Evening Star Newspaper, June 27, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (0 8 Wenther Bureau Porecast.) Partly cloudy t>day; tomorrow loeal thundershowers, not much change in temperatures; gentle variable winds, mostly south, Temperatures—Highest, 90, At 2 pm. yesterday; lowest, 67, at 4:"0 p.m. yesterday. Full report on Pa B-5. Full Associated Press News and Wirephotos Sunday Morning and Every Afternoon. (P) Means Associated Press. No. 1,684—No. 34,025. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. SEIZURE OF STEEL MEN URGED BY MISS PERKINS, OHIO GOVERNOR CLAIMS * ‘Says HeTurned Down Plan to Force Peace. . “AUTOCRATIC,” | HE DECLARES Only Asked Use of Subpoena, She Explains. BACKGROUND— Refusal of three big independ- ent steel companies—Republic, Youngstown Sheet & Tube and Inland—to sign bargaining con- tract with John L. Lewis’ C. I. O. brought strike call on May 25. Or- ganization effort has forced 100.000 workers in seven States info idle- ness and has been marked by 12 deaths and hundreds injured. Effort was later centered on Beth- lehem's Cambria plant at Johns- town, Pa., where martial law was proclaimed last Sunday, but lifted a few days later.. Gov. Davey sent National Guardsmen into Mahon- ing Valley area. Appeal to Presi- | i dent Roosevelt to intervene brought naming of mediation board, but | eflorts to bring peace were fruitless. | Br the Asseciated Press. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, June 26.— While the steel strike front rumbled he WASHINGTON, ABOR BODY CITES. with threats of new strife, Gov. Martin | B L. Davey of Ohio told labor ]elders‘ tonight he had turned down flatly La- | B | bor Secretary Perkins' “autocratic and dictatorial” plan for forcing a settle- | ment. | 8ince the failure of her Mediation Board's peace efforts, Davey said, Miss | Perkins had asked him to keep the steel plants closed and to bring steel | makers Tom Girdler and Frank Pur- | nell to the State capital—‘and keep | them here until they signed an agree- | ment.” | Miss Perkins, he added, had sug- gested by long-distance telephone from Washington that he use the subpoena power of the State Indus- | trial Commission to bring the cteel| men to Columbus. | Miss Perkins, in reply, said tonight | she “merely suggested” to Gov. Davey | that he use the subpoena power to bring the steel men into a peace con- ference with strike leaders. Her Me- | diation Board, she recalled, had sug- | gested the conference method of | settling the strike. | No Right to Close Plants. “I have no right to keep plants elosed except in case of riot,” said the | Governor, whose order to National Guardsmen to protect those employes | wanting to work was responsible for | the reopening of Youngstown plants yesterday. “Secretary Perkins' suggestion would oe, in my judgment, the exercise of the most autocratic and dictatorial powers ever attempted. “In private life it would be kidnap- ng. Until the courts have decided that the companies have to sign con- tracts or agreements I have no right to take any one and hold them. ‘“That might be all right in Ger- aany or Italy. I am not going to sbuse my oonstitutional power for Mr. Girdler or any one else. . .. | “I recognize that I may have com- | mitted political suicide. I knew | from the outset that the situation was loaded with dynamite, but I bhave put politics out of considera- tion.” In reply to Gov. Davey, Secretary Perkins, in a statement issued through an assistant in Washington said: “I merely suggested to Gov. Davey, fnasmuch as the Federal Steel Board reported it belleved an adjustment of differences could be reached if | the parties concerned sat down to- gether, that the State of Ohio had the subpoena power to bring all con- eerned into & joint conference and thus try out the board's proposal of attempting to reach a voluntary set- tlement by the conference method.” Davey refused to remove the Na- | tional Guard from the mill towns. ‘The labor delegation, informed of MAN KIDNAPED, SHOT IN BACK AND ROBBED Baltimore Resident Seized by 4 Youths and Taken to Ferndale. Special Dispatch to The Star. FERNDALE, Md., June 26.—Vernon Cohn, 28, of Baltimore was shot in “the beck and critically wounded late tonight by four youths who kidnaped him as he was putting away his car, and robbed him of $700. A passing motorist brought Cohn to Ferndale, five miles south of Balti- more. Later he was taken to South Baltimore General Hospital. He said the bandits, who wore dark glasses, drove him to Ferndale in his own car and shot him in the back after robbing him and putting him out. A bullet penetrated a kidney, hospital ~ physicians said. FLAMES SWEEP SPAN ddock Bridge Fire Pittsburgh Trafic. PITTSBURGH, June 26 (P).