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LABOR NEUTRALS
ARE HELD VITAL
Dominance of Boards by
A. F. L Seen as Power
ful Menace. I
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
The development of a national
policy governing labor and employer
relations has come to be the para
mount question of the hour.
The attacks on President Roose
velt and Donald Richberg because of
the renewal of the automobile code
have accentuated the issue, though it
has been lingering in unsettled fash
Ion ever since the national industrial
recovery act was adopted by Congress.
The essentials of a sound policy are I
not difficult to define. They are more
difficult to administer.
The administration's trouble is that
It has attempted tc solve the labor
problem on a political basis; that is,
the theory of group pressure. This
invariably leads to extreme demands
that ultimately cannot be satisfied and
hence today's situation, one in which
the criticism is coming from both
employers and employes at the same
time on different grounds, was inevit
able.
N. R. A. Complicates Plan.
One of the chief difficulties is that
the administration has not drawn a
distinction between administrative and
Judicial bodies.
The Department of Labor was or
ganized by Congress to serve as an
administrative unit, to act as a con
ciliation department and to bring la- j
bor and employers together. The in
terposition of the Ν R. A. as an emer
gency agency threw a monkey wrench
into the orderly process of handling
labor disputes, and the complications
were increased instead of diminished
when so-called labor boards were
created.
If labor boards are needed, and it
Is apparent that some impartial tribu
nals must be set up to pass on moot
points, the neutral boards are abso
lutely imperative. The theory that
three persons can be chosen and that
one should represent labor and an
other capital and a third should be
neutral is outworn because it has
never worked. It usually results in
putting the decision up to one man.
It would be far better to have three
neutrals acting as judges.
UIÎHU3» .1IUU3TU.
As matters stand today, the labor
Interests try to dictate the selection
of even the neutrals. This leads to
mistrust and distrust by employers
and the result is friction and litiga
tion.
What is not realized here among
administration officials dealing with
the labor problem is that no consti
tutional precedent established by the
Supreme Court in a decision exists
■which warrants the Federal Govern
ment in assuming power to regulate
employer and employe relations. This
being the case, the voluntary co-oper
ation of employers and employes In
accepting Federal jurisdiction is a sort
of arbitration in which both sides
agree to acccept findings.
Do Americans want to submit dis
putes to a fair-minded tribunal rather
than to engage in strikes? The an
swer is that huge economic losses are
being borne by the country as a
■whole today and yet the strikes are
not deplored by any substantial body
of opinion. This is because the right
to strike and the decision to strike
are confused. Also It is because any
body who attempts to suggest that
maybe a labor leader is mistaken is
promptly attacked as unsocial. Don
ald Richberg, formerly counsel for
labor interests. Is now being bom
barded because he recognizes his re
sponsibility as a Government official
to be fair and disinterested.
A. F. L. Oomparatvely Small.
The American Federation of Labor
is today the largest single labor or
ganization In the country. It repre
sents a small number out of the total
who are employed and Is naturally
seeking new members all the time.
But the question of whether a small
group of leaders shall increase their
hold on a larger number of working
men Is not so important as whether
workingmen shall have the right to
organize in unions of their own mak
ing and choosing so they can guard
themselves against exploitation by em
ployers.
It is not the business of the Gov
ernment to favor the A. F. of L. or
any other form of organization. The
policy of the A. F. of L. has been to
advocate a shortening of the work
week. A 30-hour bill is now pending.
The A. F. of L. leaders think this is
to their advantage. Maybe it is. But
the figures show it means total yearly
earnings in less amount for those em
ployed today, while increasing but
slightly the total purchasing power of '
the country.
Profit Is Foundation.
For it Is a matter of arithmetic \
llicf Vtrtnr mnnVl fVio amnlnu» Ann « U I
eorb in the way of cost and how much j
profit he can be deprived of without!
running into direct collision with the ;
other wage earner, the investor who ;
has put his savings in the stocks and I
bonds of American business. The life i
insurance policies of the country, the,
savings bank deposits and the secur- j
ities of all important institutions are |
dependent upon a system in which >
capital gets a fair return.
