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or night. Temperatures, highest, 78, at 2 Sunday Morning and /
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GERMAN WARSHIP
BOMBED AND FIRED
IN AERIAL ATTACK
Battle Declared Provoked by
Cruiser in Turning Guns
on Planes.
NAZI VESSELS WARNED
TO SHUN REBEL PORTS
Valencia Notifies Admiral Von
Feschel His Ships Must Remain
10 Miles Off Coast.
BACKGROUND—
Spain’s bloody civil tear which has
raged since mid-July of 1936, has
been marked by repeated charges
that Germany and Italy, both
Fascist, are aiding Fascist insur
gents. Non-intervention accord
I reached last December has had
I little effect in depleting surge of
! men and arms into Spain. Grow
I ing tension between the Spanish
i loyalist, government and Germany
I and Italy has been evident since
failure of Insurgent Gen. Franco
to take key cities of Madrid and
Bilbao.
By the Associated Press.
VALENCIA, Spain. May 29.—The
Spanish government announced to
night two of its warplanes had dropped
four bombs on the German "pocket
battleship" Admiral Scheer at Ibiza in
the Balearic islands tonight after the
cruiser opened fire.
' The exploding bombs set fire to the
warship.
The ministry of defense said the
planes were making a reconnaissance
over the islands.
•'On passing over Ibiza,” the minis
try said, "the warship, anchored 200
yards oft the breakwater, opened heavy
anti-aircraft artillery fire against the
planes, which committed no act of
aggression against either the ship or
the city.
"The airplanes responded to the
attack by dropping bombs, four of
which struck the ship, causing ex
plosions.”
The Admiral Scheer is one of the
German vessels participating in the
non-intervention control patrol to pre
vent arms and men from reaching
either side In the Spanish civil war.
At Berlin, official sources professed
to have no information of the reported
bombing.
Answers German Protest,
The Valencia government earlier
answered a protest from Admiral von
Feschel, commander of German war
ships in the Mediterranean, declaring
the non-intervention control plan pro
vided that ships must remain at least
10 miles off Spanish coasts.
Von Feschel protested that govern
ment planes had flown over German
control ships several times "as if to
attack.” This the Valencia govern
ment denied.
The government aLso warned Von
Feschel that it could not guarantee
the safety of German naval craft par
ticipating in the international patrol
If they enter insurgent ports “with
out Justification.”
“Moreover,” the announcement said,
•‘control of the island of Ibiza, ac
cording to decisions of the Non-Inter
vention Committee, is charged to the
French Navy”
Reports Palma Bombed.
The Valencia government also de
clared that Palma, on the insurgent
held island of Mallorca, had been
bombed by government planes as a
port “harboring ships used for the
transport of war supplies to insur
gents'.”
(Wireless messages from Valencia
received In London said the planes
which bombed the German cruiser
were flying to Palma to make an air
raid at the time the cruiser is alleged
to have opened fire.)
“BIG PUSH” AWAITED.
Franco-Spanish Frontier Vigilance
Tightened as Attack Nears.
HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Fron
tier. May 29 04>).—Spanish Insurgents
tonight put into effect strict border
vigilance because of what officers said
was ‘‘a big attack” Gen. Emilio Mola
planned to launch tomorrow morning.
Officers declined to say anything
more about the military plans, but
asserted that until further notice no
one would be allowed to cross from
Spain into France.
Earlier, the defenders of Bilbao were
reported to have inflicted heavy losses
on the insurgents in routing an in
surgent advance guard near Orduna,
on the Nervion River south of the
Basque capital.
(Four German aviators arrived at
6t. Jean ds Luz, France, aboard the
French unlioat Audacieuse to be re
leased in exchange for prisoners held
by insurgents.
(The group, taken to the French
port from Bilbao, included Walter
Klenzl, Gunther Schulze and Hans
Joachim Wandel. Also aboard the
gunboat was Leopold Galy, the French
pilot of the Air Pyrenees pasenger
plane, Injured when his ship was shot
down by Insurgent air raiders last
Wednesday.)
