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SATURDAY, JUNE 6,1936. Single Copy, 3 CcihtT GOP RIVALRY TENSE WITH LANDON CLAM TO FIGHT FOR HIGH TAXES ON CORPORATIONS Revised Bill Contains Faint Traces of Pres- dent's Ideas SENATE APPROVES Plan Designed to Raise Changed From Original Married To Porter WASHINGTON UP) Sped through the Senate by a vote of 3f to 24, a tax bill containing onlj faint traces of President ideas headed today into a Senate House conference where administration men will battle for high, gradu rted taxes on undistributed profits of corporations. Many legislators agreed that the "real fight" over high taxes will take place in this conference and that the bill may emerge entirely rewritten. After" three days of debate, a tired Senate which had gone without its dinner put its stamo of approval on (he bill last night. Vastly different iiom a measure previously passed by the House, it is designed to S829.000.000.

It calls, amour, other things, for a 15 1-2 to 18 per cent tax on net corporate incomes as compared to the existing tax of 12 1-2 to 15 per cent; a new type levy of 7 per cent on ur- oJEtributed corporate earnings; repeal of the present exemption ol dividends from the 4 per cent normal income tax; an increase of one per cent in the individual income on every surtax bracket between $6,000 and $50.000. plus a increase in the taxes on brackets over ana an 80 per cent "windfall" tax on what was termed "unjust enrichment of prbscssovs who did not pay the AAA processing levies. The 7 per cent undistributed profits tax is much lower than is desired by administration They originally suggested graduated tax averaging 33 1-2 per cent The House bill, nearer to the administration ideas, would tax corporate income on a graduated scale ranging up to 42 1-2 per cent and depending on how much of the income was withheld from stockholders. The tax conferees will labor all i-ext week, but the Senate and House proper will recess Monday, not to meet again until June 15. This will permit Republicans to attend their national convention in Cleveland.

An indication of the hard fight Administration leaders plan in behalf of higher profits taxes was given when the question of naming Senate conferees was reached. Leaders rrade an unusual decision to name eight instead of the customary five conferees, thereby assuring that three members friendly to the idea of higher taxes on undistributed earnings would be on the conference committee. 16 Dead, 16 Hurt As Safety Week Closes ALBANY Upstate New York counted a toll of 16 dead and 16 injured in traffic accidents today as Governor Herbert H. Lehman's safetv week drew to a close. In addition, 13 were killed in accidents over the Memorial Day weekend.

Three were children ten years old or under. Seven of those killed were involved in accidents Friday. One was reported killed in upstate New York on Monday. Three deaths were recorded Tuesday, three on Wednesday and two on Thursday. Young GOP Clubs in Favor of Gov.

Landon BUFFALO (IP) Walter J. Mahoney president of the New York State Young Republican Clubs, announced today a poll of his organization avored Governor Alf M. Landon of Kansas for the Republican presidential nomination. Mahoney said member clubs were conducting the poll in accordance with recommendations adopted at the annual convention last month and that reports received from about 90 per cent of them show Landon of Kansas is their overwhelming choice." -Many of the polk," he said, "showed the vote for Landon was unanimous and all clubs stated at least 80 per cent of the votes were cast for GIVES SUICIDE VERDICT POUGHKEEPSIE (R) Deaths ol two men were declared suicide today by Deputy Medical Examiner Howard Carpenter. The victims were A'thur H.

Shook, 69, rtod Hook gar- ilcr.cr, who was found shot to death in his home and Jacob Kalish, 40, of Beacon, who hanged himself. Princess A a i of King Ghazi of Iraq, fell in love and secretly married a hotel porter, to the consternation of the royal family. She is shown on the streets of Athens. Greece, after her marriage. (Associated Press Photo) NASHVILLE IS GIVING HONOR TO DEAD CHIEF NASHVILLE, Tenn.

Tennessee's was a city of mourning today as Joseph W. Byrns came home to a final resting place among his native hills. I The body of the House speaker. who died suddenly Thursday in Washington, was en route here on a special congressional funeral train. Following that by but a few minutes was a special train bearing President Roosevelt, coming to dc final, solemn honor to his political associate and long-time personal friend.

