New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 6, 1921, Page 1

o+ (hairman of Relief Committee e News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870. RUSSIANS PROMISE T0 FREE AMERICAN PRISONERS MONDAY ! Says All Will Be Sent Across Border by That Time +- UNITED STATES ENVOY IS ON WAY T0 REGA NOW Some American Prisoners Who Have Been Held in Moscow and Petro- grad May be Given Their Liberty Tomorrow, While Others Will Cross Frontier Monday. London, Aug. 6.—(By Associated Press.)—All the American prisoners in Moscow and Petrograd will be sent across the Russian border by Monday at the latest, according to a messAge received here today by Walter L. Brown, Buropean director of the American relief administration, from Leo Kameneff, chairman of the Rus- slan relief comittee. The telegram from Kameneff, dated Moscow, August 5, read: [ Some Start Tomorrow. *“All Americans detained at Mos- NEW BRITAIN, CONNECT ICUT, SATURDAY,; AUGUST 6, PARK STREET WOMAN MAKES GOOD HER |OVERNOR SMALL TO OFT REPEATED THREAT TO TAKE OWN LIFE; DRINK OF LYSOL PROVES FATAL Mrs. Lottie Ondrick, Aged 20, Commits Suicide This Morning—Marital Differences Believed Cause. Mrs. Lottie Ondrick, aged 20 years, wife of John Ondrick of 239 Park street, died at the New Britain Gen- eral hospital shortly before noon to- day, from the effects of lysol which she drank with suicidal intent at her home about 8 o’clock this morning. The woman was rushed to the hos- pital, after Dr. Henry T. Bray, who had been summoned had administered first aid treatment. The police were notified and the police ambulance with Patrol Driver Herbert C. Lyon and Officer Dennis Nealon were sent to the house. The woman remained conscious until just before the hos- pital was reached, and she suffered terrible agony.. Marital differences are given as the reason for the suicide, it being said that the dead woman and her husband did not agree any too well. The hus- band told Dr. Bray today that on two previous occasions his wife had at- tempted to commit suicide. Ondrick left for work about 8 o’clock this morning and at that time, his wife again threatened to end her life. The husband did not however take the threat seriously. He had hardly left the place when his atten- tion was attracted to a noise in the house. On trying to re-enter, he found all doors locked, and he was forced to climb through a window to gain ad- mittance. On getting in he found his wife writhing in agony. The deceased leaves, besides her husband, a child about 6 months old, and her father Elzira Jennings. Medical Examiner Waterman Lyon reviewed the remains, and gave permission for removal to the undertaking rooms of M. J. Ken- ney and company. The burial will probably be held Monday afternoon, and the burial will be in Fairvew cemetery. AFTER MURDERING MAN, SLAYER SAYS SHE IS HAPPIEST WOMAN IN WORLD cow, Petrozrad, in prisons, and the camps ‘will be sent over the frontier tomorrow, or by August. 8th, at the latest. The delay is due to unavoid- ahle formalities connected with &ranting free pardons. The central euthorities are unaware of any Americans being interned or in pris- on in provincial places, but orders have been given for the release of Americans if there are any. Envoy on His Way. “M. Litvinoff, a member of the all- Rusela .commission for combatting famine, is leaving for Riga on Aug. 8 and is due to arrive there on August 10. He is authorized to discuss with you any way to arrange all details for American relief in Russia and to sign an sgreement. He proposes to meet you next Wednesday at the Russian legation at Riga.” If this arrangement for the meet- ing should be unsatisfactory to Mr. Brown, thé message suggests that he ‘“please suggest to M. Litvinoff some other time or place.” -Mr. Brown will leave her for Riga tomorrow morning. — Pa-m ‘Executed ¥ l.l-. Aug. 6.