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Evening star., 1932-05-06
YOUTH STILL MISSING
AFTER FATAL CRASH
Hyattsville Boy, 16, Seen but Once.
Mother Was Killed Yesterday
in Fairfax.
Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FAIRFAX, Va, May 6. - No trace
had been found late last night Of Allan
Gruver, IS, son Of Mrs. Elizabeth
Gruver Of Hyattsville, Md, who was
killed yesterday morning in an acci-
dent on the Little River pike several
miles above Fairfax. Searching parties
were organized yesterday afternoon to
look for him when 1t became evident
that he had been overcome either with
grief at his mothers death or fear Of
possible consequences to himself.
Young Gruver was driving the ear
when the accident occurred, It was
said.
Allan, with his sister Marjorie and
Miss Elizabeth Cage Of Brentwood, Nd,
were given first aid at a nearby home
after the accident, but Allan disap-
peared before the party was taken to
Alexandria Hospital by Oficers A. w.
Mills and Carl Mcintosh. He was seen
only once since, at 8 o'clock when he
returned to the scene of the accident
for a few minutes, being frightened
away again by an approaching car.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
HYATTSVILLE, Md, May 6.-Fu-
neral services for Mrs. Elizabeth Cru
yer, who was killed in an automobile
accident yesterday near Fairfax, Va,
will be conducted tomorrow at pm.
at her late home, in West Hyattsville,
by Rev. C. I. Flory pastor of the Hy-
attsville Southern Methodist Church.
Burial will be in Washington Memorial
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1932-05-06
u. S. STEEL REDUCES
WAGES IS PER CENT
Second Cut by Corporation During
Depression, First Amounting
to 10 Per Cent.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 6-The United
States Steel Corporation today an
nounced that its employees wages and
salaries would be cut approximately Is
per cent, effective May IS.
This is the second wage reduction by
the company during the present de-
preston. The first, amounting to 1C
per cent, was made on october /, last
Reports that this means of further
reducing costs was being considered
had been heard in financial circles for
some time, gaining strength after the
corporations directors last week omit
ted dividends on the common stock
and reporting an operating deficit OF
more than s13,000,000 for the first
quarter of 1882.
A statement issued by the corporation
said:
Effective May Is, the United States
Steel Corporation and subsidiary COM
panies will reduce by approximately Is
per cent all wages and salary rates at
all departments in the more important
steel districts and in other locations to
rates rejecting equitable differentials.
THE company made three separate
wage reductions during the 1921 bust
ness depression.
Stocks of the Steel Corporation,
which had been advancing with the
general market, moved vigorously up
ward when the news came out. The
common shares climbed more than SO
above Thursdays close, while the pre-
ferred issue jumped about 10.
The big steel markers pay roll for
1881 totaled $266,S71 Alb, so that a Is
per cent reduction, on that basis, would
effect an annual saving of approx
mately $40, 100000. AS result Of part
time operations, however, the total pay
roll Is understood to be substantially
under the levels of a year ago.
The total pay roll for 1881, further
more, was roughly S124,000000 under
that of 1880.
Evening star., 1932-05-06

