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The Washington times., 1934-04-27
SURTAX RATES
IN BILL HIGHEST
IN WORLD
Combined Federal and State
Levies Exceed Even Those
In Great Britain
By International News Service

As the House prepared for a
battle Monday over the CouzenS
10 per cent super income tax, ex-
animation of the new 1000, 900
tax bill disclosed that some
classes Of income taxpayers will
pay the highest taxes in the
world.
The combined Federal and
State income taxes on some Of
the larger incomes exceed even
those of Great Britain, which has
been the most heavily taxed ma
ton on incomes.
House Predicts Failure
House leaders predicted the
Couzens super-tax would be re-
jected, but they were ready to &C.
cept other proposals in the bill as
revised by the Senate and the
Senate-HouSe conference.
Stubborn resistance to the i'm
position Of 5000 900 900 more taxes
than originally approved by the
Administration was planned by
Republican fiscal leaders in the
House.
The measure faces attacks on
the ground it carries discrimina-
tory rates and taxes business so
heavily that recovery may be
retarded.
Some congressional students of
taxation held, however, that with
continued heavy expenditures by
the Federal Government, income
taxes will be boosted, especially
on the So-called middle class, in
the next few years.
The maximum surtax under
the new bill is SO per cent on
incomes Of over $1,00O,OO0. In
addition 26 States have individual
income tax laws, with rates rang
ing up to- Is per cent in North
Dakota and Is per cent in Mon
tana.
President Roosevelt, House
leaders said, will approve the bill.
He had previously threatened a
veto because of the tax against
cocoanut oil from the Philippines,
but leaders believed that the COM
promise proposal had met most
OF the Presidents objections.
The Washington times., 1934-04-27
CONV|CTS TEST
7. B. SERUM

CANON CITY, Colo, April q
G.N.SO. 1.-Two life-termers in the
Colorado State Penitentiary, who
staked their lives on a chance
for freedom, today awaited inoc-
ulation as the most important
step in testing a serum for pre-
venting tuberculosis.
Carl Erickson, g., wife MUIR
derer, and Mike Schmidt, SIS, con-
victed of criminally assaulting
his own daughter, were pro-
nounced free from any disease
and in excellent physical condi-
ton for the experiment. DR.. H.
j. Copper of the staff of the
National Jewish Hospital at Den
yer, under whose direction the
new serum was developed, exam
ined them.
The two prisoners were chosen
from among more than 800 con-
victs in the State prison here
who volunteered to submit them
selves to exposure to the disease
in order, to aid science to deter
mine whether tuberculosis could
be prevented in human beings.
In return, they were to be al
lowed time off from their SEN
tences. In all, IL convicts will
be subjected to the tests, which
include incubation with the
serum and then with the disease.
The serum has been highly Sue
ceSsful with animals.
The Washington times., 1934-04-27
SET.
TOPROBE OWN
OIL CODE
House Group o. KS ResoIu'
ton; Ickes Imposed Upon,
Says Rep. Strong
By International News Service


For the first time in the New
Deal, the Democratic controlled
Rules Committee of the House
today approved an investigation
Of one of its phases-the admin.
1stration Of the oil code.
The Rules Committee favor
ably reported a resolution spon.
sored by Representative Strong
CD Of Texas, calling for a spe
c1al committee of five membera
to consult with Harold L. Ickes
administrator of the code, to de
termine if there are unfair prac.
ticeS in effect.
In appealing for the resolution,
Representative Strong asserted he
had been unable to get any in.
formation or satisfaction from
1ckes concerning the working OF
the code.
Representative Strong charged
that the Standard Oil interests
dominate the code authority and
that Secretary Ickes has been
imposed upon" The code op.
crates to form monopoly, Rep
resentative Strong said, to the
detriment of the small nidepend-
ent producer. Quantities Of oil
are being shipped from Cali
fornia fields to Texas, the Texan
asserted.
The inquiry will concern itself
as to whether under the code
there are practices, prices,
quotas" that are unfair,
The Washington times., 1934-04-27

MRS. BARRON COLLIER, JR.
PICTURED in New York court, Mrs. Barron COL
lier r. prominent in New York society," is shown she
told how she helped trap two who arraigned
charges of attempting to extor money from her. Mrs
Collier turned dummy envelope to a messenger
and when indignant phone call made shortly
AFTER the police had little trouble in tracing it to pay
station while Mrs. Collier held the caller the phone
Photo by International News Photographic Service.
The Washington times., 1934-04-27
Church of Brethren
Names DR.. HOLLinaer