Thousands gathered in the city from adjoining states as well as from Tennessee. From the hills and rich valley tobacco farms of Robertson county, where Byrns was born 66 years ago, hundreds came to ex- p-ess their grief. At Mount Olivet Cemetery a vault was made ready to receive the body of the genial Tennesseean, who had his home here for the greater part of his life and for 27 years had represented this district in Congress. ARRESTS NEAR IN MURDER OF STEELWORKER Death of Roy Pidcock Is Connected With Killing of Poole WAS FOUND HUNG Detectives Find the Two Men Had Mutual Acquaintances DETROIT Police of suburban Wyandotte said today that arrests were imminent in connection with the death of Roy Pidcock. who disappeared about the time Charles A.

Poole was killed by a member of the Black Legion. Pidcock. 32-year-old steel worker, vanished from his home early on May 13, clad only in his underwear. His body was found the next da; a hufon Fighting Islar.d. in the Detroit His death was recorded- as- a suicide, but they had discovered that Pidcock i-nd Poole, who was shot to death by an admitted Black Legion execu tioner the same morning, had mutu- a'.

acquaintances. A group of men who set out in several automobiles to punish Poole, following a false accusation that he had mistreated his wife, became separated when a drawbridge opened, according to court testimony. Police Chief William P. Rutledge, of Wyandotte. said he was investigating the possibility that "either some of the Black Legionnaires who became lost' at the drawbridge were in reality assigned to punish Pidcock, or that another group was assigned to that duty." said they had information that two men questioned Pid- ccck.two weeks before his death r.bout reports reflecting on his character, and that he returned to hit irome on May 11.

after a two-day ebsence, with welts on his back, as if from a beating. Fighting Island is in Canadian waters, but police said they believed Pidcock might have been sla on the American shore and his body taken to the island. Dayton Dean, who testified in court that he killed Poole, whin half a dozen fellow Black Legionnaires looked on, denied published reports yesterday linking him with the bombing of Father Charles Coughlin's home in Royal Oak i.i 1D33. Union Recognition, Wage Raises, Basis of Strike Issues CHICAGO Wage increases and union recognition dominated the issues at stake today in widespread strikes involving thousands of workers. In the east, the Remington Rand strike was in its second week with more than 4,000 employes out at six plants in Syracuse, Tonawanda and Ilion, N.

Norwood and Marietta, and Middletown, Conn. Company spokesmen, claiming was responsible for the walkout, offered a $15 cash inducement to workers who would return to reopened shops at Syracuse and Tonawanda Monday. Unionists asserted wage and other demands had not been met. The Marietta branch operated on a curtailed basis. The electric workers union estimated 400 persons stopped work in the wire and cable departments of the General Electric plant at Schenectady, N.

Y. The "sit down" demonstrators on strike was called protested "readjustment" in truck drivers' pay. The company figured less than 80 participated. With negotiations under way for a silk dyers' federation contract involving 20,000 persons in the erson, N. area, 150 Paterson dye house workers were out on strike.

At Newark, 250 drivers abandoned Ihfiir milk wagons. MOVE TO BREAK STRIKE BEGUN BY LEON BLUM Premier Acts to Revise France's Financial Structure Held In Flogging EXPERT IS OUSTED Co-ordinates National Defenses As Cabinet Adopts Decree Forest Fires Add to Southern Drought Woes ATLANTA Forest fires added to the south's drought woes to- clay. Farmers already faced with a prospective crop loss looked hopefully to predictions for scattered showers while flames ravaged tinder-dry woodlands at dozens of points. Forecasts were for partly cloudy conditions with occasional showers all across the south today and tomorrow but weather men offered little hope for general, soaking rains needed to break the most persistent dry period of years. Acquitted of Murder, Re-arrested in Holdup LAKE GEORGE A Supreme Court, jury which deliberated nine a half hcurs acquired Carl I-Mchardson, I'l.

