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WEATHER. ----- <U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy, probably occasional showers to- ^ ^ I The Onlv evenimr nnnpv night and tomorrow; slightly cooler to- MSM ^ evening paper night; gentle winds. Temperatures to- M I l^^h ^^^k ^ ” aSnlllgtOIl With the day—Highest, 87. at 1 p.m.; lowest, 71, at I ■ ‘ Associated Pl’esS NeWS 5:45 a.m. Temperature at 2 p.m., 86. I ill WT ov.,1 \\V i V o . & Full report on page A-19. I Jl* ancl Wll'ephOtO Services. Closing N.Y. Market*—Sales—Page 18 Yeiterday’, Circulation, 139,307. * 1 ' — " • .... .. * ■ ... i 1 Some returns not yet received.) 85th YEAR. No. 34,008. riS.T1c!_WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1937—FORTY-EIGHT PAGES. *** ow Mean, A„ociated Press. TWO CENTS. i ! BY KIDNAPER OF SOCIETY MATRON Mrs. William H. Parsons Dis appears From Long Is land Estate. RANSOM NOTE FOUND ON AUTOMOBILE SEAT Husband Returns From New York to Find Wife Strangely Missing. BULLETIN. STONY BROOK. N. Y . June 10 (/P).—A blood-stained hatchet and an ax, found on the poultry farm of William H. Parsons, gentleman tarmer, were rushed to New York City for examination today as Par sons was reported ready to pay $25,000 ransom for tlie return of his missing wife, Alice McDoneli Parsons. 38. and prominent socially. B’ the Associated Press. STONY BROOK. N. Y.. June 10.— Two theories—kidnaping or murder confronted Government investigators seeking to unravel the mystery today ; of the disappearance of Mrs. Alice Parsons, 38. New York social regis tente. from her fashionable North Shore home on Long Island. An eight-State police alarm was tent out. * Bolstering the abduction theory was i it note, penciled <*n cheap white ruled | paper, inclosed in a cheap white ! • en\elope, addressed to William H. Parsons, husband of the missing wom an. Parsons is a Yale graduate, class ; of 1910, and retired business man. | The note was unsigned. It de manded $25,000 and contained the sinister suggestion that police activi- j ty might mean death for Mrs. Parsons. In support of the murder theory Was a blood-stained ax. found on the grounds of the Parsons' chicken farm. The investigators carefully wrapped the ax and expected to » make an analysis of the stains, though j it, was suggested the ax might have been used to kill chickens. Finds Wife Missing. The ransom note was found last night shortly after Parsons, returning from a trip to New York City and finding his wife missing, notified the State police barracks at Bay Shore, on the south side of tlie island. It was addressed to • Bill Parsons.” , Tlie authorities would not disclose its contents, but it was learned from a * reliable source the note read'. "I have your wife. Bring $25,000 to the Jamaica bus terminal within the next 24 hours and my men will meet you and call you by name. Do not bring any cops If you do. Alice will | never speak to you again.” j Mrs. Parsons, the former Alice W. McDonnell, was said to be worth about S200.000. of which she recently i inherited $50,000. Her husband, too, . w as said to be well-to-do. Drove Off With Couple. The story of Mrs. Parsons' disap pearance came from Mrs. Anna Kupryonova, described by the police ns a high-born Russian woman, who j had worked for the Parsons family for about four years. . Mrs. Kupryonova, Assistant District Attorney Joseph S. Arata of Suffolk County reported, said a middle-aged couple called for Mrs. Parsons yester- j t day morning at the Parsons’ horn", ■ Long Meadow Farm, and that the: matron drove off with them. The mystery deepened early this , afternoon when Mrs. Leona Newton. I a former postmistress of Stony Brook, I told the police she had seen Mrs. Par- 1 sons driving east through the village about 1:30 pm. yesterday, about two' and a half hours after the time fixed for her departure by Mrs. Kupryonova. j Mrs. Newton was brought to the j Parsons home and looked at the Par- , sons car to see if it was the one she had seen. She said it was not the car. ! Mrs. Parsons, she said, was accom- . pamed by another person, but the , police did not disclose whether it was ; a man or a woman. The road over which the car was moving would take it to Orient Point ; or to Montauk Point, roughly 35 or 40 ! miles away. From Orient Point a ferry runs to New London, Conn. ! Parsons had gone to New York City, ! 