ITALY MAY ASK APOLOGY.
Indemnities Also May Be Demanded
for Spanish Bombing.
ROME. May 29 (A*).—Sources dose
to the government said tonight Italy
may demand from the Spanish gov
ernment an apology and possibly in
demnities for families of six Italians
killed in the air bombing of the Ital
ian naval auxiliary vessel Barletta off
Palma, Island of Mallorca.
The Rome government asserts a
Spanish government airplane made
the attack. A protest was made yes
terday to the Non-Intervention Com
mittee in London, to which the apol
ogy would be made.
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Radio Programs, Page F-3.
Complete Index, Page A-2.
Amelia Earlmrt Ready to Start
West-East Trip Around Globe
Noted Flyer Reverses Route on Second
Trial Due to Weather—Will Fol
low Equatorial Route.
Special Dispatch to Tha Star.
MIAMI, May 29.—Amelia Earhart, who arrived here from California a
week ago on a leisurely shakedown cruise of her rebuilt ‘‘flying laboratory,”
Announced today that she is ready for another try at aerial globe girdling
honors, but will reverse her route this time and attempt a west-east flight
roughly approximating the equator.
Final tests of the navigation Instruments in her Wasp-motored Lockheed
jsiecira monoplane were Deing mane'
today at the Miami Municipal Airport
and it is possible she will take off to
morrow morning en route to South
America and Africa, but she said it
was more likely the start would be
made Monday or Tuesday.
Miss Earhart also disclosed that
Capt. Fred J, Noonan, veteran aerial
navigator who instructed all of Pan-,
American Airways flight crews in that
company’s conquest of the Pacific, will
accompany her throughout all stages
of her projected flight. Noonan was
one of the three men aboard the
"flying laboratory” with her when she
took off from Oakland on March 17
and flew 2,410 miles to Honolulu, the
-
| first leg of an East-West attempt to fly
i around the world, and he was In the
1 ship when the landing gear collapsed
and partially wrecked tt on the take
olT from Hawaii for Howland Island,
but it was Miss Earhart’s Intention
then to complete her globe-girdling
adventure alone after crossing the
Pacific and reaching Port Darwin,
Australia.
The present change of plans, she
said, is due to weather prevailing at
this time of year over the course origi
nally mapped out for her flight. More
specifically, her decision to fly from
West to East resulted from the lmmi
1 (See EARHART~Page A-3.)
Court Bill Disposal and
Wages-Hour Measure
Hold Answer.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
Fear Congress may be kept here
all Summer and well Into the Fall
is growing among Democratic Sena
tors and Representatives.
The coming week, however, prom
ises a number of happenings that
1 may throw light on the situation.
The Supreme Court—under attack
in the Roosevelt court bill—adjourns
for the Summer recess Tuesday and
Associate Justice Van Devanter goes
on the •'retired” list, leaving a vacancy
to be filled by the President.
Joint hearings on the administra
tion's minimum wage and maximum
j hours bill for labor will begin be
: fore the House and Senate Committees
on Labor, also on Tuesday.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is
I expected before the week closes to
! report adversely the President's court
reorganization bill and place it on
the calendar.
The House will have a showdown
Tuesday, unless the administration
again postpones it, on the adminiatra
tion's *1,500,000,000 relief bill, which
insurgent blocs have amended ma
terially.
There is prospect, too. of some early
action on the President's plan for the
reorganization of the executive de
partments of the Government.
President's Course Important.
It is obvious that if the President
continues to insist upon going ahead
at the present with the court bill,
the executive departments reorgani
zation bill, the labor bill, not to men
tion a number of other legislative
recommendations he has sent to Con
gress, that body may be still here
when snow flies.
