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Evening star., 1937-12-17
PROFITS TAX PLAN
| OF c. 0. P. BEATEN
Proposed Substitute Voted
Down by House Com
mittee, 6-3.
B! the Associated Press

A House tax subcommittee today
turned down a proposed Republican
substitute for the controverted tax
on undistributed corporate profits.
Chairman Vinson said the vote, along
party lines, was to 3.
He said Representative Crowther,
Republican, of New York moved that
the committee adopt a plan by which
the present normal corporate tax of
to Is per cent would be boosted to
to Is per cent and the capital gains
tax fixed at fiat 1919 per cent.
Representative Vinson said the COM
mittee had been informed that if
this plan had been in operation for
the persent taxable year the Gov
eminent would have received S4l6,-
100000 less in revenue
We're going to retain the prin-
ciple of the undistributed profits and
capital gains tax" the chairman said
The subcommittee tentatively has
approved a new corporate tax system
uder which corporations with income
up to s25,000 would pay no undis-
| tributed profits tax, but their normal
| tax would be increased to 1915 per
| cent on the first $4,000 and IA per
cent on the next $4,000 of profits.
Firms with incomes above s25,O0O
would pay levy of 16 to 20 per
cent, depending on the percentages of
earnings distributed to stockholders.
The proposal for repeal of the un-
distributed profits levy. Vinson said,
was based on the idea it is the severest
burden on the corporate taxpayer.
But corporations, he said, now pay
81, zoe, 100000 a year in normal in
| come, capital stock and excess profits
taxes. against $l50,00o,000 of undis-
tributed profits tax
The latter figure does not take into
account the increased taxes paid BY
| individuals on income from dividends
declared by corporations as a result
OF enactment of the undistributed
profits tax.
Il want to call to your attention,
Chairman Vinson told reporters, the
fact that the burden of ordinary corpo-
rate taxes under existing law is eight
times the burden of the undistributed
profits tax"
Evening star., 1937-12-17
SANTA CLAUS
Will Lond Tonight
at II O'Clock
Woshineton-Hoover
Airport

You are invited to be there to
watch his plane arrive. to see the
welcoming ceremonies that have
been planned for him and to hear
his Christmas message to the
children Of Washington.
He will be met by Maj. Brown,
superintendent of police, and a
motor cycle escort and be taken
to the Shoreham Toy Ball, being
given In his honor.
Santa Claus flies here in an
American Air Lines ship In nd-
pdnce of his annual pisit on be-
half of The Star-Warner Bros
N. B. C. Christmas Campaign,
stopping en- route at Hollywood
to pick up gifts from film stars
appearing at the II Warner Bros.
toy n,utinees tomorrow morning.
Tune in
STATION WMAL
At II Tonight
To Hear the Broadcast Of
SANTA'S ARRIVAL
And the Big Show at the Shorehom
Evening star., 1937-12-17

j. W. Geist, engineer officer from
Altoona, Pa, told the Associated Press
the Panay was anchored at noontime
Sunday 28 miles above Marking. After
lunch call had sounded planes were
heard overhead.
Without warning some one called
They are dropping bombs, Mr.. Giest
said. Three heavy bombers flying at
about 1000 feet came over and loosed
explosives. One hit the bridge, doing
heavy damage. Another bomb hit
close to the snip, pushing in walls OF
the craft and allowing water to pour
in. Quickly the water was knee deep.
1--WE were all stunned by the initial
blast. The conclusion was so great
1t bent shields on numerous guns and
rendered them unfit for action.
After the three big bombers went
over, six small planes came and power
dived, bombing as we'll as machine
cunning us. Their shrapnel made
sieves of the light armament Of the
Panay. The engine room was torn to
pieces.
VIC SoV tAAC bOdCC NOWA A1lo puI
the injured in them, heading for the
north bank Of the river. Some jumped
overheard and swami
There was no doubt the Japanese
knew We were American. Three flags
were plainly visible One was painted
on the side of the ship facing q
japanese motor boat that machine
i~t,
Machine Cunning Low.
Machine cunning planes flew so
low they should have seen our flags.
They also machine-gunned the
socony ships (Standard Oil tankers
near the Panay)
They should have known we were
(See SURVIVORS, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1937-12-17
Phone Limit Questioned.

