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Evening star., 1938-01-05
TAX RELIEF "BALLYHOO,"
CONTENDS MSGR. RYAN
Better Distribution Of National
Income Held Solution
- Tile
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 5.-Classine as
futile" and mere "ballyhoo remedies"
such proposals for business improve
ment as tax relief and balancing the
Federal budget. appeals for confidence
and encouragement Of capital invest
ment, the Right Rev. John A. Ryan,
director Of the department Of social
action Of the National Catholic We'll
fare Conference. said here today that
what is needed is a better distribution
Of national income as between capital
and labor.
Msgr. Ryan spoke at the annual
meeting Of the National League Of
Wholesale Fresh Fruit and Vegetable
Distributors.
He saw four causes underlying the
present business recession: Completion
Of the spending Of the soldiers bonus,
reduced expenditure by the Govern
ment, slackening of irstallment buy
ing and rise in commodity prices
which has lessened consumption.
Evening star., 1938-01-05
RABBIS' BACKING GIVEN
WAR REFERENDUM BILL
Measure Called Contribution TO
the Preservation of
Democracy

Praise OF the war referendum bill rs
a contribution to the preservation of
democracy" was voiced yesterday by
the Central Conference Of American
Rabbis, largest rabbinical body In the
world. in . statement issued by Rabbi
Philip s. Bernstein, chairman of its
committee on international peace.
The statement was q reaffirmation
of the support given the war refer
endum proposal when the Central
Conference indorsed it in June, 1885.
Evening star., 1938-01-05
SHORE EMPLOYERS
THREATEN OWN STRIKE
Seattle Firms Won't Call ws+.r
Workers Unless Contracts
Are Observed.
= the Assoeiatad Press

SEATTLE, Jan. 5.-Water front EN-.
ployers threatened to stop all work on
Seattle docks 1T noon today unless the
Longshoremen's Union gives satisfac-
tory assurances Of future compliance
with existing contracts"
M. g. Ringenberg, manager of the
Water Front Employers Association.
said If 'stevedores failed to meet the
ultimatum, employers will simply
cease calling longshoremen to work
ships until the assurances are forth
coming"
Union ofhcials Immediately went into
executive conference and were still de-.
batting what to do.
Evening star., 1938-01-05
By JOHN C. HENRY.

The Federal-State unemployment
compensation program cannot meet
ANY appreciable part Of the needs
of early 1885," the Senate Unem-
ployment Committee was told today
by Chairman Arthur J. Atmeyer of
the Social Security Board.
The board chairman disclosed, how
ever, that the Federal agency is rec
ommending amendment of the act to
| allow States which wish to do so to
make benefit payments sooner than
the two-year contribution period orig
inally prescribed. With % States, in
cluding the District of Columbia, al
ready qualified to pay benefits, such
an amendment would affect % juris-
dictions.
If present economic conditions con-
tinue through 1898. he said, approxi-
mately $225.000,000 will be distrib.
uted In unemployment compensation.
In times of normal unemploy-
ment Mr.. Altmeyer estimated that
the present system would provide for
about two-thirds Of the covered un.
employed workers, but this percentage
probably would be cut in half In times
Of emergency.
The program must never be consid-
cred more than a first line OF de-
fense," he warned.
How Long Reserve Lasts.
I'VE estimate that If the system had
been in effect during the period 1922
through 1929" Mr.. Altmeyer said, "the
total benefit payments would have
ranged from $375,o00,00 to $1,700,-
100000. However, the average an
nual amount would have been $780,
100000 However, the reserve accu-
mulated would probably not have car
ried us beyond 1881.
II think I should point out the
limitations Of unemployment COM
pensation 80 far as solving the un-
employment relief problem is con-
cerned, even when unemployment
compensation is in full operation
First of all there is what the
British call the hard core OF unem-
ployment, which consists of workers
who are chronically unemployed and
rather permanently unemployed, due
chiefly to chronological changes and
market changes. Unemployment COM
pensation cannot help them because
they soon exhaust their benefit rights
or perhaps never develop any benefit
rights.
Second, unemployment compensa-
ton can only protect wage and salary
earners. It cannot protect the farm
owner, the small business man or the
self-employed professional man.
Third, large groups Of wage and
salary earners, such As farm laborers,
domestic servants and employees Of
very small establishments, are usually
excluded from coverage.
Fourth, the benefits are limited
both as to amount and duration.
First Line Of Defense"
For all Of these reasons unemploy-
ment compensation can never be more
than . first line Of defense, even
when the system is in full operation.
In normal times, even with the pres
ent restricted benefits, unemployment
compensation will probably compen-
safe for two-thirds Of the unemploy-
ment suffered by covered workers, but
in q period such As 1882 this propor-
ton might drop as low as one-third." I"
Disclosing the recommendation for
advancing benefit payments, Mr.. Att
meyer cautioned that ut least six
months should be allowed for setting
up administrative machinery.
IT unemployment compensation Is
to succeed" he added, ut must be
looked upon Is permanent insurance
Evening star., 1938-01-05
BODIES OF 3 NEWSMEN
ARE RECEIVED AT PARIS
Group OF French, British and
American Journalists Meets
Flag-Covered Caskets.
BY tie Associated Press,