If the Government were to inter
vene and set a fair return for both
capital and labor, the labor leaders
wouldn't like it. They object to Gov
ernment fixing of wages. That's what
has happened, however, under Fascism
and that's what mistaken labor pol
icies may bring to America unless vol
untary co-operation and an enlight
ened leadership for labor is Introduced.
Employers have been put under dis
cipline by the collective bargaining
law. They cannot interfere with the
freedom of choice by workmen. The
labor organizations, however, are
under no such discipline. They can
coerce and intimidate workmen and
force them to Join unions under pen
alty of physical violence or discrim
inattons of various kinds.
The Federal Government, as the
mediator, must be in a position to deal
fairly with both sides. By setting up
a machinery for settlement of disputes
by boards composed entirely of neu
trals and by writing laws that are
plainly In the interest of all the people
and not a special class, a solution will
be found for the present labor crisis
■which threatens to retard recovery and
add to unemployment.
iCocyrlrht. 1935.)
SWIFT WILL FILED
CHICAGO, February 5 G4»>.—The
late Mrs. Hortense Newcomer Swift,
widow of Edward P. Swift, the packer,
left an estate estimated at $400,000 to
be divided among her three children
and five grandchildren, her wlU, filed
for probate yesterday, revealed.
The will provided that $25,000 be
placed in trust for each of the grand
children, the remainder of the estate
to be divided equally among her
daughter and two sons, Mrs. Annie
May Swift Henry, T. Philip Swift and
Edward >. Swift, Jr.
What's What
Behind News
In Capital'
Beating on World Court
Will Not Dampen
New Deal Spirit.
BY PAUL MALLON.
A LOT of people are making the
mistake of believing that the
New Deal is going to draw ι
itself up In itf nationalist shell
because of the beating it got
on the World Court. *It cannot be
done.
The New Dealers may permit
that erroneous deduction to stand
publicly for the time being, but
they really are hotter on the sub
ject of international trade today
than they ever have been.
One Impelling thought is back In
their minds. Our cotton exports are
running 40 per cent below the 10-year
average. Other exports have suffered
as much since last Fall, but cotton has
sounded the political alarm. Clearly
our foreign markets are shriveling up
on us. Something must be done, and
something will be done.
Reason for Field Day.
That is why there was a field day
of small talk from New Dealers dur
ing the past week about foreign trade.
Statements came from Roper, Hull,
Sayre. Peek and others.
It is true, but misleading, that the
White House was cold to State Sec
retary Hull's suggestion for a revival
of the World Economic Conference It
was cold because Mr. Roosevelt has
not made up his mind. For the seme
reason no presidential comment was
forthcoming on the suggestion of
Commerce Secretary Roper for a
World Council to regulate production.
These Hull and Roper proposals are
authentic administration trial bal
loons. The White House is carefully
watching the results. Shortly you
will see a strong new administration
program, not based on the theory of
isolation.
The Potomac River has risen a
foot in the last fortnight from
the tears shed on Mr. Roosevelt's
shoulder by Congressmen who feel
deeply grieved about the patronage
situation.
Not much about it gets into the
papers. The Congressmen always
come out of such White House con
ferences and say they talked about
shoes, ships, etc. It is evident, how
ever, that free-flowing congressional
grief has precipitated a critical party
situation. Mr. Roosevelt has been
touched.
Bureaus to Be Loosened l'p.
No announcement will be made, but
he will loosen up several tight bureaus
shortly.
One may be the Farm Credit Ad
ministration. That is a juicy plum
orchard with 1.888 appraisers. Mr.
Morgenthau has kept it away from
the congressional plum connoisseurs
through his friend. Prof. Meyer.
Civil service exams now are being
held for the appraisers, limited to
those now holding office, most of
whom are Republican holdovers. It
will be hard to change such plans,
but Gen. Farley can do it, if he gets
word from the White House.
