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: At a later press conference, Nor
genthau said no cut in liquor taxes
was contemplated, but beyond that
declined to say what taxes were spe-
cifically in mind.
Lots of taxes cost almost as much
money to collect as they bring in in
revenue" the Secretary said.
Morgenthau asserted changes in the
1886 tax bill, imposing levies on the
undistributed earnings of corpora
tions, would depend on what the ex-
perts find. He noted, however, that
the bill had not yet become effective.
Morgenthau Explains Figures.
Asked if an officially reported s38,-
000, 900 increase in revenues since the
fiscal year began on July was the
basis for the program, Morgenthau
replied that the figures on which his
statement rested were those received
every month from the Treasury ex-
perts, dealing with estimates of future
receipts, based on business conditions.
Today's conference in the private
study of the President on the second
floor of the White House was the out
growth of a communication to Mr..
Roosevelt from the Secretary of the
Treasury several days ago in which
Morgenthau called attention to the
steadily increasing business and reve-
nues and suggested a conference to
discuss the subject.
This letter from the Secretary fol-
lows:
AT your request, the Treasury De-
partment since the adjournment Of
Congress has been giving careful at
tention to the adequacy of the tax
structure to meet the revenue needs of
the Government and generally to the
desirability of additional tax legisla-
tion.
I'VE have reached the conclusion
that no new taxes and no increases in
present tax rates are necessary. Due
to continued improvement in business
conditions, the yield of existing taxes
is steadily increasing.
Total revenues from sources other
than the outlawed processing taxes in
the fiscal year 1886 were substantially
higher even than our estimates of last
January. In addition, the tax struc-
ture was strengthened by the revenue
act of 1886, which constitutes a major
Improvement in our tax system.
With continued recovery We are
steadily approaching a revenue yield
which will be entirely adequate to
cover the expenditures of government
and to reduce the public debt.
ANY changes in the tax structure
should, therefore, not be in the direc-
ton of increased taxes. But this very
situation makes it possible and timely
for us now to consider revision of the
tax laws with the purpose of removing
any inequities or unnecessary admins
trative difficulties that may be inher-
ent in the law and abating or modify
ing taxes that create unfairness to
consumers or to trade or have other
disadvantages which outweigh their
revenue yield.
II suggest the desirability of your
asking Senator Harrison and Repre-
sentative Doughton of the Joint Com
mittee on Internal Revenue Taxation
to discuss with you the advisability Of
undertaking soon thorough examina-
ton of the tax laws with the object
of making improvements of the char
acter / have outlined.
1T goes without saying that we shall
(See TAXES, Page A-2)
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Chosen Floods Fatal.

SEOUL, Chosen, August IS R)-
Heavy floods In South and Central
Chosen on the heels Of drenching
rains have taken at least 96 lives, the
government announced today. Twenty
one persons are missing.
A thousand houses were destroyed
and more than 1000 inundated.
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~ Al. RAMON FRANCO, famous
M Spanish transatlantic flyer
v and hero of the 1881 revolt
1 L against King Alfonso, was
dismissed today by the Madrid gov
ernment from his post of air attache
of the Spanish Embassy here. accord
ing to an Associated Press cable.
Maj. Franco was not surprised at
the news, although he has not heard
officially of the action from his su-
periors.
II have been expecting the dismissal
See FRANCO, Page A-8D
Evening star., 1936-08-13
EXPECTS SECOND CHILD
Crown Princess Marie Jose Stay

Crown Princess Marie Jose Stay
ing in Castle Near Turin.
NAPLES, August 13 R.-Crown
Princess Marie Jose is expecting the
birth of her second child early next
year, sources close to the royal family
said today.
The tall, gray-eyed Belgian princess
is staying in royal castle near Turin.
Her husband, Crown Prince Humbert,
joined her there today upon his return
from the Olympic games in Berlin.
The couple have one child, Maria
Pia, born September "a, 1884.
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BIZ the Associated Press.


WILMINGTON. Del, August 13.-
Mr.. and Mrs. William du Pont, jr.,
announced yesterday the marriage of
Du Points sister, Mrs. Marion du Pont
Somerville, to George Randolph Scott,
actor.
The wedding occurred March % in
Charlotte, N. C. Scott is in moving
pictures.
Mrs. Somerville is the daughter Of
the late Mr.. and Mrs. william du Pont
of Wilmington. She spends most Of
her time at her Montpelier, Va, resi-
dence, where she maintains extensive
stables. She and her first husband,
Thomas H. Somerville, were divorced
at Reno in October, 1885.
Scott is native Of Orange, Va.
Will Maintain Home.
ORANGE, Va, August Is R.-
Mrs. Marion du Pont Somerville,
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BULLETIN.

tCopyright. 1885. by the Associated Press
IRUN, Spain, August 13.-Five
rebel planes bombed the seaside
resort of San Sebastian today, in
flicting heavy damage in a final
desperate offensive for possession
of the city.
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Roosevelt Leaves
For Trip Through
Flood-Hit Section
fy the Associated Press.