65 miles away, yesterday morning to ' met two Russians at Tenth street and ' Second avenue on the lower East Side i of Manhattan. The appointment with the Russians, he told Arata, had been j made by Mrs. Kupryonova after he ' had expressed a desire to learn how to i > make a Russian delicacy called Eng- j lish squab paste. Mrs. Parsons drove him to the rail- j road station at St. James, about 10 1 miles away, and promised to meet him jvhen he returned about sunset. Parsons told Arata he got off the train at Stony Brook a little after 7 (See :KIDNAPING, Page A-3.) -• . FLYERS RECOUNT LEAP FROM SHIP Eastern Men Tell How They Jumped From $55,000 Plane in Blizzard. By the Associated Press. SALT LAKE CITY, June 10.—Two ! Eastern aviators, who had to ‘bail • out" in a storm over Nevada, headed here today for a conference with flying authorities engaged in investi gation of Utah's December air trag edy that killed seven. The two, Maj. Clarence Hodge of the Massachusetts National Guard and Lieut. Joseph L. McNeil of Boston, were en route by train from Ely, New, 200 miles west, to relate how they leaped for their lives from an airplane driven out of control by a violent desert blizzard. f "I don't know exactly where the wreckage is—somewhere in the desert between Ely and Elko, New, probably —but I think I can find it with the aid of an Army map,” Maj. Hodge said. ' J Nats Get Ferrell Brothers And Mel Almada in Trade WES and RICK FERRELL. BEN CHAPMAN. BUCK NEWSOM. BY FRANCIS E. STAN, ] S:aff Correspondent oi The Star. ST. LOUIS. June 10.—In a final, desperate effort to pull the Washington ball club out of the doldrums. Owner Clark i Griffith announced today that Out- ' fielder Ben Chapman and Pitcher Buck Newsom had been traded to the Baston Red Sox for Catcher Rick Per- ] rell, his brother. Pitcher Wesley Fer rell and Outfielder Mel Almada. The announcement, coming from Chattanooga. Tenn., where Griffith is straightening the affairs of^iat Wash ington “farm" club, surprised even 1 Manager Buckv Harris, although ne- , gotiations had been on for some time. As late as last night. Harris denied any possibility of such a deal going through. Griffith declared there was no cash involved. The ' key'' men in this deal, which is one of the biggest swung by the Wash ington club in recent years, are Rick Ferrell and Chapman. For the first time since Luke Sewell was sent away the Nationals now have a top-flight catcher in the slender Ferrell, while the Red Sox are getting in Chapman a badlv-needed outfielder and right handed hitter. Chapman and Newsom will leave (See BASE BALL. Page A^A) GUFFEY AIMS Declares Refusal to Sign Contracts Smacks of “Dictatorship.” BULLETIN. Senator Guffy asked the Senate today to broaden its proposed in vestigation of the Midwestern steel strike situation to include the im portation of "gunmen" and the illegal holding of machine guns and "other war paraphernalia" by the steel firms involved. Uy the Associated Press. Senator Guffey, denouncing refusal of independent sleel companies to sign contracts with the unions, told the Senate today their action "smacks of an arbitrary frame of mind pretty close to dictatorship.” The Pennsylvania Democrat laid "sole responsibility" for the current steel strike at the doors of the inde pendents, saying they could end it im mediately by signing up as the United States Steel and other companies had done Guffey delivered a prepared speech to the Senate. He said the refusal of the big independent steel companies to sign with the union "is a situation which has no explanation in common sense in morals or justice." "Perhaps we are here seeing the hying gasp of the so-called nigged individualists—Tom Girdler. Frank Purnell and the Block brothers in Chicago,” he added. He said the independents had an nounced recognition of the steel union and said they would accept the terms of the contract but would not sign. "I contend that such an attitude,” he continued, “taxes one's belief in their sincerity to carry out the terms of the agreement. Without a signed contract, there is nothing to prevent Tom Girdler, for instance, from issu ing an order tomorrow to cut wages and to lengthen hours. Of course, his workmen could go on strike, but that's exactly why they are on strike. "I confess, gentlemen, that this attitude on the part of Republic Steel, Youngstown Sheet & Tube, Inland Steel and the others who are refusing to sign an agreement is one of the most amazing spectacles in our era. "It smacks of an arbitrary frame of mind pretty close to dictatorship. It seems to me that the American people should be told of this great injustice being done to the steel workers; and it seems to me American public opinion should tell Tom Girdler, Frank Purnell and the Block brothers that the just thing, the right thing to do is to sign a aontract with the union.” -• Doctor on Case Stricken. WELLINGTON, Kans.. June 10 (&).