BY tie Associated Press.
PARIS, Jan. 5.-The bodies OF
three newspaper men killed on the
Spanish Teruel front, including tina,
OF Edward j. Neil of the Associated
Press, arrived here today by train
from Hendaye.
A group of French, British and
American newspaper men were at the
station to receive the bodies. Those
Of Mr.. Neil and 3radish johnson of
the Magazines Spur and News Week
will be sent to the United States:
that of E. R. S. Sneepshanks of Reu-
ters British News Agency to Lon
don.
The three caskets, covered with
flags and flowers, were in two spe.
cial cars. The cars were banked
with wreaths bearing ribbons attest
ing they were from "Zaragoza to its
Comrades" Foreign Correspondents
IN SPAIN" italian Journalists in
Spain" and others.
Evening star., 1938-01-05

system rather than . temporary relief
measure"
Estimating the disbursements of
$225, ,000, 900 this year, the board chair.
man expressed the opinion that the
reserves OF the various States ought
to Be adequate to cover all withdraw
ais"
Estimates 100000 Jobless.
Virgil Jordan. president of the Ma
tional Industrial Conference Board,
told the committee that his organiza-
ton estimated unemployment Of last
November at about 100000 persons,
figure somewhat lower than the
adjusted estimate OF the recent volun-
tary unemployment census. Mr.. Jor-
dan specified that persons employed
on all types Of public work programs
are included in his unemployment
estimate. The recent national census
makes further distinction for persons
so occupied
Mr.. Jordan named the construction,
transportation, public utility and min
ing industries as those tagging most
behind the 1929 employment levels.
Declining to advance any theories
as to cause Of the present decline, the
N. I. c. B. head suggested f1at it would
be helpful to have the United States
Employment Service registrations
made available more currently, a plan
now being contemplated.
AS an experiment directed toward
this end, the committee Twill receive
from the Employment Service Monday
comprehensive report onithe number
of applicants through the end of this
week for unemployment compensation
in % States. BY terms OF the unem-
ployment compensation laws, such
applicants must be registeked for new
employment with the Employment
Service.
Yesterday afternoon tho committee
heard Chairman Mariner s. Eccles
Of the Federal Reserve b oArd testify
over q wide range of subjects per-
tanning to the economic hi ealth Of the
Nation. In brief, the points he made
were rs follows:
l.. The current recessionI was caused
by cessation Of Governmeh ht spending
after an infiationary psychology had
been created through extensive pub
lie and private borrowing. plus pay
ment Of the soldiers bonus In 1896.
"Quick Expenditure"
2. Quick expenditure of q billion
dollars from the Nations gold reserve
would stop this recession" Mr..
Eccles made 1t plain he was not max
ing recommendation to this effect,
but was stating the effect Of such pol
icy II determined on.
). Heavily increased taxation, par
ticularly in the lower brackets, would
be defationary and inadvisable. Tax
alton In the higher brackets already
Is heavy enough.
4. The undstributed corporate prof.
its tax is not to blame for the business
decline and should not be repealed, but
should be amended to grant exemp-
tions for plant expansion and for fixed
obligations Of companies.
5. The capital gains and losses tax
should be amended to allow carrying
losses over q period of years, but there
should be no change in the principle
OF taxing capital gains as income.
6. A downward adjustment of the
returns asked by both industry and
labor would be stabiliAng in effect.
Evening star., 1938-01-05
LICENSED DETECTIVES
PLANNED TO END SPIES
Pennsylvania officials Consider
Measure for Special Ses-
sion Action.


