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Evening star., 1935-12-04
HAzEN SEEKS DATA
ON HIGHER TAXES
Special Committee Will Be
Asked to Study Revenues
Likely to Accrue.

The District Special Tax Commit
tee will be asked to figure what addi-
tional revenues would come from a
variety Of proposed upward revisions
of present levies, Commissioner Melvin
c. Hazen said today.
He said he wished to have the in
formation before holding a public
hearing on data showing the need for
increased revenues.
Hazen's implication was that the
committee would be asked to recon-
slider the financial problem and to
offer for public discussion something
definite in relation to the suggestion
for increased appropriations for Dis
trict Government growth and opera
ton.
Hazen has promised a public hear
ing before formulation of any tax pro-
posals to be sent to Congress. No
date has been set, however.
The committee was instructed to
submit recommendation on a pro-
posed inheritance tax, increased levies
on utilities, the I>;a Utilities Of an in
come tax, weigl' AK on automobiles
and l-cent III se,1,se in the gasoline
tax.
Evening star., 1935-12-04
CHARLES S. WILSON,
78, DIES AFTER FALL
Former Pepco Engineer Played
Major Role in Benning Plant
DEVELOPMENT.

Charles Summer Wilson, 10, former
chief engineer Of the Potomac Electric
Power Co.'s Benning plant, died yester-
day in Garfield Hospital. He had been
injured in fall in his home. 1905
Crittenden street, about q week ago.
Mr.. Wilson, who retired two years
ago after having been employed by
the electric company for many years,
played a major part in the develop
ment of the Benning plant.
A native of Ridgeway, Orleans
County, N. Y, he formerly was en-
ployed as engineer aboard Standard
Oil Co. tugs operating out Of Bayonne,
N. J. He came to washington in 1890.
Mr.. Wilson Is survived by son,
w. s. Wilson, and two daughters.
Miss Edith e. Wilson and Mrs. II. e.
Stecher; q sister, Miss Edith s. VIII
son. and q granddaughter, Jane e.
Stecher.
Funeral services viii be held Friday
at 10 am. at the Hines Co. funeral
home, 2901 Fourteenth street. Rev.
D. Vernon N. Ridgley Of Calvary M. E.
Church will offlciate. Burial will be
In Glenwood Cemetery.
Evening star., 1935-12-04
HIGH SCHOOL FIRE
SHIFTS IS PUPILS
Armstrong Students Study in
Auditorium With Frame
Unit Wrecked.

Thirty-five Armstrong High School
students were forced to do their study
ing in the school auditorium today
after fire wrecked the portable frame
building in which their class room
was located. An overheated stove
caused the blaze.
Robert E. Howard. q laborer, was
working in an adjoining portable
when he discovered the flames. He
ran to School Engineer Henry Adams,
who sounded an alarm. Howard and
Taylor Ford, attempted to extinguish
the fire, but strong winds soon whipped
the flames over the interior and roof
of the structure.
No students were about at the
time, but crowds gathered to watch
flremen fight the blaze. The flames
broke out about 8 O'Clock.
The colored high school has four
other similar one-room buildings,
each housing IS students. No addi-
tional study space being available,
the pupils were directed to take up
their work in the auditorium of the
large, new brick building, at First
and o streets.
Evening star., 1935-12-04
BOrer-Resisting
Corn Is Developed
after Six Years
S,ceet Variety Fails to
Satisfy Larvae and
They Starve.
BY the Associated Press.