FREDERICK, Md, April ~.
The Rev. j. H. Hollinger, Of
Washington, has been chosen as
moderator of the Church Of the
Brethren for the district com.
prising Maryland, the District Of
Columbia and part of Delaware,
for 1885. He was named to the
post at the closing session of the
annual district conference here.
Eighteen churches were repre-.
sented at the meeting.
The Washington times., 1934-04-27
LABOR DENIES
SHORTAGE

Labor men. are to hold a meet
ing in Carpenters Hall in Alex
andria tonight as a result Of
statements made before the city
council, Tuesday night, that there
are not enough skilled workmen
in the city to build the proposed
$250,O0O high school.
Leslie Myers, business manager
of the steel workers unions, said
the statements are not correct,
that there is sufficient labor.
The council amended its resolu-
ton requiring all local labor on
city projects to permit outside
workers when the local supply is
insufficient.
Unemployment service records
show there are 20 steel workers
registered. Labor men say 20
will be sufficient.
The Washington times., 1934-04-27
SLAY|NG Of D. {.
MAN AROUSES
CUMMINGS
Attorney General to Ask Fund
of Congress to Fit Forces
Better Than Outlaws
BY International News Service

BY International news service
Airplanes, bomb and machine
gun equipped armored motor cars
and automobiles that will go as
fast as those used by criminals
will be enlisted in the Govern
ment's war against organized
crime, Attorney General Cum
mings declared today.
The War Department has al
ready offered the use Of aircraft.
Mr.. Cummings expects Congress
to appropriate sufficient funds to
provide the motor equipment. He
said the Government has been
handicapped because the crimi-
nails were equipped with the speed
lest automobiles, many of which
were heavily armed and protected
from bullets by armor plate.
Aroused by Mr.. Baum's Staying
The killing of w. Carter Baum,
Department of Justice agent, in
Wisconsin Sunday, when John
Dillinger, archbandit, escaped, en-
phasized the seriousness of the
crime situation. Mr.. Cummings
referred to this Staying as a set
back in the Governments drive
against organized crime, but
added that it simply spurred the
department to a finish fight
against the underworld.
He hopes Congress will now en-
act the often recommended legis-
lation making the killing Of a
Federal agent a Federal offense.
While it is a criIle against the
Government to assault a Federal
agent, there is no legislation to
penalize the killing of such an
officer under Federal law. From
many standpoints, it would be
advantageous to the Government
to try such cases as the killing
of Baum in the Federal courts.
Early Capture Predicted
Mr.. Cummings, Assistant At
torney General Joseph B. keenan,,
in charge of criminal activities,
j. Edgar Hoover, director of the
division of investigation, again
predicted Dillinger and others of
his gang would be in custody
within a short time.
It was not thought likely, how
ever, that Dillinger would be
tried by the Federal authorities,
if he is captured alive, he will
be arraigned in a state court on
one of the several charges of
murder pending against him. In
case of trial, the Justice Depart
ment is expected to detail a
special assistant to cooperate
with the state authorities. But
department officials privately eX-
pressed a hope it would mot be
necessary to try Dillinger."
Government agents have been
instructed to take no chances
and to use their guns without
hesitation.
The Washington times., 1934-04-27
FIGHT FOR LIFE
STAGED BY GIRL
GANG VICTIM
Fontaine Woman to Receive
New Blood TRANSMISSION;
Hunt for Gunman Pushed

UPPER DARBY, Pa, April 81.
Guarded by agents of the Depart
ment Of Justice and Delaware
county and Philadelphia detec-
tives, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Fon-
taine, 20, runaway wife Of a
Canadian steel worker and COM
panion of William B. Phillips,
slain gunman, fought for her life
today in the Delaware County
Hospital, here.
She was shot through the left
breast yesterday, her lung pune
tured, and the .45-calibre bullet
emerged, leaving a gaping wound
in her back.
To Repeat Blood Aid
A blood TRANSMISSION will be given
her today. Physicians said she
showed improvement yesterday
after TRANSMISSION had been per-
formed and that she "held her
own" during the night. She was
considerably rested this morning,
the physicians said.
Meanwhile police searched for
william Mais," allegedly named
by Mrs. Fontaine as the man who
shot her. Police are none too
sure that is the gunman's name.
Mrs. Fontaine is being guarded
on the assumption that the gun
man tried to kill her because she
knew too much of the activities of
a gang of cigarette and silk hi
jackers, of which Phillips was one
and would, in desperation, try to
finish the job in the hospital.
Police Learn of ''Party"
The woman has admitted to
police she was the companion in
Washington of Phillips, who was
slow in drawing his gun and was
shot by Patrolman John A. Cation
on April IL.
They, with others, were occu-
pying an apartment, 270O block
Adams Mill Rd. N. w., Washing
ton, which they left hurriedly and
came here. A person giving the
name of Bobby Burns rented
the apartment in the 200 block
SAMSON ST., here, in which Mrs.
Fontaine was shot. The lease was
signed April Is, three days after
Phillips was killed in the Capital.
The Washington times., 1934-04-27
Vacant DWeLLing
DESTROYED bu Fire