—(By the Associated Press)—The ning of the food tax ¢eollection by Russian roviet au- therities was marked by the execution of a group of rich peasants in the Maripol district who had concealed 4 their grain and were trying to dodge their tax, says a dispatch received through the semi-official soviet wire- less service from Moscow today. An example was made of these p ts to prevent the practice of hoarding, it is declared. The district mentioned is in south Russia, near the Sea of AZov. At the same time, adds the message counter revolutionary bandits in the Volga and Ural districts are destroy- ing what grain was left in the field, “to block the societ food campaign.” INVENTORIES APPROYED Judge GaffneyApproves Two Inven- torfes 'This Morning — One Man Owned Much Property in City. Two inventories on estates were ap- proved by Judge Gafrney in probate court this morning. One was the es- tate of the late Joseph Zotter, which showed assets amounting to $3,583.31, as follows: Deposits in the Savings Bank of New Britaln, $2,377.31; A. Golbita and Julianna Gilbitz, notes, $500; St. Stephen’s society, $106; Franz Joseph society, $100; L. Maut- mer, $500. The estate of Mario Kunz inventor- les as follows: Cash In Burritt Sav- ings bank, $443; houso and lot at No. 3 § Webster street, $2,500; housa and ¥~ lot at No. 7 Webster street. $2,100; house and lot at T9 Glen street, $4,400; house and lot at 50 Glen street, $3,000; housa and lot, corner of Rickwell avenue und Glen street, $6,100; land on Glen street, $2,200; land and garage on Glen street, $700; furniture at No. 3 Webster street, $50; mortgage on property, $11,900. Total assets, $33,193. TRUMP THIS ONE, WINSTED Methodist Clergyman Tells Story of Eggs, Swallowed by Python, Which Later Hatched. New York, Aug. 6. — A story of chicken eggs hatched after they had ‘been salvaged from the interior of a python was told today by the public- ity department of the board of mis- sions of the Methodist Episcopal church Quoting Rev. Erwin H. Richards, for 31 years a missionary in Africa, the board said that a preying python had wriggled out of a jungle one night entered a hen house and eaten eight chickens and nine eggs. Natives and missjonaries killed the snake which was opened. The eggs, found intact, later hatched into perfectly normal missionary chickens. The 'bishop of Africa was named a1 & eorroborating witness. TENDERED SURPRISE PARTY Miss Lucy DiNenno of 90 Franklin Square, was given a surprise birthday cvening by party cat her home last % aboul 50 of her friends. Music and dancing was enjoyed and reffeshments were served, SELF DEFENSE, CLAI OF HATFIELD’S SLAYER Detective Declares It Was Case of His Life or Sheriff’s. Welch, W. Va., Aug. 6.—Self de- fense is the claim of C. E. Lively, Baldwin-Felts detective, held under| bond in connection with the shooting and killing of Sid Hatfield and Ed. Chambers, Mingo mountaineers, in a statement to newspapermen today. “I regret having had to shoot either one of these men,” Lively said, “but it is a case of self-defense pure and simple.” The gun fight on the steps of the, courthouse lasted perhaps -a- quarter of a minute, the.detective added. Lively said.he had been told many] times. that following his . testimony given in the Matewan trial last| February, Hatfield had threatened to take his life. “I knew that if Sid got what he considered a ~ “good chance” it would be either his life or-mine,” Lively asserted. Lively had posed as a -union - coal miner at Matewan following the battle there in May 1920," ih° which ten men were killed and had testiefid against Hatfield, Chambers and other co-defendants in the trial at Wil- liamston. Speaking of the Welch fight the detective said he was sitting on a balustrade outside the courthouse ‘'when Hatfield, Chambers and - their wives approached. “I happened to look down the steps and there stood Sid Hatfield, Ed. Chambers and their wives on the first landing. They were looking :at me and exchanged glances, nodding their heads. Sid safd something to. Ed..I couldn’t hear. Suddenly they stepped apart. I could see Sid’'s jaws set like a steel trap. Both men pulled their guns as they did so I jumped to my feet and pulled mine. Sid fired at me and I immediately shot back.” Lively continued: “I had two pistols and was using both. Sid staggered and fell as did Chambers immediately afterward. Then Mrs. Chambers attacked me with her umbrella. I grabbed the umbrella, threw it away and then walked over to the office of A..C. Huf- ford, justice of the peace and sur- rendered. The report that I shot into Chambers’- body while he was lying on the stéps dead is an abso- lute falsehood.” 