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Evening star., 1936-07-06

The nature TO Roisner's alleged con-
nection with the Karpis- Barker gang
and the Hamm kidnapping was not
divulged by the F. B. !. director, but 1t
was declared he was In association
with the ringleaders in this (the
Hamm) abduction"
The ringleaders Of that kidnapping,
the F. B. I. previously has asserted,
were Karpis. captured recently in New
Orleans, and the Barker brothers,
Arthur, serving life at Alcatraz Prison
and Fred, killed by F. B. I. agents in
Florida.
Operating out Of headquarters
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Drought

Continued From First Page.)
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THREE DIE IN PLANE
CRASH NEAR NORFOLK
Pilot Is Killed Ir.tantly and Two
Others Expire on Way to
Hosttal.

BY the Associated Press.
NORFOLK, Va, July 6.-Three
men died near here yesterday in q
post-holiday plane crash. One was
instantly killed, the two others. ia
tally hurt. died while they we're being
brought to a hospital here.
The dead:
Garnett H Tonkin. SO, of Norfolk,
manager here for the Leckie Coal Co.
Melvin D. Sawyer, %, East Lake,
N. G..
Albert Murray Gard, IS, Manns
Harbor, N. c.
The plane, piloted by Tonkin
struck close to a cottage on Cur
retuck Sound, near Nags Head, N. c.
He was instantly killed.
Evening star., 1936-07-06

opening with sellers holding on in
the face of the bullish market.
Corn futures were up about 4 cents
The Winnipeg wheat market was
more than cents higher at times and
Liverpool quotations closed to Az
cents up.
Resumption of heavy speculative
buying in all world grain markets was
based on fear that wheat production
in the Northern Hemisphere might
be so small as. to seriously impair
necessary reserves carried over from
one crop to another. The balance of
the supply situation was finely weighed
on the outcome of the Canadian
Spring wheat crop, and many traders
believed that should it develop that
losses in the Dominion were substan-
tial, the supply and demand adjust
ment might be close. Although the
United States Winter crop turned out
better than last year, this country
was expected to be forced to continue
on an importing basis, dependent par
ticularly on Canada for better grades
of wheat.
The worlds carry-over of wheat was
estimated at the smallest level in nine
years. Successive years of poor crops
in North America since 1882 have re-
suited in substantial depletion of the
big reserves which a few years ago
constituted surpluses that depressed
world wheat prices.
Thousands of Catholics in Nebraska
knelt at special masses yesterday to
pray for rain. They were urged to
continue their prisons. In an Epis-
copal letter on these days of alarm
and distress" Bishop L. B. Kucera of
Lincoln set forth in part:
I'm view of crop failures in our
territory during the past several years,
the present situation gives rise to a
most acute problem. Human ingenuity
fails completely. Poisoned mash may
conquer the grasshoper plague, but
what shall we do to move those
things which only God can control?
There is but one answer We must
pray"
Out in Arizona the Navajo Indians
chanted supplication in a "rain-mak-
ing" ritual
approximately 5000 resourceless
farmers in Wyoming, North Dakota
and Montana were called to work on
w. P. A. relief projects. Admins
traitors planned to employ at least
$4,000 in building water conservation
dams and farm-to-market roads in
those States and South Dakota and
Minnesota.
Harried planters looked to WASH
ington for the ompletion of a full
program, co-ordinating the activi-
ties of all Federal agencies acting in
the emergency. There-today or to-
morrow-Government relief officials
planned to lay a detailed report on
the Midwestern drought and an out
line of contemplated assistance before
President Roosevelt.
Spokesman for the A. A. A. dis
closed buying of distressed cattle In
the north Central States would pro-
ceed, but there would be no in1medi-
ate heavy purchases.
FARMERS TURN TO w. p. A.
Evening star., 1936-07-06
BRITAIN DEMANDS
FREE DARDANELLES
N-Clause Document Asks
Clear Entry to Black Sea
for All Ships.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Polite Turkish diplomats, to
tDhom direct piolatton Of treaty
pledges haze seemed odiouS. If not
crude, made respectful pleas to re-
arm the Ddrdanelles. The poDers
Uere almost comic in their rush to
bless the Turks and toreStaH unoth-
er slap in the face such as Germany
administered in reoccupytng the
Rhine. Advisers said that Turkey
could easily hare detied any objec-
tton NTH much of the redrmtng
already accomplished.
Meeting OF the League to de-
bate the Ethiopian question broke
up the conference recently Where
Japan, as usual, tDGS chief objector
to restrictions, especially those
that might bar submarines.
BY the Associated Press.
MONTREUX, Switzerland, July O.
Great Britain demanded today un-
restricted passage for her warships to
the Black Sea as the international
Dardanelles Conference resumed its
session.
The British proposal was embodied
In an official document of "a articles
distributed to all delegations at the
conference.
Contrary to the draft of the Turk
ish proposal, the British demand Gre
ated a stir among delegates called to-
gether TO consider a Turkish request
to refortify the Straits, officially con-
stituted as the Dardanelles, the Sea of
Marmora and the Bosphorous.
CTurkey, at the first sessions which
we're interrupted by the League OF
Nations assembly meeting, proposed to
limit warship tonnage proceeding east
ward through the Dardanelles to IA
600 tons at any one time)
Commission Requested.
The British draft also proposed
maintenance of some form of a
Straits commission, feature which
Turkey eliminated from her four
pointed request because she declared
no international supervision was
necessary.
LIE bIll1Sll dlSo ASANcNN
Turkey the right to close the Darda-
nelles when Turkish diplomats become
convinced their nation may be men
aced by war.
The British insisted Turkey should
submit such q question to the League
Council, which would decide by two
thirds vote whether Turkey was
menaced.
The British proposal was expected
TO draw opposition from the japanese
since Japan has withdrawn from the
League of Nations and therefore can
not be governed by a decision of tha
council.
No Preference Sought.
Great Britain acknowledged rights
for passage through the Dardanelles
given to her as a belligerent would be
accorded to other belligerents.
Critics of the suggestion remarked
this, however. would automatically
favor Great Britain because of her
naval supremacy.
The British document also proposed
an increase in tonnage each nation
may send through the Straits from
$4,000 to $4,000 tons in peacetime
with a maximum of 10000 tons for
all nations which would be boosted
to $4,000 tons if the size of the Rus
sian fleet were increased.
A plenary session of the conferees
was called for 5 pm. to discuss the
British draft.
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Mrs. Roosevelt