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tariff items, and these were still in the
bill as the committee neared the end
Of its work
The committee knocked out the 81 900
exemption for corporations, but modified
the bill to allow corporations to carry
over for one year net losses.
The Secretary emphasized that econ
omies in Government would have to be
made for the measure to balance the
budget next year, however.
His estimates put the yield from the
new income tax rates at $173,000000.
The following excise rates in the
House revenue bill were eliminated in
the compromise program: Fur, toilet
articles. boats, refrigerators, sporting
goods, firearms, cameras, matches, soft
drinks, produce exchange and safe
deposit boxes.
Before the committee accepted the
compromise measure, the sound of
Secretary Mills voice could be heard in
the corridor outside the locked commit
tee room as he put his views before the
group in vigorous tones.
The Treasury head appeared before
the committee after comforting with
the Republican members in a closed
meeting
When he had reached about the
halfway mark in his exposition of the
bill, word came from the secret ses-
sion that he lis opposed to almost
everything" in it.
Mills was given the floor without in
terruption for his exposition. He en-
phasized that the Treasury had no
program, but he urged the committee
to get together with us and let the
Treasury put its blessing on the BILL
Boost Income Taxes.
In final desperate lunge yesterday
TO reach its goal Of balancing the
budget. the committee had written into
the bill the stiffest income tax rates
ever adopted.
The new schedule is equal to the
high taxes imposed after the war in
the 1921. revenue bill. 1t begins at
normal rate of 4 per cent on the first
$4,000 Of income, with per cent on
all above that, plus surtax rates be-
ginning at per cent, on income be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 and grad
uating up to 55 per cent on income
above 81 900, 900.
Yesterdays income schedule was
adopted after a hectic day of wrangling
behind the closed doors of the COM
mittee room. They are double the rates
voted by the House and compare with
existing l " per cent on the first $4,000
and 3 per cent on the second 1000
of income. Exempt from income is the
single mans first 81 900 and the mar
ried mans first $4,000 Except that if
the latters taxable income is above
$4,000, the exemption is only $4,000.
Offers Sales Tax Again.
Previously, Senator Reed, Republican,
of Pennsylvania, had moved the adop-
ton of a manufacturers sales tax in
lieu of the multitudinous excise rates.
He lost. Moves to boost the automobile
and tobacco rates also were defeated
In offering the controversial sales
tax Reed modified the proposal re-
jected by the House, proposing a fiat
manufactures levy of l per cent, with
all food, clothing, medicine, farm i'm
plements and fertilizer exempted.
Evening star., 1932-05-06
MEANS STORMY
PETREL FOR YEARS
Broke Into Print in 1917,
When Tried in Staying Of
Wealthy Matron.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
CASTOR Bullock Means, who has pop
ped into big print again, once told
Senate committee, with a smile. that his
business consisted of being indicted"
hectic tumble Of suits, trials, ad-
venture and misadventure made him
headline star for years. He has been
a sleuth, German agent before the
World War, investigator for the Depart
ment of Justice, star witness Of Sem
ate committee Investigating Attorney
General Harry M. Daugherty's official
conduct, juicy raconteur and inmate
of Atlanta Federal Penitentiary.
The whole country first heard Of him
Is years ago, after Mrs. Maude A. King,
young and wealthy North Carolina
matron, for whom he had been en-
gagged as protector, suffered fatal pis-
tol wound.
Acquitted in Staying.
Employed to guard Mrs. King against
an alleged fortune hunter. he had been
receiving money from her to invest.
One day, at Blackwelder's Spring, near
Concord, N. c., Means birthplace,
Means and Mrs. King, according to his
story later on the witness stand, went
| out to get some pistol practice. Means
said they left the pistol in the crotch
OF tree and went to Spring TO drink.
Returning, Mrs. King touched the
pistol in some manner and it dis
charged, infiicting fatal wound back
Of the left ear. The result was a
murder charge against Means, but after
a long trial he was acquitted. He sued
Chicago bank for a million dollars,
charging a plot to hang him and get
control of the $3,000,000 King estate.
He also found a second will of the
late husband of Mrs. King, but hand
writing experts called it a forgery.
Afterward william ]. Burns. head Of
the Bureau of Investigation Of the De-
partment of Justice, gave him a job
and he soon was indicted for con-
spring to violate the Volstead act and
for swindling men who paid to get
whisky out of bonded warehouses. He
got a two-year sentence and $4,000
fine.
Repudiated Testimony.
Meanwhile he became a harbinger OF
the storm that broke about the Harding
administration. Carting trunkloads OF
documents before a Senate Committee,
he made the senatorial eyes grow round
by stories of big-scale bribe money. But
later, it developed that his diaries in
which he had recorded every minute
and second of my life" had been stolen.
Still later he denounced his testimony
as tissue of lies" put into his mouth.
In July of 1925 he was convicted Of
conspiring to obstruct justice, charge
that grew out of his assurances to off,
GERS Of the Glass Casket Co. of Altoona,
Pa, that he could get an indictment
against them quashed and assure them
continued prosperity in a stock-selling
plan. He was convicted and drew an
other 2-year sentence and $4,000 fine.
He was sued by the Government for
S267, GA back taxes, but the suit was
never pushed When his two terms were
up Means failed to scrape up the $780,
600 fines. He pleaded that he was q
pauper, got out and became co-author
of "The Strange Death Of President
Harding"
Evening star., 1932-05-06
PATRICK REAPP0INTED
FOR THREE-YEAR TERM

Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick. whose
term as member of the Public Utilities
Commission will expire June 80, was
reappointed today by President Hoover
for another term of three years. The
President sent Gen. Patrick's nomina-
ton to the Senate this morning.
Announcement to this effect at the
White House today put at rest rumors
that have recently been prevalent to
the effect that Gen. Patrick, who has
been serving as chairman of the Utili-
ties Commission, would retire to private
life.
Gen. Patrick was appointed to the
commission by President Hoover in
1929 to succeed John W. Childress. At
the time of his retirement as a major
general in the Army. Gen. Patrick was
chief Of thR Air Service.
Evening star., 1932-05-06
Sensations of Death
Described by Doctor
After Suicide Potion
Begins Writing With Firm
Hand and Ends i'm
Scrawl.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, May 6.-Dr. George
T. Boyd, 40, died In the Hollywood
Hospital yesterday, bequeathing to the
curious a written description of his
sensations after he had taken a sui
cidal dose of narcotics.
His message, starting in a firm hand
and ending in a scrawl, written on a
physicians prescription pad said:
Il am surprised how calmly I can
do it. Begin to ache in the arms e.
heart is pounding sleep coming
on, eyes grow heavy and now my heart
aches just little am trying to
keep awake, but won't hold out much
longer. Chest and eyes grow heavy
:. drug heart hear air.
planes :. pretty light when I
In note to his wife DR.. Boyd,
well known Hollywood physician. said
he planned suicide because of financial
difficulties.
Evening star., 1932-05-06
TWO DRIVERS HELD
IN KILLING OF MAN
Pair Are Free on $4,000 Bond
After Pedestrians Death
Near Savage.
BY staff Correspondent of The Star

BY staff Correspondent of The Star.
LAUREL, Md, May 6.-Two drivers
who are alleged to have struck and
killed a pedestrian at Savage, Md, last
night were under $4,000 bond each to-
day pending the outcome of an inquest
Louis Henry Haslup. So, was crossing
the Baltimore Boulevard about pm,
when he was hit by car driven, police
say, by Frank E. Kaufman OF
Baltimore
While laying in the road, Haslup was
run over by an automobile operated by
Lawrence A. HaSlbeck, also of Balti-
more, according to Corp. J. T. Knight
Of the State police force, who arrested
both drivers
The inquest will be held Monday
night by Justice Of Peace Howard U
Gosnell at Savage.
Evening star., 1932-05-06
FLEIsHER CLUE OFFERED.
Man Resembling Gangster Seen in Ell
PasO When Means Was There.