5 ‘W. C. Mitchell, chief of police at Welch stated that after the fight he took a pistol still warm and contain- ing empty shells from beside Cham- bers and found a two-inch barrelled gun in a trouser pocket of Hatfield’s. THEATER STRIKE IN NEW YORK IS BEGUN Vaudeville and Motion Picture House Orchestras Will Go Out Taqight New York, Au: of many vaudeville and moving picture houses felt first effects of the coming strike of musicians today although the strike was not scheduled to go into ef- fect until midnight. In these theaters, musicians failed to appear for the cus- tomary Saturday rehearsals at which music for the next week's program is gone over. The strike, which it was 'declared would affect 100 theaters was ordered last night by the musical mutual pro- tective union. About 1,000 musicians are employed in the houses affected.’ The union maintains it is striking to forestall a lockout planned by the man- agers for next Tuesday. 4 The dispute is over a proposed wage reduction. Managers of some of the theaters were reported today to be im- porting union musicians - from other cities to supplant the strikers. THe lo- cal union is an independent having broken with-the American Federation of Musicians. 6.—Managers Cincinnati Nurse Trails Al leged Faithless Lover to New York and Fires Fatal Shots. New York, Aug. 6.—Miss Olivia M. P. Stone, « graduate nurse formerly of Cincinnati was told today that she killed EIls- Guy Kinkead, attorney and former corporation counsel Cincinnati, when she fired six shots into his body near his home in Brook- lyn late yesterday. Miss Stone, according to the police admitted the shooting and declared Kinkead was her common law hus- band and that he had deserted her to marry another woman. Mr. Kinkead had lived here since 1919 with the former Mijss Marie Louise. Gormley. of Covington, . Ky., whom he married in Cincinnati. Don’t Remember Shodting. “I do not remember shooting Kin- kead,” wers Miss Stone’s first wotds ;vhen brought to a. pom;e atation .tp- ay. She told- palice she bml;ht Te- volver in Cincinnatl three wu‘lu ago, but only ‘for her protection, assert- ing she had come here, solely to seek ‘a’ reconcilidtion with Kinkead. To reporters. she said: “You boys have not told the truth about me.” . Has N’o Regrets. Miss Stone, on arraignment, was charged with homicide, and was held by Magistrate Short without bail for examination next Tuesday. Asked by newspapermen if she regretted uxo shooting Miss i Stone said: “I don’t regret itatall. I'm the hap- piest woman in the world. Elis Kinkead is now in the place where the dawn comes up -like thunder.” Sued Kinkead Once. Lexington, Ky., Aug. 6.—Ellis Guy Kinkead, New York attorney who was shot and killed near his home in Brooklyn yesterday by Olife M. Sione, .Cincinnati, a trained nurse was widely known here. Two years ago he married Miss Marie Louise Gorme- 1y of this city. Miss Julia Gormely, a siktet of Mrs. Kinkead, said today that just before the marriage of Kinkead to her sis- ter he had been seriously ill in the Cincinnati General hospital. Miss Stone was his nurse and after he recovered and married she unsuccess- fully’ sued him for breach o6f prom- ise. She said that Mr. Kinkead was probably 52 years old and had been married only once. SCANDAL SHEET BARRED Berman Arrested in New Haven for Offering Objectionable For Sale. New Haven, Aug. 8.—Jacob Berman was arrested here today charged under a state statute with offering for sale a newspaper which contained matter of an objectionable character. He fur- nished $500 bail, until his case is heard. The newspaper in question was offer- ed on the street last Saturday. Yes- terday Mayor Fitzgerald stated that he would not allow it to be offered for sale and ordered Chief of Police Smith to seize it and arrest whoever was re- sponsible for its appearance. ' When newsboys were found with the paper to- day they were told to give them up and Berman was arrested as his name ap- peared in the paper as the publisher. AUTOMOBILIST JAILED Ansonia Man Must Serve Six Months Bchind Bars for Driving Automobile Newspaper While Under Influence of Liquor. Waterbury, Aug. 6.