No one has yet been able to pry out
of the administration leaders just
what their course will be in regard
to the court reorganization bill. The
attitude of the opponents of the meas
ure is that they will not delay a vote
on the President's original measure,
believing they have it beaten, but that
they will filibuster for weeks and
months if a compromise 1s advanced
that might have a chance of pass
ing the Senate.
Some of the opponents of the court
bill want the issue decided before Con
gress adjourns—they do not wish it
to go over into the congressional cam
paign of next year. Other opponents
would be entirely satisfied to have the
court fight go into the campaign, be
lieving they would gain strength
thereby. The first group are fearful
that if they have to go up against
President Roosevelt’s great popularly
and be recognized as opponents of his,
they may be in danger.
The labor standards bill, which was
sent to the Congress last week with a
considerable fanfare of trumpets, has
struck a number of snags. It does
not look as well to members of the
(See CONGRESS, Page A-5.)
CHILD DIES OF POISON
Three Sisters Critically 111—Gar
den Spray Blamed.
MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 39 (A3).—
Five-year-old Ruth McGhee died in
a hospital today of what doctors be
lieve was poisoning, while three of
her sisters lay seriously ill.
Hospital attaches said Ann, 3; Peggy,
7, and Rosalie, 8, were in a serious
condition.
Dr. Ben Davis of the hospital staff
said the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Earl
McGhee, expressed belief the children
might have eaten vegetables and fruits
from a garden which had been sprayed
against insect pests.
STEEL STRIKE BILL
ttOSETOM
Little Prospect of Accord
Within Next Few Days
Is Seen.
BACKGROUND—
Launching organization drive in
mats production industries first
among automobile factory em
ployes, John lewis’ Committee for
Industrial Organizatton now is de
voting equal attention to the steel
concerns.
With company officials loathe to
hold production during a period of
almost unprecedented activity,
the C. I. O. speedily won contracts
with subsidiaries of giant United
States Steel. Drive now is di
rected against three of the largest
“independents," who are bitterly
fighting unionization moves.
Er the Associated Press.
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, May 29.—
The cost of the steel strike soared into
millions of dollars tonight against a
background of pickets pacing a 500
mile front where at least 72,000 men
are idle in the Nation's greatest manu
facturing industry.
While companies and strikers locked
horns on the union’s "strike or starve’’
strategy designed to remove a few
thousand men remaining in the mills,
a survey set at more than <3,000.000 a
single week’s losses in the strike as
measured by wages and profits.
The Federal Government took defi
nite steps in the paralyzing strike sit
uation by dispatching two National
Labor Relations Board attorneys to
Cleveland to help Regional Director
Ralph A. Lind investigate charges by
steel union leaders that Republic Steel
Corp. was guilty of unfair labor prac
tices.
.ine anomeys, Kooeri Kraani ana
Christopher Hoey, took up digging
into the evidence. The investigation
will determine whether a labor board
hearing will be held.
With the walkout moving into its
fifth day and little apparent prospect
for settlement before it has lasted a
week, figures indicated a loss of at
least $2,340,000 weekly In wages. The
basic wage for Northern steel mill
workers is $5 a day for five 8-hour
days, with time and a half for the sixth
day, which virtually all mills have
been utilizing to keep abreast of orders
unequaled since 1929.
Three Companies Involved.
The three companies involved—Re
public Steel Corp., Youngstown Sheet
& Tube and Inland Steel Co.—were
losing at the rate of *1,189,384 on the
basis of their first quarter earnings
this year.
This yardstick, admittedly fallacious
in part, was however, the best avail
able. The three companies reported
net profits of *15,461,861 for the first
three months this year, and their
operations have continued into the
Spring at about the same level, steel
men said.
The Steel Workers’ Organizing Com
mittee tightened its strike strategy
today in all the six States affected in
an effort to drive remaining workers
from the mills and shut all the plants
of the companies, from which the
union is seeking signed bargaining
contracts.
Republic, which, with the other com
panles has contended a signed contract
(See STEEL, Page A-5.)
Hoover to Get Honorary Degree.