—Dr. H. A. Vincent, 61, diagnosed a patient's ailment as heart disease yesterday %nd warned, “You might go at any time." A few minutes later the physician was dead. Fellow prac titioners said it was heart disease OVER FOOD TRUCK Republic Strikers and Police Clash at Youngstown Plant. BACKGROUND— Steel strike began May 25, when Committee for Industrial Organiza tion moved to force signing of con tracts with, four independent steel firms: Republic, Youngstown Sheet dr Tube and Inland. Unionization drive had been spurred by accept ance of contracts by United States Steel, long considered strongest anti-union company. About 70.000 workers were thrown out of fobs when the strike against the inde pendents began. Violence has marked its progress and the death toll has risen to eight with many injured in rioting. B? the Associated Press. YOUNGSTOWN Ohio, June 10 Police and sheriff s deputies clashed with Great Lakes steel strike pickets here early today, leaving 17 persons injured. Hand-to-hand fighting broke out at the rain-swept gates of the strike closed Republic plant in this North eastern Ohio industrial city as a food laden truck roared down a viaduct ramp into the mill, occupied by maintenance men and company guards. Tear gas and night sticks were brought into play by the 50 policemen and deputies against a force of several hundred strikers. The strikers gave way only after at least 14 of their number were gassed, two policemen received head injuries and a spectator was wounded by an exploding tear gas shell. The newest outbreak of violence in the bloody controversy whicl\ already has cost eight lives overshadowed peace moves by Governors of Ohio and Michigan in the Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee strike for signed contracts from Republiic, Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. and Inland Steel Corp. Pickets Shout for Aid. The 20 pickets on duty under the viaduct amid a heavy rainfall shouted to fellow unionists for aid at the plant entrance. They claimed a police squad car escorted the food truck. Police said their cruiser ‘‘by coinci dence" had preceded the truck, but that the cruiser did not enter com pany grounds. Pickets placed a car across the road under the viaduct, blocking it. Police attempted to remove the car. Strikers surrounded them in steadily in creasing numbers. Suddenly fighting broke out. Tear gas was released and night sticks (See STEEL, Page A-5.) •-• Studio Changes Actress' I^me. HOLLYWOOD. June 10 (A5).—Study ing for her first movie part is Vir ginia Dale, 20-year-old blond from Charlotte, N. C., who was given the feminine lead In “Missing Witness" on tht strength of a camera test. / Unionist Forced Out of Car by Workers and New Police. NEWTON PUSHES PLANS FOR REOPENING TODAY Special Deputies Are Sworn In, Strikers Ready to Resist as ‘'Zero Hour’’ Nears. Es the Associated Press. MONROE, Mich., June 10.—Steel workers and newly deputized special policemen drove a Negro organizer lor the Committee for Industrial Organi zation out of the city shortly before neon today as the zero hour neared i for the reopening of the strike-closed Newton Steel Co. plant. Fifteen or twenty men seized the or ganizer, Leonigas McDonald, on Mon roes principal street as he attempted to flee in his automobile. They made him leave the motor car, beat him and forced him to walk a : mile out of the city, toward Toledo. i There they said, an automobile con taining four or five men picked him up and headed westward. McDonald’s C. I, O credentials were taken from him. Some of his captors said he was bleeding from several cuts on his face. He was told not to re turn to Monroe. One report said he was making an organizational speech when the trouble began. Another report was that he was seized as he emerged from the post office and dragged for a block be fore he managed to make his wav to his automobile, from which he again was removed. There were other reports that two more Negroes were forced to leave the city. McDonald, husky, weighing at least 200 pounds, came here a month ago from Ecorse, Mich , w here there are large steel mills. First Violence at Newton. The first violence of the current strike here came as special police men. deputized by Mayor Daniel A Knaggs. were