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Evening star., 1934-03-14
.Juries Will Decide
u. S. Income Tux
Euasion Charges
White House Says Bodies
Will Determine Guilt
Of Accused.

The policy of the Federal Govern
ment in investigating alleged income
tax evasion will be to leave determine
ton of innocence or guilt to grand
juries, rather than to the opinion Of
some individual of the Department of
Justice or the Treasury Department,
1t was learned at the White House
today.
Several hundred cases. in addition
to those already made public, are
pending, it was said.
The White House explained that the
Government must determine whether
there is deliberate intention to cheat
or evade in the matter of income tax
payments, or whether ignorance or in
nocent mistakes are responsible. In
cases when deliberate motive to
cheat is proved, then the Government
may take criminal action.
Likewise it was made clear that all
taxpayers involved are going to be
treated on the same basis whether the
amount is small or large.
Meanwhile, the suggestion that the
Government grant six months to q
years amnesty to income tax violators
during the last 10 years or more in
order to make tax restitution was pre-
sented to the Senate Finance Com
mittee by former Representative John
@. Tilson of Connecticut.
Tilson believed such an amendment
written into the revenue tax bill would
bring many millions into the Treas
ury from law violators with guilty
consciences.
He said thousands of former boot
leggers had violated the income tax
laws in recent years because heavy
tax payments would have revealed
their illegal source Of income and ex-
pressed the belief many of these would
make restitution If granted temporary
amnesty.
Now that the prohibition law Is
dead" he said, "a man could reveal
he had made liquor profits without
laying himself open to criminal prose-
cution."
Evening star., 1934-03-14
LABOR BOARD ACTS
ON MOTOR STRIKES
Owners and Workers Meet
in Dramatic Session
in Capital.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A record assembly Of industrial and
labor leaders attended the National
Labor Boards hearing today in its
drive to avert automobile strikes.
William S. Knudsen, operating vice
president of General Motors, led the
list of industrial spokesmen and Will
liam Collins, American Federation Of
Labor organizer in the Detroit area,
brought in nearly 100 representatives
of the workers in plants of the Mich
igan automobile cities and from
Cleveland.
Creation Of permanent labor
board, meanwhile, was recommended to
the Senate Labor Committee by Sec
retary Perkins as "a very important
step forward in the management OF
community life and the practice OF
democracy"
to the plea of Senator Wagner, DEM
ocrat, of New York, for enactment OF
his bill to create a permanent labor
board, arm it with enforcement means
and protect labor's right to collective
bargaining.
Wagner Utters Warning.
Wagner, who also is chairman Of
the Labor Board, had opened the
hearing on his bill with a warning
that unless labor was given a fuller
participation in the recovery program
there would be another collapse.
The strike threats before the Labor
Board today were regarded by its
members as grave. They affect Buick,
Chevrolet, Fisher Body and Hudson
plants, mostly in the Michigan auto
mobile making area, but also involv-
ing assembly points. Strikes already
are in progress at Nash Motor plants
in Wisconsin.
There was little expectation here
that the labor men would be put of
by extended or inconclusive negotia-
tions, since they are convinced that
their battle cannot be won after the
production rush Is over.
Asked about the Automobile Cham
ber of Commences action in recon-
mending a 36-hour week, Collins told
the automobile hearing 1t was not pos
sible to say how far this would meet
worker demands until the actual in
creased pay scales were made public.
The shortened work week, he said,
would make no difference once the
retail dealers were stocked with cars
and the Spring production rush over.
20 Per Cent Raise Demanded.
Collins group has demanded a 20
per cent increase in pay, 30-hour
week, reinstatement of discharged
workers and an industrial election to
choose worker representatives for col
lective bargaining.
General Motors officials brought
with them 40 members of the Works
Council, the company union of their
plants.
Clay williams, North Carolina to-
bacco man and vice chairman Of the
Labor Board, opened the session with
full representation Of both Labor
and Industrial Board members in at
tendance.
Newton D. Baker was in the room.
He told newspaper men he was there
merely as q private citizen, with no
interest on either side.
With Knudsen, representing the
employers were John Thomas Smith
of New York, general counsel for
General Motors; Donaldson Brown,
director and counsel for the same
company; Harlow Curtice, president
Of Buick Motor Co., and Edward A.
Fisher of Fisher Bodies.
Wagner warned the Senate COM
mittee that wages are again tagging
Evening star., 1934-03-14
PITTS AND RHEEM
DENY FAvOR|T|SM
Men, on Witness Stand, An
swer Chargesof Secret
Trips and Luxury.

