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be able to get that by agreement.” 4 L News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 LETTERS WRITTEN | BY COUNTESS SALN, TOLD OF HER LOVE Count, Saing lor Separation,! Presents Notes His Wile Sent His Mother PROTESTS SHE WOULD NOT LEAVE HUSBAND, Count. Himself, Who Never Went to | Work Until ! | Nover Had to, Refuses to Accept | | sists That It Be By Court Order. | New York, Dec. 8 (P—Admission | that Count Ludwig Salm Von Hoog- stracten has a prima facie case for scparation from his wife, the former Milicent Rogers, and that the only involved in his suit for scparation was the jurisdiction of the supreme court of New York was made today by attorneys for the Countess Salm as her husband’s suit for separation began. Admits He Has Case. Alfred C. Conway, attorney for th untess Salm told the court that the prima facie case for separa- tion was based on her abandonment. of the count. As the latter it not a resident of New York he felt the court was without jurisdiction. “I* all unt Salm wishes is peparation,” Conway said “he should 1914 Because He Separation By Agrecment and In- 1estion Hio reserved, however, his right to o this as a motion it it seemed best, in view of the dectsion of the court on the contention of lack of jurisdiction, to do so. Count Is In Court. Countess Salm, daughter of Henry H. Rogers, Standard Oil magnate, was not in court when the proceed- ings began. Conway said she would not be called urtil needed as a Wwit- ness. Count Salm, with counsel was in formal attire. Herman C. Goodstein, counsel for the count opened the case by telling the court his client's family history. “The proper name of his client, he 1d, was simply Ludwig Salm. The ‘on Hoogstracten,” he sald, was merely an indication of the place of residence of the Salm family. Conway 'nterrupted With a mo- tion to dismiss the case on grounds of lack of jurisdiction. Goodstein asserted that the count was entitled to demand that the case be pressed, 7 nd that he had no desire for a sepa. ration by agreement. Never Worked Till 1014. Count Salm, he continued, is now 25 years old. He told of a marriage when he was 25, and sald he was twice divorced from the woman he married then. Absolute divorce was granted in 1914, he sald. Until 1914, Goodsteln said, Count Salm had never worked or had cause to earn money. He told of how the court jolned the Hungarian army In 1914 and served through the World War, emerging as a captain of infantry. Gave Family Jewels. At the time of his marrlage to iss Rogers, Count Salm had very | little money, Goodstein asserted. The countess had given her husband Dbetween $12,000 and $14,000 and he had given her all the Salm family wels, he sald. The jewels have since been returned. The argument between counsel as | to the return of the Salm family | jewels was heated. “Why talk about | them?’ Conway asked. “They were | returned.” “But not until suit for recovery was started,” Goodstein replied. “That's not so,” Conway retort-| »d. “They were demanded by the| count’s mother when she came to (his country and we returned them (Continued on Page 18) WIDOW SEEKS INSURANCE FOR DEATH OF HUSBAND Suits | Mrs. Baranowski Brings Against John Hancock and Pru- | dential Companies for $3000. | Alleging refusal on the part of the defendants to make payment of poli- cies insuring her late husband, Mrs. Kiemont Baranowski of 33 Hillhurst | avenue, has brought suit for $1,500 against the John Hancock Life In- surance Co. of Boston, Mass, and 0 against the Prudential Tite arance Co. of Newark, N. J. A~ torney Lawrence J. Golon represefcs | the plaintife, The plaintifi’s husband was ex- | amined for a policy in the Hancock | Co. prior to an illness in a hospital and the policy was issued on his recovery, according to the allegation. The issuance of the policy by the| other defendant was preceded by @ medical examination during which an affirmative answer was made to #he question relative to hospital treatment, according to the plain-| tiff, but the defendants in each in- stance are said to contend that the ntiff's +hushand made a frand- |the Balkans is consldered probable, 'KING FERDINAND OPERATED UPON {ord for births officiated at by one | Emil Danberg and George Le Witt, I'AIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8§, 1926. —TWENTY PAGES. Italian - Jugoslavia Crisis Seen IDENBY GALLED IN BUS TAX LAW IS as Acute But no Danger of War| ((NSPIRACY TRIAL ARGUED IN COURT Belief is That International Arrangements in Balkans| Will Be Changed—Rome Denies Secret Military Pact Paris, Dec. 