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Evening star., 1935-03-19
GERMAN JOURNALIST
HELD NAzI VICTIM
Jacobs Disappearance Said by Po'
lice to Have Been Covered
by Forged kilograms.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
STRASSBOURG, France, March
1S.-Forged kilograms, police said
today, covered up the mysterious dis
appearance of Berthow D. Jacob,
exiled German journalist. who last
was reported seen March 8.
Police authorities of France and
Switzerland have expressed the belief
he may have been victim Of Nazis.
Jacob, who Is 38, had been deprived
Of German citizenship because he
wrote articles denouncing secret re-
armament in Germany.
The originals Of messages received
by Jacobs wife from Basel, SwitZer-
land, March IL and thereafter, in
cluding a telegraphed money order.
were not in the missing journalist S
handwriting.
The day Jacob had mysterious
meeting with some one at Basel.
March 9, conceded with the Basel
carnival, when masked crowds danced
in the streets until after midnight.
Friends of Jacob said he had re-
ceived many threatening letters from
Germany. Last October he wrote an
article saying Reichsfuehrer Adolf
Hitler would re-establish compulsory
military service April !.
Evening star., 1935-03-19

The other day he took over the
Clarke utility properties. in Chicago
trated as second to insult few years
ago), to protect bank loan. Shortly
before, he had to assume con-
troll of a Western railroad. Last year
he named the chairman of one OF
Chicago's largest banks. Recently he
put a voting trustee on an Eastern
railroad board q. Crawford Biggs, or
Wheeling g. Lake Erie).
AS now mildly administered, the
r F. C. undoubtedly does not con.
stitute socialism. But Mr.. Jones is
certainly the tycoon in the woodpile
of whatever Mr.. Roosevelt decides tc
do about big and little business.
Credit Rating.
Incidentally, Mr.. Jones has found
out from his business that banks are
the best pay and railroads among the
poorest. The bankers have paid back
81 zoe. .000,0 900 out of loans aggregat-
ing 81 300, ,0oo, 900. But Mr.. Jones ha.
bought billion of preferred stock In
banks, which makes his present net
investment In banks about $780,.
100000.
The railroads have paid back only
$4,000. 900 of the $3.50, 10000 they
borrowed.
If you are interested In this sub
ject, a good book to. read Is the
net0 one BY CgxR Upkars lTreasnTI
Evening star., 1935-03-19
What's What
Behind News
In Capital
Fear of Punitive Taxes
by New Deal Stirs
Business.
BY PAUL MALLON.

THE mourners in big business
have been pushed around a
lot lately by series of inside
l. tips that the New Deal may
go in for punitive taxes on
big business.
A Uell-knoiDn tGriter pho re-
Gently uiSited the White House
came dwdy With the impression
that the head man is at least toy
ing NTH the idea. Somewhat the
same impression 1DGs gained by
prominent NeD Yorker 1Uho called
at the White House trithin the past
,Ueek.
President RooSevelt's coterie of ad-
viSers do not agree about the pros
poets. The man who is perhaps
closest to him on such matters has
published a strong editorial indorsing
the theory. Others have doubted that
the President would care to disturb
business further at this time.
Country Sounded Out.
This clearly means that the New
Dealers are indirectly sounding out the
country on the proposition. 1t does
not necessarily mean that the plar
will be undertaken. Once, earlier ir
the game, Mr.. Roosevelt conducted
similar sound-out on the commodity
dollar theory and ultimately dropped
it. What has been done so far. how
ever, has had disturbing effect or
financial prices. Only a direct or in
direct denial from the White House
can stop that.
Evening star., 1935-03-19
FAMILY CONTESTS
MRS. DAVIDSON WILL
Statlers Sue to Void Bequest of
$500,000 Estate to Her
Husband.
Rv the Associated Press

