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BRITAIN PRESSES
REICH TO INCLUDE
Expansion of Proposed
Agreements Stressed in
Questionnaire.
. HITLER ASKED TO STATE
POSITION ON TREATIES
Germany Also Questioned on In
tentions to Respect Terri
torial Status.
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BACKGROUND—
The re-establishment of Ger
many as military and naval power
under Adolph Hitler has disturbed
France, muddled European political
thought and created another awk
ward situation for League of Na
tions.
< Germany’s remilitarization of
Rhineland, in violation of Ver
sailles and Locarno treaties, pre
cipitated crisis, France demanding
military action, but Britain, wor
ried by Ethiopian situation, holding
out for arbitration.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 8.—Great Britain
«as declared by responsible sources
today to be putting renewed pressure
on Germany for the inclusion of
Soviet Russia. Latvia and Estonia in
the Reich's proposed nca-aggression
pacts.
That point, said these sources, was
the most important contained in the
Locarno questionnaire which Great
Britain has handed to Germany, after
consultation with France and Belgium.
(Germany, when she precipitated
the Locarno crisis by rearming the
Rhineland, put a major share of the
responsibility on Soviet Russia. She
contended the Franco-Russian mutual
assistance pact threatened Central and
Western Europe with the introduction
of bolshevik “terrorism.” At the time
of the Rhineland rearmament, Reichs
fuehrer Hitler proposed a system of
non-aggression pacts with the Reich's
western and some eastern neighbors.)
Correspondence Is Recalled.
It was recalled here that recently
published correspondence showed the
point involving Russian, Latvian and
Estonian participation has blocked
progress with Germany on the ques
tion of European security for more
than a year.
Britain likewise requested a clear
declaration from Hitler as to whether
Germany now regards herself in a po
sition to conclude "genuine treaties.”
There was also a blunt question as
to whether the point has been reached
where Germany can signify she recog
nises and intends to respect the exist
ing territorial and political status of
Europe.
/ The questionnaire failed to treat
with the German proposals for tem
porary arrangements in the remilita
* rtzed Rhineland zone, pending com
pletion of the first stage of general
negotiations for the peace of Europe.
Other Matters Postponed.
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden
•tated, however, in the questionnaire:
"There are other matters which will
have to be raised at a later date.”
The questionnaire, presented to the
Berlin foreign office yesterday, was
made public in London today in a
, white paper, or government report.
"It is, of course, clear that nego
tiations for a treaty would be useless
If one of the parties hereafter felt
tree to deny its obligations on the
ground that that party was not at
the time in a condition to conclude a
binding treaty,” the questionnaire
said.
Great Britain called attention to
the German memorandum of March
24, calling for negotiation of new
treaties, and suggested it was the
German government’s view that by
Its occupation of the Rhineland, in
, violation of the Locarno pact, it had
established a position for conclusion
of effective treaties.
Welcome ‘‘Clear Declaration."
Other passages, however, the
British questionnaire said, were "cap
able of a different interpretation.”
The British, therefore, the ques
tionaire said, “will welcome a clear
declaration from the German govern
ment to remove any uncertainty on
this point.”
The British rejected German views
Which “might give rise to doubt” on
fho position Germany takes “on
continued maintenance in force of
the remaining operative clauses of
. the treaty of Versailles and indeed
(See LOCARNO, Page 5.)
. 80 FLEE FROM FIRE
(750,000 Damage Estimated at
Santa Rosa Store-Hotel.
SANTA ROSA, Calif., May 8 </?”).—
fMghty guests in the Santa Rosa Hotel
fled to safety early today as fire de
stroyed a building housing the Rosen
berg department store and the hotel.
»The store owners estimated damage at
§750,000,
Church Choir Votes
4-Month Strike as
Director Is Ousted
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’ By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, May 8.—The choir
of the Austin Methodist Episcopal
Church, one of the city’s largest
Methodist churches, is on strike
and will sing no more until Sep
tember 1. The singers so voted
last night, in protest against the
requested resignation of Herman
F. Larson, pastor’s assistant and
music director.
Turning the rehearsal into a
hearing, the choir members quit
ted E. H. Stultkin. Music Com
* mittee chairman, and voted the
walkout after his explanation
failed to satisfy them.
Planes Transport' Soldiers
To Scene of Palestine Riots
British Tommies Rushed
From Cairo to End
Revolt of Arabs.