KALAMAZOO, Mich., May 29 (JP).—
J. Edgar Hoover, director of the
Bureau of Investigation in the De
partment of Justice, will receive an
honoray doctor of science degree at
the 101st commencement at Kalama
*oo College June 14. The F. B. I.
chief will deliver the commencement
address, speaking on ‘‘Adventures in
Scientific Law Enforcement.”
William J. Nolan Gets Parole;
Faces New Trial on 23 Counts
William J. Nolan, former head of
the bankrupt Nolan Motor Co., >who
has been serving a prison term for
bribery, has been granted parole, ef
fective immediately, the Board of In
determinate Sentence and Parole an
nounced yesterday.
Nolan was sentenced in District
Court to a prison term of from four
months to a year on a charge of brib
ery growing out of a divorce action
filed against him by his wife. He
began his term in Lorton Reformatory
December 18.
In announcing its decision, the
Parole Board said it had received a
large number of letters from prom
inent citisens urging his parole "and
has received no contrary expressions.”
Nolan, along with two of his former
business associates, was Indicted April
5 in 23 counts on charges of forgery,
uttering, false pretenses aid conspir
acy to commit false pretenses.
Oranting the former auto dealer im
mediate freedom, the Parole Board
said:
"One of the main purposes of parole
is to aid in the rehabilitation of men
who have enjoyed a good standing
in the community. • • *
"The board feels from an examina
tion of the record that this applicant
is not of an anti-social type and that
he could safely be paroled. • * • It
may be that the new charge against
him will prevent such a plan from
being carried out, but this is a mat
ter which cannot fee determined now.**
HE ON RELIEF
SNAGGEDBYSPLIT
on mm
Administration’s Attempt to
Work Out Compromise
Fails in Parley.
$150,000 IS SOUGHT
FOR ROAD PURPOSES
Agreement* Reached on Plans for
Flood Control and
Public Works.
BACKGROUND—
First beset by economy bloc that
sought unsuccessfully to cut fund
from tl.500,000.000 requested by
President to 11,000,000,000, Fed
eral relief appropriation bill was
attacked last week by House bloc
seeking to earmark bulk of fund.
Riding over House leadership,
bloc succeeded in forcing passage
of numerous amendments, includ
ing slash in salary of Administra
tor Hopkins. At last minute,
leaders forced postponement of
final vote on bill until coming
week.
B, the Associated Press.
Failure to reach an understanding
on expenditure of fund* for highway*
last night blocked an administration
attempt to work out a compromise
on the riddled relief bill.
A round of conferences at the White
House rnd Capitol ended without a
decision by leaders of a House bloc
to withdraw amendments that tenta
tively earmarked *505,000,000 of the
*1,500,000,000 relief fund for public
works, flood control and road projects.
The administration desires a free
hand to allot the *1,500,000,000 as It
deems advisable.
A series of proposals and counter
proposals produced what both sides
described as a satisfactory arrange
ment covering public works and flood
control. Whether a complete agree
ment can be obtained probably will
not be known until Wmise Roads
Committee meets Tuesday.
A majority of the Roads Commit
tee was described as wanting high
way construction carried on under
direction of State highway commis
sions on a contract basis.
President Roosevelt, it was said, in
sists that such work not be done un
der contracts, contending too much
money would be spent for materials.
The administration was said to feel
that county highway boards should
select road projects and then apply
to W. P. A. to supply 100 per cent
of the unskilled labor.
Chairman Cartwright of the Roads
Committee led the battle to earmark
$150,000,000 of the relief fund for
highway purposes.
House Majority Leader Rayburn
told reporters clustered in his office
last night that cm public works the
administration had agreed to carry
out projects “wherever there was a
moral obligation on the part of the
Government to do the job.’’
That means, he said, that the ad
ministration would go ahead with all
projects for which bond elections have
been authorized or held.
