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Page A-19. Temperature at 2 p m., 76. ana WirepilOtO berVICeS.
Closing N.Y. Markets—Sales—Page 18 Yesterday's circulation, 138,077.
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X JSO. p05t offlce Washington. D. c. (A>) Means Associated Pres*. TWO CEXTS.
FEDERAL MEDIATORS APPOINTED
IN STEEL STRIKE AFTER DAVEY
APPEALS TO PRESIDENT FOR AID
3*Man Board
Is Named by
Miss Perkins.
WILL MEDIATE
IN CLEVELAND
Roosevelt Gives His
Approval of
Decision.
BACKGROUND—
Gaining contract lor collective
bargaining with major automotive
manufacturers and United States
Steel. John L. Lewis’ C. I. O.
launched drive against three steel
independents — Republic. Youngs
town Sheet <fr Tube and Inland. Re
fusal to sign brought strike, call on
May 25. Organization effort was ex
panded and last week Bethlehem
teas added. More than 100.000 men
in seven States are now idle. Nine
persons have been killed in rioting
and hundreds injured.
Fs the Assocln'rd Press.
Secretary Perkins announced today
appointment of a three-man board to
mediate all current steel disputes.
She named Charles P. Taft, Lloyd
K. Garrison and Assistant Secretary
of Labor Edward F. McGrady as a
Federal Steel Mediation Board author
ized to investigate, conduct hearings,
make findings of fact and act as "vol- ;
Untary arbitrator” if both sides in
the controversy so request.
Miss Perkins said the board would
set up headquarters at Cleveland im
mediately.
She said McGrady. who is returning
from Europe, would arrive in the
United States Saturday night.
The Secretary said she had been in !
communication with Taft and Gar
rison and that they would start work
at once.
She said President Roosevelt had
fiven his approval to her executive
order creating the board.
“I discussed the matter with Presi
dent Roosevelt Monday and at that
time he agreed if no settlement was
reached before we came to this, it
•hould be done,” the Secretary said.
a<uKi§cui,T nas Alisrn.
The Secretary's administrative order
declared “an emergency has arisen as
a result of the labor dispute in the
steel industry which tends to obstruct
and interrupt the free flow of raw
materials, semi-finished and finished
Eieel products in interstate commerce.”
"It is desirable.” the order said, “to
provide an additional means of ac
complishing a reasonable solution to
this controversy.”
The Secretary said ‘‘in my judg- ;
tnent the interests of industrial peace
require” that the board be created. |
She said this action had been de
layed because the administration had
hoped that conferences called by Gov.
Martin L. Davey of Ohio might pro
duce an agreement which would lead
to settlement of the strike.
The Perkins order said:
“The board is further authorized ta
to investigate issues, disputes, facts,
practices and activities of employers
and employes that are burdening or
obstructing or threatening to burden or
obstruct the free flow of interstate ■
commerce; <b> to conduct hearings,
take testimony under oath and to make
findings of fact and recommendations
for settlement; <c) to act as voluntary
arbitrator on request of the parties to
the dispute and render awards with re
spect to the subject matter of such dis
putes as are submitted to it as shall be
binding upon the parties to the sub- j
mission.”
Believes Plan Acceptable.
Asked if the companies had agreed
to such a step the Secretary said, “I
haven't asked any one to accept, but
I think the board will discuss the mat
ters with the companies and I presume
they will make arrangements to talk to
the board.”
Miss Perkins named Taft, son of the
late President and Chief Justice of the
United States, chairman of the board.
The decision was reached after
President Roosevelt received from Gov.
Martin L. Davey of Ohio a request for
presidential intervention.
cancris i rip.
John L. Lewis, chairman of the
Committee for Industrial Organization,
cancelled a speaking engagement at
Chicago to remain in the city. The
Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee,
which called strikes in four companies,
Is affiliated with C. I. O.
A presidential secretary said Davey's
message was one of 30 or 40 that were
being received at the White House
daily from all sides in the controversy
and from outside organizations.
Mo6t of the telegrams, it was said,
urge action of some sort on the Presi
dent's part. Some predict bloodshed
and loss of life and property, unless
there is intervention on the part of
the Federal Government.
The rest of the telegrams merely
call attention to conditions and cer
tain overnight developments, and sug
gest certain forms of remedy or action
on the Government's part.
