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Evening star., 1932-03-28

ample. For this he will exercise his
knowledge of eight languages, econom-
les, philology, art, architecture. paint
ing, sculpture, psychology, history and
assorted subjects naturally familiar to
a pedant with three college degrees.
Until the world is willing to pay for
the substance of his mind, DR.. Wolter
will have none of it's material food. He
has been off meats for 25 years, and off
everything for four weeks. At the pres
ent rate he believes he may last four or
five weeks more. If it comes to that, he
says somewhat forlornly. burial ar
rangements have been made in advance.
The one alternative acceptable to
Wolter instead of a well paid job is a
small pension. Give him 5000 a year, he
says, and he will retire to small plot
of ground, erect a shack. raise his own
vegetables and pass his life in study.
With strength daily ebbing, DR.. VOL
ter admits the prospects of position or
pension appear remote as they did on
the first day of his strike He sits and
waits in a chair by the window Of his
small room, reads all day and apparent
ly has become so determined in his pur-
pose that he does not have to think
much about 1t any more.
Evening star., 1932-03-28
EPSTEIN IS HELD
ON MURDER COUNT
Witnesses Declare Baltimore
Man Killed James Wilson
in Argument.

Henry Epstein of Baltimore was held
Tor grand jury action on a murder
charge today in the Staying of James
Wilson, 30, of the I4OO block of Twelfth
street, following an inquest in the Dis
trict Morgue.
Several men who saw the Staying told
the coroner's jury that Epstein, who
has been living in the 1400 block of
Girard street, shot Wilson after the lat
ter had threatened to blow his head
off"
Previously the witnesses testified Ep-
stein had accused Wilson of hi-jacking
his alcohol.
The testimony of the eye-witnesses
Epstein several times
The testimony of the eyeWitnesses
was similar to statements which they
signed at police headquarters Satur-
day night.
The men from whom the signed
statements were obtained are: John
Rabbit, %, of the 100 block of Mel
rose avenue, Bethesda his brother
Joseph, %, same address; Frank M
Noyes, 80, who said he lives in down.
town hotel; Richard E. Streeks. 25
1000 block Benning road northeast
Louis P. Howard, 26. 200 block of D
street northeast, and Joseph Reith
%, also Of the D street address.
Testimony CorrOborated.
Portions of their testimony were cor
roborated by other witnesses, including
Miss Lillian Bevans, 800 block of C
street northeast, who said she was to
have married Wilson next month: De-
tective Sergt. John c. Dalgleish. and
Drs. William Bowman and Rose Marie
Zoretsky. both of Casualty Hospital.
The physicians testified they treated
Wilson shortly after the shooting, which
occurred late Friday night in an apart
ment in the 200 block of MasSa-
chusettS avenue northeast.
He told them, they said that Epstein
had shot him. He made a similar
statement to Miss Bevans, a few
minutes before he died, she told the
jury.
Surrenders in Baltimore
Epstein surrendered to the police
yesterday. Through an attorney, he
notified police officials that he was hid
ing in Baltimore, but was willing to
surrender If q detective was sent there
for him.
Accompanied by the lawyer, Detective
Sergt. John DalgliSh went to Baltimore
and questioned Epstein for about an
hour. Epstein agreed to return to Wash
ington without the formality of first
being placed under arrest by Baltimore
police. Back in Washington. Epstein
was booked on a murder charge al
headquarters and locked up at the fifth
precinct police station.
Evening star., 1932-03-28
APPEAL FOR SLAYER
OF OFFICER DENIED
Conviction of Colored Man in
Death of Mcdonald in 1929
Affirmed

The District Court of Appeals today
refused to interfere with the electro
cution of Alfred Scott Aldridge, colored,
who was convicted three times in the
killing of Policeman Harry j. Nc
Donald on July 6, 1929. Aldridge's
execution recently was postponed by
Justice James M. Proctor until May 6.
In Affirming the conviction, the court
upheld the charge of Justice Peyton
Gordon to the jury which defined
reasonable doubt. but refused to instruct
for a manslaughter verdict. The Ap-
pellate Court held there was no evidence
which would even tend to reduce the
crime to the grade of manslaughter and
the court was justified in refusing to
so instruct.
There was no merit, the court found,
in a charge of improper argument by
Assistant United States Attorney Walter
M. Shea, who prosecuted the case:
Attorney James F. Reilly represented
Aldridge.
Evening star., 1932-03-28
PRESIDENT GREETS
CLUB EXECUTIVES
Civic Service Association
Opens Fourth Annual Con-
vention Here.

