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U. $. TAX FIGURES
HELD DECEPTIVE
Vast Number of Stockhold
ers in 618 Corporations
Listed by Jackson.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
Figures tan do startling tnmgs wnca
grouped to suit one’* fancy.
Thus Robert H. Jackson, counsel for
the Internal Revenue Bureau, has told
the Senate Finance Committee In con
nection with the pending tax bill that
618 corporations in 1932 owned more
than 53 per cent of the value of all
assets dis?lo6ed in 1932 tax returns
by all corporations.
On Its face this looks like a small
proportion of the corporations, and
Mr. Jackson carries the calculation,
which he calls "startling,” even fur
ther when he works it out In per
centages. For on that basis it shows
that these 618 corporations are only
two-tentns of 1 per cent of the total
corporations
First of all. the mere number of
corporations In existence is no more
a measure of the amount of wealth
in America than the number of golf
or country clubs. There are approxi
mately 472,000 corporations which
have taken out charters. Half of them
are dormant or inactive. If Mr. Jack
son had been so disposed, he could
have said that only 618 out of 472,000
corporations owned half the wealth
of the country. That, too, would have
been startling.
More Important Point
But there is a much more important
point that Mr. Jackson omitted to
explain. Just how many persons are
represented in the 618 corporations
w'hich own half the wealth? Just how
many stockholders and how many
bondholders are there In each cor
poration? And. Incidentally, how
many people are employed and what
is the total pay roll of those 618 com
panies?
This is very essential information.
For instance, take the American Tele
phone & Telegraph Co. It has assets
running into the billions, for it owns
all the telephone companies and their
plants, reaching into 25,000 different
places. Yet in Mr. Jackscn's list of
corporations reporting a Federal in
come the A. T. <fc T. probably is classi
fied as only one corporation. This is
because in 1932 there was permitted
by law a consolidation of income tax
returns for all corporations owned by
a parent company.
Now, now many persons own me
A. T. & T.? The latest figures show
that approximately 850,000 persons
own the company.
Take General Motors and General
Electric. These are companies also
with hundreds of thousands of stock
holders. And the statistics show that
many persons own Just a few shares
apiece. Indeed, in not one of these
big companies does any man or group
of men affiliated with one another
own as much as 10 per eent of that
company.
It is reasonable to suppose, there
fore, that of the 618 corporations
owning half of the wealth or assets
of all corporations we may have any
where from 5,000,000 to 10,000,000
people as the real owners. Some esti
mates place the number of prefeqpd
apd common stockholders up around
15,000,000.
Millions of Stockholders.
The larger corporations are the ones
that float stock and bond isues to the
public, so it is a fair assumption that
almost all of these millions of stock
holders belong in the 618 corporations
which own half the wealth of the
country. Mr. Jackson says that in
1932 30 per cent of the income went
to 201 corporations. This must mean
that the other 417 corporations didn't
have any taxable income or pay divi
dends on their investment. Millions
of stockholders know this, of course,
because they didn't get dividends and
lots of them didn’t get interest either.
Wealth and income are two differ
ent things. For wealth isn’t subject
to distribution overnight and the mere
fact that a man owned a share ot
stock or a claim check on a big plant
didn’t mean he converted that share
of stock into cash in 1932 unless he
wanted to take a loss on his original
investment. Market values were at
their low point that year.
So the statement that 618 corpora
tions or their stockholders owned half
the wealth of all corporations didn't
mean they had such an amount to
spend on themselves or their families
or on their hobbies.
The distribution of the income re
ceived from the corporations which
did earn a profit is an important
matter on which, unfortunately, not
enough information is available. If
the Internal Revenue Bureau would
trace what happens to all the corpora
tion dividends, and particularly those
201 corporations which had half the
taxable income of the country in 1932,
some more "startling” disclosures
would be made.
Charity and Philanthropy.
The probabilities are the Treasury
would find that a substantial amount
went to charity and philanthropy,
that a large amount went to the life
Insurance companies to take care of
the contingent demands of millions
of policy holders, either through
death payments or loans, that many
millions of dollars of profits went
into new enterprises or aided in sup
porting going concerns that needed
capital, thereby Increasing employ
ment or preserving jobs for many
Who already had them.