8 (P —Diplomatic cir- ot arms is also likely to be cles in Paris think the controversy |in the ambassadors’ report. hetween Italy and Jugo-Slavia over | - the Italo-Albanian treaty may devel- | Rome Issues Denial op considerable tension, but no weil- | Rome, Dec. 8 (P —Emphatic de- informed authori‘y believes there 1s [nial was glven In official quarters danger of war. |here today of a report that the re- | That it will lead to a reshuffling |cent pact signed by Italy and Al- of international arrangements in !bania contains seciet military clause amounting virtually to & pro- and a tripartite accord among Tur- |tectorate by Italy over Albania. key, Greece and Jugo-Slavia as a | Alarmist and false reports which counter to the Italo-Albanian pact lit js declared here have been spread is mentioned as likely, {abroad, especially from Geneva, are Another possibility discussed 15 | cnaracterized as absurd since it is that Jugo-Slavia and Albania nego- (114 that the treaty concluded at tlate an accord similar to that | : S eharaoter reached by Mussolini with the |,/ qoes not e o | Tmowigovernment, | deed, Ttalians say.-it con The councll of ambassadors meets | o "0e b POE SR CORE A0S In Paris tomorrow, but its main pur- {y Ty oo FO S SO pose is to put its views on the Ger- | 0. 5 L ALLeS Ao man disarmament question in form ;G¢Tmain, it must be registered with for presention to the council of the lons, as in the league of nations, now sliting in {ies concluded b Gifeva. 1 other countries in The most prominent stumbling 1 eastern Europe, all hav- block In this situation is Geran ntaining peace refusal to dismantle the Koen'g: ces and misun- burg fortress or to dissolve the sc- engthening good cret socleties which are suvpected of protection of being shields for military training. a commer A demand that Germany fully sat- inciuded | ins a jof |tween Ttaly central ing the object of m dispersing pret standings, and s irelations throug re- {isfy the allies that she s cbeying | the interdiction against expovtation | AGAIN; CONDITION REPORTED GOOD In Meantime Reports From Rumania Hint at Dynastic Crisis, With Carol King With Fascist Government Bucharest, Rumania, Dec. 8.— | —XKing Ferdinand underwent a sec ond operation at eleven o'clock fhis [ ernment morning. The doctors say it was | tional-p successful. which are Julio cholas Lupt The other is a reported sch former Premicr Tone his brother Vintila w} “the rulers of Rumania, to hand |over the crown to an unnamed British prince after a period of rule by the regeney as at present consti- tuted, The army, despite wide chang decreed by Premier Averescu in effort to climinate Carol's supporters, is said to be thoroughly sympathetic with the ambitions of the crrant ex- crown prince. her’ leaders of and Dr. Parls, Dee. 8.—P—Fresh reports s of a grave crisis in Rumania, in- volving conflict between two separ- ate and far-reaching designs for dynastic changes in that country, reached the reliable lumanian sources in Paris almost simultane- ously with the announcement that | King Ferdinand would undergo a serious intestinal operation tomor- row. One plan s to place former Crown Prince Carol on the throne by a coupe d'etat in the event of his me by ratiano o are ter DR. TORARGEYK AGAIN- RIDERS SHAKEN UP AS ‘FIRST AID TO ST[]RI(’1 BUS WHEEL COMES OFF D. L. Nair Keeps His Place 'Drivers’ Presence of Mind as “Marrying Stops Vehicle From Justice” Overturning | | | | For the third successive year, Dr. | Lives of T len com- John J. Tokarczyk will head the list of New Britain physicians 1in the number of births reported at the oftice of the town clerk, he having 205 already on record. The late Dr. Henry T. Bray was for many years chlef aide to the stork having officiated at more than 3,000 births during his practice. In 1924 Dr. Tokarczyk's report showed a Digher birth report and it has con- sistently Increased until this year's figure shows what Is the cify's rec- muters were endang ng when a bus ow necticut Co. lost o'clock trip to Meriden |ner of Whiting and is m ¢ the Con- a whe! n the 9 cor. The bus was prog Maple strect and turn the corner n the wheel, weakened |the strain made by the travel through the snow the axle and let t i of the bu to the ground. Nord wrenche tho steering wheel to a posi | held the vehicle from turning over on its side. The axie, catching in the car tracks, skidded for ap- proximately 20 feet u it to a stop by the emers P | sengers suffered no injuries |than a slight shakir | The wheel of the |some 50 feet from the 1 place of the machine, and and Atlorneys p,.g were scattered