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2 II PERSONS KILLED IN MIDWEST GALES Scores Injured iri Windstorms Accompanied by Heavy Rains and Snow. the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February "6. are dead and scores injured as a result of high windstorms in the Middle West. Sweeping out of the Northwest and Texas yesterday, the storms struck the central part of the country, accompanied by heavy rains and snow, at a velocity of 60 miles an hour, causing incalculable property loss.

Buildings were destroyed, streets flooded, telephone and telegraph lines damaged and truffle delayed. Michigan and Wisconsin reported now a foot deep. Eight thunderstorms were general in the Eastern States. Slightly colder weather, with snow flurries in the northern and eastern lakes region, was predicted by the Weather Bureau. The greatest loss of life was in Chico County.

where four white persons and a negro were killed. Levi T.yson and his three children were hilled when their home was destroyed. The negro lost hi- life at Jennie. Al 11 gli virtually the entire town of Tisdale, Miss, was demolished the only death reported wa- that of the daugh'er of Mrs. I.ena Martin M.

C. Spencer of Ludlow Falls, Ohio, was fatally injured by a door blown from its hinges. Two negroes also lost their lives near Cruger, one was killed at Greenwood and another near Greenville, Miss. Twenty-four square blocks on the northwest side of Chicago were flooded deep enough for boating. Children used rowboats to and from school, and in some districts rafts or flatboats aided householders in their marketing.

A thaw preceded the storm ir. Ohio. Jamming the rivers with broken ice and causing overflows, with heavy flood damage. Four mail carriers and two passengers were forced to wade to shore when caught on the ice In Lake Erie in mail trucks a short way from shore. Mills and factories were closed and traffic suspended at Kscanaba, where they had ihe most severe snowstorm in four years.

Families were rescued in boats from the flood at Rockford. The water was three feet deep on one of the avenues. CIGAR ASHES ENLIVEN PARTY MARKING TAX BILL FINAL APPROVAL (Continued from First Page.) Into the room and without any further formality the word "go" was given to the battery of photographers, The President was not quite satisfied with the way in hich the witnesses to the signing were posed. He turned about and. frowning upon their irregular grouping and the distance they were to one side, directed them to "come to stretch out their line.

And. as an added touch of artistry. he suggested that the smaller gentlemen take positions in front and the taller ones In the rear. This order probably was not heard or understood. Itecause there was no front or hack line when the picture making started in earnest.

There was only ohe line. Cicar Incident Amuses. In his hurry Senator Simmons had forgotten to relieve himself of a long, lighted cigar with a bright hand around It. During the shifting around in the grouping it so happened that the North Carolina Senator and his long cigar caught the most prominent place in the picture with the exception of the President's. This cigar a few moments later figured in an amusing incident which called for an outburst of laughter from the principals and the audience which was composed of the camera and movie men and the score of newspaper correspondents.

It occurred as the President was putting the final flourish on the dotted line. Senator Smoot conceived the idea that the moment had arrived for some added action to the touch of human interest. Therefore he turned and shook hands with Representative Green, who conducted the preliminary hearings on the tax revision bill and piloted the bill through the House. The t'tah Senator, desiring to exemplify non partisan manner in which the tax bill was handled, then put his hand out to Senator Simmons. The latter had been gazing cameraward and had not been watching this handshaking, and was taken unawares.

In his Vonfusion he held out the hand which tightly clutching the long cigar. -Neither of these gentlemen caring to take his eyes from the cameras in front, was aware of the cigar figuring in the handshake until it was too late. The latter had long since been extinguished, and there was no burning of flesh, only a little spilling of ashes very close to the neck of the President, who was unconscious of all that was going on and who looked up with great surprise when he heard the roar go tip from the gallery. Declines to Move Flag. At the right-hand side of the President's desk stands a handsome silk American flag.

It Is never moved. It obstructed the view of several of the cameramen today, but the President declined to move the flag when thev appealed to him. The tax bill reached the White House yesterday afternoon. It was immediately sent to the Treasury Department for Secretary Mellon and his corps of experts to check up on it and to determine if it contained any technical flaws. It Is understood that they completed their task in time to return the bill to the White House last night.