CHICAGO, Dec. II @-William
T. Dickerman Is in fighting mood
over the five-minute time limit for
users of nickel-in-the-slot telephones.
He has filed . petition with the State
Commerce Commission asking that the
telephone company he required to cite
legal authority for the time limit.
Mr.. Dickerman didn't rush into It.
First, he carefully scanned the law
books with . professional eye. He's .
lawyer.
Evening star., 1937-12-17
REPLY TOU. s. NOTE
MAY Be WITHHELD
Toxic Declares Apology on
Panay Sinking Already
Covers Incident.
BY the Associated Press.

TOXIC. Dec. 17-Japan may re-
frain from direct reply to the United
States protest in the Panay incident,
the foreign office spokesman indicated
today. on the ground that the govern
ment had apologized before the Amer
lean note was delivered
He said the question was still being
weighed, but pointed out:
THE japanese note of apology was
given Ito United States Ambassador
Joseph c. Grew before the United
States note was handed to Foreign
Minister Koki Hirota.
Therefore, whether some other
note must be given has not yet been
decided"
Machine Cunning Denied.
The foreign Office spokesman fatty
denied that japanese river craft had
machine-gunned the Panay before it
sank in the Yangtze River near Nan
king under the pounding of Japanese
aerial bombers.
The foreign office spokesman's as
sertion followed direct denial. by an
adjutant of Navy Minister Admiral
Mitsumasa Yonai, Of the reported ma
chine cunning.
Premier Fumimaro Konoye was ex-
pected to ask the imperial court today
to petition Emperor Hirohito to cau a
conference of members of the govern
ment and the imperial headquarters,
Japan's supreme war authority, ito
discuss policies of the empire apropos
Of China"
Preliminary arrangements already
were completed for the premiers move
and, if successful, it would bring lead
ers of the government, navy and army
into conference tomorrow in the pres
ence of the Emperor
Declared Floating Alone.
In denying that Japanese craft ma
chine-gunned the Panay, the foreign
office spokesman said Japan's informa-
ton indicated that the American gun
boat was alone at the time.
There were no other ships near the
Panay," he said.
he was asked 10 reconcile tnat with
the imperial headquarters statement
of Wednesday which said the naval
airmen who attacked had sighted
other ships. Hastily, he qualified his
statement to say ''it seems that IL OF
13 Chinese junks were nearby but the
distance was not clear"
He said he did not know the posi-
ton Of the three Standard Oil vessels
damaged in the same bomb attack
adding:
But I can emphatically deny the
report that surface craft fired on the
Panay. There were no japanese boats
in the vicinity. When the planes mis-
takenly bombed the Panay two of the
Panay's own launches started towarc
the opposite shore to escape."
Evening star., 1937-12-17
WARM WEATHER TO STAY

Moderate temperatures will continue
for at least another "a hours, the
Weather Bureau said today.
Occasional rain is expected this
afternoon. tonight and probably to-
morrow, the forecaster predicted, but
the overnight ''low" will be only about
46 degrees
The rain Is expected to lift to-
morrow afternoon or night and the
mercury probably will start to drop
again then.
Evening star., 1937-12-17
S-4 MEMORIAL HELD
Timber Cross Erected to Memory
of 40 Victims in Sinking.

