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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04

Recent efforts to stimulate traffic be-
tween the Dominican Republic and
South America, Panama and Gulf ports
are said to have been successful.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04
j. S. REPORT CLEARS
L|NDBERGH M|SHAP
CoIoneI's Wife Also Thrown
in Water, ConSuI'S Note
Says.

An official report of the capSizing of
the airplane of Col. and Mrs. Charles
A. Lindbergh, throwing the famous air
travellers into the flood waters of the
Vangtze River at Hankow, was received
by the State Department yesterday
from Walter A. Adams, American con-
sui general at the Chinese port.
The report settled definitely that
Mrs Lindbergh had been thrown into
the river with her husband when the
swift current tilted their plane up after
it had been lowered into the water from
the British warship HermeS. 1t also
showed that Mrs. Lindbergh had acted
with great GOODNESS throughout.
When the plane touched the water
after being lowered from the deck of
the Hermes," Consul General Adams
cabled, The 4-knot current swept the
plane sidewise and it tipped until one
wing went under and the plane tilted
to about 90 degrees.
Mrs. Lindbergh attempted by press
ing lever to initiate a collapsed rub
Der life belt which she was wearing.
The belt failed to initiate and, appear
ing quite unperturbed. she followed the
instructions Of Col. Lindbergh and dove
into the water and passed under the
plane.
col. Lindbergh also dove at the
same time and passed under the plane
Both were swimming easily and were
picked up a short distance down stream
by boat from the Hermes.''
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04
LEE TO BE HONORED
AT STRATFORD HALL
Members of Memorial Foundation
to Go to Birthplace on An
niversary of Death.

Headed by Mrs. William C. Eustis,
director for the District of Columbia, a
group of local members of the Robert
E. Lee Memorial Foundation will go to
Stratford, Va, October IL, to attend
memorial services commemorating the
sixty-f1rst anniversary of the death Of
Cen Robert E. Lee. The exercises will
be held at Gen. Lees birthplace, STRAIT
ford Hall, Westmoreland County.
They will be under the auspices of
the foundation, which is attempting to
complete the purchase and restoration
of Stratford Hall. The speaker will be
Francis P. Gaines, president of Wash
1ngton and Lee University. The invo-
cation will be given by the last sur
viving member of Gen. Lees staff, Maj.
Giles B. Cooke, chaplain general of the
foundation.
The program will include report by
Mrs. Charles D. Janier, president Of
the foundation; messages from the vari-
Gus State delegations, a recital by Mrs
Orion Bishop Brown. director for New
Hampshire Of the foundation; a tribute
to Gen. Lee from Judge Robert Worth
Bingham; presentation Of gifts to the
hall by Mrs. Breckenridge Long and
the reading of recently discovered
letters of Mary Gusts Lee by Miss
Ethel Armes, historian and secretary of
the foundation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04

tack is indisputable. But that he could
or would contemplate q war against
such power as the United States is
regarded wholly out of the question
now, at any rate, or for decade or more
TO come. Britannia has other troubles
mountains of them-within her own
Islands and people. She has India
TO think and worry about.
Japan Troubled Now.
Japan has not only her own dis
ordered economic state to keep in
mind-she Is confronted by a vast I'M
employment problem and a financial
crisis of the utmost gravity-but must
now envisage the possibility, almost
any day, of having to fight China. If
she fights China, Japan must always
have In mind the chance that she will
have to wage war with Soviet Russia,
too. The Communist government at
MOSCOW long has cast covetous eyes on
China. 1t is easily conceivable that
Russia would rejoice II make COMMON
cause with the Chinese against the
the final result would be an extension
OF Communist power into China.
Uncle Sam Through the eyes G1
Herbert Hoover looks at the world,
faces these facts, and says that in a
decade there has been no time like
the present for the United States to
stack arms, or at least to avoid spend
ing its substance on piling up new ones.
The President Is prepared to go to the
country on such a platform and con-
vince the people that his program of
mo naval expansion" is safe and sane.
Copyright, 1s3l)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04

