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Evening star., 1936-12-19
RAIL INQUIRY OFF
TILL JANUARY G
'BewiIdering Complex Mass
of Evidence Now Being
Sifted.
BY the Associated Press.


Adjourning public hearings for the
holidays. Senate investigators began
today TO sift through what they
termed "a bewilderingly complex mass
OF evidence harvested during their
tvo-week inquiry into railway flnanc-
ing.
Chairman Wheeler Of the Investi-
eating Committee said many months
of hearings might be necessary before
he can make a full report-coupled,
perhaps. with q request for new laws
abolishing railroad holding companies.
On January the committee will
turn again, he said, to its study of
Americas largest transportation sys-
TEN, the sprawling web OF railways,
bus lines. coal pits and industries
woven by the late Van Sweringen
brothers Of Cleveland.
Testimony from two partners Of j
P. Morgan & Co.-Arthur NJ. Ander-
son and George Whitney-that the
famous banking house would have let
Van Sweringen railroad "go bust
during the depths of the depression II
it had not received Government loans
marked the committees closing ses-
sion yesterday.
The road in question WAS the Mis-
souri, Pacific. which borrowed more
than S23.000,000 from the Recon-
struction Finance Corporation before
it finally went in bankruptcy in 1888.
OF this sum, the partners testified,
81 $50 600 was used to pay of earlier
loans to the Missouri Pacific from a
Morgan banking syndicate.
Anderson said his firm had known
of certain obligations of the Missouri
Pacific which investigators commended
were concealed" from the r. r c.
Evening star., 1936-12-19
SOCIAL SECURITY
FORMS ISSUED
Tax Returns Must Be Filed
Monthly With Revenue
Collector.

By the AsSoclateo fress.
The Internal Revenue Bureau issued
forms today for filing tax returns
under the social security act.
The returns must be flied monthly
after December 81 with internal rev.
enue collectors. They are to be filed
by employers, but cover taxes on both
employers and employees.
Employers must list the number Of
employees and the total of taxable
wages paid during the month. The
returns, together with remittances.
must be in the hands OF internal rev.
enue collectors by the last day of the
month succeeding the one for which
the return is made.
The bureau said consolidated re-
turns for parent and subsidiary cor
porations would not be permitted.
Every employer subject to the tax.
the bureau said. must keep suficient
records to show whether taxes are cor
rectly computed and paid.
Failure TO file returns by the speci-
fed deadline will make the employer
udDie 10 penalty Oh 10 20 per cent
OF the tax, depending on the length Of
the delinquency.
For 1887, 1888 and 1899 the tax on
both employers and employees will be
l per cent Of pay rolls and wages.
This will gradually increase until it
reaches 3 per cent on each after De-
cember 81, 1948.
The Social Security Board approved
today the Virginia unemployment in
surance act pa sed this week by the
General Assembly in special session,
The boards action was the final
step necessary to insure benefits TO
Virginia employees under the act be-
ginning January /.
With enactment OF unemployment
insurance in Tennessee meanwhile,
the Social Security Board saw posi-
bility that 43 States will have lined up
with the Federal program before the
year is out.
Twenty-seven States and the Dis
trict Of Columbia already have done
so. Estimates Of workers covered range
from 10000, 900 TO $1,000, 900.
Evening star., 1936-12-19

After the bandits fed empty-hand-
Cd DR.. Metz walked to the synagogue
and preached his scheduled sermon,
apoiociung to his congregation for
his appearance, but failing to explain
q discolored eye and the torn pockets
Of his clothes.
Sabbath Indirectly Responsible.
The Jewish Sabbath, which starts
at sundown Friday, was indirectly re-
sponsible for the attack on the rabbi.
His religion forbids the carrying Of
funds during the Sabbath.
Although considerably upset by the
experience. DR.. Metz insisted on walk
ing to his home, at 36 Claiming street.
after the services-another tenet OF
his religion forbidding riding on the
Sabbath.
While DR.. Metz escaped being
robbed. number OF other hold-up
and robbery victims did not fare SO
well in this respect
One of them, Mrs. Blanche King
matron at the District Jail, reported
the theft of her purse, containing
two diamond rings, pair of diamond
earrings and platinum bracelet,
from her ONCE at the jail.
Four Overcoats Stolen.
Three men and a girl reported the
theft of their overcoats while they
we're attending a dance last night al
the Hayloft. in rear of 1928 Massa.
ohusetts avenue. They were Bess A
siegeL 1927 Nineteenth street; Benja'
min Feinbere, So Adams street;
William j. McMurray. 1850 Massa-
chusetts avenue, and Carlisle Savage
1887 Massachusetts, avenue.
The Shaw Jewelry Store, 92l +
street. was robbed of eight watches
valued at s2O3 by thief who hurled
. brick through the window Of the
establishment early today.
Walter Sheck. %, colored, 723 Ken
yon street. reported he was driven into
nearby Virginia by three white men
and robbed of S6 and his overcoat
and hat. Sheck said he was forced
into a car after he alighted from a
street car at Seventh and L streets
One of the bandits. he said, was armed
Evening star., 1936-12-19
SUGAR TAX VOTED;
MAY GUST GOMEZ
Cuban House Passes Bill to Put
School Fund in Armys
Hands.

