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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-23
Economy Committee Expect
ed to Report Bill Out This
Afternoon.
WORD SPREAD HOOVER
WILL VETO REDUCTIONS
Labor Department Protests stiffen
Opposition-Ten Per Cent Slash
Finds Some Favor.
BY WILL P. KENNEDY.

Impressed by protests OF Labor De-
partment representatives against the
Federal Governments giving any ex-
cuse for general wage slashing, many
members of the House are preparing to
oppose vigorously whatever salary
reduction bill the Economy Committee
brings in.
Details of the salary reduction meas
ure are expected to be decided at a
meeting of the Economy Committee
this afternoon. In the meanwhile word
was being spread around the House
that President Hoover is prepared to
veto any measure seriously cutting Gov
eminent salaries.
witnesses for the Department Of La
Dor appearing before the Banking and
Currency Committee on bill to stabil-
ize the purchasing power of money i'm
pressed upon the committee a very
serious fear that tie cutting of Gov
eminent salaries would be followed gen.
orally throughout industry and all en-
ployment by ruthless wage slashing.
10 Per Cent Cut Favored.
1t was disclosed today that the three
members of the special subcommittee
which was called upon to make an in
tensive study of wage-cutting possibili
ties, are all in favor of a fiat 10 per
cent slash
1t was predicted by some members of
the Economy Committee that the big
fight in that session this afternoon will
be to hold the bill down to the most
conservative percentage rates. Those
who are leading the fight in behalf Of
Government employees, including such
men as Representatives La Guardia of
New York and Connery of Massa-
chusettS, insist they expect to beat
whatever pay-cut bill is brought in ard
that they have been just as active in
organizing their forces as the Economy
Committee has been to find a way to
get the most it can toward balancing
the budget out of the pay checks of
Government workers.
Representative La C<ardia said:
1T seems tragic that some people are
SO, bare Of originality, so lacking in re-
'scurcefulness, and others so credible, as
to believe that the future of our coun-
try and economic stability depends
upon reducing the wages of charwomen,
file clerks and enlisted men in the Army,
Navy and Marine Corps.
Labor Awake, He Says.
organized labor is not being fooled.
1t knows this is blow to thousands of
loyal, but helpless, Government employees
in a movement to further reduce wages
and lower the standards of living.
Labor realizes this is likely to precipi-
tate further desperate conditions lead
ing to strikes, as happened following
the depression in 1873
With other members Of the House
who feel earnestly and conscientiously
on this subject, 1 will vigorously oppose
the effort to cut salaries, because it
means much more than appears on the
surface, and will have a far-reaching
effect on the entire social condition
throughout the country.
In opposing the bill I will be pre-
pared to show that the savings esti-
mated to be made by the proposed legis-
lation will do little toward remedying
the condition of the Treasury, and
mean not much more than decimal
point"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-23
INCOME TAX FLOW
EXCEEDS ESTIMATES
Treasury Shows $17s, 567,1 13 Paid
in 81 Days of March, With
100000 Expected.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Income tax collections thus far this
month have exceeded Treasury estl-
mates.
The latest Treasury statement, for
last Monday, showed receipts for Il
days of March amounted to $l7S,567,-
113. The Treasury had forecast col
lections for the entire month would
approximate SITS, 100000.
Receipts for Monday were $11, 129,-
428, which was 100000 less than on
the comparative day year ago. The
months total was approximately $l35,-
100000 less than for the same period
last year.
Collections for the fiscal year
amounted to 1886, $3.50, ASS, compared
with $1,484, 466,317 for the previous
year. The deficit was 1905 ,204, 1863.
Prospects now are that total income
tax collections for March will amount
to $195, 0o0, 900, or s14o, 0oo, 900 less than
collected in the same month last year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-23

When Rudy vallee, the radio crooner,
met President Hoover at the White
House today he was told by the Chief
Executive that if he could write song
and sing it to get this country out Of
the depression he would give him o
medal
The radio star said afterward he told
the President he hoped he could write
such a song, not only for the honor Of
receiving the presidential medal but for
the country at large.
Mr.. Vallee, who is in the Capital with
a musical show, was accompanied i'll
his call at the White House by his wife,
the former Fay Webb When the latter
was introduced to the president Mr..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-23
FASCISM Is CELEBRATING
THIRTEENTH ANNIVERSARY
Imposing Ceremonies Are Held
Throughout Italy-Message
From Mussolini Is Read