over affic both ways remove sing was pr into Whiti doctor. A state statute provides a fee of 25 cents for each birth certificate recorded, this payment being made to physicians after January 1. David L. Nair, alderman from the first ward and attorney, has qualified for the title of “marrying justice,” for the second year, having per- formed 31 wedding ceremonics in 1926. Only four of approximately 30 justices of the peace qualified to tie nuptial knots made uso of this power this year. F. B. Hungerford married 10 couples, il bro brake. he other a1 resting various bus w The bus | oughfare, bio: | until a trouble | wreek. Occupants were sent on t |by a relief bus which N called for. Passengers congratulated RECEIVER APPOINTED FOR AUBURN TRANS, 00, 275, 2 S0 e Pettion 1. vehicle. The schedule de the thor- one each. ced t car Superlor Court Acts Filed by ex-Mayor Quigley, Stockholder. on George was Dohieny Himsell Probably Will Testily in Owm Defense OFTEN LOANED BIG SUMS Secks Defense to Doheny's Loan of $100,000 to His Friend Fall Was Nothing Unusual | For Him to Do. | Washington. Dec. 8 (#—Edwin . | Denby, who cretary of the navy approved the oil leases of 1922, was | today In | the Fall-Doheny ofl conspiracy triaf, The former cabinet officer. Who vesigned under fire during the sen- te oil inquiry, was questioned es a | part of the gifort of the defense to show that much of the responsibil- ity for award of the Elk Hills lease | to the Doheny oil interests lay with n 1 conld not have re- sulted from a conspiracy between Fdward L. Doheny and Albert B. Fall, then Denby's colleague in the! cabinet. | Dofense counsel disclosed at the ne time that Doheny probadly | 1d take the stand in his own de- | fense. called as defense witness the The forger navy chief was called || for examination as to the part the {navy played in shaping the oil leas- ing policics, in conjunction with the | interior department, during the | Harding administration. | by the defense resumed pres- | entation of character witnesses for | including three Los Angeles s of the oil man. Went in Doheny's Yacht A. W. Ambrose, who was petro- leum technologist n the bureau of n the Flk Hills lease was testified that when he t to HMawaii in the summer of 1 connection with Pearl Har- | bor naval oil storage project, he raveled on Doheny’s private yacht with J. C. Anderson, president of o Pan-Ameriean Petroleum com- ! pany. He was “not exactly a guest,” | he said, but he paid no hoat fare. Previous witnesses had named ! Ambrose as the petroleum wh sted the royalty. schedule | whi med the basis of the Eik sing negotiations. ai H. Dyas president of Los Angeles departmont oil man ) n his personal the zovernment ob- nd the answor was stricken from the record. Frequently Loaned Money Dyas’ testimony represented o de- fense attempt to establ that Doheny frequentiy loaned large sums to his friends. Benjamin F. B former 1. cral judge of Los Angeles, testified that ear's intima friendship with Doheny was the basis of his estimate that “no one in California | s Detter in respect of general reputation for integrity, honest and patriotism,” than the il magnate. The Rev. Dr. George Davidson, ostor of St. John's opal sald he had known Doheny years as “a man of idea and high character.” Denby Takes Blame Much of the responsibility for the leasing policy of 1 was ouldered by Denby. The former T crctary said that he had sug- cgsted to Fall that the naval oil reserves be transferre’ from the navy to the interior department to prevent draining by private wells adjoini Fall said he would help as much s he could to that end, the witness continued. Denby then broached the subject to President Harding, who 1 the transfer order. od draft it, and Harding signed it in June, 1921, while Denby was out of the city. Some officers of the navy approved the transter and the presi- dent acquainted with this fact be fore he issued the order. Denby began his testimony with resume of his public career. He said that very shortly after he entered Harding cabinet in March 1921 he was advised that the val ol lands in California were cd by private welis near rin of the public domain. He did not know from whom this o came, s first move, he sald, was to so- the cooperation of Secretary Yall of the interior department. nd did you speak to anyone oe chure! 14 integrity for th (Continued on P: 15) | | expert | g note | | commerce had been Fall help- | Unconstitutional, Is Claim of In- terstate Busses Corp. DECISION IS RESERYED Show That | Connecticut Officials, on the Other Hand, File Briefs to Uphold Le- gality of State’s Levy on Public Automobile Vehicles. New Haven, Conr A tax law of fended and v vaiid before here toda; ., Dec. 8.