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1933. Ev Evening Jnnrnal Feandrd IMft Home Edition Mrs. Marion Seotl and Her Grand National Winner Parley to ActjPJf TT -S. House Estate And Gift Tax Schedules Go Into Discard eicome to Jaeinigees 7 Z. ffil All Countries -vv TV-' 'Expands Offer of Aid Battleship, ctuned by Mrs.

Scott, f.t win the Grand National Steeplechase in England. Battleship, an 11 year-old, is by Man O' War out of Quarantaine, by Sea Sick. Marion Scott 's Horse Wins Grand National Senate Finance Committee Decides Present Levies Preferable; Eliminating i Of Profit Tax Is Seen As! i Certain to Ail By Associated Press I WASHINGTON, March 25. The Senate Finance Committee knocked House-approved estate! and gift tax provisions out of the revenue bill today. Chairman Harrison (D-Miss) said the committee decided the estate and gift levies in the existing law were preferable.

The Senate committee elim-! inated a House provision which would have consolidated the exemption from gift and estate taxes. Exemption Increased The House provided a total $40,000 exemption from both levies, while the Senate committee approved the existing provision or $40,000 for each The Senate group also restored a separate $5,000 annual gift exemption, which the had cut, to $3,000. Harrison said the Senate change were based in part on recent recommendations of Governor Lehman of New York and that they would not curtail revenue. Lehman had contended that the House -approved provisions would cut into state revenues from estates anJ represented an encroachment on state taxing fields by the federal government. Members of the committee, which rebu3ed the administration on two .1 Mrs.

Marion duPont Scott Teachers Back Plan for Fund On Retirement County Group to Assist In Salary Check Urged; Cnmmings Named. Head New Castle County school teachers today favored a teachers' retirement fund, the plan for which is being drafted by a teachers' committee and a special commission of Gov. Richard C. McMuIlen. About 250 teachers, assembled at their county meeting in the Clay-mont school, alfo approved the ap- learners -ame inmminrs 1 The teachers elected C.

W. Cum- i I i i Battleliip Captures Aiutree Classie Iy Heail For First Aiiierieau-0viiel and Hrel Triumph; Royal Danielt Second, Workman Third AINTRETE, Man-h 25 iA). By the narrow margin of a head, the the fourth American -owned horse to Americans Win On 7 7 Sweep Tickets All But Two of 16 Firt Prizes, Each $150,000. Go to Residents of U. S.

NEW YORK. Americans won March 25 (.. of $1671.946 United States scored it first American-owned and bred victory in the 100-year history of the Grand National Steeplechase today when Mrs. Marion duPont Scott's Battleship, a son of the famou Man O'War, led 35 rivals over the difficult four miles and R.V5 yards. Seventeen-year-old Bruce Hobbs," On Relief Set ForMonday Governor Calls leelinje Of Officials to Draft Pro.

gram for Financing Aid To Neeilv in the Connlv Gov. Richard will 3 ri-et Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock with a'ate offlciials, and "representa- tives of the New Castle County Levy Court and the Old Age i Welfare Commission to draft procedure for financing a relief, program in the county. Having approved a lawyers' committee report on a slate-wide cooperation plan for appropriation of relief funds, the Governor has ask-ec to the conference Secretary of Siate Charles L. Terry. State Auditor James W.

Wl.se. State Treasurer Ernest C. Blackstor.e, W. Harry Lewis, president of the New Castle County Levy Court, Harry W. Lunger, attorney for the Levy Court, and William F.

Metten. a member of the Old Age Welfare Commission. The lawyers' committee and separate reports by Robert H. Richards and James H. Hughes, of Wilmington have advised the Governor that the law, creating the Old Age Welfare Commission, provides that the state must jeimbui.se the counties one-half of what they spend for relief employable as well as unemployable.