The President is studying all these
communications carefully, referring
them to the Secretary of Labor and to
other Government agencies if the con
tents suggest such a course.
NATS RAINED OUT
The final game of the Detroit
Washington series, scheduled for
Griffith Stadium today, was postponed
on account of rain and will be re
played later in the season, probably
as part of a double-header. The St.
Louis Browns will invade the Capital
tomorrow.
* a
, -—— i
Gov. Davey’s Appeal
c>
The text of Gov. Davey's appeal to President Roosevelt for Fed
eral intervention in the steel strike follows:
His Excellency, Franklin D. Roosevelt,
President of the United States,
Washington. D. C.
Dear Mr. President:
After nearly two weeks of diligent effort to bring about a
reasonable settlement of the steel strike as it relates to Ohio
companies, we find ourselves face to face with at least a temporary
deadlock. The companies have repeatedly said they were willing to
viu, txiivi ate uuiu^, cvciyuuiig uuvacu uy
the Carnegie-Ulinois wage agreement
and are willing to negotiate with the
union officials at any time on any perti
nent subject. They have consistently
and firmly refused to sign a wage agree
ment because they claim such a signed
agreement would lead to the closed shop
and would not prevent strikes.
The union leaders insist on a signed
agreement and take the position that
if men are willing to agree orally to do
certain things, they ought to be willing
to put that agreement in writing. They
claim there is no question of the closed
shop involved, that they want signed
agreement only for their own members.
There is no question of wages, hours or
working conditions involved in the present strike. The only point
in dispute is whether there shall be a signed agreement.
Last week I held conferences with both sides separately and
then a joint conference Friday. At that time I submitted a seven
point peace proposal which the labor leaders, after full discussion,
accepted as a basis for negotiations. Another joint conference was
(See DAVEY, Page A-3 )
News Reel Described by
Thomas as Showing Po
lice Aggressors.
The Senate Civil Liberties Commit
tee has impounded a suppressed news
reel film, described by those who saw
it as showing police on the aggressive
in the Memorial day fatal riot at
the Republic Steel Corp. plant in
South Chicago.
This was revealed today as five
investigators of the committee were
in Chicago pursuing their quest of
other evidence concerning the pitched
battle which resulted in death of nine
and injuries to scores of strike sympa
thizers.
The committee's probe of the riot
has been set tentatively for July 1.
Senator Thomas. Democrat, of
Utah, a member of the committer, said
the newsreel, which was made by
Paramount, showed police pushing
back the crowd and wielding night
sticks vigorously. He and Chairman
La Follette were the only members
of the committee who saw the film.
Has Praise for Crowd.
"I am surprised the number of
casualties was not far larger.” Thomas
said. "It is very much to the credit
of the crowd that it showed so much
control under great provocation by
the police.
"The strikers offered absolutely no
resistance and showed no belligerence.
It was a one-sided fight—if you can
call it a fight at all.
"I am not attempting to fix blame
for the riot by that film." Thomas
said. "But if it gave a fair picture
of what went cn, the police are to be
condemned. This picture did not
show the police being attacked. It
showed them entirely on the offen
sive, pushing back the crowd and
wielding their sticks.
"I realize that this may have been
only one angle of the riot. The police
may have been justified in what they
were doing—I do not know. Per
haps pictures taken from other angles
would have shown the police being
attacked. I am simply giving my im
pression of that particular newsreel.”
Senator Thomas said the picture
revealed some strikers or strike sym
pathizers apparently trying to get out
of the way and being followed and
beaten by police. He added that he
saw one woman who evidently had
been injured. She was being helped
away, he said.
vian oenaior said ne did not
see any shots fired, although they
could be heard on the sound track.
He did not see pistols In the hands
of police. He described a published
account of the suppressed film as
“exaggerated in places,’’ but fairly
accurate on the whole.
Senator Thomas said he thought
Paramount was right in withdrawing
the film from its exchanges, adding
that it might have caused further
trouble if shown to the general
public.
La Follette Withholds Comment.
Chairman La Follette would not
comment on the film except to say
that it revealed “a deplorable situa
tion." He said he did not think as
chairman of the committee he should
pass judgment on the riot without
more complete evidence.
