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Ν. R.A. PROBE SEN!
TO FINANCE GROUP
Senate Action Is Taken
Without Record Vote.
King Asks Probe.
By the Associated Press.
The Senate today sent the Nye-Mc
Carran resolution for an Investigation
of N. R. A. to the Fnance Committee,
despite the objection of its authors,
■who wanted the inquiry to be made
by another committee.
The action was taken without a
record vote on motion of Chairman
Harrison of the Finance Committee,
who insisted that his committee should
handle the inquiry as it would con
sider the shortly-expected administra
tion bill to extend N. R. A. for two
years.
A few minutes earlier, Senator
Kin?. Democrat, of Utah had re
ported from the Senate Judiciary
Committee an independent resolution
proposing an inquiry into whether the
national recovery act had "contrib
uted to monopolies " It has the sup
port of Senator Borah, Republican,
of Idaho.
King had the resolution referred
to the Senate Audit Committee to
approve an appropriation covering the
inquiry.
Senators Nye. Republican, of North
Dakota and McCarran. Democrat, of
Nevada, authors of the resolution re
ferred to the Finance Committee,
asked that the inquiry should be
made by the Commerce Committee
headed by Senator Copeland, Demo
crat. of New York, who has not al
ways supported New Deal policies.
Harrison objected. He said his
committee would inquire into the
operation of N. R. A.
M'DONALD HAUNTED
BY PEPPER GAMBLE
Nationalist Government Averts
Confidence Vote on Dole to
Face New Problem.
B» th« Associated Press.
LONDON, February 15.—Premier
Kamsay MacDonald's nationalist gov
ernment. safely past the Laborlte
threat of a vote of nonconfidence,
faced a new problem today in the dis
astrous pepper market speculations.
The house rejected the motion ol
censure for the government's handling
of the dole problem by a thumping
majority—374 to 68.
The pepper gamble, however, was
brought up in the debate and seized
upon by those who have been clamor
ing for an investigation of the identity
of the prime movers in the ill-fated
epeculation.
Maj. Harry Louis Nathan. Liberal
member from Bethnal Green, callet!
.the Commons' attention to "ugly ru
mors" and "grave suspicions."
"Do not let the government lead
the House to believe," he said, "that
it was fear of a general election which
affected the city stock exchange. "II
was rumors and suspicions of what
was taking place, what it has led Uf
to and who is involved in these spec
ulations."
KANSAS TOWN STIRRED
BY "MURDER" OF DOG
Prospective Jurors Biased in Fa
vor of Animal in Case of Ac
cused Relief Worker.
By the Associated Press.
COLUMBUS. Kans., February 15 —
This city's dog "murder'' case may gc
to District Court.
Otis Stevens, a relief worker. Is
charged with the "murder" of Duke,
en 8-year-old Gordon setter and the
city's "dog about town." Tecni.ically
the charge is destruction of a domes
tic animal.
Because prospective jurors said they
vere biased in fartr of the dog, a six
member jury could not be obtained
•when the case was called yeslerday m
Justice Court.
Learning of this. County Attorney
C. E. Shouse said he woulJ file the
case in District Court so that an un
prejudiced jury panel could be ob
tained.
Shouse said Stevens had admitted
killin" the dog because it annoyed
his children. He is at liberty under
a $100 bond.
·
MOSCOW SUBWAY READY
Luxurious Passages With Marbl*
Walls to Open.
MOSCOW, February 15 (IP).—Mos
eow's luxurious subways, the walls of
which are faced with marble and
black mirror glass, will be opened to
the public at the end of this month, it
«as announced today.
All stations are equipped with sur
face vestibules, each with a distinctive
architectural design.
Congress in Brief
Bv the Associated Press.
TODAY.
Senate.
Debates $4,880.000,000 work relie:
bill.
Judiciary Subcommittee studies 30
hour week.
Finance Committee considers socia
Security.
Munitions Committee examines A
P. Homer, marine architect.
House.
Considers private bills.
Ways and Means Committee anc
Labor Subcommittee work on socia
■ecurity.
Rules Committee considers resolu
tion to Investigate Home Owners
Loan Corp.
Appropriations Committee studie:
Agriculture and interior supply bills
YESTERDAY.