GRAND RAPIDS. Mich, December
4.-Prof. G. H. Mahoney, Michigan
State College vegetable specialist, said
today he believed 8 variety of corn
had been developed to resist the raw
aging corn borer.
He told members of the Michigan
Horticultural Society the product re-
suited from crossing q strain of
Golden Bsntam sweet corn with a
South American field variety known
as Maize Amargo.
I'VE have been working on this
corn for six years." he said. I'VE
have placed as high as 80 borer eggs
or each plant and as the eggs hatch
the larvae crawl off the leaves and
starve to death searching for edible
corn.
I'VE don't know Just why the
borers won't eat this corn, but there
Is something very distasteful about it."
The new corn is just as sweet as
the golden bantam and the ears are
larger, he said. The new corn re-
quires two years more Of breeding be-
fore 1t can be released for CONNER
cisl production.
Evening star., 1935-12-04
ACTOR AND DIRECTOR
FRIENDS AFTER FIGHT
Hy tha Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, Calf, December A.
A two-punch skirmish on flmland's
fistic front, quiet for months, has left
the connbatants, Actor Spencer Tracy
and Director william Wellman, still
good friends"
The burly screen star laughed of
the tilt, which took place last Sunday
night at popular cocktail room.
I'VE talked in all over, had our
little laugh and our friendship is now
on the same basis as ever" he said.
The fracas was touched of by
Tracy's asserted resentment of q re-
mark Wellman made about an uni
Identified actress. Celebrities in the
night spot were startled as Wellman
apparently was struck body blow
and the actor received clout on the
head.
wellman corroborated Tracy's state-
ments.
Evening star., 1935-12-04
CHEAP IMPORTS HIT

CLEVELAND, December 4 R).-
Combating cheap foreign imports
through widespread use of the patent
restrictions was proposed yesterday at
the United States Potters' Association
Convention.
G. L. Tillbroke Of Philadelphia,
patent counsel. urged the potters to
organize along with the glass industry
in this effort. He said most products
could be patented and copies of the
patents sent to ports Of entry for pro-
hibition of infringing goods.
Joseph M. Wells of Newell, w. Va,
chairman Of the Labor Committee,
warned of current Nationwide unrest,
but foresaw no immediate dangers for
the pottery industry.
Evening star., 1935-12-04

(Contlnue0 From F1rSt Page.l..
States Attorney Leo A. Rover, repre-
senting Nelson, and former Assistant
United States Attorney william Il.
Collins, representing Hardgrove. De-
fense counsel exercised many chal-
lenges, removing from the jury box
Government employees and several
persons having relatives employed by
the Government. u
First Panel Exhausted.
The first panel Of prospective jurors
was exhausted by 1880 o'clock and
new panel was brought in so the
process of choosing the jury could be
completed.
Gsrnett and two assistants, George
E. Mcneil and Louis Whitestone, rep
resented the Government.
At the outset of the case the de-
tense asked for continuance on the
ground that an article In q morning
newspaper stating the Department of
Justice had instructed Garnett to re-
move Mcneil from the prosecution
was prejudicial to the defense The re-
quest was denied by the court Earlier
Garnett had branded the story ais "a
fabrication"
The case grew out of conversations
Allegedly had by the defendants with
McCarter more than a year ago in
connection with an added assessment
of s150,o0o in an income tax matter.
McCarter told Secretary Morgenthau
he had been offered settlement" in
return for a 20 per cent commission.
The indictment charged that the
defendants conspired to defraud the
Government by impairing the func-
tons Of the Internal Revenue Bureau.
twenty-five overt acts were cited
in furtherance Of the alleged con-
spiracy, these acts having to do
largely with telephone and other con-
verSations.
Evening star., 1935-12-04
JAPAN SPECULATES
ON SUBMARINE BAN
Envoy to Naval Conference Says
Security Is Main Object
Of Nation.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, December Admiral
Osami Nagano, chief Japanese dele
gate to the forthcoming International
Naval Conference, stated today that,
under certain conditions, Japan would
be willing to abolish her submarines.
Outlining the japanese attitude
prior to the opening of the conference
December 9, Admiral Nagano said his
delegations primary consideration was
security for Japan.
He said he believed battleships, air.
craft carriers and large offensive-type
cruisers should be abolished and that
Japan should be given naval parity
with the United States and Great
Britain.
The admiral said that If certain
conditions" were met, Japan would
even abolish submarines, adding:
But we think Russia, Germany and
other countries would have to enter
into any agreement involving them"
(The coming conference of United
States, Great Britain, Japan, Italy
and France does not include Russia
and Germany
Evening star., 1935-12-04
TOLL RISES TO 1O5
AS WOMAN DIES
Struck by Auto Last May,
Mrs. Lottie Davis, IS,
SucCumbs.