PROVINCETOWN, Mass, Dec. II
R.-Fading memories of one of the
worst naval disasters-the sinking OF
the S-4 and the Valiant, futile effort
to save six imprisoned survivors from
creeping death on the ocean floor
were revived today in a church
cemetery.
This old Cape Cod fishing port and
the men of the Navy and the Coast
Guard did not forget on the 10th
anniversary of the submarines sink
ing almost within sight of the shore.
They gathered in the cemetery of the
Harbor Protestant Episcopal Church
for brief ceremonies while the roll
of the dead--40 officers and men,
was called and q simple timber cross
to their memory was dedicated.
Evening star., 1937-12-17
Machine Guns Bullets Rained
on American Vessel From
Planes, Launch and Shore.
U. S. NAVAL COURT OF INQUIRY
BOARDS OAHU TO SIFT FACTS
Man, Already Hurt, Mortally Hit While
Trying to Reach Safety-Capt. Hughes
Blown Off Bridge.
BY the Associated Press.


SHANGHAI, Dec 17-How Japanese warplanes
machine gunned the small boats carrying wounded men
ashore from the bombed United States gunboat Panav-
causing woundswas told in detail tonight by sur
vivors of the disastrous air attack
1hey confirmed earlier reports-dened by the Jap
anese-that such machine gun fire harassed survivors,
many of whom already suffering from serious wounds
incurred aboard the stricken Panay they tried to reach
safety ashore last Sunday afternoon.
In addition survivors reaching here aboard the United
States gunboat Oahu said japanese Army detachmens in
launches on the Yangze and along the bank fired
machne-gun bursts at the Panay before she sank.
River Party Comes Aboard Panay
The river party also boarded the Panay after her crew
and civilian passengers abandoned ship for hurried in
spection just before she went under the rivers muddy
waters.
The oahu's flags futered steamed into
Shanghai bearing survivors of her
sister ship Panay.
Japanese Ambassador Hros saito Panay
incident with Secretary Hull again today asserted
he brought to the Secretary State specific
tion from his government
japanese destroyers ptori and Kasasag and the Brit
1sh gunboat Ladybrd the
steamed alongside the flagship Augusta ending trip
down the Yangtze
ssndr st
oil company & craft @ DESTROYED in the japanese attack
The United States
together
Harold McEtrick Abel
which scheduled
other three victims claimed by friends relatives.
Wounded Shifted
wounded Shanghai hospitals
Norman Alley Universal Newsreel photographer
disclosed that
going up river before the bombardment
bottom
After the air bombing military detachment
the
party aboard which stayed
Their action
Japanese would turn machine
japanese bombers
We thought mistake appeared a
Capt Hughes of
Fanay) blown bridge
Chneapanese
China Coast farfung
o Marking
ne aen Chnese capital declared
tenned in their
present expediton-esbishment
British enace in South
gg Province and attack
colony Of Hongkong
wee Admiral kyosh Hasegawa
satlshed with the
oa Nankng; Inc situation is far from being settled"
He ADDED
mao
was of myh cart"
oneraEssmo Chang Kaihek declared broadcast
appeal
the basis Of Chns japan mt in tho c
k Gt En oil
Evening star., 1937-12-17
REPORT MADE A JOKE
Japanese Say Maybe 100 Years
to Get Bombing Data.

TOXIC, Dec. II R).-The spokes-
man of the Japanese foreign office
was asked today when the navy's re-
port on the bombing of the United
States gunboat Panay could be ex-
pected.
That is indefinite" he replied, add
ing jokingly, maybe in hundred
years."
Evening star., 1937-12-17
Border Pact Signed.

PARIS, Dec. II L@.--A Franco
German agreement regulating the re-
lations between frontier populations
Of the two countries was signed to-
day.
Evening star., 1937-12-17

(See FIRE, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1937-12-17

60. 3. weather Bureau Forecast)
Occasional rain and slightly warmer,
lowest temperature about Sc; tomorrow
rain, somewhat colder in afternoon or
night. Temperatures today-Highest, SO,
at pm; lowest, AZ, at 7:10 am; As at
1890 am. Full report on page Az.
Evening star., 1937-12-17

(see TOY CAMPAIGN. Page A-s)
Evening star., 1937-12-17
GIFT" OF H. OIL. c.
FOR GROUP HEALTH
is RULED ILLEGAL
Right to Disperse Money
Is Vested in Congress,
Elliott Holds.
M'CARRAN PLANS ACTION
TO AVOID RECURRENCE
Maintaining of Emergency Rooms
in U. S. Agencies May Be
Outside Law, Is Belief.