It is always the alleged crime of the
profit side that is emphasized by the
administration here. Mr. Jackson
spoke of the 73,291 corporations that
had reported taxable incomes in 1932.
He didn't mention the tens of thou
sands of corporations which lost
money and dug into capital and re
serves to keep their plants going. The
latest figures, for instance, show that
In 1932 the amount lost by American
corporations was $7,796,686,752. while
the amount of profit by another more
fortunate group of corporations
amounted to $2,153,112,819. Here we
see the profit and loss system in act
ual operation.
Taxes and the threat of pyramiding
more taxes have much to do with the
failure of businesses, for it gives them
a load which they cannot carry in
competition with other businesses that
have some special advantage in loca
tion or manufacturing process. Then
comes more unemployment. To pile
up the economic structure with taxes
Is to stifle its gTowth. The graduated
Income tax on corporations which
Mr. Jackson advocates might help to
prevent many who are rich from be
coming richer, but there is no assur
ance at the same time that the poor
Will not be made poorer.
(Copyright. 1985 >
Movies in Prisoni.
Motion pictures will be shown in
prisons of England.
What’s What
Behind News
In Capital
G.O.P. Leaders Discuss
Knox-for-President
Campaign.
BY PAUL MALLON.
HE undercover spread of the
Knox-for-President campaign
is the main topic wherever
Republican bigwigs stop to
gossip. Originally it centered in the
Midwest. Within the last few weeks
it has extended East.
Among those supposed to have
joined up lately are Bill Donovan and
Jim Watson, two well-known lieuten
ants in the Republican army of old.
One of Mr. Hoover’s ex-mentors
has been expressing the opinion in
party councils that the Chicago
editor is already so far out in front
that he cannot be headed off. That
is an isolated view as yet.
However, the movement has grown
so formidable that it is developing in
side opposition and even a whispering
campaign. Soft-voiced antagonists are
questioning Col. Knox’s party record,
saying he once supported a Democratic
candidate for Governor, and sugh
things.
Poll Taken in Indiana.
The open nature of the race among
Republicans was indicated by a na
tionally unobserved poll out in In
diana a few days ago.
A member of the Indiana Re
publican Editorial Association sent
out 500 straw ballots to editors,
district and county chairmen and
trice chairmen asking them to vote
their preference for the nomina
tion. On the 2S0 ballots which
were returned there were votes
for 37 different persons. Conse
quently, no one candidate could
have received very many.
The detailed results were not given
out, but it is understood that Prank
Knox ran first. Senator Vandenberg
second and Senator Dickinson third.
Only the Beginning.
FOLKS/
ONLY THE A
BE- A”
GlNNINI^
Republican authorities are not pay
ing much attention to the Lucas poll
on presidential candidates. At first
they thought it was a stunt to promote
Mr. Hoover for renomination, but now
they are not so sure. The conductor
of the poll, Robert Lucas, was formerly
a Hoover counselor, but has not been
lately. He has no known factional
connections.
The regularly constituted Repub
lican authorities were amazed to note
on Mr. Lucas’ list of Republican presi
dential prospects a man of whom they
had never heard—an Arthur W.
Little of New York.
Technique Decentralized.
It has not been noticed publicly, but
the Republicans have been operating
under an interesting decentralized po
litical technique.
No central control leadership
has been attempted. The na
tional committee here is active,
but only in trying to keep the
bare threads together. In the
main, House Republicans go their
way. Senate Republicans theirs.
Prominent party men out in the
country conduct themselves indi
vidually, and not as part o) a
network.
The various sectional conferences
which have been held have received
national advice back stage, but they
have not been controlled In the usual
way. Links between the groups are
largely casual and personal.
The master political minds consider
this method wise and highly advan
tageous. It permits sectional leeway.
For instance, Midwest grass rooters
can accept the farm program while
Rhode Island rooters oppose it.
Republicans Surprised.