City May Seek Refund Tn the meantime, officials of Wilmington are considering the pos sibilities of the city receiving trom, the state $25.000 one-half of what the city recently appropriated for needy families in the city. Relief in the city is now being ad- ministered by the Old Age Welfare Commission from that fund. The needy families in the county are being aided by a 5.000 fund recently appropriated bv Levy Court. How the city expects to receive th SO nrr rent, reoate on the $50,000 nnmnristinn nni rir While nn one would comment for quotation, It is understood that lawyers are! studying the problem. Governor McMuIlen has written letters to appreciation to the mem bers of the lawyers' committee of Secretary of State Terry fart M.T Act Tuesday ..7 Court expected to take dennlte action -at its meeting on Tuesday, nrooablv bv' advising- th Old Age Welfare Commission to ex pand, if necessary, its relief administration.

Officials of the commission are adamant in their point of view that they will not incur relief debts until they have definite understanding regarding the source of the funds. The next Legislature, under the findings of the lawyers' committee. will have to provide the reimburse ments to the County Levy Courts. This money will have to come from the general fund and it may mean more diversions of money from other funds. Cherry Blooms Due for Dehut 3 More Warm Days To Bring Park Trees Into New Glory A slowly rising temperature today warmed the city after a degree-from-freezing cold nip in the night.

Spring's retrenchment, in face of a cold wave, plunged the thermometer down to 33 degrees. Porter Reservoir reported. Top coats were brought out of Cio-ets this morning The temperature was 36 degrees o'clock this morning, although at 8 clear skies and a warm sun started it back to yesterday's high of 62 degrees. By 11:30 it was 47 degrees, warm enough to help Brandy win? Park's Japanese cherry trees in their promise to bloom. Edward R.

Mack, superintendent of city parks, said the trees would blossom with three more days of warm weather. But variable spring had the an- swer a secret. The weatherman pre- dieted warmer tonight, possibly cloudy and showers tomorrow, and colder Sunday. 1 vitai tax iues. oeciarea ineir nr i of a teachers' commission business tax program would raise from Npw Countv to cooper-more revenue than that passed by ate with similar commissions of the i Kent and Sussex counties to formu- Chairman Harrison D-Miss said late a progressive salary schedule.

which P. Warren Green twas chairman. Others were GoV Edward W. Cooch. Mr.

Lunger. mtngs. principal of Henry C. Con- Three Kher American -owned horses rad School. Richardron Park, as mts.

F. Ambrose Clark's KelLsboro president of the county association jAC Charles Schwartz's Jack Hor-to succeed Mrs. Ph Ills M. Heck of and stenhen Sanford Serceant Fleeing Bishop Cook, Head of P. E.

Diocese, Dies Devoted More Than Half Of Life to Church; Had Been 111 for Long Time Death early today ended the long and active career of the Rt. Rev. Philip Cook, D. fourth bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Delaware and former president of the National Council of the church. He died in the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, shortly before 1 o'clock this morn r.g.

He was 62 years old and ha1 devoted more than half of his lile in the service of his church. His wife and his brotnr and sister-in-law. Mr. and Mrs. George Cook of Pebbl Beach.

California, were at his bedside when death came. Bishop Cook was one of the outstanding leaders of the Episcopal Church in the United States. From 1933 to Jan. 1. 1938.

he was president of lus National Council. After 18 years in the service of the church, he was consecrated bishop of the Dioce.se of Delaware in 1920. His first service with the church was in missionary work in North Dakota following his graduation in 1902 from the General Theolcgical Seminary. Later he served the Chapel of the Incarnation in New York and St. Mark's Church in San Antonio.

Texas. In the World War, Bishop Cook Tirn to Page 19. Column 2j. $676,683 Jobless Tax Refund to Stale Urjzeil A refund of $578,633 in unemploy-! menr. insurance taxes to Delaware was asked yesterday by President Roosevelt in a message urging 'Congress to provide $40.51386 for 12 states which failed to pass unemployment compensation acts in 1936.

The amount represents unem-; ployment insurance taxes collected in 5taies that year, to be re-f funded if a state law were enacted. otherwise to be retained by the fed- eral government. Delaware enacted a state unem- ployment compensation act last year, and Congress authorized the I 1936 refund, but complication of tl.e amount was delayed until complete tax reports were available. Arrests of Parker, Son Ordered bv U. S.

