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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-16
ZERO HOUR NEARS
FOR INCOME DATA
Must Be in Mails in Time to Bear
Today's Post Mark to
Avoid Penalty.

Income tax returns sent by mail from
Washington to the collector of internal
revenue, Baltimore, Md, from here must
be in the mails tonight in time to be
postmarked with today's date, March
IT," If the return is to be in time to
escape the penalty.
Crowds at the local deputy collectors
office, in the new Internal Revenue
Building, at Twelfth and B streets, were
surprisingly slow in showing up today.
The number of deputies scattered
throughout the large room at various
desks proved sufficient to accommodate
those applying easily and without any
one standing in line up to noon.
The big rush was expected to come
at the 4:30 dismissal hour for Govern
ment workers this afternoon.
Deputy collectors stationed at a num-
Der of banks throughout the city have
rendered much assistance, and relieved
the pressure on the Office at Twelfth
and B streets.
The final date was extended from the
18th to the 18th, because the 18th fell
on Sunday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-16
Hair Discovered
In Dead Girls Hand
May Clear Staying
Two Suspects Held and
Truck Being Examined
in San Diego Mystery.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
SAN DIEGO, Calf, March 16.-Stray
hairs found with the body Of Virginia
Brooks, 10-year-old schoolgirl, assumed
new Importance today in the search for
her fiendish slayer.
Two suspects were held and a light
truck in the bed of which several human
hairs were discovered was being ex-
amined.
1.-THE value Of an adult hair found in
Virginia's left hand dwarfs in impor-
lance all other fragmentaTy evidence"
said Police Chemist Rex WEIGH of Los
Angeles. II will not be surprised If the
guilty person is caught through 1t
alone.
The seized truck was tentatively iden-
tilted through plaster cast made from
tire imprint on the mesa near where
the body was found. The driver of the
truck was held incommunicado. His
name was not made public.
The other suspect, who gave his name
as Ture Wallin, was returned from
Tecate, Lower California, and booked
for investigation by immigration au-
thorities. Officers said he left San
Diego shortly after the Brooks CIR
dropped out of sight on her way x
school February IL.
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payable on rented properties, $2,47O. IA;
unpaid bills for expenses, $l33.31, and
interest collected, 1925.
1t was pointed out that the largest
single item in the schedule of assets
was the approximately $4,000 equity
in real estate.
Reports Differ Considerably.
This item includes such valuable
properties as the concerns Office build
ing on Fifteenth street, the Hurley
Wright Building and a large tract of
ground on Massachusetts, avenue.
One man who has followed closely
the investigation of the bankrupt firms
accounts estimated that in a favorable
real estate market these equities could
be disposed Of at figure which would
wipe out the entire loss following the
bankruptcy.
considerably from the one filed recent
ly by attorneys for the bankrupt. This
latter report listed assets Of $6,503, 25377
ana liabilities Of only $6,392, 795.40. At
the time OF filing this report, however,
the attorneys made note Of the fact that
they had not had full access to the
bankrupt'S books and reserved the right
to amend their schedules at a future
date If necessary.
1t is expected that several months
will be required before the affairs of
the company can be finally settled.
After the trustees have completed their
task of hquidatipg the assets, the note
holders who elect to prove their claims
as creditors will be paid of on a per-
centage basis. other note holders, how
ever, have indicated their intention to
bring suit for re-establishment of their
liens on the properties involved. This,
it was pointed out, probably would lead
to litigation which would drag on for
years.
Many of the noteholders are expected
to determine their future course of
action next Saturday morning at 1920
o'clock, when Edmund D. Rheem, vice
president of the bankrupt firm, will be
put through an oral examination by
counsel for the creditors.
Rheem Is at present at liberty under
$25 900 bond as a result of the allega-
ton that he embezzled $4,000 in notes
left with his concern for safekeeping
BY the owners.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-16
UNIONS CONSIDER
B. R. 7. AFFILIATION
President Green of Fedora
tion and Secretary Morrison
at Conference.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Heads of large number of railroad
unions went into conference today at
the American Federation of Labor head
quarters to draft an agreement under
which the Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen may become affiliated with
the general body of organized labor.
Representing the federation were
President William Green, Frank Nor
rison, secretary, and j. M. Bugeniazet,
secretary Of the International Brother
hood of Electrical Workers and vice
president of the federation.
Albert Whitney, president of the
trainmen's organization, and James
Farquarson, its legislative representa-
tive, represented the trainmen.
Since large number of other unions
affiliated with the federation claim
jurisdiction over various types Of work
performed by the trainmen's organi-
cation, officers Of these also were
called in.
Daniel j. Tobin of Indianapolis, pres
ident of the International Brotherhood
of Transfers and Chauffeurs; G. M.
Harrison, Cincinnati, president of the
Brotherhood Of Railway Clerks: E. j.
Manion, st. Louis, president Of the Or
der of Railway Telegraphers; T. G.
CaShen, Buffalo, president of the
Switchmen's Union of North America,
and William j. Fitzgerald, president of
the Amalgamated Association of Street
Railway Employees, were among them.
Preparations for the amalgamation
have been under consideration for more
than a year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-16
Unidentified MAN
DISCOVERED DEAD
Police Believe Body in Vacant
House May Be That of
Robbery Victim.