It was explained that the President's reason for affixing the time of the signature to the bill was to avoid possibie future legal tangles. 238,818 Dry Law Hearings to Date, Report of Agents By the Associated Press. Prohibition prosecutions by the Department of Justice under the national dry act have totaled KIS, E. M. Kennard.

ndmtnlstratfve accountant for the Department of Justices, told a House appropriations subcommittee in reports of hearings made public today. Os these cases, Mr. Kennard said. 217.031 were criminal prosecutions and 21,787 were civil suits. Collections of fines civil Judgments totaled $20,000,000.

The witness explained that the increase in civil actions had been due largely to padlock Cfises and injunction proceedings. Representative Tinkham. Republican, Massachusetts, a member of the committee and one of the leaders of the wets, remarked that "people do not seem to be taking particularly kindly to this law." MRS. GARY REVEALS ONE REASON WHY HUSBAND IS STEEL HEAD Wife of Magnate, Unaware of Being Observed, Shows She Is Sharp Housekeeper, While Marketing for Anniversary Dinner at Home. B.v Consolidated NEW YORK.

February 26. United States Steel Corporation celebrated its twenty-fifth birthday Thursday. For 25 years Judge Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the board has been Its chief executive officer and figure in world finance and industry. Tonight Mr.

Gary will celebrate his connection with the great enterprise at a simple little gathering of close friends at his home at 858 i Fifth avenue. A score of biographers, portrait painters and character analysts have disputed for years as to what made Judge Gary chairman of the board of the nited States Steel. The writer, the wife of a New York businessman and the clerk at the cheese counter of a great grocery shop know. Difference in Dollars. Today, two black broadtail coats with broad collars, two pairs of black rimmed glasses, two pairs of white kid gloves and two pairs of black pumps and gray stockings, and two small black hats entered a Fifth ave rO The thing which differentiated the wearers were some mnCXSlrr I 50 or 60 counter:" 0 i il rnu i ls our finnan liaddie?" 1 asked the first.

"Fifty cents a pound, madam." Very veil. I ll take two of them. cheese ls your That is $1.25 a pound." want a pound of that. By the wav, how do you manage to "keep It so wrap a damp cloth around it at night." hj that fine. I never thought of It.

Now, I want some other cheeses. You see, 1 am going to have a little company in tonight." and the shopper smiled with evident anticipation. "I think I will have that piece of Roquefort, although it SKRZYNSKI AVOIDS TANGLE INLEAGDEi Premier Touches Only Briefly on Demand for Seat on Geneva Body Council. By the Associated Press. February 26.

Skrzynskl, on the occasion of the first reading of the bill to ratify the Locarno pact, touched only briefly on claim for a permanent seat in the council of the league of Nations. He said nothing to indicate that Roland was determined to Insist on the seat, but referred to the covenant of the I of Nations as implying that Poland should have memiiership in the council when Germany became a member. The premier took an optimistic outlook of the approaching meeting of the league and said he hoped for a solution there for all difficulties and a victory for the ideal of peace. The only practical Interpretation of article four of the league covenant, he asserted, was that Poland should appear on the league's council with the same status and at the same time with Germany. Roland, the premier continued, wish ed to he there to reinforce those who regarded the league as the organization by which delicate issues could be settled in a spirit of impartiality and justice.

He declared that Sir Austen Chamberlain, the British foreign secretary. was aware that Roland was collaborating loyally and sincerely In laying the foundation for the future peace of the world and that vital interests harmonized with Great peace plan, a fact that would enable Roland to pursue a policy of moderation. He denied that before signing the Locarno agreements he demanded certain conditions, for Instance, that Poland should have a permanent seat In league's council. The moderation of the speech of the premier served to calm the excitement which had arisen over the German press campaign In connection with Poland's claim for a permanent seat. SENTENCE IS REVOKED BY COURT Justice Bailey In Criminal Division 1 today revoked the sentence of three years in the penitentiary which he imposed Lost Friday on Edward B.

Prless, a physician of Anacostia, who pleaded guilty to securing narcotics on prescriptions after his right to issue such prescriptions had been taken away. The court declared that on further consideration he had decided to send the doctor to Jail for one year Instead of requiring him to go to the penitentiary. HORSE SHOW POSTPONED. The Riding and Hunt horse show scheduled to be held at the headquarters, at Twenty-second and streets, at 8 this evening, was postponed by Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, president, when Melvin Hazen.

secretary and manager, reported that the quarantine on horses at Fort Myer, which were to have taken part in the exhibitions had not been lifted, Prominent society folk were to take part in the many events planned for the show. It was not known until a late hour that the Fort Myer entries would be unable to leave their quarters. Horses of Washington stables, also recently quarantined, have recovered and the ban was lifted here recently. The horse show, it is expected, will be held in the near future. Lime and Tobacco Vodka Made Like Moonshine by Russians By the Associated Pren.