Extension of General
. Strike Includes Plan
to Pay No Taxes.
BACKGROUND—
In recent months Palestine has
been torn by series of disorders
resulting from Arabian protests
against the immigration of Jews.
Since Palestine is held in mandate
•by Great Britain, the British gov
ernment is vitally concerned with
maintaining peace.
LONDON, May 8 (fP).—(Palcor
Agency).—Reliable sources said to
day that the British government had
ordered transport airplanes filled with
British soldiers to fly from Cairo to
Palestine to prevent further rioting
between Arabs and Jews.
The flying infantrymen, it was
stated, left Egypt last night and were
expected to have the situation in
hand soon. It was believed likely
their goal was the Ramie Airdrome,
between Jaffa and Jerusalem.
Defiance by the Arabs of an ulti
matum by the high commissioner.
Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope to halt
the general strike in Palestine is be
lieved to be responsible for the mili
tary anxiety.
Yesterday the Arab National Coun
cil voted not merely to extend the
(See ARABS, Page 4.)
s* . —
Selassie Party
And Gold Safe
At Jerusalem
By the Associated Pres*.
JERUSALEM, May 8. — Emperor
Halle Selassie and his sombre en
tourage reached Jerusalem today on a
journey of self-exile from conquered
Ethiopia.
The white-clad, sad-faced little
ruler went immediately to a hotel with
his family and nobles upon arriving
by train from Haifa.
Treasure Unloaded.
HAIFA. Palestine. May 8 (IP).—Self
exiled Emperor Haile Selassie of
Ethiopia, his family and two defeated
generals, Ras Kassa and Ras Desta
Demtu, arrived today aboard the
British cruiser Enterprise en route to
refuge in the Holy City.
The Emperor’s face was drawn, but
he was resplendent in a white uniform,
leggings and spats.
Disembarking half an hour after the
arrival of the British warship, the
Negus rode from the dock to a recep
tion through streets patroled by sol
diers armed with machine guns and
mounted lorries guarding against Jew
Arab disturbances.
A marine band played the Ethiopian
national anthem as Haile Selassie in
spected his guard of honor before de
parting by special train for Jerusalem
Sailors and dock workers carried
ashore hundreds of cases laden with
gold and silver, 10 tons of personal
(See SELASSIE, Page 4.)
ETHIOPIA RETAINS
PLACE AT GENEVA
Still Sovereign State in
League of Nations’ Eyes,
Officials State.
BACKGROUND—
Unable to prevent Italy’s East
African invasion, the League of
Nations branded her the aggressor
in the war with Ethiopia and.
sought to bring it to a conclusion
with economic sanctions. All ef
orts of the League to halt his
course were defied by II Duce.
With the capture of Addis Ababa
and the flight of Emperor Haile
Selassie, Mussolini proclaimed “all
Ethiopia ours."
US the Associated Press.
GENEVA, May 8.—Stirred by re
ports that Italy would proclaim out
right annexation of Ethiopia, League
of Nations officials announced today
Ethiopia continued to be recognized as
independent, a sovereign state and a
member of the League.
Officials said Wolde Mariam, Ethio
pian Minister to Paris and delegate
to the League, would have undisputed
right to sit at the Council table next
week during any Italo-Ethiopian dis
cussion.
If Baron Pompeo Aloisl, Italy’s
delegate, left the Council room <mi the
ground that "there is no longer any
Ethiopia,” officials said, new difficul
ties would develop for the Council.
Short Session Likely.
The League plans called for a short
session of the Council, meeting Mon
day, with adjournment until mid-June
when both the Ethiopian and Locarno
problems could be discussed in detail.
The main reason for this course of
action was to permit time for forma
tion of a new French cabinet after the
Leftist parties, which won a majority
in the elections for a Chamber of
Deputies, take control early in June.
Geneva sources thought It likely
Foreign Minister Pierre-Etienne Flan
din and Minister of State Joseph
Paul-Boncour of France would hesi
tate to take a definite stand now on
the African and European problems.
Prefer Awaiting New Regime.
The French delegates would prefer
to permit the projected Socialist gov
ernment of Prance take the initiative
on these questions later, League sources
said.
Such a course, officials said, would
mean autMnatic continuation of sanc
tions against Italy, despite Premier
Mussolini’s declaration that Ethiopia
was conquered and the war ended,
until the Co-ordination Committee
decides whether they should be lifted.
