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THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER PAGES 9 SLC I IONS WEATHER-fiundav Cooli -Monday, Fair. Temperatures yesterday: maximum, minimum, 48; mean hiimldltv, K. Itll4 lUMhr Rrporti, a S3. 126 NEUS SECTION FORTY FOLK rU.F. SUNDAY MORNINC, AlMUL 1J31 11 4 IT EniTi seeond-flaM msttei, ULl.

Ail. iNU. 1 4 U.Wlil Tent Offlct, Clocionu. Obio. PRICK TEN CENTS GANG KILLING Second Te rm Favored "Garry" Herrmann's Long Career At End; Haalli fnmp Oiiitptlv Tn Pnlnrfnl Fimirp TV i iT a i T.

Who Dominated In Baseball And Politics I In Illinois Last Winter.1 Authorities For President Hoover, Delegate Poll Shows SENTIMENT Solicitors Redouble Efforts i To Aid Chest Over Week-End; it i 7 Governor Advocates Support ft mm 4 Community Chest workers. purred on by tho urging of Herbert French, tlcneinl Chairman, re doubled their yesterday to In-sui-j the success of this year's Chest rampiign the Uur.c-t goal by fur thM ever 1ms been a kei In Cincinnati. With the gon) In sight, providing that solicitors keep up the work they have been doing so valiantly In the campaign so far, Chest executives again yesterday urged the necessity of seeing every small Riser, the most difficult part of the follcltatlon because so much work Is required to make a showing among this class in the money totals. No tesm made reports yesterday, but It was said by a number of team chairmen that the solicitors were working in earnest over the weekend and that the totals to be reported at the flunl luncheon tomorrow noon at the Hotel Gibson would prove this. They mutt report at the luncheon to keep the campaign up to its mark.

It lacks of the goal, with only tomorrow's report luncheon and the closing Victory din ner Wednesday night to put it ovrr. If tomorrow's report reaches the TAXES On Rich Favored In Couzens's Han To Halt Federal Deficit. Michigan Senator For Return To Surtax On His Incomes And fiift Lew As Before 1024. Finds Larger Number Earning- $100,000 Or More, While Smaller Salaries Lose Ground. Congressman Wood Proposes Large Cuts in Army, Navy, Veterans' Appropriations To Balance Budget.

Washington, April 25 (AP Higher taxes on the rich were advocated today by Senator Jame5 Couzens to help meet Government expenses. The Michigan Republican, a wealthy man himself, also proposed revival of the levy on transfers of property and nK-ney before death, known as the gift tax, and relief from community property laws in several states under which husbands and wives are permitted to file separate income tax At the same time William R.Wood, Indiana, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, urged elimination of all extraordinary Federal expenditures to prevent a tax increase. The Government faces a prospective STOO.tXM.OOO deficit at the end of the fiscal year on June 30. EXPENSES TO BE CUT. Commenting on President Hoover's estimate yesterday that expenditures in the next fiscal year would drop $315,000,000 below this year's estimate, Wood said: "It Is up to every Individual Congressman to hold down expenditures." Under Ccuzens's plan the fourth advanced for tax increases In recent weeks by regular and independent Republicans, the normal tax rates, or those affecting the small taxpayer, would be left alone.

President Hoover has said higher taxes could be avoided if tho next Congress adhered to budget recommendations of the adminiftratlon. On the other hand, Senator Hiram Bingham, Republican, Connecticut, has proposed, if Governmental is to be checked, a raising of rat's all along the line, with a big increase in tho number to tax payers, by lowering existing exemp- tionn. REQl ESTFD BY INDI STKV. HIGHER 'Uk Butler Is In Another Rumpus; General Angered By Remarks Attributed To Haitian Minister As Result of scandal, Double Cross Motive Is Cited By Police. I'eny Said To Have Toured Abroad Without Making Promised Split Of $50,000 With Two Pals Shot By 'Friend," Victim Gasps.