BY the Associated PreSS.
CARTHAGE, N. c., March 19.-The
Statier family yesterday launched its
fight on the purported will Of Mrs.
Elva Statler Davidson, which leaves
virtually all her half-million-dollar
personal estate to her husband, H.
Bradley Davidson, jr, of Washington
and Pinehurst.
Acting in behalf of Ellsworth Stat
Ter of England and Joan Marie Statler,
3-year-old millionaire. Tuscon. Ariz.,
child, J. NJ. Broughton, Raleigh at
torney, filed a caveat to the will
1t alleges simply that the will filed
last Saturday by Herbert Seawell,
Carthage attorney, is not the valid last
will Of the 22-year-old heiress, found
dead of carbon monoxide gas in her
garage at Pinehurst February 81.
The effect Of the caveat is to sus-
pend all proceedings under the will
until its validity is determined.
The earliest possible time at which
the case may be brought to trial is
next May 13.
Ellsworth Statler, as was Mrs.
Davidson, is an adopted child of the
late E. M Statler. Joan Marie, who
already has over a million dollars in
her own name, is grandchild of the
hotel magnate.
The will was made on February Is,
1885, a few weeks after the StatIer
heiress' marriage to Davidson. who
was 20 years her senior and the father
OF three children by a previous mar
riage, which was dissolved by divorce.
Evening star., 1935-03-19
MEAD DEFENDS
SHIFT OF CLERKS
Denies He Is Responsible
for Invasion of Buffalo
Postal Group.

Representative James M. Mead.
chairman of the House Post Office and
Post Roads Committee, denied today
that he is responsible for the invasion
of any Buffalo postal employees into
Washington, depriving local men OF
work
Mr.. Mead said that while Buffalo is
credited with "a men here in the rolls
OF regular substitutes and Niagara
Falls with 6, Baltimore has so. At
lantic City, 10; Scranton. Pa, 4, and
Red Bank, N. j., 3.
Held Old Custom.
Shifting OF these employees from one
post office to another, Mead said, "iS
an old post Office custom that goes
back to the beginning of the service.
The department has been transferring
both substitutes and regulars from
time immemorial. 1t is done from
postmaster to postmaster and not by
Representatives or politicians. who are
prevented from interfering by civil
service laws"
Representative Mead had been pic
tured by temporary substitute workers
in the Washington post Office as being
responsible for bringing 20 Buffalonians
into Washington, and the New Yorker
in reply said that one of the bugbearS
of the postal service was the temporary
worker, who, without civil service
status, ought to be stricken from the
rolls. Mr.. Mead cited several in
stances where temporary workers are
actually depriving regular substitutes
from securing a living wage, and said
that the post Offices Of Brooklyn and
New York City are chief offenders.
Mead Explains Shift.
In explaining the shifting of postal
employees from one city to another,
Mead said:
Ordinarily one postmaster makes
arrangements with another postmas-
ter for the transfer of an employe.
and the departments approval OF the
transfer is merely a matter of form.
In the case of the Buffalo subs it
was a little different They came
down here as temporary employees, re-
tanning their seniority rights in Buff
falo. They will not be given assign
ments ahead of Washington subs. but
will be taken care of ahead of Wash
| ington temporary employees"
Evening star., 1935-03-19
RISE Of MELONS
VENTURE PICTURED
Growth of Steel Company
Cited to Show Huge
Value in 1918.
BY the Associated Press.