HARRISBURG, Pa, Jan. 5-lAgis-
lation placing all private detectives
under State license to weed out sso-
called industrial spies" was considered
today by State officials for introduce
ton In the next session Of the Penn
sylvania Legislature.
John Sullivan, director Of the Bu-
reau Of Civil Liberties, said that
FIRST the State got rid Of the coal
and iron police and then We placed
. bar on hiring all kinds Of deputy
sherif1s'
Now these private detective agen-
cies must be checked to complete the
picture. This bill might be brought
into the special session-if there Il
one"
Private detectives now are licensed
by the county courts. There is no
State supervision.
Sullivan said he was awaiting action
by the Ia Toilette committee In Wash
ington before working On any legis.
lation here.
Evening star., 1938-01-05
CORRECTION

In story on page B-l Of yester-
days editions The Star incorrectly
stated that a surgical bag, stolen from
DR.. Paul Eanet, 4847 Illinois avenue
NV. contained 500 worth of NOR
phine. The report should have read
the entire contents Of the bag, which
included surgical Instruments, were
valued at 500.
The bag contained 20 one-ouarter
tablets OF morphine, valued at so or
90 cents, according to DR.. Eanet.
The Star regrets the error.
Evening star., 1938-01-05
DU POINT CONTESTS TAX
OF $63,829 ON INCOME
EAther-in-Law Of Franklin Roose-
velt, Jr., Says His Children
Got the Money.

By the Associated Press.
Eugene du Pont, father-in-law of
Franklin D. Roosevelt, jr., asked the
Board Of Tax Appeals today to review
Treasury tax assessment of t63, ,s29
for the years 1888 through 1885.
Mr.. du Pont contended the Govern
ment had erred by including In his
taxable income the income and profits
Of five separate trusts he had created
for his four children with the Equitable
Trust Co. Of Delaware. The income
from these trusts, he said, went to his
children, not to him.
Mr.. du Points petition said one trust
was created in 1920 in favor of Aimee
du Pont, while the others were set I'm
in 1927 in favor Of Ethel du Pont. now
Mrs. Franklin d. Roosevelt. tr.: Aimee
Nicholas du Pont, and Eugene du
Pont, 3d..
Evening star., 1938-01-05
NAMED CLAIM AGENT

BALTIMORE, Jan. S R.-The Bal.
timore d Ohio Railroad announced
yesterday that Paul G. Garrett, acting
general claim AGENT had been an
pointed to the. post permanently, He
succeeds Charles o. Fesry, who retired
Evening star., 1938-01-05