Washington's official traffic toll for
the year reached los today, when an
autopsy revealed that the death Sum-
day of Mrs. Lottie Davis. 65. of 1873
Adams street, was due to injuries she
received in an accident more than six
months ago.
Struck by delivery truck near her
home May 20, Mrs. Davis was taken to
Garfield Hospital with a broken arm
and several fractured ribs. Later she
was transferred to Sibley Hospital,
where she died.
George H Bamberger, IT,, %, of
1889 Perry place, who was driving the
truck, police said, has been at liberty
in custody of his attorney since the
mishap. He will be summoned to an
inquest, the date of which has not
been set.
Two Seriously Hurt.
Two serious accidents were reported
to police in the past "a hours.
Charles 3. Finnell, 40, Of 80 Long
fellow street may have a fractured
skull as the result Of crash between
his car and q bus at Michigan avenue
and Harewood road. He was removed
to Emergency Hospital. The bus, po-
lice said, was operated by Paul Koe-
mig, 1903 F street northeast.
Mrs. Ada Forester. So. Of 136712
l. street southeast, suffered severe
head injuries and q broken collar
bone when struck at Pennsylvania
avenue and Eighth street southeast by
an automobile said by police TO have
been driven by John C. Meeks, rs. of
1903 D street southeast. At Casualty
Hospital it was believed she may have
q skull fracture.
A police scout car figured in an
accident yesterday while en- route to
get report on q traffic mishap. The
cruiser, driven by Pvt. william Thom-
son, collided with the machine of
Alice M. Ashby, 46, colored, 242s On
tar1o road. Virginia Ashby, 42, col
cred, received an injured ankle in
the crash, which occurred at Sixth
street and Pennsylvania avenue.
Inquest Scheduled.
An inquest was scheduled today in
the case Of joseph Coleman, 20, COL
ored, Of 629 W street, who died Sat-
urday In Casualty Hospital from in
juries received Thursday when struck
by q hit-and-run car on Benning
road northeast. Two other persons
were run down by the same machine.
Two traffic deaths will be investi-
gated by a coroner's jury tomorrow:
Thomas Albert Walmsley, Sc, we'll
known newspaper court reporter OF
80 years ago, who was killed Sunday in
an accident at Fifteenth and L streets
and Henry w. Andrews, 81, of 36O3
New Hampshire avenue, vice presi-
dent Of j. B. Kendall Co., iron products
dealers, who died Monday from in
juries received in an accident near
his office.
Walmsley, who lived at the Portland
Hotel, was str ck by a car, said to
have been Cfsren by Henry A. Mag
nuson, 40, of 1880 Chaplin street. Louis
Ruehl, 70a Irving street northeast,
was the driver of the car that hit An
drews, according to police.
Evening star., 1935-12-04

A cabinet officer, for instance,
maintains that he would have voted
mo" if ballot had been sent to him.
He says he thoroughly disapproved
of the subsistence homestead policy,
which now has Topped; also many
other relatively minor things which
have been done.
This attitude might sound very much
like an advance official alibi, except
for one fact. Double Chairman Cen
eral Farley has returned from shoot
ing trip and radiated the sunniest
confidence via telephone to the top
circle here, and as far South as Warm
Springs.
Alliance of Lion and Mouse.
Certain Of Senator Borah's play
mates have been complaining zap
parently also to him) because he lent
a hand to help Representative Harnil-
ton Fish get up on the Borah presi-
Dental coat tails. They call it "the
alliance Of the lion and the mouse"
The inner explanation seems to
be q simple one. Bordh has been
under attack By some good ladies
who are calling him Red. Mr..
Fish is the beau ideal Of all anti
Reds, masculine, feminine or nett
ter. An o. X. from him Is equtpG-
lent to 1cQutttdl by q Jury.
Also Mr., Fish Is supposed 10 have
developed lately D vice presidential
receptivity. .
Banker Quotation Kept
An oficial who looked over Mr.
Roosevelt's shoulder at the writing
Of the Atlanta speech advised him
to eliminate the line about the bank
ers telling him In 1898 that the debt
could go to so or 10 billion dollars
He declined to do it.
The remark is supposed to haze
been left particularly for the effect
it might hare on the heavy Treas
ury financing placed In the hands
OF the bankers the tollo,oing Mon.
day.
It is true some financial authorities
had fantastic notions two years ago
about the possible ceiling Of the debt.
Some published guesses ran as high
as so billions at that time. Sucn
notions are now generally recognized
to have been foolish.
Evening star., 1935-12-04
FARLEY ISSUES PLEA

