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Evening star., 1934-07-24
BAND|TSROBBANK,
ABDUCT iEMPLOyE
Four Others Seized Are Re-
leased After Gunmen
Escape Shooting.
By the Associated Press.

b. the Associated Press.
OXFORD. Kans, July 24.-Four
machine gunners robbed the Oxford
Bank here at 8 80 O'Clock this morn
ing OF an unascertained amount OF
money and fed with fiye hostages
after shooting up the town.
Homer Jester. cashier of the bank
and one OF the bandits we're wounded
by vigilantes' shotgun fire as the rob-
bers climbed into their car. Jester
suffered a flesh wound in the arm and
the bandit. shot in the cheek, was be-
liefed to have been more severely
wounded. He was bleeding profusely
witnesses said, as the car sped out OF
town.
Harold Littrell. 10. was shot In the
abdomen by the bandits as they rakeo
the street with a machine gun in
their flight.
Cashiers Aide Held.
All the hostages except Ted Donley
assistant cashier, had been relased a
short time after the robbery. The
bandits fed Z miles South and then
turned westward.
The robbers seized Jester and Daisy
Bay. assistant cashier. as they went
to the bank and waited for the time
lock TO open the safe. Donley was
made prisoner in front of the bank
Meanwhile. word spread around
town that the robbery was in prog
ress. Vigilantes armed themselves
and called upon Winfield and Well
ington for additional aid.
Arrive too Late.
Chief Of Police w. c. Tucker OF
Winfield and Sheriff J. L. Harris oi
Sumner County responded, but ar
rived at the bank five minutes after
the raiders had left.
J. E. Campbell, patron Of the bank
armed himself with a shotgun, but
but was overpowered as he approach
ed the rear of the bank. He did not
get to fire a shot.
Two of the bandits. witnesses said
remained outside the bank training
a machine gun on the street while
the other two worked inside.
Vigilantes Open Fire.
AS they left the bandits ordered
Jester, Miss Bay, Donley, Campbell
and Marion Carson. another patron
of the bank, to precede them to the
waiting car.
1t was at this point that the vigi-
lantes opened fire from a hardware
store across the street, wounding Jes-
ter and one of the bandits
The bandit car, dark blue sedan
bore two Oklahoma license tags.
The bandits we're all of medium
size, witnesses said They wore white
shirts and light trousers.
1t is the third time within three
years that the oxford bank has been
robbed.
Evening star., 1934-07-24
OHIO DEATHS MOUNT.
Twenty More Victims OF Heat Sue
cumb in Cincinnati.


CINCINNATI, July "a (Pl.-Cin-
einnati today counted 20 more heat
deaths within the last "a hours, shoot
ing the total TO 40 in this city alone,
as weather forecasters gloomily agreed
no major relief can be expected before
Thursday at least. All were listed by
the coroner's Office as dying from the
excessive high temperature.
A temperature passing the luo-
degree mark was anticipated today for
the fifth consecutive day, in a heat
wave that has sent all previous
records flying
The high mark was 1oS.5 degrees
Saturday, the hottest temperature
ever recorded in the 60-year history
of the Weather Bureau here.
At 10 o'clock eastern standard
timel temperature of 81 degrees was
recorded today. the same as recorded
at that hour yesterday when the high
mark OF the day was l04 degrees.
Meanwhile, five more persons died
Of the heat in nearby Kentucky cities.
bringing the total there to nine since
Friday.
Relatively nlgh humldlty mas Deen
responsible for the unprecedented toll
here, weather observers said. A hu-
midity of 43 per cent was reported
yesterday at noon, and 40 per cent
the day before, while temperatures
of 100 degrees and above, they said,
usually involve much lower humidity.
Water consumption scared to un-
precedented heights with the mercury
In one 24-hour period Of the heat
wave the city water works reported
pumpage of 95.000000 gallons OF
water. Until now. 81 900, 900 gallons
had been the record.
Parks became the popular sleeping
places Of those whose homes are
downtown, and thousands sought re-
lief there from heat that moderated
only slightly after nightfall.
Evening star., 1934-07-24
IN BREADLINE
TOUR, TRIES TO SOLVE
JOBLESS PROBLEM
Continued From First Page)

