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Laborite in supporting the measure.
Ten Democrats deserted the party
leadership to join IL Republicans in
voting against the legislation. The
total count was 81 to %.
After a test vote on Wednesday. IN
which a motion by Senator Vanden-
berg, Republican, of Michigan, to
recommit the bill was defeated by
decisive margin, the handwriting Of
success for the measure appeared in
even palmer letters with failure yes
terday afternoon Of Senator La Fol-
lette, Progressive, Of Wisconsin, to
persuade the Senate to accept his
schedule of surtax rate increases. Pro-
posing that a new surtax bracket be
created between $4,000 and $4,000 net
income, the Wisconsin Progressive
then proposed increases in the sched-
ule all along the line. The vote
against this amendment was 81 to 10.
Second Proposal Loses.
Immediately thereafter, La Toilette
proposed another schedule which
would make no change in the brack-
cts, but would start rate increase
at $4,000 and run it Upward. This
proposal also went down by a count
of Sc to %.
The Senate next turned to consid-
Grafton of the Finance Committee
amendment by which the surtax in
creases would start at the 100000
bracket instead of $4,000 as in the
House bill. This proposal was &C
cepted by 40 to % and from then
on all opposition to the legislation
melted into resigned quiescence,
Senator La Toilette. for instance
who had roundly scored the bill in its
Senate form, admitted the futility Of
trying to alter it and announced he
would not even call up his amendment
to lower the exemption levels for
normal income taxes. In less than
five minutes then the Senate streaked
through all amendments of the
Finance Committee to accept them
without a record vote.
Encouraged by this degree Of sue
cess. administration leaders saw their
chance of passing the measure last
night and agreed to accept all but
two of the proposals made during the
final two hours of consideration. One
of these was the Borah amendment
adopted over their resistance and the
other was a bonus payment rider pro-
posed by Senator Thomas. Democrat,
of Oklahoma, but withdrawn when
Senator Robinson, Democrat, of
Arkansas. assured bonus advocates
that the legislation would be given
preferred status next January.
Amendments Accepted.
The amendments, most of them
minor. which were subsequently &C
cepted and the fate of which will be
determined in conference, follow:
BY Gore of Oklahoma-Reducing
tax per barre on producti-n and re-
finement of crude petroleum.
BY Copeland of New York-Reduc-
ing tax on whale and sperm oil i'm
ports.
BY Sheppard of Texas-Imposing
an excise tax on importations Of eggs.
BY Lonergan Of Connecticut-Ex-
emption Of life insurance proceeds
from death taxes.
BY Bachman Of Tennessee-An ad-
ministrative amendment affecting the
policy of the Bureau of Internal Reve-
nue. in settlement of cases.
Several perfecting amendments made
from the floor by Senator Harrison,
chairman Of the committee, also were
accepted.
Estimated Revenue.
As the bill stands going to confer
ence it is estimated that 1t would
yield 1854, 000. 900 in increased revenue
in q full year Of operation. These in
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SECOND TAXI BIRTH

SALT LAKE CITY, August Is up.
Three years ago John Jackie Stone
was born in a taxicab speeding his
mother, Mrs. Jesse Stone. to a hos
pital.
Now. 1t became known today. Vir-
ginia Marie. a baby sister. has arrived
in the same unconventional clrcum-
stances.
It hope" was Mrs. Stones COM
ment, that it never happens again."
The Stones have two other children.
7 and 8 years of age. They were not
born in taxicabs.
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PATMAN SEES PASSAGE
OF BONUS NEXT YEAR
Representative, in Radio Ad-
dress, Appeals to Veterans
to Continue Fight.