I South Bend. Ind April 25 I Gtorge Perry, nli.is Parker. credited with having cngineeied the famous fato swindle at Springfield, lay dead today shot to death by a "friend." His photographs were identified in I Chicago by Mrs. Myrtle Tanner Blacklldge, a widow, one of the vic tim of the swindle, as the leader of the trio of confidence men. The unforgivable "double cross" of gangland was said by authorities to have been the probable cause for Perry's sudden demise.

FARO SCANDAL COSTLY. The faro scandal at Springfield last January cost Mrs. Blacklldge her highly desirable position Internal Revenue Collector of Chicago and sent her into political obscurity. It cost EdV)i B. Lltslnger, mem-her of the Cook County Board of Review nnd a political friend of Mrs.

Blacklldge, In cash which he had lent, to her to that she might collect $207,000 In fictitious winnings. Mrs. Blacklidga announced today that she proposed to reopen the whole scandal by filing suit for damages against Lltslnger for his charges at the time that he believed her a party to the plot. Perry, so authorities believe, did not make the promised split of the J50.OX) with hie two confederates. 1 He went instead on French Riviera and other resorts of the old world with his wife, Ruth, whom he married here a yeiir e.go.

ACCFI TI AS MOTIVL. That Is believed th reason that sudden death overtook him last night as he was stepping from the garage at the home of his father Inlaw, John Caniff. Perry and his wife hd been called bark to this country by the death cf her mother. Mrs. Perry was with him as he droe into the garage last nicht.

She had started for the house I when she heard a shot, she said She ran back to him nnd asked: "Are you hurt?" "I'm he gasped. At the hospital he told police "friend" had shot him. "Who was it?" a detective asked. "Done of your business; let me die!" Perry groaned. And a few minutes later he died.

Since the faro swindle a countrywide search has been in progress for P'erry, or Perker, as he frequently was called. Al.I.J OF.I) PAIS Authorities were seeking Roy Bowder, alias Burgess, and Roscoe Reynolds, reputed confidence men who are said to have been Perry'3 associates in the fake faro game. With the death of Perry the search for them was intensified on the theory that they might be able to throw light on the motives for Perry's assassination. Mrs. Perry, her father, John Caniff.

I "Garry" Herrmann is dead! Shortly hefote 9 o'clock morning th spirit that was the force behind nieny great enterprises in Cincinnati passed quietly into eternity. With Mr. Herrmann at the tim? of his death was his daughter. Mrs. Lena Herrmann Finke, and his son-in-law, Karl S.

Finke. The end came at the old Herrmann home, 47 Hol-llster Street, at the edge of Inwood Park. Several days ago Dr. J. Stewart Hajen, who bus hen aiding Mr.

Herrmann in his long and losing fight ith arteriosclerosis hardening of the arteries-warned members of Mr. Herrmann's household that the end was net far off. For more then a year he had been ill. Nearly a year ago Dr. Hag-en performed r.n operation, removing part of Mr.

Herrmann's foot, in an effort to stop the spread of the dread disease. Mr. Herrmann rallied after this operation, but never recovered completely. Yesterday at the breakfast hour it was apparent that the end had come. Mr.

Herrmann suffered no pain, but lapsed Into a coma, from which he never routed. Cincinnati prepared to pay a final tribute to a distinguished citizen next Tuesday. For Mr. Herrmann built Cincinnati a waterworks that at the time of its construction was considered the best in the world. He brought to Cincinnati baseball fans a world series championship.

He led the Cincinnati Lodge of Elks Into the forefront of the Elks of America and became the Grand Exalted Ruler of all the Elks in America. In politics he was a leader of men, and the last of the triumvirate, con-sisting of George B. Cox, Rudolph K. Hynicka and August Herrmann, to reach the end of his days. Though harsh words were hurled at Cox and Hynicka, "Garry" escaped much of this bitter condemnation.

