Evening Star Newspaper, November 16, 1937, Page 3

THE EVENING ST AR, WASHINGTON. D. C., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1937. | mee A3 SENATETOPUSH OWN FARM BIL Smith Asks Wallace to Ex- plain “What All These Measures Mean.” By the Assoctated Press. Chairman Smith announced today the Senate Agriculture Committee would press ahead with its own farm program, patterned along lines of the “ever-normal granary,” without wait- ing for House action on new farm legislation. Senator Smith said the committee had voted to start separate action, with the Pope-McGill bill as a basis. This measure follows administration farm plans. A special committee of Southern Senators, Senator Smith said, would work out a separate section for cotton. ‘This group included a Senator Bank- head, Democrat, of Alabama, who is urging a rigid compulsory control pro- gram. “I'm going to call this committee together every morning,” Senator Smith shouted, “until we get some bill ready for the Senate. We've asked Secretary Wallace and his crowd up here tomorrow to explain just what | all these farm bills mean.” Separate Programs Set. The chairman said separate pro-, grams would be worked out for cot- ton, corn, wheat, rice and tobacco and “possibly some other commodi- ties.” Senators Bankhead, Pope, Demo- crat, of Oklahoma: McGill, Democrat, of Kansas; Ellenger, Democrat, of Louisiant, and Bilbo, Democrat, of Mississippi began work on the cotton section at a closed conference imme- diately after the general committee session. Before Senator Smith's statement, President Roosevelt’s appeal for en- actment of an * all-weather” farm pro- gram had widened the breach be- tween advocates of compulsory and veiuntary crop control. Legislators favoring a program that would force farmers to limit produc- tion said they interpreted his remarks as a call for compulsory control. Believe They Have Free Hand. The opposing group, on the other hand, contended that since Mr. Roose- velt's message to Congress did not use the word “compulsory.” he left them a free hand to go ahead with proposals for basing the new farm bill on present voluntary soil conservation practices. The House Agriculture Committee resumed drafting its bill without agreeing finally whether marketing quotas would be approved. Neither did it decide whether it or the House | Ways and Means Committee should attempt to raise an estimated $175 000.000 to finance proposed additional | benefits. Representative Nelson, Democrat, of | Missouri said he opposed any form of compulsory control of corn produc- tion which contemplated fines and imprisonment for failure to co-operate in the general program. 5 Congress lCflm;n}md F‘mmflmrsrrPngc ) Chairman Vinson, Democrat, of Ken- tucky, was pessimistic over the pros- ! pect of framing legislation in time for | & vote at this session. Almost unanimous sentiment in both Houses for modification or repeal of the corporate surplus tax produced dozens of proposals for changes in the | law. | The House Subcommitiee agreed to | exempt corporations whose profits do | not_exceed $5,000 & year. ! Throughout the comment on the President’s message yesterday ran general approval for his proposal to| revise corporate taxes to aid small} business. Republican Chairman John Hamil- | ton said last night: | “Republicans in and out of Con-! gress can be hopeful now that their | repeated warnings have forced Presi- dent Roosevelt at last to face realities. “He finally promises us tax revision. His promises are indefinite as usual, but it does seem that the ‘Roosevelt recession’ has taught even Mr. Roose- velt that you cannot ignore economic laws and get away with it forever.” = Marks Two Anniversaries. HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 16 ().—Lewis Btone observed two anniversaries today —his 58th birthday and his 22d year in the movies. He made his film debut | in 1915 in “Honor’s Altar.” Fijty-six school children be- tween the ages of 6 and 8 were killed at Lerida, Catalonia, when a 200-pound bomb, dropped by a nationalist flyer, struck the Escuela Graduada. Here a sorrowing mother kneels over the body of her son. BEDRIDDENWONAN TESTIFIES IN SUIT 1300-Pound Plaintiff Carried on Stretcher to Ask for $250,000 Damages. Three-hundred-pound Irma L. Dabbs, who has been bedridden in Gallinger Hospital for more than two | years, was carried into District Court | | her $250,000 suit against the Inde- pendent Taxicab Operators’ Associa- tion in connection with the accident September 15, 1935, in which she was disabled. The trial started yesterday, but Miss Dabbs, who is 26, had not completed her testimony when the session ended. The