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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-30
D. c. ASSESSMENT
OF REALTY GAINS
$15,529, 800 Increase Shown
Over 1891 Despite Big
u. S. Purchase.

Although condemnation of property
by the Federal Government has re-
moved about $4,000, 900 worth of tax
able realty during the past three years,
the Districts total assessment of real
estate has increased. according to Tax
Assessor William P. Richards.
The total of taxable real estate for
1892 showed an increase of SIS, 529, $3.50
over the total in 1881. The total as
sessable realty for the current fiscal
year is 81 ,226, 691 ,948, as compared with
a total of $1.211,162,618 in the fiscal
year of 1881.
Tax Rate Low.
The District tax rate of S1.70 for 500
assessed valuation is lower than that in
other large cities, according to Mr.. Rich
ards, principally because the District
pays its bills as it goes, having no bond
ed indebtedness. For comparative pur-
poses he exhibited statement to the
taxpayers of Detroit, published over the
signature of Detroit'S city treasurer.
This showed that 24.2 cents out of each
tax dollar there goes for interest on
bonds and sinking fund requirements,
as compared with 235 for school ex-
penseS.
A similar financial set-up in the Dis
trict, Mr.. Richards pointed out, would
mean an annual payment to bondhold-
ers of $13,000,0o0 to $15,o00,00O.
NDiscourages Bond Issue.
He said that in his opinion it would
be ruinous for the District to borrow
money on bond issues for any purposes.
1T is always easy to borrow" he said,
"but in spite of sinking funds, cities
very seldom pay their debts off. In
stead, they keep on borrowing until
financial ruin stares them in the face"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-30
mrs. Judd ON WAY
BACK TO ARIZONA
Alleged Slayer of Two Women
Abandons Fight Against
Extradition.-
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
LOS ANGELES, October 30-In Gus
tody Of officers, Winnie Ruth Judd was
travelling by automobile today across the
desert toward Phoenix, Ariz., to face
trial for the murder Of Miss Hedvig
Samuelson and Mrs. Agnes LIE Roi there
October 16.
Mrs. Judd left the Los Angeles County
Jail at GAS o'clock last night in Gus
tody of Sheriff j. r. McFadden of MARI
copa County, Ariz. County Attorney
Lloyd Andrews and Mrs. Lon Jordan,
jail matron o. Phoenix.
On advice of her attorney, Paul
Schenck, Mrs. Judd abandoned her fight
against extradition and the Superior
Court here evacuated writ of habeas
Corpus clearing the way for her return
from this city, to which she shipped
the bodies of the victims in trunks.
Following the automobile in which
Mrs. Judd left the county Jail were two
other cars, one containing Los Angeles
County officers and the other containing
DR.. Williac G.. Judd of Santa Monica,
Calf. husband of the confessed slayer,
and newspaper men.
Coincident with Mrs. Judd's removal
from the county jail. police officers re-
leased Fred williams of Ell Paso. Tex.
Judd in the killing of the two women.
Police said his story was untrue and
ordered him to leave the city. Williams
promised to do that.
The name of J. j. Halloran, wealthy
Phoenix lumberman. again was brought
into the case yesterday in a letter Bur-
ton j, McKinnell, university law stu
dent, wrote his sister, Mrs. Judd
In part the letter stated: "$ I"
wish to speak to you in the matter
of attorneys. MIR. Anderson (Leroi
Anderson is one of the outstanding
criminal lawyers in Phoenix I am told.
He has never failed to free his man.
He knows every judge personally.
g" he is a prominent clubman
at Phoenix. He knows Halloran per-
sonally He knows every farmer around
Phoenix. We must have prominent
Arizona attorneys who exercise political
power"
Halloran was first brought into the
case when Phoenix authorities learned
he attended a party with Mrs. Judd,
Miss SamuelSon and Mrs. lie Roi the
night before the women were slain and
their bodies sent to Los Angeles in
trunks. Mrs. Judd declared, after her
arrest, that Halloran knows all about
it." Halloran denied all implications.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-30
BRITAIN TO DELAY
TARIFF DECISION
Emergency Laws Expected
Until Plan Is Drafted
Early in 1882.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, october 30--Action by the
National government on the question OF
a protectionist tariff policy for Great
Britain is likely to be delayed until after
New Year, it was indicated today. while
special committee of the cabinet
makes a thorough study of the entire
economic and political situation.
The prospect of possible dumping
of foreign goods in the interim was
foreseen, however, it was said in politi-
cal circles, and there is a possibility
some kind of emergency legislation to
act as a check on heavy imports may be
proposed soon after Parliament meets
November 10.
All parties would be represented
equally on the proposed investigating
committee, it was understood, and the
committee would make a complete re-
port to Prime Minister Macdonald after
tne conclusion of the inquiry, which
would embrace the question of a protec-
tive tariff, as well as other matters
bearing on the restoration of prosperity.
Emergency Plan in Doubt.
The understanding was that the men,
hers of the committee would be chosen
by Mr.. Macdonald and they would be-
gin their study without any predispo-
sition on the tariff question or on any
ether policy. Should a policy of pro-
lection be finally decided upon, it was
said, the legislation would probably be
submitted as soon after New Year as
possible.
There was no suggestion as to what
form any possible emergency legislation
to cover the intervening period might
take.
Prime Minister Macdonald went to
his country home at Chequers for the
week end today, planning to return
Sunday night. The cabinet will meet
again Tuesday and Parliament will as
semble the same DE-.
The Prime Minister continued to
be occupied with the task of select
ing the cabinet ministers on whom he
viii rely in his fight to re-establish in
ternational confidence in Great
Britain'S stability and to put the coun-
try's economic house in order.
Snowden May Become Peer.
The principal place to be filled is the
chancellery of the eXchequer, from
which Philip Snowden will retire, prob
ably to accept a peerage and TO take his
place in the House of Lords.
Neville Chamberlain, Conservative
and minister of health in the present
cabinet, is looked upon as the most
probable successor to Mr.. Snowden. 1t
was considered likely. however, that
Snowden would continue as a member
of the cabinet in another pest where
his advice and counsel would be avail
able in the tasks ahead.
AS a member OF the House OF Lords
precedent forbids his continuation in
the excheQuer post. even il his frail
health would permit it, Money bills
must arise in the House of Commons
and the chancellor of the excheuuer
must be on hand with the privilege OF
answering questions. To present the
bills he must also be a member of the
Commons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-30
BY the Associated Pret,