He served in the City Hall for NARCOTIC RAID Produces 20 Arrests. fn inctnn, Newport. County And IVderal Officers Swoop Down On Dives In Negro Quarters. Squads of police from Newport and Co', ington, including county and Federal officers, headed by Lexy Ford, I'nited States narcotic agent, Cincinnati, raided nine dives in Newport's Negro quarter last night and arrested 20 persons on charges of having soli and possesied narcotics. AM but one of the prisoners are Negroes.

While Newport's black belt is fa- miliar to raids, this raid was confined entirely to narcotic-law violators and The white man arrested was William Vollmer, who was taken at 419 Columbia Street. All are to be arraigned before United States Commissioner Edward W. Pflueger at Covington tomorrow. r. 3.

iew Feature Sunday Sport Section With Today's Ifur of The Enquirer There is introduced to readers a section devoted to sport news and special articles, which covers that field of popular interest with faithful thoroughness, The Enquirer being the I only paper in Cincinnati I giving to its readers the full box scores of profes- sional and amateur base- ball games. I 1 For Curtis Divided WiiliTlieotlnrc Koosrvelf Strongest (If Uroiip. Only 20 Of 516 For Another Candidate, Hut Opinion On Issues Cowrs Wide Latitude. Economic Status Put At Head Of List And Prohibition Second, liv Kleelors Of 1)2S. Opinion Is Offered That Rv nomination MayBe Obtained By Kansan, But Many Desire Wet On Ticket.

MtntL PisrAT. to thr rsormrn. Washington, April 25 -The Washington Post tomorrow morning will publish the results of a poll that it conducted recently among delegates and alternates to the Republican National Convention of 1928 to ascertain their choices for the Presidential nd Vice Presidential nominations in 1932 and their views on the issues that are expected to play an important part In the 19.12 election. The replies show an overwhelming virtually unanimous -sentiment In favor of the nomination of Herbert Hoover for a second term as President of the United States. From every section of the country the Northeast, the South, the Cen-ral West, the Rocky Mountain area nnd the Far West came predictions that President Hoover again would be his parly's, choice for the Presidency In 1932.

ONLY 9 IMSSI NT. This be.T.i out the conviction of political experts, who have cited that in the last. 60 years only three Presidents have been denied the nomination for a second term -Johnson. Hayes and Arthur. Of the delegates and alternates ho ventured an opinion, 47 predicted that President Hoover would be renominated, while only 29 dissented from this view.

Four snld that It was "doubtful" whether the President would be renominated. Many to whom the questionnaire was sent withheld expressions of their opinions, although additional replies still are being received. With respect to the Vice. Presidential nomination, the poll revealed a vast amount of uncertainty among i those who responded to the Post'i questionnaire. While a majority, or 244, predicted that the nomination again would go to Vice President Charles Curtis, "If he wants it," 154 of suggested somebody else.

OPINION IS YAKIKO. On the question of Issues there was a wide variance of opinion, but the consensus of the majority was that economic conditions, business employment and collateral matter would be In the forefront in the campaign of 1932. Prohibition, according to the consensus, would be a close second, with farm relief, the tariff, the powefr issuo, Tammany Hall and the World Court trailing in the order named. As some delegates pointed out, the tariff and farm relief might be placed very well under the head of economic conditions. The character of the Post poll may be judged from this excerpt from the questionnaire: "Will you, as one of those who participated in the deliberations at Kansas City, be good enough to Indicate your viewpoint on the following questions? ISSIT.S A HE STRESSED.

"Who will be the Republican nominee for President "Who will be the Republican nominee for Vice President? "Please indicate by number In the order which you think they will rank as campaign issues the following subjects: "Prohibition, economic issues, farm Continued On l'age 42, Column if S3 JW e. IT loved to play. He was considered thf greatest In Cincinnati and he entertained his friends lavishly. When the Blaine Club Journeyed to conventions and inaugurations "Garry" Herrmann was the host along the route. The old Laughery Club on Laughery Island was the Continued On Page 2(1, Column 4.