Glens Falls tavern keeper of murder but before he could the courtroom the cung cafe owner was rearrested, cl'argsd with the holdup of a Hudson Falls liquor store. Richardson was tried for the murder of M. Earl Davidson, 28, mem- of a prominent Glens Falls family. The jury returned the verdici at 1:40 A. M.

today. An hour previously the members had reported to Supreme Court Justicj Ellsworth that they could not agree, but the justice ordered them to resume JUMP TO SAFETY SYOSSET Two army pilots from Mitchell Field bailed out of a large Martin bomber today, as it crashed and was destroyed by fire. The pilots, making a routine flight, were uninjured. The plane struck the ground about a mile from the Jericho Turnpike, south of Syosset. DIES AFTER FALL TROY Iff)--Injuries uflercd in a fsli from the second floor porch ot Her home here, caused the death of Mrs.

Anna Levine, 41. Police reported thti railing gave way, plunging her to the ground. She died in a hospital yesterday. Markland Suspended DETROIT An investigator for Duncan C. McCrea.

Wayne County prosecutor who' is directing the fight against the" Black Legion here was suspended today on suspicion of membership in the terrorist society. The investigator is N. Ray Markland, former Mayor of suburban Highland Park whose brother Clyde Marklund, aws dismissed yesterday as clerk of Circuit Judge James I Chenot's court for the same reason. Judge Chenot is presiding over the state grand jury investigation into slayings, floggings and arsons attributed to the Black Legion. Head of Young Man Provides Mystery CLEVELAND (fP) Detectives I sought to identify today the head of a young, brown haired, blue eyed I man which was found by two school boys yesterday.

The remainder of the man's body was not found. Detectives said the man apparently had been slain about three days ago. Beheaded bodies of two men were found in the same section of Southeast Cleveland last September. These killings were never solved. The two schoolboys discovered the head under a willow bush.

The initials were found on some clothing with the head. Volkmann Execution Stayed After Appeal CATSKILL Execution of Aiired Volckmann, 20 year old former Greenville butcher boy, for lie murder of Helen Glenn, has been stayeu pending action on an appeal. His Clermont G. Ten- r.rnt file'd the notice with the Gieene county clerk vcstcrday. The action automatically the execution which was set for July 5.

Volckmann is now in the Sing- Sing death house. IL DUCE HURLS WARNING TODAY AT HIS CRITICS ROME (JP) Premier Mussolini hurled a cast in steel ar.d men, at Italy's critics today. The Fascist dictator called 40,000 soldiers in the army's best motorized squadrons to parade the empire tomorrow as his gauge against possible criticism at future League of Nations sessions on the Ethiopian question. Their triumphal review will center at Rome where Viceroy Pietro Eadoglio. victorious commander of the Ethoiopian campaign, now in Italy, is to receive the accolade of hero from the nation's highest leaders.

"Virtually all" militia squadrons, ir addition to the regular army groups, were instructed to participate in the "demonstrative mobilization" to exhibit Italy's power to thrust when and where she wills in the face of sudden enemies. (Informed Fascist sources recent reported plans for military demonstrations along the northern frontier co-incident with the leagu; council session at Geneva June 16.) INJURED BY GUN ALBANY O'Brien. 35 told police he was looking into the barrel cf a .22 caliber blank cartridge pistol when he accidentally discharged it. Physicians at Albany Hospital removed a lead pellet from his forehead. His condition was reported good.

PARIS (IP) Premier Leon Blum moved on three fronts today to break a nationwide strike, revise the government's financial structure, and coordinate its national defenses. To parliament he handed the task cf passing labor laws granting three demands cf striking workers whose numbers were estimated near On the financial front, he ousted Jean Tannery, veteran financial ex- psrt, from the position as governor of the Bank of Franco and installed Emilc Labeyre, attorney of the gen- eral court of accounts. Under former Premier Edouard Daladier he co-ordinated France's national defenses in the first detree adopted by the new socialist cabinet, Roger Salengro, minister of the interior, meanwhile reported an apparent easing of strike tension as a result of the "government's action." Salengro's statement was interpreted to mean Blum's radio appeal yesterday for the French workers to have "patience" and extended conferences with labor leaders. The cabinet session at the Elyssee Palace was attended by President Albert Lebrun who signed both the order for Tannery's removal and the Harry Clawson (abovi) was one ol nine residents of Ecorse, Detroit downriver suburb, arrested on kidnaping charge as a result of the flogging of Robert Penlan, steel plant worker, for failure to attend Black Legion meetings. (Associated Press Photo) Opposition Seeks To Undermine Claim for Landdli First Ballot Strength Be 400; 104 Short 2 Nomination CLEVELAND (IP) Republican leave hard feelings afterward.

