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near as possible to an .nrrnrir,.
tlon OF fixed and equitable tax
system" VA
congressional committees will p.t
tne news first with q sort of Here il
Is. ooys. Here Is what comes In. ana
wnat goes out. Here Is what the
enects may be on the business Life Of
our country"
The latest 80 per cent tncreases IN
government income tax returns are
neartening. Receipts this year are a
cool sl,l35.ooo.oo0 over receipts Of
last year.
As Mr.. Magill has . philosophy OF
ouoget balancing accomplishment
with as few deletions from, and addi-
tons to, existing taxes q possible. IL
may be inferred that expenses are to
be curtailed.
Record Full Of Accomplishment.
II Magill's academic approach
strains at the leash of governmental
necessity, his amiable, temperate
manner gives no clue. Forty-tvo.
slight. looking younger than his years,
Magill is credited with not being as
serious about life as he looks. His
very dispassionateness has q certain
lack OF color, yet his record Is long on
accomplishments. 1t Is obvious that
he would rather talk to inuuisitive
writer's on the merits of walking, of
which he is very fond, than to air his
views on that most sensitive Of COM
modities, money"
He has made three excursions into
Government service from his aca-
demic and legal life. In the Summer
OF 1928 he was a special attorney to
the Bureau Of Internal Revenue. In
1924 he was in charge Of repairing
income tax regulations of the Treas
ury. He was appointed Undersecre-
tary this year.
Magill is q Middle westerner. He
Is also q Democrat. He is the son Of
DR.. Hugh Magill, independent Repub-
lican candidate for the Senate from
Illinois in 1928. now president Of the
American Federation Of Investors.
He was born In Auburn, H., In 1895,
mot in . log cabin" he says. A. his
early education was in Springfield,
the statement Is significant In q
whimsical way. A graduate Of Dart
mouth College and University OF Chi
cago Law School, he taught law at the
University Of Chicago and thereafter
at Columbia Law School. He has
written technical tones on taxes, has
the reputation of being a fine teacher.
and Of liking the life Of law pro-
fessor.
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better job If he would start q fight
with Everett Snodgrass, another c. I.
O. member, in order that Risher
would have an excuse to dismiss Snod-
grass.
In Its complaint to the Labor Board,
the c. I. o. Affiliated Steel Workers
Organizing Committee charged the
Weirton Employees Security League
with maintaining q "hatchet gang
to terrorize c. I. o. union men.
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He will observe many pairs OF eyes
fixed upon him, the expressions of
most of them q little cold and ques-
tioning. And probably he will have
frequent occasion to notice a person in
the audience nudge his neighbor and
call attention to the new justice at the
end Of the row, and whisper to his
neighbor, That's the one who"
(Copyrisht. 1879
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the second barrel will get him. eek
cept that one would not compare Mr..
Black with q rabbit.)
AS he looked out upon the audience
he must have seen that nearly all eyes
we're focused on him. And he must
have wondered what was in the minds
Of those who were looking at him.
Probably that is an experience he will
have every time he sits upon the court,
whether the period be long or short.
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ploy persons of certain religions or
races is not so significant as it might
appear on the surface In this sense,
the appointment of Hugo Black, the
disclosure that he was Klan member,
and the controversy now raging about
his continuance on the bench is likely
to do more good than all the newspaper
the Klan membership drive was at its
height.
(Copyright, 1937D
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have discouraged
1.-THE day was
wet and dismal.
within the
building there was
q lineup of un-
usual length watt
ing to get into
the court room.
many times more
than would fill
the 800 seats
available for spec
tators. But al
in all the lineup
was subdued and
decorous; all the
retinue OF mar
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@Jdl Va = Ddi~
anced budget, is
rs yet = deep,
dark secret.
The dnmAtis
perxo nae are
studying cir
p q r is. Months
may elapse be-
fore the public
sees the results.
Under Secretary
Magill says that
he is interested
in perfecting the
efficiency OF the
internal revenue
He says that he
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smoothly Until recently, when q
member Of the union was allegedly
beaten up in = court room. This,
say Gov. Bailey's friends, is q fore
runner of further trouble which
they declare Is being fomented to
embarrass the Governors can
didacy for the Senate.
The plan, they assert, is to
force the Governor to interfere in
behalf OF the tenant farmers and
then charge that he Is using his
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"A Of
Mdwestrainfa
the folk who will
ever-norma Just about what needs
vrgnans returning homewad from Washington
Blacks radio Mansion
overlooking the Capital from Arlington Illuminated
The pllared home Is lighted only special occasions
Evening star., 1937-10-05
Justice Black Takes Seat
Must Have Wondered What Was in Mind of
Spectators Watching Him.
BY MARK SULLIVAN.