The chairman added that the com
mittee planned to make a complete
Investigation of the battle within a
short time, hearing from numerous
witnesses and probably viewing this
film and perhaps others taken at the
scene.
It was learned that those under
subpoena to appear before the com
mittee include several amateur pho
tographers who were at the scene.
Bomb Damages Plant.
CAMDEN, N. J„ June 17 l/P).—A
bomb exploded today, blowing out a
10-foot section of the Radio Condenser
Co. plant. A three-week strike at the
plant was settled last night.
SENATE UNIT VOTES
FOR STRIKE PROBE
General Investigation of
Steel Walkouts to Start
Tomorrow.
BACKGROUND—
A broad preliminary hearing of
charges of interference with the.
mailt to decide whether to hold an
investigation was voted by the Sen
ate Post Office Committee after a
refusal to deliver food into strike-'
bound mill of Republic Steel Co.
Classing food deliveries as "irreg
ular” service, postal authorities said
they would not "endanger" em
ployes by attempting deliveries to
plant.
BY JOHN H. CLINE.
The Senate Post Office Committee
todaj' voted to conduct a general in
vestigation of strikes in the steel in
dustry after a preliminary session
marked by heated clashes between
Senator Bailey. Democrat, of North
Carolina, and Phillip Murray, chair
man of the Steel Workers’ Organizing
Committee.
The preliminary session was begun
this morning to determine whether
alleged interference with the mails in
strike areas warranted a general in
vestigation. The inquiry was ap
proved, however, before any mention
had been made of the alleged mail
interference. This phase of the situ
ation was covered only in a prepared
statement submitted to the committee
by Murray.
The inquiry, which will be resumed
tomorrow morning, will cover the fol
lowing :
_1. Monetary receipts and disburse
(See HEARING, Page A~5.)
fr -
Sit-Downs Now
Threatens in
Ohio.
WILL PROTECT
JOBS OF MEN
Employers May Not
Accept Federal
Arbitration.
B* the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 17—The
threat of a sit-down strike in the
great steel mills of the Mahoning
Valley, in Ohio, developed today as
Secretary of Labor Perkins announced
the appointment of a three-man board
to mediate the long-fought strike
deadlock.
Spokesmen for the Republic Steel
Corp. and Youngstown Sheet &
Tube Co., two of the principal inde
: pendents involved in the strike, said
they did not know if the companies
j would agree that the mediation board
arbitrate the dispute.
They explained that Tom Girdler,
Republic chairman, and Frank Pur
nell, president of Sheet A Tube, were
“out of town" and any statement
would have to come from them.
White House Acts.
The White House move to end the
bitter “battle of steel"—the clash be
tween John L. Lewis’ C. I. O. and four
independent steel companies, who
have flatly refused to sign labor con
tracts—followed an urgent telegraphic
appeal to President Roosevelt by Gov.
Martin L. Davey of Ohio and a sim
ilar appeal by Mayor Daniel J. Shields
of Johnstown, Pa.
Coupled with the move of direct
Federal intervention came the an
nouncement by John Owens, Ohio
strike chief of the C. I. O., that a pro
jected back-to-work movement in Ma
honing Valley steel plants would in
evitably result in sit-down strikes if
the plants reopen before the union
obtains signed contracts.
The sit-down strategy, as outlined bv
Owens, would be for the strikers to re
turn to their posts—along with those
genuinely anxious to resume work—and
once inside to "hold the fort" in idle
ness.
“Among the men discussing a return
to work are men who will sit down on
the job,” Owens said.
Only Themselves to Blsme.
“They are not going to permit others
to take their jobs. We have tried to
conduct this strike in a peaceful man
ner. If a sit-down develops, Tom Gird
ler and Frank Purnell can't blame any
body but. themselves.
Owens charged that leaders of the
back-to-work movement were '.'being
paid jjirectly or indirectly by the
I steel companies."
As moves for peace and a new plan
of strategy’ in the C. I. O. siege of
steel broke simultaneously, the gen
eral executive board of the United
Automobile Workers of America, a
C. I. O. affiliate, took steps to "pe
nalize" and discipline leaders of “out
law" or unauthorized strikes.
Homer Martin, U. A. W. president,
announced in Detroit that the board
would determine methods of ending
any such “wildcat" strikes.
Bloodshed entered the far-flung
“battle of steel" again at Canton.
(See STRIKE, Page A-5.)