Still rivalries grew more tense today as a I the talk of urging matters-to. a con- i j.1 i JU variety of opposition camps sought strenuously to undermine the mounting claims of the supporters of Alf M. Landon. Sharp words poured in upon the Landonites, who overnight had boosted their estimate of the Kansas governor's first-ballot strength in next week's national convention to 400 votes. That would be but 102 short of enough to nominate clusion'on the initial roll call did not die out entirely in other Landon quarters.

An earnest discussion of the subject seemed to" be progressing in the inner councils of the Kansas delegation. While the question of the-presidential choice itself stood'thus'at a crossroads of controversy, speculation continued among the. arriving delegates as to second place, oh i UJ. A I I For the most part, the disposition I the ticket, should Landon be: placed 4.1 vsrt tirn f-rt a 1VK P5) fiPT151 A -ASSAILED TODAY BY COL KNOX decree setting up the ministry of national defense. Tannery was named honorary governor of the bank, a customary proceeding.

Government Moves to Prevent Labor Strikes ANTWERP, Belgium strikers were warned by the cabinet today to avoid any impassive occupation of harbor works and factories. Its declaration bolstered by the fixed bayonets of troops patrolling LAKE FORREST, III. (IP) Col. Frank Knox. candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, told Lake Forrest University's graduating class today "bureaucratic control of private business" and "public debt with the dread consequence of heavy taxes" jeopardized youth's opportunities.

The Chicago publisher, in an address prepared for delivery -upon his receipt of an honorary decree of doctor ci laws, asserted: "There are two things today which serve to prevent youth from having the fair chance to which he is entitled. One is government control of private business through bureaucracy. Such control tends to prevent the introduction of new inventions. It is hostile to new ideas. It limits future expansion." "The other thing which retards individual progress is public debt with the dread consequences of taxes.

Taxes crush enterprise, retard progress, absorb profits and deny the strike zone, the government a moved to prevent any spread of that f.n labor disputes. Additional soldiers duty after a request for reinforcements from Carnille Huysmans, Socialist burgomaster. IS 81, WALKS 14 MILES SCHOHARIE Shaule walked fourteen miles on his eighty- fr.st birthday. "That isn't much of a walk," the octogenarian said today. "I walk about six every day.

It V.eeps me from rusting out." HASHES Of 11 Siren Chased ATLANTA--Making a noise like law failed to keep a pair of rum runners from losing their auto and 9j gallons of whisky. The liquor car was equipped with a police-type siren which whinad stridently during a long chase yesterday but pursuing officers finally foiced thv. auto into a ditch. The oc- ci'pants escaped xni foct. Rich Skimmings CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex When an oil well near here went wild and spouted mud, salt water, and about 10,000 barrels of oil into Petronila Cieek, not all of the oil was lost.

More than 30 men lined the creek banks for eight miles, salvaging what they could. One farmer soon had a concrete silo two-thirds full of captured oil. Scared, Eh? CHICAGO Lou Meyer, three time winner of the Indianapolis 500 mile automobile race he averaged more than 109 miles an hour to finish first last Memorial Day ad- traffic was Confinement This LOS ANGELES jail on a charge of attempted rcbbery, Allen Tilton. film cowboy, had a right to yearn for "Home on the Range" with its great spaces. He stands mitted Chicago's much for him.

"When we reach the outskirts of TREASURY REPORT WASHINGTON (fP) The position of the treasury June 4: Receipts, expenditures balance, customs receipts for the month, $5,230,354,92. Newt Prince, Sweetwatcr, has a collection of 319 branding irons, one dating back to 1836. the city," said he, "I move out of the driving seat and say to my wife, 'Here, you take And even then I don't really enjoy the ride." Honey Mcon Eclipsed 1 t3W YORK The shadow of a hospital fell today over Farnum Holzell's honeymoon. After the wedding ceremony yesterday, Holzell went with his bride the bridal party to a restaurant to celebrate. On leaving he slipped in the door- of the restaurant and fell.