Delegates to the Association of Civic
Service Club Executives fourth annual
meeting were greeted today by Presi-
dent Hoover at the White House
Business sessions were held at the
Mayfower Hotel both morning and
afternoon, and there is a banquet
scheduled to close the meeting tonight.
Reports Submitted.
The meeting was opened by invoca-
ton by DR.. Charles E. Roth. following
which there was informal introduction
of members and guests. Committee
reports and discussions included recon-
mendationS of the Resolutions COM
mittee.
"Our association" said James Nelson
MacLean of New York, president of
the organization, "haS sponsored with
the National Association of Manufac-
turers, the America-At-Work movement
which has been successfully broadcast
ing over coaSt-to-coaSt network for
the past three months. 1t is non-par-
tisan, non-Sectarian, non-gainful, pa
triotic movement to displace fear with
confidence. The president has been
apprised of this movement which was
inaugurated by a series of dinners
throughout the country on January
last Silas H. Strawn being the honored
guest who started the movement by a
2-minute broadcast from Washington. -
Committee in Charge.
The local committee having charge
of the convention arrangements is made
up of DR.. Everett M. Ellison, one of
the national directors of the associa-
ton, Robert L. McKeever and Col John
Thomas Taylor.
Cooperating in the work of the
association, through their present and
past presidents, are practically all the
Civic Service Clubs of the country, in
Guiding Advertising, American Business,
Civitan, Exchange, Lions, Mercator,
Monarch, Optimist, Reciprocity, Round
Table and Twenty-first.
10000 Clubs Cooperate.
President Hoover was told by the
delegates that the more than 10000
clubs in the United States represented
by them have diverted activities from
communities to a national scope to
help meet the emergency.
The President was reminded the clubs
have been successful in obtaining en-
ployment for more than 100000 per-
sons and have brought more than
$1000,000 out of boarding.
Benjamin A. Rufin of Richmond,
past international president of the
Lions Clubs, as spokesman for the
committee, assured Mr.. Hoover he could
count upon the 10000 civic service Or
ganizations in this country to con-
tinue their support of his program to
meet the economic situation.
Evening star., 1932-03-28
ARRANGING FOR 1000
AT U. S. EMPLOYEES BALL

Arrangements have been made to &C
commodate several thousand persons at
the ball and card party of the District
Federation of Federal Employees Unions
tomorrow night at the Willard Hotel.
Representatives of the Baltimore,
Philadelphia and Boston locals Of the
union are to be present to join with
members of the District Federation in
the Bicentennial function.
Invitations have been extended TO
high officials of the Government. Luther
C. Steward and Gertrude M. McNally,
president and secretary re-
spectively, Of the National Federation
Of Federal Employees. arr to attend
Evening star., 1932-03-28
JAIL BREAK is HALTED
WITH AID OF TRUSTY
Turns Over Note Left by One Trio
Saving Way Out at Win
chester Recently.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WINCHESTER, Va, March 28.-An-
other Jail break was frustrated last
night by Sheriff Pannett, the officer re-
vealed today, after trusty had given
him note, said to have been left by
one of three men who sawed their way
out recently. The note stated that two
saw blades had been concealed behind
some plastering near drain pipe in q
certain cell. A search revealed the
blades as indicated.
Burton Hoover, Corbit Purtlebaugh
and Clarence Butler were accused. They
were the men who sawed their way out
some months ago. Hoover, who was
recently recaptured, blamed Purtle-
baugh as the one hiding the saw blades.
Just about the time blame was shifting
word came that Purtlebaugh had been
apprehended at Lexington, Va, and was
being returned here.
Evening star., 1932-03-28
GIDE0NS OF VIRGINIA
TO CONVENE APRIL 16
Will Hold Annual Meeting al
Winchester-Memb to
Speak in Churches.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
WINCHESTER, Va, March 28.-The
Gideons of Virginia will hold their an
nual convention here April 1917, it
was announced today by w. j. Masters,
field worker and regional secretary of
Atlantic City, N. J. He said there will
be representatives from Gideon camps
in Richmond, Norfolk, Lynchburg, Roa-
noke, Edinburg and other sections of
the State. A local camp will be Or
ganized.
Members of the society will speak in
local churches Sunday, April II. Mr.
Masters said the Gideons have placed
1,250.000 Bibles in guest rooms of Amer
ican hotels, and that hospitals now we're
receiving attention. Requests for Bibles
for hotels have come from practically
eRerY fnreisn Apd. be said,
Evening star., 1932-03-28
SIX PERSONS HURT
IN AUTO CRASHES
Holiday Accidents Blamed on
Slippery Condition of
Capital Streets.