MOSCOW, February 26. has been declared by Russian moonshiners on the government vodka monopoly. Since the government decided to manufacture and sell 40 per cent vodka to the public the state authorities have confiscated tens of thousands of Illicit stills in the villages, but the peasantry seem more determined than ever to combat the vodka with their own home brew. Russian home brew is called It can be made and sold at one-half the government price for vodka The samagon moonshiners are operating throughout Russia. In the Ukraine alone more than 1.000,000 illicit stills have been confiscated.

In each village groups of citizens are THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1926. doesn't look like the cheese I pet sometimes on the English boats. How much is She was told at length the differ once in price between the imported and domestic Roquefort, and then demanded Brie. may think I'm said the salesman, "but, while I imported Brie.

I've something think you'll like better. Let me make you a sandwich of It." The first shopper bit into the tasty morsel and turned to the woman beside her. "You try it, she said. "I think fine, but I'd like to know what, you think of it. By the way, how much is it?" She concluded her purchases and the salesman asked: "To whom shall I have It "To Mrs.

E. 11. Gary, 858 Fifth Elbert H. Gary?" asked the salesman, with obvious awe. "Yes, do you know the answer came quick as a flash.

"No, but I'd like "Well, sort of glad I know him myself. I think now go see how much your Imported sausage Moral in Story. The other broadtail 'coat, whose wearer had concluded her own pur chases, followed the wife of the steel I magnate to the door and watched her step into the big foreign car with chauffeur and footman and head toward Fifth avenue. the other shopper said to I the writer, "for years I've wondered if people thought I was picky and small because 1 asked what things cost. But I guess her husband knows what the things he buys in his lousiness cost, and I believe my husband does, too.

If she doesn't have to be ashamed of finding out that Information, I don't So perhaps that explains one of the factors which has made and kept Elbert H. Gary chairman of the board of the United States Sted HOUDINI URGES BILL TO CURB IN SUBCOMMITTEE I (Continued from First Page terrupted, Houdlnl challenged any of present gifted with superna: oral sight and knowledge to tell dm what his mother called him when he was a boy. This information has not yet been given. The Bloom bill provides that person pretended to tell where iost or stolen goods may be found: any person who, by game or device, sleight-of-hand, pretending, fortune telling or by any trick or other means, by the use of cards or other mplements or instruments, fraudu'ently obtains from another person 'roperty of any description; any person pretending to remove spells or so sell charms for protection, or to unite the separated, shall be considered a disorderly person. Any person violating the provisions of this law shall be punished by a fine not to exceed $250, or hy imprisonment not to exceed six months, or by both fine and Says Gilbert.

Representative Gilbert, Democrat, of Kentucky, offered a motion to table the bill, declaring It to be a "ridiculous proposition and too trivial to legislate Representative Hammer. Democrat, of North Carolnla, argued that it encourage every scoundrel in the District to go on with nefarious habits and Representative Bloom, Democrat, of New York, sponsor of the measure, said the bill had been held constitutional in New York. Houdlnl emphasized that the bill Is not an attack against spiritualism. Fraudulent mediums collect fortunes, he declared, and a medium could make no money under the guise of religion. He offered a long list oi names, commonly called a "sucker list." used by fortune tellers and mediums, w-hloh contained a number of Washingtonians.

Houdini declared that he could come to the District of Columbia and get $200,000 or $300,000 fraudulently in a year and not be touched by the law. "The District of Columbia Is the only place where a person can be licensed for $25 to practice and blackmail the he said. "There is not one legitimate one in the District of Spiritualists Oppose Bill. Dr. James P.

Coates, representing the Spiritual Science Church of Washington, vigorously protested the bill. Houdlnl was to appear later this afternoon before the Senate District committee, where he will testify in favor of a bill sponsored by Senator Copeland of New York. Representatives of the Spiritualist religion have informed Senator Capper, chairman of the committee, they will oppose the legislation unless It ls so amended as to make sure it will not curtail or Interfere with their religious practices. H. P.