Another irksome thing is that
the Home Owners Loan Corp.
hires men here and sends them
into the field, instead of hiring
good Democratic voters out in the
home precincts. That situation will
certainly be corrected. A third bu
reau on which Farley has his eye
is the United States Re-Em
ployment Service. It is full of pals
of a man who runs it.
This would be enough to appease
the Congressmen for a few weeks.
They would like to get their fingers
into the Treasury and Interior De
partments. but there is no chance
with Messrs. Ickes and Morgenthau
holding out against them.
The other bureaus have played ball
with Farley and the Congressmen
fairly well, especially the R. F. C„
F. H. A. and, incredible as it may
seem, the A. A. A. (except for the
3,000 county agents).
Labor's split with the White House
on the auto code was merely another
Incident In the long inside estrange
ment between the White House and
the A. F. of L. There has never been
any hearty measure of friendship evi
dent between them from the stajt—
only restrained co-operation. Recently
both sides have been more polite to
ward each other, but the White House
failed to invite William Green to con
fer before the auto code was renewed.
Hie excuse was that Green's views
were known, which was true, but not
convincing.
What is at the bottom of the
situation is that the President is
embarked on a middle-of-the-road
course where labor cannot always
follow him. Neither can it fight
against him openly, because he has
done much for labor generally,
although not necessarily jor the
A. F. of L.
Absurdity in Government.
The height of absurdity In Govern
ment is approached as often by the
Income Tax Bureau as any other.
Witness the latest story of what hap
pened to Thomas Edison, Henry Ford
and Harvey Firestone. The story con
cerning them was disclosed by a com
petent authority recently as follows:
Edison, Ford and Firestone put up
$25,000 each a few years ago to dis
cover a rubber substitute, at least par
tially through patriotic motives, be
cause the United States was fully at
the mercy of the foreign rubber mon
opoly. Hiey sought to write the money
off on their income tax return as a
gift because at that time no one knew
whether the experiment would ever
produce anything. The Government
refused, saying they could write It off
only after the experiment was aban
doned.
But the experiment succeeded to an
unexpected extent, and, as Edison is
dead. Ford and Firestone wanted to
make a present of Edison's discovery
to the Agricultural Department.
The tax collectors not only refuse
to let them write it off now (on the
I ground the experiment is an inven
tion), but are also trying te impose a
gift tax on them li they give it to the
Government.
(OoPTrisbt. 1935JI
Kidnaped
Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
Β·Ρ*ΜΙΐη··Η··
JUNE HAAS,
FATHERB0JEVED
GIRL'S ABDUCIOR
Intensive Hunt Launched in
Kidnaping of St. Paul
Child.
By the Associated Press.
ST. PAUL. February 5.—Pour law
enforcement agencies launched an in
tensive hunt last night for June Haas,
nine, who was abducted by a man
and woman as she walked to school.
They also exerted every effort to
locate the child's ex-conxlct father.
Charles Peter Whitson, on learning
he had threatened to take her from
Mrs. Mary Haas, foster mother, who
has had custody of the youngster for
the last six years.
Miss Bertha Wendling. an aunt
living at La Crosse. Wis., reported
June had been under guard for some
time because of Whitson's threats.
St. Paul police. Department of
Justice agents, deputy sheriffs and
representatives of the county attor
ney's office were handicapped because
the father's whereabouts have been
unknown for some time.
June was with Mary Anne Mixer
on her way to school when a small
j two-door sedan drew up beside them.
Inside, witnesses said, were a man
and a woman. The man snatched the
Haas girl and the car sped northward.
The Mixer girl, who is about the same
age as June, said she thought the
man in the car fitted a description oi
June's father.
Ramsey County court records show
Mrs. Haas was divorced from Whitson
in 1930, while he was serving a sen
tence for grand larceny in La Crosse,
Wis. June is Whitson's daughter by
a previous marriage.
CONVICTED IN HIT-RUN
CASE, MAYOR RESIGNS
San Diego Executive Quits as
Besult of Injuries to Sailor
and Wife.
Br th· Associated Press.