Postmaster General Farley, in a
Nation wide hook-up Of the National
Rroadcasting Co., urged again last
night that persons shop early and
mail early" for Christmas.
"Your individual cooperation Is
most essential" Farley said. He cited
the increased business during this
period, asking the citizens to "do your
part by helping In this way"
Evening star., 1935-12-04

minute, but never before suspected
a whole crop could have grown up
since 1929. Still, ! do recall reading
somewhere that the suckers are one
of the species that spawn close to
shore and they hatch nearly all mature.
Everybody In Hollywood turned out
for a party to H. G. Wells. ! think
they thought he was q visiting
producer.
Sure sign Of returning prosperity
women have started in again, marry
ing the Mdvani boys.
IRWIN 8. COBB.
Copyright, 1885, By the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc.l
Evening star., 1935-12-04
PROCESS TAX HALT |
HITS LEGAL SNAG'
A. A. A. Proposal to Suspend
Collection Pending RuI-
ing Is Stopped.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Legal difficulties were understood
today to have halted a proposal by
the A. A A. to suspend collection of
all processing taxes until the Supreme
Court rules on validity of the adjust
ment act.
High administration sources said
the plan was given serious and care
full consideration" by Farm Admins
tration officials as an aid to friendly
professors and small manufacturers
unable to finance q suit against the
Government.
The Treasury was understood to
have rejected the proposal. 1t was
said there was some question concern
ing the authority of an executive
agency to suspend the collection Of
any tax imposed by Congress.
Disadvantages Feared.
Some officials were reported to have
felt professors who were paying the
taxes to the Treasury rather than. to
a court under o temporary Injunction
might suffer some disadvantages In
establishing prices.
Also, there were some who believed
that should the Supreme Court hold
the A. A. A. Unconstitutional, those
professors who have been paying the
taxes to o court under an injunction
might recover the amounts more
speedily than those who have been
paying to the Treasury.
It was estimated 80 per cent Of the
professors of taxable commodities are
paying the taxes to the Treasury, 10
per cent into court registrfes and that
about $120, 0,00o, 900 in taxes had been
impounded.
One reason for abandonment Of the
move to suspend all collections until
the court rules, out of Difference 70
the paying 80 per cent, was reported
to have been feeling that the public
might have misinterpreted it as an
A. A. A. retreat In anticipation Of an
adverse decision.
Collections for Quarter.
A. A. A.. records showed processing
tax collections for the first quarter Of
this fiscal year, the three months
ended September 80, were s4O,s55,54S,
compared to $123,213,256 for the same
period last year.
The slump in processing tax COL
lections because Of injunctions first
was noticeable last June, when the
total was approximately $4,000, 900.
The monthly figure prior to that time
had averaged about $40.000,o00.
In July the collections dropped to
$i5,364, ,401, in August to $l2.S2o.a6S
and in September to $l2,67o,2S3. No
figures were available on collections
after September, but some slight fur
ther shrinkage was expected.
Oficials said new taxes on rye and
sugar now were effective and the nor
NAL rate Of collections at present
should be about 60,O00,000 monthly.
Total collections from May. 1888, to
September 30, 1885, were $sSS, 500, ,7s1.
Evening star., 1935-12-04
Nephew Killer to Hang.