Senate.
Received resolution for investiga
tion of N. R. A.
Completed congressional action 01
bill extending airmail contracts.
Debated relief bill.
Munitions Committee heard stor;
©f Morro Castle building.
Boute.
Passed bill authorizing $350.001
Federal participation in Callfornii
Pacific International Exposition a
6an Diego.
Brig. Oen. William Mitchell, re
tired, defended airships before Patent
Committee.
Navy asked Naval Committee to in
crease officer strength from 4.499 t<
6.531.
Ways and Means Committee tenta
tively changed social security bill t<
give States greater control over owi
old-age pensions.
What's What
Behind News
Macon Ghost to Fade.
Higher Taxes Hinted
by Murmurs.
BY PAUL MALLON.
THE official "bad luck" song was
sung again when the Macon
crashed. It is the same tune
heard when the United States,
Britlan and Prance lost each
of the three airships each has had
and Italy lost her one. Apparently
no one has any good luck with dirig
ibles except Germany and her Herr
Eckener.
This official tune was merely a
polite cover up for an almost unani
mous conviction inside the Govern
ment that dirigibles are too expensive
as war playthings.
Sea admirals have alwayt
sneered at them as fair-weather
ships. Authorities will tell you
offl-the-record today that no more
will be built. But, after all the
current clamor dies down, you will
see money appropriated for an
other dirigible half the size of the
Macon and the Akron. The Navy
General Board has recommended it.
There is a small but strong lighter
than-air clique in the Navy which now
I has nothing to do. Salesmen for ships
j have been able to exert strong pres
j sure in Washington at times in the
I past. They cannot do anything at
this session of Congress because of
the state of general opinion, but they
will certainly try at the next one. ,
In
The real excuse offered inside the
Navy for both the Macon and Akron
disasters is that the ships were too
long (700 feet).
Light structures cannot stand such
length, they say. in terrific cross-wind
pressures which can break them as
you would a match.
This excuse has made no great im
pression in view of the fact that
earlier shorter ships have broken also.
There has long been an unspoken
tradition in the Navy that the Ger
mans are the only ones who can build
and fly dirigibles. You may have
noticed that the Germans are design
ing their latest one strictly for com
mercial use. This is probably the
future of lighter-than-air craft.
They will be the freight trains of the
air.
Dits Bon tu Grave.
President Roosevelt is plodding
along in his own unostentatious way
with the digging of tax grave for the
bonus.
That was what inspired the latest
shovelful of words thrown out by the
White House on the Government sal
aries legislation. In approving that
legislation, Mr. Roosevelt said ways
would have to be found to pay the
$16,000,000 extra budgetary expense
involved in It "and any other new
appropriations." Every one knew he
meant the bonus.
The fact is, several extra budget
ary appropriations are in the Con·
gressional fire, including tlOO.OOO,
000 for social security and S60.000,
000 for seed loans. These three
will throw the regular budget into
the red by S Π β,000,000.
This would not cause much fretting
in a year when nearly $5,000.000.000
will be spent outside the budget, ex
cept that the bonus is coming along.
I The President Is going to insist that
! It carry taxes to pay it.
Tax Talk Gets Hotter.
The tax talk has been rather warm
on the inside lately. It started sev
eral weeks ago. Authoritative New
I Dealers began to wag their heads
confidentially in the presence of out
! siders, and murmur that they were
j going to have to increase taxes this
I year. Not a word has been said offi
! cially, but inspired stories have been
J broadcast that a general bill increas
ing taxes will be introduced in March.
Some skeptics have suspected this
i was part of the bonus strategy and
have remained unconvinced. They
may be wrong.
It is certain that a small resolu
j tion will be passed renewing some
of the taxes which expire this year,
j The general «sumption has been that
i it would not include any increases,
j This is still the general, but decidedly
I uncertain, assumption.
Liberal Senators are prying into the
A. A. A. shake-up to see for them
selves what happened. There has
been some cloak room talk about a
senatorial investigation, especially to
ascertain if any distributors were
overjoyed at the change.
Colorado's Senator Costigan is sup
posed to have written a letter to the
White House expressing his per
turbation.