By the Associated Prets.
EANTICOKE. Pa, October 3o.--ReS-
ceed after being trapped for 1873 hourF
in an anthracite coal mine a. Mocan-
aqua, John Thomaslsfnis and Joseph
MatzonI today told In simple but dra-
matte language the story Of their i'm
prisonment.
Matzoni. a young man Of %. gave
credit. as he lay on bed in the Nan
ticoke State Hospital. 10 Thomashunis
miner Of 80 years experience, for
their being alive
Explosion occurred I'm the West End
Coal Co. mine last SATURDAY. night
trapping six men. four Of whom we're
found dead when the other two were
rescued early today.
Saved BY Older Man.
When the explosion came. Matzoni
said. he and two others started to rush
through the tunnel to see what had
happened Thomashunis called % them
not to leave and as they kept going
Thomashunis grabbed Matzani and
pulled him back The other two, John
Molitoris and Henry Ceglarski. were
overcome by after-damp before they
had gone more than few feet.
Jacob TinuS. %. and Paul NoVai ~,
we're instantly killed by the blast
Thomashunis and Matzoni gathered
up the safety lamps and dinner pals of
the four dead and prepared for a long
vigil. A mine car, half-filled with coal.
was their bunkhouse With their own
coats and those Of the dead they made
themselves beds. ThomashuniS eau
toned Matzoni to eat sparingly and as
result their food lasted until yester-
day. They still had drinking water
when rescued
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-30

