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Evening star., 1936-05-05
STATUTE LOOPHOLE
MAY FREE CAPONE
Chicago Lawyers Rush to Triv.
iality in Hope Of Turning No.
torious Gangster Loose.
BY the Associated Press.

6y the Associated PreSS.
CHICAGO. May 5.-An attempt to
free AL Caprone, Chicago gang leader,
imprisoned at Alcatraz Prison in Cali.
fornia, through a newly discovered
loophole in a Federal statute, may be
launched by Chicago attorneys, it was
disclosed today.
II 1t Is decided that the avenue Is
open the first move would be to apply
for writ Of habeas corpus in the Fed
eral Court at San Francisco. Capone
Is serving sentence of II years.
The apparently trivial difference be-
tween "a" and "the" in q statute was
the key the Chicago attorneys-Wil.
liam Parillo and Lyman Sherwood
said they were studying as capable,
possibly. of releasing the Nations most
notorious gang leader.
Evening star., 1936-05-05
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The administration tax program
was assailed today by Senator Hast
ings as a regulatory bill" that "vio-
lates every principle of taxation"
The Delaware Republican issued
statement on the measure as the Cot
ton Textile Institute expressed to the
Senate Finance Committee, Of which
Hastings is a member, its opposition
to the proposed "windfall tax" in the
House bill.
Hastings said the purpose OF the
bill was to compel the corporation to
pay out all of its profits to its stock
holders"
1T really is not a tax bill from the
corporations point of view," he said
1T is a regulatory bill in that it sets
forth a policy which the administra-
ton thinks the corporation ought to
follow and then it adds severe pen
alties upon failure to follow such
policy"
The Senator added that the admin
istration again has sent the Con-
gress patchwork measure about
which it obviously knows little or
nothing as to its real effect"
Three spokesmen for the cotton
Textile Institute opposed the wind
fall tax" by which it is planned to
1See TAXES. Page A-3)
Evening star., 1936-05-05
BY JOHN C. HENRY.

The special House committees in
vestigation of the Townsend old-age
pension plan faltered again today as
a two weeks adjournment Of open
hearings was announced by Chairman
Bell.
After nearly an hour Of "rump"
sessions this morning, during which
the scheduled hearing took on all the
appearance of a firecracker that re-
fused to explode, Chairman Bell made
his announcement without even call
ing Dr.. F. E. Townsend, co-founder
of the $200-per- month program, whose
long-awaited testimony had been
slated for today.
Bells only explanation, made after
the adjournment, was that the COM
mittee had expected certain papers in
last nights mail from the West Coast,
but that they had failed to arrive.
The two weeks delay was allowed,
he said, at request Of DR.. Townsend
and his counsel, Sheridan Downey, to
allow the doctor to make a trip to
California.
Holman Annoyed.
Failure of the committee to con-
tinue its inquiry this morning, and
thus take advantage of the dramatic
background built up for DR.. Town
sends initial appearance. plainly met
the dlsfavor of at least one committee
member, Representative Hoffman, Re-
publican, of Michigan.
Before he would consent to the ad-
journment. Hoffman insisted that GER
tain Townsend publications. Chart
of Victory" and another pep" essay
be accounted for. Downey promised
he would have the material submitted.
At the same time, Hoffman revealed
privately that the committee had en-
gagged in q controversy within its own
ranks over the proper degree of aggres-
siveness to be shown in pressing the
investigation. Hoffman had vigorously
quizzed R. E. Clements, retired official
of the movement, when he was on the
stand last month. Since then, he has
conducted an investigation of his own
in Michigan.
Committee Meets.
Hoffman said the committee met last
night in executive session and battled
over the question of the adjournment.
Counsel James r. Sullivan, he said,
declared himself not ready to question
the doctor this morning, and Bell and
a committee majority swung into line
in favor of the delay.
When the adjournment was an
nounced, Representative Lucas. Demo-
crat, of Illinois asked if it was the
intention to push the investigation
directly to q conclusion upon conven-
ing on May 10. Bell assured him it
was and further assured Representa-
tive Tolan, Democrat, of California
that it was hoped to finish by the
time Congress adjourns.
DR.. Townsend was on hand promptly
at 10 am. and all but Representa-
tives Otter and Hollister of the COM
mittee showed up soon after. Neither
Sullivan nor the committee investl-
gators appeared.
Townsend Poses.
Townsend was subjected to bar
rage of picture taking while members
of the committee conferred in small
groups and in various corners OF the
room. The doctor was not called to
the stand at all, but was informed
that the subpoena would remain ef-
fectiye until his testimony is taken.
The delay, it was admitted, will give
the leader of the Nations old folks
Evening star., 1936-05-05
GOV. GREEN DENIES
NAVY POST REPORT
No Statement Made Regarding
Cabinet Position, His
Office Asserts.
nv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PROVIDENCE. r. l., May 5.-Gov.
Theodore r. Green Of Rhode Island
today issued a denial, through his
office here, Of published reports quot
ing him as stating he would be ap-
pointed Secretary of the Navy within
q few weeks.
At no time, it was said at the Gov
ernor's office, has the executive made
any statement concerning the reported
appointment.
. The report was published after the
Governors attendance at the annual
dinner of the Andrew Jackson Club
at Worcester Saturday. He was cred.
tied with having told friends there,
CHAT he had been informed he was tEy
be given the appointment.
Evening star., 1936-05-05
ISLAND GROUP BACKS
TYDINGS PLEBISCITE
Puerto Rican Liberal Party's Com.
mittee Urges Amendments, How.
ever, for Trade Concessions.
y the Associated Press.