Fire early today destroyed a
vacant frame house at Bates
Street and Rock Creek Church
Road Northwest. Firemen were
handicapped by the isolation of
the building. The house, owned by
the Cafritz Company, was valued
at $4,000. No cause of the fire was
determined
The Washington times., 1934-04-27
FOR HEALTHY TEACHERS

xandria public school
teachers, elected for next year,
must supply certificates of
physical fitness from the city
health officer, the school board
has decided. The step was taken
to safeguard the health of pupils.
Evening star., 1934-11-20
LEAGUE PRESENTING
HEAVY BASKET LIST
Seven Games on Tap Tonight in
Community Center Circuit.
Quints Seek Rivals.

CEVEN games, promising to develop
a deal of high-class competition,
are slated tonight in the Com
munity Center Basket Ball League.
Bureau of Standards and Calvary
brakes are to meet at 7:30 and Corrs
and Sholls are to face at $50 at Cen
trail High. Heurich's and Farm Credit
are to battle at Roosevelt at $50. At
Eastern Grace Church and Ramblers
face at tbs, Trinity and Warwicks at
BIS and Renrocs and Internal Rev.
enue at 9:15. Sanitary Grocers and
Lawrence meet at $50 in the major
league at Langley, with National Lum-
ber and Brethren clashing at $50 in
the minor loop.
In Community Center loop games
last night, which marked the opening
of play in the big circuit, Merrick de-
feated Atonement, $500; Mount Yer
non downed Federal Housing, 1912,
and Pepco conquered Corrs, 15-14.
First Baptist Sunday School tossers
are after an unlimited class foe for
Wednesday night at Central High. Call
H. A. Hefley. District 1865, between
$50 and 1880 pm.
Olmstead Grill basketers are seeking
games with unlimited quints. Call
Manager Sox Harrington, North
2622-J, between and pm.
Kennedy A. c. dribblers want 1885,
pound opponent for Sunday. Call
Stager, Georgia 0753.
Evening star., 1934-11-20
In Chess Circles
BY FRANK B. WALKER.

In the championship tournament
Of the Manhattan Chess Club, Mac
Murray is first, 80, followed by
Kashdan, 81; Cohen. Schwartz,
Horowitz, Kupchik and eight others.
Kashdan wop his individual game
from Kupchik.
There are 60 players on each side
already engaged in the Illinois VS..
Wisconsin correspondence match for
1884 and more are expected.
The Godfrey L. Cabot Chess
Trophy, emblematic Of the chess
championship of Massachusetts,. was
won this year by Henry j. Weidner.
Names previously inscribed on the
trophy are Donald Mugridge (now
champion of the District of Columbia
and of the Capital City Chess Club ,
Harold Morton (twice) and Weaver
Adams.
TN THE invitation tournament of
the Lehigh Valley Chess Associa-
ton, held at Allentown, Pa, w. H.
Steckel Is in the lead with 4la-12 !;
Jones and Garnet, 81; Buck,
212-11a.
William Ruth and A. Regen, 80,
are tied for first place in the Mer-
camille Library tournament, Phila-
delphia; S. T. Sharp. third, 212-12.
Capablanca, Marshall and Reshev-
sky are scheduled to appear in stimuli
taneouS exhibitions at the Marshall
Chess Club at New York this month.
CCORE of the game played by
y Martin c. Stark in the recent
simultaneous exhibition of Isaac
Kashdan at the Federal Chess Club,
with notes by Stark:
Evening star., 1934-11-20
KNOX TEAM CAN'T !
LOSE THIS WEEK.
Champion Gridiron Victims
Don't Play Till Turkey
Day-Coach Shrinks.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
- ALESBURG, Ill.,, November 20.
1 Comes a Saturday when
the foot ball warriors at good
Knox College won't take it
on the chin again.
The reason: They don't play.
They won't take another step in
their glorious march of defeats until
Thanksgiving day, when the sons of
old Siwash meet Monmouth in the
final game of the season. If they
lose that one, they will have equaled
an all-America. all-time record for
consecutive defeats, a string of 27
straight lickings on the gridiron.
The men of Knox marched to their
twenty-sixth straight lacing Saturday
when Bradley triumphed over them,
44-0, administering the worst drub-
bing any Knox team ever received on
its home lot. For a few minutes the
warriors of old Siwash became real
warlike and opened up an offensive
flash in the final period, that resulted
in three first downs in row, two on
passes and another on line plunge.
Then they folded up.
Worry Shrivels Coach.
TOE BURFORD, playing his first
i college game, was chief cog in
the unprecedented defense, start
ing a passing attack which ended in
an incomplete toss across the goal
line.
Knox started on its amazing foot
ball slump three years ago. 1t was on
the afternoon of october 81, 1881.
that the sons of Siwash walloped Be-
lott, TO. Since then they have not
won or tied a game. This year they
have not scored a single point.
They say that Lloyd Burdick. mas
ter minding coach at Knox, has taken
the string of defeats so seriously that
he has lost 26 pounds because of
worry and sleepless nights. The pom
derous coach, who formerly played
tackle at Illinois and later with the
Chicago Bears, has shrunk from 252
pounds to a mere 226.
Evening star., 1934-11-20

