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The Washington times., 1929-03-02
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Death threats have driven
to cover one Of the vital wit
resses in the defense Of Capt.
Guy E. Burhngan1e.
The "black spot" has been handed
to- the sister of Mrs. Helen F. Bla-
lock, the palmist who originated
the charges upon which Burlingame
is being tried before the extraordi-
nary police trial board.
The sister is the person who fur
nished the defense with the in.
formation which drew from the
conducted bordellos in Alexandria,
Which of Mrs. Blalock's two sis.
ters, both living in Washington, is
the missing witness could not be
learned today. Their names and
addresses have been closely guarded
since the inception of the proceed
ings against the police captain.
which are based on love notes the
63.year-old official is alleged to have
written the red-haired palmist.
Learn of Disappearance
The extraordinary trial board
which is trying the captain has
been informed of the disappearance
of the famous defense witness and
its members are understood to have
offered defense counsel. William e.
Leahy and Henry F. Woodard any
assistance within their power In
their search for the woman.
Defense counsel had planned, It
is understood. to call the woman
Immediately after Captain Bur-
lingame leaves the stand, which
he will take in his own defense
Tuesday morning, when the board
reconvenes.
Yesterday. agents Of the defense
were busily engaged In q search
for Mrs. Bla1ock's sister, but with
no clues available likely to lead
them to the hiding place to which
she has been driven.
The exact form Of the death
threats against the woman has
not been revealed, but it is under
stood that they were in the shape
of letters, and possibly q telegram.
which indicated that It would 60
hard with her If she persisted IN
taking the stand on the opposite
side of the case to her red.headed
sister.
Got Information Easily
The woman disappeared from her
home, it is believed, shortly after
Mrs. BlalOclz, deprived Of her De-
partment of Justice guard, fled the
city in fear Tuesday night. bound
for Chicago.
The sister. it is understood has
readily furnished the defense with
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Donahue. commenting on a nation.
wide campaign seeking relief for
the oppression accruing from the
burden upon the earned income, de-
clared that theatrical and movie
stars, along with other salarfed
people. in many instances suffer
unusual hardship under the present
provisions.
"The earned income" he said,
certainly should not bear the same
burden the Government exacts from
capital and from boards that are
piled up from lucky investment or
otherwise. There should be a line
of demarcation and the Government
should step in and alleviate the
anamorphous condition brought
about by the heavy tax on salaried
persons"
Florist RapS Tax
Another broadside at the unfair
ness Of the tax burden placed on
the earned income was taken by
Henry Van Gelder. Chicago business
man, said Van Gelder, who is presi-
dent of Percy Jones, Inc, wholesale
florists:
1--WE have heard a lot about tax
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180 7 RAINS
BRINGING
THRONC5

The tide of inaugural visit
ors struck Washington in full
flood today.
More than $50 tralns--many of
them in two or three sections-are
reaching Union Station today, and
fully 800 are slated to arrive to-
| morrow.
As this great influx Of inaugural
guests descends upon the Capital 1t
becomes clear that the early predic'
tions OF a throng Of 100000 or more
are about to be more han realized,
probably reaching far beyond this
figure.
Rain is forecast for Inaugural Day
morning.
Probably Monday"
Charles D. Mitchell, Government
forecaster, issued no special state
ment today, but contented himself
with his regular forecast for the day.
containing the significant and rather
pessimistic words, Rain Sunday
night and probably Monday morn
ing"
s for Monday afternoon - the
hours in which the parade will pass
the Government prophet refuses to
make any forecast now. But he ap.
pears to be hopeful.
The temperature on Monday VIII
be somewhat colder than 1t is. now
but it will not be cold enough Tor
snow, Mitchell declares.
The worries of the Weather Bureau
are centered in a disturbance over
North Dakota travelling eastward
which will reach Washington sun
day night. II winds should shift IN
the meantime, however, it is possible
that the city will be outside the storm
area.
The weather forecaster Is not PLAN
ming to say anything further until
tonight.
Station Packed
Union station is packed to over
flowing today, straining its facilities
to the utmost. All the main avenues
OF the city today began to show that
the hustle of the big event is now in
full swing.
There will be 19 sections OF trains
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JONES BILL
BECOMES
LAW