Some jurists contended the League
Assembly must pass on the question
of ending the punitive measures
against Italy since the Assembly au
thorized the sanctions policy.
BULLETIN
William H. Reaguer, 57-year-old
Culpeper, Va., undertaker, was sen
tenced to life imprisonment by Dis
trict Supreme Court Justice Oscar
R. Luhring this afternoon for the
penknife murder of Willie Mae
Wood, 21-year-old bride of 17 days.
He heard the verdict without any
sign of emotion.
Weyerhauser Kidnap Sus
pect May Be Arraigned
in Tacoma Today.
BY REX COLLIER.
Trapped in San Francisco by the
latest coup of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, William Dainard, bet
ter known as Will Mahan, faced ar
raignment in Tacoma, Wash., today,
for the spectacular $200,000 kidnap
ing there of little George Weyer
haeuser just a year ago this month.
Mahan, Northwestern bank robber
and jail-break plotter, was seized
"with the goods on him”—Weyer
haeuser ransom money—on a park
ing lot in downtown San Francisco, aa
the agents of the F. B. I. effected their
third successful kidnaping raid in less
than a week.
Striking swiftly in far-flung sec
tions of the country, J. Edgar Hoover's
organization snared Alvin Karpis,
"Public Enemy No. 1,” in New Orleans
a week ago today; nabbed his gun
wielding pal, Harry Campbell, early
yesterday in Toledo, Ohio, and topped
off the day by surprising Mahan as
he parked his car—in which a small
fortune was cached.
Seated in Automobile.
The F. B. I. agents, following a
long traU of ransom bills, captured
Mahan as he sat on the running board
of his automobile.
Like Karpis and Campbell, he
made no effort to battle it out with
the agents—as the late John Dillinger,
"Baby Face” Nelson, "Pretty Boy"
Floyd and others had made the mis
take of doing.
Announcing Mahan's capture to re
porters upon his arrival here by
plane from the Campbell raid. Hoover
said $7,300 was found when Mahan
was searched, and more than $13,000
additional was discovered in a zipper
bag hidden in the car.
Money Identified.
*'A considerable portion of that
money has been identified as Weyer
haeuser ransom money, despite an
effort to alter the serial numbers of
the bills,” Hoover declared.
The money is being rushed to the
(See MAHAN, Page 5.)
Guest Asks Court to Declare
. Him Natural-Born Citizen
District Supreme Court vu asked
today by Winston Guest, Interna
tionally famous polo player, to order
immigration authorities to declare him
a natural-born American citizen. His
appeal followed a long controversy with
the Immigration Bureau regarding his
status.
Guest worn born in Roehampton,
England, the son of an American
mother, who never renounced her
citizenship, and an English father. In
1919 his parents separated, and under
a separation agreement Mrs. Guest
brought her spn to this country, where
he has lived continuously since.
The polo player attributed his
troubles to the fact that when mother
and son returned to the United States
in August 24, 1919, he was registered
at Ellis Island as an alien. This was
done under a misapprehension as to
his true national status, he maintained
through his attorneys, George W. Dal
zell, Harrison Tweed and Wilbur
Stammler.
A practicing attorney in New York
and once candidate for the New York
State Senate, Guest told the court he
desires to engage in a political career
and feels any status other than that,
1
of a natural-born American would
prove a serious handicap.
His mother was officially restored to
American citizenship by actiop of a
Federal court May 3, 1933, he stated.
Recently, however, when he asked Im
migration Commissioner Daniel W.
MacCormack for an advisory opinion
as to his own citizenship, he was told
he was an alien under the laws of this
country.
Guest said he has taken the oath of
allegiance to the United States many
times and was recognized as an Ameri
can citizen when he was admitted to
the New York bar two years ago, when
he became a student in the Officers
Reserve Corps at Yale, and when he
obtained passports.
Guest added he had voted since he
reached the age of 21, and has repre
sented this country in polo matches
sponsored by the United States Polo
Asosciation, whose rules require citi
zenship.
Mrs. Guest, mother of the polo star,
was born in Pittsburgh in 1872. Her
maiden name was Amy Phipps. She
married Frederick E. Guest June 28,
1905, in London. Winston was born
(See orates Pate 8.).
1
HINDENBURG NEAR
AMERICAN SNORES
ON ATLANTIC NOP
Giant Zeppelin Reported
Only 680 Miles From Nan
tucket Lightship.