—William Stan- kus of 15 Star street,, Ansonia, ar- raigned here today, charged with op- erating a motor vehicle while under the influence of liquor, was sentenced to six months in jail. This was Stan- kus' second offense. Under the mew state law, the court had@ no alterna- tive but to prescribe a jail sentence of six months. Stankus was arrested and convicted in Naugatuck last No- vember and fined $50 and sts. Counsel today entered notice ap- peal. BE ARRESTED TUES. Announces Intention of Refurning to-Illinois Capital Then ISSUES FORMAL STATEMENT Postpones His Tour of State Roads to Prevent His ‘‘Traducers’” From Mak- ing Newspaper Attacks on him. Chicago, Aug, 6.—Governor Len Small announced here today that he would return to Springfield Tuesday for the governor's arrest on charges of em- bezzlement of state funds while he was state treasurer. The governor said he would postpone his good roads tour until Friday of next week in order to return to the capital. The governor issued the following statement: ‘‘So that my traducers shall not be permitted, through their news- paper mouthpieces, to misrepresent my official course in performing my duties as governor, I shall not resume my good roads tour until Friday of next week. ““I expect to finish my official busi- ness here today, and shall be in Spring- fleld Tuesday morning, ‘‘Len Small, governor. Waterbury Judge Holds Autoist Responsible ‘Waterbury, Aug. 6.—Martin Gray of Seymour waived examination on a charge of manslaughter when ar- raigned here today before Judge Frank A. Sears in the city court. Gray oper- ated an automobile through this city on June 25 which struck and killed Mrs. Eleanor Judd of Reidville. Coroner John T. Monzani holds Gray criminal- ly responsible for the fatalty on the ground that Gray's car was equipped with improper brakes. Bonds for re- lease ‘were furnished_ SUNDAY BAND GONCERT Universal Band Will Render Pleasing Program at Walnut Hill Park To- morrow Evening at 8 0’clock. 'The band concert at Walnut Hill park tomorrow evening from 8 until 10 o’clock will be given by the Universal band under the direction of Edwin J. Barrett. The following program will be ren- dered: March—Occidental Sousa Overture—Golden HIVG +...s Brepsent Popular- Numbers Just Like A Gypsy ‘Wyoming Lullaby, waltz Ain’'t We Got Fun, fox trot. Excerpts from ‘‘The Spring Maid Cornet Solo, Selected. March—G. M. B. Death of General Custer. By Request—American and Indian Fantasy Lee Johnson Popular Numbers Becky From Babalon, fox trot All For You, fox trot Songs of Scotland . Manisot March ....... Lampe FIND LIQUOR IN BANK. Chicago, Aug. 6.—A federal warrant for Warren C. Spurgin, missing presi- dent of the Michigan Avenue Trust Co. charging violation of the prohibition laws was issued today following the confiscation yesterday of $10,000 worth of wines and other liquors in the bank. Copies of the warrant were forward- ed to San Antonio, Texas, with a re- quest that Spurgin be apprehended if possible. MORGAN CANCELS TRIP. New York, Aug 6.—J. P. Morgan cancelled his booking on the Cedric an hour before the vessel sailed for Liv- erpool today, but Mrs. Morgan and their son departed on the boat. Mr. Morgan will leave for England in three or four days to join them, it was said at his office. CAN MEASURE EVEN TO ONE MILLIONTH U. S. Bureau of Standards Perfects Method by Which Gold, 99.999 Pure is Gauged Washington, Aug. 6.—Perfection by the bureau of standards of a spectros- copic analysis of gold has given the United States treasury a method which it is believed will measure the finest of the metal ‘“more accurately than one part in a million.” The method is described as consist- ing of “small electric sparks leaping between two sticks of gold.” Photo- graphs of the sparks taken through a “difraction grading” showing at once the presence of the most minutes partticles of baser metals. Tests just completed showed that the 1,000 fine gold of the San Francis- co mint, the highest grade, was only 99.997 pure. Specially minted samples were passed by the new device a 99.- 999 per cent. THE WEATHER s Hartford, Aug. 6.—Forecast for New Britain and vicinity: Unsettled, with showers tonight and Sunday; cooler Sunday. *. 1921, —TWELVE PAGES “RAGGED STRANGER” FULLY IDENTIFIED Carl Wanderer’s Victim Said to Be. Edward Ryan—Mother Admits His Identity. Chicago, Aug. 6.