bH MANk SULLIVAN.
TIME morning papers had said
something about . possible
demonstration outside the Su-
preme Court Building. Some
one, they had said. was going to start
. BLACK day." to be celebrated annu-
ally as long Is Mr.. Black remains on
the bench-and assuming he remains
long enough to have one anniversary.
Some one else was going to distribute
5000 copies Of book dealing irrever-
emily with the new justice.
But II any such thing happened
outside the court room, did not see
1t. may have missed it because
arrived early. Or the weather may
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We, the People
y. S. Saves Ambassador Nelson johnson and Its
Face, Too, by Timely Retreat.
BY JAY FRANKLIN.


IS impossible sympathze
patriotic
American Ambassador johnson should
= Nanking when the airmen q
1t true that Mr. Nelson johnson old
forgotten
lifetime.
Department
japanese demolition
be the obvious the
TO China to be
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An American
YouShould
Know
Roswell Foster Magill
Important Player
in Tax Drama.
BY DELLA PYNCHON

BY DELLA PYNCHON.
TIME United States Is equipped
with . farmer Is Secretary Of
the Treasury. and . No. / COLI
lege professor as Undersecre.
tary.
What the combination may stir up,
in the Government in
come tax cauldron leading TO the
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We don't chip and what chip suitable than the body
Of Ambassador?
dead to all bulseye the
Nelson Johnson Think the headlines!
troops wond spring and wdrships streak the bulge
Pacific bent dndor that the
British Ambassador
damaged mould something
it, dead Is North great he? At rate
Uonld get q 1t.
to kill Nelson Johnson They probably would
in Marking (Which bombardd
the
commit sacrige
sensitive diplomatic could
proceed to protect all China by simple device
For the spersios Aacs make little distinction between poten-
tate and his photograph dsrespec of the Mkado
insult him. baked the
beneath bombe Ambassador Johnson could
number Of stuffed dummies representing HMM acoat with
Japanese envoy
be placed automobiles and chief
highways railroads Of China this could
4
with
aircraft bombing capital sensible
lonat After Anbossddors
that
killed herebv provoking diplomatic
knock a particular
chip nuoued and really fight fhich
doubtuD find setting
Johnson a
The plain truth
hands than
II killed after would
public
Putting another the padngs humanity the ndis
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LABOR BOARD is TOLD
OF "HATCHET GANG"

Weirton Worker Testifies He Was
Driven From Plant for Being
in Union.
By the Associated Press.
STEUBENVnLE, Ohio, october 5.
"A Labor Board inquiry into the
Weirton Steel Co.'S labor relations
turned again today to reports Of .
so-called "hatchet gang" in the
Weirton, w. Va, mills.
Counsel for the board summoned
Everett Marshall, father Of Leonard
Marshall. q Farrell. Pa. steel worker.
The younger Marshall testified yester-
day that c. I. o. badge was torn
from his shirt and he was driven from
the Weirton plant last Spring.
Before that, Marshall asserted,
Supt. Eugene Risher offered him q
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dom Of religion?
Or Is 1t just an
other manifesta-
ton Of something
often suppressed
but never quite
extinguished-ra-
cial and religious
a antagonism where
pu b Ii c once
concerned?
1t is the last
OF these. which,
translated into
everyday Ian
guage, means that
there are people
L. 49, ~ ! \
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Shall 1t ever be said that the
British Ambassador was machine
gunned by Japanese aviators, while
the American envoy remained In
gloriously intact on . United States
gunboat? How can We ever hold
up our heads in London after re-
fusing to allow our No. Far East
ern expert to be used as . clay
pigeon by the enthusiastic marks
men Of the Rising Sun? What's
the use Of having . shoulder If
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ocial
informed expert on the Far East His brains and experience
valuable asset to Government the crisis Why should he be
asked to this
WITNESSES Of the Shanghai Babbtty sadin
Elmer Ganrys in the
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said
to be Communiss) - ~
Governor doesn't interfere he Threatened
with the loss OF the agricultural
~
And about all there Bailey to pass the
hot
ther way into bloody Harlan County
The Department OF Justice Arkansas temper
oeJore When
managed to obtain at
piced toDn marshal by in
technical state OF Slavery
There
10 move INTO there
intrusion OF outsiders secondly
an academic question there
feeling. ' ~
Very cautiously Board has
created
take place "
This change
the OdAge Bureau
wh goes on inside the rather tight little which
ooao IL an important sp-the first in carefully
Whch may include effort the social
What
increasing criticism in
OF the public as to the administration security
Inc change OF the of the oldag
made
SPECIFIC to the the
The wordino OF the nH
the same The OF the
De carefully to
stnuonaty uu be to link do
the
There would be
now administered by
amenoeo SO
mention specifically the
The idea would be public money being
ected going be
- "
Meanwhile, the first
public might expected some of them imme
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What's Back of It All
Temperature Rising Rapidly Around Gov. Bailey
in Arkansas c. I. O. Dispute.
BY H. r. BAUKHAGE.