Strack, secretary of the National Spiritualist Association, has sent Senator Capper the text of a proposed amendment, stipulating that the bill "shall not include, prohibit or interfere with the exercise of the spiritual functions or offices of any minister or accredited representative of any religion; nor to affect the practice of the religious belief known as Spiritualism Another letter to Senator Capper states that if the bill is not killed, it should be amended to safeguard the religion of Spiritualism. This writer said spiritualist mediums do not pretend to sell charms or remove spells, but do make prophecies. THREE DIE IN SHAM FIGHT. MAYENCE. Germany, February 26 French pilot, his aide and their mechanician were killed in a sham Mr battle today when their plane colided with another of the maneuvering squadron.

The crew of the other plane was able to make a safe landing. designated by the local population to distill sufficient spirits for local needs Their product, while not as pure as standard vodka, is considerably stronger and cheaper, and therefore appeals much more to the palate and purse. The peasants their vodka by adding tobacco, lime and other ingredients. Millions of tons of grain and rye are used annually by the peasants and professional moonshiners to make samagon. This ls one of the reasons the peasants have been so reluctant to part with their wheat crops to the government.

Failing to gather sufficient grain from the farmers for export abroad, the government in consequence has been forced to seek revenue in other directions. That is one of the reasons why the Russian crown jewels are sow being offered for gate. ROSSI QUITS ITALY IN MIDNIGHT DASH Reported in to Expose Matteotti Murder and Hand. By the Ammciated PARIS, February Nice correspondent of the Quotidlen, antl- Fasclst paper, says that Gen. Cesare Rossi, former head of the Fascist press bureau in Italy, arrived there early this morning after a wild flight hy automobile from Home to Genoa and thence by motor boat to Nice.

Gen. Rossi was named in connection with the kidnaping and murder of the Socialist deputy, Matteotti, which has been made an issue by the opposition parties in Italy. He was imprisoned for a time. Released, under survellance, he was forced to elude the police in making his midnight dash out of the country. The correspondent says Gen.

Rossi intends to expose in France all the violence of the Matteotti affair and others, w'hlch he claims, were inspired by Mussolini. The Quitidien and other Left organa in Paris for some time have been conducting an antl-Fascist campaign. GIRL PHONE OPERATOR FOILS ROBBERY OF BANK iiy (lie Associated Prrss. FORT WORTH. February 26.

pluck und quick wit of a young night watchman and a girl telephone operator disrupted the plans of a bandit gang ut Aledo. Just after midnight and as a result a robber is badly wounded and police today were close on the trail of his two companions. Tom Grey, 28, the watchman, discovert the men breaking Into the Citizens' Bank and notified the phone operator. The girl advised authorities at Fort Worth and Weatherford, and called out every one in the town that she could arouse by the telephone. The three men were surprised as they were cracking the safe in the Kink, the lights of the automobiles of the approaching Fort Worth police giving them their first warning.

The bandits made an attempt to escape and in a running fight with a posse of citizens, led by Grey, one of them, Ed Wlnton. 27. Wichita Falls, was shot down. He was taken to a hospital. The other two are to be by the posse.

MRS. JOHN B. LEE DIES. Mrs. John Boykin Lee, widow of John Boykin of Baltimore, died of pneumonia at her residence, 1909 Nineteenth street, yesterday.

She was the daughter of Ilumbertson and Mrs. Lelia Skipwith and the granddaughter of Sir Peyton and Lady Jean Skipwith. She leaves her daughter, Mrs. Lelia Skipwith Baer, wife of Col. Joseph Adams Baer, U.

S. and one granddaughter. Funeral services will be held in Christ Episcopal Church. Baltimore, the exact time to be announced later. Today in Congress Senate.

More testimony in favor of creating a department of education in the Federal Government was given before the Joint Senate and House committee on education and labor. The interstate commerce committee resumed hearings on the Dill bill to give the Secretary' of Commerce broader ixiwera in controlling radio. Houdini. the magician, was scheduled to testify before the Senate District committee this afternoon In support of the Copeland bill to restrict the business of fortune telling in Washington. The military affairs committee held an executive session.

Col. W. B. Greeley, chief forester of the Department of Agriculture, testified before the public lands committee on the Stanfield grazing bill. A subcommittee of the judiciary committee considered nominations for office In executive session.