By the Associated Press.
In an appeal for veterans to con-
tinue advocacy Of bonus payment,
Representative Patman, Democrat, of
Texas, predicted last night in q
radio address that within two weeks
after Congress meets next January
the House would pass his new bill.
Patman added the forecast that
within 80 days after the next Janu-
airy meeting of Congress the Senate
also would pass the bill, and it is
my opinion further that the veterans
will get their money a short time
thereafter"
Before this session of Congress
ends we will have enough signatures
to q petition to force consideration of
the bill within 10 days after Congress
meets" he said.
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Continued From First Page)
the metal and the licensing of imports
and exports would be repealed.
The fate of both Of these major
changes in existing laws was not con-
sidered hopeful in the hands Of con-
ferees on the tax bill.
Other Alterations Made.
Other major alterations in the
House bill, however, were made by the
Senate Finance Committee and ap-
proved yesterday by the full Senate.
Principal of these. probably, was the
abandonment of the inheritance tax
provision in the House bill and substi-
tuition for it of an increased schedule
of estate taxes At the same time, the
Senate eliminated gift taxes on donees
and substituted an increase in gift
taxes on donors. President Roose-
velt's recommendation was for the
new inheritance levies, and this fact
may strengthen the determination of
the House conferees to keep such
provision in the Dill.
The Senate also took issue with the
House bill on two other points, namely
the imposition of tax on is per cent
of corporate income from dividends
and the increase of the capital stock
tax rate.
In the case of the former, the tax
rate would be that on regular cor
poration income, but would be applied
only to Is per cent of the income de-
rived from dividends. Such provi-
sion. although with no rates sug-
gested. was proposed by President
Roosevelt. The Senate increase of the
capital stock tax rate was from 81 to
S1.50 per 81 900 of declared value.
Revisions of Proposals.
In other respects the Senate changes
we're merely revisions of proposals in
cluded in the House bill. In this
classification would fall an increase in
the graduation limits of corporation
income taxes and decrease in the
proposed severity of excess profits
taxes. The Senate graduation for cor
porate income taxes is from 1917 to
1914 per cent, while that of the House
was from 1914 to 14h per cent. The
present rate is fiat 1914 per cent,
while the President suggested varia-
ton from 1oA to 16A per cent.
The new Senate rates on excess
profits are per cent between 10 and
is per cent profits and IL per cent
above that amount. The House bill
started 5 per cent tax at per
cent profits and ranged up to 20 per
cent on all over Is per cent. The
present rate is fiat per cent on all
over 12l2 per cent profits on adjusted
declared value.
Compromises probably will be
reached without undue difficulty on
such amendments as these.
Passage in Record Time.
Passage of the measure yesterday
was accomplished after only two days
OF Senate debate, q record for reve-
nue. legislation of such importance
Throughout, administration leaders in
the Senate, either because they lacked
enthusiasm for the job or because
they considered it unnecessary, made
practically no attempt to urge pas
sage Of the bill or to oppose adoption
Of major amendments. With the ex-
ception of the Borah amendment only,
however. the steam roller strength of
party regularity brought overwhelm-
ing defeat for any efforts to tamper
with the bill.
On the roll call for passage 4S
regular Democrats were joined by the
bloc of so-called liberal Repub-
licans, Progressive and ! Farmer
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$50 HORSES DIE
Strange Equine Malady Now Be
lieved Forage Poisoning"

WINNIPEG. August Is (P.-A
strange equine malady sweeping
through Manitoba and Saskatchewan
causing at least $50 deaths may be
forage poisoning" and not encephal-
omyelitis as previously believed, it
was suggested last night.
The spread of the disease, which
paralyzes the brains Of horses and has
attained epidemic proportions. con-
tinued undated. Supplies Of cura-
tive serum were exhausted here, and
demands Of veterinarians in all parts
of Manitoba went untitled.
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Legs Figure in Crash.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (R).-Miss
Pearl Stein Of Dies Moines was hurry
ing to Council Bluffs with an arti-
fiical leg for her uncle. Motor trouble
developed near Oakland, Iowa. While
Miss Stein was pushing her car to the
side Of the road q passing motorist
truck her and fractured her leg.
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Lamarter Work on Program.

NEW YORK, August Is R.-A
symphonic composition by Eric de
Lamarter. Chicago conductor and COM
poser, will be played by the New York
Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra on
one Of its programs next season, Hans
LANCE, conductor, announced today.
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Elected Defnitor General.

LORETTA, Pa, August 16 CP).-
The election of the Rev. Dr. Alfred
Dove, T. o. R., dean of st. Francis
Seminary, as definitor general of the
Sacred Heart Province of the Third
Order of st. Francis Regular, was an
nounced last night.
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EXCURSION IS TONIGHT
II. o. L. c. Employees to Raise
Funds for Newspaper.

Employees of the Home Owners
Loan Corp. will sponsor moonlight
excursion down the Potomac tonight
to raise funds to support the H. O.
L. c. newspaper. Down the Alley.
The trip will be made on the City
OF Washington, which will leave the
Seventh Street Wharves at 8:45.
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SHEEP LEAP OFF CLIFF
$50 Stampede to Death When
Frightened by Bear.