ME Department Of Justice hasn't heard the bad yet but
be called shortly to pull red hot political
the
rising Bailey
the Of Robinson,
for help to Washington Is the only
The situation this:
Efforts to organize the tenant c O. In
Arkansas had
Evening star., 1937-10-05

Three potatoes picked from one
plant in Glamorgan, Wales, weighed
pounds II ounces.
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crlmlnate MASSACRE OF nOn-cOm-
batant men, women and children in
China, as in Spain, did not deter
the japanese or the Franco terror
lists from their slaughter house
tactics, ordinary diplomatic eti-
quette would have no greater effect.
And II these noisome atrocities do
not infiame public opinion against
the perpetrators Of 1887 frightful-
ness, we would not become much
excited BY the death Of an elderly
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BlackQuestion
Emphasizes
Hypocrisy
Discrimination Moth.
ing New in Politics,
Klan or No Klan.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

n ANY persol-perhaps the
nu average man and woman-is
w wondering today just what
= the Ku Klux Klan issue
means In the everyday life in Amer
ica. u it just question Of what kind
Of Justices should sit on the Supreme
Court? Is 1t question relating to free
Evening star., 1937-10-05

THE opinions OF the rtes this page o,u not
sscessa,ly Ths Stars Such opinions presented n
the Stars e0or to gtue all sides questions
readers although such opinions contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
Evening star., 1937-10-05

The present crop-control pro-
gram Of the Department of Agri-
culture may be taken out Of its
hands. That is, II we can believe
some unofhcial, long distance
weather prophets, who insist on
reading between the lines OF . re-
cent oficial weather report on con-
ditions in the Midwest.
The soothsayers say that it
fnrAfAlls annfhAr hin Aroai0hf naxf
Evening star., 1937-02-07
ROOSEVELT TALKS
SHAKE-UP PLANS
Sees Congress Aides About
Legislative Procedure
in Both Houses.

President Roosevelt yesterday dis
eussed with Democratic leaders OF the
Senate and House Of Representatives
various phases of his recent proposal
for reorganization in the executive
branch Of the Government.
The President was particularly
anxious at this conference to be ad-
vised as to the procedure to be fol-
lowed in both houses in the matter OF
enacting the legislation necessary for
him to effect his reorganization
plans. No announcement was made
following the conference other than
that nothing of definite nature was
agreed upon.
Attending the conference were Vice
President Garner. Speaker of the
House Bankhead, Senators Robinson
of Arkansas, majority leader OF the
Senate, and Byrnes of South Caro-
lima and Representatives Rayburn OF
Texas. majority leader in the House,
and Buchanan Of Texas, chairman Of
the House Appropriations Committee.
With the exception Of Vice President
anu SpSdhcl ZIG
others are members Of the joint COM
mittee on Government organization.
1t was explained on behalf of the
President that while he is anxious
not to have the legislation lag. he
has no desire to hurry unduly those
who are handling it. Senator Robin
son. who has been selected as chair
man Of the Senate Special Committee
on Reorganization. informed the
President that his committee met yes
terday and that call has been issued
for meeting Of the joint committee
on reorganization next Tuesday
morning
Senator Robinson also announced
that Senator Norris of Nebraska, who
had been named as a member of the
committee, had been excused from
service at his own request. 1t was
explained that while Senator Norris
is in entire sympathy with the Presi-
dents reorganization plans, he would
rather not serve on the committee be-
cause he is busy with other legislative
matters.
Evening star., 1937-02-07
MAN DIESOF HURTS
IN JAN. 20 BEATING
James NAHUM Was Assaulted
In Field Near Capitol
Heights. Md,