work for them. The latter should be
put on a dole. frankly called a dole.
He made notes on all Of his expert
ences. he said. and intends to write q
report for Aubrey Williams, deputy
administrator Of the Federal Emer-
gency Relief Administration, making
recommendations for revising the
relief and employment systems.
He made 1t clear his trip was en-
tirely financed by himself. and that
he consulted nobody about it except
his wife and his secretary. Ross
Haworth. He had intended, he said,
to keep the whole affair quiet. News
men, however. scented something Of
what had been going on, and when
they had their morning conference
with the commissioner, he finally gave
them the story.
Please" he added. don't make me
out as doing anything melodramatic." +"
Evening star., 1934-07-24
Clair Is Guest Speaker.

Francis j. Clair, engineer, econo-
mist and author of The Clair Plan fol
Market Control" will be the guest
speaker at the luncheon of the Lions
Club tomorrow at 1890 pm. in the
Mayflower Hotel. His subject will be
Subsistence Homesteading." Presi-
dent Arthur Clarendon Smith will give
report of the proceedings at the in
ternational convention, which closed
Saturday at Grand Rapids, Mich.
Evening star., 1934-07-24
j. S.L|QU0R TAXES
HIT 258 MILLION
Total Gain of Billion in In
ternaI Revenue CoIIec.
tionS Seen.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Taxes on alcoholic drinks poured
s258,911,332 into the Treasury's in
ternal revenue pocket in the past fiscal
year.
This was disclosed by the Treasury
today in analyzing q total gain of
81 ,050, 100000 in internal revenue COL
lections during the IL months ended
June 80.
About s7oo. .oOo, 900 of this increase
was accounted for by such new levies
as alcohol, capital stock, dividend and
processing taxes.
Guy T. Helvering, commissioner of
internal revenue, sought to nail re-
ports that the cotton processing tax
had been largely evaded. He pointed
to an actual tax return of $l44, ,767 ,232
in place of the $l2S,o00,ooo estimated
in advance.
Income Taxes Up.
Individual income taxes Of $419,-
509, ,487 we're $685. 1897 ahead of the
preceding year, but the corporation re-
turns of 1897, 7,515.851 topped the pre-
ceding figure by only $3,2sS.o68
The capital stock tax, imposed for
the first time, brought in $50. 1853, ,344,
and the dividends tax $50.229,122.
Taxes on alcoholic beverages we're
$2l5, 5,731, $40 greater than the preced-
ing year, when beer had been on sale
only a short time and liquors were
being distilled for medicinal purposes
only.
Beer taxes accounted for $163 ,270,
sos, with the tax on domestic spirits
reaching $61, 1885, Taxes on i'm
ported liquors brought in s6,577, ,958.
Stamp Levies Larger.
The tobacco tax totaled $425 1872 900
Stamp taxes we're uniformly larger
than last year, with the exception OF
those on boats, which declined.
Manufacturers excise taxes turned
s390,044,7 TIA into the till, a gain of
$142, ,257,899.
Miscellaneous taxes gained $9,29I,-
297, including a s4,686. .043 gain in COL
lections from the levy on telephone,
d.
one of $2,9l2,072 from pipe lines and
2,926,70 from the tax on checks.
drafts and other orders for the pay
ment of money.
The total figures, previously an
nounced, were $2,672 ,239, ,194 in all in
ternal revenue collections for the year,
as compared with $l,619,839,2 ,224 in
1888, an increase of $1,052, ,399,970
For the month of June, 1884. as
compared with June, 1888, income
taxes gained $685., ,938, spirits $18,-
883 3,644. excise taxes $l0.414,094 and
miscellaneous taxes $1.688, ,5S3. To-
bacco tax collections declined $1,793,-
612 and stamp taxes slumped $4,-
96l ,928.
The processing taxes, which were
in effect only a part of the year,
yielded $371 .422 1856. All receipts
from this levy are to be paid out
in benefits to farmers for curtailing
production.
The total was divided as follows:
Wheat. $1l7,62l,174; cotton, sl44,-
767.232; tobacco, $18.088,426: field
corn. s4,496,19 hogs, s77.034,611;
paper and jute, s9,244,S30, and sugar,
S179.416. The effective dates OF these
levies were: Wheat, July 9, 1888; cot
ton, August /: tobacco, october !;
field corn and hogs. November S;
paper and jute, December !, and