Continued From First Page.)
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G. 0. P. Emblem Shattered.

KANKAKEE, Ill. CP). - Jimmy
Greenwood had small elephant as a
radiator cap decoration on his car.
AS he passed another automobile, he
complained to the police. man with
a crutch leaned out. made swipe at
the Republican emblem and shattered
II
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Help Nature to Reduce
High Blood Pressure

by drinking Mountain Valley Mineral
Water. direct from famous Hot SPRINGS.
Arkansas. Its natural alkalinity neutra-
lizes toxic acids and assists in their elimi-
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Mountain Valley Mineral Water
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Evening star., 1936-07-06

Canadian Mountain High.
Canada's Mount Assiniboine has q
height of over 1000 feet.
Evening star., 1936-07-06

curittes stolen more than q year ago
from the Bank Of Manhattan Co. and
the United States Trust Co. in New.
York City have been recovered.
Evening star., 1936-03-06
Note From, Teacher
Blamed by Youth
For Disappearance

It was all on account OF note his
teacher wrote his grandmother. report
ing him for "inattention" in class.
Thus Arthur Bainbridge, IL. pupil
in the fifth grade at Ross School ex-
planned his disappearance yesterday
and that of his 10-year-old brother,
Walter, jr.. and another schoolmate,
William Jones, II. of 2l26 r street.
Carrying the note, Arthur left school
yesterday with Walter and Billy, and
his pace became slower the nearer he
got to his home-and grandmother.
That's why. when it was suggested
that all three take trip somewhere,
Arthur agreed. 1t was not that he had
some place he wanted to go, but ne did
not want to get home any sooner than
he could help. Billy provisioned the
expedition with loaf of bread from
the family bread box.
when the boys did not come home
at dinner time, their parents notified
police. They were traced as far as @
Street Bridge, where they had been
seen westward botind and on foot.
Police in Alexandria picked them up
late last night and notified their par
ents. who took them home.
Never again." said Arthur, think
ing the matter over today. Il
got pretty hungry and it was cold. too.
And had to give Grandma the letter,
anyhow!"
Evening star., 1936-03-06

