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The Washington times., 1931-02-04
SCHALL SCORES
TAX SUIT MOVE
" BY MITCHELL
Accuses Official OF Acting
Against Government; Case
Appeal Is Declared Dodged

Charges Of unethical conduct
involving a million-dollar tax
claim were flung at Attorney
General Mitchell by Senator
Schall, Of Minnesota, in a state
ment yesterday.
1t was the blind Senator's lat
est blast in the acrimonious dis
pute between the Attorney Gen
eral and the entire Minnesota
delegation over appointment of
Q Federal judge for Minnesota.
Angered by the Attorney Gen
erals charge last week that Err,
nest A. Michel, whom Schall and
the delegation are backing for
the post, is a member of a firm
whose ethics is questionable.
Schall struck back yesterday by
making a similar charge against
the Attorney General.
Helped EVade IaXeS
AS counsel for the estate OF
Mary T. Hill, Mitchell drew va
rious transfers and agreements
through which a million-dollar
estate tax was avoided, Schall
said. Mrs. Hill was the widow
Of James ]. Hill, multi-milllon-
aire railroad lnagnate.
The settlement was attacked in
the courts, the Government win,
ming in the United States District
Court but losing in the Court OF
Appeals. Mitchell, who meanwhile
had abandoned his private prac-
tice to become Solicitor General
failed to appeal from the latter
decision, and thus was guilty Ot
unethical conduct, Schall charged.
He added:
"The United District AttOr-
ney Of Minnesota wrote a strong
letter to the Solicitor General
urging that an appeal be taken
1t never was. The Government
never did collect the million
dollars which the United States
District Court for Minnesota
said was due 1t.
Mitchell to Answer
"It seems to me that under
any standard of ethics, the So.
icitOr General should have seen
to it that the question was laid
before the. Supreme Court for
final decision"
At Mitchell's office last night
1t was said that the Attorney
General would answer Senator
Schall "in due time"
The Washington times., 1931-02-04
LUrdy Bank Guarded
From RlI71Ored Raid

RICHMOND, Va, Feb. A
bevy of guards with sawed-off
guns and revolvers strapped
around their bodies yesterday
guarded Luray national banks,
expecting a raid by robbers. The
guards were pressed into service
upon information received from
Stanley, Page county, where it
was reported that robbers were
preparing to swoop down upon the
Farmers and Merchants National
Bank.
The Washington times., 1931-02-04
Maryland Church
DESTROYED bU Fire

LEONARDTOWN, Md. Feb. 4
Fire destroyed Joy M. E. Chapel.
near Hollywood. The structure
was used as a house of worship
for many years by the Methodist
Episcopal Church Of that section.
A service was almost ready to
begin when smoke was discovered
on the roof. No one was injured.
The Washington times., 1931-02-04
HOME ROBBED

Burglars entered the home of
Earl w. Farr, $50 Peabody st. N.
W., by way of the back door yes
terday afternoon and stole $75.
in clothing and silverware.
The Washington times., 1931-02-04
-WJSV-2O5n1

4:3O-Wander Smile Children.
Subsistence and History.
5:15-AlonE Route so.
5:45-Congress today.
7:GO-MusiCal Novelette,.
7:15-Community Chest.
7:31-Ann Arlen and her orchestra.
5000. Bascom Slemp and Army
Band Ensemble.
S:3O-Radio and Television program.
s S:OO-Lorraine Maust, Blues Singer.
9:15--Melody Three.
The Washington times., 1931-02-04