DUBUQUE, Iowa, December CP).--
Mario Heinz, 29-year-old relief worker,
was sentenced yesterday to be hanged
for the perversion murder of his 6-year-
old nephew, David Peter Fox.
Heinz was convicted of killing the
boy during an attack last July while
visiting at the farm home of his sister
and her family near here.
District Judge D. e. Mcguire set
January s, 1896, for the exeeution.
Heinz is married and the father Of
three children. .
Evening star., 1935-12-04

nere are many
sple did ones
scattered around
to Berlin on
our Olympic
t e a m 4, and our
team mopped up?
Experts say
m uch of the
money now being
put up on specu-
lative stocks in
Wall Street comes,
not from profess
sional operators,
but from ANA
telIrg. I knew one
was bern every
Evening star., 1935-12-04
TRIO SOUGHT IN TENNESSEE.
Three Convicted Robbers at Larg

Three Convicted Robbers at Large
After Prison Break.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, December
R.-Of1cers pursued today three con-
victed robbers seeking to retain the
freedom they gained in a daring break
from the Tennessee Pententiary.
Warden A. W. Nicely reported the
hunted men. identified as Pete Dean,
George Wilbur Moss and Gus McCoig,
abandoned the motor car of Deputy
Warden Ed Connors at Spring Hill,
Tenn, south Of Nashville, and stole a
physician'S sedan
Evening star., 1935-12-04
HARVARD PROFESSOR
KILLED ACCIDENTALLY
Pistol Fires When He Opens Suit
Case on Arrival to
Settle Estate.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES. December 4.-The
accidental discharge of pistol, police
said, caused the death yesterday of
Milman Parry, 80, associate professor
of languages at Harvard University.
Detective Lieuts. Ed Romero and 3.
L. Jones said the weapon was dis
charged when Parry reached into O
suitcase.
The professors wife, Marion. 80. was
In another room of an apartment
where the accident occurred.
Parry and his wife had arrived here
by airplane to settle an estate in
which Mrs. Parry's mother, Mrs. Mil
dred Tanhauser. Los Angeles, is inter-
ested.
Mrs. Parry said she did not hear
the discharge of the pistol.
Evening star., 1935-12-04
VICE RAIDERS SEIZE
GAMBLING EQUIPMENT
Squad Finds 81 in New York
Avenue Place, but Makes
No Arrests.

A quantity of gambling equipment
was seized yesterday when the police
vice squad raided an establishment in
the 1900 block of New York avenue.
Thirty-seven persons were IN the place
at the time, but no arrests were made.
A loud-speaker, which police said
was used to describe races, was In OPP
Grafton when the squad, headed by
Sergt. George Deyoe, entered.
Included in the consflscated para
phernalia were two slot machines, a
crap table, race slips, poker chips and
dice.
Evening star., 1935-12-04

r IFE had its more tender side, too,
- in medieval times. Many maiden
in a supposedly inaccessible bower re-
ceived billets doux fastened to the shaft
of an arrow. A grimmer side Of this
method of communication was not
uncommon in wars or sieges; comrades
OF man struck down by an arrow
sometimes found that message from
hs-enemy was attached to the shaft.
Evening star., 1935-12-04
Breaks Finger in Class.

George walterhalter, 10, Of sos II
street southwest, suffered q broken
finger yesterday when his right hand
was caught In the printing press at
Jefferson Junior Hish School, Sixth
street and Virginia avenue southwest.
He was treated at Emergency Hos
pital
Evening star., 1935-12-04
THREE CAUGHT AFTER BREAK.
Two Conyicts and Truck Driver Killed
In Prison Battle.

BOSTON, December 4 CP.-Three
convicts were back in State prison to-
day after an attempted escape in
which three men died.
District Attorney william J. Foley
said he would ask f1rst-degree murder
indictments against the three surviv-
ing prisoners. Two others died from
gunshot wounds inflicted by guards.
The recaptured convicts are Edward
McArdle, "a; Charles O'Brien, 20, and
Frank Joyce, 81. The dead prisoners
are William (Red) McManus, 81. and
Philip Naples, 80.
Louis Richards, 81, truck driver, died
of injuries when he was beaten by the
prisoners, who seized his truck and
rammed through three prison gates.
pRTS0NEp VuTS cuApn
Evening star., 1935-12-04
"Dizzy" and Wife showered.