BACKGROUND
Group Health Association, Inc,
set up By Federal Home Loan Bank
Board, to serUe its employees and
those OF Home OWners' Loan Corp.
and affiliated agencies here Uith
medical care has been attacked as
"soctaltsed medicine" and for
spending funds in alleged illegal
manner. 1t is stoutly defended by
experts OF F. H. L. B. B.
Evening star., 1937-12-17

The only evening paper
in Washington with the
Associated Press News
and Wirephoto Services.
Evening star., 1937-04-25
To JUDGE
ART EXHIBITION
Will Determine Most Popu.
lar Picture at CorCoran
Art Gallery.

The general public will have an op-
portunity to express itself regarding
modern American art this week in
referendum to determine the most
popular picture in the Fifteenth BIZ
ennial Exhibition of Contemporary
American Oil Paintings at the Cor
coran Gallery of Art.
The artist whose painting receives
the most votes from the public will be
awarded a 5000 popular prize" by
the gallery, it was announced by c.
Powell Minnigerode, director.
Every visitor to the exhibition from
Monday through Sunday will be given
a ballot on which to mark his choice
for the prize. The winner will be
announced early next week.
r Experience has shown that the pop
ular prize never goes to a picture
adjudged as best by the official jury
of art experts. The public invariably
chooses a picture with pleasing
subject" while the art experts take
into consideration many technical de-
tails overlooked by the layman.
:, The official jury selected two land
scapes, a figure study and a portrait
for the $4,000 w. A. Clark prizes and
the Corcoran awards. Edward Hop
pers Cape Cod Afternoon" won first
prize, Guy Pene du Bois' Meditation"
was second, Francis Speight's Box
holder No. 81" was third and Bernard
Keyes' "Snakey" was fourth,
The exhibition will continue through
May 9.
Evening star., 1937-04-25
Capital Flyers to Hunt Fox
With Flour Bags and Camera

Armed with small sacks of flour and
cameras, pilot members of the Wash
ington Air Derby Association will set
out from College Park Airport at 80
pm. today to hunt an aerial fox. %
The hunt, arranged as the April flying
event of the association, has a number
OF novel features. Three prizes will
be awarded.
The pilot taking the part of the fox
will be given a Commute start and
may land anywhere within a radius
OF 10 miles from College Park.
Hunters, each carrying 4 sack Of
flour tagged with the pilots name,
will take off in the order of estimated
aiplane speed, slowest first II any
hunter locates the airplane of the fox
Evening star., 1937-04-25

he may drop his flour bomb from an
altitude Of not less than 100 feet.
Shots dropping nearest to the fox will
determine the winners.
If no hunter has located the fox
within 80 minutes, however, the plot
OF the fox airplane is privileged to
make dash for home, at College Park
Airport. Any hunter who is able to
overtake the fox in fight and make
closeup photograph and then drop
his flour sack within the fenced in
closure Of the associations club house
will be eligible for prize Should all
the hunters fail, prizes go to the fox.
The hunt will be flown under the
supervision of J. Earl Steinhauer,
president Of the association.
Evening star., 1937-04-25
EXHIBIT BY G. W.