Judge I NEWARK, N. March 25 Arrest of the Ellis H. Parkers, fath-, er and son, was ordered today after they failed to appear in federal court tor a hearing on then- requested removal to New York to answer indictments charging them with kidnaping Paul H. Wendel. When the former head of the Burlington County detectives and his ton uiu not answer as ineir names were called, District Attorney John J.

Quinn asked Federal Judge William Clark to sign warrants for their arrest, and he did so. Quinn said the warrants would be turned over to deputy marshals, and the Parkers might be brought to Newark later todav. I Philadelphia's MilYOr ooometi tor senator PHILADELPHIA. March 25 CU.PV Petitions were circulated here today for the nomination or Mayor S. Davis Wilson as United States' senatorial candidate on the Demo-1 cratic ticket.

Wilson previously an-; nounced his candidacy for governor. It was learned at Harrisbun? that supporters of Thomas Kennedy, Democratic gubernatorial candidate, have been considering the possibility of entering Mayor 1 Wilson in the primary campaign against Gov. George H. Earle. The three-member Board of Agri culture asked retention of CCC caiiii, mi uuvmug ana arauung in certain areas to benefit farms and livestcck.

They also asked the State Game and Fish Commission, and U. S. Bureau of Biological Survey to cooperate with them "in bringing about a satisfactory solution of the issue involved." Control Methods Hit The Board of Game and Fish Commissioners said they were "not adverse to mosquito control, if and when all its correlated subjects aie given proper Diocesan Leader Dies ft 4 Rt. Rer. Philip Cook Dr.

A.B.Burris. Salishury a (1 r. ivic Dies To.n 1938 Award a Mol Valuable Citizen for Hi Sport Work With Youth SALISBURY. Md- March 25 Dr. Alva B.

Burris. 64 years old. winner of the 1938 award to Salisbury's most valuable citizen, died in Peninsula General Hospital today. Dr. Burris was brought to a theater in a wheel chair leas than three weeks ago to receive the award of $250 for his medical skill and his work in building up a love for sports among young people on the Eastern Shore.

He was then returned to the where he had been he suffered a paralytic stroke last fall. The physician, unmarried, was athletic manager of Washington College at Chestertown for 12 years, had a try out as pitcher with the old Philadelphia Nationals, and managed a number of baeoali clubs tPiease Turn to Page 4, Column 2. Misplaced Comma Stir' Fresh Sales Tax Furore PHILADELPHIA. March 25 Pi. A simple comma that may cost city-taxpayers $1,000,000 in sales taxes offered council a problem today.

Apparently inserted by mistake in the clause of the sales tax ordinance covering restaurant sales, the comma makes restaurant bills of over 12 cents subject to a levy. City authorities estimate more than Si will be collected from this source. Councilman Edward A. Keilv ha3 sponsored an ordinance to ei. the section containing the comma.

Council President George Connell told restaurant owners council did not intend to tax food sales under $1 and has promised "something will be done." Trustees to Consider Election of Nov Dean NEWARK. March 25 The Board of Trustees of the Uni versity of Delaware at a special' meeting, to be held at the university tomorrow morning, will consider the election of a dean of the Women's College to succeed Dean Winifred J. Robinson who has retired, effective at the end of this colege year. A committee of the board met Wednesday night, and went over the list of candidates. It is understood that no recommendation will be i made at the meeting tomorrow as additional time is required to study the situation.

The report of the survey of the university made about a year ao i ill be submitted at the board I meeting. 13 Men, Woman Crowd st 41 10 "'OlO I riSOIl Death KoH COLUMBUS. Ohio, March 25 An unprecedented population of 13 men and a woman crowded Ohio Penitentiary's "death row" beyond its normal capacity today as tin electric chair was made ready to receive one of the doomed persons a few hours hence. Death row is eight steel cages. In it are the 13 men.

Tne woman Mrs. Anna Marie Hahn of Cincin- nati. convicted poLoner. occupies a special cell in another part of the i building. 'V i if i i To Austrian Fxile To Include Oppressed In Any Other Nations Britain and France To Accept Hull Plan Italy Kxpecfpfl fo Refn J'ropoal of Joint Hlp, Aylnm to Je, Ofher ihin2 to Keape WARM SPRINGS.