BY the Associated Press.
A charge of treason-rare in United
States history and carrying a maxi
mum penalty of death-today threat
ened Pedro Albizu Campos, who calls
himself President of the Puerto Rican
Republic.
Secretary Ickes, under whose In
terror Department the island is ad-
ministered. yesterday described Albizu
as "a very dangerous person." and said
he would be prosecuted for treason.
"Albizu is not only opposed to United
States sovereignty over Puerto Rico. "
said Ickes, but believes, and has tried
to make his followers believe, that
Puerto Rico Is an independent coun-
try"
The Department of Justice author
lied A. Cecil Snyder, United States at
torney for the island, to take necessary
action.
with reference to number of ar
rests in Puerto Rico," Justice Depart
ment statement said: "A. Cecil Snyder
- adised the department. several
days ago that he was in possession of
substantial evidence which indicated
violations of the statutes there. The
department informed Mr.. Snyder that
- he should proceed under the
law"
In the event d formal charge Of trea-
son should be lodged against Albish, he
would be tried In the Federal courts
OF the island.
Evening star., 1936-03-06
What's What
Behind News
il, Capital
Congress May Smother
Tax With Affection
and Safeguards.
BY PAUL MALLON.


THE quiet little game of Con-
gressional leaders now is to
provide President Roosevelt's
l. corporation reform taxes with
what may be more or less seriously
called Safeguards"
Mr. Roosevelt failed to mention any
of these in his message, but, OF course,
they are necessary One eminent
House leader suggested a fiat $500. .00O
exemption before the sound of the
reading clerks voice had died down
An equally prominent Senator pointed
out that such-and-such additional ex-
enlptions we're advisable. There will
be many more of these before and il
the corporate phase of the bill Ii
enacted
Consequently all the present er-
citement as to the effects OF the re-
form appear to be premature. The
proof OF the pudding iUill be In the
making and eating thereof, and not
in the recipe Whtch the White
House submitted. The real effect
uil not be the tar, but In the
exemptions.
That matter is being taken care OF
with smoothness and celerity which
suggests mutual consent, if not pre-.
arrangement.
Note-There are two accepted Con.
gressional methods of killing a White
House suggestion with which the
leaders are not personally in sympathy
One is to fight it, and the other is tt
smother it with affection, to safe.
guard it to- death. The latter method
is always less painful in a campaign
wear.
Evening star., 1936-03-06
WOMANSAvESS1OD
AND DIAMOND RING
Mrs. Maude Johnson Battles
Purse Snatcher to Save
Friends Cash.

The sl00 entrusted to Mrs. Maude
johnson by friend, along with her
own diamond ring, still was in her
possession today-despite strenuous
efforts of a purse -snatcher to take
them away from her.
Mrs. johnson, who lives at 1926
Fifteenth street, put up such battle
when attacked at Third and Van
Buren streets last night that she came
of with a sprained wrist and an in
jured ankle. Although armed with a
knife, her assailant fed after she had
tripped him.
An employe of the General Account.
ing Office. Mrs. johnson was on her
way to visit friend, Mrs. Charles
Ford. 6601 Sixth street. shortly after
dark. In her pocketbook she had 500
fellow worker had given her to de-
posit and her own diamond ring.
She left street car at Third and
Van Buren streets and started toward
Sixth. The street was deserted. ex-
cept for a large sedan occupied by
two white men. AS soon as the street
car was out of sight. the automobile
pulled to the curb and one of the
men jumped out.
He grabbed Mrs. johnson by the
arm and twisted it. She jerked away
and started to fall. The man then
grabbed her pocketbook, breaking the
strap As Mrs. johnson fell. sae trip
ped her assailant. who had started
back to the car with her purse.
AS he also fell, a knife clattered on
the sidewalk. The pocketbook fell in
the gutter. Mrs. johnson jumped up
and put her foot on the purse. The
man then made two alf-hearted at
tempts to pick it up, but fed when
the headlights of another car
appeared.
Mrs. johnson recovered the pocket
book and continued to Mrs. Ford's
home. Her new Spring suit was
ruined, but she had the satisfaction
Of sending the s1oo to a bank this
morning.
Il wasn't frightened" Mrs. John
son said. 1T all happened too fast
for that"
Evening star., 1936-03-06
new STAMP ISSUE
TO HONOR HEROES
Army and Navy Commemorative
Set Will Be Printed
This Summer.
BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.

