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bill also failed to follow suggestions
regarding graduated corporation in
come tax. The bill makes the rate
1914 per cent on corporation income
not over $4,000 and lax per cent on
over $4,000. The President suggested
range of 10A to 16%.
Regarding surtaxeS, Parker said If
the Presidents $1,000,000 example"
we're used it would have STEPPED up sur
taxes only on 46 individuals IN 1898.
BY starting the increases at $4,000,
he said 1874 taxpayers would have
been affected.
Other objections to the bill were
raised by Senator Byrd, Democrat, Of
Virginia, who complained the grad
uated excess profits tax on corpora
lions was based on o fictitious valu-
alton"
The Virginian contended the pres
ent law permitted corporation to fix
any valuation 1t wanted for purposes
Of the one-tenth Of per cent capital
stock and fat S per cent excess profits
tax.
"I think the law should fix q fair
and real valuation" Byrd said.
Harrison asked Parker why the
Ways and Means Committee discarded
the Presidents suggestion on grad
uated corporation tax.
my personal opinion" Parker
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said, "is that it felt an excess profits
tax was a fairer tax, but was willing
to adopt the principle Of grad
uated tax to see how it would work. :"
As a revenue producer, he told
Senator Walsh, Democrat, Of Massa-
chusetts, he thought the excess profits
tax would be the better.
Inheritance Taxes Studied.
Numerous points involved in the
administration Of the proposed in
heritance taxes were still being
analyzed today. One under discus
sion was this:
Suppose q trust fund-life estate
were left to an individual who would
get only the income from that fund.
which later would be passed on to q
second individual. The first persons
age and life expectancy would be
calculated on mortality tables, and his
tax would be in proportion to the
benefit he received. The second per-
son, who got the lump sum after the
death Of the first, would pay the reg.
ular inheritance taxes.
Should the trust fund be passed on
to a second generation, the benefits to
both first and second would be calcu-
lated on life expectancy basis and
the tax divided on a pro rata share.
The Senate Committee is expected
later to call representatives of the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers
and the Chamber of Commerce Of the
United States, along with 2s persons
who had asked to be heard. The hear
ings are supposed to close by Friday
night.
Equitable, Says Doughton.
Discussing the bill before today's
House Ways and Means Committee
met, Chairman Doughton said:
"I think it's a good bill. It isn't
perfect, for nobody can draft perfect
tax bill the first time. But think it's
equitable. The Government needs the
money and the bill would take It
from those who have It,"
Representative Martin, Republican,
Of Massachusetts,, was asked whether
the Republicans would have q special
conference to decide their attitude
toward the bill.
I'VE don't have to have q conference
to decide to vote against it." he re-
piled. "It's neither share -ti1e-wealth
bill nor bill designed to balance the
budget"
He disagreed with a Democratic es-
innate that as out Of the i13 Repub-
licans in the House would vote for
the bill.
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Outline of Rates
In Tax Plan to
Net $275,OOO,OO
100 Million of Sun,
Anticipated From,
Excess Profits.
BY the Associated Press.

An outline of the tax rates by which
the House Ways and Means Committee
proposes to raise around $275 5,000, 900
more each year:
Excess profits, estimated revenue,
500, 100000. Profits below 8 per cent
on the adjusted declared value Of
capital, no tax; 81 per cent, tax, per
cent; 1916 per cent, 10 per cent; 16-
IS per cent, Is per cent; over IS per
cent, 20 per cent.
Individual incomes, revenue, $45,-
100000. An increase in present sur
taxes on incomes of more than $50,-
600. On $4,000 income the $4,000
above $4,000, now taxed at 80 per
cent, would be increased to 81 per
cent, money raise Of $50. The pres
ent 50 per cent tax on that portion
Of an income over $5,o0o.00 would be
raised to rs per cent.
Inheritances revenue $ss,ooo,o
New taxes, in addition to those al
ready collected on estates, ranging
from per cent on the first taxable
SIC, 1000 to IS per cent Of the Inherit
ance above SIC, o,0oo, 600. A fiat $5o, 900
to close Of kin; . $4,000 exemption
to others.
Gifts, estimated 25.000, 900. Be-
sides the existing gift taxes, new
levies ranging from 3 per cent on the
first taxable $4,000 to 81 per cent on
the taxable portion Of the gift above
SO 1000. 900. Exemptions the same rs
ON inheritances
Corporation income, additional rev.
enue $l5.000,000 Replace present nat
1874 per cent levy ON all net corpora
ton income with Q 1914 per cent tax
on income Of $4,000 or less and 14A
per cent on income over SIS, 900.
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NOOHI0AALtIcU E1UKu r44bI EdBeJ
my conference with Walter In De-
troit. ALI the directors and myself
feel our first duty Is to the Cleveland
public"
RUTH MAY SUCCEED JOHNSON.
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ROOSEVELT VICTORY
IN CONVENTION SEEN
Representative Grove Predicts
Nomination in 1886 With
No Opposition.
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
Representative Grove Of Indiana,
vice chairman Of the Democratic Ma
tional Congressional Committee. pre-
dicted in q statement today that Pres
ident Roosevelt would be nominated
without opposition In 1896.
Irked over reports that Mr.. Roose-
welt might have tough shedding" next
year, he said:
Much propaganda, . lot Of talk.
loose and otherwise, Is going the
rounds concerning the popularity or
unpopularity, the virtues and vices,
the good or the evil Of Franklin D.
Roosevelt.
with mention OF his denomination
next year, q few Democrats have been
heard to say he should not be NOM
mated and an even less number have
been known to say that he would not
be nominated. Such remarks are
scarcely worthy Of notice"
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us. EXPORTS SHOW.
GAIN ON IMPORTS.
Favorable Trade Balance
Reported for First Time
in Three Months.
BY the Associated Prsss.