Ell PASO, Tex. May 6 (Pl.-A man
Ell Paso authorities claim closely resem-
bled Harry Fleisher, reputed Detroit
Purple Gang leader, was registered at
the same hotel here as CASTOR B. Means
when the latter was in El Paso in con-
nection with the Lindbergh kidnapping
case.
Fleisher has been sought by New
Jersey authorities for investigation in
connection with the kidnapping. Capt.
Allan Falby of the Texas highway po-
lice said he received information
Fleisher was at the hotel, but the man
was gone when he reached the hotel
to question him
Mrs. Mclean was In El Paso in con-
nection with her efforts to effect the
return of the Lindbergh baby.
Evening star., 1932-05-06

Fortescue and the two Navy enlisted
men, e. j. Lord and Albert o. Jones
were anxious to be pardoned, he also
indicated that they would be guided by
what he said.
To See Judd Saturday.
The veteran defender denied he had
ever asked Gov. Judd for pardon after
the local newspapers, attributing to
Darrow statement he had asked for q
pardon, printed at the same time a
statement by Gov. Judd the attorney
had merely discussed the possibility OF
one.
THE Governors statement is cor
rect" Darrow said.
While saying he was inclined to per-
NIT the matter to drop, the Chicago
criminal lawyer has made an ap-
pointrnent with Gov. Judd for Satur-
day to discuss the subject further.
The Governor was emphatic yester-
day In saying he did all that was
asked of him in granting the COM
mutation and in denying Darrow's i'm
plication that communication had beer
forced on the defendants when they
were seeking a pardon.
Depends Upon Local Laws.
As the>matter now stands, Massit
and his associates have lost their right
Their status outside the islands. Ter
ritorial Attorney General Harry r
Hewitt said, depends upon local laws
He said he had not considered the
statutes of each State, but it was prob
able their rights would be lost in some
states and not be affected in Others.
Should Gov. Judd decide on pardons
he almost certainly will do so in the
face of criticism from the native ele-
ment and a portion of the white pop
ulation
To the displeasure expressed by the
natives to the communication OF SEN
tence was added yesterday the protest
of A. G. M. Robertson, former chief
justice of the territorial Supreme
Court.
He asserted the communication rem
dered the victory gained in convicting
the four a hollow one" and declared
that "a pardon would condone lynch
law and set a disastrous precedent"
The citizens organization for good
government, made up largely Of white
women, has circulated petitions de
manding' pardon.
viii Drop Attack Case.
1t became practically an accepted
fact today that the four men accused OF
attacking Mrs. Massie would not be
brought to trial again. With her hus-
band ordered transferred to another as
signment, Mrs. Massie and her mother,
Mrs. Fortescue, have booked passage on
the Malolo, which sails Sunday.
With Mrs. Massie gone, the Territory
has no case, since she is the key wit
ness. Public Prosecutor John C. Kelley
said he would not try to force Mrs
Massie to testify. However, Attorney
General Hewitt said the Territory was
anxious to try the men again and in
dicated an effort would be made to in
duce Mrs. MasSie to stay.
The first trial last November ended
in a jury disagreement. Kahahawai
also was one of the defendants then.
Mrs. Massie is leaving on the advice
of Darrow. He told her it perhaps
would be futile to testify again, since
retrialS seldom ended in a verdict.
Evening star., 1932-05-06
NEW ROCKVILLE MAYOR
TAKES OATH OF OFFICE
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NJ piandford i',n,her ~ SasI.r nan,,<
elected mayor of Rockville, took the
oath Of Office before the clerk of the
Circuit Court here yesterday and last
night administered 1t to the four mem
bers of the Town Council elected with
him.
A meeting of the new board followed
and F. Baehe Albert was reelected town
clerk and treasurer. william F. Disney
was reappointed baliff Frederick Mel
linger will continue in charge Of the
pumping station. The board decided
on q survey Of Rockville Monday after
noon TO determine urgent street i'm
proEaments.
Evening star., 1932-05-06
Special Dispatch to The Star
Death Ends Mystery.

