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THE BE CATUR DAILY REVIEW 8 PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS. FIFTY-EIGHTH YEAR NO. 250. DECATUR, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1936. END TOUR OF ORIENT Thousands Strike In Widespread Movement For Increased Wages Vri wtfK ft Justice of Peace 35 Years Boasts First Marriage 9 'S-vStrike Demands Begin Fight For Step-up Tax On Hoarded Profit Few Traces of Roosevelt's Idea's in Bill Passed By Senate Bv Associated Press WASHINGTON Sped through the Senate by-a vote of 38 to 24.

a tax bill containing only faint traces of President Roosevelt's ideas headed today into a Senate-House conference where administration men will battle, for high, graduated "taxes on undistributed profits: of corporations Many legislators agreed that the "real fight" high- taxes will take place in this conference and that the bill may emerge' entirely rewritten New Type Levy After three days of debate, a tired Senate which had gone without its dinner put its stamp of approval on the bill last night Vastly different from a measure previously passed by trie House, it is designed to raise 829 million dollars. It calls, among other things, for a 15H to 18 per cent tax on net corporate incomes as compared to the existing tax of .1214 to 15 per cent; a new type levy of seven per cent on undistributed corporate earnings; repeal of the present exemption of dividends from the four per cent normal income tax; an increase of. one per: cent in the individual income surtax on every surtax bracket between and $50,000,. plus a flat $.440 increase in the taxes on brackets and an .80 per cent "windfall" tax on what was termed "unjust, enrichment of processors who did not pay the AAA processing levies, Lower Than Desired The seven per cent undistributed profits tax is much lower than is desired by administration officials. Charlie Chaplin's traditional "no talkie" policy remained unbroken when he refused to affirm or deny the report of his marriage in the Far East to his companion, Paulette Goddard, when they arrived in San Francisco.

Spread Oil On Landon Claims To QuietG.0.P. Kansan's General Moves to Prevent Hard Feelings At Convention By Associated Press CLEVELAND Republican rivalries grew more tense today as a variety of opposition camps sought itrenuously to undermine the Blunting claims of the supporters of Alf M. Landon. Sharp words poured in upon the Tendonites, 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.

for the most part, the disposition 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. Nevertheless, the Landon claim of 400 votes drew immediate replies from both the Knox and Borah camps, and was followed in a few hours by circulation of an unsigned handbill urging the delegates to 'look the field over," and "get sway from this grasshopper storm." It was apparent that the contest was assuming a bitterness which hitherto has been notably lacking. Avoid Pressure. The declared purpose of John M.

Hamilton, the Landon generalis-limo, "as to avoid pressure which might leave hard feelings afterward. Still the talk df urging matters to a conclusion on the initial rollcall 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. The prospective platform came in for increasing attention. It was disclosed that several groups of delegates, some meeting in the West and some in New York and Washington, had been at work putting their ideas into words.

As a result, something resembling a batch of tentative planks were being passed around quietly for preliminary inspection. One of the proposals which still lack any sort of official standing was for a constitutional amendment to permit the states to pass minimum wage laws. Another would turn over the administration of relief to the states. A third would condemn compulsory crop curtailment, but propose a farm subsidy to equalize prices. Vandenberg Out As Vice-President By Associated Press WASHINGTON 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 senator said he thought he "could be greater service in active labors on the Senate floor than on its silent Vandenberg will be among those placed in nomination for President at the Cleveland convention. Report Landon Foes Swing to Louden By Associated Press. CLEVELAND The Cleveland News said today that a "Stop Landon coalition'' was turning to former Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois in a search for a candidate upon which its varying groups could consolidate. The News said "old guard leaders of the Knox-Borah-Dickinson combination" were turning to the former Illinois governor in a hope of capturing the nomination.

The story came at a time when the forces of Governor Landon of Kansas were claiming enough assured ballots to give their candidate an early nomination. Bolger-Lewis Measure Is Signed By Horner By Associated Press SPRINGFIELD The 1 Lewis bill meeting part of the federal requirements for participation in the Illinois old age pension system today had been signed by Governor Horner. It became effective once, but another bill needed to qualify for federal funds is still before the second special session. The bill signed provides for appeals by pension applicants to the ttate welfare board and permits the federal government to get half th estates of pensioners if funds from Washington have been paid out. r.