6y the Associateo Fress.
For the first time In three months,
United States exports were shown to-
day by Commerce Department figures
to have exceeded imports.
In contrast with the usual seasonal
decline Of 5 per cent from May to
June" the department said In its
monthly foreign trade report, exports
were 8 per cent higher, while imports
which usually decline per cent, were
8 per cent smaller than in the pre-
ceding months.
Compared with June a year ago
exports were slightly smaller in value
while imports showed an increase Of
little over Is per cent
An increase of $4,074,000 in raw
cotton exports accounted largely for
the exports gain.
Exports in June totaled sl70, ,l93, ,00C
in value, compared with Sl65, ,456, ,00C
in May and $1TO,519. 900 in June, 1894
Imports in Jure totaled $156, 6,756, 900
compared with $l70,559,00 in May
and $136.l09. 900 In June, 1884.
The excess of exports-the so-called
favorable balance-in June was Sl3,-
$4,000, compared with a favorable
balance in June, 1884, Of s34,410. .000
For the six months ended June 80
the favorable balance was s29 ,422 900
compared With favorable balance in
the first six months of 1884 of $l72,-
10000.
Gold exports In June were $l66, 900
compared with imports of $230.538,-
900, an excess of $3.50, 1872 900. In May
exports were $4,000 and imports
$l40, ,065 900. June, 1884, exports were
$3.50, 900. against imports Of $70,-
29l 900.
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in the yard of Hewitt's home on Mill
tary road at the edge of Fort Myer
reservation, Monday night week ago
when Wood suddenly appeared, pointed
q pistol at King and demanded $4,000
King Is reputed to have saved many
thousands of dollars from his meager
earnings as a laborer In Arlington
Cemetery and at other places.
Wood Is alleged to have ordered
both men into a car, pretending not
to know Hewitt any better than he did
King. The car was driven acrqSs the
Potomac, through downtown Wash
ington and was driven around in
Maryland for some time, finally arriv-
ing at Piscataway, about IS miles
across the District line in Southern
Maryland.
Parking half mile from the home
Of Oscar King, oficials claim Wood
sent Hewitt to the brothers house for
Benjamin's bank book. The brother,
suspicious, told Hewitt he would not
surrender it unless he had written
request from Benjamin. Hewitt re-
turned and Benjamin thereupon went
to his brothers home, authorities
state, and got the book.
The brother was convinced some
thing was wrong. and after pondering
the situation for some time, tele-
phoned to the First National Bank Of
Southern Maryland, at Upper Marl-
boro. He told Cashier william s. Hill
he suspected Benjamin was being
made the victim of some extortion
plot.
When the car arrived at the bank
Wood is alleged to have remained in
the car while Hewitt accompanied
King into the bank. Hill expressed
surprise when King presented a check
for $1,000 to be cashed and made sew
eral inquiries. Kings replies and
Hewitt's action aroused his suspicious
and he asked the pair to wait in his
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up last Friday. He was non-com-
initial in his statements at first.
Hewitt and Wood were questioned
by Hoover's men in q locked room at
the Washington field ofice in the
Justice Building. They made con-
flicting statements that finally, 1t Is
alleged. trapped them into damaging
admissions. Yesterday. according to
spokesman for Attorney General
Cummings, both men confessed.
King told Of a previous alleged at
tempt to extort $1,000 from him
under threat of invoking income tax
laws against him. On that occasion,
he said, Hewitt brought to him q man
who posed as a Federal tax collector
and who displayed a badge and gun.
King gave the stranger a check for
$4,000.
All the while, officials said, Hewitt
was representing himself as Kings
friend and adviser.
The ofhcial version of the kidnapping
Is that Hewitt and King were sitting
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MRS. FANNIE LYLE DIES