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Evening star., 1931-12-11
DIES IN RAIL WRECK
AS HE STICKS TO POST
Brakeman Found Buried Under
Tons of Coal-0thers Leap to
Safety From Runaway Train.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
ALTOONA, Pa, December 1.-THE
body of brakeman, who stuck to his
post as a heavy 88-car Pennsylvania
Railroad coal train plunged wildly down
& steep hill near the Gallitzin tunnel
last night, was found yesterday buried
beneath tons Of coal.
He was Matthew Allison. Other
trainmen, who were injured slightly as
they leaped to safety said they saw
Allison clinging to the side of a car
as the train sped to destruction.
For a mile and half there was no
hand at the throttle of the locomotive
and Allison was the only man on the
train.
Then, striking a curve, the train piled
up, locomotive and 76 cars leaving the
track.
The injured are NJ. J. Leasure, en-
gineer; D. E. Wright, fireman; R r.
Beacock, conductor; w. A. Hampstead,
f1agman, and Evan Jones, substitute
brakeman.
Railroad officials said the brakes
failed to hold and the train ran away.
Evening star., 1931-12-11
Akron Restaurateur
Not His Brothers
Keeper, Court Rules
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
AKRON, Ohio, December IL
Restaurant proprietors are not
their brothers keeper. an Ohio
District Court Of Appeals has de-
cided
Reversing the decision Of the
lower court, the Appellate Court
found that serving gingerale and
ice "setups" to patrons who In
dulge from personal liquor stocks
is not to be considered as aiding
or abetting violation Of the Ohio
liquor law.
In 50 doing, the court observed
that A. w. Smith. convicted as
aiding and abetting, had no do
minion over liquor brought into
his inn, hence was not guilty.
But Smith, the court added,
rendered his place subject to pad
lock for permitting drinking
within his knowledge.
Evening star., 1931-12-11

Finance Committee, who discussed
world financial problems, interallied
debts, the methods of raising taxes and
the entire fiscal problem.
Other officers elected include Judge
G. Rogers Arundel, vice president; War
rem w. Grimes, secretary treasurer; j.
O'C. Roberts, member of the Executive
Committee and chairman of the men,
berShip Committee, and Harold A. La
fount, member of the Executive Com
mittee.
Evening star., 1931-12-11
INDIAN POLICE TO 0EP0RT
TWO AMERICANS As REDS

San Francisco Couple Accused of
Communistic Activities and At
tempts to Form Secret Society.
By the Associated Press
LONDON, December An Ex-
change Telegraph dispatch from Bonn
bay said police arrested Henry Lynd
and his wife, SuSanne Lynd, OF San
Francisco yesterday on charge OF pro-
noting Communist activity In India and
held them for deportation by the first
available boat.
The LyndS were also accused Of at
tempting to form a secret society, the
dispatch said They reached Bombay
by way of Colombo several months ago
The dispatch said police have been
watching their movements and declared
they attended a secret midnight meet
ing on the seashore a few days ago.
Evening star., 1931-12-11

existence Of the race. Man, he ad-
mits, may have been in Europe even
during the great glaciation which pre-
ceded the last This would increase
the age Of the race on that c~ntneut
by many thousands of years. but no
help could be obtained from the lake
deposits.
Evening star., 1931-12-11
H0NORED THIRD TIME
Joseph c. Fehr Reelected Presi
dent by Inquirendo Club.

Joseph Conrad Fehr, founder OF the
1nquirendo, professional mems discus
sion club, was reelected president ior
the third time Wednesday night at the
annual election at the hcme of Fred
S. SchoW, 270l Chesapeake street.
The meeting was addressed by Sena-
tor omOOt. chairman Of the Senate
Evening star., 1931-12-11
FORM OREGON SOCIETY
Former Residents of State to Meet
Saturday Evening.

An oregon society is to be formed
at a dinner meeting tomorrow evening
at 6 80 o'clock, at the Kennedy-Warren,
to which all former residents Of the
State who now reside in Washington
are invited. Members of Congress from
oregon and others holding public Office
will take part in the formation of the
organization. There are about 400
OregOni2ns in the city.
Oregon is planning TO take a definite
part in the George Washington Bicen-
tennial celebration, and to that end
the new society will cooperate.
Ireland has banned private military
ORGANIZATIONS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-01
BURNET TO STRIKE
ILLEGAL INCOMES
Declares in Radio Forum IT.
gotten Gains of Gangsters
to Be Taxed.

