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actment of the Frazier -Lemke bill to
refinance farm Indebtedness.
The measure. now in House commit
tee, would provide through currency
expansion o $4,000, 100000 revolving
fund.
A round Of applause greeted Louis
J. Taber, head of the National Grange.
who said that q series Of suggestions
for legislation would be given the COM
mittee within few days.
Inclusion of the domestic allotment
plan and market expansion provisions
in new farm program built on soil
conservation was urged by Chairman
Jones Of the House Agriculture Com
mittee.
His statement, advancing my own
views" Of what should replace A. A. A.,
said. however, that different plans
should apply to different commodities.
HIS announcement followed Su-
preme Court decisions yesterday re-
fusing to review the Bankhead cot
ton control act and leaving in doubt
the future of $1,000, 100000 in pro-
cessing taxes paid into the Treasury
under the A. A. A. The latter ruling
also ordered the return to eight
Louisiana rice millers Of taxes i'm
pounded since they secured a Su-
preme Court injunction against pay
ing them, and this was understood
TO control the disposition Of some
5000, ,00o, 600 Of processing taxes i'm
pounded in other courts.
Would Expand Markets.
Personally" Jones said, Il favor
Q domestic allotment plan linked
with q soil rebuilding and conserva-
ton program. including the seeking of
new and additional outlets and ex-
pansion Of markets, domestic and
foreign.
This plan would entitle the pro-
ducer to q premium on that part Of
the commodity which is domestically
consumed, and the remaining part
of his production would have access
to the markets Of the world.
1T is peculiarly suited to cotton and
wheat, but other methods probably
viii be better suited to some Of the
other crops. No single plan would be
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Hughes
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fine and am going out to night club
before sun-up."
Proud of Plane Performance.
The intrepid flyer was proud Of the
performance of his speedy plane and
motor.
He used a new type super-charged
radial motor built to Army speciflca-
tions
1T develops TOO horsepower at 15,-
900 feet" he said, "but few most Of
the time higher up to save gas"
He carried TOO gallons Of gasoline
when he left Burbank and said 100
gallons were left when he landed
The plane, a single-seat monoplane,
was leased several months ago from
Jacqueline Cochrane, feminine speed
flyer.
His route took him over Santa Fe,
N. Mex, Kansas City, Indianapolis
and Columbus. Ohio.
"Over Santa Fe, looked at my in
struments and figured I had used
about 100 gallons more gasoline than
I had intended to-" he recalled as he
drank a highball in his New York
hotel room.
$50 I went to a higher altitude.
st went from indianapolis to CO.
lumbus IN IS minutes-about 295 miles
an hour.
When I reached Pittsburgh, I
started pouring on the coal. and I
kept it up all the way to Newark"
Oficials of the National Aeronauti-
cal Association confirmed Hughes
record breaking performance.
II had good weather all the way
except from the coast to Santa Fe.
where I had to do some blind flying"
Hughes said.
At Newark no one was expecting
his arrival until his plane swooped
down out of the night sky, but q
crowd soon collected.
do you know you've crossed the
continent faster than anybody has
ever crossed it?" some one asked.
Il guess so; I wasn't thinking about
that Hughes replied.
At Newark he said he hadn't at
tempted to make the flight in secrecy.
The new holder of the transconti-
mental record said his flight proved
certain advantages of high-altitude
flying.
His cabin was heated and he said
he suffered no discomfort, other than
hunger.
Hughes said he intended to remain
in New York several days.
Hughes Is best known to the public
as motion picture producer, one Of
his productions being "Hells Angels"
an aviation story.
He went to Hollywood from Texas,
where he directed his fathers exten-
sive OF. business for four years before
the elder Hughes died, in 1924. Hughes
Is 80.
Since Russell I. Vaughan made the
first "dawn-to-dusk" transcontinental
flight, June %, 1924, in 81 hours 48
minutes and 30 seconds, the record
for cross s-country dashes by air has
been lowered with clock-like regu-
larity almost every year.
In the last five or six years, how
ever, have occurred the most notable
increases in speed. Some Of the rec
ords:
April 20, 1880, Col and Mrs. Charles
A. Lindbergh, one stop, Glendale,
Calf, to Roosevelt Field, N. Y. II
hours % minutes 81 seconds.
December 10, 1880, Ruth Nichols,
one overnight stop, Los Angeles to New
York, elapsed flying time. 13 hours 81
minutes 43 seconds.
September 4, 1881, Maj. James H.
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suited to all OF the different commod-
tiles.
while proper adjustment Is de-
sirable, we should produce all the mar
ket win absorb, both ut home and
abroad.
"The legislation should be broad
and flexible SO as to permit different
plans for different commodities, thus
fitting to each commodity the plan
best suited to its peculiar production
and marketing conditions. Such q
program would be to the advantage
Of both producer and consumer"
To Weigh Suggestions.
Jones explained final legislation
would be worked out by the Senate
and House committees and Congress
after receiving and carefully con-
sidering suggestions made by farm
groups, department officials and others
interested in this vital problem"
A move was started on Capitol Hill
to empower the Treasury to retain or
collect all of the $1,000, 900 900 in
taxes levied on professors Of farm
products under the tnvalidated
A. A. A.
Senator Bankhead, Democrat, Of
Alabama, powerful in agricultural
councils in Congress, proposed the
processing taxes be re-enacted retro
actively as q general revenue measure,
which he contended would be con-
stitutional. The high court invalidat-
ed the A. A. A. tax plan as part of an
unconstitutional program to regulate
agriculture.
II such q measure as Bapkhead's 8
should pass and stick" the Treasury
would retain the 81. 600. .000.0 already
collected to finance benefit payments
to farmers under the crop control
program outlawed by the Supreme
Court.
Moreover, professors who will COL
lect the $500. 0.000, 900 in impounded
taxes would have TO turn the money
into the Treasury.
Tax Reactions Follow.
Amid the tremendous tax-and-farm
tangle, there were many reactions to
the high courts latest ruling. Several
Senators. among them Borah of Idaho,
expressed belief that those who fought
the tax we're largely big taxpayers.
They indicated concern that the small
business man who paid without fight
ing might lose out.
All experts agreed that many
professors would find 1t difficult. If
not impossible, to demonstrate legally
that they had borne the burden them
selyes-as required by A. A. A. amend
ments.
ut seems to me-" Borah said. "that
in the light Of the courts decision
we ought to have some legislation
making 1t more practicable for the
small fellows who haven't been able
to contest the matter to get back
their outlay. assuming they haven't
passed 1t on"
New Deal leaders continued to work
on a program to replace A. A. A. One
high administration official expressed
the belief that if Congress approved a
seven-point program adopted by 10C
farm leaders here last Saturday. the
Government would be able to achieve
the aims Of the collapsed A. A. A.
This program centers on subsidized
soil conservation. H. r. Tolley, for
| mer assistant A. A. A. administrator
and described by officials as an out.
standing expert on soil conservation
arrived here yesterday from the Yves,
Coast to advise on the program.
Senator Smith, Democrat, Of South
Evening star., 1936-01-14
A. A. A.