BONES OF HERO Of Plymouth Reburied Captain Mvlos Slandish Is To RoM Permanently In New Tomb In Pilcrim Cemetery. Duxbury. April 25 (AD For the second time since his grave was found in the little Pilgrim cemetery 40 years ago, the bones of Caj-(ain Mylcs Standish, hero of the Plymouth settlement, were disturbed today. Forty years ago the town fathers opened the grave to place the mortal fragments of the doughty captain in a wooden coffin. Today's disinterment was decided upon that the bones might be placed In an hermetically sealed coffin and laid away in a new concrete tomb as a.

permanent resting place. In the cofffin was placed a metal tube containing records of the se'tlement prepared by Dr. Ics Standish, of Boston, direct descendant, of the warrior of three centuries ago. The cemetery ilsdf dates back virtually to the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth in 1020. It was the site of their first church.

Within the cedar-grown church yard confines are slate slabs so old that Inscriptions either are obliterated or difficult to read. Many that among them are stones marking the last resting places of John end Prls-cilla Aldcn, whose romance Is history. The grave of Captain Standish was flag-decked today, and on each corner of the plot an old gun was mounted. Historic and military organizations participated in the simple ceremonies. HOOVERS ARE ON CRUISE To Cape Hnry, To Participate In Annual PilgTimage.

April 25- US) President and Mrs. Hoover and a small party of friends left. Washington late tcday for a 17Vmlle cruise to Cape Henry, to take part tomorrow In the annual pilgrimage commemorating the 324th anniversary of the landing of the first English settlers. The presidential party traveled sboard the little. Commerce Department inspection boat Sequoia.

It is r.nly 104 feet long and has scant accommodations. With room for only cight in addition to the crew, the 'guest list necessaiily was limited. In 'the party were Dr. and Mrs Vernon Kellogg, Washington, and Dr. Robert A.

Milhkan. Pasadena, the naval and military aides, Csptain Joel T. Boone, White physician, and Idiw renre Richey. Secretary. The Sequoia will land at Little tomorrow afternoon, from where the President will proceed 'aboard a special train to Cape Henry.

The party will leave In time to return to Washington Monday morning. Only a cross marks the spot where the English landed April 2fi, 1607, and services will be conducted about it In the open air Take HtTil "He are upon the last, nnd (he hurdrst, stiige of our TliU far the rn-milU lin Iwn quite wonderful and the opportunity Inhere for a (lorliuia ilctory. 1- mm now on the outcome In the hand of the solicitors. The- money can lie had; the desire to give Is gr-itr than rer before. It will not he easy, but It tan lie accomplished by work, work and more work.

"It the small givers now upon whom we miikt call to save the day. "Herbert i. French, Chnlrmun, Community Cheat ampalgn." pro-rata goal sought, the executives are confident thnt the showing will send every one of the 6,000 workers i back Into the field over the closlnir days to push the campaign through to a smashing rlimnx with the entire raised In full. Mrs. William II.

Albers, Chairman Continued On I'age 2, Column 8. it was. It could not he found because Butler entirely destroyed it. "Regarding the taking of this fort, however, no Haitian had any knowledge, because It was not to Haitians that 'Butler mude his report but to officials In Washington." The impression gathered In the absence of official comment was that, the minister's Indication that he considered himself misquoted might serve to avoid a delicate diplomatic Incident. Meanwhile, the existence of Fort Riviere was attested by Governor Franklin D.

Roosevelt, of New York, who was Assistant Secretary of the Navy when the fort was captured. In a statement at. Albany he. snld lie was In Haiti at the time nnd took several photographs of It. Word of the Incident was received Continued On Pago 2, Column 1.

A lol of forward- I I looking men read The Daily KiKjuirer backward I That's a mighty sensible way a glance at the headlines then hark to the financial pages. For, at the beginning 3 of our biihlness dnv, tho most Important news Is the) business news of jesterday. How did the market lehae? What happened at those Important directors' meetings? What about those earnings reports and dMdond actlonv thos significant lnt de clslons? You find all the new I I complete, up-to-the-verj- last-mlnutei In The Oally Lnqulrer. Yes, news from all the flnan- I clal fronts. The New York I Stuck Market, Investment Trusts, the New York Bond Market.