Gunmen of the Middle West, with
hands conveniently placed in coat
pockets" will not deter the Federal
Government from its campaign to col
lect income tax on Illegal income and
prosecution for evasion of income tax
payments.
This declaration was sounded by
David Burnet, commissioner Of internal
revenue, last night in the National
Radio Forum, arranged by The Wash
ington Star and broadcast over WMAL
and the coast-to-coast network of the
Columbia Broadcasting System. THE
end Of this campaign is not yet" he
declared.
In the course of his address explain
ing the income taxes due from the
American people on or before March Is,
Commissioner Burnet took up the mat
ter of the situation in "Midwestern
city," the name of which he did not
mention.
Matched Wits and Won.
In that city, the commissioner said,
"a man whose name has figured largely
In the public press as an enemy Of law
and order has been convicted on a
charge of evading his income tax.
Others of his like" continued the COM
missioner, ION similar charges have en-
tered pleas Of guilty"
For the purpose of his address, Mr..
Burnet asked each listener to presume
himself to be commissioner of internal
revenue. Immediately" he declared,
there is born to you the realization of
the work of the splendid men of your
bureau. who have matched their ability
and wits against the brains OF a no
torious clique-and won"
Paying tribute to the Department Of
Justice and district attorneys. whose
support and encouragement was neces-
sary to successful prosecution, the CONF
missioner fatty declared: 1T is reveal
ing no secret to say that the end of this
campaign is not yet. Income from
illegal ransactions-alleged to be the
main source of revenue of this gentry
is taxable income. 1t is the purpose Of
the Bureau of Internal Revenue to use
every means within its power to collect
it. Even the presence of bodyguard.
hands conveniently placed in coat
pockets, in this instance will not serve
as deterrent"
Willful failure to report income,
whether honestly or illegally gotten,
the commissioner explained, is punish
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-01
BUILDING PLANS TO TERMINATE
CAREER OF LARGEST u. S. FLAG
Post Office Personnel Director Keeps 7oFOot Banner,
Fart of Big Collection Looking Fresh.

director, who has been in Government
service ever since the Harrison admins
tration, when she spent four and a half
years in clerical work at the White
House.
Impartially, she takes the role Of
Betsy Ross to all the banners Of all the
States sewing new silks about their en-
broidered-seal centers when they get
too worn TO wave.
All the bunting flags she takes to her
own apsr ment in Washington, and she
persuades Artist Frank Dony to do over
the Louisiana pelican when the color
runs II was she who discovered the
Missouri flag had its insignia on upside
down. and Dony artfully inverted 1t.
Miss Sanger doesn't know whether
room for the State flags can be found in
the new buildings, but she hopes some
entrance or corridor may be frightened
by them.
But the biggest flag of all made in
1920 at cost of $500 with 30-inch stars
and yard-wide stripes, will have to re-
tire.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-01
FINES THREATENED
GAS COMPANY IF
RULE IS FLOUTED
$500 Daily Penalty Faced
Unless Pressure Order Is
Carried Out.

Final notice was served on the gas
companies by the Public Utilities Com
mission yesterday that failure to obey
its new pressure regulations would re-
suit in the imposition Of penalties.
The warning was contained in q
1,2OO-word statement on the gas situa-
ton, issued by Maj. Gen. Mason NJ
Patrick. chairman of the commission,
at the close OF two weeks Of intensive
investigat ton to determine the cause
OF the unprecedented deIuge of COM
plants over high gas bills. :
The public utilities act prescribes a
fine of 5000 for every day a public
utility corporation fails to obey any
order or regulation Of the commission.
This is the weapon the commission
proposes to use on the gas companies
for further infractions Of the pressure
regulations.
Investigated Complaints.
Gen. Patrick's statement analyses
the various complaints received by the
commission about increased gas bills.
discusses the effect of high pressures
on gas appliances, and points out that
the commission is insisting that the
readjustment OF appliances for efficient
operation under the recently author
lied 8-inch pressure be vigorously
prosecuted.
The commission has investigated
every individual complaint which it has
received" said Gen. Patrick. ut has
impressed upon the gas company the
necessity for remedial measures. It
has insisted and is insisting that the
regulation of gas appliances should be
prosecuted vigorously in order to meet
the changed conditions
1t is particularly insistent that the
larger measures of relief, greater main
capacity, must be supplied in order that
the pressures may be kept at a reason
able figure. In this connection it has
already served notice on both gas COM
panies that the temporarily authorized
6-inch pressure must not be exceeded
anywhere in the city. The commission
is making constant tests and will see
that these orders are obeyed. or that
failure to obey them will carry with 1t
the penalties prescribed"
Announcement also was made that
the commission tomorrow will appoint
a successor to Bert H. Peck, its chief
engineer, so that there will be no in
terruption in the investigation of the
gas situation. Mr.. Peck, who directed
the INQUIRY after disclosing the exist
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-01