—The ‘ragged stranger” for whose murder Carl O. Wanderer is under sentence to be hanged, today was| given a name, when Mrs. Nellie Ryan said that the body was that of her son, Edward Ryan, 24. Mrs. Ryan said she had known for many months that “the ragged stran- ger” was her son, but that she and her daughters had kept the secret for reasons of her dwn. For more than a year, during which time Wanderer has been twice tried and convicted of murder, first being sentenced to 25 yea§s in the penitentiary for Kkilling. his wife and unborn child, and then to death for slaying “the poor boob,” he em- ployed to stage a mock hold-up, the identity of the stranger has been asked in mystery. Wanderer was to have been hanged July 30 but was granted a reprieve until September 15 by Governor Len | Small. ARRESTED AFTER FUNERAL Stoughton, Accessory to the Murder of Her Husband Few Days Ago. Mass., Woman is Held a3 Stoughton, Mass., Aug. 6. — Mrs. Annie Stattkas whose husband, Leon, a poolroom proprietor, was shot in their home here Wednesday night, was"arrested immediately after the funeral today. Charged with being an accessory after the fact to mur- der. Adolph Pouskecrez, a border at the Stattkas home was arrested on a charge of murder last night, the po- lice announcing that he had confessed the crime. Both were held for the grand jury. Mrs. Stattkas told the police after the shooting that her husband an- swered a knock at the door and was killed by a stranger. Pouskecrez has since admitted, according ‘to the po- lice that jt was he who rang the bell. FIRE IN WORCESTER Occupants of Hotel Chance Have Nar- row Escapé — Guests Forced Out Onto Fire Escapes by Flames, ‘Worcester, Mass., '‘Aug. 6.—The lives of a score of lodgers in Hotel Chance on Pearl street, adjoining the Knights of Columbus Huilding were endanger- ed early today by a fire which started in the kitcher“ofthe hotel and spread in such a way that escape by the stairs was cut off. The guests were forced onto fire escapes and the roofs of adjoining buildings where they were rescued by firemen who took them down ladders. The loss is es- timated at $15,000, the principal’ suf- ferers being owners of stores on the street floor, the C. C. Coughlin Elec- trie Co., Williams Book. store and the E. A. Mann Coal Co. 'The building is four stories high and was formerly used as a dormitory by the Y.'M. C. A 10 Barrels Seized Are Worth $10,000 Bridgeport, Aug. 6.—The whiskey seizure made by the police during last night proved to be ten barrels, worth approximately ten thousand dollars. John McCann, owner, and Lewis Far- gas, clerk of the Broad Grocery store, in which the seizure was made, were held today for a hearing August 10. PAYS COSTS, FREED. Bridgeport, Aug. 6. — Wadislaw Luknik, a truck driver of Waterbury, who collided with and crushed an emergency hospital ambulance on January 4, seriously injuring Dr. John Maxwell, today had the charge of reckless driving preferred against him nolled by payment of $40 costs. Dr. Maxwell has recovered. JAPAN ADDS HER AGREEMENT TO THAT OF FRANCE, FAVORING PARLEY NOV. 11 ‘Indications Are That World Conference On Disarma- ment Will Begin Armistice Day. Tokio, Aug. 6 (By Associated Press)—Japan has agreed to. Novem- ber 11 as the date for the beginning of the disarmament conference in Washington as suggested by the United States according to this morning’s newspapers. Foreign Minister Uchida, the news- papers state told the cabinet he had informed Edward Bell, the American charge d'affairs, that Japan had no objection to November 11 for the conference date. Word was received from Paris Friday night that France, replying to an inquiry made by the state depart- ment at Washington had agreed to November 11 as the date for the conference. HARVEY OFF FOR PARIS. London, Aug. 6.—George Harvey, American ambassador to Great Brit- ain, left for Paris this morning to at- tend the meeting of the supreme al- lied council which will begin in that city Monday. LENINE WANTS VACATION. Copenhagen, Aug, 6.—Nikolai Len- ine, Russian ‘Bolshevik premier, plans subject to British permission to leave here soon for Scotland, says a special dispatch from Reval. Herald “Ads” Mean Better Business PRICE THREE CENTS ESTIMATED INCOME SHOWS $330,000,000 SHRINKAGE UNDER EXISTING TAX LAW DEATH TAKES FORMER LEGISLATURE MEMBER L. 0. Peck Was Also Prom- inent in Financial Cir- cles Years Ago. Redding, Aug. 6.