631/2-HOUR CROSSING
PREDICTED FOR LINER
Dr. Eckener and Capt. Lehmann
Expect to Land at Lakehurst
at 7 A.M. Tomorrow.
BACKGROUND—
Zeppelin service between Europe
and South America found success
ful, Germany this year turned to
similar plans for service to the
United States. Hindenburg, largest
dirigible ever built, was constructed,
and Capt. Ernest Lehmann was
placed in charge. First flight to
South America was marked by
slight engine trouble over North
Africa on return.
By tbc Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 8 —The German
Zeppelin Hindenburg, on her maiden
North Atlantic flight, was nearing the
shores of America today with a speed
which indicated she might be over
territorial waters shortly after sunset.
With her goal Lakehurst, N. J., and
a crossing time of 63hours a
possibility, the Hindenburg was report
ed at noon, Eastern standard time, as
only 680 miles east-northeast of Nan
tucket lightship by Western Union.
The air was calm and the big ship
was being propelled by her four engines
at a speed of 60 knots.
The ship’s officers said they expected
to moor at. Lakehurst at about 7 a.m.
tomorrowr.
Expected to Land Early.
(Copyrlgbt. l»3b, by the Associated Press.)
ABOARD THE ZEPPELIN HINDEN
BURG, en Route to America, May 8.—
Officers of the Hindenburg indicated
today they hoped to reach Lakehurst,
N. J„ at 7 a.m. (Eastern Standard
time) tomorrow, completing her cross
ing from Friedrichshafen in 63 Vi hours.
The excellent weather into which
the Hindenburg emerged over the
Grand Banks of Newfoundland after
a stormy night was responsible for the
prediction as to the possible arrival
time.
The passengers had their biggest
thrill of the voyage at 11:20 a.m.
Greenwich time (6:30 am. Eastern
Greenwich mean time (6:20 a.m..
Eastern standard time), when a huge
iceberg was sighted.
Capt. Ernest Lehmann, master of
the ship, maneuvered the Hindenberg
so that all could obtain an excellent
view of the sun-bathed colossus of the
seas.
At 8 a.m., Greenwich mean time, (3
am. Eastern standard time), the air
liner rose 3,000 feet above the clouds
to enter a region of sunshine.
Course Changed to North.
At midnight the ship ran into a
40-mile-an-hour headwind and heavy
rain. The course was changed sud
denly from the southwest to the north.
Dr. Hugo Eckener, president of the
Zeppelin Co., said: “We picked up five
tons of water in half an hour. It was
most welcome, for it compensated the
loss of weight through consumption of
fuel."
(The Hindenburg is especially con
structed so that the fabric will absorb
rainwater. The rainwater, in turn, is
conveyed into the ship's ballast tanks
as needed.)
Dr, Eckener added: “We followed
(See HINDENBURG, Page 7.)
SPECULATION CURB
ON FRANC RAISED
Exchange Premiums Fixed as
New Low Hit—Devaluation
Bloc Seeking Calm.
By the Associated Press.
PARIS, May 8.—Market officials to
day made speculation on foreign ex
change in Paris virtually prohibitive
by fixing premiums of 1.25 francs for
three months on dollar operations and
6.7S francs on British pound opera
tions.
France's leading devaluationist
Joined with leaders of present and
future governments in an urgent effort
to calm the country’s financial fears.
As the franc dropped to a new low,
Paul Reynaud, devaluation’s chief ad
vocate, indicated the opposition to the
eventual leftist government would hold
its fire to avoid harming the shaky
monetary situation.
The rate on the British pound,
which has been reflecting the franc’s
weakness, rose from 75.55 francs to
75.86, while the United States dollar
remained at 15.19 francs (6.58 cents
to the franc) on the active foreign ex
change market.
Financial sources attributed the
break in the Bourse partly to selling
orders from the provinces where the
people were reported buying gold or
foreign money to hoard.
(The French franc and French gov
ernment securities have undergone re
peated attacks in financial markets
since the “People’s Front" of Social
ists, Communists and Radical-Social
ists won a sweeping victory in the
recent parliamentary elections. There
have been rumors, officially denied,
that the franc might be devalued—
removing it from the gold standard to
which it has clung throughout the
depression.)
Egypt’s Wafdists Score.