G3 dent Roosevelt said today American proposal to lum to political refueo? in Gar-many and- Austria also applied to oppressed minorities in Russia. Spain and Italy and any oth'r country abroad. He that it tj, disnei to help all groups seeScinsf fo 2e out of troubled lands and that no was required accomplish the purpose, and that it was in line with domestic policy that 2oes back to IT" when the United States held self out as an asylum for politicsl refugees. The President nodded in agreement when a reporter asked whether the refugee proposal applied to Italy, Russia, and Spain or any other country. He said a similar 5ituat.cn ars-e in 184S xhen there ware uprisings is Europe aza-nt monarchies.

33 Nations Invited As to Secretary of State HuHs proposal imritin? nine European and all the American rations set -j-3 a committee to study the nresen: day problem, he said it waji designee to get private money to heio expressed peoples move to other lanis. In Washington, the State Department said later additional from Hull were sent to Canada. Australia. New Zealand, and Scum Africa, raising the to 33. The President, 'said requests for asylum have come not oniv from Jew? but from Protestants and CatnoLc? and that no more than the present immigration laws of the respective a-ssisting countries allow would be permitted to enier.

As for Austrian, and German minorities, he said the American law Please Turn 'o Page 4. Column 3'. Students Strike To Keep Schools Walkout in 7 Ton. ProleU -Month" Cut in Term FAIRMONT. W.

March 25 Leaders of striking students se en Marion County high schools who staged walkouts in protest against curtailed terms summoned their followers to a ma.is meeting here today. Spokesmen the meeting tsls called in an attempt to halt the strike and to make a last request the Board of Education to keep th schools open. The board declared it lacked funds to finance a full nine-month term and ordered t. schools closed a month earlier than usual. The seven principals placed 'hs number of strikers at about 450 of 3.000 students, but strike leaders said the number who had left their classes was 1,000.

Old Chinese KeeonU Gie Scientist a Clue To Star of Bethlehem PHILADELPHIA. 25 0J.f. Chinese as-; tronomk-al records tell of a "stranger star" that blazed in the heavens for 70 days in the I year 5 B. perhaps the same star that guided the Three Wise Men to Bethlehem. Dr.

Knut 1 Landmark said today. Dr. Lundmark, professor at Sweden's University of Lund who came to address a joint meeting of the Franklin I Institute and the Ritrenhoiise Astronomical Society, said the Chinese star may well be he Star of Bethlehem because the i Christian calendar, drawn u-! Ave centuries later, ened fiv -o 10 years in establishing the cla-e of Christ's birth. The stieil-ts ht 5 opinion that the Star cf Bethlehem was a r.cr. or exploding star, rathe: than a inc of er.

and Mars, as some astronomers be-' lieve. J. C. Me.ssr.er. president of the Delaware State Education As.ocia-tion.

fpaakmg on the teachers' retirement fund, said the Governor's, commission and the committee from the state association, have, nsidered the matter favorably bu: have-not arrived at any conclusion. Based On One Per Cent He said the Governor's commis- sion has been assured that the teachers desire a retirement fund. Tentatively the maximum salary on which a pension can be based has been set at $2,500. The minimum allowance would be $500 and the maximum $1,850. These figures are based on one per cent of the annual salary of the teachers plus $10.

multiplied by the number of years the teacher has spent in service. Retirement would be optional at 65 years aad compulsory at 70. It was pointed out by H- E. Stahl, superintendent of the Claymont school district, however, that it will be for the state Legislature to create (Please Turn to Page 4. Column 4).

Radio Stations Mut File Earnings Reports WASHINGTON, March 25 (INS). Preliminary to its investigation of the general broadcasting situation throughout the country, the Federal Communications Commission today ordered each licensee of a regular broadcast station operating within the band of freoJencies from 550 to 1600 kilocycles to file reports on earnings and other data. Each licensee operating two or more refular broadcast stations must file a separate report for each station and also a report embrac- ing combined operating results of i all stations. uw corporation income ouiu ine, $97,000,000 more than the undistributed profits levy, whicl. it would replace In the tax revision bill.