real Job cut out for him. Mr. Long
worth carried the district last year by
only $500 votes. In 1928, however, he
won by $1,000 votes and in 1926 by
$4,000. 1t is estimated by the Demo-
Gratis that the district is normally Re-
publican by about $4,000 votes. This is
a big majority to overcome. Mr. Long
worth did not satisfy many of the Gin
cinnati voters because he declined to
make public statements, while he was
Speaker, against the eighteenth amend
ment. This, plus the depression, is
said to have lost him lot Of votes last
year.
The depression and consequent I'M
employment are worrying the Republic
ans now. They have not been able to
figure Just how far these factors will
turn the voters against Hollister in the
election. The depression is the big fac
tor on which Lorbach is basing his
hope of election.
Impartial observers here say that
HOLSTER looks to be the winner. by
a comparatively narrow margin, though
in some quarters it is predicted he will
win by as many as 10000 votes If he
wins by half that number he and the
rest of the Republicans will heave a
great sigh of relief.
In his speeches HOLSTER has defend
ed the Hoover administration and the
tariff, has urged the need of sending a
Republican to sit in the House at a
time when one is needed to give the
G. o. P. majority in that body. Lor
bach, on the other hand, has attacked
the administration as inept and has de-
manded a downward revision of the
tariff. looping off a fiat 25 per cent of
the duties. He sets great store in a
statement made two weeks ago by Will
liam Cooper Proctor, one @Cincinnati's
leading industrialists and Republicans,
in which Mr.. Proctor demanded a re-
duction of the tariff duties as an aid to
American business and revision of the
war debts
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-30
BRAZILIAN REVOLT
QUICKLY SUBDUED
Army Outbreak at Pernambuco
Fourth in Year, Met by Presi-
dent Vargas.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES, October 3O.-Presi-
dent Getulio Vargas of Brazil today had
weathered the fourth short-lived re-
volt of this year, with the quelling of
an army rebellion at Pernambuco, re-
ports received here said.
The reports said the revolt broke out
in the 21st Regiment of Chasseurs We'd
nesday and that the commander and
another officer were killed and several
others imprisoned. State and federal
authorities, is was said, quickly sup
pressed 1t.
Troops from Parahyba and Alagoas
were rushed to Pernambuco and three
warships were dispatched there, but the
revolt itself was confined to the bar
racks of the regiment, it was said.
The Brazilian army put down a re-
volt at Pernambuco last May and in
April and July there were riots at Sac
Paulo, important coffee center.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-30
COLONY HILL HOME
SELECTED BY STAR
House of Early American
/ Style Will Be Opened
to Public Sunday.

Selection Of another house OF real
honeliks charm for public exhibition A.
n Part Of the better homes program
sponsored By The star Is announced to-
DAY by the Silver Star Homes Com
nnittee
This is a home at 1908 Hoban road.
In the nev Colony Hi section. west CT
Forty.fourth street and north Of kesef :
voly road which Is being developed oy
Boss a. Phelps. II Is modern express
sion OF early American style, saVorlns
somewhat Of the Connecticut type, m
corporated in modern form
win BE Opened Sunday.
The new Silver star Home selected
fov exhibition after meticulous stuoy
b. the impartial group Of spec.ai lsIs
,yho act for The Star. will De ope ntu
formally sunday for a month OF puphc
shogine visitors will be welcome pc
tween the hours of am. ana y pm
Though appearing TO De OF moe moe
slze from the front view. TINS oetaS. 20
bo,,so contain nine main rooms, IN ao-
s..Sn, 70 tvo-car garage, two-story
,orch and three fun size baths. ltS
aso,sty,,ction and arrangement are
,osrked hy the newest ideas OF Demon
strated merit which enhance the IVA
biiity Of plan.
Committee Makes Award.
The silver Star medal, symooI VI
the award OF merit. has been presence
Nv the Silver Star Homes commute
,rhich consists Of James 5: IayIor;
chief Of the division of building ano
housing Bureau of Standards: Dr;
louise Stanley, head OF the uni is1
states bureau OF Home Economies
Gilhert Rodier past president WASH,
ington Chapter. American Institute OF
ATchitects Arthur Carr. past presi-
dent WASHINGTON Real Estate BOARD
WayerIy Taylor, architect and OPP
erative builder; Miss Harlean James,
executive secretary, American Clvlc
Association; Rufus S. Lusk:, IealSy
statistician. and John II. Small lano-
The house previously had received
The commended" rating OF the ArcnI-
tects' ADVISORY Council. volunteer
iury sponsored by the WaSnlngtoI,
Chapter Of the American lnsttute Oh
More detailed description OF the new
silver star Home viii be punISheo
In tonorrows editions of The star.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-30
TWO OF SIX MEN BURIED ALIVE
SINCE LAST SATURDAY SAVED
Rescue Party Kept On Job by Faint Tap
ping of Entombed Miners-Four
Are Found Dead