BY the Associated Press-
HAVANA. December ls-The Cuban
sugar tax bill which the army political
faction seeks to use as lever to
oust President Miguel Mariana Gomez
was on its way to him today after
passage in an uproarious congressional
session.
The adherents Of the nations mill
tary strong man." Col. Fulgencio
Batista, drove the measure through
the House.
The House passed the bill by vote
of 106 to 4s and later approved it para
grap,l by paragraph. thus sending 1t
directly to Gomez for the signature he
declared he would not give to the bill.
If Gomez should veto the bill, sup
porters of Batista vowed they would
move to impeach him for interference
with legislative acts.
Gomez gave as his reason for his
promised veto his belief that the bill,
by providing funds for army-taught
schools, would be the means of edu-
eating young Cubans in the Fascist
manner"
Evening star., 1936-12-19
C|NGELL GR|L[ED
IN MURDER CASE
Hunt for Second Suspect in
Staying of Matthews
Is Pressed.
BY ROBERT A. ERWIN.


ROCKVILLE, Md, December ls.-
Sullen and silent, Lawrence Gingell.
2o-year-old former golf caddie, sat in
a cell in Montgomery County Jail to-
day while police sought William Reed,
IS, in connection with the murder
of Elwood Matthews, SO, wealthy
farmer, on the night of November 81.
Gingell a youth whose mother ad-
vised him Tuesday to surrender to
police, stood charged with the Mat
thews murder. The warrant accus-
ing him of murder was based on the
confession in Charleston, w. Va. OF
w. Joseph Kirby, who implicated
Reed and Gingell and charged Reed
fired two bullets into the farmers
body after throwing him into North
west Branch.
Kirby, wounded by West Virginia
State police in gun battle last week.
was recovering in Charleston today
as police threw a Gordon of men
around the farm of Reeds father in
an effort to apprehend the ex-Mary-
land convict. Kirby said the three
of them held up Matthews.
Gingell meanwhile held out against
the verbal assault of Montgomery
County police, who questioned him
regarding the murder of Matthews
on the roadside at Four Corners. He
also was grilled about other crimes
in this county and In West Virginia
and his whereabouts since Matthews
disappeared.
Matthews disappearance was re-
ported to police November %. His
body was found on a rock in the
branch last Sunday. Gingell spent
Tuesday night at the home of his
mother in Kensington and was cap-
tured Thursday on the Highway
Bridge in Washington. He waived
extradition and after visits to the
scene of the crime and to his mother
was jailed here yesterday.
Reed, believed to be without funds,
was supposedly hiding in the coun-
try near his fathers home, protected
by woods, heavy growth OF under
brush and pathways known only to
himself and members of his family.
Gingell, nervous but close mouthed,
was questioned yesterday by Sergts.
Theodore Vollten, Guy Jones and Le-
roy Rodgers of Montgomery County
police. At Northwest Branch and
before his mother he denied knowing
Reed, professed slight knowledge Of
the creek and made a blanket denial
OF any part in the crime. He con-
tended he had been 'out Of town for
the past six weeks"
Gingell described as q rame-up"
the confession of Kirby. He said he
had seen Kirby only once and hardly
knew him.
Bioodhounds are expected to be
brought into the quest for Reed over
the wooded Maryland countryside to-
day or tomorrow. Officers said the
Reed home was too obvious q place
to post 24-hour lookouts.
Gingell, it was indicated, will be
questioned again today.
Evening star., 1936-12-19
CHICAGO PRODUCE.