"If witness improves, then our plan would bring still more revenue to the government," he said. i Treasury estimates. Harrison added, showed the committee's ver- fion of the capital gains levy would raise close to $42.000.000 the amount anticipated from the House provision. I Firht In Senate Indicated The com mi i tee's action in re writ- ing those controversial levies presaged a fight over the tax bill when" it reaches the Senate floor, probably early next week. Administration leaders have been reported as favoring the principal of the undistributed profits tax, end government fiscal experts have approved the tal gains provisions of the House bill.

Senator Barkley, Democratic voted aeainst eliminating the profits levy and was expected to lead a floor battle for its restoration. Senator Harrison termed committee's action a long step toward helping business. He said modification of the House capital gains tax should "release frozen capital and bring business improve-. menu" Other Problems Remain He asserted that disposition of the undistributed profits and capital gains provls'xis had solved the (Please Turn to Page 4. Column 2.

Slowed Growth Lengthens Life RaU Span Doubled By Limiting Calories In Diet ITHACA. N. March 25 The day when a controlled det may utilized to increase, and -possibly 'niiblp. the Droduction soan of life for cows, chickens, horses and other i farm animals appears within reach on the basis of animal nutrition ex- penmenij at Cornell University. I rr a McCav said a three! i youngest of England's steeplechase riders, booted the little American jumper home with only the narrow ile a est of margins to spare over McNallv's Royal Danieli while crowd of 250.000 thrilled to the sight of the closest nnush in recent years.

Sir Alex MacGuire Workman, nearly even with the two leaders at the last fence, dropped far back in the final drive but held third place in front of James V. Rank's Coi-i leen, one of the favorites. Kept Tare From Start Only one other American-bred horse, Rubio, ever won the jumping classic but he carried the silts of an to the front in 1906. Murphy have won the race but they all were bred in England. Hobbs.

son of Battleship's trainer, kept the American horse close to tne pace from the start, had him among the first tr.Tee over the last half of the journey and then drove him to the front in the last few yards after Royal Danieli had faltered at the lat jump. Battleship, a 40 to 1 shot, made only two mistake5. The first was at the canal turn and the second Please Turn to Page 4, Column 6. i Tootle, a Mongrel Dog, Is Among Top 'Sweeps' Winners NEW YORK. March 25 JP) Tootsie, a dog of dubious breed, was worth $75,000 in cash today.

For In Tootsie's name, Aaron Lipschitz, 57-year-old painter, took out an Irish sweepstakes ticket, and the ticket was drawn on Royal Danielli, the horse which ran second in the Grand National. Some months ago Lipschitz found Tootsie cowering in a dooiway during a rainstorm. He took her home and nursed her back to health. I Since, he has looked upon i her as an omen of good luck, which indeed she was. When the ticket was drawn, i he said: "Fate has repaid me because I was kind to that dog." He asked his wife: "What'll we do with the money, mama?" i and she replied: "What 111 do is wait until I see the money in cash.

Then I'll get excited." visited Old Swedes. Mr. Bell spoke highly of their interest and decorum! during the visit The exterior of the church is be- ins Da in ted and the Darbh house is I beinz imnrcved inside and out. The sidewalk from the main gates to the church proper is being relaid. It is expected the work will be completed within three weeks.

Iii Today's Paper Aniwrr im Qortion Colbrrtoon Contract Cliiflr4 Comic Death Notices Fdtloriali Financial Obituary Kadi School Stmt Society Sport "The Roiwnnd Harrier" (Serial). it -as Si Si 31 80-31 Women's Interest! Si i i in the. Irish lospital sweepstakes on I the result oj the Grand National steenchase.t Airrtre, today, won oy the Amertcan-owned Battleship, son of Man O' War. Fourteen of th 16 tickets o-t the winner were held in the United States, brineihg in $150,000 each, a total of $2,100,000. One was held in Canada, the other in Venezuela.