President Coolidge today
signed the drastic Jones pro-
hibition bill, thus making it a
law.
Under its provisions. violations of
the Yolstead act now become felonies
and as such are punishable by prison
sentences OF five years and fines up
to $40 900. applicable alike to first of.
tenders or hardened old offenders.
Mere possession Of liquor, however,
does not come under the provisions
of the law. All other violations, such
as manufacture, sale and transporta-
tion of liquor do.
In signing the measure. which was
strongly opposed by the vets in Con-
gress, as we'll as some drys who
thought the provisions too drastic,
President Coolidge allowed it to be-
come known that he believes the real
purpose of the bill has been largely
misinterpreted. =
Deportation Possible
President Coolidge believes that the
new law will serve its greatest pur-
pose in permitting the deportation of
alien bootleggers and other aliens
who consistently and persistently
violate the dry laws.
So long as violations were classed
as misdemeanors, deportation was
not possible. Under the new law,
however, any alien convicted can be
deported.
In the debates in Congress over the
Jones bill this feature was not par
tfcularly stressed. The vets stressed
the fact that under the bill it would
be possible for a judge to apply the
maximum penalty to a 16-year-old
boy or girl who packed a hip flask,
or to anyone who engaged in the
manufacture of a little home -brewed
beer.
The drys declared that the courts
would undoubtedly use discretion in
applying the maximum penalties, and
asserted they were entirely willing
to leave it to the courts to do so.
They defeated, however, an
Amendment which would have spe.
officially exempted first offenders
from the maximum penalties.
Opinions vary widely as to the
ultimate effect of the measure. The
professional reform organizations
sponsored the bill and jammed it
through both houses, and officials
of these organizations contend that
1t will be a serious deterrent to vio-
lation.
On the other hand the vets, and
not few drys, believe that the bill
will defeat its own purpose. in that
juries will not be so quick to con-
vict. They contend, in other words,
that the very drasticity of the bill
will make convictions more difficult.
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reductions in recent years. Phat is
all well and good.
1T is wonderful to relieve as rap.
Idly as possible the heavy burden
of taxes on the part of the Gov.
ernment, but how about the in,
equalities which exist between sal
ary or wage-earned by the sweat
of the brow, or through ones art
or profession, and that which is so
much more easily acquired? A con-
certed effort should be made in
Washington at once to correct this
situation.
Taxation has been a vexatious
subject since time immemorial. In
our own country we can reckon
from the famous Boston Tea Party
and the tax on tea. But in times
previous to our own the Govern.
ment, out of attempted fairness,
has endeavored to allocate the reve-
rue from taxation along equitable
lines.
Hopeful OF Remedy
II have faith that with the
present campaign Of publieity under
way, which has brought this for
mtddbly to the fore, that cur wise
administrators of governmental af-
fairs in Washington will tackle
this question and solve it as it
should be solved.
AT the same time adequate
methods should be devised by the
Government which will furnish all
taxpayers, salaried persons and
business alike, with such aid as
will enable them to have more
or less positive determination of
their tax returns. This should be
accomplished so as tol preclude the
possibility of the taxpayers waking
up months or years later to find
that the powers that be in the
revenue service have placed diff.
ferent construction on the return
or the taxes paid or assessed
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CO|VPLETE
HOOVER'S
CABINET
GROUP
hv GEORGE R. HOLMES

The Cabinet of President
elect Hoover was completed
TODAY with the selection OF
Robert Patterson Lamont, OF
Chicago, to be Secretary OF
Commerce.
The appointment Of the
Chicagoan was the second OF
the " surprises" forecast in
the Hoover Cabinet, the other
being the designation of ex-
Gov. Arthur NJ. Hyde of Mis-
souri, to be Secretary of Agrl-
culture.
The Lamont appointment was
even more of a surprise than that
Of Hyde, for his name has never
been mentioned in connection with
1 Cabinet post.
No Official announcement OF
Lamont's appointment was made.
but it was confirmed that he had
been offered the post and had ac'
cepted it. The official announce.
nent will be made Monday.
List as Completed
With this appointment, the
complete Hoover Cabinet now
stands as follows:
Secretary of State-Henry l..
GtimsOn, of New York.
Secretary of the Treasury
Andrew w. Mellon, of Pennsyi.
Vania
Attorney General-WilIiam ID.
Mitchell, of Minnesota.
Secretary of War-James w.
Good, of Iowa.
Secretary of the Navy-Charles
Francis Adams, of Massachusetts.
Secretary of the InteriOr-Ray
Lyman Wilbur, of California.
Postmaster General - Walter
Brown, OF Ohio.
Secretary of Agriculture Arthur
nj. Hyde. of Missouri.
Secretary of COmmerce-RObert
Patterson Lamont. of Illinois.
Secretary Of LabOr-James }.
Davis, of Pennsylvania.
Big Business Figure
Lamont Is pESSIuctiL Va lIiC /-LlSA
ican Steel Foundries Company, and
has long been conspicuous figure
in the business and industrial life
of Chicago. In addition to the Steel
Foundries post, he also. is chairman
of the board of the Griffin Wheel
Company, is a. director in the First
National Bank, in the Morris Plan
Bank, Montgomery Ward & Co.
Armour & Co, the Globe Steel Tubes
Company. the Simplex Railway Ap-
pliance Company and various
smaller corporations.
The new Secretary of Commerce
is 81 years of age, and is a native
of Detroit. He is a civil engineer
by profession. graduating from the
University of Michigan in 1891
Three years after his graduation
from college he went to Chicago,
married Helen Gertrude Trottar
and has since made his home there.
He maintains a home in the mill
lionaire colony of Lake Forest.
This morning Hoover conferred
briefly with Louis Il. Mayer, of
Metro-Goldwyn-M Mayer. The Cali
fornia motion picture magnate, it
Is reported generally, is slated to
he minister to Turkey under the
new Administration.
Representative Rachrach (R.) OF
New Jersey. had breakfast at the
S Street home
,Hyde's selection for the agriculture
post was one of the two Surprises"
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MEXICAN FLIER
ON WAY HERE

