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PRICE TEN CENTS
.BERLIN, June 3, —A tax on em
ployed bachelors and on unmar
ried women, subsidizing marriages
of woiking girls, was decreed by
k> the government.
Desiring to lessen the number
of girls competing for jobs with
men, Chancellor Hitler devised the
plan of offering a loan of 1.000
marks ($250) to brides who have
been employed for six months pro
vided they promise to cease work
and not seek reemployment as
long as their husbands are earn
ing at least 125 marks ($31.25) per(
< month.
The loan would be available to|
buy household equipment and
would be issued in voucher form.
The interest rate was fixed at one j
per cent a year.
The government hopes to induce j
150,000 working girls to get mar- :
ried so they can get the loan. The
special bachelor and spinster tax1
decreed to pay for the loans ‘
amounts to two per cent on in-;
comes cf between 75 and 150
marks a month and rises to five'
per cent on those of 500 marks or
more. \
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HOLLYWOOD, June 3. Two rob- i
bers invaded the apartment of i
Zeppo Marx, film comedian, robbed
Mrs. Marx of $30,000 worth of dia
monds. bound a guest, Allan Miller ;
of New York, and a maid and es
caped through a wundow after
locking the actor and Mrs. Marx
in a clothes closet.
It was the second tipie within a
few months Mrs. Marx had been
robbed. Five months ago robbers
entered the Marx apartment w'hile
the comedian and his wife wrere
absent and stole $37,500 worth of
jewels.
FISTS, NOT WORDS
NEW YORK, June 3. —With Max 1
Schmeling’s manager attacking i
Promoter Jack Dempsey for coach- j
ing Max Baer, relation between
the two fight camps are more |
strained than ever. Says Baer:
“The more I think of Schmeling,
the less I think of him”. Says
Schmeling: “Let Baer talk. Fists,
not w:ords, will count when we
meet June 8th”.
REGAINING HEALTH
POONA, India, June 3. — Even
though the three-week fast he re
cently completed brought his
weight down to 84 1-2 pounds, the
Mahatma Gandhi was said to be
recovering satisfactorily. Gandhi
now is permitted to have boiled
vegetables, fruit juice, honey and
/ water.
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MODERN ROBIN HOOD
AJACCIO. Corsica, June 3- —An
dre Spada, the last of the notori
ous Corsican bandits, has been
seized by the government secretly
* in his mountain hide-out after
having defied the authorities for
11 years. Spada, “overlord of the
bush” in Corsica, was popularly
considered as a sort of modern
Robin Hood.
DISSIPATED
NEW YORK, June 2. —The met
ropolitan population of New York
now is 12,616,300, an increase of
nearly 600,000 since the 1930 census,
the Merchants Association report
ed. New York’s estimated popu
lation wras placed at 7,218, 000,
) against 6,930,446 in 1930.
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RUNNING GUN FIGHT
MIAMI, Okla., June 3, —A posse,
led by Sheriff Carl Curtis of Del
aware county, engaged a group
of men, thought to be fleeing con
victs, in a running gun fight in
the hills 20 miles south of Jay
Tembay. Sheriff Curtis said the
posse routed tlie fugitives from
their automobile and they fled
on foot. No one was wounded.
i HEAVYWEIGHT FIGHT
1 NEXT THURSDAY WILL
NOT BE BROADCAST
NEW YORK, June 2, —Jack
Dempsey announced last night
that the Max Schmeling-Max Baer
15-rounder at Yankee Stadium
next Thursday, will not be broad
cast.
This decision was reached after
a conference with managers of
both fighters.
Joe Humphries, veteran, announ
cer, will do the explaining from
the ring. George Bannon will be
the time-keeper, and Dr. J. Mar
tin Sheridan will be the official
physician. The referee and judges
will be selected by the State ath
letic commission on the night of
the fight.
SENTENCED TO DEATH
ALTONA, Germany, June 3, —
Four ringleaders of the bloody
Nazi-Communist riots here July
17, 1932, were sentenced to death
and six others to hard labor from
three and a half to 10 years.
Striving to effect justice and
economy at the same time, Presi
dent Roosevelt gave close study to
War veterans compensation cuts.
He also kept an eye on deveiop
mets at London on the forthcom
ing economic conference. He re
peated his insistence that the U.
S. delegates discuss only currency
stabilization and tariff reduction
war debt settlements to a later
date.
J. P. Morgan’s activities in Eur
ope and the possibility of an in
side list of royalty was studied by
the Senate investigating commit- j
tee.
A change in the tax clause of
the Recovery bill to reduce gasoline
and income levies was advocated
in Congress.
Hints of graft in forest army
contracts are being investigated.
Army officials began investigat
ing causes of the plane crash near
San Bernardino that resulted in
death for three fliers.
Wages of more than 100,000 auto
factory workers were raised five
per cent.
Stocks continued their rise in
New York with many issues reach
ing new highs for the year.
NEW PRECEPTS
GENEVA, June 3, —New pre-|
cepts of the American and French
governments guided the Disarma-;
ment conference steering commit
tee in its interim deliberations on.
a revised arms limitations treaty.