—Lester O. Peck, former senator from this distriét, iat- er a candidate for congress on ths democratic ticket, died at his howme today. :Mr. Peck was a member of tha gen- eral assembly first in the 1911 session as a member in the house from Red- ding and he was in the senate from the 24th district in ths 1913 session. Mr. Peck was born in Bridgeport, August 7, 1863, and was educated in the public schools of that city and later prepared for collega at private schools, but did not enter. Ha trav- elled many years for New York city firms and about 1909 retired w take up farming and stock breeding at Redding Ridge. He had ‘much live- stock of pedigree which attracted the attention of financiers in this and other states. Mr. Feck was a man of consider- able wealth and had many club con- nections. He was married August 12, 1898 to Laura E. Wells who survives. One of the financial enterprises in which Mr. Peck engaged was that of financing the first subway in New York city, being associated with Aug- ust Belmont and others. Aa a democrat, Mr.-Peck was active many years, a delegate to conventions and an advocate of woman suffrage. MYSTERIGUSLY SHOT BY UNSEEN ASSASSIN Los Angeles Broker Murdered While on Outing With Waman Friend—She is Held Los Angeles, Aug. 6.—John B. Ken- nedy, 26, Los lés. insurance Brok- er, was shot and killed late last night as he was entering his summer cot- tage at Beverly Hills, an exclusive resi- dential suburb. Mrs. Madeline ‘Qber- chain of Evansiop, Ill., who was with him, was held as a material witness. Mrs. Oberchain, who is the divorced wife of a Chicago attorney, said Ken- nedy was shot from behind. Mrs. Oberchain stated that after the shot. had been fired she noticed two rough looking men behind bushes along the roadside. ‘The police found that part of Ken- nedy’s head had been shot away, evid- ently caused by a:shot fired from a shotgun. Mrs. Oberchain said she and Ken- nedy motored to a beach resort early in the day, returning late in the eve- ning. They had planned to dine at a country club, but finding it closed, went to Kennedy's cottage. They stopped, she said, at the entrance while she looked for a ‘‘lucky penny’’ she had buried there, as they weré searching for the coin the shot was fired. ADMITS SINKING YESSEL Former German U-Boat Officer, Now In South America, to Surrender and Go on Trial. Berlin, Aug. 6. — (By Associated Press)—The Abendpost of Leipsic to- duy sava that Lieut. Commander Pat- zig, who commanded the: German submarine which sank the British hospital ship Llandovery Castle dur- ing the war, and who now is in South America, has declared he will return to Germany and surrender himself for trial by the Leipsic court. The news- paper says that Patzig asserts that he and not Lieut. Ludwig Ditmar and Johann ‘Boldt was "alone responsible for the act. Both Dittmar and Boldt were sen- tenced to four years imprisonment for the act by the Leipsic court. GLAD T0 60 TO PRISON Convicted of Robbery—Gets Eight wo Twelve Years, Now Plans to Become a Famous Writer. New Orleans, Aug. 6.—Robert Hol- land, sentenced to serve from 8 to 12 years for the robbery of a branch of the Hiberbia bank in a statement to- day said he was glad to be sent to the penitentiary, so he could fulfill his boyhood ambition to become a writer. “I am going to read and study for the first four or five years” he said, “and then I'm going to try to write. I've always had a hankering to write. Just watch my smoke when I get started.” Upton, Mass., Postmaster Relieved of His Office Upton, Mass., Aug. 8.—Whitman H. Holbrook, postmaster here has been Te- lieved of his duties by Post Office In- spector G, F. Smith of Boston, and all government property has been removed from the office to the store of Miss Myrric S. King, who is acting post- master. The inspector arrived late yes- terday and notified Postmaster Hol- brook of his discharge. Neither the postmaster nor the inspector wauld give the cause for the removal but it is al- leged that hookkeovhu methods are in- volved, 3 Total Income Is Now Figured To Be $4,217, 3,000 As Against Original Estimate Of $4,547,643,000 $130,000,000 of becreaseAifl . Attributed to Business De« pression — Senator Borah Would Economize By Ke- ducing Army. Washington, Aug. 6.