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- POLICE GUN CHECK MADE INLYNCHING Sfate's Attorney to Find | Whether Officers Were In- volved in Florida Killings. By the Associated Press. TALLAHASSEE, Fla., July 21.—De- termined to establish whether police | were implicated in the lynching of two Negroes, State's Attorney Orion C. Parker, jr., today ordered a check of the caliber and serial numbers of all police pistols. Parker said only policemen and sher- iff’s deputies were supposed to know that a set of jail keys was kept at police headquarters. The four masked men who shot the | Negroes, Richard Hawkins and Ernest Ponder, to death first compelled Police Sergt. Harry Fairbanks to accompany them from police headquarters and un lock the Negroes’ cells. Parker said he was making the police pistol check “so that if policemen are | implicated we can establish it, and if they are not implicated the evidence will clearly exonerate. We don't have | many clues to work on, but we are doing the best we can, and a report will be furnished to Gov. Fred Cone.” Will Prosecute “Any One.” ‘The executive, who called the lynch- ing “murder,” planned a special in- vestigation and promised prosecution to the limit of the law of “any one we get."” A coroner’s jury met, but made no definite findings in the slaying of the | two Negroes, accused of stabbing Pa»l | trolman V. K. Keily, who was in a serious condition today. Sheriff's officers reported the Negroes’ bodies were exhumed. upon a suf gestion from Circuit Judge J. B. John son, a few hours after they were buried. A second autopsy produced | three pistol bullets from each body, | and these were to be turned over to Parker. | Police Chief Gid Powledge told the coroner’s jul that only policemen | and sheriff's deputies were supposed to know 4ail keys were kept at police headquarters. Sheriff Frank Stoutamire testified he picked up two .38-caliber bullets | and two of .32 caliber near the Ne- | groes’ riddled bodies on a highway | a few miles from the capital early | Tuesday The sheriff said he car-| ried a .32-caliber revolver and Chief | Powledge said city policemen used .38s Four Men Blamed. Stoutamire said four men, wearing paper sacks over their heads, forced Fairbanks to accompany them to the county jail. Officer Fairbanks said | the four men—"Two stout men and ! two short men—entered police head- quarters about 3 a.m., poked a gun to his back and said We want the jail keys and we don’'t want any foolishness.’ “I got up and gave them to them.” He said the men tied his arms and gagged him, and left him locked in & cell block | Lynch Total Now Six. County Jailer Robert Maige slept through all this, Sheriff Stoutamire recounted. but was awakened by | Fairbarks’ calls for help. The police department uses the county jail and has its own keys, the sheriff ex- plained. Bodies of the Negroes were buried by sheriff's deputies here yesterday without ceremony. The deaths brought to six the num- ber of lives taken by lynchers in the South this year. Eight were Killed in 1936. Wagner to Ask Lynch Bill Action. | Senator Robert F. Wagner, Demo- crat, of New York sald he planned to seek Senate action on his anti- lynching bill as soon as a decision | was reached in the court revision | fight. D. C. Taxes (Continued From Fi t Page.) after due advertisement and notice to the property owner in writing. Recommendations Listed. Legislative recommendations of the | committee in brief were: | 1. Allow the Commissioners to grant hearings to citizens who protest as- sessment for public improvements. Hearings now are granted protestants against assessments for roadway pav- ing. The committee asked that pro- | tests against assessments for alleys, sidewalks, sewers and water mains also be heard | 2. Allow the Commissioners to re- | duce assessments levied prior to the | enactment of legislation proposed in | recommendation 1. 3. Extend power to the Commis- sioners to waive interest and penalties on unpaid taxes, real and personal, Wwhen in their discretion such action would be equitable or in the public in- terest. 4. Allow the Commissioners to assess property after a court has declared the first assessment confiscatory. 5. Limit the time for taking ap- peals from real estate to the first Monday in April. The present limit is the first Monday in June. Installment Payments. 6. Permit the payment of special assessments in three equal annual in- stallments and limit the interest there- on to ’; of 1 per cent a month with e rate period of 60 days. Permit the payment of assessments in condemna- tion proceedings in five equal annual installments with interest of one-third of 1 per cent a month. 