RENO, New, August is R.-Juan
Uhart has lost his sheep-450 of them.
Frightened by q bear, the sheep
stampeded over cliff in Plumas
County, Calf, all Of them plunging
to their death.
Herders and dogs attempted in vain
to turn the flock from the cliff, Uhart
said.
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GIRL TO WED CHINESE
Romance Started in Dine-and-
Dance Parlor in Boston.

Dance Parlor in Boston.
MANSFIELD, Mass, August 16 up.
"A romance between a Southern girl
and Chinese laundryman, which
began when both worked at Chinese
American dine and-dance" estab-
lishment in Boston. was disclosed
yesterday with announcement they
would be married here Saturday.
The bride-to-be is Gladys C. Ma
lone. %. 2 native Of Mobile, Ala. She
will be married to Moy Gar Orne,
IS, who, she said, is a graduate of
a Boston engineering school.
They plan to leave for China, where
Orne intends to enter the service of
the Chinese government as an engi-
neer, Miss Malone said
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Tax BillRollCall
48 Democrats in Senate
Lead in Amassing
81 Aye Votes.

BY the Associated Press.
Here is the Senate roll call on final
passage Of the new tax bill:
FOR THE BILL
DEMOCRATS, 4S.
ASHURST McGILL
BACHMAN MCCLELLAN
BAILEY MINTON
BANKHEAD MURPHY
BARKLEY MURRAY
Bone oMAHoNEY
BROWN 0yERToN
BULoW RADCLIFFE
BYRNES REYNOLDS
cARAWAY ROBINSON
CLARK CLARE aeH aHHhi
CONNALLY SHEPPARD
5H Hs!zsS THoMAs. Okla.
FLETCHER THOMAS Utah
GEORGE TRAMMELL
HARRISON TRUMAN
HATCH VAN NUYs
HAYDEN WAGNER v.
MALONEY WHEELER
REPUBLICANS. :.
BoRAH NoRBEcK
CAPPER NORRIS
JOHNSON
PROGRESSIVE.
LA TOILETTE
FARMER-LABoR.
SHIPSTEAD
Grand total for-57.
AGAINST THE BILL.
DEMOCRATS, 10.
ADAMS GLASS
BURKE LONERGAN
BYRD McCARRAN
COPELAND MOORE
GERRY TYDINGS
REPUBLICANS, IL.
AUSTIN SCHALL
BARBOUR STEIWER
CAREY TOWNSEND
HALE VANDENBEHG
McNARY WHITE
METCALF GIBSON
Grand total asainst-22
Pairs were announced as follows:
Hastings against. with Pope for. Davis
AGAINST. with Logan for. Keyes against.
with Coolidge for. Holt. absent on ac-
count Of illness. was announced as for the
bill.
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in Mount st. Adams, a little
lady stepped yesterday morning
and placed cluster Of peoples on the
headstone of the war President. 1t
was the poppy lady" Miss Molina
Michael, who originated the idea of
using as war memorial the crimson
cupped flower of Flanders battlefelds.
Canon Raymond L. Wolven, chap
lain to the Bishop of Washington, met
Miss Michael at the entrance of
Bethlehem Chapel and escorted her
to the sarcophagus, where a prayer
was said for all those who served in
the war" 1t was the first time
poppy had ever been placed on the
Wilson tomb-a cluster of silken
peoples made the night before by
Miss Michael.
incidentally, yesterday happened to
be the seth birthday anniversary of
this woman who has devoted the last
II years of her life to spreading the
doctrine of Poppy day. Though she
never received so much as penny
for her services. millions Of dollars
have flowed into the Golfers of English,
American and French relief ex-
chequers as the result Of her work
For the last so years Miss Michael
has been a teacher-26 years on the
faculty of the University of Georgia.
She gave up all hope of studying for
a Phi. D. degree in order to devote
all her time to the growth of the
poppy idea.
Honored by Nations.
AS result of her devotion to this
ideal, Miss Michael is now the recip-
lent of honors conferred by foreign
governments and her own land. She
was decorated by the American Legion
Auxiliary with the Distinguished Serv-
ice Medal and made a distinguished
citizen of the State of Georgia
With no male relative living, Miss
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BY JOHN JAY DAILY.

