program. Receipts Unknown. District officials said yesterday they could not calculate accurately how much the revised tax program would produce, although the Commissioners* intention was to restrict the income receipts to $2,000,000 and the business gross receipts taxes to $3,000,000. Asked what the proposed ratcs would produce, municipal officials responded: “We don't know.” They admitted that, by force of circumstance, they had paid more attention to the legal framework of the income and business levy bills than to the estimates of expected rev~ enues. The pressure of time was given as the explanation, plus the statement that Congress easily could change the rates, if and when better estimates of returns are available. At the present time, however, meme bers of the Commissioners’ Committee said they did not know whether the income levy, as now planned, would bring in $2,000,000, the figure set out as the desire of the city heads, or as much as $5,000,000. Also they said they had no present means of knowing accurately whether the busie ness privilege tax would raise more or less than the $3,000,000 figure out= lined in the Commissioners’ plans. tion Courmel Elwood H. ROOSEVELTS OPEN GREAT LAKES FAIR James Snips Ribbon at Entrance, President Turns on Exposition Lights. BY the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 29.— James Roosevelt, eldest son of the President, formally opened the 1937 Great Lakes Exposition today by snipping a ribbon barrier across the main entrance. The air was immediately filled with the clamor of whistles, horns, sirens and bells, launching” a day of colore ful ceremony, beginning with a lunche eon for Roosevelt and a tour of the Government exhibits. ) Tonight President Roosevelt pressé a telegraph key in the White House, transmitting an electrical impulse” turning on the exposition’s lights. Exposition officials prcdicted the season’s attendance is to reach 5,000,« 000 or 1,000,000 more than a year ago, “This Great Lakes Exposition of the ‘making of & Nation,’” James Rooses velt said, “is an excellent school teacher for those who want to learn.”