7. Prevent the public from “pawing” tax records by amending the 1929 code which opens all records to the public. It-is suggested that the as- sessor shall give information with re- spect to taxes, special assessments and valuations to persons having any interest in the property involved. 8. Remove collection of special a: —_— B RAKE 5 RELINED 4 Wheels Complete cfi:v. K 5’ Plymouth s fi .75 FREE ADJUSTMENTS! De Soto, 6-8 Other Cars Proportionately Low ENERAL BRAKE SERVICE 903 N ST. N.W. DE.5483 to 36 to | Bates of Massachusetts, Republicans, | Bryce P. Holcombe, bus plastering work. sessments for taxes, real or personal, from the effect of the statute of limita- tions. 9. Limit the penalties on tax sale purchases to 1 per cent per month | 10. Authorize the collector of taxi in the collection of personal taxes, attach funds in banks and all other credits and intangible property in ad- dition to goods and chattels. 11. Authorize the issuance of a lien in District Court upon all real property of those who become delinquent in payment of personal property taxes (provision for this legislation is in- cluded in the District tax bill now pending in Congress) Donovan Headed Group. 12. Allow the collector of taxes to cease carrying on his books as assets perscnal taxes which the Commission- | | ers have determined to be uncollect- | able. | 13. Exempt the collector of taxes from judgment growing out of cond' of his office | 14. Transfer from the collector of taxes to the assessor’s office the iask of keeping all tax records and prepar- ing tax bills. 15. Revision of an old statute re- quiring the assessor to keep his tax ledgers on a numerical system to pr- | mit installation of more modern ac- | counting systems. The nine administrative recom- mendations called for the most part | for changes in the present bookkeep- ing methods in the cffice of the as- sessor and the tax collector. The committee commended the assessor for the efforts his office has made to en- force the law compelling filing of pe: sonal tax returns, pointing out that 46,000 such returns were received this year, as compared with 37,318 in 1934. | Daniel J. Donovan, District auditor, | was chairman of the Special Tax Com- mittee, which comprised Fred D. Allen, District assessor; C. M. Towers, col- | lector of taxes: Vernon E. West, as- | sistant corporation counsel; Harold E. Doyle of the Washington Real Estate Board, William L. Beale of the Wash. ington Board of Trade, Rufus S. Lus of the Washington Taxpayers' Associa- tion and Thomas E. Lodge, president of the Federation of Citizens’ Associa- | tions. Palmisano Plans “Push.” Chairman Palmisano disclosed his hopes in an appeal to the 21 members of the committee to unite with him on | the floor of the House Monday in an | effort to push through the Kennedy | bill. The measure has been given a pre- | ferred status on the House calendar, | and Palmisano plans to call it up Mon- day, the final District day of the month, before he asks for considera- tion of any other local measure. Twice the House has refused to ap-| prove the loan authorization. The IB5L| attempt to get the House to pass the Kennedy bill Monday found Palmisanc | battling for its approval with the as- sistance of only three of the other 21| members of the committee—Repre- | sentatives Shafer of Michigan andi and Jenckes, Democrat, of Indiana. Paimisano believes if his commit- tee will present a united front and | stress the urgency of the. legislation, the House will pass the bill. For that reason, he said at today's final regu- lar committee meeting: “It is important that every member of this committee be on the floor Monday. We have a lot of objections to overcome.” Seeks Data on Rights. Palmisano revealed he had called on Maj. Dantel J. Donovan, District | auditor and budget officer, for data showing that the municipal govern- ment is a good financial risk. With this information he wants to convince doubting members of the House who Questioned him Monday about the District’s ability to repay a loan that such obligations have always been met in the past. “There has always been some ob- jection to the District borrowing money,” said Palmisano. “I have asked Maj. Donovan for a report on past loans the District has received from the Federal Government and the amount it has repaid.” Palmisano told the committee if the - LAWYERS® BRIEFS COMMERCIAL PRINTING ADVERTISING SERVICE - BYRON S. ADAMS S ANever RODVPAILTA §12 11T ST DANDRUFF! 