Woman, rs, Had Recently Left
Hospital for Stay at Home.
Mrs. Fannie Lyle, IS, who recently
left a local hospital for stay at
home before returning for treatment,
died early today in her apartment, at
1912 Chaplin street.
She was pronounced dead on ar
rival Of her family physician.
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New Surtax Schedule

stax schedule tentatively and Means
Ak
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Taxes

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Funds Are Mobilized.

Liquid funds IN Germany are being
mobiliSed In the interests Of the gov.
ernment's recovery Nroersua.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-26
U. S. ARMS CONTROL
URGED BY JOHNSON
Wartime Views Aired Before
House Committee.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.-Gov-
ernmental control of all industry in
wartime coupled with Federal man.
ufacture of arms during peace was
advocated this afternoon by Gen,
Hugh S. Johnson, fiery former NRA
chief.
Gen. johnson appeared before the
House military affairs committee to
urge enactment of the McSwain
take the proft-out of = war resolu-
ton which would authorize the
President to control purchases, fix
prices, and license all business dur
ing a national emergency.
The retired army officer, discard
ed consumption of industry in war
time as Impractical; titled COMPETE
tive manufacture of arms as one of
the motives for war; praised the
manner in which the government
handled industry during the last
conflict and urged manufacture of
lethal weapons by the Army and
Navy.
He told the committee a tax pro-
vision should be added to the Nc
Swain resolution if excessive profits
are to be eliminated in the next war.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-26
ESCAPE
TRAP IN BANK
State, City and County Law
Officers at Scene; One
Believed Wounded.

A detail of safe crackSmen-Some
say TWO, some say three-were al
liberty today after a futile attempt
to enter the Speedway State Bank
last night and open the vault.
What the cracksmen didn't know
when they set out on their enter
prise was that they were operating
in the center of a veritable hive
of detectives, uniformed police, State
Police and deputy sheriffS.
The best the school of police Off
GERS was able to do was wound one
of the men and scare all of them
from the roof Of the bank where
they already had begun their oper-
ations by boring two holes, prepar-
atory to opening a larger hole
through which they could descend
into the bank rooms.
Two detectives and two state po-
licemen were hidden in the Grande
Hardware store, next door, in the
same building as the bank.
Officers Open Fire
Four more detectives were wait
ing for a call from their listening
comrades. At the call came. Men
they we're told, were clambering on
to the roof. or making irrelevant
and immaterial noises up there, ano
the waiting detectives rushed tC
the bank.
The men in the hardware store
opened fire. They believe they shot
one of the men.
The men escaped in a car. This
morning a car was found at Ray
mond-st and Eagle Greek with the
left door glass shot out and blood on
the seat. Blood was found near the
scene of the attempted robbery.
About the time the men escaped
one of the detectives sent in a call
for reinforcements and out poured
three squads of uniformed police
and several others not specially at
tached, and in moment Chief Mike
MorriSSey showed up, with a guest.
They searched the territory
thoroughly and on the roof they
found a hat, an overcoat, a tool bag
lied with drills, saws, crowbars an
'tmous auger and other burglar
~ also found a tin can filled
wit liquid which they gingerly
supp. d to be nitroglycerin. They
handl, it with the greatest respect
until SoI,e one-no one is clear who
he was found it was water.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-26
Liners CHIEF
REFUSED AID,
PROBERS TOLD
TaIiSman Offer Turned
Down by Mohawk Captain,
Is Assertion.
80 BODIES RECOVERED
13 Others Still Missing Are
Believed Dead; Freighter's
Master Witness.
SO BODIES RECOVERED
By United Press