Republicans were more surprised
than you were at their Rhode Island
success. Their advance private reports
indicated they would only cut down
the Democratic majority and probably
lose on most of the bond Issues. In
stead, their 21.406-vote defeat in 1934
was turned into a 14,000 victory,
which means a turnover of more than
35,000 votes in less than nine months.
The Democrats were so confident
that Postmaster General Parley sent
a telegram to the Democratic congres
sional candidate before election vir
tually congratulating him on his ex
pected victory.
One of the sharpest of old-time
Washington politicos has a theory
about how the American people elect
Presidents. He swears they tend to
ward opposites every four or eight
years.
The mild McKinley was succeeded
by the rough-riding Roosevelt, who
was in turn followed by the soft Taft.
Then came the inflexible, scholarly
Wilson, the jolly Harding, the tight
lipped farmer Coolidge, the business
promoter Hoover, the friendly Roose
velt, the-?
Guffey Coal Bill Faces Fight.
The reason that the House com
mittee has been so shy about voting
on the Guffey coal bill is that the
committee has already voted unoffi
cially and the result was not satis
factory.
The premilinary nose counting
showed 10 Democrats for reporting the
bill and 8 against. The Republicans
were 6 against and 1 for. This makes
the committee line-up 14 to 11 against
the bill, or it did a few days ago,
before the New Dealers went to work
ardently to change the line-up.
Within a week after the House
framed the new tax bill to raise $270,
000.000 a year in revenue, Congress
approved legislation to spend $175,
000,000 more money. Extra expendi
tures included $45,000,000 for the
Spanish War veterans, $120,000,000
for frontier air bases, 40-hour week
for postal employes and miscellaneous
legislation, including $764,000 to pay
the City of New York for a Civil War
debt.
The Treasury never gets ahead of
Congress.
Calhoun Fund Now $1,384.53.
A $5 contribution by J. S. Gruver
today increased to $1,384.53 the relief
fund for the family of Sterling Cal
houn, colored hero, who drowned in
a futile attempt to save the lives of
two children.
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KEG SALE PROW
Senate Committee Backs
Treasury in Turning
Down Plan.
By ths Associated Press.
A new Senate-House tussle appeared
to be in the making today—this time
over bulk sales of liquor.
The Senate Finance Committee, in
voting last night to report the ad
ministration's liquor control bill to the
floor, turned thumbs down on allowing
sale of liquor in kegs and barrels as
voted by the House,
' By its action, the committee sided
with the Treasury Department, which
had asserted It would require an
"army” to enforce liquor regulations
if anything but package sales were
permitted.
Differ on Bootleg Effect.
The House provision would permit
clubs and hotels to buy liquor in
wooden containers and resell to
patrons. Advocates of this argued it
would break up "monopoly," reduce
liquor prices and thus combat the
bootlegger. Opponents contended it
would encourage bootlegging and other
illicit practices.
Also stricken out of the measure by
the Senate committee was a House
provision for a single liquor adminis
trator to work under the Treasury at
a salary of $10,000. The 8enate com
mittee voted for a three-man agency,
independent of the Treasury, each
member to receive $10,000.
The Senate Committee decided not
to make malt beverages subject to
control by the new liquor board and
voted to require Senate confirmation
of all board employes receiving more
than $5,000.
Liability Curbed.
As a protection to newspapers,
magazines and radio broadcasters, the
committee exempted them frem lia
bility for any misstatements contained
in liquor advertisements submitted to
j them.
Most of the House provisions pro
hibiting a liquor manufacturer from
requiring a dealer to handle only the
manufacturer's brands were agreed to
i by the Senate Committee.
The House language was modified,
however, to permit a manufacturer to
bid for a dealer's good will by supply
ing him with a sign not to exceed
$100 in cost annually.
The legislation, designed to replace
' the old Federal Alcohol Control Ad
ministration which fell under the
Supreme Court’s N. R. A. decision,
probably will be taken up in the Sen
ate the first of next week.
METEORIC SHOWERS
SOON TO BE VISIBLE
Golden Tears of St. Lawrence
Will Be Streaking Through
Skies in Next Few Days.
By the Associated Press.
LOS ANOELES. August 9—The
i golden tears of St. Lawrence will be
streaking through the skies again the
next few nights.