Illustrations Of the poem, John
Browns Body" will feature an ex-
hibit OF student work by the George
Washington University division Of
fine arts, open at pm. today at 2l3l
G street. The drawings were exc
cuted by Miss Margaret Lindsey Fra
zer, who received her M. A. degree
in February.
Industrial and architectural de-
sign, interior design, illustration, wa
ter colors, oils, life class compost
tions and pencil sketches also will
be included.
Evening star., 1937-04-25
WILL HOLD BANQUET

The Washington Society of Alumni
OF Massachusetts, Institute Of Tech
nology will hold its annual banquet
and ladies night" at 7 pm. tomorrow
At the Congressional Country Club.
Members of the faculty, including
Karl T. Compton, president; Vandevar
Bush, vice president, and Prof. Jerome
c. Hunsaker, head of the mechanical
engineering department, who will
speak, are scheduled to attend. DR..
H. w. Tyler, executive secretary Of
the American Association of College
Professors, will be toastmaster.
Evening star., 1937-04-25

Catholic Daughters of America, Ladies
of Charity, Holy Name Union, So
,dality Union, the International Fed
eration of Catholic Alumnae and
other Catholic groups are co-operat-
ing in the presentation Of the lee
lures.
DR.. de Quevedo, descended from
early settlers Of California, is q for
mer faculty member of the Universi-
ties of San Francisco and Utah,
Loyola and Seattle Colleges of the
Pacific Coast.
Evening star., 1937-04-25

night at q: 10
pm. at the I'M
maculate Con-
ception P ar ! S h
Auditorium, N
street, between
S e v e n tn and
Eighth.
The lectures
will be given on
consecutive days
at the same hour.
Musical features
will precede the
spea k e r. S ap-
pearanceS.
T he Knights
Evening star., 1937-04-25
PEAK is INDORSED

Midcity Citizens Back Him AZ
Barnard's Successor.
Col. w. L. Peak has received the
Endorsement of the Midcity Citizens
Association to succeed Capt. M. NJ
Barnard as superintendent Of penal
institutions of the District, it was
announced yesterday.
Due to confusion regarding q re-
port of the secretary Of the associa-
ton it was declared recently in The
Star that the group voted to advocate
George A. Warren for the post.
Evening star., 1937-04-25
PSYCHOLOGIST TO TALK
" IN CHURCH AUDITORIUM
Albert G.. de Quevedo to Deliver
4 Series of Lectures to
Catholics.

! The first of a series of seven lee
tures on The Art of Successful Liv-
ing" will be delivered by Albert G..
de Quevedo, Catholic psychologist, to-
Evening star., 1937-04-25

Sitting for photographer Bryant street
four generations of Singtelo,o family Sho,pn lett
right are: James styngeoo the grandtather Mrs T. F.
Strngteow months DID, Richard H. Stringtelo,o
infants tather Strigteo is employed at the White
Star Stuf Photo
Evening star., 1937-04-25

A light and cool choir mode in
Hong Kong noturo with
black decorations, round scot
closely woven. An inexpensive
way to Summer comfort.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-09

double in . weak glass and each member of this double Is seen to be itself Q double when viewed in . powerful instrument. zeta is also . double. In the Tegicn between Beta and Gamma lies the remark. able Ring Nebtla in Lyra, which looks like . tenuous ring shaped cloud. Photographic plates and powerful telescopes reveal also q central star. The nebula is not really . ring but a spheroidal body whose outer shell is of greater bril- liahcy than the inner regions. There are less than one hundred and fifty of this class of celestial bodies, known as planetary nebulaS. Only . very few are visible even with inoderate-poweYed telescopes. The name planetary" was applied to them by the elder Herschel because, like the planets, they show small disks in the telescope; but 1t B in- deed c misnomer as they have noth- ing in common with planets.
 Tn the selar System
 On July { at about 10 p. m. east ern standard time, the earth will be 1 naphelion, the point of It's orbit where 1t is furthest from the sun during its annual cruise about our central orb. The sun will then be about es,Soo. 900 miles away. Venus continues as 6 brilliant morning star throughout the month; the same Is true of saturn but Mars and Jupiter are brilliant evening stars and appear on our monthly map. On the i7th Mars and the moon will be very close to one another and from come parts of the earth the moon will actually be seen to pass in front of the planet thus effect ing an occultation. Jupiter is in opposition to the sun on the 18th and is thus in excellent position for observation being above the horizon nearly All night long,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-09
Legal Notices
DisTRiCT or WATERBURY ss. PROBATE COURT, July sth, A. D.