For three DAYS they heard the thud
Of the rescuers' picks rs the SQUADS cut
their way through 4 5o-foot wall Of coal
Food Gave Out Yesterday.
During the DAY the men spent their
time in talking and walking 10 the OBJ
strlction in the tunnel to listen for signs
OF rescuers.
Then for three days" said Thoma-
SUMS. who is also in the hospital. I'VE
heard pick pick. pick, pick.
Neither Of them Thomashunis said.
had any doubt that they would be saved,
but when their food gave out yesterday
they began to be seriously alarmed.
Within another day or two their drink
ing water would have been gone, too.
he said.
Edward Gallagher. senior assistant
mine foreman. was FIRST 70 push through
the debris TO the clear tunnel where
the two men were trapped.
Thomashunis said nothing as he and
Gallagher met, but Matzoni broke down
and wept after shaking hands with the
foreLan.
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tContnued From First Page.)
nomic life, which he said represented
his views.
Guiding Output Held Huge Task.
''It is not the function of government
under the capitalistic system to produce
goods or to perform economic services, ,
the statement said
THE actual direction of industry, the
decision whether more wheat shall be
planted and less corn or more shoes
shall be produced and less hats. is not
made by the state or by collective So
ciety, but is left to the choice of indie
pendent producers"
The statement commended the law OF
supply and demand works out economic
problems automatically.
If government or a collective sys-
tenn undertakes to regulate the business
of a country as whole and to guide
and control production" it said, there
is required a central brain of such vast
power that no human being who has
yet lived, or can be expected to live,
can supply it, 80
Questioned by La Toilette, Wiggin said
he did not believe an economic council
could have checked the excessive ex-
pansion which preceded the collapse of
1929.
Doubts Superman Exists.
He made it clear, however. he was
not opposed to the creation of such a
council and didn't think it would do
any harm.
II think you are looking for a super
man." he said, however. and there
isn't any. We are bound to get depres-
sions ever so often. We are always
going to have difficulties. and there
isn't any commission or brain that can
stop it."
Then you think the human capacity
for suffering is unlimited" La Toilette
asked.
Il think So" the banker said, smiling.
James A. Farrell, president of the
United States Steel Corporation, and
Eugene Meyer, governor of the Federal
Reserve Board, indicated yesterday be-
fore the subcommittee that they are
doubtful of the practical value Of pro-
posals to establish an agency designed
to ward of future periods of business
difficulty.
Meyer summarized his testimony with
the statement the voice of warning in
times of imitation is "inarticuIate
Farrell said the idea. would not work
as far as the steel industry is concerned,
but added the suggestion might be worth
trying out He predicted better days
In the near future for the steel industry
Employment in his own company. he
said, is beginning to show an upward
movement
When Meyer took the witness chair
he found his arch Senate foe. Ssnator
Brookhart, Republican, OF Iowa, racing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-30
AL lMONY PAYMENT
SAVES TERM IN JAIL

The threat of Jail faded a second
time before Philip H, Marcum, special
assistant to Attorney General Mitchell.
when he purged himself late yesterday
of the contempt adjudication pronounc-
ed against him the preceding day by
Chief Justice Alfred A Wheat by pay
ing arrears Of Sl3e TO his wife. Maria
S. MarcIm
The chief justice had ruled last
Saturday that Marcum could not be
sent TO Jail for failure 10 pay counsel
fee awarded the wife'S lawyers in a
final decree for linn ed divorce. The
lawyers then called the courts atten-
ton TO Marcum'S arrears of alimony.
and Chief Justice Wheat signed an
order holding the special assistant in
contempt,
No sentence was passed and through
Attorney Richard L. Merrick the arrears
were paid, and Marcum purged himself
Of the contempt,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-30
WALKERS PARTNER
FACING CONTEMPT
Sherwood's Property Up to
100000 Ordered Seized
in City Probe.
BY the Associated Press.