sugar, June 8, 1884.
Evening star., 1934-07-24
DISTRICT MAN LEADING
IN SHUFFLEBOARD PLAY
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich, July "a.
The defending champion and a
former titleholder led the field in
the national Switchboard champion
ship here today as the tournament
headed into tonight's second round of
play.
The defender, Joe Norris Of Wash
ington, D. c., got through his first
nights play with easy victories over
John Alpers and Z. o. Trude of Ira
verse City. D. X. Hubbard of James
vile, Wis. who lost his crown to
Norris in Florida last Winter, also de-
feated two Traverse City contestants
easily.
The tournament will reach the
finals tomorrow night.
Evening star., 1934-07-24
Woodring to Sleep
In Army Tent as
Guest of R.O. TIC.
Assistant Secretary of
Var to See Parade at
Fort Meade Tomorrow.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md,
July 24.-Harry S. Woodring, As
sistant Secretary of War, is to sleep
under canvas in an Army camp for
the first time in is years. The last
time he slept in an Army tent was
when he was a lieutenant in the
Tank Corps during the World War.
Secretary woodring will be the
guest tonight of Maj. Alvan c. Gillem,
commandant of the Reserve Officers
Training Corps encampment here.
Ceremonies will be held tomorrow
morning in his honor at the final
parade Of the r. o. T. G. men.
Eighty commissions in the Officers
Reserve Corps will be presented at the
review Wednesday to students from
colleges and universities OF the Sd
Corps Area. The recipients have COM
pleted their four-year training in the
course.
Evening star., 1934-07-24
PHlllPPINE-U. S. TRADE
IMPORTANCE STRESSED
Resident Commissioner Also
States Longing for Independ.
ence Has Been Realized,
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MANILA, P. l., July 24-Asserting
the Filipinos' longing for national
liberty has been realized under the
Tydings- -McDufie independence act,
Resident Commissioner Pedro Cue
vara, at banquet in his honor
here tonight stressed the impor-
tance OF present American trade re-
lations.
He questioned whether there Is
any prospect, without endangerinR
our democratic institutions, that we
may find another place in the world
where we can maintain our trade
on the same advantageous and
profitable basis which characterizes
our economic relations with the
United States.
There Is no longer any obstacle
to prevent our deciding for ourselves
what should be our future political
relations with the United States"
Evening star., 1934-07-24

'SolAtAAuSu FIOin FuSb FdBt.J
OF his game with every shot under
perfect control.
The second set began with both
Wood and Crawford at the top of
their games and games following SER
vice 10 2-an. 1t was a duel of back
hands with Wood fully matching the
Australian.
Crawford finally broke through
Wood in the fifth game. running the
game out from 80, but Wood promptly
retahsted by breaking the Austral-
ian's service to make it 3-all in
games.
Both held their next services for
4-4 in games, but the Australian
then broke Woods service for what
looked like the decisive game. Vic
tory came after a long deuced game
replete with thrilling rallies.
Both Get Big Cheer.
Wood. fighting gamely and trying
for everything, again cracked Craw-
ford. winning from 80 to deuce the
set. The crowd gave both a big
cheer at the end Of one rally which
saw them making tricky returns from
the forecourt in a battle OF wits.
The score then went to SIS as both
held their service.
Crawford again broke Woods de-
livery in the next game to lead IS
and then. after three points in the
next game and with the American
leading, So-l5, rain again began to
fall and for the second time play
was halted.
The rain stopped after about 10
minutes and play was resumed with
Wood going ahead TO break Crawford
and again deuce the game call al
f-al. Wood raced through his own
service with the loss of only one point
and then allowed the AuSsie only one
as he broke service 10 take the set
81
With only one point played in the
third set the rain again began to fall
and play was postponed.
Evening star., 1934-07-24
Ask 4S-Hour Week.
CATTLE YARD UNIONS STRIKE.
Weak Animals Shot as WaIkout Cur
tails Watering.