--•
Barrie Worse, Doctors Say.
LONDON, June 17 (A3).—Sir James
M. Barrie, 77-year-old dramatist and
author, has “lost ground since last
night, physicians attending him for
bronchial pneumonia reported today.
Summary of Today’s Star
Page. Page.
Amusements B-10 Radio ■_C-4
Comics -C-6-7 Short Story._D-4
Editorials A-10 Society _B-3
Financial __ A-17 Sports_D-l-3
Lost & Found D-4 Woman's Pg. C-5
Obituary_A-12 i
FOREIGN.
Japan opposes Roosevelt secret naval
treaty. Page A-l
White Russian leader in Soviet is
dead. Page A-Z
Italian ship damaged in loyalist bom
bardment. Page A-3
NATIONAL. *
Court plan to be big topic at "official
house party.” Page A-l
Recommittal of President’s court bill
held probable. Page A-l
Three-man board is named to mediate
steel strike disputes. Page A-l
Bailey defends vigilantes at P. O.
strike hearing. Page A-l
Preventative legislation urged at nrst
tax-dodging hearing. Page A-l
Navy open three bids for battle
ship. Page A-2
Jeanette Macdonald and Gene Ray
mond married. Page A-2
Anti-trust complaint filed against
General Motors. Page A-4
Steel organizers’ committee prepares
to aid strikers’ families. Page A-5
Connery praised by President and Mrs.
Roosevelt. Page A-6^
Federal and county authorities differ'
in missing heiress case. Page B-2
WASHINGTON AND NEARB1.
House expected to pass revised D. C.
tax bill. Page A-l
Mrs. Tydings. in first address, urges
women work for peace. Page A-2
V. P. W. hears preparedness plea by
Representative Martin. Page A-3
Senator Duffy chief Independence day
speaker at Water Gate. Page A-2
King urges study of D. C. fiscal ques
tion, Including taxes. Page A-l
i
Map final Scout jamboree plans
tomorrow. Page B.j
Farm plan to aid cities, Wallace tells
4-H group. Page B.j
Authority given Gas Co. for new
financial set up. Page B-l
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-ll
H. R. Baukhage. PageA-ll
Mark Sullivan. Page A-ll
Jay Franklin. PageA-ll
Delia Pynchon. PageA-ll
SPORTS.
Ferrells providing Nationals with win
ning drive. - Page D-l
Young tennis players begin action in
Star's tourney. Page D-l
Politics and bad laws are harmful to
racing. Page D-2
Braddock's trim legs big fight asset,
says Dempsey. Page D-2
Yoder has chance in M. A. tourney to
top golfers here. PageD-3
FINANCIAL.
Corporate Bonds Ease (table). A-17
Clearings Below Year Ago. A-l"
Engineering Construction Soars. A-17
Steel Ingot Rate Down. A-17
Stocks Recover After Drop
(table). A-18
Curb List Higher (table). A-19
MISCELLANY.
Young Washington. Page A-6
Births and Deaths. Page A-12
Traffic Convictions. Page B-2
After Dark. PageB-14
City News in Brief. Page C-l
Shipping News. Page C-l
Marriage Licenses. Page C-l
Dorothy Dix. Page C-5
Betsy Caswell. Page C-5
Cross-Word Purale. Page C-6
Nature's Children. Page C-S
Bedtime Story. Page C-7
Letter-Out. Page C-7
__“IN THE SPRING A YOUNG MAN’S FANCY”
JAPAN TO REJECT
SECRET NAVY PACT
Roosevelt Fails in Attempt
to Limit Guns to 14-Inch
Caliber.
BACKGROUND—
The London treaty of March 25,
1936, was designed to succeed the
Washington treaty of 1922 and the
London treaty of 1930. which estab
lished a ratioof quantitative strength
of 5—5—3 for Britain, the United
States and Japan. The expiration
of the 5—5—3 treaties, December
31, 1936, was the signal for the im
mediate inauguration of a world
naval building race.
BULLETIN.
State Department officials dis
closed today that the United States
has asked the principal world naval
powers if each would agree to limit
the caliber of big guns on their
battleships to 1* inches.
Br th* Associated Press.
TOKIO, June 17.—An authoritative
source asserted today Japan had de
cided to refuse a secret proposal made
by President Roosevelt for the limita
tion of naval armament to guns of
14-inch caliber.