The body of an unidentified man,
about go or SIS years DID, was found
TODAY In a vacant house at $40 First
street. Doctors said he had been dead
more than "a hours.
His body was shabbily clothed. The
body was discovered by j. E. Wilson Of
Hyattsvil1e, Nd, an employe of Boss &
Phelps, when he came to lock up the
house, which had been untenanted for
more than month.
No marks Of Identification have been
found. Coroner hewitt viewed the body
and ordered it removed to the morgue
for an autopsy.
Beside the mans head lay gray felt
hat bearing the initials ~. H." He
was about feet inches tall and
weighed about ITO or 100 pounds.
Police are endeavoring to ascertain the
mans identity.
Police of the sixth precinct, near
whose station the man was found, said
that he looked somewhat like fruit
vendor who had operated in the vicin-
ity, but were not positive. Coroner
hewitt said, after an examination at the
scene, that no marks Of violence were
distinguishable.
The opinion was expressed by police
that the man may have been the VIC
tim of a robbery, left in the house by
his attackers. His pocketbook was
empty, both of money and OF any
means of Identification.
The man was in a room on the first
floor before cold fireplace when found.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-16
PRESIDENT NAMES
T. G. JOSLIN, NEWS
WRITER, SECRETARY
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(ConIlnueo From First Page.)
lin has been appointed is the one which
serves as the public and press contact
man for the President. The duty of
making the Presidents engagements
and seeing callers at the Executive Of
flee, as well as answering the daily in
qutrieS of newspaper correspondents,
falls to the lot of this presidential sec
rotary. Mr.. Joslin is one of the out
standing Washington correspondents
and prominent as a political writer for
Worlds Work.
Mr.. Joslin was born in Leominster,
Mass, Al years ago. He attended pub
lie schools and graduated from the Leo
minister High School in 1903. He then
entered the employ of the Boston bu-
reau of the Associated Press, with which
gathering organization he re-
manned until the early Fall of 1918.
During that period he served successive
ly as Office boy, telephone. operator,
manifolder, pony editor, Rhode Island
correspondent, with headquarters in
Providence, and general reporter.
Mr.. Joslin left the Associated Press
in 1918 to join the reportoria1 staff of
the Boston Transcript, where he has
remaining since. Before becoming politi-
cal writer for that paper, Mr.. JoSlin
covered a number of outstanding news
stories of that period, notably the Salem
fire and the sinking of the Titanic. He
was assigned to the Washington Bureau
of the Transcripts as assistant chief In
1916. Nine years later he was made
chief Of the bureau, which position he
has held since. He has covered every
Democratic and Republican national
convention since 1916, and is looked
upon as one of the best informed au-
thorities on national politics in Wash
ington.
Married in 1913.
Mr.. Joslin married Rowena Halves
Of Reading, Mass, in 1918. They have
two children, Richard H. and Robert E.
Joslin. For more than 10 years Mr..
Joslin has lived with his family at 202
Raymond street, Chevy Chase, Md. He
recently sold this home, which was dis
tinguished in that section for its flower
gardens, and purchased a large tract
in Spring Valley, where at the present
time he is engaged in having construct
ed a handsome residence. 1t is expected
to be ready for occupancy within the
next two months.
Mr.. JoSlin IS q member Of the Ma
tional Press Club, the White House
Correspondents Association and the
Gridiron Club.
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gress yet to be organized. Before enter
ing politics he was one of the outStand-
ing educators of his State. He was
president of the Louisiana Polytechnic
Institute for four years, served success.
lively as Louisiana superintendent OF
education, chancellor of Mississippi