Pressure is low from Hudson Bay and
Hudson Strait southwark to the Lake re-
gion, the North Atlantic States and Nova
Scotia. with . broad trough extending from
Nova Scotia south-southwestward to the
Bahamas. and it is relatively low and fall
ing from Saskatchewan southeastward over
the Plains States and the Missouri and
Upper Mississippi Valleys and over South
ern Texas. San Maur and Port Harrison.
Quebec. 1880 inches: Grindstone Island,
Quebec. % "a inches; st. Georges, Ber-
muda. 29a6 inches: Pierre S. Oak. % SS
inches. and Brownsville. Tex. 1000 inches
Alaska. Kodiak 800 inches. S Hisn e.aH pres.
sure prevails over ali other sections with
eenters IS follows: salmon, Idaho. sO.6s
newfoundland, 80 80 inches Norman Dis
triet Of MCKENZIE, and Mygbugten. Green
lang. 3O.26 inches: Texarkana:, Tex. 1920
inches. and Winnipeg Manitoba, 1910
inches. Generally fair weather has pre-
vailed, except for precipitation. mostly
light: IN Texas and Southern New Mexico
the Lake region. Northern New York and
northern New England. The temperature
mas fallen from Ontario and Manitoba
SouthWard over Minnesota Wisconsin,
Nortnern Michtsan and portions Of the
Dakotas; while 1t has risen in the Northern
ROCKY Mountain region.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear
clear today.
Evening star., 1938-01-05
THE WEATHER REPORT

District Of ColumbiaFar tomorrow not ch ch.r ~
lowest tonight about 80 southwest ana
winds becoming variable ~ N' "A" "e''
and tomorrow not much
"oO Ano'A
West vrsna-oeneay tomorrow .iehtv v,
Lin soathno stoniuht
Evening star., 1938-01-05

bames faulty piston of chiefly responsible for
at least fourth of the traffic fatalities The death toll
1uould be ooered he contends percentage
Is can be reduced to oere is proporonoey greater than
the percentage for other groups
His chart shous 433 cent OF those killed traffic
o ~ @ o. oge &C. Ye hq age groap more
lighting deficiencies also to blame says for GREATER
number OF traffic deaths in the older ace oroup
Evening star., 1938-01-05
GRAND JURY SCANS
"SEA-W0LF" STORY:
U. S. Attorney Indicates He
Will Ask mo Bill" for Two
of Yachts Crew Held.

oAChGHOUND-
About week before Christmas
yacht put to sea from California,
Ihree hours out, one of the pas.
senoers. Jack Morgan, murdered =
the GOATS oDner. Dwight Fauldino,
ana threD the body ouerbourd. He
tooF command, intending to sail,
W,th himself as king and the Others
as his ptstol-point. subjects, to the
South Seas, there to set up q kino-
dom. His plan ,oas toiled by t,po
members Dho killed him and threu
ms body oDerbodrd SOS sto1als
they hotsted were seen BY Napy
flyers.
By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 5.-A Federal
grand jury considered eyewitness ac-
counts today Of the grim ocean drama
enacted two weeks ago on the schooner.
yacht, Aafje.
The jury was to decide whether
Robert Horne. 81. and George Spernak,
l9, would be held on charges Of mur-
dering Jack Morgan, crazed sea wolf"
who killed the yachts owner, Dwight
Faulding of Santa Barbara, took COM
mand of the craft and terrorized other
members of the cruise.
United States Attorney BENJAMIN
Harrison indicated he would ask the
jury to return mo BILL" which auto
matically would release Horne and
Spernak, who are supported by cruise
members in their claims they killed
Morgan in self-defense.
All six survivors were called to
testify, including Lillian Morgan, 1s-
year-old wife of the pirate; Mrs.
Gertrude Turner, fiancee of Faulding,
and her 8-year-old son; Elsie Berdan,
Mrs. Morgan's nurse, and Spernak
and Horne.
Federal agents and Coast Guard
officers who boarded the yacht after
its SOS" sign was sighted by Navy
flyer, also were summoned.
Survivors said Morgan seized the
craft because of a frenzied desire to
sail to the South Seas with his wife,
an expectant mother.
Horne said he felled Morgan with
a marlin spike December "a while
the Aafje was off the Mexican coast.
He said he and Spernak threw Morgan
overheard.
Morgan shot Faulding three hours
after the Aafje left San Pedro, De-
cember 20, and forced Horne and
Spernak to lower the body into the
ocean. Then. with pistols, Morgan
took command.
Evening star., 1938-01-05
US. S.JOBLESSFUND
HELD TOO SMALL
Security Program Cannot
Meet Needs OF. 1888,
A|tmeyer Says.