By JAMES WALDU FAWCEII.
BY request of President Roosevelt,
the Post ONCE Department will bring
out special series of postage stamps
in homage to the memory of famous
soldiers and sailors. The set will be
known as the Army and Navy COM
memoratives and will be issued this
Summer.
No details have been decided as yet,
but it is indicated that the President
desires to employ the stamps to show
people the history of the military and
naval establishments of the Govern
ment. Patriotism, he believes, must
be intelligent, and even the Post Office
can help in the work of educating the
masses to understand the traditions of
the armed services.
Mr.. Roosevelt. according to authori-
tative report, was greatly pleased with
the results achieved by the National
Park stamps Of 1884.
West Point and Annapolis would be
included among the subject material
of the new set, and celebrated forts
and ships may be represented.
In stamps produced between l847
and 1895. the Post Office Department
has commemorated Gen. Winfield
Scott, Commodore Oliver H. Perry,
Gen. william T. Sherman, Admiral
David D. Farragut. Capt. Nathan Hale,
Count de Rochambeau, Count de
Grasse, Gen. Frederick William Won
Steuben, Gen. John Sullivan, Gen.
Casirnir Pulaski, Gen. Thaddeus Kos
ciusko. Molly Pitcher, John Ericsson,
Gen. George Rogers Clark, Gen. An
thony Wayne. Gen. U. S. Grant and
of course-George Washington.
A battleship was shown In the reve-
nue stamps of 1898.
Evening star., 1936-03-06
Your Income Tax
Extension for Filing Returns and Pay.

kAsLhSAVA NCtuEHS anu f6ys
ment of Tax.
1t is important that the taxpayer
render, on or before the date due,
which is March is if the return Is
filed for the calendar year basis, as
| complete and final return of income as
possible.
However, when by reason of illness,
absence from home, inability to Sc
cure the necessary data, or for other
good and sufficient reasons, additional
time is required. reasonable extern
sion of time may be granted.
Application should be made in writ
ing to the collector of internal revenue
for the district in which the taxpayer
files his returns on or before the due
date of the return. full recital of the
causes for the delay being given. Ex-
cept in the case of taxpayers who are
abroad, no extension may be granted
for period of more than six months.
Payment Unaffected.
An extension Of time for filing the
return does not extend the time for
payment Of the tax or any iflstallment
thereof unless SO specified in the ex-
tension.
Application for an extension of time
for payment of the tax on any INSTALL
fnent thereof should be made on form
1127 to the commissioner of internal
revenue through the collector of in
ternal revenue for the district in which
the taxpayers return Is filed
The applicant should set-forth Under
oath the SPECIFIC reason for desiring
an extension and should clearly indi-
cate what hardship, If any, would re-
suit If the extension were not granted.
In addition, statement OF assets
and liabilities showing the taxpayers
financial condition as Of the last day
of the preceding month, or as Of the
close of the last taxable period, and
separate statement of receipts and dis
bursements for each of the three
months Immediately preceding the
month in which the application is filed
should be submitted.
Amount Must Be Given.
The amount of tax for which the
extension Of time of payment is de-
sired should be stated. The commits
sioner will not consider an extension
of time OF payment unless request is
made on or before the due date of the
tax or installment thereof.
II the extension Is granted, interest
at the rate Of per cent q year is coli
lectib1e from the date the payment
should have been made II there had
been no extension to the expiration Of
the period Of the extension.
For oficial advice and help in your
income tax problems call at room 1000,
Revenue Building, Twelfth street ana
Constitution avenue, the office of the
deputy collector Of. internal revenue,
where Government experts will help
you make out your income tax re-
turn. administer the oath, and tlik
cashier win receive your payment.
ONCE hours there today Q am. to
. Pm -.s- ,...s II. zss
Evening star., 1936-03-06

1t was hardly an oversight that Mr..
Roosevelt neglected to go into the
moral benefits of such a tax. Those
of his advisers who know what moral
benefits were considered, and who
favor them, outline them something
like this:
The control of corporations would
be moved from Wall Street to Main
Street" Executives would have to
rely on stockholders for their capital
market. The stockholders would get
all the net earnings in dividends and
thus the executives would have to
come to the stockholders to raise
money for consultations, plant ex-
pansions, increasing their own salaries,
etc.
Thus 1t would decentralize control of
business, would put a strait jacket on
its existing size.
Wall Street Guesses.
No one ever coiatended that Wall
Street is logical. No one will, after
the market went up on the basis Of the
new tax program.
Woozy thinkers up there jumped to
the conclusion that distribution of
all corporate earnings would increase
the value of stocks. It would, but not
Under MFR. Roosevelt's program.
The fundamental fact ts that
Mr.. Roosevelt proposed to tar
s620,000,0 900 year more out OF
corporate earnings. Any one can
see upon reflection that his pro-
gram would actually depreciate the
real north of corporate stocks bg
that amount.
The price of stocks is supposed to
be based on net worth. That means
reserves as well as earnings and divi.
dends. To distribute all the earnings
does not change the material value
Of the corporation. Instead, the dis.
tribution weakens the financial posi-
ton of the corporation, and the addi.
tional taxes make Its stock worth that
much less.
It is not the first time wall Street
chased a Roosevelt rainbow, nor will
1t be the last
tcopyright 1850
Evening star., 1936-03-06
CRYING BABY WANTED