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WILL NOT PAY
LONDON, June 3, —Great Brit
ain will fail to pay the June 15
debt installment to the United
States in full, The London Daily
Mail said in an editorial.
NEW YORK GAMES
LAKE SWANNANOA, N. J., June
2. —Fears that Max Schmeling had
gone stale in his preparation for
his 15-round duel with Max Baer
in Yankee Stadium June 8 have
been completely dissipated.
STEAMER ALEUTIAN
ENROUTE TO SEWARD
WITH FI LISTING
SEATTLE, June 3. —The SS Aleu
tian, of the Alaska Steamship Co.,
sailed from Seattle todav for
Seward with the following list of
reservations:
H. E Parker, L. C. Thompson,
J. C. Baragawanath, Bernard
Mein, Miss M. Schoenforn, Mrs.
Robert Sheldon, Frances Sheldon,
Hermane Sierks, V. D. Harrison,
R. O. O’Farrell, George W. Rogers,
C. P. Hale, Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Ross,
R. D. Baker, J. G. Gauge.
L. P. Lopston, W. G. Cummings,
R. W. Martin, D. G. Matbison,
Jack Cullen, C. L. Johnson, Spen
cer Paxton, Martin E Hanson, A.
Young, Mrs. Young, Virginia Par
ry, Mrs. Kallock, Lee Kallock, R.
D. Chrenschall, A. F. Richardson,
H. R. Joesting, Mrs. John Oster
haug, A. Record, Mr. and Mrs. R.
Berg, Gus Hascth; and five steer
age.
EDITOR SOT WIPES
WALSENBURG. Colo., June 3. —
Independent, Will Overhead, not
Louie Meyer of California, won
According to the Walsenburg World
the Memorial day automobile race
at Indianapolis.
Editor John B. Kirkpatrick has a
telegram from a press association
to prove it. Kirkpatrick asked the
press service to telegraph him the
name of the winner of the race
immediately after it was finished.
He received the prompt reply.
“Will Overhead winner of In
dianapolis race’’ the telegram stat
ed. Editor Kirkpatrick immediate
ly went to press on the basis of
that using eight columns of large
type to announce the winner as
Will Overhead. Kirkpatrick had
misconstrued the wire. The press
service meant by “Overhead” that
it would send the news to him over
commercial telegraph wires instead
of regular press wires.
UTAH'S NEW SHIES
TAX NOW IN EFFECT'
SALT LAKE CITY, June 3- —
Utah’s new sales tax went into ef
fect yesterday, but in most in
stances it was being absorbed by
the retail, a survey here indicated.
In the case of theatres, where a
tax of at least one cent is applied
to all tickets, it was added to the
price of admission, and clothing
stores and some others were add
ing the tax to the price of their
goods. Furniture stores in most
cases were said to be absorbing the
tax, even on larger scales.
American League
Phillies 4. N. Y. 5.
Cleveland 2. 1, St. Louis 1. 0.
Chicago 1, Detroit 14.
Boston 3, Washington 8.
National League
Brooklyn 1, 7, Boston 6, 2.
N. Y. 11. Phillies 3.
The only games scheduled.
Pacific Coast
Oakland 5, Hollywood 7.
L. A. 2, Portland 0
E. M. Polley, territorial tax col
lector, departed today for the In
terior hinderlands.
OVERHEAD WAS CUT
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 3,—
| Uncle Sam completed the 11th
j month of the 1933 fiscal year with
! a deficit a billion dollars lower
! than on May 31, 1932, the Treasu
J ry announced. The excess of ex
i penditures for the period was
! $1,848,232,700. Expenditures were
reduced by the amazing total of
' $978,000,000 as compared with last
year, and amounted to $3,477,500,
; ooo.
GOVERNMENT RESTS
ITS CASE AGAINST
CHARLES E. MITCHELL
I NEW YORK, June 3, —Testimo
ny by a government expert that
Charles E. Mitchell owed a total
of $850,429 in unpaid income tax
es concluded the prosecution of
the former National City Bank
head in Federal court on charges
of income tax evasion.
: The government rested its case
! after it had received vivid pictures
I of the frenzied finance roaring
days of 1928 and 1929.
; „ It was revealed that in 1929,
; Mitchell received a total of $3,
! 466,422 of which $100,000 was sal
| ary, the rest being profits from the
‘ market and from participation as
; a favored captain in syndicates,
, pools and underwriting operations.
NOT TOO BAD
KELLER COURSE, St. Paul, June
| 3. —Archie Hambrick, Zanesville,
■ Ohio professional, took first place
: in the preliminaries of the national
! driving contest at Keller when he
; poked out a drive of 256.9 yards.