—West Braddock Bridge, connecting suburban Pittsburgh's Rankin and Whitaker , was swept by fire today. A line of the Equitable Gas Co. broke and burst into flame, adding to the blaze that tied up automobile, trolley and pedestrian traffic. ”n Snarls INFOUR-CAR CRASH 'Two Others Injured, Per-! | ployes for the purpose of discouraging SECRETARY PERKINS. “I merely suggested that the State of Ohio had the sub- poena power to bring all con- cerned into a joint confer- ence.” D. C. WOMAN DIES | “maliclous and brutal assaults” on haps Fatally, in Dumfries, Va., Accident. A Washington woman was Killed and her companion and a colored girl were injured, perhaps fatally, in a traffic accident, involving four cars, half a mile north of Dumfries, Va., last night. Mrs. Frances Garner, 35, of 13056 P street was killed instantly when ~ thrown against the windshield of the car in which she was riding with Floyd A. Carroll, 60, of 1720 P street. Carroll suffer- ed a fractured pelvis, deep cuts on the neck and & broken lower jaw. He was § taken to the hos- pital at the Quantico Marine base, where it was reported his chances of recovery were slight. Carroll, friends said, purchased the automobile yesterday. Martha Cole, 19, one of six colored passengers in a car operated by John Kendall, jr, 22, who lives near Tri- angle, also was critically injured. She received cuts on the head and prob- ably a fractured skull. State Policeman H. L. Roberison said Kendall's car, going north on highway No. 1, collided first with a machine operated by Robert Kay, Irv- ington, N. J., and careened into Car- roll’s auto after skidding on the wet pavement. The fourth car, driven by Frank C. Calzone, aviation machinist at the Naval Air Suation, Pensacola, Fla., which was foliowing Carroll’s ma- chine, bumped into it from the rear. Neither Kay nor Calzone was injured seriously. Kendall was charged with involun- tary manslaughter by Officer Robert- son. The others in his car, besides the Cole girl, were not seriously hurt. Dr. E. H. Marstellar of Manassas, Prince ‘William County coroner, ordered an inquest into the death of Mrs. Garner, after which the body will be taken to Washington. —_—— HIT-RUN VICTIM FOUND Mrs. Garner. Card, Bearing “Born of Wealthy Parents,” Found on Body. CONCORD, N. C, June 26 (P).— The mangled body of an unidentified man, apparently the victim of a hit- { listed 14 persons, | charged that the Ford company “by | the employes into signing it. !Amy Flyer and Brother Die in run driver, was found beside a high- Way near here today. A card which bore the inscription, “Walter Davis, born of wealthy par- ents,” was found in the itinerant's pocket along with some road maps, Sheriff Ray C. Hoover said. £ . age. “Secretary Perkins’ sug- gestion would be in my judge- ment the exercise of the most autocratic and dictatorial pow- ers ever attempted” — Gov. Davey replying to reported plan to subpoena steel com- pany heads and ‘‘keep them until they signed an agrec- ment.” Wirephoto of Gov. Davey by A. P. FORD COMPANY Charges ‘“Malicious and ‘ Brutal Assaults” on C. I. 0. Organizers. BACKGROUND— Efforts of Committee for Indus- trial Organization to organize workers of Ford Motor Co. fol- lowed signing of bargaining agree- ment with General Motors, Chry- sler and other major automotive concerns after prolonged strike. C. I. O. was bitterly critici by Henry Ford, and when organizers attempted to distribute literature in Rouge plant at Detroit they were mobbed by what they claimed were jactory police. National La- bor Relations Board and a ome- | man grand jury probe followed. | By the Associated Press. DETROIT, June 26.