The principal groupings under the
four-system plan submitted by the
Eastern railroads to the Interstate Com
merce Commission yesterday follow:
New York Central System.
New York Central, Fulton Chain Rail-
vav. Racuuette Lake Railway. Chicago
River e. Indiana Railroad. Louisville d
Jeffersonville Bridge & Railroad Co,
Muncte Belt Railway, Federal Valley
Railway, Pittsburgh g. Lake Erie, Lake
Erie & Eastern, Delaware, LackaWanna
a. Western: Harlem Transfer Co. New
York, Ontario & Western and ulster q
Delaware Railroad.
Added to this will be certain trackage
rights on the Reading, Lehigh q HUG
son River Valley. Pere Marquette, Lee
high Valley. Pittsburgh & West Virginia
and Wheeling and Lake Erie.
Pennsylvania System.
Pennsylvania Railroad. Long Island
Railroad, Baltimore & Eastern. Penn
sylvania &, Atlantic, Philadelphia q
Beach Haven. RoSslyn Connecting Kali
road. WayneSburg & Washington, west
ern Allegheny. Philadelphia & Camden
Ferry Co, Toledo, Peoria a. Western;
Norfolk & Western. Wabash. New Jer-
sey, Indiana e. Illinois, Detroit q west
ern and Detroit. Toledo g. Ironton.
1T2CkdSe 81 oAlOCN nv
tain points on the Baltimore g. Ohio,
Lehigh Valley and Pere Marquette.
Baltimore & Ohio System.
Baltimore & Ohio. Baltimore g. Ohio
Chicago Terminal Railroad. Dayton q
Union Railroad, Staten Island Rapid
Transit Railway. Reading. Atlantic City
Railroad, Peoples Railway. Central Rail
road of New Jersey. Lehigh g. Hudson
River. Western Maryland, Ann Arbor,
Manistique & Lake Superior Railroad.
Buffalo. Rochester & Pittsburgh; Buffalo
e. Susouehanna, Chicago & Alton and
Chicago. Indianapolis g. Louisville
(Monon route).
Trackage rights on the New York
Central, Delaware, Lackawanna q
Western: Pennsylvania, Chesapeake &
Ohio. Pere Marquette and Wheeling 81
Lake Erie are included in this set-up.
C. & O.-NickeI Piate System.
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, Coving-
ton & Cincinnati Elevated Railroad 81
Transfer q Bridge Co. Pere Marquette,
Flint Belt Railroad. New York, Chicago
e. St. Louis: Erie, Chicago 81 Erie New
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Bluejackets in John Bulls great At
lantic fleet mutiny and refuse to put TO
sea for maneuvers. The gold standard
is strapped by the Bank Of England and
the proud pound sterling crashes to the
lowest value In contemporary history.
Chinese and Japanese troops clash in
Manchuria over the execution of q Nip
ponese military offlcer. Mukden Is &C.
cupied by the Mikado's army. President
Hoover announces the practical ADAM
Comment of any plans to build the
United States Navy up to London treaty
standards-parity with Great Britain
and superiority over Japan-and ordains
q 100000 slash in the naval budget
for the ensuing year.
These events may seem unrelated.
They must be recognized, in fact, as
definitely and directly associated with
one another. From the American stand
point-if President Hoover persuades
Congress to support his plans for draS-
tic naval retrenchment-they denote
that the United States has strapped
for the Unreasonable future all plans
to build a feet equal to the British
navy, or 40 per cent stronger than the
fleet of Japan. The immediate purpose
and effect of the administrators pro-
gram Is to avoid expanding some $780,
600 900 required as a belated first step
toward the creation of a treaty fleet. "
Underlying the Presidents proposal is
an implied readiness to stabilize the
existing inferiority OF American sea
power-that Is, our heavy deficiency
in modern 8-nch guns. 10,0OO-ton
cruisers and in up-to-date deStroyerS,
submarines and aircraft carriers.
1t was to rectify this deficiency that
the United States went to the London
Limitation Conference Of 1880 and there,
at the end of three months of per-
siStent negotiation, achieved its pur-
pose. That purpose, the White House
now signals, Is not to be carried out.
Mr.. Hoover Is content to let Britain
and Japan keep such margins of su-
periority as they then had and still
possess.
Hoover Sharply Criticized.
Big Navy advocates assign a variety
of reasons for the Presidents attitude
the naval expansionists whom the Chief
Executive proclaims his willingness to
take on" in q knock down and drag
out contest In the arena of public opin-
ion. 1t is alleged. for example. that
Mr.. Hoover, true TO his Quaker up
bringing and beliefs. Is Predetermined.
1t is further inSinuated that the PreSi-
dent, bitterly needing all the political
issues he can get for 1882. is sacrificing
national defense on the altar of econ
omy as vote-making proposition. Still
other naval critics of the adminiStra-
ton assert that the administration.
with an eye to peace sentiment" in
the country, and the world. Is bent on
American leadership at the Geneva Dis
armament Conference and willing to
"scuttle" the Navy in order to set an
example there in February of next year.
Some or all of these reasons may in
spire the Presidents procedure. Whether
they do or not, he Is able to adduce
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04
QUINN HELD GUILTY
IN Staying OF TWO
Liquor Runner Is Convicted
for Murder of Sisters.
Wife May End Life.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEWKIRK, Okla, October 3-Earl
Quinn, former Missouri convict, faces
death in the electric chair through his
conviction late today on a charge of
murder in brutal Staying of Jessie and
Zexia Griffith, December %, near Ton
kawa, as the sisters, teachers, returned
to work after a Christmas visit at their
Blackwell home
The well groomed defendant heard
the verdict without emotion, but soon
lost his composure and tears welled in
his eyes.
Wife Threatens Suicide.
His pretty. blonde wife gave way to
hySterical sobbing.
IF Earl is convicted I'll commit sui
eide she had declared in advance of
the verdict. Oficers watched her ap-
prehensively
Hearing on a motion for a new trial
was set for october 9.
Quinn returned to his cell declaring
he had not slain the two young women
whose bodies were found on the Salt
Fork River IT miles from their blood
stained automobile. One of the sisters
had been criminally assaulted.
Drunken Attack Charged.
The State charged that Quinn, an
admitted liquor runner, shot the teach
ers to death while he was inflamed by
drink.
The defense boldly charged that
Amos Grif1ith, described as a she'll
shocked brother of the sisters, was in
volved in the Slayings. Later bringing
in the name of an alleged accomplice.
James MatherS, defense attorney, also
told the jury in his arguments he would
have brought the "slayers into the court
room" during the trial had he not
feared the heart-broken mother of the
girls would commit suicide" He was
rebuked by the judge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04
Railroad Merger Plan
Eastern Companies Submit Principal Groupings
Under Four-System Plan to Interstate Com
nrerce Commission for approval.