Charges Of luxurious living, special
privileges and secret trips to Wash
mgton and Alexandria were emphati-
cally denied today by 6. Bryan Pitts
and Edmund D. Rheem, former Wash
ington brokers now serving prison
terms, who were called before a Board
of Public Welfare Investigating Com
mittee in the District Reformatory at
Lorton, Va.
Pitts branded all such allegations
as malicious lies and absolutely
false" He clashed several times with
W. w. MILAN. chairman Of the In
vestigating Committee. in his desire
to give his testimony in his own way
rather than in answer to questions.
Speaking with the positiveness which
characterized his demeanor when head
Of the once-powerful F. H. Smith Co..
Pitts repeatedly shook his finger at
members of the committee for greater
emphasis.
Rheem was the first witness of the
morning session. held in the Office OF
Capt. M. M. Barnard. veteran super
intendent of District penal institu-
tions. He apparently knew just what
he intended to say when he sat down
in the witness chair, replying quickly
to questions in clear, precise language.
Answered Subpoenaes.
II have been of the Lorton reser-
vation seven times since July 10, 1881,
when was brought here" Rheem as
serted Each time was in answer to
subpoena of the District Supreme
Court to testify in civil suits or my
bankruptcy.
Il have never seen Mrs. Rheem,
never been near her or talked to her
since July, 1882, and that was when
she visited me here at Lorton.
II have never been in the George
Mason Hotel in Alexandria and any
one who says so is perpetrating a ma
licious lie"
The charge had been made that
Pitts and Rheem met their wives in
the hotel in the Fall or early Winter
of 1882. At that time, Mrs. Rheem
had obtained a divorce from Rheem.
Mrs. Rheem, the daughter of Harry
Wardman, one-time leading Washing
ton builder, had denied yesterday that
she frequently met Rheem in Alex
andria.
Rheem said that on his seven visits
to Washington he was in the presence
of an officer at all times except when
he was in the District Jail.
Shoemaker Joins Quiz.
Just as the witness was leaving the
stand Representative Francis H. Shoe
maker of Minnesota, who had made
lengthy charges against the admins
tration Of the Districts prison, tele-
phoned Judge Michael M. Doyle,
member of the board, and apparently
suggested some line of questioning,
because Rheem was recalled and
asked whether he knew a certain
patent lawyer in the National Press
Continued on Page q Column 81 a
Evening star., 1934-03-14
1877 MEN RESCUED
AS j. S. GUNBOAT
BURNS OFF CHINA
Fulton, on Pirate Duty, De.
stroyed-British Craft
Aid in Rescue.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HONGKONG, March IS (Thurs-
day).-Two rescue vessels reported
early today they had saved 187 men
from the United States gunboat Full
ton, which burned in Bias Bay, so
miles northeast of here 1t was be-
lieved the l87 composed the ships
complete personnel
The British destroyer, H. M. S. Wis
hart, reported she would arrive in
port at am. with 139 men from the
Fulton, including Capt. McHenry and
his officers. The Chinese S. S. Tsinan
reported she had 48 members of the
crew aboard
They started for Hongkong from
Bias Bay with the Fulton still burn
ing fiercely.
Another British warship. H. M. s
Whitshed, stood by the burning ship
after two-hour journey from Hong
kong under forced draft to rescue the
Americans.
The U. S. 8. Fulton and H NJ. 8
Wishart had both been on patrol duty
against pirates in Bias Bay.
The cause of the FultOns destruc-
ton was not Immediately reported.
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Evening star., 1934-03-14
FESTIVAL To GREET
CHERRY BLOSSOMS
Fete Expected to Attract
Thousands of Visitors
to City.