by CnH6U RTcSB
NEW YORK, Jan. 26.-Although
the Ward liner Mohawk was sink
ing so rapidly 46 lives were lost,
the master fatty refused an offer
of assistance from the freighter
TaliSman with which it had col
lided, it was testified today before
the Steamboat Inspection Inquiry
Board.
I'VE think it very queer that no
body from the Mohawk managed to
get aboard the Talisman," said Capt.
Karl Nielsen, inspector of hulls.
why didn't you lower any boats?"
They didn't want any assist
ance," answered Capt. Edmund Wang
of the Talisman.
Did you get that over the ra-
dio?"
Yes"
Testifying as the first witness into
what Joseph Weaver of the United
States Bureau of Navigation said
would be a thorough and unspar-
ing inquiry" Capt. Wang placed the
blame for the crash off Manasquan
N. j., in calm, clear weather Thurs
day night on the Mohawk's auto
matte steering apparatus.
Steering Gear Blamed
II couldn't think of anything else
but that something had happened to
the Mohawk's steering gear" he
said. AT that time I said I'll bet
his steering gear is gone and I say
it now"
Under questioning he admitted
that if similar mishap had &C.
Cured on the Talisnan, Il would
have stopped the ship, I think"
This is going u be a compre-
hensive Investigator" Mr.. Weaver
told witnesses assembled in the in
quiry room. I'VE are going to find
out what caused this tragedy and
who is responsible"
Mr.. Weaver indicated that high
officials of the Ward line, whose
ships have figured in two major dis
aSters in four months, would be
among those summoned.
"I am going to call the last man
who worked on the Mohawk's steer
ing gear and go into that phase OF
it thoroughly" he said.
ST understand this boat had been
laid up for some time and that she
was making her first trip" he said
During this investigation we will.
continue the study of the whole
phase of our shipping. Out OF
this may come some new ideas tC
help us in drafting the legislation
that President Roosevelt desires fol
safer navigation of American ship
ping"
33 Bodies Recovered
Aboard the Mohawk when hel
holiday cruise to Havana was inter-
rupted by disaster, were 1853 persons
SO passengers and crew of ITO
Rescue vessels, the Clyde Mallory
liner Algonquin and the United
Fruit ship Limon, rescued 118.
One of the rescued, Earl r. Barr
died of exposure aboard the Algon-
quin. Of the 80 other bodies re-
covered, 10 we're identified as pas
sengerS and 10 as crew. Four bodies
of three men and one woman re-
manned to be identified.
The Coast Guard cutter Icarus
came up the harbor last night with
a grim cargo. Searching all day
along the New Jersey coast, she
had picked up 80 bodies. These
were taken to Bellevue morgue
where four still we're unidentified
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-26
KERN WILL ATTEND
WAR PARLEY' ON
GAS MANEUVERS
Indianapolis Chief Executive to Join With
Midwest Mayors in Mapping Plans to
Demand u S. Senate Probe.
MNUTT BACKS LEGISLATIVE QUIZ
State Senate Passes Weiss Resolution With
out Dissenting Vote; Calls for Joint
Investigation by Lawmakers.

Mayor John w. Kern will join mayors of 10 other large
Mddewesten cities at Columbus, o. Monday to form an
alliance and make artcuate to the United States senate
demand for investigation into pipeline COSTS ana oil
alleged natural gas monopoly in the Midwest
The investigation will be the basis OF tight Tor lower
natural gas rates Mayor Daniel W. Hoan Milwaukee, Omteo
States Conference of Mayors president invited the mayors
of ST. Louis Toledo Cincinnati Indianapolis, wheeling oouC
BEND St Paul. Louisville Detroit and Dayton 49,
Companies operating pipelines whom the alliance Will
sock TO have investigated include the Columbia Gas ana
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-26

counsel SdlQ COUdys
The breakdown of the Bronx
carpenters sauve story of amaz-
ing profits in the stock market, his
fantastic recital of deals with the
mysterious Isidor Fisch, his wistful
tale of domestic contentment while
the Lindbergh plot was unfolding,
already has begun.
He will undergo, next Monday, the
most biting, the most searching, the
most blasting cross examination ever
levelled against an accused man in
the history of American criminal
trials.
Hauptmann doesn't like such
examinations. When he is on the
offensive, when he is explaining his
position under the coaching of
friendly examiners, he is plausible,
believable, almost convincing. When
he is at bay and fighting, his entire
appearance and his entire mentality
appear to change.
He was shocked, stunned, COM
pletely at a loss for answers, when
Atty. Gen. David T. Wilentz threw
into his hands the little red book
in which single word, "Boad,"
leaped up to confound him:
At Loss for Words
The defense had not expected
that. 1t had passed away the ram
som notes easily and smoothly by
declaring they were not from the
crude fist of the German carpenter.
But when Mr.. Wilentz put into the
same hands a book in which the
word boat" was spelled incorrectly
and in the same mis-spelling that
occurred in the final ransom note
he was at loss both for words and
explanation.
When words failed him, Haupt-
mann has recource to raging denial
Words are going TO fail him more
than once during the next week.
Mr.. Wilentz has more than 80
contradictions between the Haupt-
mann story as told upon his arrest
in the Bronx, and his subsequent
explanations of his possession OF
nearly $4,000 in Lindbergh ransom
bills, dug up from secret hiding
places in his Bronx garage.
Hauptmann Has Alibis
He will take these contradictions
enc by one, and ask the one-time
machine-gunner why he lied. Haupt-
mann will say that he lied because
he was frightened. He will also say
he lied because he was afraid not
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-26
MERCURY TO TAKE
DROP HERE TONIGHT
Temperature to Fall to 18,
Is Forecast.