by tne ASSOCldlBO fICSS-
PITTSBURGH March l9.-Some
800 pictures of bridges, giant factories
and waterways projects, including the
Panama Canal, we're scanned in An
drew w Melons tax hearing today as
evidence of the rapid and romantic
growth Of the McClintic- Marshall
Construction Co.
The photographs were put into the
record by MELONS counsel as part OF
the attempt to show that in 1918 the
baby company, which started with
$3.50 900 capital, of which Mellon and
the late r. B. Mellon contributed go
per cent. had grown into a fabricating
giant with the financier's share then
worth s4,603,000.
Differ on Valuation.
The value of the companys stock in
l9l3-the first year of the income tax
would make a difference in the profit
on the absorption and consequently
the amount of tax due The Govern
ment attorneys contend Melons 80
per cent of McClintic-Ma stock
in 1918 was worth about sl,43l 900
and thus bigger profit was realized
in 1881. About $1,000 Of the 81 ,O00.-
900 claimed by the Government Is in
volved in settling this point.
Tells of Growth.
Arch Mckinley, for years McClin-
ic-Marshall employe, told of the
founding of the firm in 1900 by capital
Of the Melons and by two young engi-
neers, McClintic and Marshall.
In 1908 the company was the second
largest firm of its kind. with capacity
of 144,000 tons. In 1928 that had in
creased to $4,000 tons, he said.
Mckinley touched briefly on the
building Of the Panama Canal. fol-
which McClintic- Marshall furnished
A6 lock gates
Evening star., 1935-03-19
1909 Child HerOines SOOthed
Consciences by Confessions
Such Things as Stealing Jam and Los
ing Temper We're High Crimes
in Jurenile Books of Long A go.

Forgive them my fault. Send for
Emmeline and Matilda and restore
them to your favor"
Then there was the inspiring tale Of
Clarissa, Emma and Maria. They
were sisters. Maria was years old.
the others 7. Their uncle had left
them two tickets to the art museum.
One must stay home and little Maria
was picked on since she was not old
enough to enjoy it anyway.
But the arrangement was condi-
tional Clarissa and Emma both had
faults. The first had a temper and
the other was lazy. 1t was decided
by their mother that if either dis
played these faults during the inter-
vening week her ticket would go to
the little sister.
Such a Good Girl.
Both we're very, very good that week
and their mother complimented them
but Clarissa's conscience was bothered.
Evening star., 1935-03-19
ROME AND FRANCE
MAY SEND NOTES
Tone of Communication May Fol
low ain'S-Italy Urges
Calmness.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
ROME. March 19.-Although Off
cial Italian circles seem inclined to
accept the German arms situation. il
was indicated today that Italy prob
ably will present a note to Berlin
similar to that sent yesterday by Great
Britain.
1t was understood that like note
would be sent by France.
The Newspaper Messagero was re-
garded as having stated the genera,
Italian opinion in a front-page edi-
torial. the gist of which was don't
lose your head"
Never, as in this moment, is calm
so much to be counseled =" said
Messagero. "England's resolution not
to postpone the visit of Foreign Sec
retary Simon to Berlin is without
doubt motivated by a desire for peace
and a wish to take up that salutary
work of meditation and Cancellation
which Il Du.e (MussolinD hoped
would be assumed by England"
The authoritative Giornale D Italia
said international undertakings must
be maintained and observed until new
accordS are substituted for them.
Evening star., 1935-03-19
Women's Work Bill Passed.

DOVER, Del, March 19 P).-A
House bill to lengthen the legal work.
ing time for women in Delaware in
dustries was passed by the State
Senate yesterday.
The measure would permit plants
Except in Wilmington operating on
continuous schedule to employ
women at night. The present law
prohibits women working from 10
pm. to am.
Evening star., 1935-03-19