—The National | Labor Relations Board, charging the Ford Motor Co. with responsibility for United Automobile Workers’ organiz- ers, issued a complaint against the company today and set July 6 for a hearing. | The complaint contended that the Ford company is “interfering with, restraining and coercing” its em- membership in a labor organization. Referring to the beating of union | organizers attempting to distribute | union literature outside gates of the huge Pord Rouge plant in suburban Dearborn May 26, the N. L. R. B. including three women, as having been “maliciously assaulted, attacked and beaten.” It its officers, agents, employes and rep- resentatives, instigated, encouraged, committed and acquiesced” in the as- | saults. Other Charges Made. Other charges included: “Threats, warnings and acts of vio- lence and intimidation” against U. A. W. A. members. Circulation among Rouge plant em- ployes of a paper entitled “A vote of confidence” during “working hours and otherwise under circumstances calculated to intimidate and coerce” Solicitation of memberships in the “Ford Brotherhood of America, Inc,” which the N. L. R. B. said “occurred with the knowledge and consent” of the company, during working hours. Discharge of 29 employes of the Rouge plant during the past year “by reason of their affiliation with, mem- bership in, or activity in behalf of” the U. A. W. A, Discharge or layoff of other em- ployes because of failure or refusal to sign the “vote of confidence” paper. Attached to the nine-page complaint was the notice of & hearing “by the National Labor Relations Board or by 2 KILLED AS PLANE FALLS INTO STREET Wreck Caused by Sudden Side-Slip. By the Associated Press. TIMMONSVILLE, 8. C., June 26.— Capt. Marion Huggins, U. 8. A, of Maxwell Field, Ala,, nd his brother, Triadeus Huggins, & student at the University of Soutn Carolina, were killed tonight when their Army plane crashed within the town limits. Ouapt. Huggins was piloting the plane slowly over the town when it i slipped and crashed in a street. Wires were knocked down. No one was hit by the plane. Capt. Huggins was home on a fur- lough. Dr. E. B. Turner said the brothers had been aloft for some time, appar- ently “teking things easily,” and that many of the villagers were watching the plane. Suddenly, he said, “something went wrong, the plane wobbled and went Both occupants, he added, were dead when removed from the wreck- | Fy | Veronica's mother was the first to die. | | of the jamboree next Wednesday night. WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION iy St D. C, IRWIN SURRENDERS IN CHICAGD, TELLS OF SLAYING THREE Original Plan Was to Kill Veronica Gedeon’s Sister, Paper Quotes Sculptor. SAYS MODEL’S MOTHER WAS MURDERED FIRST SUNDAY MORN Strangled Her After Terrific Fight, He States—Lodger Was His Final Victim. BACKGROUND-— Veronica Gedeon, artist’s model: her mother, Mrs. Mary Gedeon, and Frank Byrnes, a lodger, were slan Easter Sunday in their Beek- man Hul apartment in New York. Since the slayings Robert Irwin, sculptor, has been hunted as mur- derer of the trio. Bs (he Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 26.—The Herald and Examiner in a copyrighted story said tonight Robert Irwin, sculptor, hunted throughout the country for New York's triple Easter Sunday slay- ings, had surrendered in the Herald and Examiner office Detective headquarters and the central police station reported they | had received no word of the man's | capture ! Two detectives of the New York Homicide Squad. Walter Laurie and John Spillane, who said they had been here three days trailing Irwin, joined | Chicago police in a hunt for the youth. | Authorities said they had no official report of Irwin's seizure and had been | unsuccessful in locating him. The paper sald Irwin confessed the slayings of Veronica @edeon, artist's model, her mother and Frank Byrnes, A roomer in their New York Cny‘ apartment. Quoted on Original Plan. In an additional statement, the| paper reported Irwin said his original | purpose was to kill Veronica's sister, Ethel, whom he said he loved, but had married another man. “I wanted to kill Ethel,” the paper quoted Irwin as saying, “because she was the dearest object in the world to me. I loved her and hated her. I dreamed of modeling her as if beheaded, with her head far back and the mouth open “If my plans had carried out as| they were made I would have Kkilled | her only. I did not wish to ki'l any-! body else. The fact that I killed three | others was accidental.” Report Mrs. Gedeon Died First. The paper said Irwin relatad that It said he told them he went to the| Gedeon apartment to wait for Ethel. Mrz. Gedeon came in and finally or- dered him from the apartment. fhe | paper continued, when he told her | what he was there for. | He confessed, the paper said, that | he hit her and strangled her. She! Put up a terrific fight, the japer quoted him saying. Then. the Herald and Examiner added, Irwin said Veronica came in a short time later, he held her