Fy the Associated Press.
OF on a swift-moving flood control
survey trip through Pennsylvania and
New York. President Roosevelt today
set himself to view personally before
dusk some of the area inundated by
last Springs overflows.
AS the presidential special train
moved across Maryland and into
Pennsylvania, Mr.. Roosevelt had be-
fore him not only the subject matter
Of addresses to be delivered tomorrow
at Cleveland and Chautauqua, N. Y
the latter on foreign affairs-but also
a tax revision suggestion by Secre-
tary Morgenthau.
Almost Immediately, the President
motored to his special train, which
left the Capital shortly after 10 am.
Evening star., 1936-08-13

laSt night IN Film Actress Mary
Astor's child custody suit against
her ex-husband, DR.. Franklyn
Thorpe.
BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, August 13.-An
agreement sealing shut Mary Astor's
frank diary of film colony life and
granting the pretty actress partial
custody of her little daughter started
the curtain downward today on a
court drama-but disgruntled others
threatened more fireworks.
Cutting short a bitter court battle,
attorneys for Miss Astor and her for
mer husband, DR.. Franklyn Thorpe,
completed for a judges consideration
an agreement consigning to myste-
rious hiding the purple-inked diary.
It's contents, DR.. Thorpe's counsel
had said, would have exploded in the
faces of several prominent persons.
The diary, it was understood, will
be impounded at Judge Knights di-
rection, never to be used in litigation
between DR.. Thorpe and Miss Astor at
any future time.
New Sensations Seen.
But Miss Astor's accusations, In at
tempting to break the full custody
order held by her husband, that the
physician had associated with other
women left open the possibility Of
new sensations.
Paul Schofield, film writer, whose
wife's name was linked with DR..
Thorpe by an Astor witness, said en-
phatically
Depend upon tim going to take
legal steps to refute that slanderous
testimony. I can prove it's untrue" ="
Schofield added that his wife had
sent him several sizzling" kilograms
when it seemed her side was not to be
heard.
Mrs. Lillian Lawton Miles, accused
by Miss Astor of being DR.. Thorpe's
wife at the time Miss Astor married
him, also demanded the right to state
her case.
Miss Astor's battle for the right to
have 4-year-old Marylyn Thorpe with
her part of the time neared victory
after DR.. Thorpe had at first resisted
with the contention she was an unfit
parent.
Opposing counsel, while Withholding
details of the agreement last night,
indicated frankly that partial custody
would be granted the actress, who was
(See ASTOR, Page A-5.)
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said
administrations
families
their
strike and occupied temporarily the
Page
Evening star., 1936-08-13
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN,
Stan Correspondent of The Star.

PARs-Thee red tape awenspring omaty in reaching
Leon Blum the first 100 Socialist Prime Minister
You just in at the Pemer official the Hotel Magnon
eighteenth
residence and office the French establishment
Third Republic 1871 wait
Evening star., 1936-08-13
25,0DO MEN FIGHT
MINNESOTA FIRES
Adverse Winds and Low
Humidity Handicap Forces
in Woods.
BULLETIN.

ST. PAUL, August 13 (P.-Un-
limited powers to protect life and
property in the flre-ravaged North
Woods area were vested in Grover
Comet, State forester, by the State
Conservation Commission today.
Comet told the commission one
district alone was reporting on IL
fires daily.
Evening star., 1936-08-13
Texan Faces Death 1S Hours as
pumpers paf4Is

Pumpers Battle.
IRVING, Tex, August 13 CP.-Ed
Roberts, about so, trapped in a well
bottom, faced death for nearly 1S
hours while fire department bumpers
fought steadily rising stream OF
water.
He was semi-conscious when a final
desperate effort of workmen freed him
today. He was rushed to a Dallas
hospital.
Roberts was cleaning the we'll when
a cave-in buried him to the shoulders
Evening star., 1936-08-13
Blum's Modified Ne,u Deal
Has Public Works Program
Controlled by Communities
Unemployment Most Pressing OF
Frances Internal Problems.
Premier AduOcate of Peace.