BY the Associated fresS.
SAN JUAN, P. R., May 5.-The
Central Committee of the Liberal
party today announced its approval
of Senator Tydings' bill for a plebis-
cite on Puerto Rican independence.
1t advocates amendments by which
Puerto Rico would receive economic
concessions from the United States,
provided independence were granted.
Heading the Central Committee Is
DR.. Antonio r. Barcelo, long an ad-
vocate of independence. During
most of the Roosevelt administration
the party has maintained Senator
Lutz Munoz Marin at Washington.
The Central Committee adopted a
resolution asking that conspiracy
charges against Pedro Albizu Campos.
Nationalist head, and eight fellow
defendants be dismissed. They we're
accused Of attempting to overthrow
the Governn2nt of the United States
by force.
Evening star., 1936-05-05
RUSSIA TO JOIN BRITAIN
IN NAVAL ARMS PARLEY
Accepts Offer to Begin Negotia-
tions in London for Conclud-
ing Agreement.

BY the Assoclateu FreSs'
MOSCOW, May 5.-The Soviet
government announced today it had
accepted a British offer to begin ne
eotiations for concluding an agree
ment on naval armaments.
NEGOTIATIONS will open shortly In
London. No further information was
given, but observers expressed belief
the proposal is intended principally
to bring the Soviet Union into the
recent agreement reached at the Lon
don Naval Conference by Great Brit
ain. France and the United States.
Evening star., 1936-05-05
TOWNSEND PROBE
DELAYED Z WEEKS
IN SURPRISE MOVE
Inquiry Adjourns Without
Calling Doctor to
Stand.
PENSION PLAN HEAD
WILL RETURN WEST
Hearing Will Resume May 10
Hoffman Opposed Failure
to Continue.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
In 1884 a smaH-toWn California
doctor hit on plan OF reuolptng
pensions as a solution for the care
OF the aged and to end depres-
sions. DR.. ToUnsend's idea tDaS
gipen Nation-ipide exploitation by
Robert Clements, q California real
estate promoter. He added the
s200-a-month- j for -all-ouer-65 ted-
ture OF the Townsend plan.
Soon the ToDnSenditeS made
their influence felt in Congress.
Congress retdliated BY dppropridt-
ing $50, 900 to Investigate the To,0n-
send set-up.
Evening star., 1936-05-05
(See WOMEN. Page A-5.)
Bankhead Foe Leads.

MARTIN STATION, Ala, May S.
Henry L. Aneeton, Birmingham attor-
ney, carried the box here. traditionally
first to report in Alabama, by a vote
Of 5 to l, over John H. Bankhead, in
cumbent, in today's race for the DEM
ocratic senatorial nomination.
Evening star., 1936-05-05
HASTINGS ASSA|LS
REGULATORY BILL
Holds Tax Measure Forces
Payment of All Profits
to Stockholders.
BACKGROUND

bAJh hGROUND-
When the budget conferences be-
gan last November, the tDord from
the White House uls that there
Uould be no new tdres. But phen
Congress passed the bonus and the
Supreme Courts outldpry OF the
A. A. A. left no tDdy to pay con-
tr1ct-signing farmers, President
Roosevelt asked the House and
Senate to raise $500, 0,000, 900 in neD
leuies.
To obtain the funds, he recon-
mended that q tar on corporation
surpluses replace the eristino tar
on corporation income.
Evening star., 1936-05-05
Fascist Forces
Finally in
Capital.
'POPULACE TO
HEAR IL DUCE
Business Halted as
Sirens Call All
"Arms.''
BACKGROUND