young woman testified she and | several companions went to Herald Harbor, Md,, to a dance, engaging a taxicab to take them there and back. On the return trip, she stated in her | suit, the taxi collided with another car | proceeding in the opposite direction. | She charged the cab was speeding at | about 70 miles an hour. | Her injuries prevented her removal from the Emergency Hospital in An- | napolis, Md.. until October 20, 1935, when she was transferred to Gallinger. Because of shock and her weight, it was impossible to set some of the fractured bones, the suit stated. Since the accident she has undergone five major operations. She has left the hospital only once—to go to North | Carolina to attend the funeral of her mother several months ago. She made the trip on a stretcher. Representing her was Dorsey K. Offutt. Attorney Ringgold Hart ap- peared for the taxicab company. LAWYERS’ GUILD TO HEAR | O'CONNELL ON SPAIN Representative O'Connell, Democrat, of Montana will be guest speaker at a meeting of the Washington Chapter of the National Lawyers' Guild at 8:15 p.m. tomorrow in the Labor Depart- ment auditorium. Mr. O'Connell will talk on his re- cent tour of Spain, where he spent some time studying the Loyalist de- fenses. He will discuss also the effect of the American neutrality policy on the Loyalist cause, the war situation in general and the necessity for new neutrality legislation. on a stretcher yvesterday to testify in | Winged Death Strikes a Spanish School A group of grief-stricken m. others at the scene. —A. P. and Wide World Photos. {BRADY AIDE FACES SENTENCE DEC. 6 Dalhover Heavily Guarded by Special Agents in In- diana Cell. By the Assoctated Press. SOUTH BEND, Ind., Nov. 16.—Spe- cial Government agents, heavily-armed and taking no chances, kept alert eyes | glued today on a secret cell holding James Dalhover, one-time Brady “trigger-man,” who apparently had nothing to do except speculate over what penalty a Federal jury would de- | cide December 6 he must pay for slaying State Policeman Paul V. Min- neman. United States Marshal A. W. Hosin- ski said Dalhover was being held in-| communicado and that no pictures or | interviews would be permitted. The special agents worked in 8-hour shifts | and declined to disclose any com- | ments the pint-sized gunman might have made. Dalhover, captured at Bangor, Me., October 12 by Federal agents who| killed his companions, Alfred Brady and Clarence Lee Shaffer, jr., pleaded | guilty at Hammond yesterday to slay- | ing Minneman last May 25 after the | $2,668 robbery of the Goodland (Ind.) | State Bank. Federal Judge Thomas W. Slick ac- cepted the plea and said the jury would decide the first Monday of next month whether Dalhover wougl die in the electric chair, or serve a life sentence in a Federal prison. " The Federal Government assumed Jjurisdiction in the Minneman slaying case because deposits of the Goodland bank were insured by the Federal De- posit Insurance Corp. Chest (Continued From First Page.) Metropolitan Unit, suggested that she had no candidates for the $1,000 club, but did have two candidates for the $500 club—Mrs. Addam S. McAllister and Mrs. A. Ford Hinrichs of her area. When she wanted to know whether these two put together rated a kiss, “Radio Joe” put his arm about her, but backed bashfully out, de- claring he could kiss one woman at a time, but not two. H. L. Rust, jr, chairman of the luncheon yesterday, was given an ova- tion when presented to the luncheon group. He expressed confidence that with the enthusiasm evinced already the campaign would be & success. Children of Neighborhood House told the radio audience of actual benefits they are receiving from the Commu- nity Chest in a novel broadcast from Station WJSV last night. The broad- cast was handled by Hugh Conover from the Barney Neighborhood House, ‘who used remote control to bring into the program Miss Margaret Bell Mer- rill, head resident of the Neighborhood House, and a number of youngsters there. Little girls described sewing ac- tivities, boys told of craft work and larger girls told of work on looms. All the children joined in choral numbers. ‘This was the first of a series of simi- lar broadcasts which will bring to the Washington public programs from Chest agencies. They are to be broad- cast at 6:30 p.m. daily over WJSV. Mr. Conover, serving his third year in this capacity, will be in charge of these broadcasts. Tribute to the zeal and unselfish spirit of the 9,000 volunteers now work- ing in behalf of the Chest was paid by Earl A. Nash of the Publicity Unit in an address last night over Station ‘WRC. He pointed out that these work- ers spend many