What probably will happen is
that the New Deal will make some
pay restitution to those who were
fired, or else find jobs lor them
elsewhere in the Government.
There will be no Senate investiga
tion unies the A. A. A. purge is
carried further. It won't be.
The cruelest political in-sidelight
of many a year is that great number
of aged persons, poor and unemployed
have been misled into believing thej
are going to be supported in style by
1 the Government. It shows up in the
mail of Congressmen. People whe
ι cannot really afford the stamps arf
, writing in to ask whom they should
see about getting their $200 a month
They need it riglit away.
$30 Seen as Limit.
The maximum payment which now
ι seems to be possible is $30 a month
It will go at first to only the few agec
now on relief rolls. Not a cent will gc
' to any one until the States enact co
operating legislation. This will requlrt
at least a year, and perhaps three.
When you read the figures about 55
1 per cent capacity steel production, re
1 member that there never has beer
'' 100 per cent production. The peftt
was 89 per cent In 1929. Therefore
55 per cent is actually about 66 pei
[ cent of 1929, which is very good
while it lasts.
ι Conservative Commerce Secretarj
Roper had on his desk the other da>
a copy of "The Red Network," th<
ι book which lists Mrs. Roosevelt amanj
ι the Nation's subversive element·.
«Joprriiht. 1935.)
As Ethiopia Spurns Italian Demands for Apology
ETHIOPIAN RULER '
DENOUNCES ITALY
Declares Mobilization Is Not
!
Justified by Any Military
i
I Measure by His Country.
I By the Associated Press.
ROME. February 15— Emperor
I Haile Selassie declared today In a
' message to the press of the world
that Italian mobilization "is not justi
fied by any military measure on the
part of Ethiopia."
The message from the Ethiopian
ruler was made public here through
his charge d'affaires. Negadras Yesus.
who said he also was communicating
it to the Italian foreign office.
"The news of the mobilization of
two Italian divisions." the monarch
said, "is not of a kind to maintain an
atmosphere of confidence necessary to
the satisfactory conduct of negotia
tions now underway, preliminary to
the establishment of a commission of
conciliation and arbitration for the
solution of Italo-Ethiopian differences.
Ethiopia Never Agressive.
■'The security of Italian Somall
] land has not been menaced by Ethiopia
at any time."
Haile Selassie repeated the con
sistently contended stand that his
country never had taken an aggres
sive position against Italy and that
none of his troops had been con
centrated on the border. All Ethi
opians, he said, had strictly obeyed
orders to avoid all incidents In the
frontier zones and remain quiet.
Italian sources said, however, that
ι more than 150 armed Ethiopians have
I occupied the village of Silar, near
! the Ualual territory. These sources
j said the occupation took place Jan
I uary 29, and was believed to have
been a part of the Afdub affair, which
brought about strained relations be
tween the nations. The place was
reported to be held now by the Ethi
opians. There is no Italian garrison
in the village.
Mussolini Is Silent.
Premier Mussolini maintained silence
j concerning the note and his future
policy. He conferred with members of
the Fascist Grand Council.
It was indicated that the Ethiopian
question would come up in another
meeting of Italy's highest legislative
body late in the day.
In divulging the contents of the note
the Ethiopian legation pursued the
same policy which aroused the ire of
Italian officials three days ago.
Meanwhile there appeared to have
been no change in plans to dispatch
the first contingents of the African
expeditionary force from Sicily to
Eritrea and Italian Somaliland to
morrow.
(Paris dispatches said the French
government also was planning to re
inforce her troops in French Somali
land, where a colonial administrator
and more than 80 French Somalis were
slain in a border clash on January 18.)
In any event, military authorities
said, no hostilities were likely before
May 1, because the rainy season begins
in about 10 days and continues for two
months.
SERUM DEATH OF CHILD
BRINGS INVESTIGATION
Four Others Under Observation in
San Francisco—Poison Shown
in Autopsy.
By the Associated Pre»».
SAN FRANCISCO, February 15.—
Dr. J. C. Gelger, city health officer,
today led an investigation into the
"mistake" death of 4-year-old Natalie
Rojnavsky, who died after an admin
istration of diphtheria serum. t
Four other youngsters who showed
the same symptoms after treatment in
Children's Hospital were under ob
servation, but Dr. Gelger thought they
would recover.