Efforts Of the police of Glasgow,
Scotland, to solve the mystery of the
armed hold-up of a Glasgow store
keeper last December, have been stop
ped following the confession of a man
just before he died in local hospital.
He was Stephen Hastings, %, of Perth
shire, who was arrested some time ago,
but was found to be in such an ad-
vanced state of tuberculosis that he
could not stand trial.
Evening star., 1932-05-06
ELMIRA COLLEGE GREETS
MRS. HOOVER AS GUEST
First Lady to Plant Bicentennial
Elm and Speak at Institution
Which Granted Degree.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ELMIRA, N. Y May 6.-Mrs. Herbert
Hoover was guest today at Elmira
College, which awarded her an honorary
degree of doctor of laws when it cele-
brated its seventy fifth anniversary in
1880. The Presidents wife planned to
speak at the chapel exercises today and
to plant. George Washington Bicen-
tennial elm on the college campus.
The trip to Elmira from Washington
was by rail- but Mrs. Hoover and her
party planned to return to the Capital
by automobile. The party included Mrs
Dare Stark McMullen of California, a
guest at the White House; Mrs. Fred
erick Butler, a secretary, and Secret
Service men
This afternoon Mrs Hoover will go
TO New Canaan Conn, where she will
visit Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Richard, whose
daughter Peggy. frequent White House
visitor, will be married tomorrow night
Evening star., 1932-05-06
P0LICEMAN'S SLAYER
DIES IN ELECTRIC CHAIR
Alfred Scott Aldridge Goes to
Death for Murder of Harry
]. Mcdonald.

Alfred Scott Aldridge, %, colored
was electrocuted today at the District
JAN for the Staying of Harry j. McDon-
aid, policeman, in a robbery in July
1929.
Aldridge was pronounced dead by DR..
A. Magruder Macdonald, deputy cor
oner, after the electric current had
coursed through his BODY for three min
utes.
The execution marked the end of a
long legal fight to save Aldridge's life.
His attorney, James F. Reilly, took his
case to the U. S. Supreme Court twice,
once obtaining a reversal Of the lower
court. He was tried three times.
Evening star., 1932-05-06
Welsh Singers Persist.
To See Judd Saturday.

Not even the collapse of the plat
form on which they were standing
could deter a Welsh choir which was
trying for prize at the recent
Eisteddfod at Nebo, Wales. During the
chief choral competition the stage gave
way when the third choir had assem-
bled on it preparatory to giving their
number. They were hurled to the
ground and, despite the shock and In
juries, the singers tried for the prize
later.
Evening star., 1932-05-06
KILLS GIRL AND SELF
Former Alabama Foot Ball Star
Also Wounds His Brother.

PANOLA, Ala, May 6 (Pl-William
S. Country" Oliver, %, former Uni
versity of Alabama foot ball star. shot
and killed his sweetheart, Miss Lottie
Simmons, 81; critically wounded his
brother, Clate Oliver, As, and killed
himself here today.
There were no witnesses and a mo-
tive for the shooting was not immedi-
ately determined.
bama in 1922, 1928 and 1924. He was
employed as an automobile salesman in
Birmingham until two weeks ago, when
he returned to his home here.
Oliver scored the first touchdown
against Georgia's Techs great team OF
1923, getting away on one Of the most
sensational runs ever seen in Atlanta.
Evening star., 1932-05-06
1900 TO BE GIVEN WORK
Railway Will Restore LOO Others
to Full Time Employment.

CHICAGO, May (P).-The Illinois
Central Railroad has announced it is
recalling 1900 men to full-time work
and is restoring LOO others to full-time
employment who have been working
only part time. The entire $500 are
maintenance of way and track labor
ers. The railroads allowance for track
maintenance work for May will be about
double that for last month, the an
nouncement stated.
Evening star., 1932-05-06
TWO CHILDREN BURN
TO DEATH IN HOME
Okonoko, W. Va, Parents Are Alb
sent as Fire Destroys
Dwelling.
Special Dispatch to The Star

ROMNEY, w. VA, May 6-The two
chlldren OF Mr.. and Mrs Charles Day,
both boys, aged 18 months and 3 years,
were burned to death in a fire that
destroyed their home near Okonoko.
reports Of the tragedy were delayed
because of the lack of telephone con-
nectionS.
Inc bodies were found in the ruins
OF the nome. The father, who owns a
fruit farm, was at work out of sight
of the home and the mother had gone
10 the store when the fire started.
Evening star., 1932-05-06
FIVE STUDENTS INJURED
Cut by Glass When Large Test
Tube Explodes.