SAN DIEGO, Calif., February 5.—
The City Council voted unanimously
yesterdav to accept the resignation of
Mayor Rutherford B. Irones, recently
convicted of hit-run driving. The
charge resulted from an accident in
which George D. Pickett, sailor, and
his wife were injured.
Irones applied for probation and a
hearing has been set for next Sat
urday.
OIL CONFERENCE CALLED
Oklahoma Governor Makes An·
other Effort to Obtain Pact.
OKLAHOMA CITY, February 5
UP).—Gov. E. W. Marland oi Okla
homa has called an oil States con
ference to meet in Dallas February 15
to consider an oil States compact.
He acted at the request of Gov.
James V. Allred of Texae. The con
ference will be the third summoned
by Marland In an effort to obtain
agreement to control production and
settle other controversial matters in
tbe industry.
SLAYING CLUE FOUND
Banch Youth Identifies Pistol in
Death of Indianan.
PHOENIX. Arii., February 5 (Λ>).—
Authorities said yesterday they had
received from Dave Trimble, « ranch
youth near Laveen, the first clue to
the source of the automatic pistol
which killed Eugene Morris, Farm
land, Ind., youth last month.
Trimble identified the weapon as
one stolen from him in December
while he was living near Mesa. Mor
ris' body was found January 24. 12
miles northeast of Scottsdale. The
pistol was buried nearby.
Congress in Brief
By the Auocittcd Press.
TODAY.
Senate.
In recess until Wednesday.
Farm exports hearing proceeds be
fore Agricultural Committee.
Munitions Committee ponders per
jury probe.
Judiciary Subcommittee scans 30
hour week proposal.
Hodsc.
Debates State, Justice, Labor, Com
merce appropriations.
Military Committee studies plan to
increase army strength.
Social security legislation before
Ways and Means Committee and
Labor Subcommittee» ■>
SHEPARD DENIES
TYPisrs story
Missf ferandon's Account, of
Lovemaking and Letters
Declared False.
Br the Associated Près».
TOPEKA, Kane., February 5.—De
nials of his former sweetheart'e testi
mony were deployed In MaJ. Charles
A. Shepard's version of the romance
♦oday as the «retired Army medical
officer resumed his battle against the
Government's charges that he fatally
poisoned his second wife.
Before the second Federal Court
Jury to hear the case the slender 63
year-old defendant sobbed while re
lating Incidents connected with the
mysterious death of his second wife,
but he was outwardly calm when he
told of his shattered romance with the
tall, attractive Grace Brandon, Brooks
Field, Tex., typist.
The Government contends it was
for the love of the 28-year-old Army
post stenographer that he allegedly
poisoned Mrs. Zenana Shepard at Port
Riley, Kan*., in Junç, 1929.
Denies Prior Proposal.
He denied he had proposed to Miss
Brandon before his wife's death; he
branded as false the testimony of the
Texas girl that he wrote her con
stantly about divorcing his wife; that
he made his life Insurance over to her
while Mrs. Shepard was living and that
he suggested they elope only two weeks
after his wife died.
Explaining his plea that Miss Bran
don destroy letters he had written to
her after his arrest at Denver, the
witness said his former attorney. Harry
Class, had Instructed him to do so.
Recalling the Instructions regard
ing the destruction of the letters dur
ing her testimony as the Government's
chief witness, Miss Brandon had de
manded:
"Why should he do that if he were
not guilty?"
Poison Highball Denied.
He denied that he wrote to Miss
Brandon saying he had given his wife
a highball the night she became ill.
It was In that manner, the Govern
ment contends, he allegedly adminis
tered poison to Mrs. Shepard.
Of the prosecution's claim that he
opposed an autopsy, Maj. Shepard
said he did not bring up the subject,
but voiced his wife's objection to a
post-mortem after Maj. Paul Hawley
had declared physicians would never
"find out what is the matter as long
as she Is alive."
At the first trial, which resulted in
a conviction, defense attorneys at
tempted to show that Mrs. Shepard
either killed herself or was the victim
of a poisonous mouth wash.
»
AMBASSADOR TELLS
PROPAGANDA FEARS
Italian Envoy Describes Honor
able Sense of Term Used
in Homeland.