for nearly two hours on a bed before he killed her, and then killed Byrnes before he left. The search for Irwin turned to Chi- cago today after Cleveland, police | “definitely” identified as Irwin a youth | who boarded a Chicago-bound bus | there. Police Notified by Radio. Police here and throughout the | Midwest were notified by radio to be on the lookout for the long missing | 29-year-old youth after Cleveland au- thorities said he fled from a cheap hotel room a few hours before a G, JUNE 27, TAXBOARD0.K.S DUPONTLOOPHOLE New Deal Appointee Upholds Personal Holding Com- pany Device. BACKGROUND— Loopholes in the law which have diverted the flow of tares away from the Treasury have been the object of vigorous attack by the administration, President Roose- velt calling on Congress for remedial action. The House Ways and Means Committee earlier this month began an inquiry designed to disclose the identities of those who have evaded tazation by varicus devices. A personal holding company formed to avoid State death duties by Lammot du Pont, president of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., was given approval yesterday by the United States Board of Tax Appeals in a ruling which en- i . . closed tonight with no | titled Du Pont to deduct $382.727.70 | Ate taking part, c ! from him 1930 taxable income sad |OfMcial pronouncement regarding the | $504,639.71 from his 1931 income Justin Miller, newest of the New Deal appointees to the tax board, handed down an opinion overruling the Treasury and holding that Du Pont had established a bona fide cap- ital loss when in 1930 he sold several batches of securities to a company in which he was the sole stockholder, | after lending his company the money with which to purchase them. The decision, though not made pub- lic until yesterday, was actually pro- mulgated on Thursday, when eight other Du Ponts were being held up to scorn before the joint Congres- sional Committee on Tax Evasion, be- cause of the taxes they had avoided by incorporating their pocketbooks in personal holding companies. Transter Held Legal. Lammot du Pont was not in that list, which included his brother and business associate, Pierre 8. du Pont, and John J. Raskob. Those two recently went through litigation witn the Treasury in New York, with the Government contending that bona fide losses had not been .established (See TRWIN, Page A-3.) (See EVASION, Page A-10.) 'Seouts Pour Into Washington; Population of ‘Jamboree City’ Due to Hit 27,000 Wednesday BACKGROUND— Boy Scouts of America was born in this city in 1910, when Dr. James E. West, local attorney, be- came chief executive and organizer. Now more than 2,000,000 strong, the organization planned silver jubilee in 1935, but threatened outbreak of infantile paralysis caused postponement until this year. Celebration will take form of Scouts’ first great mass demon- stration, or “jamboree,” in United States. B Washington today by train, bus and automobile, with the prospect that nearly 10,000 jamboree- bent apostles of the “good turn” will have pitched their tents along the Potomac by nightfall. Approximately 4,000 Scouts are ex- pected to arrive during the day, most of them aboard 39 “Jamboree Specials” due to roll into railroad terminals from points scattered far and wide over the continent. It was estimated that 5,000 of the boys stormed the 350-acre camp yesterday. Some 6,000 more are scheduled to descend on the Capital tomorrow, with & camp population of more than 15,000 anticipated for dinner tomorrow night. And literally tons of food are ready to take care of the hearty appetites. 27,000 Expected by Wednesday. More than 27,000 Scouts from every State in the Union and from 24 for- eign nations will be on hand for the great camp fire near the Monument, which will signal the official opening ( Pl'dl"ll_flnA‘P—dflt B-1.) OY SCOUTS from all sections of the Nation will pour into Officials estimated that more than 100 special trains will be used in the unprecedented march on Washington, in addition to buses, airplanes, the family automobile and even bicycles. One chief Scout flew to the sprawling tented city late yesterday after jour- neying all the way from Manila, Philip- pine Islands, by clipper. He had been in the air since Friday a week ago. He is Exequiel Villacorta, representing 17,000 Scouts in the Philippines. He seems to have beaten the long- distance record of two Venesuelan Scouts, who traversed 8,000 miles to get