SIT has been said that I suggested
the strtp-ticket idea. I have done
nothing of the sort. I, with every
other school officer, have particularly
refratned from making suggestions OF
any sort with regard to the 3-cent
carfare. As a matter of fact, we see
no reason why the street car conductors
themselves can't sell the 3-cent tickets
or tokens to the children right on the
cars as they do the straight fares. II
there's been any suggestion of strip
tickets, it came from the Public Utilities
Commission itself"
Mr.. Kramer continued by pointing
out that proof of the school systems
willingness to help in the 3-cent fare
enactment lay in the fact that the sys-
TENS staff already has spent hours in
gathering statistical data for the
Utilities Commission. He said the
schools are ready to continue their aid
up to the point of selling the tickets
In order to help Washington school
children and their parents benefit from
the loWer fare rates.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-01
Ex-HAvANA OFFICIAL
ACCUSED IN BOMBING
Five Members of Presidential
Guard ArreSted-Army Over
hauling in Prospect.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
HAVANA, february 28.-With g1SNe
charges facing Comdr Manuel EspiH ssa,
aide-de-camp to President Gerardo
Machado, police tonight announced that
former city official had been implicat-
ed in the plot for bomb explosion in
the presidential palace Monday morning.
Police said Canilo Valdes, the soldier
who admitted dropping the bomb down
vent pipe, confessed today the ex-
plosive was given him by Francisco
Diaz, who was an official of the
municipality of Havana under the adj
ministration of Mayor Miguel Mariana
Gomez before Havana became a federal
district last week
Comdr. Espinosa is a brother n-law
Of Mayor Gomez and one police theory
is that adherents of the Gomez adj
ministration resented the conversion of
the city into federal district, with its
officials to be named by the govern
merit
Five members of the presidential
guard have been arrested, in addition
TO Comdr Espinosa, and it was in
dicated today the army might be given
an overhaul.ng.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-01
ANT|-LAME DUCK
SENTIMENT FAILS
Congress Adopts Resolutions
Providing for Regular
Session Times.

The perennial growth toward aboli-
ton Of sessions of an old Congress after
new one hes been elected was clipped
on Capitol Hill yesterday just before it
Powered into definite congressional
action.
Conferees of the Senate and House
agreed to disagree after another futile
effort yesterday to come to an under
standing on the House proposal fixing
a definite time for adjournment of the
second session.
January Meeting Provided.
Senator Norris, Republican, Nebraska,
chairman of the conferees and sponsor
Of the constitutional amendment. an
nounced ''it is dead for this session at
least, I am awfully sorry to say"
Both the Senate and House adopted
resolutions providing that the newly
elected Congress meet annually in Janu-
airy. However, at the insiStence of
Speaker Longworth the House included
provision that the second annual ses-
sion end on May 4, four months after
1t would have convened The Senate
placed no limitation on the sessions.
The Senate conferees offered a COM
promise whereby Congress would be au-
thorized to fix. by law, a date for
termination of the second session, but
they fatty refused to have a definite
date placed in the Constitution for all
time to come.
Time Extension Offered.
House conferees offered to extend the
time for the second session TO June d
which would bring the session up to a
time for the national conventions on
those years-but they insisted that
definite date for adjournment be fixed.
Norris said that in limited session
power is always given to few persons
in the closing hours to block whatever
legislation they want to, no matter how
good it may be.
also" he said, "the House rules pro-
vide that in the last six days of ses-
sion the Speaker may recognize any one
he desires and suspend the rules for
any legislation he desires. This makes
him absolute monarch of what the
House may do.
1.-THE operation of that rule is that
the Speaker won't recognize any one ex-
cept that person who proposes legisla-
ton he favors This becomes the more
serious when it is realized that the par
ticular provision for limiting the ses-
sion was proposed by the Speaker him
self"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-01
Bill to Pay Workers
Capital Wage Scale
On us. Jobs O.K.'d
BY the Associated Press.


Congress acted yesterday TO
protect the wage scale of labor
employed on the vast half billion
dollar Federal building program.
House approval sent to the
President a bill to require con-
tractors engaged on public build
ings to pay the prevailing local
wage scale. 1t would apply to all
contracts let in the future on the
Nation wide program.
Some successful bidders for
contracts have selfishly imported
labor from distant localities and
have exploited this labor at wages
far below local wage rates." said
the unanimous report of the
House Labor Committee.
The Secretary Of Labor is made
the final arbiter of what wage
should be paid.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-01
CAN'T SELL PUPILS
CAR TICKETS UNDER RULING
Kramer Says Instructors Will Aid in ThreeCent Change,
But Won't Act as Agents.