CHICAGO. December 10 OP.-Poultry,
live "A trucks: steady 10 arm; hens. 4Ia
pounds up l5h less than than "a pounds
pound. tssnosa 1S soioree en' o P;moash koct.
eolored,, ,13;, Plymouth Rock, -: White
broilers, is: Plymouth and White Rock.
Is; turkeys. hens. II: young toms. ISL;
eld. I3: No. turkeys. t3: ducks. white,
White ana colored. IL: Northern ss.s.. Is:
southern see. seese II; nd;na eahponS POUNDS 5: yp:
Dressed turkeys steady to frm: hens,
young, 2lh: old. 1efs; toms. young. is
81 "a; old. is: No. q turkeys 15is..
Butter. :421 steady; prices unchanEed.
EEss s2sa agsT sss.d sxsfe nsss Net: ear:
and local. 2S17: current receipts. sS: re-
frigerstor extras 27,t; refrigerstor stand-
Evening star., 1936-12-19
CHICAGO GRAIN
Ee the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, December ls.-Quick
price rallies succeeded reactions that
carried Chicago wheat values down
about IL cents at some stages today
Renewal OF disturbing reports of
food shortage in Germany appeared
to be largely responsible for re-
establishing an upward trend Of wheat
values here. The preceding decline
resulted mainly from disappointing
action of the Liverpool market.
Instead of advancing, as looked for,
x to Pa cents overnight, wheat prices
at Liverpool closed today at 1s-cent
decline to ss-cent gain. Dispatches
from Liverpool reported that bread
stuff demand from Germany for
wheat had not yet developed and that
bidding on the part of British millers
was curtailed. A sudden collapse of
5 cents in rye quotations at Winnipeg
was also q transitory besrish factor as
to wheat.
Buying on price setbacks in Chicago,
however, soon lifted wheat and rye
futures TO above yesterdays finish.
From low of sl321.. May wheat here
rose to sl.337s on some transa ctions,
against yesterdays close Of Sl.33l2-34
Rallies of rye quotations were assisted
by the fact that scarcity Of domestic
stocks had been accentuated by .50o,-
600 bushels reduction OF the United
States Government rye crop estimate
Corn and oats responded TO upturns
OF wheat and rye.
Provisions showed little change.
Around IL am, wheat was ~
lower. compared with yesterday s
finish; December. 1885,: May, 1885,
and corn was 4 of to p up: Decem-
Der. l.0S%; May. new. l.o4's.
IiverpOsi wheat Priees
Evening star., 1936-12-19
GETS NEW POST IN BANK

ATLANTA. December 10 LP).-Georee
c. West. concluding a three-year term
as a director of the Federal Home Loan
Bank OF Winston-Salem. N. c.. will
become public interest director for the
institution for four-year term jan
uary /, an announcement here yes
terday said.
West is an Atlanta business man.
The bank serves seven Southern States
and the District of Columbia.
Evening star., 1936-12-19
GEN. HENRY FISHER,
RETIRED, SUCCUMBS
Medical Corps Officer Was Vet
eran Of Spanish and
World Wars.

Brig. Gen. Henry c. Fisher. SO,
q. S. A.. Medical Corps. retired. vet
eran OF both the Spanish American
and World Wars, died last night in
Walter Reed Hospital He lived at
1l08 South Arlington road, Arlington,
Va, and had been in the hospital since
Wednesday.
Gen. Fisher had served on several
important tours Of duty in this city.
His last service here was as assistant
30 the surgeon general, from October
II, 1929. to May 81. 1881, when he
retired after 40 years service.
He was awarded the Distinguished
Service Medal for exceptionally mer-
itorious and distinguished services" as
chief sanitary inspector of the Ameri-
can Expeditionary Forces in France
during the World War
He also received citation for Eek
beptionally meritorious and conspicuous
services in the Surgeon Generals Office,
Supply Division" A. E. F. In addition.
he was awarded the French Legion of
Honor decoration.
AL JttC IC
was awarded Silver Star citation "for
gallantry in action against Spanish
forces at Santiago, Cuba, July l, 1898,
In attending wounded under fire"
Gen. Fisher, q native of Montgomery
County. Md, received his early educa-
ton In high and normal schools in this
city and later was graduated from
Georgetown University, receiving the
degrees Of A. M. jand M. D. there.
He entered the military service In
October. 1891. as first lieutenant and
assistant surgeon. Besides his services
In the two wars, he also had served in
the Philippines.
Before the World War he served at
Walter Reed Hospital from August,
1918, to May, 1914, and then in the
ONCE of the Surgeon General 20 De-
cember, 1877.
Returning to Washington after the
World War he was on duty in the
Office Of the Surgeon General until
March, 1919. when he was ordered to
the Canal Zone to become chief
health officer there. He remained
there until June, 1925, when he. was
assigned to duty as commandant OF
the Army Medical School here, serv-
ing in this capacity until October
1929,
Gen. Fisher leaves no immediate
relatives. His wife, Mrs. Jessie Fisher
died In 1884
Funeral services will be held al
1880 am. Monday in Walter Reed
Memorial Chapel Burial will be in
Arlington National Cemetery.
Evening star., 1936-12-19
$4,000 to Hamilton
Is Usual Receivers
Salary, Borah Says