University and president of Louisiana
State Normal College. He played a
large part in the reorganization of the
Louisiana public school system.
Born in Jackson Parish, La, in 1869,
he was educated to George Peabody
College of Teachers at Nashville, Tenn,
and held degrees from the Universities
of Nashville and Arkansas, besides hav-
ing done graduate work at the Uni
versity of Chicago.
Aswell figured prominently in the
work that led to the enactment of the
farm relief legislation which created the
Farm Board. He sponsored legislation
dealing with the Agricultural Extension
Service and experiment stations.
At the Drought Conference called by
President Hoover last Fall he advanced
a plan to loan $60,000,000 to the
drought-Stricken farmers and when the
administration, through Secretary Hyde,
sponsored $25,000,000 loan, he bitter
mately the loan aggregated $65,000,000.
Funeral Plans Pend.
.Aswen was in good health urn his
death. He spent yesterday preparing
for his departure for home.
Besides Mrs. Aswell, he is sErT4ved by
his son, James B. Aswell. jr, New York
writer, and Mrs. James Edward Cantrill
of Georgetown, KY.
Funeral arrangements ere to be an
nounced later.
DIR. George w. Calver, House ply
sician, in collaboration with Senator
BrouSsard of Louisiana, issued the fol-
lowing statement:
James B. Aswen died at his apart
ment this morning at 2:15 am. Mr..
Aswell had been at his Office yesterday
and returned home feeling about as
usual
"Ie went to bed about midnight and
had no unusual complaints. At 2:15
this morning Mrs. Aswell heard noise
in his room and, not getting response,
went to his bedside, to find that he
had passed away.
Was in Line for Craftsmanship.
''Mr. Aswell was the senior Democrat
on the Agriculture Committee and If
the Democrats had organized the House
would have been in line for the chair
manship. He has been consistent
worker for the improvement of agri-
culture in the South.
His greatest reputation in his own
State, however, was that Of an educator,
having devoted many years of his life
to that service. Mr.. Aswel knew that
he had done certain damage to his
heart and had been warned about it;
for that reason he had deferred his
return home and was trying to recover
from the extra strain placed upon his
heart by the strenuous days of the last
session"
In the absence of organization of the
House, Sergeant-at-ArmS Rodgers will
name the official committee to repre-
sent the House at the funeral cere-
monies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-16
new ACTION is SEEN
ON TARIFFS TRUCE
Other European Nations May Join
IL Who Have Already Signed
Geneva Pact.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
GENEVA, March 16.-Although only
IL nations have signed the CONNER
cial tariff convention drawn up by IS
European states at the First Tariff
Truce Conference a year ago, Prof.
Hendrix Collin, chairman of the con-
ference, today secured an agreement
for further consideration Of the treaty.
The IL nations which have signed
the agreement are Belgium, Great Brit
ain, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Italy,
Latvia, Luxembourg, Norway, Sweden,
Switzerland and the Netherlands. 1t
also was announced that Germany was
prepared to ratify within the next two
days and France "a little later"
Prof. Collin today warned that failure
to find satisfactory solution would
have a serious effect on the economic
work of the League.
81. fear" he said, "the door will be
left open everywhere for denunciation
Of existing treaties and for unlimited
tariff increases, with all their disas-
trous consequences on international
trade"
The conference decided to accept the
chairman's suggestion to discuss the
possibility of putting the convention in
force with a suspending clause, or
with a proviso for permitting each
country to attach its own condition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-16
WOMAN CONFESSING
TO KILLING is HELD
Wounded Another Man, She Tells
South Carolina Sheriff-Victims
Refused to Talk.