Am Can 91 3-8, Am Pw lit 9 1-2,
3-4, Anaconda Cop 12 1-4, Baldwin
Am Sug Ref 60 1-4, Am Tel Tel 117
Loco 80, Beth Steel 27 7-8, Borg
Warmer 15 3-4. Bruns Balke 10. Byrs
Co 23 1-2, Caterp Trax 20 1-4,
Chrysler 23 1-8, Curtiss Wright 2
3-4, Dome Mines 26 7-8, DuPont
Nitrate 76 3-4. Eastman 81, Elec
Pw Lt 8 1-2, Firestone 22, Free Port
Tex 37 7-8, Gen Elec 22 3-8, Good
year 35 3-4, Hershey 56 3-4, Int
Nick Can 15 1-2, Int Tel Tel 14- 1-8,
Johns Manville 38 1-4, Kennecott
Cop 21 3-8, Ligg Myers 89, Mack
Trux 34 1-2 Montg Ward 23 1-4,
Nash 19 1-4, Nat Bis 55, Nat Distirs
60 1-4, N Y Central 35. 3-4, Nor
Am Avia 7 1-8, Nor Amer 26 7-8,
Otis Elev 20 1-2, Pac Gas Elec 25
3-8, Pac Tel Tel 85, Phillips Pet 14
1-4 Postal Tel 14, Pullman 41 1-2,
Radio 8 3-8, Rey Tob 60 1-2, Seab
Oil 31 1-4, Sears 30 5-8, So Cal Ed
22 1-4, Sou Pac 25 7-8, Std Oil
Cal 33, Std Oil Kans 24 3-4, Tex
Gulf Oil 28 3-8, Uni Carb 39, U S
Aire 31 5-8, U S Carbon 22 1-8,
U S Indus Alco 46, U S Steel 52
1-2, U S Tob 80, Vandium 21 5-8,
West Un Tel 44, Westinghouse 28,
West Air Brakes 28 Westinghouse'
El Mfg. 43, West Elec 9, Woolw 38. J
SWALLOWED A BEE
WILLOW, Calif., June. 2 — Stan
ley Brown is suffering internally
from the string of a bee. Mr. Brown
swallowed the insect while taking
a drink of water. Half-way down
his throat the bee stung him.
A HELPING HAND
BERLIN, June 3. —The financing
of 150,000 marriages in the coming
fiscal year is part of Chancellor
Hitler’s schedule to stimulate the
nation’s growth.
FOR SIDE-SHOWS
PLYMOUTH, June 3. —A rabbit
without ears and one with only one
ear in the center of its head were
born on the ranch of Robert
Phellps. Both animals can hear
as normal rabbits Mr. Phellps said.
HUGE Oil MON
SIGNAL HILL, LONG
BEACH, EXPLODED
LONG BEACH, Calif., June 3, —
At least 20 persons were killed,
police estimated Gn fragmentary
reports, when a huge oil tank on
Signal Hill, world famous oil field,
exploded with a terrific detonation.
Raging flames started by the
blast menaced surrounding oil
wells and distilleries. A crowd of
more than 15,000 persons gather
ed at the scene and seriously ham
pered attempts of firemen to halt
the fire.
Firemen warned that new ex
plosions were imminent unless the
flames were quieted; an uniden
tified woman and her baby were
the first definitely known dead.
Houses adjacent to the blast
scene were wecked. The explosion
occurred at a huge distillery plant
at 23rd and Lime Avenue.
San Pedro, seven miles away,
reported windows in many houses
were broken by the explosion. All
available fire fighting apparatus
| from all surrounding cites was
rushed to Signal Hill immediately.
Officials feared the flames might
spread to an extent to endanger
the entire field. Every physician
| and ambulance in the city was
called to the scene which was one
of the utmost confusion while the
flames spread rapidly.
CHINESE-EASTERN
RAH BLOCKED
MOSCOW, June 3. —Direct traf
fic on the Chinese-Eastern &
Ussuri Railway in Manchuria and
Eastern Siberia, has been inter
upted, dispatches from Khabarovsk
reported.
They said an armed detachment
of railway police, headed by a
Japanese official in the Manchu
kuo administration, severed the
traffic Wednesday, removing raiL
point keys and blocked connection
points with speeding cars.
JUST A STARTER
NEW YORK, June 3. —Americans
drank 1,500.000 barrels of legal
beer in April, C. D. Williams, Sec
retary of the United States Brewer’s
Association said. They would have
drank more if the brewers had been
able to make it fast enough, he
asserted. These facts make the
first official figures on beer pro
duction and sales since repeal of
the Volstead act.
NEAR DEATH
PHILADELPHIA, June 3. —Cy
rus H. K. Curtis, the publisher of
the Saturday Evening Post and
other leading national magazines,
was reported dying at his Phila
delphia home. Although official
confirmation of his critical condi
tion could not be obtained, it was
learned from authorative sources
that he was not expected to live
through the night.
SET A NEW RECORD
NEW YORK, June 3, — Frank
Hawks established a new7 coast to
coast non-stop record when he
landed, in New York at 11:16 p. m.
exactly 13 hours and 25 minutes
after his takeoff from Los Angeles.
THE FIRST GAME
MEXICO CITY, June 3. — The
University of California and Uni
versity of Mexico baseball teams
initiated the “international” inter
collegiate baseball season here, the
California nine winning by a five
to two score. • It was the first base
ball team ever to represent the
University of Mexico.