They are the Perseid meteors.
Showers of swift streaks of yellowish
light, they are visible each year be
tween August 10 and 12. Sometimes
they are visible for weeks.
There are untold billions upon bil
J lions of them. They string out in an
| orbit as a continuous circular stream
for several billions of miles that ex
tend far beyond the planet Neptune.
The name, "Tears of St. Law
| rence,” was given to the Perseids
because they flashed through the sky
in spectacular display on the night
of August 10, 258 A.D., just after St.
Lawrence, the martyred deacon, was
put on a gridiron under the rule of
Valerian.
This year the hours of this free
sky show are limited by the moon.
One must stay up after the midnight
setting of the moon to witness the
meteoric showers. *
Astronomers say they are just bits
of cosmic dust, perhaps the size of
a grain of sand.
_
BAIL HELD UNNECESSARY
FOR 400-P0UND MAN
XT. 8. Commissioner Releases De
fendant in Impersonation Case
in His Own Custo4y.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August 9.-United
States Commissioner Garrett W. Cot
ter took one look yesterday at Nicholas
Clemente, arraigned on an imper
sonation charge, and decided ball
wouldn't be necessary.
Clemente weighs 400 pounds and
the commissioner came to the con
clusion promptly that, even should
the defendant want to hide himself
away, he was too big for the task.
"A man of your weight should
keep out of trouble,” Cotter said,
paroling him in his own custody.
GUARD BIRTHDAY PLANS
FOR JON LINDBERGH, 3
Family Reticent on Celebration
for Son at Maine Estate
August 16.
By the Associated Press
NORTH HAVEN, Me., August 9.—
Excluded from prying eyes, little Jon
Morrow Lindbergh will celebrate his
third birthday anniversary on Au
gust 16.
At the Summer estate here of his
grandmother, Mrs. Dwight W. Mor
row, attended by his father, c«l.
Charles A. Lindbergh, and members of
the family, the child was jealousy
guarded from contacts with the out
side world.
No Indication of what the family
had planned for young Jon’s happiness
on his birthday came from any mem
ber of the household or from friends
on this little island. The same silence
prevailed on Jon's last birthday anni
versary.
Inquiries at the home were met with
the usual reticence.
Today.
Senate:
Considers Walsh “little N. R. A.” bill.
Finance Committee works over tax
bill In executive session.
House:
Consider! private bills.
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Mountain Rescue Scenes in Yosemite
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Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos.
Reprinted From Yesterday’s Late Editions.
Upper photo shows how rangers lowered the seriously injured Robert Tste from the face of Half Dome
Mountain to the floor of Yosemite Valley, Calif. They removed the victim by tying rope from tree to tree or rock
to rock, and carefully slid him down in a stretcher. He and Elisabeth Lorimer were marooned on a ledge a
night and almost a day before being rescued. The man nearest the camera is bending over Tate, his head being
concealed.
Below: Rangers and Dr. A. E. Sturm examining Tate.
Contributory Old-Age Pension
System Operation Explained
Man IForking 45 Years at $100 Monthly
Salary W ould Get $53.75 Monthly
Until Death.
By the Associated Press.
By way of example, this is how the
contributory old-age pension system In
the social security bill is designed to
I apply to "BUI Jones":
Suppose young Bill, Is 20 when the
bill goes into effect and makes an
average monthly salary of *100 until
he is 65. He will get a monthly pen
sion, until his death, of *53,75.
Payment of Taxes.
In detail, here is what wUl happen
to him:
In the calendar years 1937, 1938 and
1939, he will pay a salary tax of 1
per cent, or a total of $36 for the three
years. In 1940, 1941 and 1942, he will
pay IV2 per cent, or *54, In 1943, 1944
and 1945, the tax will be 2 per cent, or
$72. In 1946. 1947 and 1948, the tax
will be 2V2 per cent, or $90. Prom 1949
to 1981. Inclusive, the tax will be 3
per cent, or a total of $1,188 for those
33 years.
Thus. In 45 years, Bill Jones will
have paid in $1,440. All the time his
employer will have been matching his
tax payments, so the total paid to the
Federal Treasury will be $2,880.