York, SusQuehanna & Western; Wilkes
Barrie 81 Eastern, New Jersey & New
York, Bath & Hammoncsport, Lehigh
Valley, Bessemer g. Lake Erie, Chicago
g. Eastern Illinois, Chicago Heights
Terminal Transfer, wheeling & Lake
Erie, Lorain g. West Virginia, Pitts
burgh g. West Virginia (west of point
at or near GouldS Tunnel, Pittsburgh
g. Shawmut, Pittsburgh, ShaWmut 81
Northern; Detroit g. Mackinac, Mani
stee e. Northeastern and new conStruc-
ton, Portland, N. Y, to Portage, N. Y.
With this will go certain trackage on
the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western,
Michigan Central, Kanawha g. Michi-
gan. Pennsylvania, Baltimore & Ohio,
Buffalo. Rochester 81 Pittsburgh and
Jehigh & Hudson River.
Joint ALLEGATIONS are:
New York Central Pennsylvania. Bal
timore & Ohio and Chesapeake IL Ohio
Nickel Plate-DelaWare g. Hudson.
Cooperstown g. Charlotte Valley. Green
wich & Johnsopville, Schoharie Valley
Railway Napierville junction Railway,
Lehigh & New England, Montour Rail
road, Pittsburgh, Charters q Youghiog-
heny Railway; Monogahela Railway,
Pittsburgh g. West Virginia least of
point at or near GuoldS Tunnel, Elgin,
Joliet & Eastern, Akron & Barberton
ECU anu nhiOil, NhiltOLl AOuAdSStSNAA'
New York Central and Pennsylvania
Central Indiana. Cherry Tree & Dixon
Vile Cambria & Indiana and Lake Erie
& Pittsburgh.
New York Central go per cent :,
Chicago a. Northwestern go per cent?
and Chicago. Milwaukee. st. Paul g. Pa
cific go per cent)-Indiana Harbor
Belt.
New York Central and Chicago. Rock
Island g. Pacific-Kankakee & Seneca.
Pennsylvania and Chesapeake &
Ohio Nickel Plate-Virginian
Baltimore & Ohio and Chesapeake &
Ohio-Nickel Plate-Detroit & Toledo
Shore Line. one-half interest now owned
by Grand Trunk to Baltimore & Ohio
System and one-half interest now
owned by Nickel Plate to Chesapeake
Il Ohio-Nicke Plate System
In addition to these. about 125 small
lines over the territory taken in in the
proposal, which would be distributed
among the carriers according to their
needs About IS other small lines,
claSsed as plant facility and common
carrier railroads are not allocated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04
APPROPRIATION BILL
DELAYS FORECAST
La Guardia Says Tax Increase
Measures Will Be Put Ahead
by Independents.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Confidence that Republican Independ-
ents will prevent the House from con-
Sidering appropriation bills before
measures increasing taxes are passed
was expressed yesterday by Representa-
tive La Guardia of New York.
He said party leaders in the House
appeared timid about saying taxes must
be increased next year to meet the grow
ing treasury deficit.
1T is obvious that the Progressives
will have to take the initiative in pulling
the country out of debt" he continued.
1t would be easy. he asserted, for Con-
gress to avoid the inevitable necessity
of increasing the government revenue"
on tn "eve of national election" He
added, however. IT am certain that the
Progressives will not be party to any
such policy"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04
HOOVER NAVY CUTS PLAN HELD
BASED ON PROSPECT OF PEACE
Believes War Is Unlikely
With Either Britain or Japan.
Both Already Troubled.