here. The South Americans took two years, as they traveled the whole route on foot. Registration Starts. Jamboree headquarters on Seven- teenth atreet between the Monument and the reflecting pool was the scene of feverish activity yesterday, as care- fully oiled machinery went into mo- tion to register, house and feed the 5,000 boys who formed the vanguard of the Scout army. Despite the bustle, there appeared to be no confusion, thanks to the big- business-like methods of rdminister- ing the huge enterprise. Chartered buses met every train bearing fresh contingents of campers, and guides directed the buses to the portion of the eamp to which the troope were assigned. Trunks and suit cases wers taboo, but most of the bundles of underwear, socks, sheets, toothbrushes and other personal articles not supplied by the camp. The official routine of camp life will not begin until Wednesday. Until then there will be no bugles to awaken the heavy sleepers or to call them to “chow” in the big mess tents scattered on both sides of the river. Church Services Slated. Todsy the Scouts may go to any church they desire, but next Sunday they will attend a variety of special services, arranged according to their denominations. Jewish services will be held near the Monument next Saturday, and on Sunday Catholic and Protestant services have been ar- ranged. An outdoor pontifical mass will be held in the arens near head- quarters. Each troop was fssued pots and (See JAMBOREE, Page A-7.) boys brought large | 1937—116 PAGES. = FIVE CENTS TEN CENTS CHARLES, | I SEEMg | sinrn_y CANT GET ITGOIN' IN THAT DIRECTION ! Trace of Discord Still Noted In New Deal’s Island Harmony Eyeto Eye W BACKGROUND— About the time dissension in the Democratic ranks of Congress was beginning to simmer, party leaders arranged a three-day harmony party on secluded Jeflerson Island in the Chesapeake Bay. The pur- pose of the session may be to s00the members ruffied by the Su- preme Court proposal, relief ad- ministration, presidential dis- inclination to interfere with the C. I. 0, or perhaps mere jollifica- tion BY G. GOULD LINCOLN | conviviality cn Jeflerson Island, with President Roosevelt and his chief ad- | visers and two-thirds of the Demo- | cratic members of the House and Sen- | “program” for the rest of the present | session of Congress. Tomorrow the | President will receive the remaining | third of the congressional Democrats. | The Jefferson Island “party”—it is | denied emphatically that it is a “con- ference”—is perhaps a warming-up gallop for an administration drive to Despite Surface Ap Persists That Many Still Fail to See Btafl Correspondent of The Star. | ANNAPOLIS, June 26.—Two days of | effort on the part of Democratic Con- | | gressmen themselves to work out a | pearance, Belief ith President. | save what it can, at the present ses- sion, of the long string of important measures the President has recom- | mended to Congress. Certainly the ! | President has shown himself to best | advantage. The returning Democratic | | hosts have nothing but praise for the | Chief Executive, personally. | Despite the surface harmony, there | | is a distinct impression that many of | | the Democrats who have not seen eye | to eye with the President on some of | | his recommendations, especially the | court bill, are yet to be convinced. May Work Out Own Program. In fact, there was talk tonight of an ! program for the remainder of the ses- sion and then take it up with the | President. | “No business at all was discussed.” insisted Speaker Bankhead as he | disembarked from a sub-chaser late today, returning from the island in | Chesapeake Bay. | den of the song sung by others of the returning group. | In fact. it was reported by some of the members that when all (See DEMOCRATS, Page CREW OF 40 SAVED AS VESSEL BURNS President Pierce Rushes to | Rescue of British Freight- T er at Sea. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 26.