BY the Associated Press.
ROME, March 23.-Fascist Italy cele-
brated today, with imposing ceremonies.
the thirteenth anniversary of the foun-
dation of the Fascist party.
Thirteen years ago today Benito Mus
solini. the Milan editor, and a band of
men determined to wipe out Commu-
nism in Italy, met in San Sepolcro
SQUARE, Milan, formally laid the bases
of the new political party and issued
the first points of the Fascist program.
For this afternoon Mussolini called a
meeting of the National Council. The
church bells in all cities and towns rang
out in unison. Fascists in full uniform
met In their various local headquarters
to hear an Official read message from
Mussolini.
This evening public buildings will be
illuminated and concerts VIII be given
in downtown squares. .--.-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-23
DRIVER DIES AS CAR
KNOCKS DOWN STORE
Two-and-Half Story Building Col
lapses When Auto Strikes Sup
porting Pillar.
BY the Associated Press.


PHILADELPHIA, March 23,-Im-
prisoned under tons of debris when a
building collapsed after his automobile
crashed into it, James F. Meaker, So
died early today few minutes after
police and firemen dug him out.
His skull was fractured when nearly
half of the 2la-story brick building
tumbled on the automobile
The collapse followed a collision be-
tween his car and that of Julian w
Smith, colored chauffeur for Benjamin
Jaffe Of Cynwyd, suburb. Smith
suffered fractures of two ribs and
other injuries.
The collision caused Meaker's car to
crash through a plate glass window in
the drug store of David A. livingstone
1t struck a pillar supporting the upper
part of the building. James Rodden
a park guard, and Gus Farley were
the first to enter the store to rescue
Meaker.
Keep quiet and keep on breathing, u
Rodden shouted to the metorist. I'VE
will get you out"
DO what you can to get me, u
Meaker replied. Il can't move an inch
and I feel all numb"
Meaker was lifted from his car about
20 minutes later. Before surgeons
could get him on an operating table
he died of internal hemorrhages.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-23
TORNADO DEAD LIST
NOW MOUNTS TO 3O3
WITH 2,5l) INJURED
1000 Believed Homeless
Through Storms in Five
Southern States.
FEVERISH RELIEF EFFORT
RUSHED IN ALL SECTIONS
Emergency Hospitals Are Estab-
lished in Churches, Court Houses
and All Available Buildings.

By the Associated Press
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, March o.
The South's tornado death list went
above 800 today as the work of rescue
and rehabilitation progressed.
Estimates of the injured ran as high
as $500, while the homeless were esti-
mated upward of 1000.
A dawn check of fatalities, which
have increased steadily since first re-
ports of seven dead Monday, disclosed
246 known killed in Alabama today, IS
in Georgia, 10 in Tennessee, 2 in South
Carolina and 2 in Kentucky, for a total
of 303 in the five States struck by
storms.
Additional Dead Are Found.
Relief workers sent back reports of
some of the additional dead after they
made their way over storm Uttered
roads to aid communities laid fiat by
the freakish Spring winds. Other re-
ports came as regions isolated by the
blasts were able to re-establish COM
munication lines. And still others
followed the search of wreckage.
None was able yet to estimate the
property damage in dollars and cents.
The hundreds Of homeless had a wave
of cold weather added to their diScom-
forts and farmers over the hardest hit
areas faced the prospect of a planting
season without shelter, implements or
live stock.
AS highways were opened today in
jured were removed from makeshift
hospitals in churches, court houses and
other available buildings pressed into
emergency service to hospitals in the
larger cities.
National Guardsmen hurried tents,
cots and blankets to the devastated
areas Of Alabama while welfare agencies
solicited food and clothing for survivors.
Rescue and relief workers called on
every available resource to aid the
stricken.
Governor Calls for Aid.
Gov. B. M. Miller of Alabama issued
a formal proclamation calling on the
people OF the State to contribute to the
relief Of storm sufferers, and the Red
Cross organized for speedy aid to the
National Guardsmen patrolled Tus-
caloosa and Talladega Counties in Ala
bama to prevent looting and patrols
were established at Northport and
Sylacauga. An airplsne was sent to
Line vile, Ala, to survey storm damage
there and IN surrounding Clay County
towns and truck was held in readiness
at Montgomery to send out supplies if
needed
There were reports of damage from
high winds in States bordering those
hardest struck.
Today chief efforts were devoted to
Continued on Page 4, Column -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-23
COMMUNITY FARM
PROPOSED TO AID UNEMPLOYED
Project in Minnesota Would Give Land to 200 Families
on Self Sustaining Basis.