The only new thing about the idea
Is the White House angle. The theory
has been kicked around, up and
down. among the boys in the know
since the beginning of the New Deal.
A reprinting of Supreme Court JUS
tice Brandeis' book, The Curse Of
Bigness." is what started it. Re-
Gently bill to carry it out was in
troduced in the Senate by Wheeler.
the Progressive, who represents the
Brandeis- -Frankfurter liberal view
point but not necessarily that Of
the New Deal.
1t is pery much OF a priUdte mat
ter, but the Wheeler bill actually
,DdS prepared BY a former Secre-
tnry to Justice Br1ndeis. 1t calls
for a graduated tar on large cor
porations, Dith Uie,D to tGrtng
bioness out of eristence.
A memo from the Brandeis book
was the basis of Wheelers speech in
PRODUCING the bill.
big and Bad"
The basic theory is that anything
| big is bad, towns as we'll as business.
| Those who advocate it contend every
thing has been centralized too much
IN recent years-money, credit, selling,
buying. living. They assert they see a
prospect that by 1850 hall the ma
tional wealth would be under control
of large corporations. (Wheelers
speech) Also, they contend 200 corr
porations, representing less than 7-100
of l per cent of the number of cor
porations, control practically half of
the corporate wealth.
The political aspect behind it
noU is that it tUould ledDe Huey
Long holding an empty bag. The
economic seriousness behind it is
that it inuolueS trdnSpldntinp
almost the entire business life OF
the country. q process Which t0ould
require gears.
A bit of inside history which may be
significant is that Mr.. Roosevelt re-
ceived a confidential report from the
Treasury OH a somewhat similar cor
poration tax bill year ago. The pro-
posal involved in that report, which
has been kept under cover. was three
fold: To tax undistributed profits,
unexpended corporation assets and
large corporate assets on a graduated
scale The study which developed it
was started by the late Treasury Sec
retary Woodin and continued by Nor
genthau.
Self-inflation.
If the New Deal is going to tax big
ness it might we'll start with itself.
The New Deal has become possibly the
biggest thing in the line Of Govern
ment in the history of mankind mot
excepting Russia).
You can get sharp slant on
that by peeking into Mr.. Jesse Jones
R. F. C. In his own quiet way. he has
been running $4,000, 100000 bank.
His actual disbursements recently
amounted to $1,000, 100000, including
$4,000, 100000 of repayments. In ad-
dition he has about $4,000, 100000 Of
loans authorized, but not yet paid out
That means he has done a $4,000, ,000,-
600 banking business.
But Mr.. Jones has been more than
the biggest banker in the history of
the world. He has done what private
bankers were criticized for doing dur
ing the circus days Of finance. He
has put his representatives into boards
of directors, purchased stock, become
the worlds largest interlocking
director.
Evening star., 1935-03-19
Worms Raised for Birds.

CHICAGO (F1.-From now on, life
is going to be pretty soft for the
birds in the Lincoln Park Zoo.
They won't have to get up early
any more to catch their worms.
An "insectorium" which looks
something like a chiffonier was es-.
tablished for them. In this the 700
will raise worms for the birds, and
thereu be two to four for each.
Evening star., 1935-03-19
COMMUNISM CHARGED
INDIAN COMMISSIONER
Former Oklahoma Governor Says
Bureau Is Trying to Make
s'Reds" of Redskins.

BY the Associated Press.
OKLAHOMA CITY, March 19.-
Former Gov. Henry S. Johnston
charged yesterday that the Indian
Bureau is trying to make "reds" out
of Americas redskins.
Johnston arose in the State Senate,
of which he now is member, and
leveled a charge of Communism at
John Collier, commissioner Of Indian
Affairs.
THE way John Collier is running
that agency it looks like he Is trying
to make a band of Communists out
Of every tribe Johnston said.
The Senate passed resolution ex-
pressing confidence In Oklahoma
tribesmen and condemning those who
fail to treat them with "the respect
to which they are entitled"
Evening star., 1935-03-19