Twenty children were given the
antitoxin a week ago.
Dr. Sherman Leland, autopsy sur
geon, said the youngster died of poi
soning and in the absence of other
infection the serum was to be blamed.
Trains Collide, One Killed.
BRANTFORD, Ontario, February
15 (&).—One man was killed early to
day in a head-on collision between two
Canadian National Railway trains at
j Lynden. 10 miles from here. The vic
tim was not Immediately identified.
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No. 1—Emperor Haile Selassie, ruler of Ethiopia, who has rejected
demands of the Italian War Council as a result of the recent clash In which
Abyssinian tribesmen are charged with the killing of five native Somaliland
troops. The Emperor is reported massing troops on his frontier.
No. 2—George C. Hanson, one of the foremost trouble-shooters of the
diplomatic corps, shown in Washington yesterday He is preparing to leave
for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where he has been assigned as charge d'affaires
and consul general.
No. 3—Wearing his traditional lion's-mane headdress, this Ethiopian
tribal leader (center, bearing shield) is shown flanked by desert riflemen at
ceremonies marking coronation of Halle Selassie. He is typical of the wild
bands clashing with Italian troops.
No. 4—Chart illustrating the section affected by the crisis.
No. 5—A typical Ethiopian soldier, bare-footed and poorly equipped.
Contrast him with the Italian troops shown in No. 6. The Italians ere
among the best equipped in the world, while the Ethiopians are disorganized
and sometimes have no ammunition for their old-fashioned guns. The
Ethiopians, however, count on their fatalistic heroism and for years have
believed they could defeat any European army.
—Α. Ρ and Wide World Photos.
Gen. Wood, Λβιο Relief Adviser.
Worked Ten Years on Canal
Sears, Roebuck Head
West Pointer With Long
Army Service.
Silent on Job to Propose
Allocation of $4,000,·
000,000 Fund.
B? th* Associated Press.
A man who worked 10 years on
Uncle Sam's biggest single building
project—the Panama Canal—is going
back into Government service to give
business advice on how to spend the
proposed $4,000,000,000 work relief
I fund.
He is Gen. Robert E. Wood, now
president of Sears, Roebuck & Co.,
but en Army man from his gradua
tion at West Point in 1900 through
the World War. He was in Panama
from 1905 to 1915.
Secretary of Commerce Roper an
nounced Wood's appointment after
they had talked with President
Roosevelt yesterday at the White
House. Wood has been a member of
Roper's Business Advisory Committee.
Committee to Be Named.
The new Job won't take all of
Wood's time. He is to be assisted by
a committee of business men, some
of whom are to be chosen from the
Advisory Council Committees dealing
with building and others from outside
the council. One member of the
committee—not Wood—Is to sit con
stantly with the board that will ad
minister the fund. He will act as a
liaison man between the works board
and the Advisory Committee.
Wood, a solidly-built man whose
complexion shows he has spent a
good deal of his life outdoors, ap
peared a bit bewildered by the rush
reporters gave him after his appoint
ment was announced.
No, he hadn't anything to say
about what type of work relief he
favored. He had been in Washing
ton less than 48 hours, and he hadn't
known "a thing" about the appoint
ment beforehand. And, by the way,
where did any one get that idea he
was going to head the N. R. A ? He
could "most emphatically" deny that.
Advice Not Obligatory.
The most Wood would say about
his new job was that the actual ad
ministrative agency would be under
no obligation to accept the Business
Committee's advice.
Roper said formation of the com
mittee was In line with the admin
istration's general policy of asking
business' advice on governmental mat
ters of vital interest to business. The
President approved the Idea of the
committee when first advanced by
Roper several weeks ago, he added.
The President, Roper said, had not
completed all his plana for admin
istering the fund.
ROBERT Ε. WOOD.
GUARDSMAN KILLED
AIDING MARTIAL LAW
Fellow Louisiana Trooper Ii
Blamed, but Inquiry Court
Refuses Name.
By the Associated Press.