KANSAS CITY GP).-A wedding
party at Municipal Airport last night
recognized Jerome Dizzy Dean, en-
route to Los Angeles, and showered the
st. Louis pitcher and his wife with
rice along with the newlyweds.
Evening star., 1935-12-04
JOB DEADLlNE NEAR

Only two days remain for filing
applications for appointment as at
tendance officer in the colored public
schools. The examination viii be held
ct the Franklin Administration Build
ins Friday.
Evening star., 1935-12-04
PUPILS TO STAGE PLAYS

Pupils of Gordon Junior High School
win present program of three one-
act plays at 3 pm. tomorrow and FRI
day In the school auditorium, Thirty
ffth and 2 streetA
Evening star., 1935-12-04
Irwin s. Cobb
Says:
One Born Every Minute,
Speculative Stocks
Rise Shows.

SANTA MONICA, Calf, December
4 (N.A.N.A).-Wouldn't it seem to
sort Of put the laugh on somebody il
we sent lot Of Jewish athIetes-and
Evening star., 1935-12-04
PRISONER KILLS GUARD.
Youth Stabs Officer at Vermont
State Prison.

WINDSOR, VT, December 4 P.-
Hervey Burnham, 56, State Prison
guard, was stabbed to death in the
prison hail shortly after breakfast to-
day by Wilfred Pelletier, l7-year-old
prisoner.
Warden James w. McDermott said
no motive had been determined and
that the incident caused no disturb
ance among the $50 other prisoners.
Evening star., 1935-12-04
FIVE DEsPERADoEs TRAILED.
Oklahoma Posse Reported Closing in
on Escaped Convicts.

Oklahoma Posse Reported Closing in
on Escaped Convicts.
McALESTER, Okla, December 4
P.-Armed possemen stalked five
desperate fugitives in the rugged
Winding Stair Mountains today
Sheriff H. H. Sheriff. of McAlester
reported the men, including four
members of the Irish" O'Malley mob
of bank robbers and kidnapers, "are
bottled up on the Winding Stair
Mountains % miles south of Will
burton"
Thirty National Guardsmen, COM
manded by Capt. Hiram Simpson,
Joined the hunt under orders to take
no chances" with the fugitives.
The sheriff asked for an airplane to
help spy out the quarry--Leonard
Short, Dewey Gilmore. Dan r. Heady
and Russell Cooper, OMalley mob
sters under sentence for a double
bank robbery at Okemah. Okla, last
December, and Dan Garrett. under
seven-year sentence for Mann act vio-
lation.
A sixth prisoner In the Muskogee
City-Federal Jail, John Blackburn,
was shot fatally in the break in which
Chief Of Detectives Ben Bolton was
wounded. possibly fatally.
Evening star., 1935-12-04
CONV|CTS TRA|LED
IN TWO STATES
Investigation of Bloody
Prison Break Is Started
in Massachusetts.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Prison officials Of two States trailed
escaped convicts today, while authori-
ties began an investigation in a third.
-Four men died and one was critically
wounded in the breaks yesterday.
The hunt for five fugitives from the
Muskogee, Okla, City Jail centered in
the Winding Stair Mountains. A sixth
convict was killed and a detective
wounded.
Oficers pursued three Tennessee
Penitentiary convictS who carried of
a deputy warden, later freed.
Three prisoners we're recaptured
after a break from the Massachusetts,
State Prison. Two other convicts
were killed after q truck driver was
beaten to death.
FIVE DESPERADOES TRAILED.
Evening star., 1935-12-04
TAX DEADLINE

Penalty Effective in Fairfax
After Tomorrow.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
FAIRFAX, Va, December 4.-To-
morrow will be the last day for pay
ing State and county taxes without
the imposition of q penalty, Dr.. F. w.
Huddleson, county treasurer, an
nounced. After that date a per cent
penalty will be effective.