House. The House today ordered 41,000 copies of the tax law printed. It passed an omnibus pension bill and then continued consideration of the railroad labor board bill. Houdini witness before Judiciary subcommittee of the House District committee on bill to regulate fortune telling. Traffic Director Eldridge witness before subcommittee of streets, highways and traffic of the House District committee, and will appear at a special hearing Mondaymorning, when the new traffic law will be drafted.

Fourteenth street extension BUI, carrying improvements for Walter Reed Hospital reservation, favorably reported from the subcommittee on streets to the House District committee. Action on several other street bills deferred pending hearings. Engineer Commissioner Bell announced to subcommittee on streets that estimates for appropriations for putting guard rails on three dangerous bridges will be sent late today to the House appropriations committee. Committee on public buildings and grounds consider legislation for extension of Capitol grounds to Union Station Plaza, but took no action. Agriculture committee holds regular meeting In executive session, but takes no action on national arboretum.

This committee starts hearings next Tuesday on tural relief legislation. Subcommittee of House appropriations committee continues hearings this afternoon on District budget for the next fiscal year, with Maj. U. S. Grant, 3d, officer in charge of public buildings and parks, as principal witness.

Appropriations committee, after executive session, reports State, Justice, Commerce and Labor Departments appropriation bill, carry, ing a total of more than 000. Naval affairs committee continues hearing on bill providing for equalization of rank. Foreign affairs committee considers several measures. Military affairs committee continues hearing on Department of National Defense. Merchant marine committee continues hearing on proposed consolidation of certain bureaus in the Department of Commerce.

Judiciary committee, in executive session, continues consideration of impeachment case against Judge English. Education committee continues joint hearing with Senate committee on education bill. Committee on pensions holds hearings on legislation for pensioning veterans of Indian wars. PRESIDENT COOLIDGE SIGNING TAX REDUCTION BIEL '1 I I i 1 Standing behind the President, left to right: Representative John N. Garner, Senator Reed Smoot, Representave John Q.

Tilson, Representative William R. Green and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon. ANTI-TRUST CASES SUBJECT OF PROBE Quiz by House Committee on Justice Department Methods in Prosecution. By the The course of the Deportment of Justice in anti trust cases came in for sharp examination before the House appropriations committee, which drafted the appropriation bill for the lawenforcement branch of the Government, it was shown today in accounts of hearings made public by the committee. After F.

A. Myers, special assistant to the Attorney General, had testified that $465,000 of the $500,000 recovered by the Government in such cases last year came from furniture manufacturers indicted in Chicago, Chairman Shreve declared one of the manufacturers who pleaded guilty had acted on the advice of the Government, although he knew- nothing of any pricefixing agreements. Mr. Myers said he never knew an instance where the Government acted as counsel for a defendant. got to him that it was the best thing to continued Mr.

Shreve. it not a fact that all of the big fellows slipped out and the little ones came in and pleaded the best of my knowledge that is not true." said the witness, to which the chairman replied that the surrender of the lesser defendants looked "rather like Mr. Myers pointed out that thcra was nothing compelling a man to plead guilty. He added that there were some 50 comiianies contesting the case and demanding a trial, which they would get He said 41 anti-trust cases had been under investigation during the year. TAX BILL IS SIGNED; MOST REDUCTIONS IN EFFECT AT ONCE (Continued from First Page.) struction notice on a jterforated sheet is an exact duplicate of -computation of which, properly filled in.

must be detached and affixed securely to the first of the taxpayer's original return to be filed with the collector of internal revenue for the taxpayer's district. notice to taxpayers accompany form 1120 for filing corporation returns, directing attention to the change in rate from 12 4 per cent to 13 per cent, methods of determinnig depletion with reaped to income derived from mines, oil and gas properties, etc. filing returns on the basis of the calendar year 1925 must pay 24 per cent of the tax on the firs' and second installment dates and per cent on the third and fourth in stallment Amount of Reduction. The amount of reduction in taxes paid during this calendar year undethe new bill is estimated at the Treasury at $387,811,000. while thf amount of reduction for the next fiscal year, ending June 30, 1927, expected to be somewhat smaller, The loss In revenue it the succeeding fiscal year known as 1928, it is hoped officials, will be still less, as the expected increase in prosperity from reduced taxes and relinquishment of funds to active en terprlse under lower surtaxes may bring a constantly Increasing revenue Into the Federal till.