Weak Animals Shot as waIkout Cur
tails Watering.
CHICAGO. July "a Up).-Weakened
animals had to be shot at the glutted
Union Stock Yards today as a strike
stopped efficient feeding and watering
in a blistering temperature
The Live Stock Commission Men IS
Union, Local SIG. joined a walkout
of stock handlers at the Chicago
Union Stock Yards today, bringing
the total on strike to 1900. As the
temperature hovered around the 100
mark. the commission men had helped
handle the animals and when they
Quit. only a handful of workers re-
manned to feed and water the rs. 900
head of stock.
There was no market and the action
Of the commission men put an end to
all hopes that there would be one
today.
Police Called.
A police Gordon was hastily thrown
about the yards. Wires were dis
patched TO all shipping points to hold
up shipments. Farmers were forced
to take their truck loads of cattle
home
The paralysis of the yards began
at midnight. The first to leave were
live stock handlers, totaling 750 work
ers. The action of the 750 commits
sion men was taken after the sched-
uled time for the opening of the
market,
Evening star., 1934-07-24
400 EMPLOYEES STRIKE

Walk Out as Plant, Closed for
Three Weeks, Reopens.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, July "a C9-
Approximately 400 employees of the
Holston Manufacturing Co., hosiery
mill, walked out today in protest
against wage cut.
The plant reopened yesterday after
a shut down of three weeks and j. P
Gaut. president, announced a wage
cut of approximately 10 per cent.
He said even with the wage re-
duction the plant was still above the
code requirements as to wages. EN-
ployes who walked out claimed they
could not make the code wages un-
der the new arrangement, which they
described as "a form of stretch
out system"
One knitter said ne was cut from
s4.75 per hundred socks to $3.50 and
his work was increased from Is to ID
machines.
Evening star., 1934-07-24
POPE GIVES AUDIENCE
TO HARRY /. HOPKINS
q. S. Relief Director Reveals
Mussolini Gave Him Several
Pointers in Aid Program.

BY the Associated Press.
ROME, July 24.-Premier Mussolini
today received Harry L. Hopkins,
United States relief administrator, in
cordial audience which lasted IS
minutes.
Hopkins, in Europe inspecting relief
administrations, discussed Italian re-
lief methods with II Duce. He later
said he had received several good
pointers from Mussolini.
Later Pope Plus gave an audience
to both Mr.. and Mrs. Hopkins and
cordially discussed with them the
United States recovery programs, ex-
pressing the hope of their final sue
cess. His holiness showed an init
mate knowledge Of and interest in
American affairs.
Evening star., 1934-07-24
Escapes ASA ssination.

SAARBRUECKEN. Germany. July
- G49.-Police Commissioner Machts
narrowly escaped assassination today
when two men. jumping from a street
car. fired at him as he strolled down
the street in uniform.
Machts ducked behind a bus and
fired six shots in reply. wounding one
sssailant severely.
Machts, who serves under the
League Of Nations mandate over the
Saar region. is a German who fed
from his country when Chancellor
Hitler seized power. He had been
identified with the previous Republi-
can regimes.
Evening star., 1934-07-24
L. S. May Increase
Coast Guard Force
To Stop Smuggling
Ry The Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Rum rows persistence in trying
to pour Illicit liquor into the
United States may force Uncle
Sam to increase his Coast Guard
forces.
A disclosure that such a step
was under consideration came
yesterday from Acting Secretary
Of the Treasury Coolidge.
He said IA ships are reported
to be taking part in smuggling
operations of the North Atlantic
Coast. four or flve of them being
known smugglers,
The number has decreased
sharply since repeal, he disclosed
In the prohibition era so or 10
ships were said to be active on
rum row.
Evening star., 1934-07-24