BACK hGhOONC-
When Emperor Halle Selas-
sic fed Adds Ababd last Sat-
nrdau as inuading Italians
Advanced the capital became
q mob-crdsed city, 1Dith riot
ing. looting, firing and killing.
Foreign missions 1Dere enddn-
gered as the city Was sacked:
SeDerdl Europeans i0ere killed
and one American 1Oomdn, a
missionary, 1Das fatally shot.
The n1arduderS attacked the
United States Legation seUeral
times. Foreigners, therefore,
looked eagerly for the Fascist
forces to complete their occu-
patton of the city and restore
order. The Italians them
selUeS no less EAGERLY a1Ddited
that event, the Gilman to their
successful conquest OF the
country.
tcopyright. 1886. by the Associated Press,
ROME, May 5.-Sirens ant
bells sounded in Rome late to
day, summoning citizens to cele
bration after the war ministr.
received information that Addi
Ababa had fallen.
The summons was to the long
expected adunata, or national mas
meeting. expected to symbolic Italy
victory over Ethiopia.
In response to the tocsin, half tn
population of Italy sprang to militar!
and semi-military formation.
1t was the second time since Italy
war with Ethiopia started that II Due,
called on people to march in militar!
formation to pre-arranged publ,
plazas and listen to his radioed com
mands.
The first occasion was October 2
1885. Speaking to 100000 soldiers
Blackshirts, and members of organiza
tions gathered in military formation il
the 1929 cities, towns and villages O
the kingdom, he shouted a warning
that Italians would push into Ethiopia
Looking straight at the consequence
that might ensue, he exhorted tn
nation to be ready to meet militar.
sanctions with military measures,
economic sanctions with the dis
cipline" of the Italian people.
Keep Eye on Europe.
Today Italians jumped to tn
"adunata" feeling that the situation
in Europe made it equally portentous
A few minutes before the signal wa
given Fascist headquarters in Rom
announced Italians must be read,
again to pledge their faith to Musso
lini's policies.
Suddenly the ordinary mundane lif
OF every city, town and village wa
rent by the shrieking Of whistles
sirens and church bells.
Drums and bugles in military ant
Blackshirt headquarters shrilled ant
rolled out the summons to arms.
Rome itself became a medley o
crashing iron shutters, slamming win
dows, rushing feet and shouted com
mands, as shops, factories and Office
closed their portals.
In a few minutes silence descended
People in the capital and other grea
cities were busy donning their uni
forms. For short space Of time tn
streets were deserted. An airplane at
tack could have caused no more con
certed plunge into the quiet Of hom
life.
News Comes Through London.
The first news of the fall of tn,
Ethiopian capital reached ROM
through London, to which Sir Sidne.
Barton, British Minister to Addi
Ababa, had reported the arrival O.
the Italian troops.
Rome Immediately was thrown int
?
Evening star., 1936-05-05

(See WILSON, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1936-05-05

co. D. Weather Bureau ForecastJ
Fair and continued cool, with lowest
temperature tonight about 46 degrees;
tomorrow fair and slightly warmer. Tenn
peratures-Highest, Sc. at noon today;
lowest, 40. at $50 am. today.
Full report on page AS.
Evening star., 1936-05-05

(see POLITICS, Page AID
Evening star., 1936-05-05

(See ITALIANS, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1936-05-05

Yesterdays Circulation, l4O,121
tSome returns not yet received
Evening star., 1936-05-05