DIeTRiCT OF WATERBURY ss.
 PROBATE COURT. July sth. A. D.
 ESTATE OF CATHERINE Nj, MORAN, late of Waterbury. in said DietflCt, deceased.
 Upon the appitea tIen of The Citi; Bank of Waterbury. Exsoutor. by ThOinas r. Moore, Trust Officer, pfaylGg that 1t may be authotised 10 sell certain real estate. belonBing 10 said .Estate, as per application on
 okbERED. Tkat said application b1 hs4Td and determined at the Pro: pate 6ffice in Waterbury, in said D. 1881, at s:30 o'clock In. the fore' noon ,tetandard Time), and that no. tice De given of the pendency of said application, and the time and fishing this order one time in some newspaper having q circulation in said District. also by, leaving with pr by. mailing in fesistsfed letters, postage prepaid from Waterbury, q copy Of fhis. order to all phfties Inc terkstea and residing withOut the or .Refore the eth day Of July, 1887.
 MARoUrRrrh N. yAHY.,.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-09

group; in the classical mythology It represented the Harp of Orpheus, 6y means of which the hero almost reclaimed his beloved Euridice from HAdes, the domain of Pluto. Vega is at . distance of about twenty-five lieht-yeafs from Us and is thus one Of the nearest stars to the solar system. It pcifs out light and heat at a rate which equals that of fifty suns like ours merged into one.
 Although Altar in Aquila Is not nearly 90 great ( star as Vega, 1t is still . mighty globe compared to our sun fer its radiating power is equal to nine suns like ours added together. We. know this from its apparent brightness and its distance of about sixteen light-yeafs. But Deneb, which to the eye is the least brilliant of the three. is really the most magnificent of all: for It's dis tarice is estimated at not less than six hundred and fifty light-years TO that Its luminosity Is about ten thousand times that of the sun. It is . real super-giant among stars. By way of comparison with the light-ye4r distance given above 1t may be stated that the distance of the sun from the earth, ninety-three million miles approximately ,is tra- vessed by light in about eight niin- utes only; the sun may thus be said to be eight light-minutes away from us.
 To Happen Again
 wOme thousands of years ago, the point in the sky which represents tho northern celestial pole of rota- ton, commonly known as the north celestial pole. was closer to Vega than to any other bright star in the sky and if any inhabitants of the earth at that period = say, thir- ten thousand years ago - knew sufficient astronomy, Vega stood for Polaris in their lore. This will be the case again in about twelve thousand years for the pole travels in . circle through the field of stars. This circle has its center in Draeo about halfway between Alpha DTa. conis and Deneb. and . radius ot twenty three and one.half degrees. The orbit of the pole Is completed in about twenty-five thousand eight hundred years if, as Is probable. the present motion continues without major change of rate. Some four thousand years ago Alpha DraconiS was the pole star. This motion Of the pole is, of course. . result Of the phenomenon called "the pre- cession of the eqninoxes," which causes the equator to turn slightly without altering the angle made by 1t with the plane of the earth's orbit or "ecliptic plane" as astron- omers cali 1t. The turning of the polar axis and its equatorial plane must necessarily carry the pole with 1t and thus account for the poles wandering.
 To the east of Vega and close-by are two bright stars known as Beta and Gamma Lyrae: the former $
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-09
Stars Greater Than
 King Sol This Month
Vega Was Once Polar Star--Eartl in ApheIiOn Says Member of Columbia University Observatory Staff

closer to Vega. The brightness of Beta varies, due to the fact that 1t Is really . system of two stars which periodically eclipse one another and thus produce c regularly recurring diFninution in the light received by us. The variation os Betas lgiht is easily noticeable fo Tit drops nearly two riiagnitudes between maximum and minimum. Another pair of stars lies still closer to Vega and Is much less bright: Epsilon and Zeta Lyrae. Epsilon is Q double double"; 1t Is ( single star to the unaided eye, .