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A. funds, but that the full amount had not been ad- | vanced. The borrowed funds, he said, | are being repaid at the rate of $1,000 000 a year. “That's the kind of information I want from Ma). Donovon.” declaced Palmisano. “I want to show the Hduse the District has had authority to bor- row Pederal money and is paying it back."” The revenue measure, which is in- tended to meet the city's impending $7,000,000 deficit from a variety of tax sources instead of placing the entire burden on real estate and tangible pe: sonal property, is on the Senate calen- dar and probably will be given consid- eration as soon as the legislative log Jam caused by the Supreme Court fight | begins to clear. | 40 Per Cent Realty Hike Possible. If the bill should fail, the Commis- sioners would be forced to raise the real estate and tangible property rate 40 per cent, from $1.50 to $2.10, to meet the entire deficit. Developments in the next day or two | in the court fight probably will deter- | mine how soon the Senate may be able to take up the local revenue situation Refusal of the House thus far to authorize borrowing by the District yesterday drew the fire of Representa- tive Shafer, Republican, of Michigan, a member of the House District Com- mittee, who issued a statement advo- cating a change in the organic law that would give residents of Washing- ton “the right to spand their own ta money without congressional dictator- | ship.” Shafer's statement follows: “Refusal by Congress to authorize | the District of Columbia to borrow | funds from the Federal Treasury pend- | ing receipt of taxes proposed in (hei District revenue bill. now caught in | the legislative log jam, is a serious re- | flection on the ability of Congress to legislate for the National Capital “Defeat of the bill has convinced me ' that Congress should immediatelv take steps to give the residents of Was! ington the right to spend their own tax money without congressional dic- tatorship. “I was opposed to that philosophy when I came here. Monday's demon- stration in the House convinced me I Was Wrong. Would Retain Autonomy. “I do not believe Congress should surrender autonomy over the District Rather, I believe it should shed itself | of a task which manifestly has proved | distasteful and which most members | have demonstrated they know too little | about to perform successfully. “This could be done by enlarging | the District Commissioners’ powers to give them final authority over a vast | amount of detail which now irritates members of Congress, sent here to | perform other duties. I would even favor giving them sole budgetary | Broiled Maine Lobster Luncheon ___ 75. | properly | Capital. Alr Conditloned. PAIR'S DEATH LAID 10 MONOXIDE GAS But That Theory, Too, Seems Weird—French Woman Slain. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 21.—Detectives of the homicide squad were confronted with a weird mystery last night when a medical examiner reported that a young couple found dead in their Queens apartment may have been killed by carbon monoxide poisoning. The victims, George Chinery, 28, and his wife, Ella, 25, had not been seen since last Thursday. Their part- ly-clad bodies were found when police, relatives and neighbors broke into their second-floor apartment last night. The body of the woman, a bride of five months, lay in bed. Her hus- band, an employe of a Brooklyn ware- house, was sprawled on the bath room floor. Police said all the windows of the apartment were open, & circumstance that puzzled investigators when the carbon monoxide theory was voiced by Assistant Medical Examiner How- ard W. Neail No Marks of Violence. “An opinion based upon the autop- Dr. Negil said, “indicates t both may have died from carbon monoxide poisoning. The windows were open. How they could have been killed by gas which did not affect tenants in the first-floor apartment is a deep mystery, as is the source of the gas.” He added that there was no evidence | of external violence, or strangulation. Carbon monoxide is a colorless, odorless gas found in the exhaust from automobiles and in the combusion of other fuels. There was a gas range in the apart- ment, but all the burners were turned off. There also was a gas refrigerator, but police said it was operating nor- mally when they entercd. French Woman Slain. In another part of the city, police sought some ciue to the slaying of a French servant woman, who was shot twice at close range and apparently tossed cut of a moving automobile in gangland fashion. The body was found | beside