certain sudden developments in the in
ternational situation-in Europe and
As1a-as an unanSwerable argument
that the reasons for a superpowerful
American Navy are considerably less
sound than they were a bare month
ago. What has happened in that brief
interval to justify so sweeping an about
face In q major American national
policy-a policy adopted 10 years ago
this FAN. when we demanded and Sc
cured battleship equality with the Brit
ish at the Washington Armament Con-
Terence and SIS margin Of superior
ity over Japan?
Holds Events Responsible.
The events responsible for this SEN
sational American remuneration Of the
naval ratios fought for at Washington
and London, respectively, in 1921 and
1880, can be briefly tabulated. They
are:
l. The dramatic and totally unex-
pected revelation in mid-September
that the morale Of British enlisted
naval personnel has been broken by the
existing economic crisis. The men de-
clined to take the British Atlantic fleet
TO sea because Of the governments de-
sire TO cut sailors wages. The ships OF
the fleet were returned to their home
ports, the maneuvers were abandoned,
an dthe mems demands for restored
wages were adjusted"
2. The equally dramatic and unex-
pected abandonment of the gold stand
ard by the Bank OF England and the
resultant slump in the worth of the
pound sterling. with incidental shat
tering of the whole British commercial,
industrial and financial fabric.
3. Outbreak of long -smoldering con-
nlct between China and Japan over the
great province of Manchuria. Actual
war was averted by joint representa-
tons emanating from the League "
Nations and the United States, but
peace in Manchuria is doomed to re-
main IN peril because of the ungovern-
able bitterness which is the aftermath
OF the recent incidents Matters are
left in condition that to most OBJ
servers and foreign governments seems
nothing but a postponed, not a per-
manently prevented war
Sees Possible Foes Busy.
Reduced to naked essentials, what
all these happenings mean is that. IN
all probability and at least for the Wis
ible future, neither Great Britain nor
japan viii be able to do anything
threatening the peace and security of
the United States at sea. That being
so. the administration asks itself and
the American people why in such times
as these lavish unnecessary hundreds
OF millions of dollars on a navy that
isn't going to have to clear for action?
With the menace of attack from the
other two first-class sea powers, Great
Britain and Japan. indefinitely rele-
gated, can the United States Navy not
afford TO rest easy, merely maintain
existing strength in state of efficiency
and trust to the future with compla-
cency, without adding new and costly
units to the present establishments?
Great Britain, as now viewed from
the Washington angle, for years to
come will not be able seriously to think
Of great foreign war. She simply
cannot afford it. That John Bull could
and would fight, and fight magnifi-
Gently, to defend himself against at
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04
LOCKED UP FOR SHOTS
Man Says He Was Only Holding
Target Practice.