—(P— Connecticut was de- s declared to be in- three federal judges when a2 constitutional court convened to hear the case of the Interstate Busses corporation against officials of the state. Briefs were filed by counsel and oral arguments heard. Deci will be giv judges at later date. ve n by Judge Martin T. Manton, second | senlor judge of the circult court of appeals of the second district pre- slded, and with him on the bench were Ju Marcus ot judge of the ew York dwin S. Thomas. tern dist The defendants in the action are | Willlam H. Blodg tt, tax commis- Rogers, state ederick M. Salmon, ate comptroller; Robert T. Hurley, | superintendent of the and Robbins B. Stoeckel, niotor ve- hicle commissioner. The law, a tax measure, which the bus corporation is attempting to prove is unco c¢d by the 19 vides a levy of one cent a mile on interstate corporations using the highways within this state. State's Right Questioned Edward Kelly of Hartford repre- nting the Interstate Busses corp- oration pointed out that the corp- oration is organized under the laws of the sate of Connecticut, that its operate between points in it and terminais in Mas- sachusetts and Rhode 1Isiand, but that tie busses only carry passen- gers from nother, no state police, of the tax is question- . Kelly said, on ground that | a state cannot levy a, tax on inter- e traffle. The “question of a state | levying sneh a tax has been up he- fors the supreme court and it had been decided in many instances a siate had no such right. This {8 the frst instance, ley said, that a law had been d In which fnterstate trafic 1d been mentioned in expressed 1s when the question of taxation a part of the ac He quoted a number of cases where decisions had been handed down that such a tax on interstate a burden to such commerce and that such taxa- tion was a question that rests solely with congress, Judge Manton brought question that the tax imposed by Connecticut was a tax on a state corporation doing business within the state and tax only on the use of the roads within the borders stat Attorney Kelly maintained this constituted a burden on inter e commissioners and that state could only impose a tax on property, such as tax on machines or real cstate. “Our contention sald, “that they business.” An interlocutory Attorney K up the is," cannot Mr. Kelly tax our injunction was nted the bus corporation by ge Ldwin . Thomas sometims ago restraining the state officis (Continued on Page 18.) MAKES 5TH OCEAN TRIP Years Mean Nothing to Joseph Reale; at Home on Sea At the age of 78, long affer the rage man Fas settled down and dismissed all thought of long dis- tance travel, Joseph Reale arrived In ew York last :ight, completing his |fifth trans-Atlantic voyage. A.llayed 20 minutes | Thomas P. Orchard, organizer and | manager of the Auburn Trapspor- | tatlon Co. of this city has resigned | Steals Enou nd Deputy Sheriff Martin H. Hor- | witz was today appointed temporary | receiver of the co:cern on applica- tion of George A. Quigley, a stock- holder, the latter announced today. Dissatisticd with the managemen of the company's affairs, Mr. Quig- ley appeared in superior court this | morning and made application for | appointment of a receiver, which was granted. Asked if the comp 1y§ e i ik is preparing to enter bankruptey, |y G hiiccy was st S o Mr. Quigley replied negatively. "It 15| pygeal & Jorwin Division of the to prevent just such a condition that | 1" Rty rest Russell & Erwin $150, which ulent concealment of facts material | to the risk. IHe died ahou wmont fler the policics ned. The plaintif denies that the | concealment was fraudulent if it ex- isted at all and if the medical ex- | wer mination report did mnot state that | two cha her husband off leen {Il in a fault of the e the defendants. According to rmed that had it and agents of , he hospital, nin the rionia caused his death. was the [with the death of Edith L. Greene, state ward whose dismembered b plaintiff, her |Ju nehand was treated for a heart and | jury yesterday liver condition, whereas lobar pneu- | members required hours to reach thelr decision, I had the receiver appointed,” he |7 e wil a, aged 29, of said, “It js too good a concern to go | Cher recovered t evening by Bllinger and who ted charge of According to the polier ho has been employed actory a carpenter, hard > by piece he had enough to fit up he left the company's employ last Saturda and was planning to s for Italy on December 11. He re- turned to