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Evening star., 1936-01-14
CONVICTED WILL F0RGER
ACCUSED OF SLAYING
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, January 14.-Mrs.
Hazel Glab. recently convicted of
forging capitalists will, was indicted
yesterday on q charge of staying her
wealthy husband. John I. Glab. in
1928.
A former policeman, w. r. McIntire,
told the grand jury that Mrs. Glah
and her husband quarreled, the latter
threatening to leave her and will his
fortune to his first wife.
Her recent conviction was on a
charge of forging the s400,0 900 will OF
Albert Cheney to her benefit. She
said she and Cheney had planned
to be married, but his death inter-
vened.
Evening star., 1936-01-14

Carolina, chairman of the Senate Ag-
riculture Committee. proposed what he
described as permanent" plan to
aid farmers He would establish Fed
eral agricultural banks in each Of the
States.
They would lend money against
crops and other farm security and
could acquire marketing and ware
house facilities to aid In disposng Of
commodities.
When reporters asked II that meant
he was skeptical Of the admipistra.
tion's soil conservation plan, he said:
II was skeptical Of part OF the A. A.
A. for q long time. ] am not very
much interested In stop-gaps. want
something permanent"
While Federal courts In some cities
were already moving today to refund
the 5000, ,000, 900 In taxes to process
sors, the question Of new levies to
take their place came up on Capitol
Hill. Besides this gap in its revenues
the Treasury still owes farmers $780,.
100000 In 1885 crop adjustment con-
tracts.
Disney Sees New Taxes.
Representative Disney, Democrat,
Of Oklahoma, member of the House
Ways and Means Committee, said:
I'VE are going to have to approve
some new tax bill for certain now.
don't know where we could raise ths
money. but some of us can't go hom.
until we pay of the farmers"
Cotton also was a major topic among
legislators.
Chief Justice Hughes read the unan.
imous opinion In the Bankhead case
holding that the suit brought by Let
Moor, a Texas cotton planter, against
the Texas & New Orleans Railroad Co
was not good case and dismissing it
He termed the tribunals action ir
consenting to review ''improvident."
Senator Bankhead, Democrat, OF
Alabama, co-author Of the act bearing
his name, said at once that it mean,
I'VE still have the Bankhead act on
the statute books"
THE Department of Agriculture, 81
he added, has the power to save the
cotton farmer by proceeding with oper-
alton Of the Bankhead act. It will save
this years crop"
Agriculture officials declined to com.
ment. but the general expectation was
that because Of a widespread belief
that eventually the court will throw
the act out, efforts to apply it will NEE;
with opposition.
Talmadge Case Pends.
Another case contesting the laws
constitutionality has been brought by
Gov. Eugene Talmadge of Georgia, ar
arch foe Of the Roosevelt administra-
ton. The Governments answer to 1l
suit must be returned by January 20
After that, If the court believes Tai.
madge's complaint Is justified. it VII
set date for argument-probably in
late February. Not until after that will
final decision on the laws validit.
become possible.
In response to the highest courts
ruling on the impounded taxes, Fed
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F1ISI Fdke.D
luncheon engagement with President
Roosevelt.
The eventual cost of the Senate bill
to the Government is estimated at
$2,491 ,000, 900, but hackers of the bill
say the immediate expense would be
only 00,000,000.
Some Opposition Likely.
Observers felt opposition may come
from q few Senators opposed to
spending outside the Federal budget
and those wanting to pay the bonus
with new currency.
But Harrison brushed this aside with
this confident expression:
In my opinion, this bill will be
enacted into law
Senator Borah, Republican, of
Idaho, who favored the inf1ationary
Patman bill last session, also said he
had no doubt the Harrison measure
"will become law"
Major veterans organizations swung
Into line behind the bill. The attitude
Of President Roosevelt was not ex-
pressed, but Senate leaders who took
part in negotiations that led to agree
ment on the bill we're known to have
been animated by the hope they might
win Mr.. Roosevelt's approval.
Entitled the adjusted compensation
payment act Of 1885, the bill was in
troduced yesterday by Harrison on be-
half of himself and Senators Byrnes,
Democrat, of South Carolina Steiwer,
Republican, of Oregon and Clark,
Democrat, of Missouri The latter
three have long been leaders for full
cash payment.