~ the Associated Press.
Commenting on the s25,000
salary voted for John D. M.
Hamilton. as chairman Of the
Republican National Committee,
Senator Borah, Republican, of
Idaho, said yesterday:
That. as I understand it, Is
the customary salary of receiv-
ers."
Other Republicans were slow in
recommending. But Senator Austin,
Republican, Of Vermont. said he
, was glad to hear of the COM
smittee's action, because Hamilton
faced 4 big Job.
Evening star., 1936-12-19

NcIok Cu AAOta
men who became
e nrs ge d when
they found their
victim ad no
money.
The ass au ! t
took place in an
alley, into which
DR.. M e tZ W a S
dragged after be-
ing accosted by
the men In the
100 b lock of
Sixth street as he
was on his way
to the synagogue
at Sixth and ]
Evening star., 1936-12-19
ASSEMBLY PLANT QUITS.
Shortage Of Parts Causes 100 to
Cease Work.

CINCINNATI, December 10 R.-A
shortage of parts caused by sit
down" strike In a Detroit manufac-
turing plant caused the Ford Motor
Co.'S assembly plant here to close to-
day. B. w. Burroughs, plant man
ager, said approximately 400 persons
were affected. He said he expected
the suspension tajsontinue only for q
lsw days.
Evening star., 1936-12-19
Liverpool Quotations.

LIVERPOOL. December ie tP.-cotton
10000 bales: American nil, Spot in fair
demand; prices points higher. Quota
tions in pence: American, strict good mid
ding. 7.7S; good middlinE. 7.42; strict
n miadIins az ioS mddlins ssd 5!': strfet rGT
good ordinary. $40: good ordinary, $50.
Futures closed steady; December, $40;
January. 6.6S: March. SO; May. Sos;
July, $50; October. $50.
Evening star., 1936-12-19
HOLD-UP MEN BEAT
DR.. SOLOMON METZ
CoIored Pair Enraged by
Absence of Money
on Victim.

Or. Solomon Meta, rabbi Of the Adas
Israel Synagogue. last night was
beaten about the face, his glasses
broken and his clothes torn by two
Evening star., 1936-12-19
BIZ the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
POTTSvILLE. Pa, December 10
Police of nine States hunted today for
Joseph J. Bruno, who. serving a life
sentence for murder in the Kelayres
election eve massacre Of 1884. walked
away from a Schuyikill County prison
guard.
Pennsylvania officials, on personal
orders from Gov. George H. Earle. be-
gan an immediate investigation, pre-
faced by the charge of Attorney Cen
eral Charles J. Margiotti that the
escape was accomplished through a
well-planned conspiracy of certain
public officials and Others"
Bruno. former Republican leader
in the hilltop mining town of Kel-
ayres. walked away from the guard.
Guy Irving. yesterday. ostensibly to go
to 3 dentists ofiics while Irving
Evening star., 1936-12-19
LOAN AUTHORIZED
Mexico to Borrow $4,000, 900 for
Public Works.

MEXICO CITY, December l9 R.-
The Chamber of Deputies yesterday
authorized President Lazaro Cardenas
to borrow s5,000.000 to finance the
governments public works program.
It was understood the loan would
be handled through banking group
in the United States. but no arrange
ments were announced.
Evening star., 1936-12-19

Building Societies Popular.
More than 1000 900 people in Eng
land are buying homes through build
ing societies.
Evening star., 1936-12-19
BULLETIN.

POTTSVILLE. Pa, December 10
R.-County Prison Warden Her
bert Gosslin and two aides were
dismissed today for gross negli-
gence" because Of the escape OF
Joseph Bruno, serving q life term
for the Kelayres election eve mas
sacre.
Evening star., 1936-12-19

Cottonseed Oil
Bleachable cottonseed oil futures
closed steady. January. 1923; March,
11.3l: May. 1141a42; July, Has.
Sales, SO contracts.
Evening star., 1936-12-19
Ew YORK. December 10 un.-reder.l
RAILWAY INCOME

NEW YORK. December 10 up. - Rail-
come before hxsd charges and other in
.-... c,s south ssas.sss ssassssis sissss.ssjss
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MONEY MARKET.