hours of their time in preparation for the campaign and many more hours in calling on neigh- bors for funds. They also contribute themselves to the Chest fund. Mr. these workers receives a penny for his services. The Special Assignments Unit re- ported that the Sanitary Grocery Co. has contributed $6,000 to the cam- paign fund and that of 95 smaller gifts reported 56 show increases over last year. Governmental divisions and depart- ments have been added to the list of those reporting 100 per cent or more of their quotas, as follows: Bureau of Fisheries, Commerce De- partment, Dr. J. R. Manning, chair- man, 112.6 per cent of quota; Com- mission of Fine Arts, H. P. Caemmerer, chairman, 100 per cent of quota; Ex- amination Division, Farm Credit Ad- ministration. J. M. Kearful, chairman, 146.33 per cent of quota; Information and Extension, Farm Credit Adminis- tration, Mrs. Helen Ferguson, chair- man, 123.24 per cent of quota; Legal Division, Farm Credit Administration, J. A. Jordan, chairman, 119.83 per cent of quota; Mortgage Corporation Service, Farm Credit Administration, Mrs. Dorothy A. Mahoney, chairman, 121.2 per cent of quota; Alien Property Bureau, Department of Justice, Mrs. Mary Coyle, chairman, 102.32 per cent of quota; Telephone Office, Depart- ment of Justice, Miss Edna Biggs, chairman, 102.33 per cent of quota; Naval Records and Library, Navy De- partment, H. F. Lunenburg, chairman, 100 per cent of quota; Agency Divi- sion, Reconstruction Finance Corp., G. B. Shepherd, chairman, 100.05 per cent of quota; Statistical and Eco- nomic, Reconstruction Finance Corp., D. C. Eliott, chairman, 133.33 per cent of quota; Legal Division, Procurement, Treasury, William K. Laws, chairman, 166.09 per cent of quota; Paper Cus- tody, Public Debt Service, Miss Mary Howarth, chairman, 105.44 per cent of quota. % Domestic Quarantine, Public Health Service, C. E. Waller, chairman, 110.37 per cent of quota; Savings Division, Savings Bonds Treasury, Mrs, Ger- trude M. Crown, chairman, 17222 per cent of quota; Securities Division, |and M. J. Harron, chairmen, Board of Tax Appeals, Eugene Black 150.18 per cent of quota; Commodity Divi- sion, United States Tariff Commission, Myror Walker, chairman, 113.96 per cent of quota; Field Artillery, War De- partment, Capt. M. V. Gennon, chair- man, 111.9 per cent of quota; Inquiry Division, Washington, D. C., Post Of- fice, W. Carroll Gilbert, chairman, 105.41 per cent of quota; Postal Cash- ier Division, Washington, D. C., John W. Quick, chairman, 100.66 per cent; Macfarland Junior High School, H. P. Safford, chairman, 118.36 per cent.of quota; Paul Junior High School, L. J. Cantrell, chairman, 133.73 per cent of quota; M. M. Washington Voca- tional School, Miss L. C. Randolph, Receiving Home for Children. Grady H. Leonard, chairman, 124.67 per cent ol quota, and Public Assistance Divi- sion, B. P. W, Miss M. Alice Hill, chairman, 15441 per cent of quota, In the Group Solicitation Unit the following organizations reported 100 Pper cent subscriptions: Ambassador Theater, Bank of Com- merce & Savings, Barney Neighbor- hood House, Bureau of Rehabilitation, William J. Flather, Jr., Inc.; McLach- len Banking Corp.; Southeast House, Fairmont School, D. J. Kaufman Co., Inc., and Trio Productions. Sold, Installed, Serviced ond Guaranteed by Office of the Treasurer of the United States, Mrs. Olga Hursh, chairman, Nash pointed out again that not one of » 101.39 per cent of quota; United States OLN 4300 chairman, 128.14 per cent of quota; | Kidnapers (Continued From First Pngo.)_ keepers, Leroy Pease, Earl Brown and Francis Crowley, Paddock rrlated. ‘They bound and gagged them with sheets and were ready to leave the| room when Mrs. Nellie Hills, a ma- tron, entered, Paddock s2id. Mrs. Hills also was bound and li‘fll in the guard room with the three {keepers. the superintendent said. and | the convicts went yards. into the prison | Speed to Syracuse. ! There they encountered Edward ' | Hayes, & keeper who was reporting | for work. They forced Hayes to the | latter’s automobile, took his keys and bound him. Unable to start the automobile, Paddock said, they liberated Hayes momentarily to permit him to start the car, and then sped away with Hayes in the back seat, to Syracuse, | 5 miles away. There they released Hares unharmed. | Paddock said none of the prisoners | in the cell block Where the convicts | escaped gave out an alerm. Officials | were apprised of the escape only after | Corbett freed himself and notified them. The plot was led by Geary, Supt. Paddock said, “with apparent outside | help of some sort.” An eight-State alarm was immedi- ately broadcast, and New York