The loss in revenue for this fiscal year, ending June 38. 1926. has not been acurately estimated, but officials predict that it may be somewhere in the neighborhood of $200,000,000. leaving a Treasury balance at the end of the vear. Both President Coolidge and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, however, have warned that inordinate expenditure beyond the amount already in prospect for this fiscalTTar, including some approved administration measures now- in Congress, might throw the Treasury into a deficit.

In other words. Congress has been warned to be cautious in throwing additional expenditures on the Treasuryin the form of new legislation for the immediate future. Meantime the Bureau of the Budget is driving away at the formation of its 1 per cent club, to enlist all Government activities in a campaign to save 1 per cent on expenditures for the remaining three months of this fiscal year, to assure a balanced budget. LOWEST SINCE WAR. Present BUI Wipes Out Emergency Levies.

By the Associated Press. As finally approved the tax bill psfres down income taxes to their lowest level since the World War and wipes out virtually all the miscel laneous excise and occupational war Os the $387,000,000 reduction In the, America Uses Silk Hose and Exports Cotton lij Uii- Associated Frees After satisfying the demands of the flapper and the more conservative needs of her family, the United States shipped 6,425.175 dozen pairs of full-length stockings, roll tops and socks, valued at 19.774.633, to foreign countries during 1925. These figures, made public today by the Commerce Department, showed, however, that the American flapper's counterpart abroad Is not smitten particularly on silk, more than two-thirds of the total exports being made up of cotton hosiery. DEPLORES MATERIALISM, EVEN IN CHURCH TODAY Percy M. Hughes Declares Greed for Worldly Things Hurts Virtue of Religion.

on this earth can only be complete when we believe In Percy M. Hughes, superintendent of schools, Syracuse, N. and former a-ssistant superintendent of schools here, said at the noon day Lenten service's at Keith's Theater today. is even too much materialism In the Mr. Hughes said, this for worldly things is destroying the virtue of the Christian religion.

Mr. Hughes added that God Is willing to come to us if we let Him. and that If we trust in Him He will aid us in all walks of life. Percy S. Foster presided at today's exercises and Rev.

VV. A. Lynch pronounced the invocation. Bishop Harry St. George Tucker will speak at the services Monday.

PARKING SIGNS STUDIED. Fine Arts Body Expected to 0. K. Uniform Designs Soon. The Commission of Fine Arts, at the request of Traffic Director Eldridge, has made a special order of business of his request to indorse the parking signs submitted to the commission for approval.

The commission has taken up by mail with Its members in other cities the matter of indorsing the designs drawn up in the office of the traffic director for standard and uniform parking signs. An early indorsement is expected. Federal tax total, more than S2OO. 000.000 will represent a saving to per sonal income taxpayers. Under the new schedule a married man with twi children will have to make $4,300 be fore he is subject to income taxation Personal exemptions are Increased from to $1,500 for single persons and from $2,500 to $3,500 so married persons.

The normal rater are reduced from 2 to Us per cent on the llrst $4,000 of taxable Income from 4 to 3 per cent on the next $4,000 and from 6 5 per cent on th' ramainder. Surtax rates, now rang ing upward to 40 per cent, are scaled down so that the new maximum Is 2( per cent. Taxes Repealed Outright. These miscellaneous excise and occupational taxes are repealed outright: Automobile trucks, automobile tires and parts, Jewelry, cameras and lenses, photographic films and plates, firearms and ammunition, except pistols; automatic slot machines, mahjong sets, works of art, brokers, bowling alleys, pool and billiard tables, shooting galleries, riding academies, automobiles for hire, tobacco manufactures, opium dispensers, yachts, except foreign-built hereafter purchased; stamped levies on deeds and various legal papers. The tax on passenger automobiles Is cut from 5 to 3 per cent; that on admission tickets cOstlng 75 cents.

In place orthe present 50-cent maximum; varying reductions are made in the tax on virtually all grades of cigars, and the tax on alcohol is reduced from $2.20 to $1 65 per proof gallon. Stock Tax Repealed. The capital stock tax is repealed and the fiat corporation Income tax is increased from the present 12 per cent to 13 per cent on taxes paid this year and 13 on taxes paid hereafter. The gift tax Is repealed and Inheritance taxes are reduced. The inheritance maximum rate becomes 20 per cent In place of 40 per cent.