The Chicago Market. The. Cinc innati Market grain, produce, live stock. For Jour guidance, there's the "Gossip of Wall Street," too and "Trade Trends," and "High Lights of Finance." i I All bnrometers of business trends. And here jou'll find all the Associated Press and I United Press dispatches bear- lug on business.

If ou'e neer tried reading our Enquirer the hack-to-front way, try It tomorrow- morning. I It's good business. THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER i 3 lllttMlKIIIMIIIIIIIIMIIIIIItlllltlltllllllllllllllllllltMlllH AUGU-ST WEQ.QMAKJV4 many rar3 and was Chairman of the Waterworks Commission. When he built the waterworks there were the usual charge of "graft." A few years after the great waterworks sys- tern that still supplies Cincinnati was completed at a cost of a' company of Eastern engineers ap- 1 praised tho system at $20,000,000. Though "Garry" worked hard, he ICOMMUNIST PLOT Is Revealed By Texan.

Ksntyr Captain Warns Oil Com-: parties Iteds Flan To I'p Their Properties. Austin. Texas, April 2S-'AP Warned of an alleged Communist plot to blow up refineries, pipe lines and storage tanks, oil com-panles operating in the Midcontinent field disclosed tonight that, extra precautions had been taken to guard their properties. Frank Hamer, Texas Ranger Captain, issued the warning recently in a confidential letter sent to executives of SS companies operating in Texas. His letter was passed on to officials and oil companies in Oklahoma and Kansas, becoming public today.

The Hanger Captain refused to divulge the source of his inforrm-'tlon concerning the alleged plot and expressed indignation that his confidential letter had rven given out. In the letter he said a large quantity of nitroglycerin had been stolen from storehouses In the oil fields and apparently was in the hands of the asserted plotters. E. E. Plumlv.

Superintendent of Refineries for the Magnolia Petro-; h-urn Company and head of the Beau-j mont Refinery, said he had increased guards on the company's properties, Advices from Houston said at least one rhip channel refinery had strengthened the night guard around its plant. Jake Sims, Chief of Police at Kemi-i nole, notified 40 oil companies in that state of Captain Hamer's warning. A nitroglycerin magazine near Seminole blew up last Tuesday night, and subsequently 90 quarts of the explosive were found buried nr Oklahoma City. Sims attributed the to "common thieves" attempting to rob the magazine, and expressed the belief that Communists were not involved. Captain Hamer said two explosions had occurred in Kansas since issued his letter.

He said he was uneble to give any details about the Kansas blasts. Hamer's letter said that "for the past several weeks I have been receiving Information that there Is a movement on foot among Communists, or Reds, to dynamite all tank farms and pipe lines thoughout this state (Texas)." He said he considered the information reliable and believed it. of "such Importance I deem It my duty to notify the different companies In Texas to instruct their special agents and all employees that can be trusted to be very alert in viatchlng ill movements, as nearly as possible, as to activities of the Reds in all of the oil fie Ids of Texes i I I i I I I "Three quarters of a billion dollars 1 was the largest raid of its kind ever wrs appropriated In: session at the't0 be seen in thtt ci'y. request of indusf-y, yet they now say The raid was the culmination of we must not raise taxes," Couzens work of undercover men who have remarked. been in Newport for two months lo- "Where do they expect us to get eating and making purchases of nar-the money? It's all right to spend it.

cotics. In this work the re-Nobody came to Congress to protest ported that in one instance they pur-the expenditures. Now we have the rhased 2-!) worth of narcotics and bills to pay and nobody wants to in another JS0 worth, pay them." Ford led one squad, while the other To justify an increase in surtaxes, were headed by Leo Living-he. pointed out that the wealth of the juight Police Chief of Newport lower earning classes in the last dec-1 A Hammon, United States Marshal, ede had declined, while the wealth of Covington, and Albert Howe, Deputy those with incomes of more than JlVj United States Marshal, Newport. As-X1 had increased about 100 per cent.