Note-The
conditions
leteped
uhch he wH discuss Frances position internally and internationally
Evening star., 1936-08-13
NEW BATTLE SEEN
IN AST0R CASE
Persons Accused by Film
Actress Expected to Fight
to Clear Names.
BULLETIN,

LOS ANGELES, August 13 (P).-
Superior Judge Goodwin j. Knight
said at court opening time today
he would require hours" to study
a settlement lawyers agreed upon
last night in Film Actress Mary
Astors child custody suit against
her ex-husband, DR.. Franklyn
Thorpe.
Evening star., 1936-08-13

(See SPAIN, Page A-7.)
Evening star., 1936-08-13
WEATHER.

%. 8. Weather Bureau Forecasto
Generally fair and slightly warmer to-
night; tomorrow mostly cloudy; gentle to
moderate southwest winds. Temperatures
Highest, SO, at $3.50 pm. yesterday:
lowest. II, at $50 am. today.
Full report on page Bio.
Evening star., 1936-08-13

(See ROOSEVELT, Page A-2D
Evening star., 1936-08-13
Will Maintain Home.

ORANGE, Va, August IS R.-
Mrs. Marion du Pont Somerville,
Evening star., 1936-08-13
MAN SAVED FROM WELL

(See OLYMPICS. Page A-5)
Evening star., 1936-05-26

prohibition. And In 1882 ! was a
Rocsevent man. I'm not any more"
He slipped on his gin buck and
continued.
Franklin d. Roosevelt Is over
idealistic and he's having too many
day-dreams. Instead of giving all his
attention to trying to save the sink
ing ship he's trying to reconstruct it
at the same time. For the good OF
America-and I love America
Roosevelt should not get a second
term. He can be beaten if it's brought
home to the people that this great
enormous debt is piling up-if the
people can be made tax conscious and
be made to realize that we're on q
wild spending jag. And an
other thing-I don't like the between
the-lineS implication in all the public
documents. This implication is that
the man who has something is to be
condemned, that we must ccddle to
the miscreants, to the shiftless and
the lazy. the kind who've never tried
to help themselves. Take it way from
the richc and give 1t to the shiftless.
It's all too fantastic"
I wonder If George Ade could name
the man he'd like to see in the White
House.
Well" he said, "the man who
should have been there was Frank
Lowden, former Governor of Illinois.
He's too old now, like me. And he's
a fellow farmer. But, what an able
man he was! He would have made a
fine President. don't
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ko1 TRAFFIC 7A
~ CONVICTIONS i A7

George w. Thompson, Maryland,
$40.
Margaret O. Raymond, 17l2 H
street, IS.
Edwin M. Becker, Maryland, $40.
David April. Virginia, IS.
Alfred T. Myers, Maryland, IS.
James r. Mason, 2123 I street, S..
John j. White. 1923 Third street,
$40.
John J. oNeal, 4213 Alabama
avenue southeast, $40.
Maurice c. Shapiro, 1920 X street,
IS.
Joseph Kea, 1915 U street, $40.
Charles A. Marling, Maryland, IS.
Charles E. Beatty, Maryland. SIS.
Bradley Reeves. 5000 @ street, IS.
Mark S. Tyndall, 1924 Seventeenth
street, $40.
Joseph Levin. 304 Fourth street
southwest, IS.
Murrell B. Leach. 1898 Sixteenth
street, IS.
James w. Harrison, 62l0 Georgia
avenue, $40.
Albert e. Belts. Virginia. IS.
Evening star., 1936-05-26

Anthony j. Cicale. Central avenue
southeast, $5.
PERMIT SUSPENSIONS.
Irving Bunevich, 1879 Rhode Island
avenue, 80 days.
Joseph E. Carroll, 1907 Seventeenth
street southeast, 80 days.
Frank Chichester. 753 Columbia
road, Is days.
Walter Christian, 30 Florida avenue,
Is days.
Melvin Z. Cottmeyer, 541s wiscon-
sin avenue, 80 days.
Clarence e. Davis, 5213 Cloud street
northeast, revoked.
Merritt Dollins, 800 Second street
northeast, 80 days.
Evening star., 1936-05-26

This new Fost-FIowins Oil
checks stroin Of todoy's
"SfoP-ond-Go" driving
TN TODAY'S ENGINES. moving parts
i are often separated by only $4,000
of an inch. If these parts are not M
STANTLY bathed in oil when the engine
starts, they rub together! This is i'm.
bortant since you start your engine over
10 times day.. $500 times year.
The starting period, leading auto.
motive engineers say, can cause approx.
imately three.toarfhs of engine wear!
To meet this new driving problem,
Evening star., 1936-05-26
Sam oilden. MARYLAND. $40.