Six persons were injured, two seri-
ously, in more than a score of holiday
traffic accidents reported to police yes
terday. Virtually all of the mishaps
were attributed to the slippery condi-
ton of rain-drenched streets.
Perhaps the most painfully hurt OF
the victims is Eugene Jones, So years
old, of Suitland, Md, who is confined
at Emergency Hospital with two frac-
turbed ribs cuts about the face and un-
determined injuries Of the right leg.
Jones was crossing New York avenue
near Eleventh street when car driven
police say, by Julian Evart, "a years
old, of the 1900 block H street, felled
him.
Both Legs Injured.
Charles Shore, 48 years old, of the
800 block F street southwest was taken
to Emergency Hospital with injuries to
both legs after he was struck at Twelfth
and Water streets southwest by a car
operated by Oswald Saunders, 38, SOL
dier attached at the Army War Col
lege. X-rays have been taken to de-
termine whether Shores legs were
fractured.
Cuts and bruises of the head were
received by James Allen, 20 years old
300 block G street, when his machine
skidded and crashed into pole al
Livingston road and Valley avenue
southeast. The youth was removed tc
Gallinger Hospital for treatment.
Charges of reckless driving were pre-
ferred against Thomas j. Cannon, 25
1900 block Sixteenth street, at the thirc
precinct station after he was treated
at Emergency Hospital for cuts of the
, face received when his automobile
| collided with a parked car in the 100(
block Sixteenth street The parked
machine is owned by Norman F. Bryce
of the Tudor Hall Apartments, police
reported.
Woman Hurt in Crash.
A collision between two automobile;
| at Seventeenth street and Constitution
avenue sent Mrs. Eleanor McAllister, q
| years old, 2100 block l street, to Emer'
gency Hospital with cuts about thu
! face
| Mrs. McAllister was riding in a ma.
| chine driven by her husband, Altor
| McAllister, 30, while the second Cal
was operated by William F. Greelee, 35
800 block Twenty-third street, accord
ing to police.
! Carl o. Anderson, 38, 600 block Sixth
! street. sustained body bruises when HI
stepped from behind a parked auto
mobile at Ninth street and Mount Yer.
non place and into the path of a cal
| driven by Henry D. Waters, "a, 140(
! block Girard street. Anderson was taker
! 10 Emergency Hospital.
Evening star., 1932-03-28
TRADE BOARD GREATER
CAPITAL GROUP TO MEET
Reichelderfer to Be Guest Speaker
at Washington Hotel Dinner
Tonight.

The first annual dinner Of the
Greater National Capital Committee Of
the Washington Board of Trade will be
held at the Washington Hotel tonight
at 6 o'clock.
DR.. Luther H. Reichelderfer, CHAIR
man of the Board of District Commits
sioners, will be guest speaker at the
banquet. Other talks will be made by
Frank j. Hogan and Robert v. Fleming.
The dinner will be devoted to discus
sion of what the Greater National
Capital Committee has accomplished for
the city by bringing more tourists and
conventions, with incidental increase in
business.
A. c. Case, chairman of the commit
tee, will preside.
Evening star., 1932-03-28
JAILED IN WIFE STABBING
Colored Man Uses Ice Pick-Just
Playing, He Says.

Fred Barnes, colored, 43 years old, of
the 1000 block Ninth street was being
detained by police at the second pre-
cinct today because Of his peculiar
views on how to play.
Barnes stabbed his wife, Ida Barnes,
40, in the back with an ice pick at
their home last night and the woman
is In critical condition at Freedmens
Hospital as a result.
Il was only playing" Barnes told
police. He was booked for investiga-
tion pending outcome Of his wife's In
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DAVIS TO SEE STIMSON
Delegate to Arms Conference Calls
on Secretary's Aides.