(See ETHIOPIA, Page A.
Evening star., 1936-05-05

(See TAXES, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1936-05-05

The only evening paper
in Washington with the
Associated Press News
and Wirephoto Services.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-09-09

happiness among Southern farm people.
The test of the scrub hog is OH the
meat scales, when he is weighed in the
balance, and found wanting.
A pretty stream through the farm
adds usefulness to beauty when harness
ed to a little home power plant.
Club boys and girls who live up to
their slogan, MAKE the best better,
also set fine example to their parents.
Yes, business before pleasure, but why
not business and pleasure in a see-and
learn tour among the best farmers you
can find?
Since we learned from our agricul-
tural college that green foods keep bod
les strong and WELL with needed miner
ais and vitamns. 1t is easier to get our
garden work done.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-09-09
BY DICK WOOD

pendicularly, skill is required TO hit them
from moving boat. Sometimes small
bunch of ducks will be sighted far down
the bank and long stalk by boat be-
gins. If a straggler or brace of mallards
arc kicked up on the way down. the
hunter has to make hasty decision OH
taking the bird in hand or trying for
the two in the bush. 1t usually pays to
pass up no fair shots. Sometimes ducks
are not frightened BY shooting beyond
half mile.
Conservation Problem
1t is illegal to use an automatic shot
gun of more than three shots. Since
wild ducks were diminishing rapidly,
something had to be done by the conser-
vationists. contend it is not the gun,
but the man + k of it, who hogs the
game My idea would be to restrict
hunters in areas where ducks are abund-
ant, such as OH the marshes of Mary
land, to single shot arms; the river duck
hunter will seldom kill the legal limit
with the five shot automatic, and the
extra shots do save lot of cripples.
The II gauge is almost universally
accepted as the best duck bore but the
20 makes clean kills at slightly shorter
ranges and is more sportsnanlike gun
where ducks are abundant IF using
single barrel, | prefer a 3o-inch full
choke. IF double barrel, 28-inch, right
modified, left full choke. None but the
best grade duck loads should be used.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-09-09
FRANK FARMER
0dVS ---By "A. B. Bryan

The worst of all bad eggs is the nom
laying hen.
The road through the one-crop cot
ton farm leads to the poor house.
Selection is the solution of successful
selling.
Splitting farm yields with bugs and
plant diseases is mighty poor business.
Home grown feeds fed to home grown
livestock make homegrown profits.
After ALL the real basis for better
and happier rural life is greater earn
ing capacity for farmers.
Now, more than ever, it is apparent
farmers who won't cooperate block their
own progress.
More and better family cows would
mean higher standard of health and
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-09-09

The opening of the duck shooting
season is major event in the lives of
over million sportsmen. Ducks are
widely distributed and popular game
with all shotgun users.
Migrating ducks often light and tarry
for days on ponds, sloughs and creeks.
providing sport and duck dinners alike
for the farmer lad with his single barrel
Long Tom" and the crank sportsman
with his automatic.
Jump shooting on rivers requires con-
siderable skill and provides more real
sport than deer hunting. The usual pro-
cedure is to engage local riverman to
paddle his skiff on float down river.
Thrills Around Bend
The start should be made on con
siderable tide (freshet) which keeps the
ducks near the banks, and the colder the
morning. the better. The hunter invari-
ably follows the convex bank, and the
skilled boatman keeps the craft hugging
dropping foliage, and paddles quietly,
from the stern. One or two shooters
sit in the bow and bang away at ducks
along the banks, within range.
This sort of hunting is far more en-
joyable and sportsmanlike than sitting
in cold blind, firing into the occasional
flock that drifts into bunch of decoys.
The river duck hunter anticipates
thrilling action around every bend.
When the ducks come out or rise per-
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-09-09
JEST AWHITTL|N|
AN A-TH|Nk|N|
BY PETE GfTTYS