Horner also signed the Brockhouse bill providing that county treasurers can't collect the customary one per cent fee for receiving and paying out emergency Wief funds. 12 Injured, Fear Several Dead in Iowa Explosion By Associated Press. TAMA, la. A terrific explosion a cleaning plant here wrecked two buildings, injured at least 12 Persons, and did widespread in the business district shortly fore noon today. Firemen, who battled the flames nich followed the blast, feared vera persons were kille'l.

Ace Race Driver Lets Wife Fight Chicago Traffic By Associated Press. CHICAGO Lou Meyer, three time winner of the Indianapolis 500 miles automobile race he averaged more than 109 miles an hour to finish first last Memorial day admitted Chicago's traffic was too much for him. "When we reach the outskirts of the city," said he, "I move out of the driving seat and I say to my wife, 'Here, you take it' And even then I don't really enjoy the ride." China Rears Up; Makes Ready to Defend Country Spirit of Nationalism Strong; Prepares to Rebuff Japan By D. W. HANCOCK.

Associated Press Foreign Staff. China, for 150 years a sprawling giant whose body was the battleground of trade rivalries of the world's powers, is getting to her feet and girding to hit back. No longer will she turn the other cheek, spokesmen in Nanking politely intimate. The work of Dr. Sun Tat-Sen, "father" of the Chinese republic, is slowly bearing fruit.

It was his dream the nation could escape being "a colony of every great Spirit of Nationalism. This spirit of nationalism, with Japan slowly occupying North China, has never been so keen as in the grave crisis today. Dr. Sun established three main principles for the Kuomintang, or Peoples party, which is the government and only recognized party. They are, roughly: 1.

Nationalism (national emancipation and racial equality). 2. Democracy (political rights for the people). 3. Socialism (economic rights for the peasants and workers).

The national republic founded by Dr. Sun is still loosely bound. It is harassed by complex internal rivalries. Japan's steady penetrations and wars against Communism. But, if nothing else, it has given China a military arm.

Prepare For War. Thus far, China has 'replied to Japan's movements in North China only with protests but air bases and shelters are being rushed to completion, trenches are being dug and military instruction given generally. Japanese observers are watching, with undisguised misgivings, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's efforts to strengthen his military machine. Chiang is reported able to throw an army of 500,000 or possibly larger into the field. Nanking is looking both to the North at Japanese garrisons and to the South where Canton troops are reported moving northward to war on Japan.

Her armies may have to move either way. Jury Indicts Guy Tallmadge Rock ford Undertaker Charged on Nine Counts of Slaying Wife By Associated Press OREGON Guy Tallmadge, bald, mild looking Rockford undertaker, was indicted on a murder charge by an Ogle county grand jury today in the roadside slaying of his wife, Bessie, on May 19. Tha nminrhv. resneetable-aoDear- ing Tallmadge, 58 years old, at first attributed his wife Qeatn to hnlrinn men. but broke under ques tioning to confess he shot her.

He wanted to clear the way, he was quoted as saying, to marry a younger woman, Mrs. Frances Birch, 30, East Moline widow. -Bessie Tallmadge was 53. The indictment was returned be fore Circuit Judge Harry Edwards. It was in nine counts, each ourit tHnc in sliehtlv varied legally terminology the assertion that Tallmadge deiiDeraieiy murdered his wife.

-Rirrh was one of a Darade of witnesses taken into the grand jury room yesterday. She said shnrtlv after Tallmadge's arrest that she was willing to marry him only because she wanted a nome for her II years old aaugnter. Speaker Byrns' Body Arrives in Nashville Roosevelt Follows In Special Train To Attend Funeral. By Associated Press NASHVILLE. Tenn.