Br the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February 5.—The
Italian Ambassador to the United
States. Dr. Augusto Rosso, delivered a
irank discussion last night of the pub
lic-speaking problems of diplomats
and their fear of the word "propa
ganda."
Addressing the Institute of Arts and
Sciences of Columbia University, his
excellency digressed from a discussion
of Italian-American relations to re
mark:
"I do not know if you ever had
heard of the remark made by one of
my diplomatic colleagues who said
that for a diplomat to speak in public
is a little like navigating between
Scylla and Charybdis.
"Like the hero of Homer's Odyssey,
the diplomat who makes an orator of
himself must always steer his ship
between two equally perilous reefs:
That of being commonplace on the
one side and that of indiscretion on
the other. The first is dangerous be
cause it discredits one in the eyes of
his listeners. On the other hand,
indiscretion, although more inter
esting. is even more dangerous for
the orator, because with It he runs the
risk of 'getting the sack', from his
foreign office.
"There Is another reef, and a very
treacherous one: That which makes
you suspected of making propa
ganda. · · ·
"In Italy, the word 'propaganda'
has a perfectly decent and honest
sense: In the sense of explaining and
clarifying the significance of certain
ideas, that does not aim to deceive,
but simply to explain and to persuade."
DIONNES REACH U. S.
Parente of Quintuplet· Cross Linn
En Houte to Chicago.
WINDSOR. Ontario. February 5
(&).—Mr. and Mrs. Olivia Dlonne.
parents of the famous quintuplets,
crossed the international boundary
here today on their trip to Chicago.
Max Halperin, Chicago vaudeville
booking agent, is sponsoring their trip.
Mr. and Mrs. Dlonne were accom
panied by Mrs. Joseph Rochon of
North Bay. a cousin of the father;
a brother of Mrs. Dlonne and Leo
Kervln, the couple's adviser.
Bandit Brothers Escape Police Trap
Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
The bullet-punctured car which the Southwest'* No. 1 desperado. Raymond Hamilton (below, left Inset» and
his brother Floyd «right, inset) drove into a police trap In Dalla*. Tex., last night. Both the brothers jumped
from the car and dodged throueh a fusillade of police bullet*. Raymond fleeing 111 another car, while his brother
escaped afoot. Raymond Hamilton Is a former crime accomplice of the slain Clyde Barrow.
HAMILTON FLEES
!N HAIL OF LEAD
Southwest Bad Man and
Brother Believed Wounded.
Wife Held.
By the Associated Pries.
DALLAS. Tex.. February S—Ray
I mond Hamilton's reputation for es
I caplng from "tight spots" still held
! today after the No. 1 bad man of the
Southwest had slipped through a
1 withering volley of lead laid down by
police.
Officers believe the young outlaw
and his brother. Floyd, who fled on
1 foot, had been wounded. More than
200 shots were fired at the fleeing
ί pair. Hamilton is a fugitive from
the death house.
The two drove up to an apartment
house where earlier In the day police
had arrested Floyd's wife and another
woman. Floyd walked to a window of
the apartment where six detectives
were hidden.
He tapped on the pane. The hidden
officers called on him to surrender
He backed away and reached for a
pistol. Bullets riddled the car in
which Raymond sat. and the youthful
desperado tumbled from the machine
and joined his brother in flight down
an alley.
Raymond rushed Into a garage,
where he Jumped into a truck and
j sped away. Floyd, afoot, was lost in
j the darkness.
.
GERTRUDE LAWRENCE
! FINANCES TROUBLED
j Meeting Held by Creditors of
Actress Reported Engaged
to Young Fairbanks.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON. February 5.—The Express
j says Gertrude Lawrence, young
! British actress who has often been
! rumored engaged to Douglas Fair
i banks, jr„ is having financial diffi
i cutties.
Her creditors held a private meeting
j today, the paper says, at which a
ι representative of her solicitors said
her liabilities are approximately £11.
1000 (about $55.000). plus claims of
£14.500 for Income taxes and super
taxes.