BAChGROUNU-
Created for the purpose of deter
mining immediate unemployment
relief needs, special Senate COM
mittee broadened scope of. inquiry
,phen country tell into new business
tailspin. Committee has fund OF
$4,000 to press investigation.
Evening star., 1938-01-05
Results
Tropical Park

- The Associated PreSS.
FIRST RACE-Purss, SEQ: elaimins,
4-year-slds and ~; 8 furlenss.
Miss Ciisrs {lleCaAlsn) 40 SO
Many Moens Nv. z. Snydef) $40
Time, 1:12.
ysn's eeh, .0feel. Fair Tine, 0ante1os,
t1iekextnS, GrsnaDAe ~. =
Evening star., 1938-01-05
The Sun and Maon.
PrecIOitAtinu

Monthly precipitation in inches IN n,
capital current month todate) e
Evening star., 1938-01-05

Record fsr Last - Hours,
(Efom noon Yesterday to noon today
Hiehest. 46, 2:30 p.m. yesterday. Year
Lowest. 30. 7:10 am. today. Year
ago. 80.
Record Temperatures This Ysar.
Hishest. 81. on January 2.
Lowest, 30. on January &.
Humidity fer Last "a Hours.
lErom noon yesterday to noon today.)
Highest. o. per cent. At Am. today
Lowest, II per cent. at 4:10 pm. yes
terday.
Tide tables.
(Furnikhed By United States Coast and
0eodetic Survey
Today Tomorrow
Hish -------------10: am. 1853 am.
{1E ---A--------,3:3Sa.m. ,6:21I Am.
Low .-.---------. S:W p.m. t:a2 p.m.
Evening star., 1938-01-05
River RepDrt,

IVVOH6C GuU 6ueu8noO4h River
y Harpers Ferry: Potomac at Gre,
clear today.
Report for Last "A Hours.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-18
MAN lSSOUCHT
IN ; DEATHS
Dead Locked in Miami
Apartments; Murder,
Suicide Discounted

MIAMI, Fla, Oct. Is. (UP)-
Police last night sought a man
named Joe Miller for questioning
in connection with the shotgun
Staying Of two men and woman,
whose bodies were found late yes
terday in small apartment build
ing in the northwest section of
Miami, ,a.' =. -, .
The dead were identified as Ha-
Eel Haffey, 35, a former manicur-
list and owner of the apartment
building; Ernest P. Engelhoff, of
Lafayette, o., her step-father, and
George R. Black, who occupied
one of the three apartments in
the building.
Police found a penciled note in
Miss Haffey's purse, which said IN
part: Goodbye ALL, / loved and
lost, may God forgive me-"
Although the note indicated the
possibility of murder and suicide,
Stuart K. Smith, special investi-
gator in the county attorneys Of
fee. discounted the theory for the
two apartments and the tool room
were found locked from the out
side.
Police searched the building
and the grounds surrounding it,
but were unable to find the shot
gun used in the Sayings.
Police learned from neighbors
that Miller had been resident of
the home and was reported to
have been in the neighborhOod
last weekend. .----~
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-18
0 SERIAL STORY
MURDER TO MUSIC SO Ss;' :::Ss. ~ S'
BY NARD JONES
by NARD JONES