The city where Joseph W. Byrns started a political career that led irom me state legislature to Congress and the House speakership received his hMv nrlv this, afternoon as thou sands stood in silent triDUie ai ine Union station. Tho Washington funeral train ran just ahead of a special bringing President Roosevelt to pay his final respects to a political and personal friend. A few blocks awav the War Me morial building, draped in mourn ing for the funeral services, already was crowded and loud speak- Moves ta Grant Part of French Premier Blum Acts on Labor Laws Revises Financial Structure By Associated Press PARIS Leon Blum, new of France, stalked out the Chamber of Deputies today under an uproarious barrage In Invectives which suspended the chamber session. The sudden disturbance broke out after the premier had addressed the chamber with a program intended to satisfy the demands of the hundreds of thousands of laborers on strike In the country, to revive business, and to relieve the farmer.

Students and police fought in the Latin quarter In an outburst of violence after the premier had temporarily withdrawn. A Rightiest deputy had assailed Blum as a Jew. The students demonstrated with shouts of "France for the French!" Gendarmes broke up the student making a dozen arrests. By Associated Press PARIS Premier Leon Blum moved on three fronts today to break a nationwide strike, revised the government's financial struc ture, and co-ordinate its national defenses. To: Parliament he handed the task of passing labor laws grant ing three demands of striking workers whose, numbers-were tlmated near one "million.

On the financial front, he ousted Jean Tannery. veteran financial expert, from the position as gover nor of the Bank of France and installed Emile Labeyre attorney of the general court of accounts. Under former Premier Edouard Daladier he co-ordinated France's national- defenses in the first de cree adopted by the new Socialist cabinet. Consider Relief Funds. The Leftist administration also began consideration of aid for needy families -of strikers.

Blum, Finance Minister Vincent Auriol and Labor Minister J. B. Lebas considered a plan to reimburse communities for funds spent for relief. The possibility that Premier Blum was looking to the Bank of France for funds to keep the na tional treasury running was sug gested in financial circles where it was said the bank was already covering a growing deficit by printing new bank notes. To Introduce Bills.

Authorities estimated the bank is holding more than 13 billion francs (858 million dollars) in treasury bonds or drafts. Blum announced he would intro duce into Parliament next week bills providing, for the following: 1. Political amnesty, demand par ticularly by the Communists. 2. A 40-hour week for labor.

3. Collective labor contracts. i. Paid vacations. 5.

A public works plan including scientific laboratories, sports facil ities and tourists attractions. 6. Nationalization of the arma ments industry. 7. Higher prices for farm pro ducts such as meat, milk, and wine through boards similar to the wheat board.

8. Longer compulsory education. Revise Bank Statutes. 9. Revision of the Bank of France statutes "guaranteeing preponderance of national interests in its management.

10. A revision. of the decree laws to relieve government job holders and war veterans whose pay and pensions were cut. Blum said as soon as this first batch of bills was voted, he would introduce a second series provid ing for: (1) A national unemploy ment fund of dole; (2) Insurance against farmers losses from flood or other weather disasters; (3 Farm debt relief; (4) A retirement system "guaranteeing aged workers in cities and country against poverty." Kelly Predicts. Chicago Relief Funds Inadequate By Associated Press CHICAGO Mayor Edward J.

Kelly predicted that income for Chicago emergency relief would be $600,000 short of requirements monthly under an appropriation measure passed by the House at Springfield and pending in the Sen ate. He said the measure would yield not more than $2,400,000 and estimated needs at three million dollars. Unions Demand Recognition In Many Walkouts Industry Curtailed By Labor Trouble; Chicago Workers Out By Associated Press 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 wifh more than 4.000 employes out at six plants in Syracuse, Tonawanda and Ilion, N. Norwood and Marietta, and Middletown, Conn.

Company spokesmen, claiming a "minority" was responsible for the walkout, offered a $15 cash induce ment to workers who would return to reopened shops at Syracuse and Tonawanda Monday. Unionists as serted wage and other demands had not been met The Marietta branch operated on a curtailed basis. "Sit Down" Strike 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 no 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 Pater-son, N. area, 150 Paterson Dye House workers were out on strike. At Newark, 250 drivers abandoned their milk wagons. Throw Eggs, Stones -In the Midwest, a stone and egg barrage accompanied the reopening of the Canton, Stamping Enameling idle since April 30.