Her assets—Jewelry, mink coat, fur
niture—total £1.350. plus "a certain
amount of pawned Jewelry" which has
not been redeemed, the Express says.
No action was taken at the meeting.
LEEDS YACHT LIBELED
Former Officers' Messman Seeks
$10,500 in Miami Suit.
MIAMI. Fla., February 5 (IP).—The
trim 175-foot yacht Moana, owned by
William B. Leeds of Oyster Bay, Long
Island, wealthy maker of tinplate. was
libeled yesterday by Herman Decker,
former officers' messman.
Decker asked the Federal District
Court to award him judgment of $500
for wages and maintenance from June
25 to December 10, 1934; $5.000 for
injuries he asserted he received while
carrying a steel medicine chest down
a hatch and $5,000 for a severe cold
and pleurisy he claimed to have con
tracted aboard.
Congress9 Emboldened by Court
Decisions9 Questions Measures
\
Signs of Emergence From Passive
Role Seen in Challenge to Blind
Acceptance of Roosevelt's Policies.
By the Associated Press.
Congress, after nearly two years of
playing second fiddle, was stretching
a somewhat hesitant hand toward first
violin today.
A growing tendency, noted by many
observers, to debate, change and, In
one notable case, even to reject the
plans and desires of the Executive is
fast becoming an outstanding phe
nomenon of this second New Deal
Congress. The first one. with acute
emergencies, passed administration
bills swiftly and without many ques
tions.
Two Supreme Court decisions re
asserting traditional powers of Con
gress have served to call attention ]
again to the powerful role assigned to !
the legislative branch under the Con
stitution.
Upholds Senate Power.
The latest was the MacCracken de
cision yesterday, putting beyond doubt
the Senate's right, to jail a man for
contempt. Senators, notably Wagner,
Democrat, of New York, looked upon
this as a "healthy thing." strengthen
ing the Senate's hand in Investiga
tions.
A decision with much bearing on
the relations between the Legislature
and the Executive was the one wiping
the oil clause from N. R. A. as too
broad a delegation of authority to the
President.
To the Senate has fallen the lead
ing part in the renaissance of con
gressional criticism—if such it should
turn out to be. It was that branch
which, against the desires of the
President, rejected American adher
ence to the World Court.
It is In the Senate, too, that the
Roœevelt $4.880.000.000 work and re
lief bill is facing delays despite the (
pleas of administration officials that '
fast action Is necessary to replenish !
relief coffers. Senator Glass. Demo- i
crat. of Virginia, who. with some other 1
Senators, dislikes some of the pro- 1
visions conferring wide powers on the
administrative branch of the Govern
ment, only yesterday «aid there was
"no doubt" there wuold be "modifica-1
tions" In committee.
Houae "Revolt" Mild.
The House had passed the bill j
swiftly, though only after "revolting" |
members had obtained some relaxa
tion of what they called "gag rule." i
as well as some other modifications.
Many students of Government have
remarked that in times of acute stress
a nation tends instinctively to put
its trust in one-man leadership, while
Legislatures and their deliberations
fade into temporary twilight.
Some were wondering today whether
the new note being sounded in Con- !
gress is not a sign that, in the minds
of some Senators and Representatives,
at least, the Nation is emerging fur
ther from the emergency period.
However, the question whether the
critics can, in any measurable degree,
induce Congress to change or reject
major parts of the administration's
domestic program remains to be set
tled. The World Court, administra
tion men pointed out. was an old issue
inherited from previous regimes and
cutting across party lines.
Though they foresee much debate.
Democratic leaders are expressing
confidence that on the domestic re
covery issues. Congress and the Presi
dent will work together.
BOWL PROVES CLUE
IN CHICAGO SLAYING
Di»h From Which Bartender Ate
Studied in Effort to Solve
Mystery.
Br th# Assoclattd Press.
CHICAGO, February 5—A small
brown bowl was the clue Investi- ;
gators hoped today would solve the
slaying of Louis K. Straub at the i
fashionable North Side Saddle and
Cycle Club.