IRON the shadows around the
- sepulcher of Woodrow Wilson,
in Mount St. Adams, a little
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Taxes

Continued From First Page.)
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ME fastest backward POLITICAL
f1ip-f1op on record, bar none,
was that Of President Roose-
,,.1&,, TO- 49,
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NEW INSURANCE
BILL SPEEDED
FOR D. {.
Senate Committee Under King
Anxious to Have the Measure
Replace Act of the House

A new unemployment insurance
bill for the District of Columbia
was being written today in the
Senate.
Legislative drafting experts and
economists from the Presidents
social security commission are
hard at work writing new bill
to be substituted for the measure
which passed the House. The work
is being done under the direction
of Senator William H. King CD
of Utah, chairman of the Senate
District Committee.
Proposed Changes
This action was found necessary,
it was pointed out, to make the
local legislation conform more
closely to the national bill and to
ease certain of the more stringent
provisions.
Senator Royal S. Copeland CD
of New York, chairman of the Dis
trict subcommittee in charge Of
the legislation, is ready to hold a
meeting to consider the bill as
soon as the finishing touches have
been put on it.
The new bill is expected to re-
lieve the District from the per
cent blanket tax, to graduate the
pay roll tax from l to 3 per
cent over a period of three sue
ceeding years and give the admin
istration of the act to a local
board.
Business men of the District
have also advocated a number of
other changes chief of which is
an employees tax on pay rolls in
order to give the employees a sub
! antial voice in the regulation
and administration of the fund.
Bill to be Pushed
Senator Copeland said today
that he was anxious to get the
reported out so that the
system could be put into effect as
soon as possible. He said:
"I'm very ANXIOUS to get a
measure on the calendar in
order that we right do some
thing about unemployment. I
want the bill to conform closely
to the national bill and do
not want it to work any hard
shin on the District"
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OMPROM|SE
FORECAST FOR
D. c. DIVORCES
Rep. Carpenter, Author Of Bill,
Ready to Go Hallway With
Any Opponent

A compromise is expected this
week on Washington'S liberalized
divorce bill.
The measure has already
passed the Senate. 1t calls for
extending the grounds for abso-
lutte divorce in the District from
misconduct to desertion, cruelty,
separation for five years, insanity
for five years, drunkenness and
conviction of a felony.
Author Ready to Compromise
Representative Vincent Palmi-
sano of Maryland, chairman of
the Judiciary subcommittee Of
the House District Committee, is
leading the opposition to the
measure on the House side. Rep
resentative Randolph Carpenter
(RO, Kansas, author of the bill,
said today that he would meet
half way any proposition to amend
the measure SO it would give the
maximum benefit to District resi-
dents.
Representative Palmisano op.
poses the bills provision that
would allow a divorce on the
grounds of cruelty and insanity.
At a recent meeting the chair
man adjourned the meeting and
Representative Carpenter and
Representative Ralph o. Brews-
ter (R.) of Maine voted to re-
port the bill favorably. The par
liamentary tangle is expected to
be eliminated today when Repre-
sentatives Palmisano and Carpen-
ter get together.
It is expected that one of the
major changes will be to make
cruelty a basis for a limited
divorce that may become perma-
nent at the expiration of two
years in event the parties are I'm.
able to reach a reconciliation dur
ing that time.
SCOTS at "Mill' Fears
In answer to charges that the
bill will tend to turn the Nations
Capital into a divorce mill, Rep
resentative Carpenter said:
"That charge is absurd. It
looks to me that the narrOWnesS
of the present law has created
divorce mills in neighbOring
States.
"My State has a divorce law
far more liberal than the one
suggested for Washington, and
yet there has never been a
charge presented that we have
a divorce mill in my State.
81 think that this measure
will clear up a great many legal
tangIes that have resulted from
residents of the District leaving
this jurisdiction to settle their
difficulties. Divorces obtained
in this manner leave behind
them entanglementS as to
future status, inheritanceS and
the care of the children that
should be settled right at home.
81 hope that a compromise
can be reached that will be re-
ported unanimously to the full
committee when it meets We'd
nesday, the next regular meet
ing day."
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Con7lcs,Sports
Cabmen URGE Meters At Rate Hearing
Pants, Shirt, SIS
Missing After
Tap on Head

Losing his shirt, pants and
confidence in nudiSm, Russell
Strohm, Is, of the TOO block of
G st. N. w., today revealed to
police that the milk of human
kindness had in his opinion
turned slightly sour.
Strolling into Emergency Hos
pital early yesterday attired
only in his underwear, Mr..
Strohm reported that two men
drove up while he was standing
in front of his home and asked
for directions to the Shoreham
Hotel.
One of the men, he reported,
stepped out of the car and came
close to him. This was the last
conscious moment until he
awakened in the Monument
Grounds almost nude.
While being treated for minor
decorations and bruises, he dis
closed that in addition to his
clothes he was robbed of $25.
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MORE
C0NQUESTS