MEXICO CITY, March 2 U.N.s).
Bearing q message Of good will
from President Emilio Portes GIL
to President.elect Herbert Hoover
of the United States, Mexico's fore
most commercial aviation ace, Joa-
quin Gonzales Pacheco, hoped off
at Valbusna Field for Washington
at 6:t5 o'clock this morning,
Pacheco was accompanied by G.
2. McMillin, of Syracuse, n. \.
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Two Trainmen Killed
When Cars Run Away

louisville, Pa, March Q Q.N.
S).--Two trainmen were killed and
another injured when a string OF
loaded coal cars ran wild in the
Reading railroad yards at st. Clair,
near here, striking locomotive and
piling up S5 cars, early today.
The dead are Guy FrantZ, of st.
Clair, engineer, and Joseph Hart
nett, of Schuylkin Haven, brake
man. John Howells, of Port Carson,
a brakeman, was injured.
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JOAQUIN GONZALES PACHECO, above, left
Mexican airman hops off today from Mexico City in
a nonstop flight from Mexico to Washington. With
the Mexican flier will be c. E. McMilin, New York
nonstop trail to Washington with letter to President
elect Hoover. This picture of Pacheco with Fritz
Weller was taken just before they made successful
nonstop flight from Canada to Mexico City.
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FICIAL w EATH E R

Fair, colder. Sunday, cloudy,
warmer, followed by rain at night
and probably Monday morning;
colder Monday. Temperature yes
terdsy-H Highest, So; lowest, S5.
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BANK STATEMENTS

Washington Clearing House,
$6,076, ,509.77.
New York Clearing House bal
Ance, S194, ,O00, 900.
New York Clearing House ex.
change. &2,075,0O 900.
Treasury balance, S73.s4e, ,143.12.
Customs receipts, $4S.6S1. .s41.11.
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observation-disclosures
Hit By Film Star

CHICAGO, March 2 QN,S)-That the present Federal
income tax laws unfair to the salared people Of the
nation the contention today Of Jack Donahue who with
Marilyn Miller is in Rosaie," playing here:
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Smell Blocks Vote on
Dope Probe
By KENNETH CLARK

Subborny ignoring the pleas of his colleagues Representa-
tive Smell R Of New York chairman of the House Rules
Committee has refused to permit the LaGuarda-
Wheeler resolution for narcotic investigation.
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Thirty days left TO file your Per.
sOnal Tax Return. Your checking
account balance on January /, 1899,
Is taxable without any deductions.
New Britain herald., 1929-05-14
SEVEN DROWN IN LAST TEXAS FLOOD
Crop Damage Runs Into Hun-
 drods of Thousands of Dollars