land on a 25-year contract, with each
family buying its own plots, deferred
payments to start after effective opera
ton had begun.
The community would be provided
with schools and such manufacturing
plants as necessary to produce many
commodities the community would need.
Surplus farm products would be sold or
traded for those commodities not man
ufactured in the community.
Northern Minnesota county boards
have been asked to cooperate in an eff
fort to obtain the land. Plans, though
still in the formative stage, would pro-
vide cooperative packing, bakery,
creamery, clothing, recreation and edu-
cation plants.
The committee also has discussed
means of giving the enterprise a start
with 1000 cows, 5000 hogs, 10000
chickens, 1000 head of sheep, 200
swarms Of bees and IS eight-family
apartment buildings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-23
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN DIEGO, Calf, March %
When the Marine Corps made Himer
M. Torner an emergency corporal, it
did not realize he would take his rat
ing literally.
Torner, a novice in the air, went
aloft as passenger in a training
plane yesterday with Staff Sergt. Orla
S. Hofer.
Over Camp Kearney, at an elevation
of 5000 feet, Sergt Hofer became i'll,
tainted and fell against the controls.
former saw the plane begin quick
but crazy descent toward the camp
buildings. Realizing an emergency ex-
listed, he crawled out Of bis cockpit,
pulled the unconscious sergeant away
from the controls-and the Marines, or
rather the Marine, had the situation
once more in hand.
Although his maneuvering would not
have qualified him for pilots license,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-23
VOTE TOMORROW
DECIDES SALES TAX
Rainey Confident of Victory,
in View of Exemptions,
He Says.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Proponents and opponents Of the
manufactures sales tax in the new
revenue bill today prepared for deci-
sive vote tomorrow in the House when
consideration is resumed.
Majority Leader Rainey said he still
believed the sales tax will stay in the
bill, "in view of the proposed Ways
and Means Committee exemptions of
food, clothing, medicine and farm i'm
plements."
Representative Rankin, Democrat, of
Mississippi, q leader of the opponents,
said in a statement, however, that his
forces ARE stronger today than we
have been at any time since the fight
began and I feel confident that we
will be able to strike it from the bill
when we reach it tomorrow"
Crisp Ordered to Rest.
Meanwhile Acting Chairman Crisp
of the committee was ordered by Dr..
George w. Calver, attending Capitol
physician, to remain at home for the
day and rest. The Georgia Democrat
mas Deem put uIlQcI d ICkAlI1C Oh oil III
the last three months in working out
the tax bill.
Rainey said many Representatives
were under the impression that when
they voted yesterday for the Ramseyer
amendment to the revenue bill they
were placing a maximum levy OF IS
per cent on estates in excess of $10,-
600, 900, instead of As per cent tax.
They thought that the As per cent
was in addition to the existing 20 per
cent maximum, because of the in
volved wording of the amendment" he
said. LAS matter of fact, the
Ramseyer amendment increases the
committees recommendation only by 5
CONTINUED on Page Q, Column Sd
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-23
MARJORIE RAMBEAU LOSES
$4,000 FOR ALIENATION
New York Jury Awards Verdict to
Mrs. Mabel Manton in Suit
Against Star.
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 23.-Marjorie
Rambeau, stage and film star, must pay
Mrs. Mabel Manton $4,000, a jury
ruled yesterday.
Mrs. Manton had asked 500, 900,
charging the former actress alienated
the affections of her late ex-husband,
Kevitt Manton, actor.
She said Manton and Miss Rambeau.
negligee-clad, were found in a hotel
room. She added that she later found
note In his possession saying, OAR
ling, I love you. Your pal in crime,
Marjorie r."
The former star and her third hus-
band, Francis A. Gudger. are in Florida.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-23
PREMIER'S ASSAILANT
GOES ON TRIAL IN TOXIC
Accused Contends Hamaguchi Died
From Causes other Than Shot
Fired November IA, 1880.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TOXIC, March 23.--The public trial
of Tomeo Sagoya, charged with the as
sasSination of Premier Hamaguchi,
opened in Toxic District Court today.
The public procurator in presenting
the case for the prosecution demanded
the death sentence
Sagoya shot Premier Hamaguchi on
the platform of the Toxic Central Sta
ton November IA, 1880. The premier
died August 26, 1881.
The defense attorney contended that
death was due to other causes than the
bullet wound.
Yoshikatsu Mitsui, alleged accom-
plice in the shooting of Premier Hama
guchi, also went on trial In his case
the procurator demanded a sentence
of Is years.
The trials were adjourned to April 4.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-23
EQUAL RIGHTS BATTLE BEGUN
BY WOMEN AT HOUSE PROBE
Mrs. RebeCca Greenhouse
Champions Amendment and
Hits Supreme Court
Opponents Are Led by Mrs.
William J. CarSon-Lud-
low TestifieS.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Organized women-three score stroE-
invaded the austere chambers OF the
House Judiciary Committee today and
ranged themselves on opposite sides Of
the movement to put an equal rights
amendment in the Constitution.
All the witnesses were women, ex-
cepting Representative Ludlow, Demo-
crat, of Indiana, sponsor of the amend
ment.
The first stronghold taken in the
battle was the stronghold OF equal
suffrage" Ludlow said Now they are
moving on to capture the second strong
hold, which will make their emancipa--
ton complete-the stronghold equal
rights
1T is proposed to sponge out OF our
State statutes the monstrous falsehood
that there should be a double stand
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-23
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, March 23.-
A vast community farming project was
being considered today as solution for
the unemployment problem.
Under it some 200 selected families,
now unable to care for themselves,
would live In a self-sustaining colony
on cooperative farm of 10000 acres.
Oscar w. Behrens, secretary to Mayor
william Anderson and one Of the
sponsors of the idea, said the plan was
modelled ON an American idea-that of
the farm co-operative-andw was entire
ly different from that followed by Rus
sian Communists.
Behrens, who is president of the
Minneapolis Direct Unemployment Re-
lief Plan, said his committee was viz
tually assured by interested individuals
of 500, ZOO fund to start the colony.
The plan would entail purchase Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-23
PRESIDENT OFFERS VALLEE A MEDAL
TO WRITE A SONG AIDING NATION
Radios Crooner, Leaving White House. Says He Hopes
He Can Do 1t.