Norman H Davis, one Of the Ameri-
can members to the Armament Confer
ence now on at Geneva. conferred today
with Undersecretary Castle and Assist
ant Secretary Rogers at the State
Department.
Mr.. Davis will be in Washington
several days and hopes to confer with
Secretary Stimson, who is under orders
frem his doctor to remain indoors for
several days due to an attack Of infiu-
enza. ..-
Evening star., 1932-03-28
DUKE PATRICK NAMED
Succeeds Thad Brown as Radio
Board General Counsel.

Duke M. Patrick of Indianapolis to-
day was appointed general counsel OF
the Radio Commission, succeeding Thad
Brown, who has become member OF
the commission.
Patrick has been assistant general
counsel Of the commission since jan
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Evening star., 1932-03-28

British motion pictures are being
shown extensively in Malaga.
Evening star., 1932-04-03
SECURITIES TAXES
TOFALL ON PUBLIC
Financier Points Out That
Proposed Levy Is Not
on Wall Street.
BY CHARLES w. STORM.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, April 2-When the
United States Senate takes up the new
revenue bill for consideration, the Sen
ators will have had a better opportu-
nifty for studying the proposed transfer
tax of Il Of l per cent on the market
price of stocks than the members of
the House of Representatives had.
Reports received in Wall Street to-
day indicate that thousands of officers,
stockholders and those interested In
railroads, industrial organizations and
utility corporations do not see the tax
In the same way that the members of
the House saw it. These business men.
It Is said, think the tax falls down in
the attempt to soak the New York
stock Exchange" and are sending in
Vulnerable kilograms and letters of pro-
TEST from all sections of the country
telling the Senators that it only "soaks''
corporate business-an innocent by
Stander,
Meanwhile, the New York exchange
as an institution remains silent, put
the situation as the members see it is
clearly set forth in a statement by John
w: PrentiSS, prominent figure in the
aHalrs OF the Investment Bankers As
Sociatlon. Mr.. PrentiSs SAYS:
1nere seems to be general impress
sion that the recent tax voted by the
Rouse OF Representatives of Il of l
per cent ON the transfer of securities
Is tax upon Wall street.
VI course, this is not so. It is
really tax upon some sc. 900 900 peo-
pie In the United States who own Sc
curities.
In addition to being a tax upon
these 60,OO0,000 owners of securities, it
now places these people in the position
OF triple taxation. For example: A
stockholder in the United States Steel
corporation, or the General Motors Co,
or tne General Electric Co., or the
southern Pacific Railway Co, or, in
TACT, any corporation, finds himself
taxed in this manner:
'First-He has to bear his share of
the corporation tax paid to the Gov
ernment OF that corporation in which
he is a stockholder.
Second-He has to pay his indivi-
dual income tax upon the dividends re-
celved from his corporation.
'Thlrd-He now has to pay a tax
on the transfer of his securities in that
corporation.
The stockholders in New York, Bos-
ton, Chicago, San Francisco, Los An
geles, Philadelphia or other cities
where there are stock exchanges and
stock brokers, do not pay this tax; the
tax Is simply passed on to the Gus
toner, SO that the ultimate owner Of
100 shares of United States Steel who
lives in Houston, Tex, pays the tax
and not the New York stock broker,
who executes the order"
(Copyright, 1922
Evening star., 1932-04-03
ANXIETY IN BRITAIN.
World Financial Crisis Is Watched in
London.
BY LEONARD J REID.