Harrison announced that Democratic
Leader Robinson of Arkansas favored
the bill
The differences between the Senate
substitute and the bonus bill already
passed by the House are:
House bill: Authorized full cash
payment Of adjusted service certifi-
Gates, but provided no means of pay
n1ent.
Senate bill: Provides for full pay
ment through $50 bonds redeemable
after June Is next in cash, both bills
deducting unpaid loans on the certifi-
Gates.
House bill: Cancelled all unpaid in
terests on loans.
Senate bill: Cancelled interest due
on loans made after September 30,
1881.
Both bills provide the veteran could
hold his certificate. or bond in the
case Of the Senate bill, and get 3 per
cent interest annually from June Is,
1897.
Harrison and veterans organizations
officers figured many bonus holders
would keep their bonds as family
"nest egg"
Although President Roosevelt de-
<Saared in his budget message new taxes
would have to be levied for any ap-
preparations outside the budget, Harri-
son said the bill would not require
new taxes this. session. Treasury bor-
rowing was the method indicated for
raising necessary funds.
Evening star., 1936-01-14
SOIL STUDY SHOWS
VITAL FARM LINK
Half of IoWa's Land Has
Lost Fourth of Top
Soil.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
AMES, Iowa, January 1.-THE re-
vived proposal for soil conservation
program to replace the A. A. A. To-
cused attention today upon Iowa stud
les pointing to the need for safeguards
to protect the Nations most valuable
natural resource-the soil.
Iowa State College land use spe-
cialists who conducted the studies
neither approved nor disapproved the
National Farm Committees proposed
A. A. A. substitute. They have, how
ever. during their approach to the
land use problem in the last five years,
advanced soil conservation as the
foundation stone of any sound pro-
gram.
Regarded Inseparable Link.
The college land planners found
that soil conservation was inextricably
linked with the problems of farm ten
ancy. farm debts, farm leases, the
cropping systems and the size and
type of farm.
Soil erosion was described as the
farmers public enemy No. l." Sur
veys showed that more than so per
cent of Iowa's land, among the most
productive in the Nation, had lost
about fourth of all its top soil by
erosion and that about a tenth of the
land under cultivation was virtually
worthless for tillage purposes.
1t was found that from a conser-
vation viewpoint Iowa farmers planted
per cent too many acres to corn;
harvested 4 per cent too much small
grain acreage, and lacked by per
cent enough hay and grass crops to
build up the soil.
Opinion of Specialists.
The specialists said:
Farm owners were better farmers
than tenant farmers. Tenant farm
ers, on the average, put greater per-
centage of their land into intertilled
crops, raised less pasture and en-
ployed cropping systems that did not
control erosion.
Tenant farmers operating under
long-term leases used cropping prac-
tices more conducive to soil conserva-
tion than did tenant farmers operat-
ing under short-term leases
Operators of large farms used more
desirable cropping methods than op-
orators of small farms.
Farmers heavily in debt tended to
~over crop" their farms, or work
their land too hard in order to get
out from under the debt burden.
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Doolittle, three stops, Burbank to
Newark, ii hours Is minutes.
December IA, 1882, Roscoe Turner,
three stops. New York to Burbank, II
hours 80 minutes.
September "a, 1888, Roscoe Turner.
three stops. Burbank to Floyd Ben
nett Field. N. Y, 10 hours minutes
80 seconds.
September l, 1884, Roscoe Turner,
west-east 10 hours 2 minutes
January IA, 1886. Howard Hughes,
west-east. 8 hours q minutes 10
seconds.
Evening star., 1936-01-14
REV. JOHN w. L0WDEN
RITES AT DARNESTOWN
Four Ministers oficiate at Serv.
ices for Presbyterian
Pastor.
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
DARNESTOWN, Md, January IA
The funeral Of Rev. John William
Lowden, for the last is years pastor
Of the Presbyterian Church at Darnes.
town. who died Friday night of pneu-
monia after an illness of eight days,
took place yesterday from the Darnes-
town church.
The services were conducted by Rev.
John c. Palmer, pastor Of Columbia
Heights Presbyterian Church, WASH
ington, who was assisted by Rev. Fred
A. Kullmar Of Warner Memorial
Presbyterian Church, Kensington;
Rev. James Patterson Kerr of the
Boyds Presbyterian Church and Rev.
G. G. Kundall of the Presbyterian
Church at Neelesville. Burial was in
the cemetery at Darnestown.
Evening star., 1936-01-14