Hoover said he was very glad to meet
another fellow Californian.
Mr.. Hoover today also met Eddie
East and Ralph Dumke, who are billed
on the radio as Sisters of the Skillet.
These performers were among the ra-
dio stars who contributed to the enter
tainment at the recent banquet of the
White House Correspondents Associa-
ton and at which the President was a
guest. Mr.. Hoover told the radio sing
ers how much he enjoyed their per-
Torrance and said that so far as he
was concerned they could always play
a return engagement at the associa-
ton banquet.
MI Vallee and the sisters of the
Skillet VII be guests of the National
Press Club &c luncheon tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-23
J. PlERPONT MORGAN'S
RADIO DEBUT TONIGHT
Financier to Break Rule of Silence
With Appeal in Behalf
of Jobless.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, March 23-CarefullS
guarded against crankS, j. Pierpont
Morgan will break his rule of silence
tonight by speaking to the world.
The financier, making his radio debut
will ask support for the local block
aid" plan to help the jobless. The
speech will be broadcast nationally at
8 o'clock eastern standard time, over
WIZ and a National Broadcasting Co.
network. Short waves will carry 1t
overseas.
The block aid campaigners seek
contributions from residents Of more
than $4,000 city blocks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-23
BODY OF FLYER FOUND

California Aviator Crashed on
Beach of Ecuador.
GUAYAOUIL, Ecuador, March 70
Authorities at Bahia notified the
government today that the body of VIM
field Hale, an American aviator Of Wal
nut Creek. Calf, had been found in the
wreckage Of his plane on the beach
about five miles north of Bahia.
They identified him by means OF
papers in the pockets. The body was
taken to Bahia for burial, in accordance
with the Ecuadorian law, and the papers
were turned over to the American con-
sui. The plane. carried the identiflca-
ton "VeH 02374"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-23
Radio Causes Divorce.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, March % R.-
Because Arthur J. Larose turned on
the radio at in the morning in order
to hear Western stations, his wife, Mrs
Blanche Larose, sued him for separate
support on grounds of cruel and
abusive treatment. She won her case
IN Probate Court yesterday,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-23
WHISKY READY FOR Firms
Thousands of Cases Pour In as Dry
Era Nears End.