ALEXANDRIA, Va. July 8
Little Emily Louise Donahue to.
day was casting an eye around
for another children's pet show
in which to enter her pet rooster
Jack"
"Jack" ran away with a blue
ribbon last week over a field of
more than so pets of all descrip-
ton, and it was quite by acci,
dent.
Young Miss )onahue was pass
ing by the George Mason High
School on her way home when
she noticed several hundred chill,
dren and "lots of dogs, cats, rab-
bits, and chickens" mingling on
the playground. Investigation
disclosed that the Sixth Ward
Civic Association was sponsoring
a pet show, so Miss Donahue ran
home and rushed back with
Jack"
The blue ribbon for the most
unusual pet was unanimously
awarded the huge -'ooster, and
now his youthful owner is look
ing for new worlds to conquer.
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TIP ON FUNERAL
Of H|TZ WINS

Exclusive information on the
secret funeral arrangements for
the late Judge William Hitz, of
the District Court of Appeals, who
died last week, took The Times
newstip contest.
Second prize went to the alert
person who informed The Times
that two boys had found bags
and envelopes filled with money
and Jewels in the southwest Sec
ton of the city.
The man who found the hat of
Henry D. eastman on the bank
of the c. & o. canal and tele-
phoned this information to The
Times VOL third prize. Other
prizes were given for information
about a taxicab driver saving a
cat from a sewer at Fourth and I
Streets S. W.; IS persons in
jured by a firecracker thrown in
a glass of water at Congressional
Country Club, and a horn in the
garage of William T. Huff, of the
3700 block of Jocelyn St. N. w.,
mysteriously starting in the early
hours of the morning Saturday.
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FILE SUIT
FOR DIVORCE

UPPER MARLBORO, July 8.
Charging desertion and non-sup-
port, Katherine May Isham, of
Hyattsville, Md, is seeking di,
vorce from her husband, Walter
Isham, of Fort Washington, Md.
Mrs. Isham said that they were
married December /, 1928, in Alex
andria, Va, and that her husband,
after having treated her with
cruelty and indifference, deserted
her on April 4, 1881.
Edith E. Morgan, of Capital
Heights, Md, also filed suit for
divorce from her husband, Will
liam A. Morgan, of Westper5,
Conn. She charges her husband
with desertion on September /,
1880. They were married in
Washington, July q, 1880.
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A shifting load Of steel, caused
by the sudden jerk of a train in
a Baltimore freight yard yester-
day brought to a tragic end the
Journey Of four youths. three Of
them Washingtonians, VIII o
sought adventure IN the open
road.
Today one of the boys is dead,
another is in a critical condition
in a Baltimore hospital and the
other two are being held by Balti-
more police for 6. coroners in
quest.
The dead boy was Robert Tes-
terman, IS, of the 700 block of
I st. S. E., who ran away from
the Industrial Home School here
Friday, and the one injured is
John Sweeney, 16, of the 100
block of E st. s. E.
Robert and Johns brother,
Earl, Is, we're granted permission
last week to take vacation from
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Boy Crushed to Death
By Shifting Steel

the Industrial school here to
spend the Fourth of July with
their mothers.
They returned to the school
after a few hours. but Friday
night sneaked away again and
with John and Joseph Recnick, a
Baltimore boy of Is, hoped a
freight train and went to Phila-
delphia.
Saturday night they hoped an
other freight train bound for
Washington. They picked out an
open car. piled with steel beams
because they believed that would
be cooler and would give them
comfortable seats.
When the train arrived in Bal
timore it jerked to a sudden stop
and the beams shifted, trapping
Robert and John. A railway con.
ductor extricated them, but
Robert already was dead.
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Fire On Bridge
Extinguiished
By Steam

Virtually every type of fire
fighting apparatus in modern use
was brought into play yesterday
to end a stubborn blaze which
slightly damaged the Pennsylva-
MIA Railroad bridge across the
Potomac River at the end Of
Fourteenth Street Southwest.
Most unusual, but most effective
in combating the fire, was the
steam which was turned on it
from two locomotives from the
Jersey yard.
The damage was confined to
about $50 feet of the cross plank
ing between the tracks. One train
was delayed for about IS minutes.
The fire. it was believed, started
from sparks from a passing engine
which dropped on the oil-soaked
planking.
Discovered by the crew of a
passing engine, the blaze was
fought by the bridge tender, Frank
Taylor, until aid arrived.
Two locomotives and fireboat
crews and District firemen helped
bring the fire under control.