CAIRO, May 8 (JP).—Wafdists (mem
bers of the Egyptian Nationalist party)
today claimed a large majority in
Senate elections.
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QUICK RELIEF VOIE
PRESSED IN DOUSE
Leaders Predict $2,364,
229,712 Bill Will Be
Passed Monday.
BACKGROUND—
The theory of depression-killing
by Government-made work strikes
a snag in the difference of opinion
between Harry Hopkins and Secre
tary Ickes over what type of made
work should be offered the unem
ployed. Ickes believes in dams and
other huge projects, Hopkins in
light work.
A year ago Hopkins won in get
ting blanket authority from Con
gress to spend $4,1 $0,000,000 as he
saw fit. Yesterday the House re
ported a bill giving Hopkins the
same sort of right over the 193$
$1^00,000,000 relief appropriation.
Thwarting an attempt to swing the
huge Democratic majority behind a
plan to change President Roosevelt's
relief program, House leaders drove to
day toward a quick vote on the $1.
425,000,000 fund.
Confidently, they predicted that a
$2,364,229,712 deficiency bill contain
ing the relief money for the next fiscal
year would go through unchanged next
Monday.
Representative Beiter, Democrat of
New York led his “P. W. A. bloc” into
a Democratic caucus last night, seek
ing to pledge the majority to earmark
$700,000,000 of the relief fund for Sec
retary Ickes’ Public Works Administra
tion, a move opposed by President
Roosevelt.
•His move failed by what he said was
70-to-53 vote. Charging that leaders
used ‘‘steam roller tactics,” he indi
cated he would fight on the floor today
to have at least some of the money set
aside for P. W. A. as distinct from
Harry L. Hopkins’ Works Progress Ad
ministration, which has been slated
to receive the bulk of the money.
Beiter mentioned $350,000,000 as his
new goal.
Leaden Predict Defeat.
The leaders contended, however.
that the earmarking move was defin
itely beaten. They predicted the same
fate for Republican efforts to disman
tle W. P. A.’s system of direct Federal
spending and substitute Federal grants
to States, with local committees dis
bursing the funds.
Before the vote was taken in caucus
there was warm discussion in which
Chairman Buchanan of the Appropria
tions committee, Majority Leader
Bankhead of Alabama and Representa
tive Ford of California spoke in op
position to the earmarking proposal.
Bankhead explained a proposed com
promise, under which local commun
ities could obtain loans from the Re
construction Finance Corp. for their
share of heavier construction proj
ects of the type carried on by P. W.
A. Under this compromise W. P. A.
would handle these projects.
Members of the Beiter bloc had com
plained that under present plans com
munities would not be able to go
(See RELIEF, Page 4.1
GRAF REACHES BASE
IN GERMANY SAFELY
Damaged Ship Takes Short Cat
Up Rhone Valley With
French Permission. 4
By the Aiiocltted Preu.
FRIED RICH8HAFEN, May 8.—The
Graf Zeppelin, after bucking bad
weather over the Atlantic and taking
a short cut up the Rheme Valley with
the permission of the French govern
ment, reached its base safely today in
a flight from South America.
The Graf, companion ship of the
Hindenburg, now crossing the North
Atlantic to the United States, had
rfcuck a hangar wall at Rio de Janeiro
before starting the return trip, but
Domdr. Hans von Schiller said the
aoddent had not hampered navigation.
A broker girder of a stern motor
tondola had been repaired and
stabilised.
The ship was given a thorough ex
amination and immediate repairs. It
wiB start for South America again
Monday on its regular
Hopkins Sees Vast Relief Need,
Beats Ickes to Roosevelt’s Ear
Champion New Deal Spender Convinces
President Millions More May Be
Required After Elections,
BT CARLISLE BARGERON.
One of the reasons Harry Hopkins
has won out over Secretary Ickes in
the “battle between the spenders,” it
is learned, is because he has convinced
the President that he is lucky to get
by with only a *1,500,000,000 relief
fund at this time, and that after the
elections, there very likely will have
to be a supplemental appropriation of
between *500,000,000 and *900,000,000.
On the basis of these figures, relief
would cost *2.000,000,000 or *2,400,
000,000 for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1937. Hopkins has sold the
President on the idea that the *1,500,
000,000 will carry relief only through
next January. As a result, Mr. Roose
velt Is apparently against letting Mr.