—A shrinkage in three months of $330,000,000 in the estimated government income for this fiscal year based on the present revenue law is disclosed by the state- ment recently presented to the house ways and means committee by Sec- retary Mellon. The total income -is estimated now at $4,217,643,000 as against the estimate of $4,547,643,000 contained in Mr. Mellon’s letter of last April 30 to Chairman Fordney. In the same time the estimated ex< penditures have decreased only $11, 864,216. The estimatcd excess of disbursements over receipts is placed now at $336,369,517 as compared with an estimate of $18,234,033 made by the treasury last AnriL Business De Of the total shrinkage in receipts $130,000,000 is charged to the ex- pected falling off in internal revenue largely as a result of the present business depression. The remaining $200,000,000 is accounted for by a revision of the estimated amount te be received in interest on foreign obligations. In Mr. Mellon’s letter of April 30 this interest fund was placed at $225,026,000 and was based on the assumption that several coun< tries would’ make substantial - pay= ments. The estimate now is $25,024,« 000 most of which, it is said is ex- pected to come from France.' Five Million Less. An analysis of the figures sent to the. committee Thursday by Mr. Mellon .shews . that . returns ' from taxes for this fiscal year ynder the revisions suggested by the wméw# would be five million dollars less than the estimate under the existing law. Miscellaneous receipts would be $50,~ 000,000 greater under the revision than at -present but it is estimated that there will be a $55,000,000 de- crease . in the returns- from corpora- tion income and excess profits tax if the latter tax were repealed as; of last Janpary 1 and a flat corporation income tax of 15 per cent substituted, $50,000,000 Greater. If the repeal were made effective as of next January 1 however, the estimated return from . all taxes would ‘'be $50,000,000 -greater tham under the existing law as the returns from the corporation income and exe= cess pmflu tax would be approxie mately the tame as.under the existe ing law as the returns from the cor- poration income ‘and excess profits tax would be approximately the same as under the eristing. Corporation Payments. It is estimated by treasury experts that under the law as it now stands the corporation would pay a total of $1,125,000,000, divided $669,000,000 profits tax -and - $456,000,000. income tax. Under the revision suggested effective last January 1 the corpora=- tions would pay $1,070,000,000, divided $413,000,000 profits tax and $657,000,000 income tax should the revision be made effective as of next January 1 the corporations would pay the same amounts as under the pres- ing law. Meanwhile leaders in congress are seeking a way to force a big cut in estimated expenditures for the fiscal year which Secretary of the Treasury Mellon says will reach $4,550,000,000 unless drastic action is taken. The difficulty lies in the fact that most of the appropriations already have been made for the expenditures estimated by Mr. Mellon. Borah Alms at War Costs. As a stringent ‘economy rfeasure, Senator Borah proposed that the army be cut to 100,000 men, that Am- erican troops in Germany be returned and that the construction of six bate tleships be stopped. This would save $400)800,000, he said. The senator introduced a resolution directing = reduction of the army. Urges Army and Nayy Cut. Senator Borah, analyzing possible means of reducing expenditures, as- serted that cuts in the army and navy afford the only possible opportuni- ties that will be at all conclusive, since they are the source of our greatest expense. He figured that a saving of which $400,000,000 ca nbe effected, of which $150,000,000 would be in lowering the army force, and $250,000,000 in abandoning part of the battleship construction. He argued that the bombing experiments on the Virginia Capes demonstrated that battleships now building are obsolete, or nearly so, believing that greater protection would be afforded through submarine and airplane construction. Reductions in the army and pavy at this time, Senator Borah said, would demonstrate to the world the “good faith” of the United States in calling the conference for limitation of arm- aments as well as making possible lowering of taxes, or at least prevent- ing an increase. Unless something of the sort is done, he prophesied, heavy reductions in the republican majori- (Continued on Third Page.).