A gigantic, three day cherry blossom
festival, to be staged at the time the
Japanese cherry trees here are in
bloom, is being arranged by large
civic committee, it was announced
today by Commissioner Melvin C..
HaZen.
Seventy leaders in Washington civic
and official life have been asked to
serve on the general committee, the
first session of which has been called
for Friday at pm. in the board room
of the District Building.
Planned on scale to rival the
annual Mardi Gras at New Orleans
and the Mummers' Parade at Phila-
delphia, the organized cherry blossom
festival, officials believe, will bring
thousands of visitors to Washington
for three days of series of special
events.
May Stage "Mikado.'
While details of the program as yet
have not been mapped out, sugges-
tions include the staging of the light
opera "Mikado" near the cherry tree
areas, perhaps at Sylvan Theater, or
in Potomac Park; a parade Of floral
floats, costume marches, special horse
show events, regatta, polo matches.
military parades, band concerts, fire
works display and other gala events.
It Is the hope Of officials that Presi-
dent Roosevelt and other officials may
attend leading events of the program.
Special invitations also are to be sent
to diplmatic representatives Of the
Japanese government and other men,
bers of the diplomatic circle here.
The railroads have been asked to
cooperate in advertising the events
and there are plans for a Nation
wide promotion campaign to interest
thousands in coming to washington
for the programs.
City Heads Cooperate.
The District government will lend
official support to the program. Com
missioners Hazen, Allen and Gotwals
will serve as honorary chairmen Of
the General Committee. Claude w.
Owen, president Of the washington
Board Of Trade, has been designated
general chairman.
Those invited to serve as vice chair
men are Admiral Cary T. Grayson,
Frederic A. Delano, Mrs. j. Borden
Hartman, Merle Thorpe, William G.
(Continued on Page 3, Column So
Evening star., 1934-03-14

:. Other surveys TO be worked into the
unified and co-ordinated plan are to
be made by the Navy, Marine Corps.
Department of Commerce, Customs
and Bureau Of Internal Revenue
Orville Wright, inventor Of the air.
plane, today informed Secretary Dern
that, because of illness, he would be
unable to serve on the special COM
mittee.
! Col. Clarence Chamberlin, transat-
lantic flyer, telegraphed his accept
ance to the War Department and let
it be known he will come to Washing
ton whenever the committee meets.
No answer has as yet been received
from Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, the
third civilian member of the special
committee.
The President, it Is understood, will
make no definite move to reorganize
any Of the present governmental air
units, including the Army Air Serv-
ice, until he has the comprehensive
he has requested.
Immediate Plans Lacking.
It was definitely stated the White
House has no immediate plans for the
i organization Of separate air corps.
Secretary of the Navy Swanson ex-
pressed doubt whether efficiency or
economy could be served by taking
the Marine Corps Air Force from
under the charge of the Navy and
placing it elsewhere.
The Secretary told reporters at his
regular press conference the whole
set-up of the Marine Corps had
always been and was continuing to be
an integral part of the Navy.
Meanwhile, Maj. Gen. Benjamin
Foulois chief of the Air Corps. started
survey of the Army airnail routes
with a view to determining when the
Army could safely resume flying the
mail, and the Senate Post ONCE Com
mittee continued its hearings on the
permanent airmail bill designed to
turn the airmail back to private
aviation.
The committee decided to ask Lind
bergh, Chamberlin, Mitchell and Eddie
Rickenbacker to give their views on
the bill
Mitchell Is Discussed.
No consideration has been given
to appointing any one man to take
over all or part of the aviation
administration. Brig. Gen. William
Mitchell, former assistant chief of the
Army Air Corps, had lunch at the
White House yesterday, leading to
speculation as to whether he would
get such job.
Meanwhile, Orville Wright informed
Secretary Dern by telegraph that he
would be unable to accept appoint
| ment to the special committee named
to investigate the Army airmail serv-
Ice. Wright said he would be unable
to travel for several weeks because Of
illness. Clarence Chamberlin wired
| his acceptance. Col. Lindbergh is yet
to reply.
At the same time, 1t was disclosed
that Charles A. Lindbergh, Clarence
Chamberlin. Eddie Rickenbacker and
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Evening star., 1934-03-14
NANJOS EXPEL JIMMY WALKER
WITH OTHER BOASTFUL WHITES

Navajo" said Tom Dodge, member Of
the council.
"A former mayor Of New York
stopped ct Albuquerque. went to New
York and claimed to be . member Of
the tribe"
The councils resolution said no
longer will there be any membership
In the tribe except by birth" and that
all those who claim 10 be members
Of the tribe by adoption are hereby
declared 10 be In no possible way an
adopted OF honorary member Of the
Navajo people"
Ths colorfui adoption ceremony has
been staged In many parta of the
ssAnasy anA fsssusutiy - oaAiup.
Evening star., 1934-03-14
200 CHILDREN SAVED
IN HOSPITAL FIRE
Maternity Home Nurses and Nuns
Rescue Wards, Including
"a Babies.
BY the Associated Press.