The substance of the Japanese reply
to what was described as the United
States’ President's "last appeal" for a
curb on the world naval arms race was
expected to be that Japan adheres to
the point of view that reduction of gun
calibers from 16 to 14 Inches will not
achieve real disarmament.
Quantitative Curb Favored.
Japan would insist, this source said,
that genuine arms reduction could be
obtained only through a definite quan
titative curtailment.
President Roosevelt was said to have
initiated the proposed reduction
through United States Ambassador
Joseph W. Grew recently at the re
quest of Great Britain.
Great Britain was reported to have
felt Japan was more likely to agree to
a limitation to 14-inch guns if a "last
appeal" was made by the United States.
On March 27 Japan formally refused
a similar direct proposal made by
Great Britain. Japan told Britain she
w'ould be unable to accept the limita
tion unless the United States as well
as Britain agreed at the same time to
reduce the size of larger ships.
After Japan withdrew from last
year’* London Naval Conference the
ensuing Anglo-American-French treaty
allowed Japan until April 1 to say
whether she would keep the caliber of
guns on her capital ships down to 14
inches.
The Japanese refusal to accept a tri
power limitation.of gun sizes, without
a quantitative reduction In naval ton
nages on the part of the two other
great sea powers, left the London pact
signatories free to place 16-inch guns
on the battleships.
Tonnage Still Limited.
The pact, however, still limited the
size of American. British and French
capital ships to 35,000 tons, a restric
tion which did not apply to the Japa
nese.
Had Japan adhered to the London
naval treaty, the size of guns would
have been limited to 14 inches for all
four powers.
EXTORTIONISTS SOUGHT
IN SEATTLE THREATS
Children of Stage Line Executive
Threatened Unless $5,000
Is Paid.
B) the Associated Press.
SEATTLE, June 17.—Federal agents
and sheriff’s deputies today sought ex
tortionists who made three telephone
calls threatening to abduct one of
three children of P. T. Lee, Seattle
stage line executive, unless $5,000 was
paid.
Investigators disclosed that in one
call yesterday a woman’s voice told
Mrs. Lee:
"We mean business. It will cost
$5,000 if you don’t want one of those
youngsters of yours to be another
Mattson kid. If we do have to go
through with it, itU cost a lot more.”
The children are Palma, 13; lUeh
ard, 10, and Nell, l
I
--— 1
Dr.MoultonWins
A bsent-Minded
Professor Title
Er the Associated Press.
DENVER. June 17.—The United
States Chamber of Commerce conven
tion headquarters said Dr. Harold G.
Moulton explained in this manner his
failure to appear for his convention
address yesterday.
He boarded a train in Iowa, believ
ing he was headed for Denver. When
he found out it was an eastbound
train he was so far on his way he could
not have gotten to Denver in time.
Dr. Moulton, head of the Brookings
Institution. Washington. D. C. de
livered his address by telephone from
Chicago.
-.
COURT FOES MOVE
I FOR RECOMMITTAL
Believe Proposed Action
Would Effectively Kill Re
organization Bill.
BACKGROUND—
President's plan to enlarge Su
preme Court has proved keylog in
legislative jam. So keen was the
battle jor rotes on the court issue
that administration indorsement o)
many measures was reputedly held
up pending clarification of the par
ticular sponsor's stand on the court
plan. As a result, legislative ma
chinery virtually has been at stand
still.
_
ox U. UUULD LINCOLN.
Recommittal of President Roose
velt's court reorganization bill, after a
comparatively brief debate In the
Senate, is the fate that looms now
for that measure.
Opponents of the bill believe that by
such action the bill can be effectively
killed. Once it has been recommitted,
they do not expect it ever to come out
oi the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Some of the administration Senators
believe that recommittal of the bill
would not be a bad solution of their
present difficulty; that it would break
the legislative log jam at the Capitol,
permit Congress to conclude its work
and adjourn within a reasonable time.
They realize that the President’s bill,
in its original form, cannot pass the
Senate—there is a majority against it.
They realize, too, that any com
promise looking to the addition of
any new members of the Supreme
Court, even if it commanded a bare
majority in the Senate, would be the
subject of a prolonged filibuster that
would keep the Senate here until
October or later. Under such circum
stances they believe that a motion
to recommit would be the best way
out and rather a face-saving way for
all concerned.