assembling to prevent any. Interference with the reopening of the Newton plant, controlled by the Republic Steel Corp., that was scheduled for 4 p.m. Promptly at noon, representatives of the strikers, the company, and members of the Steel Workers' Asso ciation of Monroe, who are opposed to the strike, went into conference with Gov. Frank Murphy at Lansing in an attempt to end the strike peaceably. Mayor Knaggs, who has recruited a force of 500 civilian police, was one of the conferees. They will aug ment Police Chief Jesse Fisher's 20 patrolmen and Sheriff Joseph Bair t ley's 50 deputies. Fred Keehn. commander of the American Legion past here, issued a call for all Monroe County Legion naires to assemble at the Legion Home here at 2:30 p.m. He said pasts at Dundee. Milan and Temperance were sending men. Police said there was no indication of any Influx of men from other cities to assist the strikers. C. I O. or ganizers had declared that ‘'8.000 or 10.000" union men from steel mills In the Detroit area would help hold the picket line. At noon, however, only 50 pickets were on duty at the picket past, a mile from the Newton plant. They were lunching on sandwiches. Ice cream and coffee. The men who intended to return to i See MONROE, Page A-8.) Summary of Today’s Star Page. | Page. Amusements B-14 Radio _ C-6 i Comics --C-10-11 ! Short Story. C-fi ! Editorials ...A-10 j Society _B-3 Financial_A-l* Sports C-l-3 Lost <fc Found A-3 Woman's Pg..C-4 Obituary ...A-12 | FOREIGN. Russia excluded from non-intervention discussions. Page A-4 Five dead, many missing in fire at Halle. Germany. Page A-8 NATIONAL. Reorganization confidential draft laid before committee. Page A-l Guffey denounces independent steel companies’ labor policy. Page A-l Nurse admits Rockefeller kidnap plot story hoax. Page A-l C. I. O. organizer driven out of Monroe by workers. Page A-l African tornadoes menace flight of Miss Earhart. Page A-l 17 hurt in picket-police clash in steel strike. Page A-l Eight States and U. S. seek missing society woman. Page A-l Curtailing of proposed wage-hour bill gains in favor. Page A-2 President asks co-operation in giving medical aid to poor. Page A-2 Senate committee approves farm tenancy bill. Page A-3 Tax-dodging inquiry slated to start next week. Page A-5 Senate subcommittee O. K.'s anti lynching bill. Page A-5 Souvenir hunters strip flowers from Jean Harlow's grave. Page A-5 White House secretary answers Snell on campaign book. Page A-9 Du Pont salaries disclosed in S. E. C. statement. Page A-15 Maritime Commission head jubilant over ahip program. Page A-20 A. F. of L. seeks immediate funds for C. I. O. war. Page B-ll WASHINGTON AND NEARBY. D. C. income tax exemptions still re main In doubt. Page A-l Man in cleric's garb found uncon scious on Military road. Page A-l Spotted fever causes two deaths in this vicinity. Page A-16 Potato, EM ? \ I last time i touched ) {'em.thet BURNT / /r-. MY FlNGERSJx^ih&frX^ /Yeah, | REMEMBERS \ ,/^SSW THOSE FELLER ON \ CAPITOL HILL HAHD-J ' V edyou a Xjmmr-i dSfi Nurse Admits ‘Cooling Love’ Prompted Story About Financier’s Grandson. B*- the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 10.—Assistant State's Attorney Emmet Moynihan said today Miss Margaret Montgomery admitted a story she told of a plot against John Rockefeller Prentice, grandson of the late John D. Rocke feller. was a hoax designed to "make a martyr1’ of herself. Met in Hospital. The 27-vear-old nurse, whom Pren i tice said he had met last September | while a hospital patient suffering from injuries in a motoring collision, had told police two men abducted her last night, drove about the South Side for some time and then directed her to summon Prentice to a meeting place. Moynihan said the girl admitted she fabricated the story in the belief Prentice's regard for her had cooled, and she wanted to re-establish their friendship. On the basis of her story, Police Lieut. John Coughlin had announced a theory Prentice "was to have been kidnaped and held for a large sum of money." Feared Losing Affections. Prosecutor Moynihan. after an inter view with the nurse, said Miss Mont gomery admitted "she framed the whole thing" to "make a martyr of herself because Prentice's affections were cooling." Prentice, an attorney and son of the late John D Rockefeller, sr.'s second daughter, had told police he believed Miss Montgomery's story be cause he had received several mysteri ous telephone calls recently. The lawyer added he had no reason to suspect any one of wanting to kid nap him. but "a great many people seemed to think I had money, al though I am not an heir to my grandfather's estate." i A. F. G. E. "rebel lodges" stage mass I meeting tonight. Page B-l j Americanization students get Consti j tution reproduction. Page B-l Tomlinson gets sentence of 3 to 10 years in robbery plot. Page B-l P.