MILLVILLE, N. J.. May (Pl.-Five
juniors in the Millville High were cut
by glass when a large test tube ex-
ploded during a chemistry demonstra-
ton before the school assembly today.
Two Of them had bits Of glass re-
moved from their eyes, but physicians
said they would not lose their sight.
Evening star., 1932-05-06
REPUDIATED AT ROME.
Assassin Declared Not an Italian
Fascist

ROME. May O4).-Information re-
ceived here from Paris made it clear
that Paul Gougulof, who tried to kill
President Doumer today, is not a
Fascist in the Italian sense.
Police said they had learned the man
organized group at Prague in 1880,
calling 1t the National Russian party
and announcing its purpose as combat
ing Bolshevism.
Fascist party headquarters here said
they knew nothing about that party or
about any group Of Russian FasciSts.
they never had heard o. Gouguloff.
Evening star., 1932-05-06
April Circulation
Daily. .122,638
Sunday, 128,693

District OF Columbia, ss.:
FLEMING NEWBOLD. Business Manager
OF THE EVENING AND SUNDAY STAR, does
solemnly swear tnat the actual number Of
copies of the paper named sold and dis
tributed during the month OF April, AID.
1882. was follows:
Evening star., 1932-05-06
TREATY NAVY BILL
PASSAGE FORECAST
Nye, Anticipating Senate Ap-
provaI, Calls 1t Program of
National Suicide.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Passage of the Hale bill for building
the Navy up to treaty limits was fore
cast in the Senate today by Senator
Nye, Republican, Of North Dakota, as
he vigorously opposed it as a waste of
money and "a program of national
suicide"
Here we are" he said. about to
shut our eyes and swallow this increased
burden of taxation and continue the
Government in the most Wasteful enter
prise known to man"
The bill, he said, probably will pass
with an easy majority"
Our greatest dangers are from within,
not from without our borders" he
asserted.
Assails Propaganda"
"All the armies of Europe, Asia and
Africa combined, with a Bonaparte as a
commander, could not by force take a
drink from the Ohio River or leave a
track on the Blue Ridge in a thousand
years"
Assailing propaganda" which he
said has driven Congress into a "hys-
terra" of effort to economic and ball
ance the budget, Nye protested against
using money derived from cutting the
salaries of low income Government en-
pIoys Ito build battleships"
Nye said that instead of trying to
keep up with other nations in arma-
ments, the United States was actually
setting the pace
Comparison Of Strength.
He said the figures presented to the
League of Nations on naval strength in
1881 showed the United States had l.
PSI 900 tons, as compared with l $50 900
for Great Britain; $4,000 for Japan,
$4,000 for France and 100000 for
Italy.
National expenditures for ornaments
increased in this country 1877 per cent
from 1918 to 1880, he said, as compared
with 142 for Japan; AZ for Great Brit
ain, 30 for France and 80 for Russia.
Nye mentioned Merle Thorpe, editor
of the Nations Business, as the source
of much of what he referred to as
propaganda in favor of reducing Gov
eminent expenditures and balancing
the budget
Evening star., 1932-05-06
COMMITTEE VOTES
COMPROMISE BILL
ON NEW TAX LEWES

Continued From First Page)
Evening star., 1932-05-06
MASSlE MAY QUIT
FIGHT FOR PARDON
BEFORE GOV. JUDD
Continued From First Page

CONTINUED From First Page)
Fortescue and the two Navy enlisted
men, e. j. Lord and Albert O. Jones,
were anxious to be pardoned, he also
indicated that they would be guided by
what he said.