Italy once since coming | here to make his home. | ‘s home | Sergeant O'Mara, on the DOCTOR 1S CONVICTED Boston, Dec. § M—Dr. Thomas Walsh was this morning convicted of and acquitted on a third against him in connection theft. | Talotta, in the took the nd when a house, brought found in a cemetery here I The case was given to the morning but the more than 20 gh Hardware to Fit Up House; Ready to Ship It to Italy Police Swoop Down on Cherry Street Home and Ar- Employe For Theft. > which was packed the that to Ttaly. of his work he partments at the ind in this way was able to collect the pleces without an ac- complice, the police say. | Arraigned in police court morning he pleaded not guilty his case was continued until mor allow him time to Tage He emphasized disposed without of having nte completed b, Visit to hid peee e S hardware, cl: some of in polic he not firet S, wooden receptacle and Talotta admi was ring to ship it and to- en- hat ed the delay ot | | | for the|! | Reale has been a resident of New Britain at intervals when he was not en route to his homeland, Italy, or residing in that country. He left New Britain five vears ago and in the interim has lived at Cannicattini, Baganl. He is the father of Mrs. Angelo Blancati, wife of Angelo Blancati, Church gtreet tonsorial prietor. LANDIS ENDORSED Asheville, N. o ) administration of Kenesaw Mountain Landis as baseball commissioner was unanimously endorsed by the ational Aasociatlon of Professional seball Leagues in executive ses- sion here today when Landis W recommended for reelection out eurtaflment of authorits commissioner's seven-year term office expires December 16 3 this | | New Britain and vicinity Probably rain tonight. Thurs- day partly cloudy and colder. TREE B. Campbell, | and Federal Judge | itutional was impos- 5 legislature and pro- | that | that | |ception on Russell st Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending Dec. 4th . ... 14,149 PRICE THREE CENTS DEMOCRATS DEMANDING PERMANENT Accounts For Most of Million — President Washington, Dec. 15. (# — The | Government's budget for the mnext tiscal year, calling for appropriation of $4,014,571,124, $16,543,728 more than is allotted for the current year, was submitted to Congress to- day by President Coolidge. Causes for Increases The Civil and Spanish War pen- or al gether with increases in the cost of operating the Postal Service and the Veterans Bureau, account prinetpal- ly for the higher budget, more than offsetting heavy reductions in ex- penses in other branches of the Government. interest on the public debt. The 1928 fiscal year outlay pro- sion increases voted last session, to- | The largest of these | reductions — $30,000,000 — was the | Pension Increases, Postal Costs and Veterans’ Bureau Gain — Public Debt Cut 30 ks Delay in Warship and Airship Construction — Will Enforce Prohibition. GREAT PROSPERITY - SEENBY TREASURY Surplus of Nearly 400 Million for This Fiscal Year OVER ~ $200,000,000 NEXT | Not Until There Has Been Year's Test of Tax Law Does President Favor Permanent Policy of Taxation vides for inauguration of five-year | ation programs in the Army and avy, with a total of 4,000,000 or National Defense; and the main- tenance of prohibition enforcement | at a total cost of nearly $30,000,000. | Warship Construction Mr. Coolidge asked C(‘ongress to postpone construction of the remain- ing ihree of the elght light cruigers | fwhich were to have been started be- | fore next July in view of this coun- | | try now engaging | “to broaden our existing ‘treaties with the great powers which deal | with the elimination of competition in naval armaments.” He also omitted all provisions for the construction of iwo rigid air- in negotiations ships which Congress authorized to | be built at a cost of $8,,000,000 prior to July 1, 1928. He asked that time be given to experiment with the all- metal airship now heing constructed at a cost of $300,000. . Aviation Program $73,477,380 proposed for ..4n the Army and Navy, planes and of th aviation | 820,600,000 is for new (Continued on Page Two) INJURED ATHLETE S " GIVEN SIGNAL HONOR Carleton F. Walker Award- : ed Gold Football by V.M. L. of the| (Speclal to the He: xington, Va., Dec. injured in a football game anksgiving day, a New Britain boy v is sporting a school athletic honor never before awarded here to an athlete except to those who have | won mionograms for two consecutive scasons. The New Britain boy is Carleton ¥. Walker, fullback for the Virginia Military lell voted him a gold football, despite the fact that this is Walker's first season i’ the