At 65, Bill Jones can expect to live
perhaps 10 years more. If he does, he
will get back $6,450.
When Bill Jones dies, this is what
will happen:
His average annual salary will be
multiplied by the number of years he
paid taxes. In other words, if he
dies after he has paid taxes for 45
years. *1.200 will be multiplied by
45—giving a total of $54,000. Arbi
trarily, the bill stipulates that Bill
Jones’ estate shall be entitled to
per cent of that, or $1.890—less any
amount he received in pensions before
he died.
$1,890 Base Figure.
If Jones dies before he gets back
$1,890 in pensions, what he actually
received is deducted from $1,890 and
the balance paid to his heirs. If he
i lives until he gets back all of the
$1,890 and more, his heirs get nothing.
If Jones should die before he
reaches 65. his heirs would be entitled
i to a payment of 3’ i per cent of the
total wages on which taxes had been
paid.
For instance, if he died after 10
years, he would have paid taxes on
$12,000. His heirs would be entitled
to 3*4 per cent of that, or $420.
Pensions
(Continued From First Page.)
pension problem during the recess:
Senators King. Clark. George of
Georgia, Keyes of New Hampshire and
La Follette of Wiscortsin.
The House members are Repre-1
sentatives Doughton of North Caro- I
lina. Hill of Washington, Cullen of
New York, Treadway of Massachu
setts and Bacharach of New Jersey.
Senator Clark pointed out today
that the pay-roll taxes for the Fed
eral old-age insurance system do not
start until after December 31, 1936,
so there will be ample time to seek a
solution of the private pension issue
before the Government plan gets into
operation.
Millions Required
For the current fiscal year the
grants to the States and the District
for a variety of welfare purposes will
call for a Federal appropriation of
approximately $94,491,000. The larg
est items in this total are $49,750,000
for matching State pensions to aged
needy persons, and $24,750,000 tor
Federal aid to States which extend
home care to dependent children. The
balance will be distributed for health
activities.
The taxes to be levied on employes
and employers to build up the Fed*
eral old-age insurance system for
those still at work will start in 1037,
and in th^ year will aggregate $237,*
800.000. In that year the pay roll
tax will be 1 per cent on the employe
and 1 per cent on the employer. When
the maximum tax of 3 per cent each
is reached in 1949. the total fer that
year will be $1,706,300,000.
The Federal pay roll tax on the em
ployer under the unemployment in
surance program starts in 1936 at 1
per cent, and will amount to more
than $200,000,000 that year. This tax
will reach the maximum of 3 per cent
in 1938. and in that year will call for
more than $800,000,000. If a State
fails to enact a local unemployment
insurance law, employers in such a
State will have to pay this tax into the
Federal Treasury. If the State levies
an unemployment tax. the employer
may deduct that, up to 90 per cent
of the Federal levy.
QUINTUPLETS SWIM
All but Marie Are Born Swim
mers, Dr. Dafoe Reveals.
CALLANDER, Ontario. August 9
(&).—Four of the Dionne quintuplets
know how to swim. Dr. A. R. Dafoe
said yesterday.
All of his tiny charges with excep
tion of Marie swim every day in the
Dew bath tubs at Dafoe Hospital.
“The four of them have no floating
trouble,” Dr. Dafoe said, “and if they
get ducked they don’t mind at all.
They are born swimmers. All the
nurse has to do is to hold her hand
tinder their and the babies will
swim ar the tub.”
DETROITER LEADS
Miss Margaret Russell Is
4 Up Ov6r Miss Miley
in Cleveland Golf.
Br the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND. Ohio, August 9 —
Miss Margaret Russell of Detroit, with
a four-leaf clover in her glove, held a
four-up lead over Miss Marion Miley
of Lexington, Ky„ at the end of nine
holes in their semi-finals match of the
women's Western golf tourney at
Westwood Country Club here today.
The Michigan miss took the sec
ond, fourth, fifth, sixth and ninth
holes, but lost the seventh when she
dubbed an approach shot. Mias Miley,
trans-Mlssisslppi champion, needed 43
strokes, 5 over par, for the nine holes,
while Miss Russell carded a 39, one
over even figures.