BATON ROUGE. La. February
15.—Blood was spilled once again li
politically troubled Louisiana whei
J Corpl. Hugh J. Belanger, 24, ο
Houma, La., one of the Natlona
Guardsmen enforcing martial lai
here, was fatally wounded on th<
State House grounds late yesteriity.
A military court of inquiry, whicl
succeeded the perish coroner unde:
the martial law, held that the killini
was accidental, but declined to reven
the name of the person responsibli
for it.
Maj. W. D. Shaffer, assistant ad
Jutant genera), said in New Otlean,
that Belanger was killed in the Guan
headquarters on the State Housi
grounds when an automatic rifle ii
the hands of another militiaman be
came jammed and was discharged
He said Belanger was shot In thi
abdomen.
"As it was an accident," he said. "
don't think It would do any good t(
advertise the name of the man ii
whose hands the gun went off."
Belanger'e body, under militar;
escort, was taken to Houma late las
night. A military funeral will b
held.
Two Silver Weddings.
EVERETT. Wash. (&)■—Mr. am
Mrs. Nicholas Plambeck are célébrât
ing their 25th wedding anniversary
the second such anniversary for botl
; of them, as each had been marriei
more than 25 years previously to othe
, spouses. Plambeck is 79 and his wif
lis 77.
INTERSTATE Oil
PACT HASTENED
Producers Seek Agreement
to Prevent Congress
Taking Steps.
By the Associated Press
DALLAS, Tex.. February 15.—An
interstate oil production compact,
which Gov. Ε W Marland of Okla
homa says must be concluded quickly
to keep Congress from "taking it out
ι of our hands." was under considera
| tlon here today at a conference of
! oil State representatives.
j The meeting, the third called by
Gov. Marland for ccnsumation of an
j agreement to regulate the industry.
; brought delegations from Kansas.
Texas, Oklahoma. New Mexico and
Arkansas, with California and Illi
nois also expected to be represented.
California, New Mexico and Okla
| homa were committed by their Legis
latures to the principle of a compact
along the lines suggested by Gov
I Marland for the setting of State pro
> ductlon quotas with the assistance of
the Federal Government in determin
ing market needs and Federal aid in
enforcement.
A possible barrier to a compact was
seen in the demand of Gov. James V.
Alired of Texas that representation of
any control board be on the basis of
potential production. Such a system
would give Texas a gTeat preponder
ance of votes in determining adminis
trative policies.
Gov. Allred. recognized leader of op
position to Federal control, said he
would present a proposal providing
for prevention of waste and also for
"protection of the consumer."
CUTTEN TO FIGHT
GRAIN MARKET BAN
Constitutionality of Future» Act
to Be Tested Through Courts,
Says Attorney.
Bt the Associated Presi.
CHICAGO. February 15.—Arthur W.
Cutten, giant of the grain markets,
today promised a Judiciary appeal
from the Federal order barring him
from activity on American grain
markets.
In behalf of Cutten. his attorney,
Orville J. Taylor, issued a statement
denouncing the decree of the Grain
Futures Commission and asserting the
constitutionality of the grains futures
act would be tested through the courts,
even if & Supreme Court appeal is
necessary.
Effective March 1, the commission
barred Cutten, the man who made a
1 $1,500.000 "killing" in corn in 1924
1 and controlled >7.000,000 worth of
' wheat in 1931. from American ex
I changes. It left him the alternative
r of moving his activities to the Winni
' peg Exchange or of paying · quarter
• of a cent commission to brokers on
each bushel traded, double the amount
l he had paid as a member of the board.
Cutten. however, remained silent on
' his business plans.
CONTROL OF ARMS
IS HELD DEMANDED
Wilson Warns Powers After
Anglo-Italian Attacks
on Plan of U. S.
By the Associated Press.
GENEVA. February 15—Hugh
Wilson. United States delegate to
the World Disarmament Conference,
warned the powers today the people
of the world want something done
and done quickly to control the manu
facture and traffic in war materials
Replying to attacks made on the
American draft particularly by Eng- !
land and Italy. Wilson reminded the
delegates the Americans merely lash
ioned their proposals along lines
likely to command general support.
(The American plan contemplates
supervision over both production and
commerce.)
"Our plan." he said, "is founded
on the conviction of peop*e every
where that something must be done
and In a relatively short time."
Canada Barks Project.