about say that the farmer amt progress
sive-that he's operating small produc-
ing units wastefully, while industry, put
tin together the efforts of thousands of
workers under a single roof, has swept
b. him and left him hopelessly in the
lurch.
The man. who believes these things is
no closer to the farmer than the carica-
lures IN the funny papers would make
him. Those who have worked with the
American farmer know that he has set
a new record in the history of man in
contact with the soil by the quickness and
intelligence with which he has assi1nil-
ated the results OF invention an scien-
tltlc research, an made the changes in
his daily practice which new appliances
and new methods indicated.
Bookkeeping on the farm of course
amt the exact science it is in case OF
many other commercial b,sinesses-bu
there are some reliable cross section sta
tlstics of our country's successful farm
ing
But these are gross incomes-Still they
amt the total gross, an every radish
pulled, every quart of milk used by the
family an its labor, every chicken an
hog butchered an every day of housing
enjoyed must be added to make true
gross.
Agriculture's more than a profession
for maxim living. It's the life of
families workin' at it. There's no other
vocation which requires the entire fam
lily as does the business of farming. Men
who make their livin' farmin' have
never prospered to the same degree that
some men iii other trades and profess
SONS have, even with the same or even
more capital invested an the same mus
Gle and brains applied to their business,
an it's doubtful if they ever will.
ne farmer can't control the weather.
the rain, insects, disease an other fac
tors entering into the cost of produc-
ton an the price at which the product
IS sold, with the same degree of accur-
acy as the man runnin' factory. How
ever, for one that likes farmin' there's
other compensations. There's an indepen-
dence an down right pleasure in workin'
iii the open an with CROWN things that
only people thoroughly familiar with the
tarmn business can understand.
MS GUNNER there was moon-yine
growing on stump in our side ward.
we sat out on the porch about dark an
looked at the buds and waited for EN-
to open. AS long as we watched, thev
didn't seem to stir, but take our eyes
away tor few minutes, an 10 an be-
hold !! there they were in full bloom iust
smilin' up at you.
Listen, Honey said the old Black
Mammy-"Look over yonder, in de
cawn-flel.' See dem tall stalks move an
culver! Yet there's nary fieI'-hand
near em. Hear dem big blades rustic?
Yet amt AIRY breath of wind to stir
EN- from their sleep. Some one what
comes to see sure, that our corn don
blight, that sun don parch, nor rain
don mlldew. Somebody is maxim sure
that his children have corn for the win
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-09-09

| - |
Maybe there is and maybe there amt
somethin' that God made that's prettier
n Jersey heifer-but whatever it is,
| amt never saw it-and evidently
there's some who don't share in this
opinion for out in Kansas they had
Beauty Bovine Confess" open to all
the breeds and not Judged on the reg,
ular points-any cow-scrub or pure.
bred, with sufficient ''it" could enter the
race, and the pickin of winners was
made strictly on the grounds of charm
and beauty artificial beauty aids, of
course, were allowed, an beauty shops
did a landoffice business. Rouge, lip
stick an mascara were freely painted on,
hoofs were carmined an eyebrows pen
ciled an curled, bovine coiffures were
baked an frizzed into permanents that'll
be the envy of the barn lot for many
months But the judges selected reg
stered Holstein as "Miss Bovine Amer
lea, an left out the Jersey queens.
Like the old Teller who jumped ten
rail fence-he said he had to cause a
bear was after him. A lot of us fellers
have done lot of things durin' the last
few years that we thought we couldn't,
cause we had to-the old she-bear
depression was crowding us. /" Now along
comes the Dept. of Agriculture an SAYS
when sufficient pressure of hunger an
heat is put on some species of grasshop-
pers, an they can't get around fast
enough a-hoppin, they can change into
fIlers SO they can get places quicker an
the young turkeys can't catch 'em.
Grown at high temperatures, an de-
prived of choice green food, grasshop-
pers In test cages grew longer wings, got
simmer, an took on brighter colors.
Yes sir-hard times'll evolve lot of
things-an' make necessity the mother Of
invention with vengeance.
When two fellers, both apparently
about equally mentally equipped, an one
seems to get along better than the other,
a reasons sure to crop out sooner or
later Over in the adjoining county
there's number of good farms and good
farmers-all seemin' to get along pretty
good-until the drought came this
Spring an their hay crops an pastures
dried up, an they had to 90 to town
FOR hay-except one-"just like lot of
other insurance | carry, always have
an extra silo to fall back on that car
ries me through, an it has paid for it.
self many times over this Spring."
The Teller who can't afford fire in
surance is the one who can't afford to
be without it, an it's the Teller who
thinks he can't afford an extra silo that
needs it worst.
"Neighbor, this shorely must be Gods
country around here-walnut an hick-
DRY nuts an chinky pins an wild grapes
and Chectn,,fc o,,I n ,,-bo1o ,.x..-o.. LII
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-09-09
FOR ALL NIGHT
EVERY NIGHT
SOMEONE WALKS
IN THE CORN.

Yes, some one walks in the corn
some unseen power, makes those moon
vines open.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-09-09

It's mighty aggravating to hear some
Teller who doesn't know what he's talkin'
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-09-09

"Neighbor, this shorely must be Gods
country around here-walnut an hick-
DRY nuts an chinky pins an wild grapes
and chestnuts. and a whole wagon-Ioad
OF stuff that just growed. Now, if fell
Ter just had a yaller hound dog thatd
tree ginseng, an shary nosed razor
back hog to root it wouldn't he be
fixed?"
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