the Harlem River Speedway, near One Hundred and Sixty-fifth strect " Detectives, tracing a label found in her clothing, announced she had been ntified as Irma Louise Pradier, 35. Her last known employment as a do- mestic was at the Ne: 1930 to 1932 The body was found by two men taking an early morning stroll along the speedway, a motor highway. There were two wounds, one in the léft breast and the other in the abdomen under the heart, either one of whichl would have caused death. | District citizens the power to run our own government.” Great Shavin Offer This Week Only 1 Woodbury’s Lilac Vegetal 1 Woodbury’'s Hair Gloss 1 Can Talcum 25 Double-Edge Blades 1 Prep or Bay Rum Shav- ing Cream Total List Price Value, $1.80 All For 89 We deliver 2 or more of Above Sets in D. C. The Gibson Co. 917 G St. N.W. 'AUTOMATIC TUNING "PHILCO York Institute | for the Education of the Blind, from | D. C, WEDNESDAY TRAXLER KIDNAPS FARMER IN FLIGHT Desperado Flees Northward in Oklahoma Before Large Posse. By the Associated Press. DURANT, Okla, July 21.—Pete Traxler, the Southwest's No. 1 bad- man, kidnaped a farmer near Caddo, Okla., today and fied northward, after breaking through a cordon of officers | in the Washita River Bottoms near | here. A large posse of State patrolmen sped in pursuit and were reported close behind the fleeing desperado and his companion on a country road. The farmer, Frank Trimmer, was held up at his home 3 miles east of Caddo and was forced to accompany the escaped Texas convicts in his car Traxler's wife, dark-haired, attrac- tive 30-year-old Nell Tingley Traxler, was captured yesterday a few hours after she joined her husband, but Traxler and his fellow felon escaped in a gun battle, 16 mtles west of here Mrs. Traxler fainted and was found in the fugitives’ bullet-riddled car She expressed the conviction her husband never would be taken alive. Encircling Move Begun. The posse, numbering both Texas and Oklahoma officers, began a giant encircling movement, flinging a cordon | of armed patrols along roads and | through the underbrush and timber | of an area about 10 miles in diameter | in which the desperadoes are believed hiding. Traxler's companion, described by Mrs. Traxler as “Fred,” is believed to be Fred Tindol, who with Traxier and seven others broke from the Huntsville, Tex., Prison Farm July 8. Bloodhounds from McAlester, Okla. | Penitentiary took up the hunt at the scene of yesterday's gun battle Three ofiicers, Deputy Sheriff J. R. McLaughlin and Ben Risner of Bryan County and Constable Green Beams of Kingston, Okla, came upon the two prison breakers and Traxler at the dead end of a Washita River bottoms road Traxler Car Riddled. The officers opened fire, riddling | the Traxler car “Pete told me I'd better run,” Traxler said after her capture, “but when the firing began, I fainied and when I woke up Pete had gone and officers were gathered around.” The two fugitives jumped from the | machine and ran into the timber. Townspeople withdrew when the street of Verden, Okla | loaded her into the ca filling station, southward. | _ Undersherift G got his wife, alted at a bought gas and sped G Murphy said FREE COLOR CARD 3 “g1” Floor Varnish powers, subject to final approval by Congress on matters of national pol- icy. only. “‘Monday's.defeated bill in itself was an admission on the part of Congiess that it is incapable of handling the District’s affairs and the action proves that it is also unwilling to permit the citizens to do the job themselves. There should have been no necessity for this defeated resolution. It would | never have been thought of if mem- bers of the House and Senate had carried out their obligations to the District * * *» “It is my understanding that the ‘borrowing resolution’ again will be submitted by the District Committee next Monday in an effort to solve this grave situation which has result- ed from the failure of Congress to legislate for the National I appeal to members of Con- gress to pass this resolution.” The same note was sounded by Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen, who declared that “if Congress doesn't want to legislate for the District, let them give the Commissioners and proo! Phone your BUTLERFLYNN PAINTS—GLASS 609 C St. N.W. MEtro. 0150 little used | desperado boldly drove up the main | JULY 21, 1937. Captured | ? MRS. NELL TRAXLER. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. | Mrs. Traxler told him they drove from | Verden to Denison, Tex., ate dinner and then went to Sherman. 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