cap medal play, with selected drives
and one-half the combined handi-
cap to count.
To each member of the winning
combination will go live turk. To
each member of the second team will
go a live chicken, and in addition
there will be prizes to each member
of the team with the low net on each
nine holes and mystery prize,
which no one but Leopold v. Freud
berg, chairman of the Tournament
Committee, knows about. Entries are
being received by Gene Larkin, the
club pro. Lunch will be served at the
club house at 2 o'clock, when prizes
will be distributed.
DETTY CARRIER, the tall girl who
h drives with an iron club, today
stands winner of the women's
division in the Rock Creek Park
event, with final round victory over
Mrs. F. j. Godfrey, whom she beat
yesterday by and Q. Harold Bow
ers, Anacostia open champion, is i'll
and was not able to play his semi
final match against Pat Axtell in the
top flight, SO Claude Rippy still
awaits the man who will meet him
for the main prize. Meanwhile John
Charles has reached the second
flight final, beating Jerry Collins on
the nineteenth hole. They are sched-
uled to wind up the tourney by Sat-
urday, but no one knows whether 1t
will be finished by that time.
Down at Anacostia more than 20
players have turned In cards in the
blind bogey turkey tourney. An entry
fee of so cents is being charged.
CHARLIE PENNA, the former Con-
I greSsional ex-caddie master, can
become one of the great hitters
Of the country, In the opinion Of San
dy Armour, who Is in washington for
Evening star., 1934-11-20
WFSmRNaGNnT OEE TnIE UEG
$E by w. R. Me CALLuM
BY w. R. Me CALluk

a few days, awaiting the return of his
brother Tommy from the Midwest.
To hear Sandy tell it, Charlie can
maui a golf ball as far as any man
he has seen and with little improve
ment in the short game can become
fine player.
Charlie had all those possibilities
when he used to play at Congress
sional. He could hit a ball about as
far with an iron club as any man we
have seen and when he really met a
wooden club shot the ball went away
Evening star., 1934-11-20
0TTEY IN SELECT
LIST OF HARR|ERS
Michigan State Runner Is
Fourth to Win National
Title Second Time.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
N YEW YORK, November 90
M Tom Ottey, who went to
| Y college because he liked to
run and to Michigan State be-
cause Clark Chamberlain was his
hero, is among the select group OF
four who have won the national
intercollegiate cross-country cham
pionship twice.
The lanky blond runner. an orphan
from Ardmore, Pa, exceeded even
the achievements Of Chamberlain.
who preceded him as Michigan States
ace runner, when he loped home In
front of a large field over six miles
of rolling country at Van Cortlandt
Park yesterday. The best Chamber
lain ever could do was victory In
1881.
Before Ottey crossed the line in 81
minutes, 546 seconds, record for
the newly constructed course. the
list of two-time winners consisted OF
John Paul Jones of Cornell. Johnny
Overton of Yale, and Bill Cox OF Penn
State.
Evening star., 1934-11-20
ARMSTRONG PICKED
TO RETAIN HONORS
Becomes Heavy Favorite in D. c.
Colored School Series by
Routing Cardozo.
4 RMSTRONG, defending cham