'COHtHucu Floih TiSt FakCJ
was SO. In st. Louis IS deaths oc-
CURED in two days. almost one every
hour
Only TO Southern coastal States was
relief hope held out for today. Storm
warnings for small craft were issued
Thousands of dollars In crop dam
ages, due 10 the heat, were reported in
Iowa. Agricultural States watched
farm products wither and vanish.
In Chicago packers and officials.
deluged with record shipments of cat
tie because of the drought, appealed
TO Government officials TO stay the
food OF starving animals being bought
with Federal funds from destitute
farmers and shipped there for process
ing.
Evening star., 1934-07-24
MEDIATION VOTE
MAY BRING PEACE
4 ON COAST TONIGHT

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G. cambridge. Meeting with him will
be Gov. Olson, Adjt. Gen. E. A. Walsh
and the two Federal mediators, Rev
Francis j. Haas and E. H. Dunnigan
Minor disturbances at several laun-
dries marked the eighth day of the
truck drivers strike, in which l has
been fatally wounded by police guns
and 81 others wounded.
Patrons in some instances we're pre-
vented from calling for their laundry
by pickets. The laundry drivers went
on strike today in sympathy with the
truck drivers, who walked out a week
ago yesterday.
Yard officials of the Union Stock
yards e. Transit Co. prepared to ap-
peal to Federal Judge Philip L. Sulli-
van for aid.
The stock handlers had been work
ing under wage and hour terms set
by the Judge after arbitration last
November.
About 400 pickets. carrying signs
calling the yards company unfair. sat
peace1ully on the sldellneS watching
the emergency activities.
Ask 4S-Hour Week.
The strikers asked a 48-hour mini
mum work week, with pay increased
correspondingly.
With water supplies none too large
with many of the pens destroyed in
the recent stockyards fire not yet re-
built, the strike in the yards held
serious possibilities. observers agreed
Even before it began, Government
buyers were asked to check the enor
nous shipments of cattle they hac
been sending into the yards from the
blighted pasture lands of the plain:
States.
The Regional Labor Board, which
arranged the negotiations leading to
last November's settlement, prepared
to take and hand again today.
Evening star., 1934-07-24
Airmail Contract Awarded.

Award Of a contract for carrying
airmail between Daytona and st.
Petersburg. Fla. to the National Air
line Tax System of Chicago was
announced today by the Post once
Department.
Evening star., 1934-07-24
SOLDIER FOUND DEAD

Washington Highway.
A man identified through papers
found on his person as Sergt. Harry
p. Williams. about As. stationed at
Fort Meade, Nd, was found dead
early today on the Richmond-Wash-
ington Highway near Pohick Manor.
James Clark Virginia State police
man, who found the man lying on the
roadside, expressed the opinion he
had been struck by an automobile. A
coroner's report was expected later.
Evening star., 1934-07-24
DOGS GUARD BODY
Four Found Famished in Flat
Over Dead Mistress.