Police were vigilant. The strike of Wheeling Steel Co. em ployes at Portsmouth, was dead locked. Seeking union recognition and wage adjustments, 600 sash and door workers and 80 oat mill hands at Minneapolis remained away from their posts. Strikes involving a number of stevedores, wood work ers and stove plant employes con tinued at Milwaukee.

Four pickets from the die and tool makers union glided near a Chicago factory on roller skates. Demanding higher pay, 32 men were on strike. Close Lumber Camps In Northwestern Oregon and Southwestern Washington, 30 lumber camps were closed pending a vote today on a proposed working agreement. Approximately 10.000 men were affected. Hiring hall control was the major issue.

About 150 striking auto mechanics sought a closed shop in Seattle while 300 others in Portland. demanded a pay boost and union recognition. Three veneer plants at Mashfield, and 450 employes idled while a union dickered over wage demands. At Birmingham, Newcomb Barco, labor department conciliator, and R. R.

Moore, Alabama labor commissioner, held the belief that the iron mine strike would end in several days. Approximately 2,500 men were forced out of employment last Sunday when the mines closed after the strike was called in protest against the shift from an hourly to a tonnage pay base. Eight persons have been shot in disorders. State Electricity Sales Show Gain During April By Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD Sales of elec tricity to Illinois consumers during April lotanea compared with $11,227,155 in the same month last year, or a gain of 4.8 per cent, me Illinois commerce commission reported today.

The number of consumers in all classes increased from 1.765.982 in April last year to 1,797.108 in the same month this year for a gain of 1.8 per cent, while the total kilo watt hours sold in April this year jumped from 466.864,962 to 507.477,-293 or 8.7 per cent, the commission said. Belleville WPA Worker Held for Alimony Debt By Associated Press BELLEVILLE John L. Wiesen, WPA worker, wag held In jail today for $1200 back alimony which he owes to his first wife, who divorced him in 1932. Circuit Judge D. H.

Mudge committed Wiesen until the alimony is paid or until a further court order. Wiesen, who remarried and had a child by his second wife, asserted in court he could not pay alimony and support his present family on his $52 monthly WPA salary. By Associated Press. JACKSONVILLE Although he has been a justice of the peace at nearby Concord for 35. years, J.

J. Rayborn said that the marriage of George W. Smith and Laura Mae Rickey was his first wedding ceremony. The last census showed Concord's population as slightly more than 300. Hounds Put On Trail of Girl Missing 6 Days Find Notes to Bolster Runaway Theory in Washington Case By Associated Press PEKIN Bloodhounds were put on the trail today of pretty 14 years old Dorothy Blumenshine.

brunette elementary school graduate who disappeared Sunday morning after be- ng returned to her home in Wash ington from a gay party. The bloodhounds two of them took their scent from shoes of the missing girl and went from the Blumenshine front porch, where she was last seen, over to a neigh bor's yard, down an alley and then to route 24, about half a block from her There the trail ended. The action of the dogs led Sheriff Ralph Goar to consider a theory that the girl, fearing parental re proach; may have run away from home. Route 24 is the. main road from Washington to Chicago.

Find Notes. To bolster this possibility. Sher iff Goar disclosed that correspond ence had been found in the school attended by the girl hinting at such a move. The notes, he said, were between a Washington girl who had run away from home about three months ago and a "Betty Lou Gar rison, That was the name sometimes used by Miss Blumenshine in meeting new friends, her compan-1 ions said. The friend was found in Chicago and "returned to her parents.

In the notes "Betty Lou" also spoke of running away. Five youths who told of leaving Dorothy at her doorstep Sunday morning were released on their own recognizance yesterday after being arrested on a warrant charging contributing to the delinquency of a minor, sworn out by the girl's father, Dr. Emu Blumenshine. Too Many Drinks. The five, and Miss Marie Jack son, 16, told of attending a dance Saturday night at Mackinaw, a nearby resort, and having several drinks on the way home.