eats will be here: o,,
Good going. TOrchy. See you
then" rohr
had them packed into his dlmlnu-
tive apartment when TAFT got
there at minute before five.
I"Boys," grinned Torchy, this Is
! the new manager. He locks like
a puv that would pay salaries, but
YOU never know. And say, Mr..
TAFT, you might tell US right now
how many you're going to fire.
Pm not going to fire anybody,
TAFT said. Pm going to scream
for help from you fellows"
"Oh-oh :" said Torchy. MAY
be | mentioned salaries too soon.
Bob TAFT laughed. mo you
didn't. | think We can still pay
incorporating we work togeth-
er. The Swingateers is still a hot
band. You fellows all thought a
lot of Dombey. Well, before ne
he was killed he made Myrna
Dombey a partner in the corpora
ton. That means she's taking
Lud's place. If the thing goes
down, she goes with it-and so
do We all. Some of you fellows
in the band were helping Lud
Dombey make bootleg records. Pm
not .aeking who you were, because
| don't care. Lud was on the spot
and | suppose you were trying 10
help him. Anyhow, I've been in
touch with Montgomery OF the
recording company, and there
won't be trouble, at least for a
while. And | think / can cinch
up the contract at the Pacific
Plaza in spite of all the mess. But
here's the rub. There're people
who'd like to see the murder hung
on Myrna Dombey. If there's any
guy here who thinks it should be,
I'd like to hear from him"
: No sound came from the group
crowded together there in
Torchy's apartment.
That's swell. Because II Myrna
Dombey gets messed up in the
killing of Lud, our chances of
keeping The Swingateers intact
isn't so good"
1.-The Swingateers have got to
keep going" one of the boys said
in a 10 wtone. "Lud is just as big
an idol today with the whackies
as he ever was. Torchy knows
his style. And We'll all do what
we can Wen swing as wide as
we ever did, won't we, boys?"
"Wide as gates" another said.
well send it out for the ickies."
TAFT grinned. He felt better
about things than he had for sew
eral hours.
ITO be continued)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-18
u. S. Accepts Bid
To Help Settle
Latin Dispute

WASHINGTON, Oct. UP)-
President Roosevelt last night
made a new plea for pacific solu-
tions Chased upon justice ana 1alr
dealing" for international dis
putes in a reply of acceptance 70
a request from Ecuador to arbi-
trate it's boundary dispute with
Peru.
"The government of the United
States, in harmony, feel sure,
with the spirit which animates the
peoples and governments OF every
other American republic, earnest
ly hopes that pacific solutions
based on justice and fair dealing
may promptly be found for those
controversies which still exist be-
tween some of the American re-
publics," Roosevelt wrote. :.
DR.. Borrero said that relations
between Peru and Ecuador had
been strained when the former
broke off negotiations OF the
boundary dispute, and he appeal
ed to Mr.. Roosevelt as the most
noble artificer" of the Chaco
peace agreement.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-18

it is at least certain that the pres
ident has them guessing about his
own 1910 plans. Postmaster Gen.
eral James A. Farley wrote last
month in the American magazine
that Mr.. Roosevelt probably had
not confided in anyone whether
he would be third term candi-
date. When he does make up his
mind he probably will delay any
announcement until the conven-
ton is considerably closer. Farley
believes next August would be
about the right time.
But the search is on, neverthe-
less, for prospective conservative
presidential nominees whose cleo
ton in 1910 would restore party
control to the more traditional
wing of the Democratic party.
The so-called new deal purge"
efforts during the recent prima-
ries aroused the conservatives as
nothing else has since Mr.. RooSe-
welt proposed reorganization of
the supreme court. Failure of the
purge" to dispose of the three
accommodated Democratic sem
ators-Tydings, Md, Smith, S. c.,
and George, Ga.--convinced many
anti-new dealers that Mr.. Roose-
welt will not be able to pass on to
successor his own extraordinary
popularity. To some persons, the
purge results meant that if Mr..
Roosevelt wants to be sure of
having a complete new dealer in
the White House for another four
years he will have to run again
himself and be reelected.
Senator Wheeler, o., Mont.)
told the United Press that Mr..
Roosevelt would not be able to
hand-pick his successor, although
he conceded that the president
would control the 1910 conven-
ton and might be renominated by
a stampede of "job-holding" dele
gates. And Wheeler thought it
"quite likely" that Mr.. Roosevelt
would be reelected if nominated
again. Wheeler led the fight
against the supreme court reor-
ganization bill and is now leader
of the Democratic anti-new deal
forces.
"If he wants the nomination
Wheeler said of the
president, she undoubtedly will
receive it. But, in my judgment,
he will not be able to nominate
anyone else.
"The fact that the president