There was medicine mixed in the
jar, and the quality Of the medicine
was to make people sick Scarcely
had they tied UP the Jar and replaced
1t than Emmeline and Matilda began
to feel the full effects"
Then Mother Arrives.
They were right in the midst Of
feeling these effects" when Marga-
ret's mother returned and suspected
the cause. A look in the closet con-
firmed her worst suspicious.
Indeed, young ladies'" she said, 81
am very sorry I have been so de-
ceived in you. I thought you would
have disdained such improper con-
duct. Gluttony and Discrimination are
faults I cannot overlook. You are
no longer proper companions for my
daughter. shall send you home, where
I desire you to remain until you have
subdued these vicious habits. 1t is
evident that Margaret has not par
taken with you or she would have
been affected in some manner. am
going abroad for tea. I shall take her
with me as a reward for Withstand
ing the temptation of such an Ill
example"
Margaret spent a sleepless. fearful
night with this great sin on her soul.
Finally the tortured little 7-year-old
screamed for her mother.
So Margaret Confessed.
Mother" she said when the parent
came. Il am not worthy of your kind
ness. have abused your confidence
and behaved in a deceitful manner I
seduced my playfellows to eat the
sweatmeats and l would have shared
with them but did not like the taste.
Evening star., 1935-03-19
Congress in Brief
BY the Associated Press.
TODAY.

TODAY.
Senate.
Continues debate on work-relief bill
and takes up deficiency measure.
Finance Committee resumes Ques-
tioning of S. Clay Williams on N.
r. A.
Labor and Munitions Committees
study labor relations and war profits
bills.
House.
Votes on cotton control act extern
sion and takes up bonus.
Foreign Affairs Committee hears
William Bullitt. Ambassador to Russia.
Labor Committee questions Francis
Biddle on labor relations bill.
Other committees continue hearings
on withholding company and new
bank legislation.
YESTERDAY.
Senate.
Debated work-relief bill.
Judiciary Committee approved Black
30-hour -work-week measure.
House.
Considered cotton control ect ex-
tension.
Rules Committee set II hours for
bonus debate. -
Evening star., 1935-03-19
LIQUOR Dividend Distributed.

OLYMPIA, Wash, March 10 R.-
A cash dividend of 100000, first to
be declared by the Washington
LIQUOR Control Board, was distributed
yesterday, 214 incorporated cities and
towns and 80 counties receiving $780,
600 and the State general fund an
equn1 amount. n
Evening star., 1935-03-19
Trip Over, Woman Hurt.

LAKE MILLS, Wis. R.-Just after
she had posted a letter to her daugh-
ter in Fulton, S. OAK, announcing she
had arrived home safely, Mrs. August
Neupert fell and broke her right wrist.
She had been visiting her daughter.
Evening star., 1935-03-19
FLEET PLAN DEPL LORED
Roosevelt Asked to Shift Pacific
Maneuvers Elsewhere.

SsOoseNelC ASKED TO Snl1t Pac1hc
Maneuvers Elsewhere.
CINCINNATI, March 19 LP).-The
Cincinnati Presbytery, in a resolu-
ton addressed to President Roose-
yelt, members of his cabinet and
other high-ranking Government off,
GERS. yesterday urged that naval
maneuvers scheduled in May in the
North Pacific "be transferred to less
troubled waters
The resolution also expressed
"hope" that the japanese exclusion
law of 1924 be reScinded. Another
resolution approved a bill pending
before the Ohio General Assembly by
which military training at Ohio
State University would be placed on
an optional basis.
Evening star., 1935-03-19
PACKING FORCES CUT
1890 Laid OFF in Omaha Since
Stock Shipments Fell.

OMAHA, Nebr., March l9 CP.-
Packing company officials yesterday
said curtailment of live stock ship
ments to Omaha since the peak of
Government slaughtering operations
has resulted in the lay-off of approxi-
mately 1900 workers in three Omaha
packing plants.
From the maximum of 5000 at work
during October. the forces have been
reduced to 5000, which is 1900 under
normal.
Evening star., 1935-03-19

aide) and EdiUin A. Ldmke. 1t Is
published by Brookings Institute.
Another indication of the trend
toward Government bigness is the
fact that Government personnel Is
supposed to have increased by nearly
100000 under the New Deal.
(cmkrtxht, lsSH.A
Evening star., 1935-03-19
MITSUI SEES REVIVAL
japanese Capitalist Says Depres-
sion Ended and Scouts War,