BY the Associated Press.
BENNETTSVILLE, S. c., March 10.
"A woman who walked into the
sherif's Office here and said she had
killed one man and wounded another
was held today while officers sought
the motive for the Staying.
The woman was Mrs. Mae Quick.
Alton Stanton and Coke Brown had
been found wounded in her husbands
filling station. Neither would say who
shot them. Stanton died.
Mrs. Quick, who disappeared after
the shooting, came to the sheriffs Office
yesterday. Officers said she gave no
motive for the shooting and was now
under physicians care and could not
be questioned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-16
u. S. AWAITS STORY
INCOME TAX TELLS
Returns Must Be Filed by
acknowledgements Ef-
feet Is ForeSeen.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Big and little money-earners alike to-
day gave the Treasury dollar and cent
sketches Of 1880 which win be joined
together to form another bigger picture
the Government watchfully awaits.
-Four million citizens had until mid
night tonight to file income tax returns
for last year with Internal Revenue
Bureaus. The deadline was a day later
than usual because March is came on
Sunday.
From these statements the Treasury
expects to forecast during the fortnight
how great the deficit will be at the end
OF the current fiscal year next June 80.
Depression Effect Anticipated.
Officials estimated $525, 1000, 900 would
flow into the Treasury with the returns.
which must be accompanied by at least
one-fourth payment of the total due,
Last year the first quarterly payments
reached $628,000,000. Officials believe
the receipts for 1880 will be about
$lOO,OOO,000 less because of the depres-
sion.
Today will be one of the biggest
$2,O95, 261, $50 will be received and
$l,l39,OO0,000 expended through income
tax receipts, the sale of bonds and GER
tlncates OF Indebtedness and the retire
ment Of obligations.
Notes to Be Matured.
AT the close of business on March Il
Ine Government had a deficit Of S42O.-
255,53l, having collected $2,l65 ,9O2, 275
and spent S2,5s6, 1877 BOG. For the fiscal
year starting last July l income taxes
dropped of $85, 000. 600. Miscellaneo1s
TAX internal revenue receipts also drou-
pea, totaling 1897, 900 900, as Compared
with $434 100000 in the same period of
the previous fiscal year.
While the income taxes are rolling
IN, the Treasury will pay OF 81, 109, 000.-
notes and will sell $I.5I9. 600 600 in
bonds and Treasury certificates of in
oeotedneSS to provide funds for meet
ing the notes, the soldiers conpensa-
ton loans and interest on the public
debt.
Net Income Is Studied.
While Treasury officials expect the
1880 business depression will decrease
tax receipts, Internal Revenue Bureau
Statist1cians will watch the returns to
see how much the total income of the
Natlon amounted TO in the last year.
In 1929, said preliminary report is
sued last night, returns received in the
first eight months of 1880 showed the
total net income of individual tax paw
ers amounted to S24, ISIS, 296, CIT, an In.
crease of $151, 508, 802 over the same
period of the previous year.
More persons filed returns In 1929
than in 1928, and the number Of these
having net incomes of 100000 or
more increased from 496 in the first
eight months q 1928 to 5O4 in the
same period of 1929.
Corporation in 1929 had net income
Of $10,261, 3O7, IA and paid a tax Of
81, 046, 1885,, 1897, while the individual tax
payers paid total of 1891, O63, 1877.
U. s. FINANCES DEPENDENT.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-16
BABY'S WRY FACE CALLS
EMERGENCY SQUADS OUT
Police, Doctors and Firemen Rush
Into Home-Too Much
Castor Oil.