State police headquarters ordered all road patrols out to hunt for the three men. Officials said they were seeking also a “trusty” who escaped from the peni- tentiary two days ago and whose cell was in the same block with the kidnap trio. Paddock said it was his belief, based on a preliminary investigation, that the guns were smuggled in “from the] | outside.” “As far as I can determine now,” he seid, “none of our guns is missing.” | Oley, Geary and Crowley were among eight convicted of the O'Con- nell kidnaping in Federal Court in Binghamton, N. Y., on August 12 after | a trial which lasted almost 11 weeks. In addition to the prison terms each | was fined $10,000. Attorney General Cummings offered rewards totaling $6,000 today for in- | formation leading to the recapture of three convicted kidnapers who escaped | early today from Onondaga County Jail at Jamesville, N. Y. | Mr. Cummings said $2,000 would be | paid for the capture of each of the, trio—Percy Geray, John Oley and Harold Crowley. o HEALTHY HAIR h do YOU- prefer? 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The chpirman contended the present “is no time to reduce revenues, but it is time to reduce expenditures, so that & balanced budget may be attained.” TAX CUT PUZLLE FACES COMMITTEE House Group, Agreeing on Objective, Undecided as to Solution. By the Associated Press. A House tax subcommittee, spurred by a presidential suggestion that “in- equitable burdens” of small business men be lightened, attempted to work out today g formula for reducing the undistributed profits tax against cor- porations with incomes from $5,000 to $50,000. Members were in agreement on the objective. They were undecided how to reach it. Chairman Vinson, Democrat, of Kentucky said they were working on a method of allowing the corporations tax exemption for percentages of their income. The percentages would be smaller as the amount of income in- creased. Already the committee has agreed to exempt from the levy corporations whose profits do not exceed $5,000 a year, thereby cutting down ‘Federal revenues by some $10,000,000. That would bring to more than $169,000,000 the aggregate which would be lost to the Treasury by tax revisions under consideration or ten- tatively agreed on by the subcom- Mmittee. Repeal of the capital stocks and | excess profits taxes would cost some $140,000,000. Permitting capital losses to be carried over from one year to offset capital gains in another would reduce Federal income by $19,000,000. A sum running into the millions, Vinson said, would be kept from the Treasury by permitting a carry-over of operating losses for offset against later income subject to the undis- tributed profits tax. Chairman Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee expressed the view that “without question the undistrib- uted profits tax can be modified so as to help business.” He said, how- | ever, there was doubt whether action | could be taken at the special session. ' Government Sets Standard. All gas masks made in the Nether- lands after February 1 must be up to the standards set by the govern- FIREE s ALSO_REPAIRED AND REFINISHED BROMWELL'S RS 323 12th St. .W. Bet. G and EXAM‘NED weal Giving way to her grief, an- other mother finds her child. About 700 children were in- jured. C. D. VERNON RESIGNS GRAND JURY POST John H. Mitchell Appointed to Fill Vacancy in District Attorney's Office. United States Attorney Leslie C. Garnett announced today the resig- nation of Clinton D. Vernon, who has been in charge of the grand jury for the past year and a half, and the appointment of John H. Mitchell of La Plata, Md,, to fill the vacancy. Mr. Vernon entered the dis- trict attorney office in July, 1934, and was assigned to Po- lice Court prose- cutions. In March, 1936, he was placed in charge of the preparation of indictments and the | presentation of evidence to the grand | Jury. Mr. Vernon will enter private prac- | tice here and will be associated with | the firm of Moyle, Wilkinson, Suydam & Harlan, with offices in the Earle Building. Mr. Garneti said he “deeply re- gretted” the resignation, which will become effective December 1. Mr. Mitchell will be assigned to Po- lice Court. He is a nephew of Justice Walter Mitchell of the Maryland Court of Appeals. Since his gradua- tion from the. University of Maryland | Law School in 1933 he has been prac- | icing at La Plata. | Assistant United States Attorney Eugene Carusi, heretofore assigned to | ARTHUR 5. SUNDLUN, President 45 Years at 935 F St WEDNESDAY ONLY—No Mail or Phone Orders STERLING SILVER STEAK SET Lovely assortment of patterns. 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