James NAHUM, 81, of 1909 North Capt.
tol street, who was found unconscious
and severely beaten on the night Of
January 20 in a field near Capitol
Heights. Md, died last night in Sib-
ley Hospital where he had been
treated once and released.
NAHUM told his physician, DR..
R. E. Dunkley. he was beaten on
the head by an unknown assailant
in house on Maryland avenue south
west and apparently was taken from
the house to Capitol Heights. His
money and watch, he said, were miss
ing when he regained consciousness
several hours after being found.
DR.. Dunkley told police he treated
NAHUM and had him taken to Sibley
Hospital where he was treated for
four or five days and released. He
was readmitted to the hospital Jan.
uary 81.
Evening star., 1937-02-07
hstallment Paying of Fines
Urged by Commissioner Alle,

payment of fines on the same plan?
If we can collect a IS or q 500 fine
over a reasonable period, when the
circumstances warrant, what is the
good in passing up the fine. depriv-
ing the man of his liberty, and plac-
ing his cost on the taxpayers?"
London adopted such a plan in
1914. Welfare Director Street, who
toured England last Summer, re-
ports that in the fiscal year 1910-l9l1
London imprisoned $4,000 persons in
default of payment of fines levied by
the courts there. In 1884 the number
imprisoned for the same reason, he
has informed Allen. was reduced to
11,l28.
Costly to District.
To show the possible effect here,
Street stated that on February 4,
there were l66 prisoners at the Dis
trict Jail, out of a total OF more than
800. who were imprisoned for default
said. ranged from IS to $3.50 and
of payment Of fines. The fines, he
totaled 81 l,465.
In other words" said Commissioner
Allen. instead Of collecting more than
81 400 from these prisoners, the Dis
trict jailed them and the taxpayers
are paying the cost of their keep"
At the District Workhouse. at Occo-
quan. Va. on February 4, Street said
there were l,l86 prisoners. OF this
total, GIG, or about So per cent, were
imprisoned because they had default
ed in payment Of their fines.
As the plan is now contemplated, a
probation officer. or other agent of
the court or the Welfare Board, would
investigate applications for INSTALL
ment paying Of fine.
Delinquency Means Jail.
Should the guilty one fail to make
the payments he would be brought in
TO serve the prescribed amount OF fine
But, suppesing the prisoner, once
released. cut and run?" Allen was
asked.
Well" he answered, "he would have
to stay away from the District, be-
cause II he came back he would be
sent up to serve the time he had
avoided. And if some one sentenced
for a few days or weeks left town and
failed to come back. I can't see that
much would be lost"
Evening star., 1937-02-07
FRE|GHTER TOWED
IN RAGING SEAS
Ell 0ccidente Has Broken
Rudder-0ne Ship Burns
as 5 Are Saved.
By the Associated Press.

NORFOLK, Va, February 6.-The
Morgan Line freighter El Occidente,
her rudder broken. was taken in tow
by the Coast Guard cutter Sebago
about so miles off Cape Henry shortly
after 3 p m. today while another cut
ter hurried to the aid of the Norwegian
freighter Rigel, adrift in heavy seas
300 miles off the North Carolina coast.
The steamship Tela took five men
from the burning schooner William A.
Morse. of the Charleston. S. c., coast
and reported the vessel probably would
be a total loss. The Te,a continued
on to Philadelphia with the schoon-
er's crew.
Norfolk Coast Guardsmen said the
cutter Modoc. dispatched to the as
sistance of the Rigel, could not reach
the vessel before o'clock tonight.
The Rigel also had a broken rudder.
Morning Message Last.
The division headquarters had re-
ceived no message from the freighter
since "a general call for ships TO stand
by" this morning when she was re-
ported listing heavily"
The Rigel vessel of 2298 tons and
1898 gross tons. was reported to have
list of 80 degrees One lifeboat had
been lost. No other ships were report
ed near the disabled freighter.
Coast Guard officers said the shift
ing OF the cargo in the heavy seas con-
stituted the vessels greatest danger.
The R!gel was en- route to New York
from Imbicuy. reports here said. She
was reported at Rosario on January 2.
She was built at Copenhagen in
1924 and her home port was listed as
Bergen. Norway.
Ohhces of Taylor & Andrews. agents
for the Morgan Line. said the El Occi-
dente was on a regular run to New
York from Houston and Galveston.
FL Occidente, steam powered YES
sci Of 6.00S gross tons. was launched
at Newport News in 1910. She nor
mally carries crew OF 30 out of her
New York home port.
One Of Four Rescue Ships.
lHt SilID NnS tiIN Ol lOu' FtSCuS
ve.se.s which went 10 the aid of the
passenger liner Dixie when the latter
grounded south Of Miami. Fla, in Sep
tember. 1885.
A message from the steamer Tela
said the schooner William A. Morse.
believed to be a comparatively small
boat. possibly a member of coast
fishing feet. was left burning in lati-
tude 3117 and longitude 1904 after
the crew was removed
The Coast Guard cutter Colfax put
out from Charleston, S. c., to sink the
wreckage.
The cause of the fire aboard the
schooner was not given. Her home
port was given as st. Thomas, Virgin
Islands.
Evening star., 1937-02-07
RESOURCES TOPIC
AT DINNER FRIDAY
Possibilities Under Reorganiza-
ton to Be Reviewed by
Planning Group.