Baby Patricia Read merely made a
wry face yesterday and many things be-
gan to happen-and Baby Patricia had
every right to make wry face.
1t all started when Baby Patricia's
mother, Mrs. Violet Read, 1241 Penn
sylvania avenue southeast, opened her
mouth and poured down a stiff dose of
castor oil.
Five minutes later sirens Of approach
ing emergency cars were heard -Four
emergency cars skidded to a halt in
front Of the Read home. Doctors, fire.
men and police rushed into the dwelling.
A curious and impatient crowd watt
ed outside. Doctors, fremen and police,
all grinning broadly, came out.
What happened?" asked a spectator.
"Haw!" calculated fireman, "a lady
gave her baby too much castor oil. The
mother became frightened and sent in
an emergency alarm"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-16
CHAPLIN FANS FALL

VIENNA, March Is R.-Some Of
Viennais Charlie Chaplin fans fell
through automobile tops today In their
eagerneSs to get a look at the film come
dian when he reached Vienna by train
from Berlin.
A crushing crowd was at the railway
station and some Of the throng climbed
onto the tops of motor cars parked
around the station, breaking thSough
when theQ eraned tlaels naa1E -A--.-l
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-16
RADIATOR ALCOHOL
FATAL TO FOUR MEN

BY the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, March 16.-Four men
were dead today after a drinking party
at which, investigating county detec-
tiyes said, radiator alcohol was con-
suned The victims were Harry Isen-
berg, %; Phillip Ashton, 81; William
Green, %, and William Johnston, 35,
all Of McKeesport.
Chemists reported that the fluid was
made from cheap alcohol and con-
tanned numerous deadly poisons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-16
Noted Teacher Dies.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, March 16 CR.
Mrs. Matte Rutherford. 81, school
principal here for SO years, and known
throughout the Southeast as an au-
thority on elementary school instruc-
ton, died today after a brief illness
Her husband, r. B. Rutherford, is
superintendent Of public instruction
here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-16
COUPLE RUE GIFT

Apartment Rifled While They At
tend Theater With Tickets.
LONDON (P).--A newly married
couple have had their curiosity pleas
antly aroused and unpleasantly satisfied.
Among their wedding presents was
a pair of tickets for a popular show
from an anonymous donor.
Now, who do you suppose can have
sent those?" asked the bride, in pleased
surprise.
81 can't imagine" replied the BRIDE
groom. But they're for a date Just
after we get back from our honeymoon,
so we'll CO."
And go, in due time, they did. When
they got back to their newly furnished
apartment they found that everything
had been moved out but the roses on
the wall paper. On the bare floor a
note, reading:
sINoR XnA know wlan &aEak. iszm AinaunhnaAs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-16
ISLANDERS GIVEN SURPRISE.
Entertainment Program Awaits Details
of Presidents Plans.

SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, March Is up.
Announcement of President Hoover's
projected visit to Porto Rico came as
surprise here, although il was generally
known he had intended coming even
tually and had promised Gcy Theodore
Roosevelt he would make The trip at the
srst opportunity.
Although the visit Is primarily to give
the President rest, there already is
much discussion regarding the program
for his entertainment. No definite
plans can be made, however, until the
time of his arrival and the length of his
stay are known.
Theodore Roosevelt was the only
President to visit Porto Rico. That was
in 1906, when he came on the battleship
Louisiana, en- route from the Panama
Canal. Mrs. Roosevelt was with him
then and she has several times visited
their son since he became Governor Of
the island.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-16
GAS VICTIM is BETTER/
Mrs. Edna Powers Recovering
After Inhaling Fumes.

Mrs. Edna Powers, 20 years old, was
reported recovering today from the eff
terday noon in her home on the sixth
floor Of the London Hall Apartment,
1888 Thirteenth street. Attendants
traced the odor of gas to Mrs. Powers
apartment and found her semi-cun-
Scious in the kitchen beside a stoye
with three jets open.
Mrs. Powers was revived by members
Of Fire Rescue Squad No. / and re-
moved to Emergency Hospital, where she
was later discharged.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-16
Seeks Treasurer Post.

LYNCHBURG, Va, March Is (Spe-
ciaD Walter F'auntleroy has an
nounced his candidacy for nomination
for treasurer of Campbell County, the
announcement being subject to the
primary to be held next August.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-16
HOOVER EXPECTED
TO LEAVE CAPITAL
LATE WEDNESDAY

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-16
J. B. ASWELL DIES;
SERVED IN CONGRESS
MORE THAN is YEARS

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-16
$1,972,457 LOSS
LISTED IN AUDIT
OF RHEEM BOOKS

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