by the ASSoClaIeQ
NEW YORK, October 30.-Supreme
Court Justice Edward J. Glennon today
ordered any property of Russell T.
Sherwood, valued up to 100000, seized
to satisfy any judgment which may be
rendered in connection with his failure
to appear before the Hofstadter Legis-
lative City Investigating Committee.
The court also ordered Mayor Walker S
former business agent to show cause
why he should not be adjudged in con-
tempt.
The Hofstadter Committee today
focused its attention on tin box in a
safety deposit vault found to have been
held jointly by Mayor Walker and Sher-
wood, now honeymooning in Mexico.
Investigators for the committee, ac-
cording to Samuel Seabury, chief coun-
sci for the inquiry discovered that the
box has been shared by the two men
since year before Walkers election as
mayor
Six months after the mayors re-elec-
ton, Seabury said. a $7.50-a-year box
was exchanged for one about three times
as large that rented for $40 year.
Banker Opened Box.
The chief counsel revealed that the
inquiry into Walkers safety deposit
record disclosed that F. o. Harris. a
OuAihCA. ItdQ dCCGSS TO lI1c DOX
on october 3, at which time Seabury
was seeking to subpoena Sherwood for
questioning.
Seabury indicated that he will seek
to have Mayor Walker himself APP
pear before the committee in connection
with its investigation, but said that he
had Withheld any summons for the mayor
because he wished to interrogate his
business agent first
the service of subpoena on Sherwood
in Mexico under a section of the civil
practice act which provides for a fine
up to 100000 for failure to obey a
process
Sherwood, who was directed in the
subpoena to appear today for question
ing by the committee. has remained
in Mexico with an open declaration
that he intends to stay there in
definitely.
Apprised of the committees latest
move, both with regard to his business
agent and himself. Mayor Walker con-
tinued to maintain a policy of silence
refusing to discuss the matter.
Court Refuses Inquiry.
Banker Harris, likewise, who, accord
ing to Seabury, was found to have
phoned Sherwood in Mexico City, and
soon thereafter to have communicated
with the mayor, refused to make any
public statement
The Brooklyn appellate division re-
fused to accede yesterday to the City
Clubs request for an investigation OF
the alleged political deal involving IL
| iudgeships in the second judicial dis
| trict
/ The court held the City Club had
/ presented no specifis charges on which
| to base an inquiry and pointed out the
! city is in the midst of an election cam
/ paign. during which much is being
| said with great vehemence" that will
! be forgotten after election.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-30
GIVES ESTATE TO CHURCH
IF 1T STICKS TO DOGMA
Pennsylvania Banker Specifies
Methodists Must Hold to Fun
damental Concepts.

BY the Associated Press.
UNIONTOWN, Pa, October 30.-The
will of Work Kirkpatrick, Connellsville
banker, filed for probate here, specifies
that the Pittsburgh Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church is to share
in his 81 100000 estate If the church
does not depart from these doctrines:
THE creation of heaven and earth
and mankind as set forth in the Book
of Genesis; the virgin birth of Jesus
Christ; the earthly mission of Jesus
Christ, His crucifixion, death, burial and
ascension into heaven, as taught in the
present King James or revised version
of the New Testament"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-30
ERROR WRIT GRANTED
WASHINGTON BANKER
Virginia Supreme Court to Review
Fairfax Damage Verdict Against
B. Agee Bowles.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

SpeCiai Dispatch 70 Inc star.
RICHMOND. Va, October Bob.
Agee BowleS, banker. Of Arlington, Va,
and Washington. who complained a
Judgment of 50 $500 entered against him
and in favor of Mrs Mae r May. in
the Circuit Court of Fairfax County,
was awarded a writ of errcr today by
the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.
Mrs. May, resident of Fairfax
County. sued for $4,000 for alleged
physical injuries resulting from alleged
mental shock due TO alleged conduct
and language on the part of the defend
ant on an occasion of a visit to her
home and engaged in a spirited verbal
alteration with her and her husband.
She had been paralyzed previously
and Manned TO have suffered second
stroke following the alteration. Bowles'
visit. 1t appears from the record, was
occasioned by alleged libeiouS state
mentS that he claims had been made
against him. A native of Goochland
County. he grew up and was educated
in Washington
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-30
TYPOGRAPHERS EXPECT
BAKER TO BE ELECTED
San Francisco Leader Seen Winner
of Poll for Union
Vice President.
By the Associated Press.

BY the ASSoclated PfesS.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, october 30
Although returns from 80 Of the $50
Typographical unions gave Leon H.
Rouse, New York, lead of 2,183 votes
over his opponent, Claude M. Baker,
San Francisco, the International Typo
graphical Unions election OF first vice
president is expected to be won by
Baker, it was said at international head
quarters here today.
The election of a successor to Theo-
dore Perry, indianapolis, who died in
June, has been held in typographical
unions throughout the country, and the
returns were being received today. The
available returns represented about half
the vote of the international organiza-
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-30

him from across the table. Brookhart
is not member OF the committee. but
apparently attended to hear Meyers
testimony.
The voice of warning" Meyer said.
sis the most valuable in times of ex-
pansion and the most scarce and the
most inarticulate" He added that II
the voice of warning we're far enough
ahead to do any good 1t would be ac-
not be Needed.
The Reserve Board head expressed
hope It would be possible by stabiliza-
zion of industry to avoid In the future
the wide variations of the past He
said the Reserve System could play a
pert In bringing about stabilizafion, but
its spaere Of action Is limited.