Fear Of war and q possible food
shortage have prompted some hoard
ing, in the Netherlands.
The Washington times., 1936-12-22
X-Ray Camera Shows
Jewels ON Mummy

'from the gallery of the Metropoli-
tan Museum of Art, where the
deceased has rested under public
scrutiny for many years.
The X.ray pictures showed
plainly three valuable bead neck
laces trimmed in gold and silver
and one untrimmed necklace of
stone.
His chest was covered entirely,
down to the lowest ribs, with
strips of faience beads which he'll
soon "get off his chest" when he
is unwrapped by museum officials.
There are wrislets that match
the chest beads. Elsewhere on
his person there are three large
scarabs of, it is believed, anne
thyst or carnelan stones and an
oval seal ring.
But, topping off Wah's "collec-
ton are two mice.
outlines of the two common
rodents show plainly in the X-ray
shots.
The Washington times., 1936-12-22
DINE.
WITH FARLEY

ANNAPOLIS, Dec. 22-M | d.
shipmen at the Naval Academy
today were preparing for a gala
Christmas dinner tonight, with
Postmaster James A. Farley. and
Governor Nice of Maryland among
their guests.
The annual dinner proceeds
Christmas leave given the Naval
Academy students, who will be
free until January 3.
There will be no speeches dur
ing the dinner and the visitors
will be scattered at different
tables as guests of the Midship-
men. Bancroft Hall, where the
dinner is held, is decorated with
Christmas greens. Two evergreen
trees and a wreath formed from
colored electric lights decorate
the front of the hall.
Before the dinner the regi-
ment will form outside of the
mess hall and sing carols.
The Washington times., 1936-12-22
WOLFE DEATH
HELD SUICIDE

A suicide certificate was issued
by Coroner A. Magruder Mac
Donald today in the death of Mrs.
Hamilton Wolfe, SO, who was dis
covered unconscious yesterday in
a gas filled room at 321O Seven
teenth st. N. w.
Her daughter, Louise Kinsey,
who lived at the Seventeenth
Street address with her mother
said Mrs. Wolfe had been ner,
vous and upset, Macdonald re-
vealed.
Twice widowed, according to
the coroner, Mrs. Wolfe left a
note saying that she hated to do
this" and goodbye" A casualty
Hospital physician pronounced
her dead after police had been
summoned by the daughter.
The Washington times., 1936-12-22
DODGE SURVEY
SH0WSGAINS
IN BUILDING