indianapolis will be visited by
colder temperatures again tonight,
probably a drop to Is, accompanied
by some snow or rain, induced by an
unsettled condition that exists over
the Middle West, j. H. Arlington,
Federal meterologist explained to-
day.
This morning the same unsettled
condition caused a light snow to
fall, covering the street with a
sheen of ice after traffic had
ground into it.
Mr.. Arlington promised there
would be no severe cold wave such
as Indianapolis and the rest of the
country experienced earlier this
week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-26
MADMAN STAYS
8; ENDS LIFE
Mother Joins Unemployed
Teacher in Attack on
Relief Staff.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
CHICAGO, Jan. 26.-Three muir
ders. a suicide and wounding OF two
persons were scored today against
the economic depression which
made a. mailman of a once prom
ising youth and a killer of his cul-
tured mother.
The killer and suicide was Henry
Arden, 27-year-old paralytic grad
uate of the University of Chicago,
who shot to death relief investi-
gator in his home, then raided re-
lief headquarters with his mother
in a madman's revenge for fancied
neglect.
His victims: Mrs. R. w. Arden,
50, his mother; Miss Alice Irwin, %
relief commission visitor; Miss Car
oline Wallace, as, relief supervisor
and former World War nurse.
Two other relief commission en-
ployeS were wounded in the sham
bles at the relief station where the
demoniac killer and his mother
fired wildly, side by side, into a
mass of more than 100 helpless
office workers.
With Miss wallace writhing al
most at his feet, the paralytic placed
his smoking gun at his mothers
head, exchanged a long look with
her, then fired. She was killed in
Stantly.
In the same spot he used his last
bullet to kill himself. Police had
to move his body to reach Miss Wal
lace, who died later in hospital
of an abdominal wound.
The orgy of bloodshed started late
yesterday afternoon in the Ardens'
home, a two-room flat, where Miss
Irwin, q graduate of the University
of Pittsburgh, who had gone to the
fiat to investigate the Ardens' ap-
plication for reinstatement, was
slain. Discovery of two paper car
tons from a mail order house in
which two revolvers had been
shipped indicated the murder was
planned long in advance. After
killing Miss Irwin the Ardens went
Immediately to the relief station
and began firing at the employees
working there.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-26
DEATH TOLL AT "a
IN SOUTHERN FLOOD
Damage Exceeds 5 Millions;
Suffering Increases.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
MARKS, Miss, Jan. 26.-Icy flood
waters of the Coldwater River,
spreading death and destruction in
Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas,
had claimed a toll of "a lives today.
Damage crossed the 100000 mark.
Sickness and suffering were wide
spread.
While the flood peril diminished
in the upper reaches of the river, it
increased in lowlands south of here,
driving thousands from their homes,
endangering lives, and adding new
problems for relief officials already
taxed,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-26
PLOT AGAINST
HUEY CHARGED; TROOPS CALLED
Martial Law Declared in East Baton Rouge
as Long Convenes Judicial Tribunal
to Investigate Uprising.
KINGFISH BARES ALLEGED REVOLT
Square Dealers Gust 'Dictator's' Henchmen
From Offices by Force; Arms Found
on Foes, Is Claim.


BATON ROUGE, La, Jan. 26.-In the triple role OF
dictator generassmo and prosecuting attorney Senator
Huev P Long moved with spectacular swiftness today to
crush threatened armed revolt against his ronsed rule
of Louisiana.
First he called National Guard troops to subdue the
Square Dealers Association which forcb elected his mem
bers of the East Baton Rouge police jury last night
Secondly he caused general martial law declaration
in East Baton Rouge parish.