—Globe Wire- less reported tonight that the crew of 40 men off the flaming British freight- er Sandgate Castle had been rescued far out in the Atlantic Ocean by the S. 8. President Pierce, which was pro- ceeding to New York. ‘The Sandgate Castle, swept by fire, was abandoned and reported to the Coast Guard as dangerous to naviga- tion, the radioed reports from the President Pierce said. The first lifeboat from the stricken ship was picked up, and its occupants transferred safely aboard the rescue ship at 11:35 p.m. (Eastern daylight | time) and rescue of the remaining boats followed shortly, the message said. Earlier, reports from Mackay Radio said the President Pierce had reached the burning ship at 9:30 p.m. (E.D.T.) and was preparing to pick up the first lifeboat. Radio operators of Globe Wireless gathered the Sandgate Castle had been virtually destroyed by the fire which was reported to have broken out amidships. The crew of the burning ship re- ported they were abandoning the ves- sel at 11:55 am,, after an S O S had been sent. The President Pierce was on her way from Marseille to New York. The freighter’s position was given as 350 miles north northeast of Bermuda and 650 miles southeast of New York. The freighter's cargo was not listed as oil, however, bui as general cargo on her clearance papers. She is owned by the Union Castle Mail Steamship Co., Ltd, of London, D. C. MAN AND WOMAN HUNTED IN POTOMAC ‘Walter Lioyd and Friend Report- ed to Have Been Drowned Near Morgantown. Rescue boats early today were searching the Potomac River near Morgantown, Md., for Walter J. Lloyd, a supervisor the National Training School for Boys, and a woman friend, who were reported to have drowned when they fell from a fishing boat. Shortly after midnight an unidenti- fled msn swam ashore near Morgan- town and asked that a rescue fleet be formed to search for his friends. A short time after the lone swimmer came ashore, a woman rowed a dis- abled motor boat to the shore and collapsed after appealing for aid. FEDERATION BACKS SALESTAXFORD.C. Business and Realty Levy Boosts Opposed—Larger U. S. Contribution Asked. Bubstitution of a consumers’ sales tax for the pending business privilege tax and for the 20-cent hike in the realty tax rate contained in the Dis- trict revenue bill adopted by the House was advocated last night by the Fed- eration of Citizens’ Associations. Willing to accept any increase in taxes only because of the immediate financial crisis facing the District, the federation prefaced its approval of various new or increased levies with a reiteration of its past declarations that Congress should make a more equitable payment towards the National Capital expenses. Challenges Congress It appended to its proposed revised tax program a preamble which in- directly challenged the moral right of Congress to impose a heavy new tax load on unrepresented residents of the District while Congress ignored its own substantive law providing that the United States pay 40 per cent 61 the costs of the Capital. Meeting in special session to pre- pare for public hearings on the reve- nue bill, to be begun tomorrow before the Senate District Committee, the federation voted: 1. To oppose approval of the business privilege section of the omnibus bill, which would place a tax of three-fifths of 1 per cent on the gross receipts of business, vocations and professionals gen- erally, and to place a punitive and probably a confiscatory tax on chain stores. 2. To oppose an increase in the real estate and tangible personal property tax rate from $1.50 to $1.70 per $100 of value. Oppose Weight Tax. 3. To oppose the omnibus tax bill provision for a weight tax on automobiles, holding that if ad- ditional monies are needed for highway purposes they should be provided through an increase in the gasoline tax. Some members insisted there had been no deficit in the gas tax fund. 4. To oppose a section of the om- nibus tax bill providing for an in- heritance tax. As a means of raising additional " (See FEDERATION, Page A-4.) Albanian Rebels Doomed. ARGYROKASTRO, Albania, June 26 (#).—Five rebels were condemned to death tonight by a special tribunal on charges of participating in the recent revolt. Four others were sentenced to life imprisonment and 86 persons given varying prison sentences. ] ] This was the bur- | D.C. TAXBILL FIGHT BEGINS TOMORROW INSENATE HEARING Opposition Takes Up Cudgel Against an Apparent $2,000,000 Surplus. DISTRICT OFFICIALS PUT LAST ON PROGRAM Kennedy Will Outline Measure First, Then Taxpayers Will Give Their Views. BACKGROUND— To raise an additional $6,000,000 for the District for the coming fiscal year, it was announced two months ago an increase in District taxes was necessary. A sales tar, first suggested, was put aside for an ine come taz. Members of the House disliked taxing selves and approved higher realty and business tazes. The problem is now in the lap of the Senate District Committee, Faced with widespread