Cadet outfit and at the emblem is never awarded except after a player has twice car- ried off the yearly honors. Walker also was awarded the us- ual monograms and numerals. Fred C. Walker and Miss Berna- dine Walker of 57 Harrison street, father and sister of Carloton T. Walker, who lies in the Jefferson hospital, Roanoke, Virginia, suftering from Injuries sustained In a football game on Thanksglving afternoon, returned to this city vesterday after an absence of 13 days which were spent at the injured boy's bedside. Both report that Carleton is greatly {mproved and is removed from dan- ger. It is hoped that he will be re- leased from the hospital before the first of next year. Mrs. Walker re- mained in Roanoke with her son. 'HAY DROP ZONE APPEAL TP CITY GRANTS REQUEST | Elizabeth M. Roche's Potition Comes Refore Adjustment Board At Meeting Tonight parlor pro- | The appeal of Elizabeth M. Roche from the action of the hoard of ad- justment in denying her a change from reside: to business uses on her property at East Main and East streets, will be withdrawn from su- perior court if the board of adjust- ment at its meeting tonight grants her & special exception, This announcement was made to- Ay by Attorney L. J. Golon, who 1s soclated with Day, Berry & Rey- nolds of Hartford in an appeal which alleges that the board acted arbitrarily and without considera- tion of the fact that the area is now actually a business listrict although not so zoned | The application of the Masonle Temple Corporation for 4 speclal ex- ot will come hefore tonight's meeting as will sev- eral othor postponed decisions and inew business. Institute. The atbletic coun- ! ‘Washington, Dec. (#—Pres] dent Coolidge revealed to Congress | an almost unprecedented prosperous ‘}rm\dfilon of the Treasury in his an- | nual budget message today, but he | again emphatically de any permanent at present. A surplus of sight for this June G following year. This y is $200,000,000 more | iginally estimated and cut in tax rates of la j exceed the margin of But not until there has bee other year's fest of the new re w, and a sounding of the extent of prosperity, the Prestdent ermined “what permanent policy of taxation 1 b 10 ared aga reduction is fn r, ending i3 for the r's surplus n was or- despite the March will t year by an- | Two Possible Means Mr. Coolidge discussed the bene- | fits of two possibls means of dis- | | ! posing of the surplus—application of | to retirement of the public debt, | | or its return to the taxpayers— left the choice entirely up to Con- gre He asked that if the latter course were pursued, it be accom- plished by giving the taxpayers credit on their first two payments of the coming year. “With our still enormous debt amounting to nearly $19,500,- 00,000 a surplus can be no em- {barrassment,” he said, “since it can be applied without difficulty to the | reduction of the intercst-bearing ob- | ligations of the Government and thus effect a saving in interest costs. Should Congress be of the opinion that the surplus estimated for the | current fiscal year ed upon re- ceipts expected to be received under | the existing law is too large, then | T suggest a temporary tax reduction measure which will cut down th expected surplus by leaving the ex- cess in the pockethooks of American taxpayers.” Must Give Law Test Stating that the surplus include $200,000,000 in money previously spent by the Government but just now returned and which could ni aional be counted on in the coming vear, | the President insisted that the (Continued on Page 16) W MILLIONS IN JEWELS . SMUGGLED INTO U. §. 1$25,000,000 From France Alone—Big Illegal Drug Entrance Too Washington, Dec. 8 (P —Jewel valued at more than §25,000,000 was smuggled into the United States from France alone last year, and the {l- legal entrance of narcotics has been large enough to cause the goyern- ment to consider steps for curbi |the illicit drug trade at its source. This situation was reveals with publication of testimony before the house appropriation committes, while it was considering the treasury post office bill. Ernest W. Camp, director of cus- toms, told the committee that smuggling had developed on a gigan- |tic scale, and while there was no ay to compute the fotal value of smuggled goods, id figure undoubtedly would be high in the millions L. G. Nuit, chief of division. informed the committee that he had recommended to the !treasury and state departments that { American agents be sent abroad to |alscover the source of opium and morphine which enters the United | States illegally, He expressed the opinion