The present 25 per cent credit for amounts paid In State inheritance taxes Is increased to 80 per cent. The only new tax In the bill is a levy of one-tenth of a cent a gallon on cereal beverages. Most of the provisions go Into effect Immediately on signature of the bill by the President. The Income tax reductions will apply to the payments due March 15 of this year and therettXMr. URGES CONTINUING POLICY ON EXPORTS Dr.

Klein Tells Subcommittee Trade Is Now Facing Serious Crisis. By the Associated Press. Ur. Julius Klein, director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, told a House appropriations subcommittee In testimony made public today that export trade of the country faces a serious crisis which urgently requires continuance of the encouraging policy followed since 1921 "The outstanding he explained. "is the coming conflict for foreign markets attendant upon the economic recovery of our European competitors.

Every one of our overseas rivals has launched a most aggressive drive against our export markets, and the pressure of these campaigns is already being felt by our exporters in many important trade centers, especially in Latin America and the Far East. further factor of our rapidly expanding overseas economic interest, which makes imperative the steady development of our trade intelligence service, is the growth of American investments abroad, which are now about $9,500,000,000, exclusive of governmental war loans, as against slightly over $2,500,000,000 before the war." Dr. Klein said the world-wide data which Congress in March. 1923. authorized his bureau to collect on the rubber and coffee industries "was directly contributory to the evident success of the present campaign against rubber and other monopolies, which has already brought down the price of crude rubber from over $1 per pound on December 1 to 66 cents." REGIONAL DIVISION IN I.

C. C. FAVORED: BILL IS REPORTED (Continued from First Page.) ming, Colorado, Idaho. Nevada, Arizona. Utah, two members.

Pacific Oregon, California, one member. There is no attempt in the bill to change the terms of the present members of the Interstate Commerce Commission of seven years' duration. hen their successors are appointed, or they are to succeed themselves, the appointments are to be made with the geographical repre- sentation In mind. Furthermore the bill provides that 7 of the 13 commissioners shall be appointed from the same political party, and that not i more than one commissioner shall be 1 appointed from one State. The sal- aries of the commissioners are fixed i at $12,000 a year.

Under the existing law there is no 1 provision for regional representation 1 Wisconsin, for example, has two commissioners, and a third, appointed from the District of Columbia, hails also from Wisconsin. At present two members of the commission are from Wisconsin John J. Each and B. H. Meyer.

Commissioner Esch's retirement expires in 1927, and Commissioner Meyers later. Under the terms of the bill Mr. Esch would be ineligible for reappointment, as not more than one commissioner may be appointed from a State. The Pacific Coast group now has two members, C. B.

Aitchison of Ore gon and J. B. Campbell of Washington. Commissioner term expires in 1928, and the bill provides that the Pacific Coast group shall have but one representative. The Middle Atlantic group has at present three members of the commission Frederick I.

Cox of New Jersey; Frank McManamy of the District of Columbia, and Thomas F. Woodlock of New York. The appointment of Mr. Woodlock has not yet been confirmed and has been reported adversely by the Senate committee. "The very structure of the said Senator Smith in his written report on the bill, now submitted to the Senate, based upon local self-government and local representation In the general Principle In Other Uses.

This principle, he said, is made effective through the representation of the States in Congress, in the appointments of Federal Judges, and in some of the boards and commissions created by Congress, among them the Shipping Board. "Under the provisions of the present transportation the report pointed out, "the new policy of consolidalon is to be undertaken. This is beyond doubt the most important and serious matter that has arisen in regard to transportation. It will affect profoundly and vitally the entire shipping interests of the country. and each section should be represented on the commission during this momentous change.

Discussing further the need of ACTION DEFERRED ON CROSSING BILL Opposition of Property Owners on Michigan Avenue to Be Heard. Action on the Michigan avenue, grade-crossing bill was deferred by the Stalker subcommittee on streets, highways and traffic of the District committee today in order thaopportunity may be given a largnumber of protesting residents to heard. Chairman Zlhlman of the House trict committee emphasized that thl is one of the most expensive and cor tentious of the grado-crosslng meaa Engineer Commissioner said that the opposition comes from the property owners along Michigan avenue whose property will be great damaged and who feel that they an without hope of sriermat'- oomixmn! tier, from a condemnation Jury. The subcommittee ordered a favc.i able report to the full District con; mittee on the bill for widening First street northeast between and Myrtle streets. Reasons Explained.