Dorothy, they said, became unconscious from the drinks. They stopped at a schoolbouse, they related, and revived her. A lip-stick stained handkerchief was found in the school yard. Because Dorothy was known to be in poor health and to have been in a state of coma for several days during an illness a year ago. Sher iff Goar also believed it possible that, reluctant to face her parents, she had wandered into the open country and there suffered an stuck.

A searching party under Sheriff Goar was to start out tomorrow to comb all surrounding territory. AH members of the Washington American Legion post have promised to join the hunt. PWA WORK GAINS By Associated Press CHICAGO An increase of 794 in PWA employment in Illinois during May was reported today by G. L. Rounds, state engineer.

As of May 30, the PWA employment figure was 19,316. Cooler Decatur and Vicinity: Thun-dershowers this afternoon or tonight becoming fair Sunday; cooler. DECATUR WEATHER. Compiled by The Review: High Fri 83 7 a. m.

7 p. m. 75 Noon Low Sat. 65 Precip 0 un rose sets 7:24. Degree days 0 Since Aug.

28 ...6.215 Same period year ago 5,077 Lake level at dam: Fri. noon .3 ft, above dam. Sat. .3 ft. above dam.

Barometer Fri. noon. .29.53 i Today 29.22 I (Additional Weather on Page B) They originally suggested a gradu ated tax averaging 33 V4 per cent. The House bill, nearer to the administration ideas, would tax corporate net income on a graduated scale ranging up to 421 per cent and depending on how much of the income was withheld from stock holders. The tax conferees will labor all next 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. Predict Legislature to Do Little Before July Will Not Reconvene Till June IT After G. O. P.

Meet. By Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD Adjournments for the national political conventions made it improbable today that the special legislative sessions would accomplish much more work before July 1, after which all bills will require two thirds emergency majorities. The House and Senate will not re convene until June 17, the Republican convention at Cleve land. The following week legislative business again will be at a standstill while the Democrats meet at Philadelphia.

As a result, unless an unusual program is followed, there will be only two or three working days during the rest of the month. Unless bills are passed this month, they will not become effec tive until July 1, 1937, if they do not contain the emergency clause that requires a two thirds vote in both Houses. As a result, non-emergency matters will be left: for the 60th General Assembly's regular session in January. Malnutrition Case Is Dropped in Shelbyville Probation Officer Awarded Custody of Two Minor Children. By Staff Correspondent SHELBYVILLE Following a hearing into the deaths of two children of Mr.

and Mrs. Vernon Gillespye, of Stewardsdn, Saturday morning County Judge A. S. Steid-ley dismissed the charge of- malr nutrition against the parents and awarded the custody of their other two children to County Probation Officer A. S.

Davidson. The charges followed the death of an 18 months old son, John, last Sunday. Coroner Charles: G. Miner reported death was due to "neglect and malnutrition." Another child. Thomas, 8 months old, died about two years ago from a similar cause, he said.

Home "Intolerable, Unsanitary" Two other children, Vernon, 3 years old, and Nathan, 4- months old, were taken from the Gillespye home a few days ago by Officer Davidson who described home conditions as "intolerable and- unsanitary." The children were placed- in the care of Mrs. Simmering, Stewardson. The Gillespye family was. on -relief rolls in 1934, Miss Betty Young, Shelby county relief administrator, reported. Several months ago Gillespye, who is 36 years old, was assigned to work on WPA but failed to report for Mrs.

Gillespye i 24 years old. ers. were set up so that the overflow might hear the eulogies to the Tennessean. President Roosevelt was accompanied by high governmentr dignitaries. 1.