Representative Belter, Democrat, of
New York, who led the fight that ear
marked $300,000,000 for public works,
said he was well pleased with the
administration offer and that it would
permit the carrying out of projects
to cost some $150,000,000.
Representative Starnes, Democrat,
of Alabama, who sponsored the amend
ment earmarking $45,000,000 for flood
control, said the administration had
given assurance that at least that
amount and perhaps more would be
spent.
f (^OBMJSON CRUSOE! \
IF I COULD ONLY GET
this heat turned on ,
\MY COURT BiLLiy
II
Wages Paid D. C. Women Found
Under 1923 Statute Minimum
Survey Covers 200 Establishments Em
ploying More Than 12,500—Study An
ticipates Laiv’s Reinstatement.
BACKGROUND—
In 1923, Supreme Court inixili•
dated law by which minimum
wages for women employed in Dis
trict could be fixed.
During past Winter, court up
held similar law for State of Wash
ington and announced that opinion
constituted reversal of that in
volving District statute. Steps to
make reaffirmed law effective here
were taken immediately, survey
of existing wage scales being one
of first developments.
The compensation received by woman
workers here is predominantly lower
than the standards of the minimum
wage law voided In 1923, the Women’s
Bureau of the Labor Department said
last night in making public the re
sults of a survey just conducted at the
instance of the House District Com
mittee.
The study was made in anticipation
of the reinstatement of the minimum
wage law following the recent Supreme
Court decision upholding this type
of legislation. It covered the prevail
ing wage and hour standards in nearly
200 establishments employing more
than 12,500 women in a representative
pay period in April. Factories, stores,
laundries, dry-cleaning plants, beauty
parlors, hotels and restaurants were
included.
“The great majority of these woman
workers were found to be earning less,
and in many instances, considerably
less, than the minimum wage rates
required for experienced women when
the law was invalidated in 1923,” the
report said. "Wide variations charac
terise both hours and earnings of
women in the different industries
today.”
Median Wage Varies.
The median week's wage—half of the
women earning more and half earn
ing lesa—varied in the nldustries
(See MAXIMUM WAGE, Page^AriTT
Head Floating
On Water Is Doll,
Police Discover
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. May 29 —Radio patrol
cars, an emergency police squad and
a police launch screeched up to the
One Hundred and Forty-fifth Street
Bridge over the Harlem River today
after a workman reported seeing a
head floating in the water.
Commandeered row boats joined the
launch in nosing in an hour hunt, to
the accompaniment of advice from on
shore spectators.
Finally a patrolman sighted the
head. Easily, so that the propellers
would not cause it to sink, the launch
crept up. A seine was carefully cast.
It brought to the surface the head
of a life-siaed doll.
Thomas Asks Agency to Find
Jobs Elsewhere for D. C. Idle
Labor Bureau, Under Oklahoman’s Plan, Would
Aid in Ascertaining Worker Need in Localities;
Transportation Would Be Provided.
BACKGROUND—
Mecca of transient unemployed,
Washington has found relief needs
one of most troublesome obligations
in time of increasingly acute fiscal
strain.
While public and private relief
agencies press for increased funds
in 193t D. C. supply bill, vouching
for need at same time, other local
organisations back limited amount
approved by House as part of nec
essary economy in District govern
ment.
B\ J. A. O'LEARY.
•An agency to locate jobs in other
parts of the country for some of
Washington’s unemployed was sug
gested yesterday as a partial solution
of the District's relief problem by
Senator Thomas, Democrat, of Okla
homa, chairman of the subcommittee
handling the 1938 District appropria
tion bill.
The plan occurred to the Oklaho
man after Friday's hearing in which
a down spokesmen for various or
ganisations argued for and against
an increase in the $1,411,500 relief
fund now in the bill, to aid employ
ables who are out of work.
Senator Thomas’ proposal is based
on a belief that a considerable num
ber of persons were attracted to
Washington during the depression in
the hope of finding employment here.
The subcommittee chairman pointed
out that a placement bureau might
be able to find opportunities elw
where for some of these jobless.