that the recent international |oplum convention at Geneva had made long strides in the solution of |internationatl drug traffie. Director Camp declared critictsm of customs officials often came from h o he s he be !innocent persons forced to submit to | . | Rear Admiral Frederick C. Dillard, examination for smuggled jewe but that the officials were doing their best to “separate the chaff from the wheat,"” Another | venue and | | cover agent narcotics | TAX GUT OF 335 MILLION DOLLARS Budget Totaling $4,014,571,124 Carries Increase of $16,543,728' ‘Bill Runs Counter to G. 0. P. Opinion and President’s Advice— Would Lower Corpor- ation Levy to 11 Per | Cent. Measure Also Provides for Repeal of Automobile, Amusement, Club Dues and Produce Taxes, Washington, Dec™8 (P—The tax- ation issue which promises to pro- luce an abundance of argument dur- ing the current session of congre s definitely drawn today with dis- closure of the details of the demo- fcratic plan for a permanent $385, 090,600 reduction. Approved by democratic leaders in both senate and house, the bill run: | counter to republican opinion and the specific pronouncement by Pres- |ident Coolidge in his annual message galnst permanent revision of the |tax law at present. Repeals As Suggested. | Although its general objsctive has | been known for sometime, details of {the bill have not been. dlsaloss { pending arrangements for “{t4 ftrs- duction in the house today. Its ma- jor provisions call for reduction of in tax| ile, amusement, club dues nd produce taxes. Such reduction nd repeal of revente rates are esti- mated es follows Reductions and Repeals. Reduction of the corporation tax, $280,000,000; repeal of the automo- bile tax, $75,000,000; repeal of ad- | missions and club dues, $25,000,000, | and repeal of the stamp tax on sales produce on exchanges, 5,009,001 | The bill was drafted by Represen- jtative Garner of Texas, financtal spokesman for the minority in the house, after consultation wfth Sena- tor Smmons of North Carolina, whe holds @ corresponding position among democrats in the semate. Titular leaders of the party in both houses also were consulted. Unanimous Approvai, - Garner in a statement sald the meagsure carried the unanimous sup- port of the democratic members of {the ways and means committes, | (Continued on Page 16) GONGRESS ASKED T0 - BACKUSE OF STooLs Enforcement Bx;ll :‘%nm Half Million for “Under Cover Agents” Washington, Dec. § P—New fuel | for the wet and dry fight was pre- scnted to congress today in the en- .mff'\l. section of the treasury appropriation bill, which incorporat- ed a vital request for congressional nction of the employment of *un der cover” prohibition agents. Containing the substance for re ewal of a bitterly contested phasc of the prohibition conflict, the ques- tion which congress must fagide is | Whether the fund from whieh ad- vances are made to secrét operatives will be increased from $250,000 to $500,000. Having survived heated attack in committeo hearings, as disclosed in transcripts of testimony made pub- lic today, the fssue was placed be- fore the house at the spectal re- | quest of General Andrews, enforce- | ment chief, and with the support of the appropriations sub-committee | which heard General Andrews' testi- mony was that of an ardent wet, Representative Gallivan, democrat, Massachusetts. “I am against the whole proposi- fiton of paying this money for this purpose,” Mr. Gallivan declared, aft- | er explaining that he was not con- | cerned with the argument that n- | creasing the fund would not corres- pondingly increase the general pro- hibition appropriation. Neither did he care, he added whether the under recelved his expense money before or after he performed his duty. | General Andrews explained that & secret agent could be kept secret |only by advancing him money to | pay his own way, thus keoping him off pay rolls. Even buying the opera- tive a railroad ticket, he said, left & |loop hole through which advance news of the agent's coming might | leak to the intended quarry. He made no other special requests of the committee which allotted him the $11,900.965 he asked for the prohibition unit of the treasury.-The enforcement establishment now is large enough, he said, adding that a smaller and less expensive force sould be sufficient within a few years, The enforcement machine as w whole, the general testiffed, now in- cludes 4,121 persons, plus coast | guard personnel sufficient to man 397 vessels and flve ssaplanes. Relating coast guard activities, the commandant, told the committee (Continued on Page:11) ST