Sam Gilden, Maryland, $40.
Robert NJ. Hadnott, 1154 Fourth
street northeast, $40.
George Z. Becraft. 1856 Avon place,
IS.
Joseph P. Cullinane, 46l6 Massa-
chusetts avenue, $40.
Otis P. Shaw, 1927 Chaplin street,
IS.
Ernest L. Skinner. Silver Spring,
Md, IS.
Howard w. whitlock. Alexandria,
Va, $40.
Boyd Campbell, $40 A street north
east, IS.
Theodore r. Miles, E street south
west, $40.
Ollie M. Patton, jr., Virginia. $40.
Walter r. Mulligan, jr., Maryland,
$40.
Bernard A. Smith, 1427 Z street
northeast, IS.
Joseph Ching. 313 d street. IS.
Richard Ballschmider, Georgetown
University, siO.
Evening star., 1936-05-26

a'few cents an hour. Just plug it in and cool
off till you turn it off. Work comfortably all
day-sleep restfully all night 1t provides
healthy natural GOODNESS, and any business of
fee or home can afford it. See it today-ger
the facts in our showroom, air conditioned by
York Portable-and learn how you "Pay the
Thermometer Way"
Evening star., 1936-05-26
BY WARD MoREHoUsE.

BROOK, Ind May 26 CN.A.N.A).-
George AIDE, humorist, essayist, DRAM
atist and country gentleman, blasted
President Roosevelt and the admins
tration as he talked to me in his lit
erary workshop at his 30-year-
Elizabethan country home, Western
Indiana. He spoke as one who voted
for Roosevelt in 1882, who then be-
lieved in him, but who has complete
ly lost confidence in him and all that
he represents"
The famous HooSier author, be-
loved in his native Indiana, is now 10.
He is in rather good health, although
his legs are not as acrobatic as they
used to be. He sat across from me, at
his great hat-topped desk, and sur
rounded by affectionately autographed
photographs of the great-by tro-
phies, testimonials, curios and odds
and ends collected in lifetime OF
roaming.
As the talk switched from the
Broadway that he knew as a hit
writing dramatist, to politics and the
National Capital, his tone changed and
he spoke feelingly, with deliberation
and deadly seriousness.
Loses Confidence in President.
"Im not in politics" he said. I'm
only interested in America. I'm a
spectator, out here on an Indiana
farm and I'm watching things and I
have great concern for this countrys
future. I voted for Roosevelt four
wears ago. I had confidence in him.
I've lost all Of it. He's been a great
disappointment to me. I'm now agin'
the Government and agin' the Presi-
dent"
He was looking straight at me from
behind his dark glasses. This year
I'll vote" he said, "for the Repub-
lican nominee. Roosevelt's program is
too elaborate and too fantastic. We're
on a jag, a delirious jag. It's all
perfect nightmare, Unless it's stopped
we're headed for two things-revolu-
tion and bankruptcy. And it seems
shame"
He paused and went on quietly: II
can't stand all those crazy tactics over
In Washington. It's all cockeyed.
America is headed for destruction.
We've completely scrapped all the copy
book maxims. We're now taking
shots in the arm. America. is not now
merely indulging in an extragavanceY
It's more than that. This country is
on national orgy. Somebody's got
to pull up somewhere. The debts are
piling up. Who's going to pay all
these debts and all these taxes? Our
grandchildren? = = Well''-and here
he smiled-"mine certainly won't"
Supported T. r.
The author of Fables in Slang"
and Indiana's most celebrated bache-
lor continued his slow, deliberate,
earnest speech:
Way back in the COS I was friendly
with Cleveland. In 1908 Taft opened
his presidential campaign right out
there in my front yard. That was his
first speech. In 1924 Dawes closed
his campaign on my lawn. was a
Taft man. Well, in 1912 went with
the colonel up there'-he indicated
an autographed portrait Of T. r. on
his wall-"I went on the loose with
the colonel because I had such ad-
miration for his courage and his hon.
esty. I think the standpatters have
had me on the blacklist ever since
But that was a personal matter.
voted for Hughes in '16, Harding in
'20S and Coolidge in "a. But went
ovsr to the Democrats in 1928 and
voted for Al Smith. I thought Hoover
was hypocritical on the subject of
Evening star., 1936-05-26

Charles n. Evans, 1917 Trinidad
avenue northeast, revoked.
John Ionesco, 1l3 z street, revoked.
Robert H. Kent, sO6 G street SOUTH
west, revoked.
David Lazarus, 1914 Seventh street,
30 days.
Evening star., 1936-05-26
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for many skin faults
Promotes Rapid Healing

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Evening star., 1936-05-26
sECoND-oFFENsE SPEEDING