The discovery in the Straub apart
ment of the bowl, from which Straub
had midnight lunches at the club,
was the only development authorities
brought to light in their search for
the person who shot the night bar
tender In the club basement early
Sunday morning.
Police believe the solution of the
slaying may hinge upon the removal
of the bowl from the club to Straub's
apartment, two blocks away.
Straub's wife, a former showgirl,
who has been questioned almost con
tinually since she reported finding
her husbands body, underwent lie
detector tests yesterday at North
western University, but the findings,
authorities said, would prove of little
value. j
SHOOTING VICTIM
IS HELD BY POLICE
Link With Abortive Attempt to
Bore Through Bank Boof
Ii Sought.
By the Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS, February 5 —
Ernest Tate, 24, suffering shotgun
wounds in the right arm and left leg.
was held under *5,000 bond in City
Hospital today while police investi
gated whether he may have been
wounded in an abortive attempt to
bore through the roof of a bank at
Speedway City the night of January
25. Three men fled In a burst of fire
from police who were waiting inside
the bank.
Tate was arrested January 29 here
at the home of his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. William Tate. He claimed he
was shot by hijackers in St. Louis.
In the home. Lieut. Leo Troutman, in
charge of the raiding squad, said the
officers found (60 in 50-cent pieces
and |295 in bills. In an automobile
in a garage were burglar tools, an
electric drill and road maps of South
ern States. The only weapon found
was a rusted .22-callber rifle.
Tate's parents, his wife, Mrs. Darts
Tate, and Misa Beulah Reeves, living
at the same address, were questioned
by detectives.
Indianapolis police were notified
last night that Tate has been identi
fied from photographs as a partici
pant in the robbery of the Springfield
Atlantic National Bank, at Jackson
ville. Fla.
WOMAN, 68, ARRESTED
IN "BABY FARM" RAID
Faces Charges of Illegal Opera
tion Performance—Kan Sought
by Pennsylvania Police.
Br the Associated Press.
ERIE, Pa, February 5—A raid on
what police called a "baby farm" near
Erie placed 68-year-old Mrs. Minnie
Falkensteln in jail today to face
charges of performing an illegal op
eration.
After her arrest on the farm yes
terday, District Attorney Mortimer E.
Graham said the woman had been
convicted 35 years ago on a similar
charte. She used the name Minnie
Salot at that time, he said.
State Trooper Walter Gibbons, who
assisted in the arrest, said he is seek*
lng a man be said paid for the alleged
operation. A young Erie girl. Gib
bons said, is In a hospital recovering
from the operation and has agreed
to testify.
With Mr*. Falkensteln'* arrest. Gra
ham said he had been Investigating
for three months, and that "another
plaça" alio la under surveillance.
Designers Test New Rear-Motor Auto
Allyn F. Streuer and Allen M. Hoppe,
builders, are thown on recent test run
Of their new rear-engine automobile
at Hollywood, Calif. The machine is 7
1eet wide and IS feet long of tear-drop
design, with luggage space of ordinary
car taken up by motor. Designers say
it wont' capsize.
—A. P. Photo.
Proposes to Continue
Through Presidential
Campaign of '36.
By th· Associated Press.
Postmaster General Farley proposes
to continue a* chairman of the Demo
cratic National Committee through
the presidential campaign of 1938.
This was made known definitely
yesterday and ended a period of un
certainty going back a year, when
President Roosevelt first moved to di
vorce Federal officers from political
posts.
Concurrently with the clearance nf
Farley's Intentions, Senator Norns,
Republican, of Nebraska, a Roosevelt
supporter who has criticized Farley
for holding the cabinet and party of
fices, Introduced a bill to place the
entire postal service under the strict
est civil service regulations.
Parley was reresented for weeks as
anxious to quit his party office. It
was said definitely at the White House
in March that Mr. Rooeevelt would
relieve him as committee chairman as
quickly as a successor could be found.
Then came word that he would con
tinue for a few months. Later the
understanding was that he would go
on until the last party primary had
been held in September. It was
stretched later to cover the whole
campaign of 1934 and now is to in
clude President Roosevelt's campaign
for re-election next year.