Ickes have even a penny. Certainly
he is against letting him have as much
as *400.000.000, whereas Mr. Ickes had
reason to believe when the original
relief fund was asked for that it
would be all right for Congress to
tack on an additional $700,000,000 for
him.
Hopkins’ friends say admiringly that
he is so persuasive that he ‘‘can talk
the ears off of a brass monkey.”
Philosophy Brought Out.
The controversy around the spenders
has brought out. however, Hopkins’
whole relief philosophy. It develops
that he has thousands of approved
projects around the country which are
just waiting for a relief situation to
develop. Specifically, there is the
case, and simply for example, of Po
mona, Calif., where at least one pro
ject has already been approved but
it cannot be carried out at present
because no relief labor is yet available.
Hopxlns is satisfied, however, that
sooner of later a relief situation will
turn up.
His idea of a relief situation is. for
example, that of a manufacturing
plant that has been operating steadily,
(See BARGEION, Page 6.)
ROOSEVELT SEEKS
IS ON INDUSTRY
Wants to Build Up Ones
With Capacity for
Expansion.
By the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt said today he
was seeking suggestions from indus
trial leaders on how to build up certain
industries that have a large capacity
for expansion, particularly railroad
equipment and housing.
The Executive, in response to ques
tions at his press conference, ex
plained this was the purpose of recent
talks with such captains of industry as
Bernard M. Baruch, Owen D. Young
and Walter P. Chrysler.
The latter saw the President yester
day.
The President said the railroad
equipment industries were being held
back because railroads, heavily laden
with capital charges, were unable to
buy equipment.
He added that before adequate
housing for low income groups could
be provided, construction would have
to be placed on a mass production
basis like the automobile industry.
Legislation Not Planned.
The President said no legislation
was planned for this session looking
to an improvement in railroads’ abil
ity to buy equipment, but that the
subject was being given much study.
As to housing, he said construction
was picking up very well on homes for
persons in the medium-income groups.
But he added that no way had yet
been found to turn out a $2,500 home
on a volume basis to take care of a
big demand for this type of house.
Mr. Roosevelt said he asked Chrysler
the hypothetical question of how much
it would cost a local machine shop to
turn out a $600 car and was in
formed around $3,500.
The President said this illustrated
that houses were being built for low
income groups on a local machine shop
' (See ROOSEVELT, Page 2.)
CREW OE 26 SAVED
Three Vessels Limp to Port,
One Sinks After Collision
in Channel Fog.
Py th« Associated Press.
LONDON, May 8.—Three damaged
ships proceeded to port today, one was
sunk and its crew of 26 rescued after
two collisions last night in fog that
enveloped the English channel.
The 3,551-ton Netherlands cargo
steamer Alphard went down near
Os tend, Belgium, Just north of the
channel after colliding with the 21.000
ton Hamburg-American liner New
York.
The German vessel reported all
members of the Alphard’s crew were
taken aboard the New York.
The liner, bound from New York to
Hamburg, suffered damage to its bow.
but proceeded to Cuxhaven, Port of
Hamburg, to land the rescued seamen.
Less than an hour after the Ostend
collision, the 5,428-tan Italian cargo
ship Antonietta Lauro and the 32,565
ton steamer Columbus of the North
German Lloyd line crashed in the
Straits of Dover, the channel between
England and France.
The Italian ship, badly battered and
its forecastle smashed, turned to the
nearby English Port of Dover.
The Columbus, en route from New
York to Bremerhaven, reported only
slight damage and continued on Its
course.
BRUNO JUROR KILLED
HIGH BRIDGE, N. J„ May 8 OP).—
Philip Hockenbury, 66, one of the
jurors who convicted Bruno Richard
Hauptmann of murdering the Lind
bergh baby, was killed today by a
train.
A trackwalker, Hockenbury appar
ently stepped from behind one train
into the path of another.
He was the second of the 12 Haupt
mann jurors to die, Lis com Case of
Lansdown having succumbed to a
heart ailment in February.
Goose, Deserted by New Mate,
Runs Amuck, Killing Ducklings
The old, old problem of the eternal
triangle has caused one of life’s little
tragedies in the goose family at the
bird sanctuary at Roaches Run, on
the Mount Vernon Memorial Boule
vard, it was learned today.
Honkus, a goose from Canada, whose
recently acquired mate eloped with a
newcomer Wednesday night, has gone
on a rampage, killing 10 newly hatched
ducklings and devouring four of them.