SALT LAKE CITY, March s lP.-
The cry of a baby-sonnething count
less floor walking fathers would be
more than glad to give away-is be-
ing sought by a University of Utah
dramatics fraternity. The offer car
ries a cash stipend of SO cents an
hour. >f
The fraternity wants to use the cry
in its next stage production. The in
fantile walls could be recorded elec-
trically and used as needed.
Evening star., 1936-03-06
G. O. P. SECRETARIES
ON HILL MAY ORGANIZE
Head of Michigan Group Charges
"Little Congress- Now Is DOM
mated by Democrats,

Establishment of a Republican
Secretaries Club on Capitol Hill was
q possibility today after secretaries to
Republican members OF Congress from
Michigan met yesterday and elected
William H. Hackett, secretary to Rep
resentative Crawford. as temporary
chairman of the Michigan group.
Asking for organization of Republi-
can secretaries from all States,
Hackett today charged that Little
Congress" the union of congressional
secretaries, continues to be dominated
by Democrats. despite the fact minori-
ties were given recognition in previous
administrations. It has frequently
happened, Hackett said. that when
Republican members Of the group at
tempted to participate in debate, the
meeting was cut short by a Demo-
cratic motion for adjournment.
Final organization of the Michigan
group is scheduled for Tuesday.
Evening star., 1936-03-06

herited from the final stretch of the
previous administration, which. as
they seem to recall. was one of the
best times for bad times anybody ever
saw.
If there are any little odds and ends
of unclassified times floating around,
both parties are willing for Senator
La Toilette to claim them for his
very own.
Speaking of Washington, we haven't
heard much lately sfrom our director
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
Mr.. ]. Edgar Hoover Can it be that
he's hid away for fear anybody may
pop out Of the Interior Department
and name him ]. Edgar Boulder?
tCopyrisht 1898. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc)
Evening star., 1936-03-06

Mr.. Roosevelt's smile was as wide
as watermelon rind when he sent
his tax message to Congress. In fact,
one of the reasons why he did not
60 up to read it himself Is supposed
to be that he could not trust himself
to keep from laughing.
Low-Down on Merriment.
The inner mirth was widespread
Some of the New Deal tax reform ex-
perts fell out of their chairs chuckling
The reason for all the merriment
was this:
Here was Mr.. Roosevelt who tried
last year to tax bigness, and Congress
turned him down. Here was Con-
gress passing a bonus bill and the
Supreme Court knocking out a pro-
cessing tax, both over his objections
So what does he do but disguise his
old bigness-tax idea as a needed reve-
nue. correction and ship 1t back up to
Congress as almost a routine sug-
gestion!
Every one except the Congressman
could see the joke.
Congress and Wall Street may have
been a little confused about Mr.
Roosevelt's purpose, but any tax ex-
pert could see through 1t. What they
generally saw was this:
Mr. Roosevelt took a bad enforce
ment defect to start with. Several
rich people are escaping high surtax
rates by having their corporations
accumulate undivided profits Every
one is against that. Vice President
Garner. who is not exactly a brain
truster, campaigned against it for
years He wrote several restrictions
into tax laws designed to correct the
situation, but all have been ineffective.
Upon that technical defect Mr..
Roosevelt built neU and bigger
idea. He proposed to plug the
loophole Utth q Ultole neU system
of corporate tares He Mould force
all corporations to distribute all
their earnings hereafter and then
get his tar reUenne out OF the
stockholders uho receiue the earn
ings.
1t is essentially the same funda-
mental attack on bigness as repre-
sented in the Frankfurter-Brnnde
tar philosophy That is as large a
peg as has euer been offered for
minor loophole.
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Evening star., 1936-03-06
DEBATE SCHEDULED
Georgetown Will Meet Virginia

0eorSetoWn Will meet virginia
at Charlottesville Tonight.
The first debate in many years be-
tween Georgetown and the University
of Virginia will be held tonight at
Charlottesville on Supreme Court
issue.
Representing the Walsh Society Of
the Foreign Service School, the George
town debaters will oppose granting
Congress the power, by a two-thirds
vote, to override Supreme Court de-
cisions holding its acts unconstitu-
tional. Richard e. Corrigan, Simon
Rottenberg and Bunting Oliver COM
pose the team, the first intercollegiate
debating team the school has put In
the field. Recently the same team
defeated Villanova and Drexel In
stftute.