Surveyor llazen explained to the committee the reasons for the proposed legislation and the efforts that have been made in the past which, have been prevented by the fact tha 1 there is not sufficient private property abutting against which even half or the costs can be assessed. This street is now 40 feet wide, and the bill pro vides for widening it to CO feet. Mr Hazen said that no opposition hrm I been heard and that only a few cheap buildings are affected, but that more permanent structures are soon to 5 erected. Representative Gasque, of South Carolina, said, we are ever going to widen streets, should do it now," The subcommlt tee deferred action on the bill open up a small street between Georgia avenue and Ninth stree until a hearing could be held. A pro test has been received from Washington Railway and Electn Co.

asking to be heard. The Rittenhouse and Quackenbos street bills were also discussed and action deterred Engineer Commis sioner Bell explained that Congress has provided for an under-grade crossing of the B. O. tracks at Van Buren street and that eventual lv there is to be a similar grade crossing at Quackenbos stree' according to highway plans. No Immediate Need.

I There is no immediate or pressing need for a third crossing between these two at Rittenhouse street, which he considers would be super i flous. He also pointed out that grade is not right for sewerage at Rittenhouse street. Col. Bell contended, and the sulr I committee agreed with him. that the elimination of existing grade cross ings is much more urgent than put crossings where they are not now needed.

The Advisory Council has notified the District comj mittee that it favors the proposed crossing at Quackenbos street. Commissioner Beil said that, while jhe probably has authority to mak-- these undergrade crossings when he thinks they should be done, yet prefers to get specific authority from Congress for any grade crossing, so as to give undlsputable in assessment of damages t.goint railroads. Chairman Zlhlman questioned Cel. Bell regarding the practicability of supplying a sewerage system to tH-- Eastern Star Home, and was told that at present development of that section of the District dfd ro' make sewerage service to the Eastern Star Home practicable. MISSING GEMS FOUND.

Claimant Sought for Jewelry Found on Woman. A claimant is wanted by the police for several articles of jewelry found in possession of Mary Broynt. alias Anderson, colored. 35 years old. 1135 Ninth street yesterday afternoon by Detectives.

Bagby King and Dennis Murphy. The worhan, it is alleged, was arj ranging to dispose of the jewelry she claimed to have found near Seventh I and streets. Included in the list was a ring set with 25 diamonds and a bar pin set with seven diamonds, valued at S7OO each. Other articles include a pin, brooch and bracelet, valued at S7OO. The detectives arrested the woman and are holding her Rt the house of detention while they are trying to flnu the owner of the jewelry.

Fanish Composer Fes. COPENHAGEN, February 10 OP) Lange Muller, Denmark's foremost musical composer, died today, aged 75 I years. His operating works include and "Spanish Students." regional representation on the commission, the report said: vastness of our territory and the varied forms and character of our articles of freight, the varied topography of the country, the differing degrees of development in the several parts of the country, the different degrees of possible developmnt, the presence of actual and potential water competition the form of river, lake and ocean transportation make it the more imperative that there shall be representation in the semi-judiclal body, the Interstate Commerce Attention was called to the fact that the commission itself has divided the country in what is called ratemaking groups. Sections Unrepresented. Since the establishment of the con.

mission the report pointed out that not a representative of what is known as the intermountain groups of States was on the board until 1914. when Commissioner Hall of Denver was ap pointed. Mince the expiration of the term of Commissioner Clements of Georgia in 1917 there has been practically no representative on the com mission of the Southern States, ex tending from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The report continued: "In making the apportionment of members as con talned in the bill the committee had I regard to the territory and the peculiar problems incident to the respective gTouns provided therein. "The transportation problem of tho New England States is so nearly uni! form and the territory is so small and I compact that one commissioner was thought sufficient to represent that group.

The same was thought to be true of the Pacific group. lake group was given three because there was considerable difference in the problems and conditions in this territory, in addition to its being a territory of high density of freight tonnage and railroad mileage as well as lake transportation. "The other groups were given two While the bill will receive strong support in the Senate, it will also meet with some opposition, but probably more in the House than in the Senate, it Mj4.