COND-OFFENSE SPEEDING.
Joseph d. Middleton, 1918 Irving
street northeast, SIS.
Edward G. Adams, Maryland, $40.
Overton Bonner. 1900 Cleveland
avenue, $40.
FIRST-OFFENSE SPEEDING.
Bruce Stiff, 1929 Columbia road,
$40.
John M. Duncan, 1408 Monroe
street, S..
Roosevelt M. Lewis, 2026 Clagett
street northeast, $5.
Leroy H. Freemire, Maryland. IS.
Bruce H. Gardner, Kennedy Warren
Apartments, IS.
Kenneth E. White, 3716 Twelfth
street northeast, S..
Francis Burrough, 1882 Sixth street,
$40.
Evening star., 1936-05-26
Rangers Ask Aid.

Forest rangers Of Australia report
that their lives have been threatened
while carrying out their duties of pro-
tecting native flora, and they will ask
the government for protection.
Evening star., 1936-05-26

know. only know I'm outside Of the
political picture and I don't want
America bankrupt. think it's time
we got of the jag"
tcopyrisht, 1886, by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc.)
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Is Found Dead in House.

FEZ, Morocco, May IS CP.-Fifteen
bodies we're recovered yesterday from
the debris Of house which collapsed
in the FL Ayoum district Of the city.
Five bystanders were seriously in
jured.
Evening star., 1936-05-26
GEORGE ADE JOINS
NEW DEAL FOES
RooseveIt's Program "Too
Elaborate and Fantastic"
Noted Writer Says.

An interpieU NTH George Ade, in
which the distinguished hunrorist
expresses his opinions on politics,
Is presented here by roring Ne,o
York newspaper columnist, Who is
seeing places and people on cross
country tour.
Evening star., 1936-05-26
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Evening star., 1936-08-14
Postmistress, Barred in Test,
MAY Be Renamed to West Point

Authorities here indicated today
that Miss Grace A. Harrington,
storm center of a political dispute, is
safely installed in her Job as post
master of West Point, N. Y, and will
be reappointed.
Although Miss Harrington's ap-
plication to enter the open compete
tive examination for her position was
disapproyed yesterday by the Civil
Service Commission. she is eligible
for reappointment. officials explained.
They said also that all other appli-
cants for the examination had been
disqualified for the same reason given
the incumbent-that they do not live
within the delivery limits of the post
Office, virtual impossibility since
West Point is on Government res
ervation and only Army folk con-
nected with the Military Academy can
reside there.
Apparently the only way that the
62-year-old postmistress can be put
out-if that is the intention Of the
administration. as charged by her
supporters to appoint someone now
subordinate to her, some regular clas-
sified employe Of that post Office.
Officials explained that the exam
ination was announced under the So
called "old" order, an executive order
Of July II. 1888, which prohibits the
Evening star., 1936-08-14

incumbent or other regularly classified
postal employees from entering the
competition. The additional reason
was given to Miss Harrington that
since she lived in Highland Falls,
N. Y, outside the limits Of the Army
post, she could not take the examina-
ton.
There will be no examination since
the. .deadline for applications has been
passed and no applicant has met the
residence requirement. But examina-
ton or not. Miss Harrington would
have been eligible along with the
three persons who made the highest
grades. Hers is second-class post
Office and the President would have
been obliged to appoint one of the
four.
II Miss Harrington's supporters are
correct in their assumption that the
Democrats are trying to replace this
veteran Republican appointee (named
by President Coolidge in 1920 their
only fear now, it would seem, is that
one of her subordinates will be pro-
NOTED to her position, via q non-
competitive examination.
Tradition has been that the West
Point postmastership go to an Army
orphan" which Miss Harrington is,
being the daughter Of Lieut.. Henry
M. Harrington, who was killed with
Custer during the famous last stand"
Evening star., 1936-08-14
BY E. de S. MELCHER.

r OLLYWOOD, Calf, August
IL 14.-There has never been
anything quite like the OPEN
Il Il ing of the Tallulah Bankhead
Evening star., 1936-08-14

evening has been arranged. The peo-
pie who were there Sunday night and
Saturday night and Friday and
Thursday seem to be there again. In
order to be seen in Hollywood you
must go to the Trocadore. Rupert
Hughes, veteran ringside table sitter,
is there with his handsome young
wife; Laurence Reilly, author of Per
sonal Appearance" comes over to the
Benedict table to pay his regards; the
music plays a great many rumbas
but nobody does anything much about
it except stamp around in waltz time;
champagne corks go pop and more
blonds appear with more orchids and
the evening becomes early morning
and everybody goes home.
Tomorrow night there is Holly