HELSINGFORS, Finland, March %
R.-Thousands of cases of whisky are
pouring into Finland in preparation for
the resumption of the wet era.
The first consignment of $500 cases
came from Scotland. Sweden contrib.
uted $4,000 liters of brandy and 1000
of punch.
The first shipment of cognac from
France is due to arrive about April S,
the day the prohibition act lapses.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-23
CANISTER SLAIN IN CAR

Latest Victim of Cleveland Rivalry
Known as Racketeer.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, March % (R.-
Cleveland gangs chalked up another
victim today, when the body of Fred
Capillo was found shot to death in his
automobile on the East Side.
Capillo, police said, was known
bootlegger and racketeer. The body
was found near Woodland avenue and
East Fifty-fifth street, where a number
of gang Sayings have been committed
in recent years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-23
Indy MAY SELL HOME.

Publicity Resulting From Kidnapping
Blamed in Report.
NEW YORK, March % (P-The
Daily News says Col. Charles A. Lind
bergh plans to sell the Sourland estate
near Hopewen, N. j., as soon as his
Continued on Page 2, Column D.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-23
PLANES COLLIDE IN AIR.
Two Navy Pilots Safely Land Ships an,
Passengers in Sea.

SAN PEDRO, Calf, March % (P.-
Two Navy Pilots courageously remained
at the controls of their planes after
collision, $500 feet above the anchored
squadrons of the United States Fleet in
CONTINUED on page 2, Column -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-23
PILOT FAINTS. PLANE SPINS,
NOVICE MAKES SAFE LANDING
Passenger Grabs Controls and Levels Ship
After 4,5OO-Foot Drop, Easing Down
With Nothing but Several Bumps

Torner brought the plane out Of its
spin with the ground but 500 feet
away, shot it up to 5000 feet and then
feeling he had mastered the plane,
brought it to an awkward landing on
the wrong runway at the Army flying
field.
When Army officers reached the
plane to inquire for the reason for the
unscheduled maneuvers over their
buildings, they found former applying
first aid treatment to Hofer, who was
quickly revived.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-23
WEATHER.

20. 8. Weather Bureau ForecastO
Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow;
little change in temperature; lowest to-
night about IS degrees gentle variable
winds. Temperatures-Highe "a, at
1890 pm. yesterday; lowest, 80, at am.
today. Full report on page 8.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-10
Cold Cash Turns in Record
Time to Win LOckerbie Race

the final meeting of the circuit
starts Sept. 10 at Lexington, KY.
The fastest mile of the year and
the fastest three-heat race of the
year were turned in Friday in the
Hotel Lockerbie pace. All of the
miles were negotiated in two min
utes or better.
Calumet Adam romped home in
the first heat in 1;5924, but Cold
Cash came back to take the last
two and capture first honors. Win
nipeg, driven by Sep Palm, was
right behind the winner in all three
heats.
Hollyway set the early pace in the
first two heats, but couldn't last. In
coping the second mile, Cold Cash
turned in 1897 performance, the
fastest mile of the year. The final
heat went to Cold Cash in 200.
The 3-year- old pace went to T. D.
Van, an outsider. Short piloted the
Ohio gelding to three straight heat
triumphs over Calumet Charley the
favorite. The race was featured by
stirring stretch battles. The time
was good-2:0312, 2:O31a and 2:O4%.
Taylor Thomas, driven by Shell,
won the first two heats of the 2:18
pace for half-mile track horses, and
then lost the third to Star Dreamer.
Sir Raleigh romped to an easy
triumph in the Senator 2-year- old
trot, winning the first heat by two
lengths over Lucy Follin, and nosing
out Sep Palms Senator Boga in the
second.