BY LEONARD REID.
Associate Editor of the London Economist.
Special Gable to The Star
LONDON, April 2.-The week ends
with anxiety undiminished over the
development of the world financial
crisis
Modified satisfaction is derived at
the past years achievement of a
budgetary equilibrium, thanks mainly
to the f40, 100000 increase in income
and surtax yields, but 1t is noteworthy
that the death duty revenue is down
f18,000,000. Moreover, though the
debt redemption fund received nomi-
nally f23,Q00,000 from revenue, 1t is
necessary to take account of centain
contra items such as the f40,000,0 600
borrowing for the dole in the first
half of the fiscal year, which has now
ceased; the 100000 borrowed for
savings certificate interest, and the
5000, 900 capital asset, namely dollar
exchange reserve fund, which has
been credited to revenue. Hence the
public debt really increased $4,000, 900
on the full year.
A careful estimate of the outlook for
the next budget suggests prospective
surplus on the existing tax basis in the
region of f25,000,000 but this is subject
to many qualifications, including the
uncertain prolongation of the inter-
national debt holiday and the incalcu-
liable yield to be derived from the new
tariff. In view of the desirability of
fortifying the sinking fund and the
necessity of providing an ample mar
gin for contingencies. hopes for appre-
ciable tax relief rest upon an unsure
foundation.
Copyright, 1892
Evening star., 1932-04-03
LOCAL STOCKHOLDERS
SEEKING PROTECTION
Judge Cobb Presides at Annual
Meeting of National Benefit
Life Insurance Co.

The annual meeting of stockholders
Of the National Benefit Life Insurance
Co. was held at the Y. M. c. A.. 1916
Twelfth street northwest, on Thursday.
as the result of the call of the com
mittee for the protection of stockhold-
ers and policyholders of the company.
The committee chairman was Judge
James A. Cobb of the Municipal Court
Of the District of Columbia
During the receivership proceedings
OF the company, Justice D. w ODon-
oghue instructed the receivers to dis
continue the employment of the former
officers, John T. Risher, John r. Pink
ett Huver I. Brown, Mortimer F..
Smith and James Arnold on March
81, 1882.
The stockholders at the annual meet
ing, which was attempted to be en-
joined by the former officers, the ap-
plication for injunction being denied
by Justice o. r. Luhring, elected the
following directors: John r. Hawkins.
chairman of the board; Judge James
A. Cobb, Charles B. Lee, Louis C
Washington, Dr. William G. Lotion, A.
B. Ridley, J. r. Braxton, Miss Mamie
Burroughs, Rev. w. H. Jernagin, T. J.
Ferguson and W. H King
These directors will work in co-op-
Grafton with the receivers appointed by
Justice D. w. O'Donoghue.
Evening star., 1932-04-03
100 STOCKS TUMBLE
IL PCT. IN MONTH
New Bear Market Low Scored by
Common Issues-Rails in
Largest Drop.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, April 2-The market
value of 100 representative common
stocks decreased 81, 1858, $780, 900, or 1912
per cent, in March to new bear market
low of So, 500, ,469, 900 at the end of the
month, according to the monthly COM
pilation of Frazier Jelke & Co. The 100
stocks on March 81 were appraised at
TIA per cent less than at the end of
August, 1929 The appraisal gained 5
per cent in February and increased al
most exactly billion dollars from De-
cember II to February 30. The previ-
Gus low on December IT was $685.,
001 900.
In March each one of the 13 sub
groups constituting the index declined.
The largest decline in dollars was $277,-
467,000 in the rails. The utilities
dropped 1927, $40 900, while the motors
slumped $212, 900.
On percentage basis the largest de-
probation in March was 26.2 per cent
in the five amusements. The motors
lost 1913 per cent, the rails, 1875 per
cent; the equipments, 1873 per cent; the
mines, 17.6 per cent; the Steels, 15.7
per cent: the electrical manufacturing
issues, 1877 per cent; the utilities, 11.8
per cent: foods, ia per cent; the retail
shares, 98 per cent; the chemicals. 8.4
per cent; miscellaneous industrials, 7
per cent, and the oils, "a per cent.
Evening star., 1932-04-03
Stock Exchange
Seats at Lowest
Price Since 1924
Membership Changes
Hands at $98, ,OOO-1929
Top Was $625, 900.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April "A new low
record since 1924 for the price of Stock
Exchange seats was registered today
with arrangements for the transfer of
membership at $4,000, compared
with the previous sale of $101,000.
In 1924 the seat price range was
$10l 900 to $4,000. From the low
price Of that year seat values rose
steadily to the top level of S625, 900,
recorded just before the stock market
collapsed in the Autumn of 1929.
In the past week or so seat prices
have declined rather sharply and Wall
Street believes that many of the sales
have been occasioned by fears that
the tax proposed on stock transactions
will sharply curtail the already small
speculative and investment interest IN
the market.