Relief Fund a Problem.
He recalled that when he was .in
Florida some time ago, he found
there was a demand in that section
then for labor to work in the fruit
orchards on the sugar cane fields.
Later In the year, he said, there will
be a. similar need for workers in
western afrteultertl States. Ha sz
pressed the opinion that some agency
might b- designated to ascertain, with
the aid of the Department of Labor,
where such requirements exist.
He said he recognized provision
would have to be made for their trans
portation to the point where labor
is needed.
The amount of the relief appropria
tion for the new fiscal year is one
of the major decisions confronting the
Senate group when it begins late this
week to act on changes in the supply
bill.
After a week-end lull, the subcom
mittee will resume hearing civic del
egations Tuesday and Wednesday.
Hoping to end the hearings Wed
nesday, Chairman Thomas will call
the Commissioners back into confer
ence Thursday for a general discus-,
sion.
Visit Children’s Home.
The subcommittee then will be
ready to vote on proposed Increases
and other amendments to the House
text, and these decisions will deter
mine to a large extent the size of the
deficit the District must meet through
the new tax program, subject, of
course, to final conference with the
House.
During yesterday’s recess, Chair
man Thomas paid a visit to the tem
porary Receiving Home for Children
to get first-hand knowledge of the
facilities there. The future use of the
home is at Issue in the pending sup
ply bill, the House having voted to
abandon the institution July 1 and
require the District to provide for the
children through a system of board
ing homes. There are some indica
tions the Senate subcommittee may
recommend that the receiving home
be continued in operation for the time
being.
The subcommittee hopes to be
ready to report the supply MU to the
Senate Appropriations Committee be
fore the end of this week.
Relief Fund Discussed With
Rayburn Before
Departure.
By the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt left Washington
last night for a brief visit to his Hyde
Park, N. Y.t home. His special train
departed at 11 o'clock.
He took advantage of a congressional
interlude to spend the Memorial day
holidays with his 82-year-old mother
at the Dutchess County estate on the
Hudson. He will return to Washington
Wednesday morning.
The President, aides said, would try
to get plenty of sunshine and rest
during his upstate journey to clear
up all traces of the cold he contracted
several days ago.
The Chief Executive saw only one
official caller during the day—Repre
sentative Rayburn of Texas, majority
floor leader. They discussed ways of
settling the House controversy over
earmarking of relief funds.
He also signed several secondary
Mils and began writing a special mes
sage to Congress urging legislation to
check tax evasion and avoidance.
Secretary Marvin H. McIntyre, a
communications officer, secret service
agents and 'two stenographers are ac
companying the President to Hyde
Park. Mrs. Roosevelt is remaining to
keep other engagements.
Before leaving for the railroad sta
tion the President helped Mrs. Roose
velt entertain at a White House buffet
supper for 58 members of the Roose
velt Home Club of Dutchess County,
who have been sightseeing in the city.
More Than Score of Services
Scheduled Today—Holiday
Traffic Heavy.
The National Capital today will pay
honor to its war dead in more than
a score of Memorial day sendees in
all parts of the city, reaching a cli
max at 12:30 p.m., when more than
100 veteran and patriotic organiza
tions will join in the annual exercises
in the Amphitheater in Arlington Na
tional Cemetery. Wreaths also will
be placed at a score of the Capital's
memorials to the Nation's military
leaders.
Tomorrow will be observed as an
official holiday, all Federal and Dis
trict government offices, the public
schools and banks and business houses
remaining closed. The outstanding
services tomorrow will be the annual
exercises at Battle Ground National
Cemetery. Brightwood. at 3:30 p.m.
Unusually heavy holiday traffic was
reported yesterday as thousands of
Washingtonians left the city by rail,
highways and airways. Automobile
associations put extra personnel on
duty to take care of requests for
touring information, inspired in part
by forecasts of good weather for the
two-and-a-half-day holiday. There
also was a heavy influx of tourists yes
terday and last night. Railroads and
airlines ran extra trains and airplanes
to and from the city.