The public school system is ready to
cooperate with the Public utilities
Commission in carrying out the pupils
Scent carfare law, but it will refuse
to sell the tickets to the school chill
dren, Stephen z. Kramer, first assistant
superintendent told The Star last
night.
At the same time, Mr.. Kramer
denied that he ever had proposed that
strips of tickets be made available to
the pupils.
THE schools are ready, as they al
ways have BEEN" Mr.. Kramer declared,
ito aid In putting into effect the
3-cent carfare for pupils. We will do
everything possible up to the point of
acting as agent for the street car COM
panies in distributing their tickets to
the children. We nave no means of
collecting sums Of money. no adequate
manner of being responsible for such
financial transactions and furthermore
don't believe the selling of street
car tickets Is part of the teachers al
ready full responsibility.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-01
ny N. Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Too big to spread out, too old 10
20 10 the cleaner, the largest perfectly
proportioned United States flag will
hang undisturbed by Spring cleaning
until the end Of its public career
Finis will be written for the flag when
the lowered Post ONCE Department
Building on Pennsylvania avenue goes
down, and the one goes up in the
Capital Identification scheme.
Unfurled in glassed-over court from
the ninth-story roof to third-story floor,
the 8a-foot 4-inch flag is surrounded at
fourth and fifth story height by flags Of
all the States-a collection much sought
by school children.
But all the courts in the new build
ing viii be open, and there viii be no
place for the flag, which isn't so bright
Is Il used to be.
The nag collection was made, and
& kept IN trim by Miss Alice B. San
ser. Post once Department personnel
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-01
.CONF EREES AGREE
|. ON BILLBOARD BILL
Measure to Limit Road Signs
in Capital Now Awaits
Hoover's Signature.

Congress completed action yesterday
on the bill for the regulation Of outdoor
signs in the District of Columbia, wher
the Senate agreed to the conference re-
port which previously had been ap.
proved by the House. This sends tbs
measure to the President.
The bill empowers the Commission.
ers to control and restrict, in so fal
as necessary to promote public health
safety, morals and welfare, the placing
and maintenance of all outdoor signl
and other forms Of exterior advertis.
ing on public space and on privatt
property within public view
It Is expected that within sf1or
time after the measure is placed on thu
statute books the Commissioners will ar.
range for the public hearings required
to be held before the drafting Of regu.
lations
Legislation along this line has hac
the backing of large numbel of civil
organizations interested in inprovine
the National Capital, particularly in
view of the Federal projects under way
here and the approaching George Wash
ington Bicentennial celebration in 1882
Conference Report Presented.
The conference report on the meas
ure was presented originally TO the
Senate early last week by Chairman
Capper of the District Committee
Senator Blaine, Republican, of Wis
consin, who asked that it be deferred
at that time until he could study the
report. called it up for action yesterday
Senator Blaine questioned the validity
of the bill because of its extension to
regulate the placing of signs on private
property within public view, but said
he had no objection to adoption.
After brief debate, in which Senators
King, Democrat, of Utah, took part,
the Senate adopted the report.
AS it goes to the President for sigma
ture, the bill reads, in part, as follows:
That the Commissioners of the Dis
trict of Columbia be, and they are
hereby authorized and empowered, after
public hearings to make and to enforce
such regulations as they may deem
advisable to, in so far as necessary to
promote the public health, safety,
morals and welfare control, restrict and
govern the erection, hanging. placing,
painting, display, and maintenance of
all outdoor signs and other forms of
exterior advertising on public ways and
private property within public view
within the District of Columbia, and
such regulations as may be promulgated
hereunder shall have the force and
effect of law
Licenses Must Be Obtained.
Continuing, the bill requires all per-
sons engaging in the business of erect
ing or maintaining outdoor signs to
obtain a license from the District gov
eminent, with an annual license fee
of SIS.
For good cause shown the Com
missioners of the District of Columbia
shall have the power to reject any ap-
plication for license hereunder, or,
where license has been issued, to re-
woke it," the bill provides.
The penalty section provides for
fines of not less than SIS nor more than
5000 for each offense, and a like fine
for each day that violation continues
thereafter. The bill further provides
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