Exactly half the 32 tickets on Royal Danieli, second, and Workman, third, worth $75,000 and each, respectively, were held in the United States, eight on each horse. Tickets on unplaced and scotched horses and residual and consolation prizes brought the United States total to $4,671,946. This was about 62 per cent of the $7,552,000 Americans paid for tickets. Unlucky ticket holders left more than half as much with the hospital fund as the lucky ticket holders won. Buyers paid $13,730,010 for their chances to get rich quick.

Winners were paid a total of That left a balance of Approximately $7,552,000 crossed the Atlantic from the United States and American holders were assured of $1,641 406 even before the race was run. Of the 1,264 tickets drawn the (Please Turn to Page 4, Column 5). WPA Em ployment Rolls Now 3,002 in State Employment by the Works Progress Administration has reached 3.002 persons, Benjamin Ableman, WPA administrator for Delaware, jsaid today. Mr. Ableman said between 30 and 35 additional persons were instructed to report on the various jobs each day to take care of WPA workers, who are ill, or who have secured other work.

Work will start Monday on a $175,000 sewer project in Colonial Heights. Mr. Ableman estimated the project would provide employment for 200 men for nearly a year. iri carrying $.1,111111 Rohhed on Wav to Bank PHILADELPHIA, March 25 (INS). Jumping on the running board of an automobile, a gunman today pointed a pistol at a girl clerk and chauffeur employed by the Fair mount Jobbing House and grabbed a money back containing $5,000.

ing his victims from the car, the i robber drove off. The two employes were oil the way to a bank to make a deposit. Treasury Has Surplus Despite Budget Deficit WASHINGTON, March 25 (Ft. The federal treasury ran today into 1 the anomaly of a $14,821,337 cash i surplus and a simultaneous budget deficit of $809,645,890. The situation arose because cf temporary reduc-' tion of the budget deficit by heavy March income tax collections.

Old Swedes Spruces Up For Tercentenary Event Livestock Is Balanced Up Against Wildlife in Row productive life by limiting calories of painting as well as other woik in the die: during the period of growth connection with the renovation are had revealed a technique by which being done at a cost of $8,000. animals can be kept "young" or al- vork the 239-year-old house lowed to proceed into senescence, iof worship is being directed by E. Dr. McCay was able to double the w. Maynard and David Lindsay, normal life span of white rats by church wardens, with the as-withholding food of high caloric con-! sistance of the Rev.

Robert Bell, tent, ruch as sugars, from their diet vicar of Ok! Swedes. One group of animals fed an ade- Mr. Bell said the work has been quate diet with calories died after 'started none too soon as during the the norma! life span of about 600 past few weeks there r.as been a ca. A group that did not have marked increase in the nuir.ber of calories until 1.000 days old lived visitors, attracted by the coming more than 1200 days. celebration.

Dr. McCay said the experiment "Visitors during the psst few provided evidence that the rate of weeks have been averaging approxi-a ttaining maturity was an important mately 150 a week," he said. Includ-factor in predetermining the total ed among the visitors are classes Old Swedes Church is being "soruced ud' for the Swedish ter it from local schools and many tour- is if Yesterday group of more than; 30 Nesrro children, members of a cites at No. 5 School of this city, i i balanced against another develop Livestock was wildlife today in ment in the quarrel over CCC mos- quito-control camps. The State Board of Agriculture1 asked that the work be continued! to improve conditions on farms, and lessen danger of contagious disease among farm stock.

Yesterday, also, the Board of i Game and Fish Commissioners re- Iterated their stand that mosquito work be curtailed where it was "de-structive to wildlife." Program Propod The commissioners recommended a five-point program tor CCC eels, including certain drainage, improving roads, reforestation, and elimination of road hazards. i life apan. "Trd challenges." he observed "the common concept that rapid 1 growth develops the best bodies for long hfe." i Bat, thev declared, mevqutto con- Awaiting deatn tonight was Ever-trol "as practiced in this state ha.s-u 33- of Springfield, con- i victed of a murder which another tPiease Turn to Page 4, Column 1). prisoner has confeed..