Senator Clark to Speak.
In the absence from Washington of
President Roosevelt, who is spending
the day at Hyde Park, N. Y„ and of
Gen. John J. Pershing, who is in
France, where he will attend the dedi
cation of memorials at American
cemeteries, Senator Bennett Champ
Clark of Missouri, one of the founders
of the American Legion, will be the
speaker at the Arlington exercises.
The services, to be held under
sponsorship of the Grand Army of the
Republic Memorial Day Corp., with
more than 100 affiliated bodies partici
pating, will be preceded at 11:30
o'clock by the laying at the Tomb
| of the Unknown Soldier of wreaths
representing the participating organ
| izations. These ceremonies will be in
i charge of Col. Wallach A. McCathran.
Services in the amphitheater will
be preceded by a musical program by
the Drum and Bugle Corps of Fort
Stevens Post, American Legion, R. H.
Viancour, director, at 11:45 o'clock,
and by a program by the United States
(See MEMORIAL, Page A-4.)
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CONSULATE PICKETED
Californians Protest Italy's Al
leged Part in Spanish War.
LOS ANGELES, May 29 (&)—'The
Italian consulate was surrounded by
a picket line today of some ~5 men
and women, carrying placards reading
"Down with Mussolini,” and "Down
with fascism.”
Police sent 10 men to the scene,
but did not interfere when they dis
covered picketing laws were being Ob'
served.
Pickets explained they belonged to
various organizations which opposed
Italy's alleged participation in the
Spanish war.
Dying Driver Stops Bus Safely
As He Collapses at Wheel
B* a stan correspondent or Tne star.
FAIRFAX, Va., May 29 — Hal Rose
Burris, 33-year-old driver for the Pan
American Bus Co., today brought 25
passengers aboard his bus safely into
a filling station here before collapsing
at the wheel. He died a few minutes
later after being carried into the fill
ing station.
Burris was driving slowly through
Fairfax when he called to the porter
on the bus and asked him to sit be
side him. At the Colonial Inn Burris
drove the bus off the highway and
stopped. The porter, assisted by at
tendants at the filling station, carried
the driver Into the station.
Dr. E. S. Waring, Fairfax physician,
was summoned and arrived about 10
minutes before Burris died. Dr. C. A.
Ransom, county coroner, Issued a cer
tificate of accidental death but de
clined to discuss the cause.
An agent of the company In Wash
ington, when asked If Burris might
have been overcome by carbon mon
oxide ggs from the bus engine, said:
“That was impossible, as 20 passen
gers had ridden all the way from New
York to Washington, an eight-hour
trip. In the same bus.”
The porter told company officials
that Burris told him when he was
called to the front of the bus:
“I want to get my passengers off
the road. I’m feeling dizzy.”
After he had driven off the high
way, Burris staggered from the bus
and asked attendants to call a doctor.
Officials of the company declared
Burris died of heart disease, but Or.
Ransom announced he was conduct
ing a post-mortem examination.
Burris had been with the Pan
American Lines for about four years
and was with the old South Lines,
owned by the same company, for
seven years prior to that. He made
his home with his wife at 1010 Elev
enth street, Washington.
The body will be taken to Albe
marle, S- C., for burial, It was said.
D. C. HEADS DRAFT
PLANS TD ASSESS
INCOMES FOR 193D
10* Point Program Nearly
Complete as Anti-Tax Bloc
Forms in House.
TRADE ASSESSMENT
_ IS REVISED UPWARD
Sales Tax Advocates to Seek Real
Estate Roost to O&in
Own Ends.
BACKGROUND—
Adaption of a 2 per cent retail
tales tax as the foundation of a
one-year emergency tax program
to balance the 1931 District budget
was proposed last week by the
Commissioners. This plan was re
jected by House District Subcom
mittee, which ordered income and
business gross receipts levies as sub
stitutes. Speed is required, since
new fiscal year begins July 1, and
budget as passed by House leaves
° Oop of more than fS,000,000 in
revenues.