-T. A. magic show postponed until September. Page B-2 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. Editorials, Page A-10 This and That, Page A-10 Stars. Men and Atoms, Page A-10 Answers to Questions, Page A-10 David Lawrence, PageA-11 H. R. Baukhage, PageA-11 Mark Sullivan, Page A-ll Jay Franklin. PageA-11 Delia Pynchon, PageA-11 FINANCIAL. Bond changes slight (table). Page A-17 Clearings below year ago. Page A-17 Stocks edge up (table). Page A-18 Curb list narrow (table). Page A-19 Pennsy declares dividend. Page A-19 Brisk farm trade due. Page A-19 SPORTS. Nats get Ferrels and Almada in trade. Page A-l De Mar gets sponsor in order to run in marathon here. Page C-l Nats' only interest in trade would be pitching talent. Page C-2 Macks picks Pirates to capture flag in National League. Page C-2 Rough at Detroit ordered cut. elating long-hitting golfers. Page C-3 MISCELLANY. Shipping News. Page A-9 Young Washington, Page A-14 After Dark, Page B-8 Dorothy Dix, Page C-4 Betsy Caswell, Page C-4 Service Orders, Page C-5 City News in Brief, Page C-5 Vital Statistics, Page C-5 Traffic Convictions, Page C-5 Cross-word Puzzle, Page C-10 Nature’s Children, Page C-10 Bedtime Story, Page C-ll Letter-Out, Page C-ll - I 400 in Factory Felled by Gas; All Lives Saved By the Associated Press. LILLE, France. June 10—Four hundred sugar refinery employes were overcome by gas today, but all were saved through quick actions of phy sicians. Soon after work started dozens of men began to topple at the Beghin plant. Emergency hospital crews and phy sicians from surrounding hospitals quickly evacuated the buildings Eight persons were taken to hospitals. IN KAN FLIGHT Leaves Dakar on 1,140-Mile Jaunt Despite Warning of Tornadoes. BACKGROUND— Amelia Earhart's first attempt at a globe-girdling flight ended In a crack-up in taking oft at airport in Honolulu. The noted aviatrix re versed direction of lourney when she began second effort June 1 by flying from Miami to San Juan, Puerto Kico. B' the Associated Press. DAKAR. French Senegal. June 10.— Amelia Earhart flew eastward across Africa's wild expanse today despite warnings that Tornadoes ranged the path of her "just for fun" round-the world flight. After a smooth take-off at 6:55 a m., Greenwich mean time (1:55 a m., E. S. T ), from Ouakam Airport, the air woman headed for Gao, 1.140 miles east and north of here on the Niger River, having altered somewhat her previously set course on account of unfavorable weather. She had planned to fly her silvery, twin-engined monoplane to Naimey, French Niger Colony, 250 miles south east of Gao and due east of Dakar. Gets Weather Report. Arising before dawn, Miss Earhart hurried to the airfield where she re ceived reports of barometric depres sions and tornadoes In the Sudanese region in the heart of Africa over which she had charted her course. So she decided to swing slightly to the north to Gao, but maintained the general direction of her itinerary through the center of the continent toward Lake Chad, French equatorial Africa. Eager to be on her aerial way, the flyer climbed into her ship with her navigator, Capt. Fred Noonan, after thanking French colonial aeronautic, air force and airport officials for their help. Plane Rises Easily. Her plane made a 500-yard run and lifted easily despite its heavy fuel load. It circled the field once in a ~ (See EARHART, Page A-4 J -• Two Children Die in Storm. HARRISON. Ark., June 10 <>*»).— Ambulance drivers reported today two children were killed in a storm last midnight near Green Forest, 20 miles northwest of here. Dr. D. L. Owens said the drivers told him of the fatalities after bring ing two injured persons here, but re turned immediately to Green Forest without giving further details. Tele phone communications with the town were disrupted by the storm. — Confidential Draft of Presi dent's Proposal Laid Before Senators. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. The confidential draft of the Presi dent's omnibus reorganization bill, which he insists should be passed at this session of Congress, was laid be fore the Senate members of the joint Reorganization Committee in an ex ecutive session today by Senate Leader Robinson. Minority leader McNary protested vigorously that the bill grants too much absolute authority to the^Presi drnt, and declared his opposition to the measure as a whole. He left the meeting apparently in no amiable frame of mind. Senator Robinson indicated he would be willing to consider changes in the bill to meet serious objections by members of the committee. The bill as presented today, contains some very important changes over the meas ure previously considered to carry out the recommendations of the Brownlow Committee. The committee is to meet again next week, at wihch time Sen ator Robinson said he expects to have the provisions of the bill more defi nitely and distinctly drawn. The broad general power which this draft would give to the President and against which Minority Leader Mc Nary particularly protested, takes practically the same language used several years ago. during the Hooter administration, giving reorganization powers to the President for two years. Provisions in the bill presented today, however, makes that authority perma nent. Regarding civil service, the bill con sidered today Is practically the same as the Brownlow measure, providing for a single civil service adminis trator directly under the Control of the President, with an advisory com mittee, abolishing the present Civil Service Commission. The new measure wrould leave all independent offices and commissions, such as the I. C. C. and the Maritime Board, free fro mexecutive Interference It would leave the Forest Service in the Agriculture Department. This is one of the proposals under the Brown low bill which resulted in Nation wide protest, with direct appeals to every member of Congress for preser ! vation of the Forest Service as an in tegral part of the Agriculture De partment. The new bill also leaves the engineers in the War Department. The President apparently Is still firm in his determination to get the ! present controller general s office and the audit system on Government ex | penditures away from Congress and under executive control. This is one phase of reorganization which both houses of Congress seemed determined to preserve as an agency of Congress, with pre-audit powers. The new bill differs from the Brownlow bill in that it places the new office of auditor general under the Executive and not in the Treasury, but that officer could be removed by executive order and would be wholly subservient to the President. Senator McNary questioned directly on this point and was told it would be ; entirely a past-audit, rather than a pre-audit, on which many leaders in Congress, including Senator Byrd, , Democrat, of Virginia, chairman of the original Reorganization Committee, are insisting. The bill submitted today creates one new cabinet officer for the Department ; of Welfare. It changes thq name of the Interior Department to the De j partment of Conservation. Man Unconscious on Road In Cleric’s Garb Unidentified Authorities at Georgetown Hospi tal today declined to reveal the identi ty of a man said to have been dressed in a priest's habiliments, who was found lying unconscious shortly after daylight on a highway just outside the south gate of Arlington National Cemetery. First aid methods at the scene failed to revive the man and he was removed to Georgetown Hospital in an ambulance from Clarendon. SherifT Howard B. Fields of Arlington Coun ty said he was not interested and would not investigate the case because the man was found on Government property. Hospital attendants said the patient, about 50 years old, regained con sciousness after treatment and that his relatives were coming to see him later today. They refused, however, to give a clue to his identity. According to members of the ambu lance company which took the man to the hospital, residents in the sec tion said they had seen a Washing ton taxicab drive up to the scene at about < o’clock this morning and then drive away hurriedly after standing for a few minutes with the motor running. Only some small change was found in the pockets of the black suit worn by the man. * EXEMPTIONSCLOUD DISTRICT TAX Bill, READYJOR^HOUSE “Legal Resident” Amend ment Seen Clashing With Provision Remaining. DIRKSEN TO ATTEMPT TO CLARIFY PROGRAM Chairman Norton Scheduled to Call Measure Before Repre sentatives Monday. BACKGROUND— Faced until more than $6,000,000 deficit in District of Columbia bud get, Commissioners and House com mittees for months liai'e been strug gling