A 80 per cent increase in
private construction, and a 50
per cent increase in public con-
struction in the 81 States east of
the Rock Moupntains, during the
first II months of 1885, as com
pared to the same period last
year, was reported to PWA Ad-
ministrator Ickes today by the
F. w. Dodge Corporation.
Privately financed conStruc-
ton in the 81 Eastern States up
to December /, this year, had a
total value of $1,223,831,6 800, as
compared to $3.50, ,264, 400 for
1895, the report said.
Publicly financed construction
for the first II months of this
year had a total value of $1,251,-
768, 700, as compared to $811,244,-
900 for last year. Ickes said:
"This established for the
period in question that the
theory of PWA, that its efforts
to benefit construction would
be accompanied by a CORE
spending increase in private
construction, and that PWA
efforts would not result in a
decline in Independent private
construction"
The Dodge survey does not
cover the Pacific Coast.
The Washington times., 1936-12-22

NEW YORK, Dec. "a G.N.S0.
A Mr.. Wah had his picture taken
here recently and today he faces
public undressing" in the near
future because Of the pictures
revelations. The clothes he has
worn for centuries must come off
because the pictures revealed gold
and Jewels within his garments.
Wah is a mummy.
One Of the royal families Of
mummieS and, judging from the
"trinkets" with which he was laid
to rest, he was no mean parsonage
in his day.
Wah's name hit the obituary
columns around 1000 B. c., and
from that day onward, down
through the years until very re-
Gently, he was thought to be just
another stuffed shirt"
But an inquiring photographer
with an X-ray camera took sew
eral shots of Wah. Those shots
now mean the removal Of Wah
The Washington times., 1936-12-22

>his good work, this time in a dill
ferent field.
1t was in 1918 that he became
a member Of the department and
it was in the same year that he was
called to the warehouse Of Armour
and Company, where several tons
of soap product was blazing. When
water was played on the burning
mass, the soap erupted and as it
flowed through the windows and
doors, it resembled ocean foam
churned by the waves.
A year later, a few lays before
Christmas, Mr.. Earnshaw fought
one of the worst blazes which he
ever encountered. It was in the
Epworth Methodist Church at Sew
enth and A Streets Northeast.
For heroic work at the willard
Hotel fire in 1922 and for his
bravery at the fire which de-
stroyed the American House at a
later date, he was presented with
letters lauding his heroism.
His service to the District was
The Washington times., 1936-12-22
SIX SUSPECTS
IDENTIFIED

Scores Of persons, victims Of
recent holdups, went to police
headquarters last night for the
regular Zine up" of suspects, and
six men were identified from
among the 35 suspects paraded
before them.
The six men identified, all col
ored, gave their names as Joshua
Hawkins, Condee Watts, Samper
Ready, Fred Melton, Thomas
March and Thomas Brown. All
are booked for investigation.
The men were arrested on in
formation gained by Private George
E. Cooper, of the Second precinct,
who was assigned to work with
the robbery squad by direction CT
Lieut.. John Fowler, commander of
the squad.
The Washington times., 1936-12-22
Hearing Date Nears
On Dr.. Frank Custer

MADISON, Wis, Dec. %.
Date for hearing on the proposal
to ouSt DR.. Glenn Frank from the
presidency of the University of
Wisconsin will be set within the
next two days, it was announced
yesterday after Frank met
several of those seeking his custer.
John Callahan, State superintend-
ent Of Public Instruction, said
there was no desire to hurry DR..
Frank, but the hearing would be
held probably the first week in
January.
The Washington times., 1936-12-22
BUTLER RAPS
HIDDEN TAX

NEW YORK, Dec. % G.N.sJ
Revolution by taxation" came
under attack here from DR.
Nicholas Murray Butler, presi
dent Of Columbia University, ir
his annual report to the univer
Sity trustees.
He urged that American insti
tutionS of philanthropy and edu
cation and properties held by
them should be freed Of taxa
ton. He said:
"The most subtle type of
revolution which confrOnts
American Democracy today is
that which is easily and silently
possible through taxation.
"The American people may
one day wake up, to find that
their most respected, most be-
loved and most successful in
stitutions Of public service in
the field Of liberty have been
either crippled or destroyed.
and that they must look to
the halting, imperfect and
often incompetent hand of
Government to undertake, in
wretched fashion, the tasks
which were once being dealt
with so well.
"When the people are being
insistently exhorted to OpeJ,
their eyes to the possibility 0f
obvious political revolution,
with all its attendant disasters,
they should not be permitted
to overlook the possibility of a
quiet but persistent, if unseen,
revolution against their higher
interests and their best service
through a wholly improper use
Of the power of taxation"