District officials yesterday completed
all but one element of a 10-point
tax program, including a local incoma
tax bill to apply as a starter to 1938
incomes, while a bloc was forming in
the House District Committee to fight
enactment of any income levy what*
ever.
While carrying out general direc
tions given by the special House group,
the Commissioners’ advisers inserted
In the income tax bill a provision
which would require the making of
initial returns and payments before
October 1 of this year, covering incomt
received in the 1936 calendar year.
At the same time they revised their
plans for the business privilege tax,
raising the proposed rates from one
half of 1 per cent to three-fifths of
1 per cent on gross receipts.
The application of the income levy
to 1936 Is a brand-new thought In
the tax crisis, resorted to in order
to keep from waiting until late in
the 1938 fiscal years for receipts
needed to meet the impending 16,
000.000 or greater deficit for that
year.
The rates, ranging from 1 to 5 per
cent, would be cut in half for the ini
tial payments this October.
New Sale* Tax Strategy,
Meanwhile, sales tax advocates In
the House District Committee, who
lost the first round of their battle
when the tax subcommittee decided
to substitute an income tax, yester
day planned to fight back with a pro
posal to Increase the real estate levy
from *1.50 to *1.70.
The strategy behind the nlan ia to
force the full committee, which will
meet in special session Thursday to
pass on the new tax program, to
return to the sales tax rather than
raise the real estate tax. Sentiment
in the full committee against tha
income tax is said to be rather pro
nounced. Many members of the full
committee also are understood to
look with disfavor on an increase In
the real estate levy, feeling that real
estate already is bearing its fair share
of the tax burden. In view of this
situation sales tax proponents are
hopeful this plan will be restored to
the tax program as a compromise.
The full membership of the House
committee will meet in special ses
sion Thursday to pass on the new tax
program.
Receipts Unknown.
uisinct omciais said yesterday tliey
could not calculate accurately how
much the revised tax program would
produce, although the Commissioners'
intention was to restrict the income
receipts to $2,000,000 and the business
gross receipts taxes to $3,000,000.
Asked what the proposed ratis would
produce, municipal officials responded:
"We don't know."
They admitted that, by force of
circumstance, they had paid more
attention to the legal framework of
the income and business levy bills
than to the estimates of expected rev
enues. The pressure of time was
given as the explanation, plus th«
statement that Congress easily could
change the rates, if and when better
estimates of returns are available.
At the present time, however, mem
bers of the Commissioners’ Committee
said they did not know whether the
income levy, as now planned, would
bring in $2,000,000, the figure set out
as the desire of the city heads, or
as much as $5,000,000. Also they
said they had no present means of
knowing accurately whether the busi
ness privilege tax would raise more
or less than the $3,000,000 figure out
lined in the Commissioners' plans.
Corporation Counsel Elwood H.
(See D. C. TAXES. PageA-5J
ROOSEVELTS OPEN
GREAT LAKES FAIR
James Snips Ribbon at Entrance,
President Turns on Exposition
Lights.
By the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 29.—
James Roosevelt, eldest son of the
President, formally opened the 1937
Great Lakes Exposition today by
snipping a ribbon barrier across the
main entrance.
The air was immediately Ailed with
the clamor of whistles, horns, sirens
and bells, launching' a day of color
ful ceremony, beginning with a lunch
eon for Roosevelt and a tour of the
Government exhibits. »
Tonight President Roosevelt pressed
a telegraph key in the White House,
transmitting an electrical impulse-*
turning on the exposition's lights.
Exposition officials predicted the
season's attendance is to reach 5,000,
000 or 1,000,000 more than a year ago.
“This Great Lakes Exposition of the
‘making of a Nation,' ” James Roose
velt said, “is an excellent school
teacher for those who want to learn.”