to whip into shape new taxes. Sales tax was discussed and dis carded: program finally sifted down to levies on incomes, estates, park o-meters, insurance, business privi lege, auto weight and more teeth in intangible tax. BY JAMES E. CHINN'. The Kennedy omnibus bill to rai» $6,000,000 additional taxes for the DjS triet was in shape today for considera tion by the House, but whether the income tax section of the bill pro- • vides exemption for members of Con gress. Government employes who vote back home and other legal non-resi dents still apparently was in doubt. Late yesterday the District Commit tee, on the insistence of Representative Hull of Wisconsin that'members of Congress would not vote to tax their own salaries, was virtually forced to adopt an amendment defining "legal'' residents of the District as subject to taxation. However, the serf ion of the bill which specifically provides for collec tion of taxes from incomes received in the District by persons not residents here still remains. Tax authorities pointed out tod^y that this section still would tax salaries of members of Congress. Dirksen to Seek Clarity. Representative Dirksen. Republican, of Illinois, champion of the income tax plan, pointed out meanwhile that he would make an effort to have these provisions clarified in the House be fore the bill is finally passed. As approved by the full committee the program is virtually in the shape in which the special tax subcommittee moulded it, except for the income tax exemptions. Due l p Next Monday. Chairman Norton of the District . Committee announced she would call the tax bill up in the House Monday, the next so-called "District day" and urge its speedy passage so the Senate will have time to act on it before July 1, the beginning of the new fiscal year. Mrs. Norton said she be lieved public hearings should hate been held on the completed bill, but the time now is too short to turn it over to business and civic organiza tions for critical examination. A favorable report on the bill was ordered b.v the committee only after it had been attacked from 10:30 o'clock yesterday morning until about 5.30 p.m. Nearly every attempt to riddle the bill with amendments was beaten down, largely because only nine of the 21 members were present most of the time, and of those, five were members of the subcommittee which framed the tax program. The income tax plan was the prin ! cipal target of attack. The proposed business privilege tax with its plan ! for taxing grass receipts at 3-5 of : one per cent also drew considerable fire, as did a provision that will dump | into the special gasoline tax fund j instead of the general revenues where ' the deficit will exist, a sum of $1,500,000 expected to be raised by a | motor vehicle weight tax. Income Plan Amended. The provision in the income tax plan that would force members of Congress to pay the levy, was sniped at throughout the day. Finally, the committe agreed to eliminate it on the Insistence of Hull. On second thought, however, the committee voted to re consider its action, and then proceeded to restore the provision to the bill. But Hull did not give up. He vir tually forced the commitee then to adopt the amendment which stipulates the tax shall be levied only upon ever/ ‘•legal” resident of the District 8s "herein defined.” But the bill does not contain a definition of "legal'' resident. There is a definition of "resident” which reads: "The term 'resident,' in its application to m ; dividuaLs, ■ shall mean any natural i See TAX, Page A-5.) MAN KILLS SELF IN HIS APARTMENT j - J. Noble Hoover, Meat Stand Proprietor, Found Seated in Kitchen Chair. J. Noble Hoover, 60, proprietor of a meat stan* at the Arcade Market, shot and killed himself early today in his third-floor apartment at 1346 Park road. Dressed only in his underwear. Hoover had a bullet wound in the temple when he was found seated in a kitchen chair by his wife, Mrs. ! Minerva Hoover. A 32-caliber revolver, 1 from which a single shot had been fired, lay on the floor nearby. In bed when she heard a shot, j which she thought came from out | side the apartment, Mrs. Hoover dis ' covered her husband unconscious j when she went to investigate. An Emergency Hospital interne j worked for almost an hour in a futile attempt to revive Hoover. Tenth precinct police said they were i told that Hoover, who had operated a stand at the Arcade Market for I more than 20 years, had been in ill | health. The coroner issued a certificate of I suicide. i