PRESIDENT TO BUY
FIRST "BABY BONO"
Measure Signed by Roosevelt and
Flans Made to Launch
Drive for Sale».
By the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt yesterday signed
the "baby bond" bill and arranged
to be the flrst purchaser March X of
the new type ol securities.
The Treasury went ahead with
plans to secure wide public partici
pation in the new issues. The lowest
denomination is $25.
The bonds will be advertised at all
post offices and other governmental
agencies, which will have them as
merchandise.
Secretary Morgenthau will handle
the initial sale to Mr. Roosevelt and
the transfer will be conducted with
ceremonies.
— g
WOMAN AVIATORS FIND
HOME MORE HAZARDOUS
Folding Bed Injures One and th·
Other Is Hurt While Pick
ing Flowers.
By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES. February 5—It
isn"t the air that's hazardous two
woman aviators found yesterday.
Mrs. U. G. McQueen, president of
the International Aeronautical Asso
ciation, who made a fl'iht from Mex
ico, D. F.. to Juneau, Alaska, w.thout
mishap, is nursing a broken ankle.
She broke it while picking flowers in
her Beverly Hills home garden.
Adoree Neville, stunt flver and para
chute jumper, had a broken nose and
lacerated head. A folding bed in a
Hollywood hotel collapsed.
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Your Income Tax
Exemptions Allowed Couples Married
During Taxable Year.
Taxpayers should note that under
the revenue act of 1934 the credit
for dependents, as well as the per
sonal exemption, is required to be
prorated where a change of status
occurs during the taxable year and
that these credits are allowable not
only for the purpose of computing
the normal tax, but also the surtax.
A fractional part of a month is to be
disregarded unless it amounts to more
than half a month, in which case it
is considered a month.
For example, a single man and a
single woman who were married on
July 20, 1934, and were living together
on the last day of the taxable year,
may file a joint return. If they file
their return or returns on the basis
of the calendar year, they would be
entitled to a personal exemption of
$2,208.34, which is seven-twelfths of
$1,000 for the husband while single,
plus seven-twelfths of $1,000 for the
wife while single, plus five-twelfths of
$2,500 for the period during which
they were married. If separate re
turns are filed each is entitled to a
personal exemption of $1,104.17, which
is seven-twelfths of $1.000, plus one
half of five-twelfths of $2.500. If dur
ing the year 1934 the husband or the
wife had the status of the head of a
family prior to their marriage he or
she would be entitled to to his or her
pro rata share of the personal exemp
tion of $2.500 allowed the head of a
family for a period prior to their mar
riage Instead of merely that allowed
a single person. However, for the
period of their marriage any exemp
tion to which either might be en
titled as the head of a family would
be merged in the joint personal ex
emption for that period. The joint
personal exemption allowable in the
case of a couple who were married
and living together during the entire
year may not exceed $2,500.
If a child under 18 years of age
and dependent on the parent for
support reaches the age of 18 years
during the taxable year, the credit of
$400 for a dependent is required to
be prorated in the same manner as
the personal exemption. For exam
ple, should the child's 18th birthday
fall on June 30, the parent would be
entitled to claim $200 credit for the
dependent child—that Is, one-half of
$400. The same rule applies to other
dependents where a change of status
occurs during the taxable year.
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BAND CONCERT.
By the United States Navy Band
Symphony Orchestra this evening at
8 o'clock in the Navy Yard 6ill Loft.
Lieut. Charles Benter. leader. Alex
ander Morris, assistant leader.
Overture, "Sakuntala" Goldmark
Tone poem. "Korsholm" Jarnefelt
Solo for viola,
"Concerto in Si Minor"....Handel
Allegro Moderato.
Andante-ma non troppo.
Allegro Molto.
Ralph Mack.
"Second Symphony" (Antar),
Rlmsky -Korea kow
Largo.
Allegro.
Allegro-risoluto alia marcia.
Allegretto vivace.
"Waldweben" Wagner
From the music drama. "Siegfried."
"The Nation»! Anthem."