"A RMSTRONG. defending cham
n pion in the D. c. colored public
high school foot ball series. to-
day was the choice to retain its crown,
following its 44-0 victory yesterday
over Cardozo in Grifhth Stadium. In
the final game of the series. Armstrong
will meet Dunbar Monday. Dunbar
downed Cardozo. which now is out of
the championship running, by $50 In
the series opener.
To drub Cardozo the Armstrong out
At scored in every period. The win
ners held weight advantage.
Duvall, Freeman and Thompson
came through with long runs to touch
downs
Cardozo was never dangerous. The
punting of Hawkins was about the
only bright spot in the losers play.
Iine-ups and summary.
Evening star., 1934-11-20

"a, The usual continuance is sPmKERi4. p r.
(b) P@KR4 would force an open ME:
retreat Re- seeess'ss, ~ 10. 70 & n.wn .s the re.
sult of his failure to make bid for the
Initiative at move u.
ie) so P-Q7 wins quickly. The
text dissipates Blacks advantage.
~ This move was great surprise 70
the spectstors. Not until after the game game
haste, an Illegal move had escaped their
attention -, 20
would give black winning advantage
(chess EDITOR.
Evening star., 1934-11-20
VIRGINIA HOPEFUL
AS TO n. c. GAME
Special Dispatch to The Star.
T UNIVERSITY, Va. November

Special Dispatch to The Star.
r UNIVERSITY. Va. November
/ 20.-They are accusing Tom
" my johnson, the Virginia grid
iron captain and ace halfback,
of whistling in the dark when he says
he isn't afraid of the North Carolina
team that comes to Scott Stadium
to play the Cavaliers on Thanksgiving
Pressed to be specific, he just smiles
and says, Wait and see"
Those who have watched the Vir-
ginians through the whole of the 1884
grSiiron campaign believe that these
charges of Coach Gus Tebell have one
great game in their system. and they
hope that the boys will be able to
play it when they face the Tarheels.
Since the Carolinians deposed Duke
from leadership in the Southern Con-
ference there have been many calam-
ity howlers who say "It is just going
to be too bad for Virginia on Thanks
giving"
On the other hand there are as
many more who remember how the
Cavaliers threw a scare into the Tar
heels in 1881 and how they scored a
brilliant and unexpected victory in
1882.
Evening star., 1934-11-20
Change in Golf Rule Permits
Lifting of Loose impeachment
No Matter Hon. Far From, Ball

ruling made for a player at Brook
lyn, N. Y. A player hit his ball into
water which had overfowed from a
pond in wet weather. The player
claimed his bah did not lie within the
recognized limits Of the hazard and
therefore could be lifted and dropped
under the casual water rule. In the
failure Of the club to outline the
boundaries of the hazard, the U. S.
G. A. ruled that the water in which
the ball lay was temporary ac-
emulation and that the player was
correct in regarding his ball as lying
in casual water, it being outside the
recognized limits Of the hazard.
Must Specify Play-Off.
a ND let this be a lesson to Brother
~ Dickey of the Washington club
The parent golf body has ruled
that l8 holes constitute a golf match
and that any holes played after that
distance invalidate bet made on the
match. 1t happened at New York.
where some gent bet another on a
2-to-l basis that his man would win
a golf match. The match was all
square at the end of 18 holes and
the man on the short end won on
the nineteenth. The U. S. G.. A.
rules that golf match is at 10 holes
unless otherwise decreed, and that,
therefore, it was a halved match.
being all even at the eighteenth, and
the bet was even.
II in a handicap match a stroke
is taken at the wrong hole. unless
claim is made Immediately the re-
suit must stand. The U. S. G. A.
ruled this in a case from Lancaster,
Pa, where stroke was taken on the
wrong hole and a protest was made
after the match was finished. The
result must stand because no claim
was made before the players struck
off from the next tee. the associa-
tiOn ruled
Evening star., 1934-11-20
FRIEDMAN, BOXER, DIES
Once Prominent Heavy Is Victim
of Hit-and-Run Driver.

LOS ANGELES, November 20 P).-
AL Friedman, 20, once leading figure
in the heavyweight boxing ranks, died
early today at the General Hospital
from injuries suffered when struck
Sunday night by hit-and-run driver
in Hollywood.
Friedman, who was native of Ros-
lindale, Mass, and did most Of his
fighting around Boston, had engaged
as boxing instructor at the Holly
wood Y. M. c. A. since coming to the
Coast. He had fought many of the
top-ranking contenders in the heavy
weight division.
A widow and q 3-year-old son sur
vive.