NEW YORK December 1e OF.@0oppes
Arm: slsetroiytac spot and future. 100:
EXPORT. II. .26-D. othsr metals nominAuy
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New Orleans Prices.

NEW ORLEANS. December 10 QP-Cot-
ton futures closed steady at net advances
nf tn A
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INVESTING COMPANIES

NFW YORK December 10 4P,-Nev
YORK Security Dealers Association;
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Labor

Continued From First Page.)
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INSURANCE STOCKS

NEW YORK. December 10 R.-New
York Security Dealers Association:
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Exodus

CONTINUED From First Page.)
Evening star., 1936-12-19
FEDERAL LAND BANKS

(a) Also extra or extras.
tg) Declared or paid so far this year.
Evening star., 1936-12-19

SPOT steady: middling. 1881.
Nominal.
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chairman Of the House District
Committee.
Likelihood that Mrs. Norton may
be given a place on the powerful
Appropriations Committee is Sug-
gested by the fact that one of those
on that committee who met defeat
last Tuesday was Representative
Florence Kahn (R) of California,
a veteran member of Congress.
Mrs. Norton has served a long time
in the House and it may be that
leaders will desire to honor that
long service by placing her on the
Appropriations group.
Would Aid District
While such shift would lose
the District a champion Of its
causes as far as legislative matters
are concerned, it would give the
District valiant supporter on the
Appropriations sub ON mitt e e,
where the municipal government
needs help even more.
Should Mrs. Norton go to the
Appropriations group, it is likely
that Representative Jennings Ran
dolph CD of West Virginia, a
loyal champion of the city, would
take over the Craftsmanship Of the
District Legislative Committee.
Although Representatives Vim
cent l.. Palmisano CD and Am
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DISTRICT NOTES SHIFTS IN HOUSE

brose Kennedy (DO, both Of Mary.
land, and Wright Patman CD Of
Texas would be in line for the
District craftsmanship post before
Randolph, it is doubtful il they
would accept the job because in
the case of either it would mean
that they would have to give up a
more important Craftsmanship.
At least two new faces will
appear on the District Committee
during the coming session by vir-
tue of the fact that Representative
Randolph Carpenter CD Of Kan
sas did not run for reelection and
Representative Clare G. Fenerty
(R. of Pennsylvania was defeated.
Setup in Senate
Shifting to the Senate District
situation, it is possible that the
District Committee may have q
new chairman.
Senator William H. King CD
Of Utah, present chairman, is
ranking member of the Senate
Committee on immigration, which
last session was presided over by
Senator Marcus A. Coolidge Cd
of Massachusetts,. Senator Cool
idge did not run for reelection,
and this places the Utahan in a
position to claim the 1mmigra-
ton Craftsmanship.
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Continued from Page y

M. Jacobsen 3D. of Iowa, who
was next in line, but he died dur
ing the summer, thus making the
probable appointee Representative
George johnson CD of West Vir-
GINA, just reelected.
He and Representative j. Will
liam Otter (RD of Pennsylvania,
who also won in Tuesdays cleo
ton, are the only ones who
served on the. subcommittee last
year and who will be back in the
next Congress.
Two More Democrats
AS a result, two more Demo
cratic members of the Appropria-
tions Committee will be named
on the District subcommittee.
This situation suggests the pos
sibility which may bring about
major alterations in the person
mel of the House District Commit
tee, that possibility being that
Representative Mary T. Norton
CD of New Jersey, District COM
mittee chairman, may be ap-
pointed to the Appropriations
Committee and be placed on the
District subcommittee Of that
group.
In that case, she probably
would give up her position as
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Arizona Governor
Loses, Snubs Winner

PHOENIX, Ariz., Nov. 5 G.N.S9
Thomas Campbell, former Repub'
lican Governor, today refused to
congratulate his Democratic oppo'
nent, R. C. Stamford. who de-
feated him in an attempt to re-
turn to that office in Tuesdays
voting.
Governor Campbell explained:
Hypocrisy is not my creed"
In the Democratic landslide
President Roosevelt defeated Gov
ernor Landon by more than 22
to /. With 401 Of the States 435
precincts counted, Roosevelt had
76,808, Landon, 29,821 and Lemke.
2,557. John R. Murdoch CD de-
feated George L. Burgess RO,
for Congress by more than 3 to l.
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