wpre Hie entire Newport In 1925, he said, there were Police Department and officers from persons with incomes of or Kenton and Campbell Counties, more. In 1029 this number had. Besides arresting 20 persons for Jumped to 14,701. 'narcotic-law 00 persons, Couzens said he would raise 0f them Negroes found in the nurtaxes at least to the 1024 level raided places, were charged with un-end provide a scientific sliding scale i lawful assembly. Washington, April 23 (AP) Major General Smedley D.

Butler became involved again today In a diplomatic tingle and has placed before the State Department a problem for which it. could find no precedent. The fiery marine protested against remarks attributed to Minister Belle-garde of Haiti, that Port Riviere in that country, for the canturc of a Congres sional medal of honor, did not exhit Butler's protest was embodied in a letter to Charles F. Adams, Secretary of the IS'avy. The communication was forwarded to the State Depart-j ment, which promised an investl-1 gat ion.

I When the Incident was called to his attention, Bellegarde had this to say "I did not say that the fort did not exist. But that no one knew where GREAT FLIERS IS NOVllle Tl'lbUte To Rvrri And Aeostn Ititdio Operates Denies Charges Made It Anthony Fnkker. Los Angeles, April 25-'AP--A cr; of the crew of a Transatlantic plane on the shore line of France was quoted today In refutation of Anthony Fokker's autobiographical criticism of Rear Admiral Richard F. Byrd. Lieutenant Commander No-ville, one of the four with the explorer on his flight to Europe, said I ,1..

41. roan' years at that time," he said, "and neither before, during mr since have I seen him confused. He is one of have ever met. Byrd commanded, "r4 1h' rnt ot Bernt Batohen. took orders," fJovllle said.

"Bert Acosta was the best flier aboard and he piloted the ship over the ocean. "I wonder," Noville said, "whether Mr. Fokker remembers that icven weeks before Lindbergh arrived at Roosevelt Field he (Fokkerl took us up in the plane In which we eventu ally crossed the ocean and crashed us, putting us all in the hospital. "As to ths thoroughness of Byrd's preparations, it is significant that in all his flights he has never lost a man." i and Mrs. Bl-cklidge all to the identification of Perry as the shouted "Thank God and Byrd, we leader of the trio who engineered tha are alhe tonight!" faro game in a Springfield hotel.

I had Wn wh Byrd fnr fve i gift tax. With the 1924 surtaxes in effect now, he said. It had been estimated more in revenues would have been collected this year, even with decreased earnings." WOULD TRIM WAR COSTS. Wood said appropriations for vet- rans' relief and national defense Must be held to a minimum. Wood opposed authorizing con- ttruction of a treaty-limit navy, which, he said, would cost Jl.000,000,-0XI In the next five years and "would look as if we are anticipating war." "There may be some necessity for Bid to widows of veterans, btit in view of the condition of the country other appropriations should be kept down," he said.

"If representatives ff veterans' organizations keep on making extraordinary demands, especially with a deficit piling up, there will be a backwash of sentiment Bgainst these outlays. "I would not favor voting a five- day week for Government employees; next winter. They said the Saturday jj half-holiday law would mean no in-r creased cost, yet the Eudget Bureau estimates It will cost $13,000,000 more a year." i His widow said she had charged him with the crime as they hurriedly rope. She admitted that she, Perry father all had known Blacklidge and her late husband, a druggist. r'itf Vtnrl Kaon worried and had expressed a fesr'of being bumped off." "That's the man!" Mrs.

BlacMidge exclaimed when his photographs were rhown her today in Chicago. Stindav political letters nf Herbert K. Mengert, Knqulrer Columbus correspondent; tieorge R. Newman, hentucky observer and tharles S. Bamette, West Virginia, are printed on pages three and four of Section Six of this morning' Enquirer.

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