SAN FRANCISCO, July "a Cp).-
Called to investigate the bowling OF
dogs in a fiat. Alfred Girolo, humane
oficer, found four famished mongrels
standing guard over the body of their
mistress. Mrs. Agnes Woods. IS.
Police said Mrs. Woods had ap-
parently been dead for four days.
They attributed her death to natural
causes.
Evening star., 1934-07-24

Before boasting too much about
wiping out the deficit however, the
department might turn its attention
to speeding up the delivery of mail.
When a letter, even one carrying
special delivery stamp, which leaves
Washington around midnight is not
delivered to its New York address
earlier than noon the next day, the
postal service Is not so hot.
Evening star., 1934-07-24
AIR ROUTE SOUGHT

q. S. Asks Permission for World
Flyer to Pass over Italy.
ROME. July "a tP.-The United
States embassy today asked permis-
sion Of the Italian government for
the American aviator, DR.. Richard
Ulight. TO fly over Italy in round
the-world fight. DR.. Ulight is to be
accompanied by Robert Wilson. Their
plane is Bellanca equipped with
floats. radio and special cameras.
Evening star., 1934-07-24
WOOD TAKES LEAD
AS RAIN ENDS PLAY
IN DAVIS MATCHES

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Evening star., 1934-07-24
Farley Silent on Strike.

QelNeTeO 10 lIS NeW 1OIh duuI Co
earlier than noon the next day, tht
postal service Is not so hot.
Farley Silent on Strike.
In relation to the San Francisco
strike, the silence of Jim Farley fur.
nished a striking contrast to the
vociferousness of Gen Hugh S. John
son, and, in the opinion OF observer!
in the Capital, was immensely more
useful in bringing reasonableness int
the situation. Jim didn't have L
say anything in his official capacity
he simply stood for certain thing.
and served as a mnemonic obelisk Il
the ship owners. They could not looE
at his towering form and placid fac'
without being reminded of a lot o.
things.
The first aid to memory ,DdS that
he pds Postmaster General. Then,
they didn't haze to think Dery Jar
back Without recalling that he had
been instructed By the President to
make an investigation OF ocean mail
contracts and determine iohether
they tUere not out OF line NTH tGir
compensation.
While on that line of thought,
they had no difficulty in recollect-
ing that ttCo mail contracts out OF
San Francisco bring in $4,000 a
Uoyaoe, or 81 .24S 900 year on each
contract. 1t t1ds not forgotten,
either, that one route wdS extended
so that it gaze $1,6S4.000 OF Cor
ernmert money to the lines in one
year. instead OF 81 PAS, 900. 1t pop
ped into their heads. also, doubt
less, that the route out OF Seattle
to Manila pays $40 mile and adds
$SI 900 a voydge to the revenues
OF shipping lines Which lCere max
ing handsome profits eUen before
the mail contracts tGere gtUen them.
1t is considered here that mullint
over facts of this kind may have haC
much to do with the change of from
by the ship owners in agreeing Il
submit all the causes of dispute will
the strikers to arbitration. If the!
did not think about them, with Post
master General Farley standing righ
there, it must be supposed they dom
believe in signs
Naval Feelers Put Out.
Various stories put out last weel
from Toxic, Geneva and London abou
the Naval Conference and the atti
tude of Japan, Great Britain and tn,
United States with reference to tn,
Pacific were regarded here as effort
TO draw this country out and get i
to make commitments favorable L
the other nations.
Among the stories tgdS one that
Prime Minister Macdonald, Who
is on his udv TO Canada for a
holiday, hoped to hare an oppor-
tunity to tax tUith President RooSe-
Uelt about the Pacific naval STUD
tion. 1t does not seem likely that
such q desire on the part OF the
British prime minister tOiil receiue
strong encouragement from the
White House.
During his last visit here, with tn,
British delegation to discuss the sub
iectS to be considered at the WorlC
Economic Conference, Mr.. MacDon
aid assured the President that tn
war debt question would not b
brought up at the sessions of the con
ference. Nevertheless. when the con
ference met, Mr.. Macdonald himsel
was the first to broach the debt issue
saying it would have to be considered
in any program Of world recovery
This about-fsce did not make a hi
with President Roosevelt, and it
probable he does not PARTICULAR.
crave hearing more Of Mr.. MacDon
aids palaver.
Evening star., 1934-07-24
NEW HEAT WAVE
MOVING IN ON CITY
OUT OF MIDWEST

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