The test man, closely following, tripped too slightly over six feet, eight inches. "It's a bum rap," he said, "but! what I like least is having- to duck' over him and in falling bridegroom's arm. broke the Book Learning CHICAGO Alfred Roscnfield told the police he didn't know anything about guns so when he bought a pistol to protect himself from robbers he also obtained a firearms manual to study how to handle a weapon. As he practiced loading and unloading the pistol per it went off hand. and shot him in the all the time.

And my bunk-- it's too short by a. couple of feet." Polite Fighting: CHARLESTON, S. It cost Polite $10 for not living up to hib ns me. Magistrate J. R.

Stall fined Polite- that sum for getting into a fight with William Green. Collegiate MINNEAPOLIS-- Governor Floyd B. Olson didn't toss his hat into any political rings today. He didn't have a hat. Some suvenir hunter took his panama at a dinner and he had to go home bareheaded after a vain effort to wear his chauffeur's.

that fair chance to which youth is I entitled. One of the evil results of iwivpd on the wholesale spending policy of the aimed on i yeavs bunJ eu it will impose upon the next generation." Col Knox said prosperity had returned to Great Britain in a greater degree than to any other industrial nation because a policy of "excessive" government spending had been supplanted by one of economy- Signs Bill Containing Gas Tax Until June 1937 ALBANY (IP) Governor Lehman signed today the Buckley bill continuing New York state's emergency cne cent a gallon tax on gasoline until June 30, 1937. This will make the tota state levy three cents a gallon for the next year, instead of four as at present, inasmuch as one cent of the emergency tax was eliminated by the 1936 Legislature after the Republican Assembly majority effected a $15,000,000 budget cut. The governor's latest approval of dozen measures increased to 872 the number of 1936 laws, leaving less than 100 still to be acted upon before the 30-day time limit expires Friday. Operations in 3 Rand Plants to Be Expanded SYRACUSE (IP) Officials of Remington Rand, prepared today to expand operations in three of the company's six plants crippled by a strike of more than 4,000 of its employes.

As plans went forward for reopening the plants here and at Tonawanda. Governor Lehman in Albany refused to send state police into Ilion where the mayors of three neighboring communities expressed the fear of rioting and bloodshed in connection with the strike there. Payment of fifteen dollars in cash in addition to the regular week's wages was offered nil employes returning to work in the plants here and at Tonawanda Monday. SAN No Sooner Said DIEGO, Calif. Patricia Jchnson, 21, enrolled hi the College of Charm at the San Diego Exposition Wednesday.

Thursday's lesson entitled "Get Your Man." The next day she talked -things over with Johnny Hlnes, 21, anci they were married. Classmates were bridesmaids. of the Landon managers was to accept the attacks without retaliation. Talk of trying to force a first-ballot choice quieted somewhat as friends of the Kansan sought to calm the storm, and to assure all rivals they would have a run for their money. Get Sharp Replies Nevertheless, the Landon claim or 400 votes drew immediate sharp replies from both the Knox and Borah camps, and was followed in a few hours by circuation of an unsigned handbill urging the delegates to "look the field over," and "get away from this grasshopper storm." Ifc was apparent that the contest was assuming a bitterness which hitherto has been notably lacking.

The declared purpose of John M. Hamilton, the Landon generalissimo was to avoid pressure which might QUESTION HOW YORK WILL CAST M)P VOTE NEW YORK iTP)--How New York's 90 delegates will vote at the Republican National Convention remained an unanswered question today o.i the eve of their departure for Cleveland. Although 10 of the delegates have f-nnounced they favor Governor Alf M. Landon of Kansas for the presidential nomination, leaders of the delegation continued their policy of silence, insisting that the bloc go to the convention unpledged. The delegates and alternates will leave New York tomorrow on a special train.

They are scheduled to decide in a caucus Monday night how they will and who will be chairman of the delegation. Despite the silence of the delegates, there have been numerous predictions so to how they will These include the prediction of John M. Hamilton, Landon campaign manager, that 25 or 30 New York votes would go to the Kansas governor on the first ballot. at its head. Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan continued to be widely mentioned.