Livingston, Texas. May II R@ Seven dead and property and crop damage running into hundreds Of thousands of dollars was the report ed toll taken in Polk county yester. day by flood following two days oe torrential rains that sent the Trinity river and several creeks out of their banks. Communication was disrupt cd and the exact number of lives lost could not be determined.
 Rescue forces in row boats worked frantically throughout the night tak- ing residents from housetops and trees in the flooded districts. In tho Long Cane community, 3h miles from here. four members ot one family drowned when they were swept from a tree top. A row boat on the way to rescue them capsixed and its four occupants. who man. aged to escape, told of seeing the four carried away by the swift cur rent.
 Where three other deaths. gener. ally reported, occurred could not be learned.
 Several families were reported marooned in tree tops at Lamont, another nearby hamlet. Attempts to reach the community were futile and fear was expressed that rising waters would engulf the refugees before aid could reach them.
New Britain herald., 1929-05-14

that the Aare-up over the question Of party regularity which developed out of the aebenture controversy was as mederate as 1t turned out to be.
 Brookhart Dtsappoants
 Many members had expected the speech of Senator Broekhart. repub- lican. Iowa. on the subject of 'pseudo-rspublicans." to be . much more fery retort than 1t was to the letter of Senator Fess ef Ohio. the rarty whip. criticising him and Sen ators Borah of Idaho. and Nye of North Dakota. for the support of the dshanture proposal
 While no doubt was entertained that the senate would rsaRirm its position on the debenture plan by passing the bill containing it. admin istration leaders have counted on the house to eliminate 1t from the meas ure co that legislation more in har- mony with. the presidents views can be sent to the White House for his approval.
 The senate. meanwhile. Is being counted on by the same group to bring the tariff bill now before the
New Britain herald., 1929-05-14

house more nearly into line with the prssidsnt's desire for ''limitsd" re. vision than the ways and means committee republicans saw ht 10 recommend. At the same time, they are hopsful that. after the general debate ts ended late this week. some of the administration ideas can be worked into the measure in the house itself through the amendment route.
 Group Msstings
 Progress toward reduction Of the tntra.party stress over various pro- posals in the tarih bill was seen to- day in the meeting of the ways and means republicans with members of the group from ten western farm states who are dissatisfied with the agricultural schedule. Chairman Hawiey had promised that such of their proposals ss met with favor among committeeman would be of- fered to the house as committee amendments to the bill with privil- eEed status.
 A similar group from cattle pro- ducinS states was called by Repre-
New Britain herald., 1929-05-14

sentative Simmons. republican. Ne- braska. to organize today along sim. liar lines to present their objections to the btlfs provisions affecting hides. meats and live animals. Con- siderable dissatisfaction has been ex- pressed In this group with the duties proposed on live cattle and meats on the ground that they are inadequate. and with the failure Of the commit tee to transfer hides from the free to the dutiable list.
 Believing that. by these and other maneuvers. they can bring about sufficient harmony in the senate and house majorities 10 assure prompt action on the tariff and farm bills, administration leaders have discard ed the idea of an all-summer recess to let the controversies die out. Sen- ator Watson Of Indiana, the repub- lican leader however, is still in- clined to look with favor on the idea of three or four weeks recess after the house passes the tariff bill to give the senate finance committee q clear field for it's task Of rewriting the measure.
New Britain herald., 1929-05-14
A HAVE CROSSED
 ] ATLANTIC BY AIR
Graf z,ppdin VIII Attempt 10th
 Successful Flight

Washington, May l4.-The open season for crossing the Atlantic by air has arrived again. coinciden' with the second anniversary of Lind bershs New York.Paris flight.
 The great dirigible Graf Zeppelin with its second voyage from Ger many to America, due to start to- tomorrow. inaugurates the 1928 trans Atlantic flight series.
 Close on the heels of the Graf Zeppelin will be the new British dirisible, the R-10o, which will take off on 2 trip to Canada. and the United States. It is expected to be followed later by its sister ship. the R-l0l.
 Thus the 1929 season will open with dirigibles occupying the Mme- light.
 Although flying across the Atlan- tic is considered one of the most risky things an aviator can attempt, 1t is worth noting that in tho ten years that have elapsed since the first time the Atlantic was spanned by air. no fewer than 2%3 persons have sailed over the ocean in air plane or dirisible. not including the second trip of the Graf Zeppelin. The Atlantic was crossed in . non- stop flight eight years before Lind- bergh's triumph.
 U. S. Navy Was First to Succeed
 This total includes some of the greatest names in the history of avi- ation. It begins with the Navy'a seaplane, the NC-4. which was xuid- ed across by three naval officers in May of 1919. and is brought up to date by the flight last March of the Spaniards, Captains IEnacio Jimi- nex and Francisco Iglesia. from Be- vile to Bahia, Brazil.
 The figure, of course. is good deal higher than the average reader suspects. This is due chiefly to the fact that there have been several dirigible crossings. with each dirig- ible carrying from 90 to S5 people.
 Some of the most notable of ocean flights are not included in this list. howeter. Since the list is concerned exclusively with crossings of the At lantic, it does not include any of tho daring flights over the Pacific-the armyA round-the- world flight which followed the northern islands from Alaska to Japan. the various army. navy and civilian flights to Hawaii. and the great flight of the Southern Cross from San Francisco to Aus! tralia, Nor does it include any Of the numerous unsuccessful attempts to span the Atlantic in which the flyers met death.
 The List Of Ocean Flyers
 Here is tho list of trans Alta ntic flights and the dates on which they were made:
 May s, 1sie-The Navy's NC-l, in charge of Lieut-Com. A. c. Reed. assisted by E. F. Stone and w. Hil- ton. left Rockaway, N. Y., and flew
New Britain herald., 1929-05-14
CLOSING BREACHES NPARTY'S RANKS
Administration Laldtls iD Con.
 Srta Lining up for Voting