Canada wholeheartedly backc.1 the
American project, especially Γη* fea
ture for international supervision of
arms manufacture.
The conference was adjourned until
Tuesday when it will hear the first
reading of the American draft. Mean
while, delegations will prepare amend
ments for submission.
Russia will sign no convention for
the control of manufacture and trade
of arms to which Japan docs not
adhere, the Soviet delegate taid.
Neighbors Must Approve.
The projected convention must be
j approved by all the principal powers.
! the Soviet representative Mid "but
particularly by all neighbors of
Russia."
Switzerland characterized the Amer
ican plan as "an important contriou
i tion to the cause of peace" and in
| sisted the convention must deal with
the manufacture as well as the traffic
in arms If it is to receive Swiss
support.
England and Italy desire to have
the convention restricted only to the
traffic in war materials.
LACK OF CASH HELPS
LORD EDWARD ENLIST
Personal Fortune of Prospective
French Legionnaire Totals
About $2.
I By the Associsted Press.
TOUL, France, February 15 —
Financial reasons, as well as a thirst
for adventure. Lord Edward Montagu
explained today, inspired his de
termination to enlist in the French
Foreign Legion.
On his arrival here in a taxicab.
Lord Edward, who once changed his
mind about enrolling in the famous
military force, divulged his personal
fortune amounted to 33 francs (about
$2) plus military expense money.
Lord Edward is now awaiting
physical examination. If accepted,
he will probably start for Marseille
next week.
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WILEY IS INCLUDED
IN PROMOTION LIST
Macon Officer Slated for
Grade of Commander
With 64 Others.
While λ naval court of inquiry to
day was Investigating the lose of the
airship U. S. S. Macon, the Navy De
partment informed its erstwhile com
manding officer, Lieut. Comdr. Herbert
V. Wiley, that he was chosen for ad
vancement to the rank of com
mander.
President Roosevelt today indorsed
recommendations made by the Line
Selection Board, of which Rear Ad
miral Thomas C. Hart, commander ot
Cruiser Division 6, Scouting Force,
was president, whereby 65 lieutenant
commanders are picked for the rank
of commander. These names will be
forwarded shortly by the President to
the Senate for confirmation. Secre
tary Swanson has already approved
them.
Pennover Also on List.
Included among the prospective
commanders is Lieut. Comdr. Ralph
G. Pennoyer. who was on duty until
recently in the judge advocate gen
eral's office of the Navy and lived at
McLean. Va. He served as judge ad
vocate in the inquiry into the Altron
disaster.
Another former Washingtonian who
was in the office of Naval Communi
cations at the department who i*
slated to be advanced is Lieut. C'mdr.
Roswell H Blair. Recently he re
linquished command of a destroyer
and is going to the new cruiser Ne»
Orleans as navigator.
Officers with official Washington
home addresses or those in this
vicinity who are elated for promotion
include Lieut Comdrs. William H.
Porter, jr.. Bethesda, Md.: Warner P.
Portz. this city: Leon B. Scott, Kens
ington. Md : Theodore Ε Chandler,
this city; Frank D Wagner, this city;
Francis S. Low, this city; Alexander
S. Wetherspoon. this city; Forrest Β
Royal. Arlington County, Va : Tully
Shelley, Arlington. Va : Allen G.
Quynn. Frederick. Md and Ralph W.
Christie. Annapolis, Md.
Others Dur for Promotion.
The other promotions follow
Herbert J. Ray, Dayton. Tenn ;
James E. Boak. Hughesville. Pa.;
Francis K. OBrien. New York. Ν. Y :
Marion Y. Coher., Beimar. N. J : Rob
ert W. Cary. San Francisco, Calif.:
Karl R. Shears. San Diego, Calif.;
Robert C Starkey. R<iodhouse. Ill :
Robert P. Luker. Staunton. Ill ; Oliver
O. Kessing. Indianapolis. Ind : John
H. Brown, jr.. Canton. Pa : Lewis J
St^cher. Dodge. Nebr ; Harry J Reuse.
Norfolk. Va ; Lynce D. McCormick
San Diego Calif.