Charlie Chaplin May Make Talkie; Won't Be Funny By Associated Press. HOLLYWOOD Charlie Chaplin, home from the Orient, said today he might make a talkie picture at an unnamed future date but it would be a serious story, not a comedy. "That would necessitate abandoning the tramp." he asserted in referring to his baggy-panted character portrayal of more than 20 years standing. "The tramp will never talk." Three Arrested In Strike Area Novelist, Artist Charge Arkansas Officers Use "Hush" Tactics MEMPHIS, Tenn. (Special) Free Saturday after being arrested Friday at the trial of Dave Benson, an organizer of the Southern Tenant Farmers union, in Forest City, Josephine Jones, Pulitzer prize winning novelist, Joe Jones, prominent young St.

Louis artist and Caroline Drew hinted at "hush' tactics used by Arkansas authori ties in the farm strike area. Miss Johnson and Mr. Jones are making a tour of the Arkansas ten ant farm strike area, gathering ma terial for a series of articles for the Illinois Magazine. The three were accused by Sher iff J. M.

Campbell of talking to a Negro at the trial. They were lectured" by the sheriff and other court officials, and then released. They were told by the- sheriff that they might see anything they pleased and talk to any of the court officials, but that they would not be permitted to "talk to niggers." Baggage Rifled Baggage of the three, who are traveling by automobile, was rifled and personal letters read by the court attaches. Purses of the two women were given a thorough inspection. They were told that "press cards" would not assist them in obtaining privileges of gathering material.

The series of articles to be pub lished in The Illinois Magazine is expected to give a clear picture of the tenant farm strike that has spread over most of the cotton growing section Arkansas. Ar rests of striking tenant farmers and organizers have been numerous. Officials of the tenant farmers union charge that scores of strikers and their families are being held in hastily-constructed "concentration camps" in the strike area. Reports have been heard that men arrested in the strike area have been forced to work under the supervision of armed guards. Local and state authorities have denied charges of wholesale ar rests and detention "stockades" for the strikers.

Hiding True Picture "We have only been in the strike area for two days," Mr. Jones said Friday, "buf I am convinced that the Arkansas authorities do not want the outside world to know what is going on in this strike. Miss Johnson and I feel that we were arrested in an effort to "scare us off." Arson Suspect Freed on Bond Clint Smith Released in Coles, Woman Taken to Danville By Staff Correspondent CHARLESTON Clint Smith, S3 years old ex-convict, Saturday was free on a $5,000 bond after being held in the Coles county jail in Charleston since midnight Monday when he and a woman companion were arrested as suspects in the alleged arson ring which has been operating in Coles county recently. Smith will be given a preliminary hearing at 10 a. m.

June 12 in the justice court of T. I. Sanders in the Charleston courthouse. "Taken To Danville. Marie Lance, 35, alias Marie Fushea, "mystery woman suspect, seized with Smith Monday night, was taken to Danville Friday to face federal charges of carrying a sawed-off shotgun found in her automobile at the time of her ar rest.

Although a federal agent refused to comment, it was generally believed that Miss Lance was taken to Danville for questioning on possible connections with other crimes. She was visited in her cell in the county jail Friday by John M. Karns, East St. Louis attorney, whom it is believed later followed the woman suspect to Danville. Wild Goose Chase.

Tom Abrams and Clem Evans indicated Saturday, by a continued search for a second man in the case, that a trip to East St. Louis by officers earlier in the week for a "Frank Johnson" named by the woman resulted in a wild goose chase. Coles authorities are leaving the investigation of the motive for five rural fires, which included the de struction of two churches and a school house in Coles, almost entirely to state fire marshals and federal agents. IERC Officials Confer On Restricted Powers By Associated Press SPRINGFIELD Members of the Illinois emergency relief commission and Executive Secretary Leo M. Lyons today conferred with As sistant Montgomery S.

Winning regarding the commission's restricted powers after July 1 when the program for local relief responsi bilities becomes effective. Townsend May Address Springfield Convention By Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD-Delegates to the state convention of Townsend old age pension organizations today were excited by the possibility that Dr. F. E.

Townsend, founder of the plan, would come to Springfield to night to -address the meeting. Dr. Townsend was understood to be in Detroit, but Jack Kiefer of Chicago read to the convention telegram stating Dr. Townsend would appear at the final convention session. Delegates immediately began planning a publie demonstration,.