opposition from many sources, the omnibus tax bill for the District will come up for hearing before the Senate District Committee tomorrow morning. Although the District appropriation bill, as agreed to by Senate and House conferees, indicates a shortage of only about $7.000,000 in revenues for the next fiscal year, beginning Thursday, the omnibus tax bill is variously esti= mated to raise $9,000,000 or more. It is this apparent surplus over needs which is expected to arouse most objection generally to the measure. Much of the fire, however, is expected to be centered on the business privie lege tax of three-fifths of 1 per cent on gross receipts, with its additional chain store tax running up to $550 a store on the big chains. Senator King, Democrat, of Utah, chairman of the committee, who will preside at the sessions in the District committee room in the Capitol Build~ ing, beginning at 10 a.m., already has indicated objections to some phases of the tax measure. Kennedy to Outline Bill. Chairman King has arranged for the hearings to be opened with an explanation of the bill by Representa= tive Kennedy, Democrat, of Maryland, chairman of the House Tax Subcome mittee, which handled the original measure. He is expected to outline | the bill, what the House intended, | what the House accomplished, and give the Senate District Committes sufficient details for a good backe ground. Ordinarily in the course of regular hearings the District Commissioners would be given next place on the pro- gram, but Chairman King this time has decided to reverse the order and place the Commissioners and Distriet | ocials last. Following Kennedy, tax- payers and their representatives will be called to present their views, which | are known to include many objections | to the measure as it now stands. With | these objections in the record, Chaire | man Knig believes. the Commissioners {and their representatives will be in better position to present their case, including some amendments. King Wants Thorough Study. A Recognizing the difficulty of putting through the tax bill in the short time remaining, Chairman King said last night he would favor a more thorough study of the whole subject after the pending emergency revenues measure has been put through. With the fiscal year 1937 drawing rapidly to a close, it appeared likely that the District appropriation bill, carrying $45,915.000, would become law in time, making available certain funds to begin the year, such as the $5,000,000 Federal payment for the District. The conferees have agreed to the supply bill and it probably will come up in the House tomorrow and in the Senate Tuesday for final ap- proval so as to go to the White House for signature before Wednesday night, the last day of the old fiscal year. But even with the appropriation bill funds available, the District stands about $7,000.000 short of needs. District officials may be faced with a shortage of funds some time this Summer, because no longer are they able to obtain Treasury advances to tide over until District revenues come in from tax sources. The biggest returns are not due until September and March. Maj. Dan- iel Donovan, auditor for the District, has indicated that unless Congress restores in the tax hill the District’s right to obtain Tréasury advances the city may run so short of cash it might not be able to pay some sala- ries. Tax Bill Could Carry Survey. Chairman King, in favoring a more comprehensive survey of the District tax problem, says authority for such a survey could be added to the tax bill. But any appropria- tion necessary to cover the cost would have to be carried in an ap- propriation bill. If the survey is approved, however, it would be pos- sible to have the appropriation item considered in the last deficiency bill, which is expected before Congress adjourns. Senator King said “it is unfair to the District to put through a tax bill of such consequence in such a lims ited time,” but added that it is neces~ sary to meet the immediate requires (See D. C. TAXES, Page A-3.) L B Capt. Bartlett Sails. NANTUCKET, Mass.,, June 26 (®), —The two-masted schooner Morrise sey left this port under command of Capt. “Bob” Bartlett, famous exe plorer, with a party of college stue dents on a scientific expedition to the Arctic. Bartlett's crew of seven will use trawl nets in dragging for fish. The expedition was headed for North Greenland. | |Radio Progra.ms, l:ge F-3. Complete Index, Page A-2. '