Washington. May 1t N-Adminis- tration leaders in congress were tn- tent today on closing breaches in republican ranks and increasing the legislative efficiency of their majoFt ties while both senate and house were aware that they vers proceed. ing with bills containing provisions objectionable te President Hoover.
 Az the senate approached a vote on the farm bill containing the ex port debenture plan which the pres ident denounced. the administration leadeks wcro considerably relieved
New Britain herald., 1929-05-14

to Plymouth. England. by way of Asores. Portugal and Spain in t7 hours and ls minutes flying time. IJll miles. Two other planes failed. May 10, 1slS-Harry Hawker and Lieut. Com. 0rievs. British aviators, fiyins from Newfoundland to Ire. land, forced down in ocean and res- cued by Danish ship Mary.
 June II, 1ole-First successful non stop transatlantic flight made by Captain John Alcock end Ltsu- tenant A. w. Brown of Engaand. who flew from Newfoundland to Clifden, Ireland, in 1s hours and ls minutes, covering 1.ss0 miles.
 July 2, lS1s-British dtrtgtple R.s% crossed Atlantic with Sl per- sons aboard Gone . stewawey) from Scotland, arriving at Min1cla. N. Y, July 6. Return voyage safely ne- rotiated, beginning July 10.
 sept. 2s, lo94-Two of the four U. s. Army round -the-world planes crossed Atlantic via Iceland, G. een- land. Labrador, Newfoundland. Oct. IF, ls3o-The ZR-3. now the Los Angeles. left Zeppelin works at Friedrtchshafen, Germany, and landed Ut Lakehurt. N. J.. Oct. 1S. flying 5,oo0 miles in Sl hours. Jaa, 1S3e-Commandant Franco of spain, flew his seaplane to Buenos Aires. Argentina. via Canary Islands.
 Feb. n. les7-Commander Fran cesco DePinedo. flew across Inc lower Atlantic from Cape Verde. Islands, off tho coast of Africa, to South America. On May 2S, he left Newfoundland on his way back to Italy via tho Azores.
 May cl, fo3s-Lindbersh. New York to Paris. S.6l0 miles, 3Sh hours.
 June 4, 1Sss-Clarence D. Cham. berlain and Charles A. Levine took off from New York and landed at Eiseleben, Germany. on June G. breaking world record for long dis tance flying with 3,s11 miles In <2 hours and 3l minutes.
 June 2e, io27-Commander Byrd, Bert Acosta, George o. Neville and Bernt Balchen left New York and came down in shallow water off coast of France early on morning or July 1, after 3,477 miles in %6 hours and 6 minutes.
 August 27, 1s.7-William s. Brock and Edward F. schlee. round -the-world aviators, flew from Newfoundland to Croydon airdrome, London. covering 2,400 miles in sS hours and g minutes.
 Oct. ii, 1oc7-Ruth Elder and Getrye Haldeman left New York for Paris; two days later rescued from ocean by Dutch tanker near Aloras.
 April 1:, 1s:S-Koehl. Won Huenefeld and Fitzmaurtce leave Ireland and landed on Greenely Island. off Labrador coast, on Fr- day. the 18th. making first westward airplane crossing in single-motored plane.
 June 17, 1o26-NIiss Amelia Ear hart, Lieutenant Winner Stultx and Lew Gordon, left Newfoundland and landed in Wales on following day. completing 2.100-mile hop in 70 hours and ls minutes.
 Oct. II, 1o28-Graf Zeppelin crossed from Germany to U. s. with 20 passengers and 70 crew. 5000 miles in III F hours.
 Oct. 20, 1o2s-Graf Zeppelin be-