Frederic A. Delano. chairman Of the
National Capital Parks and Planning
Commission, and members Of the
Board of Directors and Advisory
Council Of the American Planning and
Civic Association will be hosts at a
dinner for members of the National
Resources Committee to be held Fri
day at pm. at the Willard Hotel
An after-dinner program will be de-
voted to "our national recources un-
der reorganization" Speakers will in
clude DR.. Baldwin NJ Woods. chair
man of District No. 10 Of the N. R. c.;
DR. Charles E. Merriam. member of
the Presidents Committee on Ad-
ministrative Management and of the
N. r. C., and Charles w. Eliot. Sd.
executive officer of the N r. C.. who
will speak on Whist the National
Resources Committee Has Done"
DR.. Woods will speak on Planning
on the Pacific Coast" and Dr.. Merriam
on Planning Possibilities under the
Presidents Reorga nization Program"
The National Resources Committee
and its Advisory Committee are COM
posed of Secretary of the Interior
Ickes as chairman, Delano as vice
chairman, Secretary of War Wood
ring, Secretary of Agriculture WAL
lace, Secretary of Commerce Roper,
Secretary of Labor Perkins. Works
Progress Administrator Hopkins, DR..
Merriam. Beardsley Ruml of New
York City, and Henry S. Dennison of
birmingham, Mass.
Invitations have been extended to
members of the association and to
officials of the many branches of the
Government service connected with
the development of conservation of
rational resources. Many State Plan
ming Board consultants and district
chairmen will attend.
Evening star., 1937-02-07

Installment payment Of fines for
misdemeanors, to avoid imprisonment,
would be allowed under a proposal
advanced yesterday by Commissioner
George E. Allen. primarily as a means
Of reducing District prison population.
He appointed a committee of four
District officials to draft proposed
legislation for consideration by the
Board of Commissioners.
The idea is borrowed from practices
of long standing in England, but the
thought crystalized. Allen said. when
he found his golf caddy, Bernard
Turner, serving time at the District
Jail in default of payment Of IS fine
for disorderly conduct. Allen found
the youth there last week during an
inspection trip. He paid the balance
due on the fine and had the caddy
released.
Bill Probable This Session.
The proposal is to be studied by El-
wood Street, director of welfare; FL
wood Seal, corporation COUNSEL Paul
L. Kirby, acting general superinten-
dent Of penal institutions. and Maj
Daniel j. Donovan, auditor.
Unless obstacles are encountered,
the bill may be sent to Congress for
introduction at this session.
'Transients, fioaters, vagrants and
buns would not be eligible said
Allen. Careful restrictions would
have to be drawn to assure success of
the plan. The person convicted of
some misdeed would have to show in
ability to pay the fine at once, and
prospects of payment within a reason
able period.
One OF the gravest Of our prison
problems is congestion. We need
new jail and the workhouse and re-
formatory are badly crowded. can
see reasons for permitting many per-
sons q chance to avoid lmpr)sOn-
ment by allowing installment pay
ment of fines But the major pur-
pose IS to lessen the congestion at the
Jail and Workhouse. The problem OF
congestion daily IS getting mole
acute.
Furthermore this is an INSTALL
ment nation. We buy automobiles,
houses, refrigerators on the INSTALL
ment basis. Why can't We permit