Mrs. D. T. Atwood of Chicago
reached the turn even with Miss
Marian Leachman of Vallejo, Calif., in
the other semi-final match.
Miss Leachman took an early lead
with a birdie on the third hole and
also won the sixth, but Mrs. Atwood,
the former June Beebe, took the fifth
and ninth to square the match. Mrs.
Atwood had a 40 for the nine, while
Miss Leachman carded a 41.
LIFE SENTENCE GIVEN
ASSAILANT OF GIRL
Fifty-Year-Old Street Employe,
Threatened by Mob, Speeded
to Penitentiary.
By the Associated Press.
FRANKFORT, Ind., August 9.—
Frank Nace, 50-year-old street de
partment employe, whose alleged at
tack on a 9-year-old girl brought a
threat of mob violence here Tuesday
night, received a life sentence when
he pleaded guilty today. He was
taken immediately to the Michigan
City Prison.
Nace was returned here secretly
from Indianapolis, where he had
been rushed for safe keeping when
a mob began forming around the
jail after his arrest.
Few people were aware of his re
turn until after he had been sentenced
and started for the penitentiary in
custody of Sheriff Frank Rogers. The
child is recovering.
Harlow Romance Hinted.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., August 9
<*>).—Fresh impetus was given today
to rumors of an off-screen romance
between Jean Harlow, platinum haired
movie star, and the debonair William
Powell.
The two, known as ultra-sophisti
cates of the films, were sighted shop
ping in a Santa Barbara store yes
terday—in the pots and pans depart
ment. _
A
SHORTAGE OF FOOD
FEARED BY NAZIS
Prices Reported Steadily
Rising—Officials to Con
sider Problem Soon.
By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, August 9.—A deficiency in
:ertain Oerman food supplies waa de- j
scribed by an authoritative source to- |
day as a possibility, with a definite
shortage of fats and fruits already ex
isting and with vegetable crop* in
doubt. , ri'
The authority said staples, like
bread, grain and meat, were in a
good position, but that price* were
rising. ateadlly and that the work
ingman waa having difficulty getting
shat he wanted.
Three high Nazi officials—Count
Wolf Hendrick von Helldorf, head of
Berlin police; Julius Llppert, state
commissioner for Berlin, and Prussian
State Councillor Ooerlitzaer—were un
derstood to be meeting Monday to con
sider the questions of food.
The government policy appeared to
be to restrain Vices of staple com
modities, letting prices for foods
which could be classified as luxuries
rise as a sort of disciplinary measure.
Cite “Horrors” Abroad.
While the Reich press turned again
to “other nations' horrors and riots” |
and hailed liquidation of the Danzig
Poland customs dispute as a victory ;
for the German cause, the Nazi drive
against “state enemies” presented sev
eral new aspects.
After yesterday’s dissolution of nu
merous Stahlhelm (Steel Helmet i vet
eran*’ groups, the local Steel Helmet
organization at Weldar “dissolved
*•
News of dissolution of the Steel Hel
met unit at Bueno6 Aires also reached
the Berlin organization.
A priest named Reckmann was sen
tenced to four months’ imprisonment,
and a Catholic chaplain named Holt
kamp to two months at Gladbeck be
cause “they tore red notices against
political Catholicism from billboards.'’
A monk. Isidor. of the Franciscan
Monastery at Waldbreitbach. center
of one of the numerous money smug
gling trials, was arrested because "he
as leader of the Institute for Feeble
Minded Persons ordered some inhab
itants to destroy notices or paint
them black.”
Labor Front Preferred.
A measure against the Catholic
Workers' Association was taken by
the City of Wattenscheid. which an
nounced that work orders would be
given only to members of the German
Labor Front.
Ail Berlin morning newspapers an
nounced the ’Danzig-Polish agree
ment" with such comment as "retrac
tion of Polish customs measures
against Danzig—Danzig therefore nul
lified counter-measures."
Details of the agreement reached j
yesterday between representatives of
the Free City of Danzig and Warsaw,
however, were withheld for the pres
ent from public scrutiny.