Believed Strongest Move.
A motion to recommit, it was ad
mitted by both sides to the controversy
today, would be perhaps the strongest
motion tnat the opposition could make
—would command more votes.
While a number of the leaders of the
opposition to the court bill have come
around to the idea that the bill should
be recommitted, there are some die
hards who would like to have the
matter fought out on the floor of the
Senate, even if it means a prolonged
(See^JUDICIARY, page A-4.)
-•
8 Japanese Flyers Killed.
TOKIO. June 17 CP).—Eight Jap
anese naval flyers were killed today
when two airplanes on a practice flight
collided over Kisarazu in Chiba Pre
fecture.
TAX LEAKS ASKED
3 Recommendations Made
by Morgenthau to Bet
ter Collections.
BACKGROUND—
Income tax returns of last March
showed disappointing failure to
meet estimates for new laws.
After hasty survey by Treasury
Department. Morgenthau reported
to President that some flagrant
cases of evasion and avoidance had
been uncovered.
Congressional inquiry was re
quested with recommendation that
revenue laws be tightened at pres
ent session.
BY JOHN l. HENRY.
Withholding identities of alleged tax
dodgers temporarily the Treasury De
partment today recommended three
immediate legislative enactments to
strengthen the Government side in
what Secretary of Treasury Morgen
thau described as the "sporting theory"
tax administration.
The recommendations presented to
the special joint congressional com
mittee probing tax evasion and avoid
ance, follow—
"1. Percentage depletion:
"Our experience shows that the per
centage depletion rates set up in the
law do not represent reasonable deple
tion rates in the case of the designated
properties, but are much higher than
the true depletion to which the tax
payer is fairly entitled.
"Moreover, these provisions enable
a taxpayer to obtain annual depletion
deductions, notwithstanding the fact
that he has already recovered the full
cost of the property. The deduction
is, therefore; a pure subsidy to a spe
cial class of taxpayers. For this rea
son the Treasury recommends that
these provisions be eliminated, in order
to put all taxpayers upon the same
footing.
"The annual loss of revenue from
this source is estimated at between
50 and 100 million dol’ars.
"(2) The divison of income be
tween husband and wife in the eight
community property States:
"In the community property States
each spouse may report one-half of
the community income even though it
was all earned by and was expanded
under the control of the husband.
This situation not only results in a
large loss of revenue to the United
States, but also operates most in
equitably as between spouses in com
munity and those in non-community
p.operty States. If the law were
amended to require that the spouse
earning the income should report the
entire amount, as is the case in the
non-community property States, there
would be a large net increase in reve
nue to the Treasury.
"(3) Non-resident aliens:
"The strengthening of the with
holding provisions in the revenue act
of 1936 will result in a considerable
increase in revenue from alien tax
(See EVASION, Page A-167)
CURB ON GOLD EXPORTS
LIFTED BY NETHERLANDS
By tlie Associated Press.
AMSTERDAM. June 17.—The
Netherlands today lifted the restric
tions on the exportation of gold, which
have been in effect since September
30, 1936.
The Bank of the Netherlands, act
ing under authority of the minister
of finance, stated it was prepared to
allow- unrestricted exemptions from
the export prohibitions laid down on
gold coins and bullion by royal decree.
A spokefvnan for the bank said the
change had been made possible by
the recent inflow of gold to the bank.
Gov. Davey
Wife Seeks to End Marriage
That Cost Ensign Commission
By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, June 17.—Charles A.
Nash, jr., 22-year-old Saginaw, Mich.,
Naval Academy graduate, who lost his
ensign's commission because he mar
ried while still a midshipman, also
may lose his bride.
Nash's 18-year-old wile, the former
Beulah Kathleen Woolard of Norfolk,
Va„ said she expected to go to Kala
mazoo, Mich., where she will stay
with friends while she attempts to
*
have the marriage annuled or divorce
young Nash.
A few hours earlier, the Navy De
partment in Washington had an
nounced revocation of Nash's commis
sion on the grounds he violated acad
emy regulations by marriage before his
graduation two weeks ago.