George Rosemarish of New York City
was locked up after he sent two bullets
into the apartment of William j.
Stewart.
Rosemarish said he meant no harm
and was only holding a little target
practice with q .32-caliber rife.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04

operated in less co-ordinated manner
as at present." the petition concludes
The mileage of the respective sys-
TENS would be: B. & O.. 1900; Van
Sweringen, 1880; Pennsylvania, $500
and New York Central, 10000.
Exhaustive hearings by the Interstate
Commerce Commission now are in pros
pect as the result of the consolidation
proposal being laid before it. Inasmuch
as the commission now is graphing
with the. freight rate case the consolis
dAtion proposal, It Is thought, NIL like
II be held I'D for O taEne,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

FUTURE.
Luncheon, Alpha Delta Phi Univer-
sity Club, tomorrow, 1890 pm.
Meeting District of Columbia Con-
gress OF Parents and Teachers, Frank
lin Administration Building, Thirteenth
and K streets, tomorrow, $3.50 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04

Rumania is taking a leading part in
the movement toward the. formation of
an agricultural union Of the grain exc
porting countries Of Europa
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-12-10
FROM OUR EXCHANGES
(Editorial Comment From Other News
papers. Which May or May Not
Conform With the Opinions
of the Askcv American.)

Mile Laos County Times: The
rate of state taxation in Minnesota
may be increased a little-some say
it may reach the same rate that it
did in past Republican administra-
lions. But it is silly to blame the
Farmer-Labor administration for the
increase when it has been in con-
troll of one of the state offices for
ten months. The increase is caused
by the necessity of paying obligations
incurred during past Republican ad-
ministrations that are now coming
due. There is nothing that new adj
ministration could do in ten months
that could increase the tax rate in ten
months, even if it had control of all
the stae offices. 1t must be remem-
bered that all of the head offices OF
state departments are still in control
of Republicans except that of COVER
nor, and they cannot dodge their part
of the responsibility for the years they
have been in control.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-12-10
MUST ORGANIZE

Consider your problems apart from
the six great revolutions now in pro-
gress-political industrial, financial
scientific, psychological and social
and you are doomed, Mr.. Farmer
That was the advice given members
of the National Creamery and Butter
makers association by Prof. Glenn
Frank, president of the University OF
Wisconsin.
1.-The agricultural part of America
in this corporate age must organize
or the farmer will be permanently
lost in the shuttle. We are at the
point in economic evolution where
the old individualism is doomed, and
in the future American life is going
to act in terms of highly organized
groups" he said.
Agriculture, the most stubborn
stronghold of the dying individualism
must adopt the combination form OF
business. The farmer must hang
together or he will hang separately.
The one thing left to us is to decide
the question of the type of control
that is going to be exercised Ovel
this group action. Shall it be feudal
or federalized?"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-12-10
is LEVY CUTTING REALLY
ECONOMIC

Editor Askov American:
Last winter we had couple of we'll
attended voters and taxpayers meet
ings in this county. Similar meetings
have been held in many counties in
the state and the demand for lower
taxes have been brought forth at all
of these meetings. resulting in the
lowering of local taxes by the sum of
about $7,O0O,OOO for the state of Min
nesota. Eighty-six counties cut their
levies over two million dollars, and
the townships will try to get along in
1882 with over one and half million
dollars less than seemed necessary to
levy in 1880.
1t looks good, but how is it going
to turn out? Did the local boards
really spend over seven million dol
lars more than was necessary? T do
not believe this is the case. Many of
these cuts were made without taking
into consideration what the result
most likely will be. Just one ex-
ample on how these cuts were made
and how it may work out: In our
township we will have about Is mills
less in 1882 than we had this year,
caused by cutting our road and bridge
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-12-10
seems to be pardoned in other cases
to the extent that it is played up in
newspapers.
RAISING FEDERAL TAXES

The revenue act proposed by Presi-
dent Hoover and Secretary of the
Treasury Mellon would raise the in
come tax rates so that they would
be about the same as in 1924. A per-
SON would pay 2 per cent up to $4,000
income where it Is now ~ per cent;
4 per cent on the next $4,000, 6 per
cent on the remainder, and surfaces
graduated from per cent on $4,000
to 40 per cent over 100000, where
the maximum is now 20 per cent. The
exemptions now are $500 to single
persons; $4,000 to married persons;
each dependent $500. This would be
changed to 81, 900, $4,000 and $500 re-
spectively, the exemption for each
child remaining the same. The fact
that exemptions are lowered to $1,000
on single persons and $4,000 for mar
ried persons is not so bad for they
can all afford to pay some tax if it
is necessary but the special taxes that
will be added will tend to slow up
business and be bothersome. They
include taxes on checks, telephone
calls, telegraph messages, automo-
biles, radios, amusements down to the
humblest motion picture show, and
higher rates on postage, cigarets and
corporations.
This looks like wartime proposals.