CA four-part agreement for settling
the dispute provided that Danzig can
cel a decree permitting German goods
to enter the Free City without pay
ing customs, that Poland cancel its
prohibition collecting Polish customs
fees at Danzig, that payment of rail- I
road rates beyond Danzig territory
be paid in Polish zlotys, and that i
negotiations be made for financial 1
management of the port exclusively
in zlotys.)
Nearly all newspapers displayed
prominently accounts of strike dis
orders at Dallas, Tex., under such
headlines as “Women Turned Into
Hyenas—Cultural Disgrace to Texas."
Anti-Nazis Gather.
NEW YORK. August 9 (/P).—An
inti-Nazi gathering in Madison Square
Garden last night cheered six men
’accused of having torn a swastika flag
from the bow of the Bremen, called
for an American boycott of the Olym
pic games in Germany, cabled Adolf
Hitler a “demand” for the release of
anti-Nazi prisoners there.
A telegram also was sent to Secre
tary of State Cordell Hull protesting
the imprisonment of Lawrence B.
Simpson, an American seaman, who
was arrested for distributing anti
Nazi literature in Hamburg.
LONG MAY BE ISSUE
BEFORE MISSISSIPPI
White Seeks to Inject Louisiana
Senator Into Bun-off Election
for Governorship.
By the Associated Press.
JACKSON. Miss.. August 9 —Sen
ator Huey P. Long of Louisiana ap
peared today as a possible focal point
around which the run-off campaign for
Mississippi’s governorship may t>e
waged.
Hugh L. White, millionaire timber
man, who will oppose Paul B. John
son, former Representative, in a sec
and primary on August 27 to determine
the State’s next Chief Executive, in a
statement issued last night sought to
establish Long as the sole issue for
the three weeks’ campaign.
The complete unofficial vote gave
Paul Johnson, Hattiesburg lawyer,
110,207 votes, a plurality of 942 votes
over his nearest opponent, Hugh
White of Columbia.
White received 109,265, Lieut. Gov.
Dennis Murphree, 92,326; Lester
Franklin, 35.468. and Dr. E. A. Cope
land of Jackson, 4,856.
White’s statement charged "Plat
forms are no longer an issue in this
campaign." declaring the issues had
been boiled down to the lone question
of "Whether the voters of this State
shall permit Huey P. Long of Louis
iana to dictate the election of their
Governor."
Johnson released a statement sim
ultaneously in which he said he had
“not sought the interference of any
one living outside of the State of Mis
sissippi."
MRS. LEO WALPER WINS
PUBLIC LINKS TITLE
Kenwood Club Member Defeats
Mrs. Hope Wilkerson, S and 3,
in Final Bound.
Mrs. Leo Walper of the Kenwood
Golf and Country Club today won the
District women's public links golf
championship, defeating Mrs. Hope
Wilkerson, 5 and 3, in the final round
of the tourney played at Rock Creek
Park.
Mrs. Walper played the first nine
holes in 47, 13 strokes above par, and
was 3 up. She ended the match on the
long fifteenth hole.
The second flight was won by Mrs.
George Meade, who defeated Mrs. H.
C. Lange, 3 and 1.
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■ FLOOD LOSS ••
SET AT S3WOO
Destruction Increases as
Waters Move Toward
Ohio River.
By ths Associated Press.
ZANESVILLE, Ohio, August 9 —
The toll of destruction from Ohio’s
worst flood In 22 years mounted high
er today as the crest of the swollen
waters here moved on toward the
Ohio River.
With two persons known to have
drowned, another missing and three
others dead as indirect results of the
flood and the series of storms that
preceded it, unofficial estimates ol
property damage ranged upward to
day from $3,000,000.
More than 1,000 persons who re
sided in the path of the flood now are
homeless and other hundreds are
under orders to flee for safety to
higher ground.
Zanesville Threatened. ,
All last night the raging waters of
the Muskingum River swirled against
levees protecting Zanesville, con
stantly threatening to break through,
while National Guardsmen stood
watch to give an alarm should a break
occur and C. C. C. workers labored to
strengthen weakened sections,
In the “lower pool’’ of the Muskin
gum, south of Zanesville, below the
junction of the Muskingum and the
Licking River, the water level was 33.6
feet early today. 8.2 feet above flood
stage and still rising.