There also was persistent talk of Representative James W. Wadsworth of New "SorTc. Nothing like a decision was indicated. Platform Discussed. The prospective alko came in for increasing attention: -It was disclosed that -several delegates, some meeting in; and some in New York ington, had been at work putting their ideas into words.

As a-result, something resembling tentative planks were being' passed around quietly today for preliminary inspection. One of the lack any sort of Three Persons Dead in Wake of Wind, Rain OKLAHOMA CITY Wind and rain left three persons deaJ, several injured, and a large amount of minor property and crop damage today in widely scattered parts of Oklahoma and Kansas. A flood danger existed in Western Oklahoma. A tornado ripped through the town cf Burbank in North Central Oklahoma last night, killing one person and damaging virtually every building. Another twister struck a rural community near Snyder, in Southwestern Oklahoma, causing on? SHOT BY GKANDSOX CROWN POINT A pistoi pointed playfully by her four-year- olc' grandson caused Ihe ol 73.

She died in bullet wound in 'the iiing "inflicted May 10 when the youngster, Frank Landry, aimed a .22 caliber pistol at and pulled the trigger. Coroner gave a verdict of accidental death. Treasury Deficit Is Past Three Billions WASHINGTON (P) The treas ury's 3efieit for the current fiscil year today passed the $3,000,000,000 mark. The daily treasury statement, as of June 4, showed the government had spent since July 1, 1935, $3,019,532.358 more than It collected. Total expenditures for the period through June 4 amounted to $6 654,109,000.

Revenues came to $3 634,576.731. Mrs. Louise Landry, 6 rcspital here from THIRD VICTIM DIES ROCHESTER (IP) Rochester's tJ-ird victim of Safety Week traffic accidents died today. Ten-year-old Gerard Pugsley succumbed to a fractured skull suffered, yesterday he was struck by a truck en by George A. Rudcnauer, 19.

The cUivor was not held. was. a Constitutional to permit the states to mum wage Jaws. Another would over the relief'to the states. A third would condemn compulsory crop curtailment, propose a farm subsidy to equalize prices.

These volunteer efforts at plat- I form-making appeared to. have struck several snags. There was only a faint indication of what the party might be heading fOE with respect to the currency issue, the tariff, and several other' contro- versial subjects. Some seasoned political leaders' believed the money plank might make the most trouble of all. There are eastern of the party who want to go a long way toward demanding a return to the old standards of currency stability, there are westerners who want nothing of the kind.

Whatever tentative agreement might be reached beforehand, a platform committee battle seemed certain. Favor Tariff Policy A considerable group, come eastern leaders, look with, favor on the general policy reciprocal tariff, without corrimiting themselves as to the ner in which, that policy has been applied by the Roosevelt'adminis'- tration. But among Landonites from the west, particularly in.the cattle country, such an endorsement is vigorously opposed. The proposal to suggest a constitutional amendment stirred special interest in view of the, Supreme Court's decision of last Monday, invalidating the New York state minimum wage law, and ''President Roosevelt's subsequent remark that a "no man's land" was thus created in which neither state nor federal government could function. Within the Kansas itself, the subject had been 'made 'a very live topic by an editorial published a few days ago by" William Allen White in his newspaper, the Emporia Gazette.

Mr. White is to be the Kansas member of' the platform committee, and as such' lie will be expected by many delegates'to speak for Gov. Landon. His editorial proposed that the Republican party should not permit Mr. Roosevelt or the Democratic convention to take the lead "in the battle for human freedom." Vaiidenberg Is Out WASHINGTON (IP) Senator Vandenberg of Michigan announced today that he would not accept the nomination as a Republican candidate for vice president.

In a formal statement, the seha-' tor said he thought he "could bea greater service in active on the Senate floor than ori rostrum." NEGRO IS HELD ITHACA (ff) Gecrge Mitchell, 48, negro farm hand, was held by state police today for questioning concerning an attack on Mrs. Olady Whitted, farm mothe 1 of six. iff Harrison Adams said Whitted was attacked with an tut. on. her farm yesterday and is in serious condition in Memorial Hospital here suffering from a fractured shoulder r.nd possible skull fracture.

Tho sheriff said Eva Whittcd told him she saw Mitchell chasing her-moth- with an ax.