ALBANY, N. Y, March 14.-Nearly
200 infants and children were carried
or led to safety today as fire broke out
In the infants home of the Brady
Maternity Hospital in the Pine Hills
section Of Albany.
The fire, which originated In the
carpenters shop in the basement, was
extinguished quickly without causing
severe damage. Smoke filed the cor
ridors.
Seventy-four infants, all q few
weeks old, were removed by nurses
to the maternity home. across the
street, and to nearby residences.
One hundred and four other chill
dren, between 3 and years Of age.
were marched to safety by nuns.
They were fully clothed when the fire
broke out. ready to 60 to . nearby
playground.
Evening star., 1934-03-14
Quail in Cupboard
OF atlanta Club
Seized by Police
La,U FOrbids Possessing
Wild Game Fiue Bays
after Season Ends.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, March l4.-There was
not a quail in the cupboard today at
the high-hat Piedmont Driving Club.
Game wardens startled that resort
Of socially prominent Atlantans yes
terday by seizing from its cold storage
rooms $50 quail, lib doves, two deer,
four ducks and turkey.
It's against the law to possess wild
game more than five days after the
open season ends.
One club member readily acknowl-
edged owning some Of the quail, but
he said he didn't know it was against
the law to freeze the game and keep
it for future banquets.
Identifying tags were found on the
meat when the wardens arrived to
cart 1t away. Today the State game
and fish commissioner Is trying to de-
eide whether to swear out warrants
against the names on the tags or
against the club itself.
Evening star., 1934-03-14
BY the Associated Press.

STAMFORD. Conn.,, March IA
Tremendous killing Of trees and shI
In the recent Northeastern cold was
announced today by the Bartlett Tree
Research Laboratories.
They were Immigrant" trees and
shrubs steadily imported from farther
south. and lived through the mild
Winters of the past IS to 20 years
until their owners began to think Of
them % permanent.
Their destruction. spread among
some $50 varieties shows that only
man may believe with impunity In
the tale about ''erandfathers weather"
being gone forever. The imported
trees and shrubs acquired no hsfdi.
meas In mild Northern winters ana
died by the thotwands IN The February
fresosA
Evening star., 1934-03-14
ARSON AND KIDNAPPING
FLARE IN PRICE WAR
Texas Farmer Jailed as Violence
Breaks Out in Dispute on
Cabbage Sales.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
McCALLEN, Tex, March IA
Violence flared in the Rio Grande
Valley cabbage price war when six
carloads of men, purportedly farmers,
kidnapped a night watchman and
burned down a packing shed.
A Mercedes farmer was held in jail
today while deputies searched for sew
eral others alleged to have participated
in the affair last night.
The crowd Of men, incensed N the
reduction of the cabbage price from
Sc to 81, abducted an Alamo night
watchman. showered the Carl Bresett
packing shed with kerosene and then
ignited 1t.
Max Lutz, McAllen buyer, employed
bodyguards after he had received
numerous threats.
Evening star., 1934-03-14
By the Associated Press.

GALLUP, N. Mex, March H.
Scores Of celebrities. including former
Mayor James J. Walker Of New York.
were expelled from the Navajo Indian
Tribe today by its Executive Councu
Of IL.
The big chiefs Indicated they were
fed up on white men who get adopted
into the tribe and then 60 around
boasting that they are Indians.
A number OF Hollywood actors and
actresses suffered the same fate %
walker.
Every time Q movie star stops In
Gallup and Ia adopted by the tribe,
thsn he elaAms q nallyweoa - =
Evening star., 1934-03-14
PROPAGANDA BLAMED
TO JEWISH REFUGEE
Hamburger Paper Says Paris
Article Was Work of Former
Vossiche Zeitung Editor.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, March 14.-The Hambur-
ger Nachricten charged today that a
Jewish refugee in Paris was RESPONSE
BILE for the publication in the Petit
Parisien of what the newspaper
claimed was a copy Of instructions
sent out from Berlin to German
propaganda agents.
The German newspaper asserted
that the alleged instructions really
were the work of Georg Bernhard,
former Jewish editor in chief of the
Vossiche Zeitung.
The Petit Parisien printed yesterday
what its editors described as a copy
of a pamphlet Of confidential direc-
tions to Nazi agents. As presented by
the French newspaper, the text,
among other things. directed the
agents to withdraw advertising from
publications using anti-German news
agency dispatches.
Evening star., 1934-03-14
J. A. SIMPSON STRICKEN
Farmers Union Head Suffers
Heart Attack After Hearing.