Pressure on the levees temporarily
was relieved slightly after midnight
when the flood waters broke through v
a branch line of the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad on the south side of the
city and swept into an uninhabited
bottom land to a depth of 10 feet.
Troops and Red Cross Busy,
In addition to about 200 National
Guardsmen, six Red Crass disaster
workers were on duty today in vari
ous parts of the flood area between
Massillon, In the north-central part
of the State, and Marietta, where the
Muskingum -flows into the Ohio
River.
Railroad service in the area re
mained virtually at a stand-still,
most roads were Impassable, many
lines of communication were down,
and numerous villages were practi
cally isolated. Hundreds of homes
had water 7 feet and more deep run
ning through them. <
Work of rehabilitation was already
in progress in areas to the north,
where the flood crest has passed, but
to the south the waters were still get
ting higher and spreading Into pre
viously unflooded sections.
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PARENTS RECLAIM
BRODE BOY’S BODY
Victim of Fall Lowered From
Peak on Hope* and Taken
Down Slopes on Horse.
Br the Associated Press.
MONARCH LAKE, Colo., August t.
—From storm - whipped Lindbergh
Peak, where ne fell to death Tuesday,
the broken body of William Brode. »
15, son of a distinguished Southern
family, was borne down treacherous
trails on a pack horse after dawn
lighted the mountains today.
Weary searchers conquered storms
and slippery trails and at the bottom
of the peril-studded descent brought
the boy's body to his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Julien Brode, of Memphis
Tenn.
Shaken by a hazardous airplane
flight into this glacier-scarred lano
of pinnacles yesterday, the parents
quietly planned to send the body to
Memphis.
The Brodes arrived just as Baker
Armstrong, of Houston, Tex., discov
ered the body in a granite crevasse
near the summit of the two-mile-high
peak.
With the 50-hour quest among the
crags ended, searchers lowered the
body by ropes 1,000 feet from one
perilous ledge to another and placed
it on the nack horse ■
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NEW TYPHOON CARRIES
HEAVY TOLL IN CHINA
200 Americans and European?
Marooned in Xulianff
Mountain Area.
By the Associated Press.
FOOOHOW, China. August 9.—An
other typhoon, sweeping torrential
rains before it up the Min River Val
ley and exacting a heavy toll of life
and property, marooned 200 Ameri- .
cans and Europeans in the Kuliang
Mountains yesterday.
It was the third such storm to at
tack this area in recent days.
Fukien Province and the South
China Coast suffered mo6t.
The stranded Occidentals were
Summering in the hills 10 miles west
of Foochow.
Heavy damage from wind and water
was reported at the American Meth
odist properties in Sienyu, 100 miles
to the south.
LABOR DISPUTE CLOSES
ARKANSAS LUMBER MILL
State Rangers Called to Plant at
Crossett—Crowd Awaits De
velopments on Streets.
By the Associated Press.
CROSSETT, Ark.. August 9.—Sheriff
John C. Riley of Ashley County, an
nounced today the plans of the Crossett
Lumber Co., one of the largest lugjber
mills in the South, had closed tempo
rarily as a result of a labor dispute
which brought State rangers to the
mill last night.
The town was quiet wtien the mill
failed to open as usual today, but a
crowd estimated by the sheriff at
“about 1.000" stood on the streets
during the night and in the early
hours of the morning, apparently
awaiting developments on the heels
of a threatened walkout yesterday.
Those who walked out yesterday,
variously estimated at from 50 to 200,
picketed the plant today. There was
no disturbance.
FLIGHT CUT SHORT
Briton Halts in Cairo on Cape
Town Quest for Record.
CAIRO, Egypt, August 9 (/FK—The
British aviator Tom Campbell-Black
abandoned today his attempt to set a
record on a flight from Hatfield Air
drome, England, to Cape Town.
He landed here on a scheduled stop
for refueling and found that one en
gine needed overhauling. A
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