Disturbed, Paul P. Hodge, caretaker,
will go into conference with W. E.
Crouch, acting chief of the Game
Management Division of the Biological
i Survey, to decitj^ how to appease
Honkus. Officials said it may be nec
essary to destroy him unless he mends
his manners.
The thwarted lover’s conduct Is in
marked contrast to his attitude last
year, when he stood guard over or
phan ducklings. About a month ago
a dock of Canada geese passed north
ward, remaining overnight at the
sanctuary, and thus enabling Honkus
to get a mate.
Last week, however, a drake dew In,
got acquainted and stole Honkus’
bride. Then, to make things worse for
Honkus, all the rest of the Canada
geese dew away, leaving him a bach
elor with no
TAX BILL ED DUE
FOR MODIFICATION
AS BEARINGS END
Harrison Sees Adherence to
Essence of President’s
Recommendations.
COMMITTEE TO WORK
IN EXECUTIVE SESSION
Chairman Does Not “Anticipate
Much Trouble” in Report
ini' Measure.
BACKGROUND—
Since it was suggested March 3
in a message from the Pr&ident,
business has fought against the
plan of imposing a tax on corpora
tion surpluses. The White House
put this proposal forward as a rev
enue getter superior to the older
tax of corporation income.
This tax and the rest of the
legislation designed to raise an ex
tra 1800,000,000 a year for the
Treasury was approved by the
House two weeks ago.
By the Associated Press.
Hearings on the House tax bill wers
concluded by the Senate Finance Com
mittee today with a forecast by Chair
man Harrison that a bill would be
passed raising the revenue asked by
President Roosevelt and adhering to
the philosophy of his recommendations.
Harrison conceded there would be
some modifications in the proposal for
taxing undistributed corporate profits,
but said he did not "anticipate much
trouble” in getting the bill out.
Monday, Harrison said, the com
mittee will go into executive session to
begin work on the bill. He forecast it
would take at least all next week.
The committee, he said, would ask
the Treasury experts "many ques
tions” about some of the points raised
in the public hearings.
“We want to write everything con
structive in the bill without destroying
the philosophy of it," he said.
Opposition Discounted.
Commenting on the strong business
opposition expressed in the hearings,
Harrison said "I never found any tax
bill where anybody advocated it and
in that respect this bill is not much
different from all the others.”
Informed that President Roosevelt
had said at a press conference today
that the tax question was not settled
yet when asked about the effect of
levies on railroads. Harrison com
mented that the spokesmen for the
carriers had made a “good presenta
tion” with reference to the railroads in
receivership.
As the hearings closed, committee
members were giving attention to pro
posals for superimposing a surtax on
undistributed profits over the present
corporation structure. Instead of re
building the corporation tax plan en
tirely.
A spokesman for the New York So
ciety of Certified Public Accountant*
recommended such a plan and Sen
ator Connally, Democrat, of Texas
asked the Treasury for estimates of
revenue a program of taht kind would
realize.
Flat Tax Is Proposed.
The New York society proposed a
flat 15 per cent corporate income tax
with an additional levy ranging from
4 per cent to 20 per cent on undis
tributed income.
The rate would be 4 per cent on in
come retained up to 20 per cent, 5 per
(See TAXES, Page 2.)
JAPAN’S EX-REBELS !
OFF FOR MANCHUKUO
First Division of Army Vows to
Wipe Out Blot on Record
by Foreign Service.
By the Associated Press.
TOKIO. May 8.—The Japanese
Army's 1st Division began its move
ment to Manchukuo today, vowing to
remove the stain placed on its reputa
tion for participation In the army up
rising of February 26.
The division, recruited from Tokio
and the surrounding prefectures, will
replace a division already en route
home, and its departure therefore
does not mean the Japaneses forces
in the Japanese-sponsored Asiatic
state will be increased.
The division's members recently
marched to Tokio shrines, taking the
vow to wipe out the smudge on their
record for joining the abortive rebel
lion early this year.
Lighter Cap Still in Girl’s Lang.
PHILADELPHIA, May 8 OP).—An
operation to remove an inch-long
cigarette lighter cap from the lung of
16-year-old Pauline Lane will not be
performed for two weeks. Temple Uni
versity Hospital said today.
An earlier report said that a suc
cessful operation had been performed
a few hours after the girl arrived from
Knoxville, Tenn., yesterday.
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