Arthur C. Davis, Lincoln, Nebr.;
Arthur D. Struble, Portland Oreg ;
Walter A Hicks, Dadeville. Ala ; Ben
jamin F. Perry. Jefferson. Ohio: Louis
R. Moore. Allerton, 111.: James M.
Shoemaker. San Diego. Calif : Gerard
H. Wood, New York. Ν. Y.: Robert O.
Glover, Richmond, Va.; Edward Haz
lett, jr. Raleigh, N. C ; Scott Umsted,
New York, Ν. Y.; Powell M. Rhea,
Favetteville. Ark : Henry P. Burnett,
Shelbvville, Κν.; Hubert E. Paddock,
Charlevoix. Mich ; William S. Pop
ham, Charleston, S. C.; Samuel R.
Shumaker, Indiana, Pa.: Otto Nimltz,
Kerrville. Tex.: Thomas G. Peyton,
San Diego, Calif.: Samuel P. Jenkins,
San Diego. Calif . and Cornelius W.
Flynn, Somerville. N. J.
William Granat. San Francisco,
Calif.: Armit C. Thomas, Scranton,
Pa.; Homer W. Graf. Des Moines,
Iowa; Francis M. Maile. jr.. Vin
cennes. Ind.; John L. McCrea. Mar
iette. Mich.; Frederick G. Richard?,
Newcastle. Me.; Marshall Β Arnold.
San Francisco. Calif : Dallas D Dupre.
Lubbock. Tex.: Nathaniel M. Pigman,
Concordia. Kans : Horace D. Clarke,
Eagle Grove. Iowa: James E. Maher,
Scranton. Pa.: Allan Ε Smith. Detroit,
Mich.: Leehton Wood. Birmingham.
Ala : Harvey E. Overesch. Lafayette.
Ind.: George C. Kriner. Reading, Pa.;
Clifford G Richardson, Norfolk. Va.;
James M. Lewis. Dallas. Tex.; John J.
Mahoney. Hoosick Falls. Ν. Y.; Henry
M. Mullinnix. Attica. Ind.
U. S. PAYS REWARD
Detective Gets $500 for Killing
Mail Bandit.
NEW YORK. February 15 <JP) —De
tective Francis O'Neil of the New York
police department received a reward
of $500 today from the United States
Government for the capture and kill
ing of Herbert Meyers, who was sought·
by the Government for a series of mall
robberies, and also was wanted In Bal
timore for murder.
O'Neil shot Meyers on Tenth avenue
July 19. 1934. when the fugitive lunged
at him with a knife while resisting ar
rest. Following a police department
custom. Ο Neil donated $50 of the re
ward to the police pension fund end
$75 to police relief.
a «
Manchoukuan Plot Foiled.
HARBIN. Manchoukuo. February 15
ιΛ5'.—Manchoukuan police today ar
rested four Soviet employes of the
Chfnese Eastern Railway in suspicion
of a plot to dynamite the vital railway
bridge at. Tao Lai-Hao, south of Har
bin. They reported that the plot was
frustrated.
Your Income Tax
Capital Gain* and Losses.
An entirely new treatment of cap
ital gains and losses Is provided for
by section 117 of the revenue act of
1934. Such new treatment supersedes
or replaces the 12 per cent capital
gain and loss provisions contained in
section 101. as well as the limitation
on the deduction for losses from the
sale or exchange of stocks and bonds
held for less than two years, as pro
vided for by section 23 tr). <s» and
(t) of the revenue act of 1932. Sec
tion 117 deals with the manner or
method of taking into account in
computing net income gains and
losses from the sale or exchange of
capital assets as computed and rec
ognized under sections 111. 112 and
113.
Section 117 (a> provides that In the
case of a taxpayer other than a cor
poration only the following per cent
ages of the gain or loss recognized
upon the sale or exchange of a cap
ital asset shall be taken into account
In computing net income, 100 per
cent if the capital asset has been
held for not more than one year,
80 per cent If the capital asset has
been held for more than one year but
not for more than two years. 60 per
cent If the capital asset has been held
for more than two years but not for
more than five years. 40 per cent if
the capital asset has been held for
more than five years but not for more
than 10 years. 30 per cent If the cap
ital asset has been held for more
than 10 years.
(Continued Tomorrow.)
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