CHICAGO, March l9 CP.-Taka-
haru MitSui, member of the famous
family that controls Japan's banks.
mines, manufacturing interests and
warehouses. said yesterday he be-
lieves the depression is ended.
MitSui, with his wife and child, ar
rived from New York en- route to San
Francisco after seven years in Berlin.
Japan doesn't want war with the
United States" Mitsui said, pointing
out that this Nation is Japan's best
customer.
Evening star., 1935-03-19

This is the third Of a series Of
articles on children's literature OF
the past.
Evening star., 1935-08-18

ritorial government to take over sur
plus supplies at Anchorage, Seward
and Palmer in the event the home
building construction falls down. With
81 houses now actually occupied, ia
more are to be built before Novem-
Der /.
With three months experience be-
hind them. the colonists have weeded
from their ranks all who could not
stand the rigors of life in newly
founded community. At present, there
are ITS determined families in the
valley. Working with more than 400
transients, the heads of these fam
lilies have cleared the land, dug wells,
sawed timber and erected their
Itomes-or are building them.
Priest is Assigned.
Father F. Merrill Sulzman, a Cath
olc priest assigned to the valley by
Bishop Crimont of Alaska, has done
yoemanry work among the new
corners, according to reports filed with
Milford. The priest reports that the
great majority now in the colony ARE
perfectly satisfied with the project.
Like true pioneers, they are accept
ing conditions courageously, with a
determination to succeed in spite Of
Evening star., 1935-08-18

planned, would enable q farmer dis
satisfied with conciliation proceedings
to file in bankruptcy. The court then
could permit him to retain possession
of his property for a period up to
three years by paying a reasonable
rental, fixed annually by the court .
This would pay taxes and insurance
and any surplus would go to creditors
Al the end Of the three years, or al
any Lime before, the farmer would be
permitted to reacquire his property
by paying its appraised value. But q
creditor dissatisfied with the appraisal
could seek reappraisal, or demand that
the property be sold at auction, with
secured creditors permitted to bid ul
to the appraised value or the principal
that the property secures, which
ever is higher" The debtor would
be given 90 days in which to redeem
the property from such sale.
The outlawed measure provided a
five-year moratorium, and made nc
provision for the auction sale, pre-
venting, as Justice Brandeis said from
the bench, a creditor from taking over
the property in lieu of payment Of the
mortgage.
Lemke emphasized that he does not
consider the bill a substitute for his
measure providing $4,000, 900, 900 in
new currency to ref1nance farm mort
cages.
Evening star., 1935-08-18
.LEMKE BILL DUE
TObE CONSIDERED
Riots Spur Congress to
Action on Farm Mort
gage Plan.
By the Associated Presa

BY the Associated Press
Foreclosure riots in Missouri spurred
Congress yesterday toward considera-
ton of the Frazier-Lemke bill to re-
place the farm mortgage moratorium
held unconstitutional last May.
That's just the beginning" warned
Representative Lemke, Republican, OF
North Dakota. UNLESS Congress acts
before adjournment, there will be dis
turbances that this country has never
experienced.
'Self-preservation is the first law
Of nature, and whenever we put g.
100000 families into misery, trouble
must be expected, much as we re-
gret it."
The bill, approved by Senate and
House Judiciary Committees, as meet
ing Supreme Court objections to the
former law, will be taken up tomor-
row by the Senate. Senator Borah,
Republican, of Idaho and others ex-
pressed confidence it would meet
speedy approval.
House Fate Uncertain.
Its fate in the House, however, was
uncertain. Speaker Byrns said If the
Senate's action was favorable, there
is possibility" the House will call
it up under a special rule. Lemke
predicted there won't be more than
a handful of votes against it."
The North Dakotan said the mort
gage situation is becoming worse be-
cause an increase in land values and
the price of farm products have
prompted mortgage holders to try ito
grab off the land"
The pending measure, Lemke ex-