"I never did love him—he talked
me lnte marrying him in the first
place—end I never will love him." his
(gee SC5IQIJ, Page A-4.)
i
PASSAGE IS SEEN
AS HOUSE BEGINS
TAX MATE
Special Rule Adopted to Con
sider Plan—Smooth Sail
ing Expected.
AVOIDANCE OF INCOME
ASSESSMENT IS DENIED
Snell Says Local Real Estate Levy
Too Low—Tax on Pay
Mourned.
BACKGROUND—
With District facing deficit up
ward of $6 000,000 in coming fiscal
i.ear, Congress decided to impose
additional tax burden on Capital
residents.
Sales tax first'was considered as
major item of new schedule, but
was abandoned in favor of individ
ual income levy. When members of
House became upset at thought of
taxing themselves or their office
employes as recommended by com
mittee this tax was thrown out in
favor of added real estate levy.
r
The House which Monday rebelled
against consideration of the District's
tax bill, changed its attitude today
and took up the measure under a
special rule limiting debate to one
hour.
The rule was adopted after an hour's
debate without a record vote.
With the controversial income tax
plan entirely eliminated from the
bill and a mandatory 20-cent increase
in the real estate levy substituted it
is expected to sail smoothly through
the House on its legislative journey to
the Senate.
During debate on the rule, however,
several members declared they be
lieved the proposed increase in the real
estate tax from $1.50 to *1.70 would
still make the levy among the lowest
in the country.
Chairman O'Connor of the Rules
Committee opened debate on the rule
with a declaration that there is ' no
reason or morals" why members of
Congress should not pay a State in
come tax as well as the Federal in
come tax."
"There is no reason why people who
receive an income from their own
Government should not be the first to
pay a tax to the Government,” he
added.
O'Connor again deplored newspaper
articles and editorials which gave the
i impression that the House Monday re
belled against the tax bill and refused
even to consider it because it contained
an income tax plan that would tax
their own salaries.
"Nothing could be farther from the
truth." he declared.
The income tax plan, however' has
been completely eliminated, and the
tax bill now is expected to sail smooth
j lv through the House after the rule is
adopted.
Debate Limit Is Hit.
O'Connor also pointed out that the
"great bulk" of the residents of the
District are Federal employes, and
, that the problem of taxing their sal
aries is difficult if Congress treats the
District as a State. States, he ex
plained, cannot tax the salaries of
Federal workers.
As soon as O'Connor called up the
rule for consideration. Representative
Rich. Republican, of Pennsylvania
registered a protest against a provision
that will limit debate on the tax oill
to one hour. He declared the House
was not doing justice to the people of
the District under such a rule.
Representative Snell of New York,
Republican leader, said he thought
the House made a mistake by refusing
to consider the tax bill Monday.
He also attacked the real estate
tSee TAXES, page A-3.J
•-•
GIRL, 12, IS FOUND
BEATEN, ATTACKED
Moans From Air Chamber Under
N. Y. Theater Stage Lead
to Discovery.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. June 17.—Frail Mary
Maglione, 12, was found in a theater
air passageway today, beaten and
criminally attacked and mumbling
about "a short, stocky colored man
with a brown suit and a mustache."
A physician said she had been as
saulted and that she was suffering
from a fractured skull. Her condition
was serious.
Arthur Watkins Ostrander, night
watchman at the theater, reported
finding of the girl to the police. He
said he was attracted to the passage
way by the child's moans.
Ostrander said the child was with
out shoes or stockings, and her cloth
ing was disarranged when he found
her. He said he had to crawl into the
narrow air chamber to remove her.
The child lives with her father, John
Maglione, a railroad flagman, and an
aunt, Estelle Maglione, in the Bronx.
Samuel Foley, Bronx district at
torney, who questioned the girl later,
said in intervals of consciousness she
declared she knew the man who at
tacked her.
He said the girl told him she was
standing in the lobby of the theater
yesterday morning looking at some
photographs when the man ap
proached her and invited her into the
place "to see some real pictures."
Mary added she entered the theater
with him and went downstairs.
Police reported finding a brick and
a towel, both bloodstained, near where
the Maglione girl was found. Black
ened places on her face and armk
led then to believe, they said, that
an effort had been made lo stuff her
into a nearby furnace.
Ostrander, a white man: William
Brown and William Ray, Negro por
ters in the theater, and another un
named Negro employe at the place,
were taken to police headquarters for
questioning.
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