John A. Simpson. IS, Of Oklahoma
City. president Of the National Farm
ers' Union. collapsed In the Senate
Once Building shortly after noon to-
day after testifyna against the Fed
eral gasoline tax before the Senate
Finance Committee
After his testimony. Mr. Simpson
vent into the hallway and vas talk
ing 10 friends vhen he was stricken
With q heart attack ile was treated
~ attaches NJ the Senate Buildins
aHd rlahed 10 Emergency Hospital.
Evening star., 1934-03-14
HITLER ARMS NOTE
"CHANGES NOTHING"
France Receives Milder Communi-
cation-Text Kept Secret on
Berlin's Request.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, March 14.-An arms note
from Chancellor Hitler which arrived
today was "milder. but changes Moth
ing" French officials said.
France is as firm as ever In her
decision to prepafe to take care Of
herself, they said. since disarmament
talks are achieving nothing.
The German note will be kept Sc
cret at Berlin's request. It was in
reply to a note of February IS from
the French cabinet, which said Ger
many was already rearming and vir-
tually closed the door to further dis
cusSionS.
Evening star., 1934-03-14
ATTORNEY J. C. DUKE
DISBARRED FOR ATTACK
Wheat and Bailey Render Deci-
sion-O'Donoghue's Plan for
Suspension Lost.

Attorney Jesse c. Duke was ad-
judged guilty today in disbarment
proceedings brought against him in
District Supreme Court as a result
Of charges he made against Justice
F. Dickinson Let's and former United
States Attorney Leo A. Rover.
Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat and
Associate Justice Jennings Bailey
voted for the disbarment of Duke.
Associate Justice Daniel w. O'Don-
oghue, in a strong dissenting opin-
ion, said he believed the punishment
should be one-year suspension.
The majority decision is binding.
Evening star., 1934-03-14
CARRIES CREW OF 1874.
Comdr. H. d. McHenry in Command
of Craft.

The Navy Department early this
afternoon lacked official word con-
corning the fire aboard the Fulton,
an 1,100-ton gunboat attached to the
south China patrol of Asiatic fleet
Her commanding officer, Comdr. H. D.
McHenry, was on duty here short
time ago in the Bureau of Navigation.
The Fulton carries IL officers and
1872 men. She was built in 1914 in
New London, Conn.,, is 226 feet long,
has a beam of IS feet, and II feet
draft. Comdr. McHenry is from
Adams, N. Y.
Evening star., 1934-03-14
All Government Divisions Con.
cerned to Enter Co.ordi.
mated Plan.
DEFINITE WORKABL CONTROL
TO BE PUT INTO PRACTICE
Army Corps Committee Has Begun
Study, With Particular
Reference to Mail.


President detailed and comprehensive
of aspect of aviation designed to give the
United States unified air policy
Every governmental division interested in
nautical questions be called
the entire question be by an Individual or COM
mission for creation of -todae co-ordnated plan
President Roosevelt satisfied present
nautical setup
efficient workable of
into practice
Committee
The special committee Secretary
headed Maj. H. assistant staff
ready started survey of the Army Air Corps with particular
reference at the present time to the carrying of aa by the
Evening star., 1934-03-14
FACTOR SON HIDDEN
Child, 8, Removed From Danger
of KIDNAPPING.

LOS ANGELES, March IA (R.-
Alarmed over reports of a plot to
abduct Alvin Factor, 8-year-old son
of John (Jake the Barber) Factor,
the boy was spirited away to a secret
hiding place today by his uncle, Rob-
ert Cowan.
The father and another son, Jerome,
have figured in kidnapings and fear
for the safety Of Alvin was aroused
by the strange actions Of several men
in a motor car trailing a machine
in which the boy was riding last
Monday.
Evening star., 1934-03-14
Treasury Offices Combined.

MILAN, Italy, March IA R.-The
United States Treasury Office here re-
ceived notice today it will close April
/ and be transferred to Paris. All
European Treasury offices are to be
sent there.
Evening star., 1934-03-14
Passion Play Star Dies.

OBERAMMERoAU. Germ any
March IL R.-Peter Rendl. 81.
chosen TO act a. the Apostle Peter In
the coming passion play, died today.
His widow. Aloysia, was the daughter
Of the famous impersonator Of Christ.
Jossph MAys.