Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 111, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 September 1931 — Page 9

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SWOPE DRAFTS NEW PACT FOR U. $. INDORY Security for Worker and Employer Sought by G. E. President. ADVANTAGES ARE CITED Old Age Pensions, Life and Unemployment Insurance Are Proposed. Ily United Press NEW YORK, Sept. 17.—A “business constitution’’ designed to federate al American industry in working out an economic plan to safeguard employer and worker and solve permanently the problem of “hard times,” has been drafted by Gerard Swope, president of the General Electric Company. Swope outlined his plan to 600 members of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association, representing the fifty divisions of the industry, at a banquet Wednesday night. The plan calls for organization of each industry into a trade association regulating production through agreement on trade practices and ethics, and providing standard accoui*ting methods and regular financial reports. Labor’s interests are protected through provisions for workers’ compensation, old-age pensions, life and disability insurance, and unemployment insurance. Gives Worker Security The interest of the general public is protected through federal supervision. The federal trade commission or a bureau of the department of commerce would regulate companies and trade associations. Swope’s plan gives the workman a sense of security in his job and tends to remove fear of the “fortyyear deadline” as he grows older. The proposal was drafted in consultation with leaders of the electrical industry—although it was planned to embrace all United States industries —and has the tacit approval of that group. Owen D. Young, board chairman of General Electric, also spoke at the dinner and heartily indorsed the plan. Swope said five principles underlie his program: “Every effort should be made to stabilize industry and thereby stabilize employment to give the worker regularity and continuity of employment, and when this is practicable, . unemployment insurance should be provided. Industry Should Lead “Organized industry should take the lead, recognizing its responsibility to its employes, to the public, and to its stockholders—rather than that democratic society should act through its government. “There should be standardized lorms of reports so that stockholders may be properly informed. “Production and consumption should be co-ordinated on a broader and more intelligent basis, thus tending to regularize employment *-nd thereby removing fear from the minds of the workers as to continuity of employment; as to their surviving dependents in case of deaths, and as to old age. “Every eflort should be made to preserve the benefits of individual originality, initiative, and enterprise, and to see that the public is assured that its interests will be protected.” Adoption of the proposals will require modification of “some existing laws,” Swope admitted. By this it was understood he referred to the Sherman anti-trust laws. Cities Workers’ Benefits Swope’s plan would benefit the individual worker in the following manner: He would be protected by workmen’s compensation, He would receive a life and disability insurance policy with a face value equal to a year’s pay, paid for by the worker and the company on equal terms. He would receive a pension on retirement from a fund to which he and the company had contributed equally. The pension would equal half his regular pay. If tightening of business conditions should cause him to lose his job he would receive payments up to S2O a week from a fund to which he and the employer had contributed, and the fund also would be available for loans. All the above benefits include provisions allowing him to transfer from one company to another, or from one Industry to another without losing any of the funds he has contributed to the various forms of protection, as long as the firms for which he works are among those bound by the “business constitution.” Employers’ Gains Listed The individual employer and stockholder, on the other hand, wuold be benefited as follows: The trade association would regulate trade practices and business ethics. It would establish standard methods of accounting for the particular industry, as well as standard forms of financial statements. It would collect and distribute information on volume of business, inventories, standardization of products and stabilization of prices. The stock holder would get a statement of eamirtgs and condition of the business at least once each quarter. Under Federal Regulation Plans of the individual trade associations would have to be approved by the federal supervisory body. A general board of administration, composed of three members representing employers, three representing labor, and three appointed by the federal board—would interpret the insurance and pension features of the plan and organize and administer the trust funds. I

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Misses who a few years ago were playing “pretend” and nursing dollies back to mythical lives now actually are learning how to nurse at the Methodist hospital. Seventy-six honor students in Indiana high schools were enrolled this week in the hospital’s training school. And they still play “let’s pretend” as the upper center photo

PROHIBITION LINKED TO SLAVERY AS ‘DISTURBER’

Dry Law Branded as Nonsense by Gerard By United Press NEW YORK, Sept. 17. —James W. Gerard, United States war time ambassador to Germany, returned today convinced that the repeal of prohibition would be one means of restoring prosperity in this country. “If President Hoover would say this prohibition nonsense should stop,” Gerard said in an interview on arriving on the liner Paris from . Europe, “it would go a long way toward restoring prosperity. "And if the Sherman anti-trust act were revised to perpiit certain consolidations mat would aid us in overcoming the depression.” The former ambassador in Berlin was bitter against the financial program and policies of the German government. He said that Germany was “far better off than is generally believed.” “Germany is making money out of bankruptcy,” he averred. Since 1924 they have paid out ten billion marks (nearly $2,500,000,000) in reparations and have received eighteen billion marks in public and private loans. That leaves them eight billion marks to the good.” Gerard said the German government was lending money to Soviet Russia, and argued that it was chiefly American capital which made this possible-. The erstwhile diplomat suggested that American bankers “aid their own countrymen for a change.” “American bankers,” he said, “are altogether too ‘Europeanminded.’ It’s about time we aided our own countrymen instead of giving aid to Germany, where it is not needed.”

THEY TELL ME

BY BEN STERN THE spirit of revolt which is sweeping American politics finally has reached out and taken a “holt” on the Indiana junior Republican organization. Members of this body, who in the past have bowed the head and bent the knee to commands of leaders of the regular organization, are showing a disposition to shake off the control of these managers and strike out for themselves. Latest manifestation of this growing feeling of independence is show r n in the fact that the heads of the organization expect to invite Senator Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin, leading Republican insurgent, to deliver an address at the Anderson convention of the junior organization next month. tt tt tt When Ray Powell, state president, laid the plans before Senator James E. Watson, our “elder statesman” hit the ceiling. “Why you can’t invite La Follette. He is an insurgent and if he speaks here he might criticise President Hoover; he might attack the administration and he might even take some shots at me,” Jim shouted. Other Republican managers who would not like to see their playhouse upset in a year when the Juniors are of real importance to the state organization said the same thing. But as the younger party workers declared: “This is our opportunity to get some .Jlace. We have been doing all of the messenger work and hanging on to the coat-tails of the older boys long enough and never have gotten a single reward. “La Follette is a Republican expressing the thoughts of the young-

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shows Miss Ruth Loveless, Lynn. Ind., a nurse probationer, taking the temperature of a classmate, Miss Carol Fields of Saratoga, Ind. “From civies to unies,” might be the title of the upper left and right photos as Miss Marjorie Cross of Sellersburg, Ind., is shown in her street garb and her new probationer’s uniform. Lower Photo: The student nurses learning from their fil-

er members of the party and we want a change from the old standpat program and regular formulas which have been fed us,” they contended. ‘ln fact we are tired of all of the old rigmarole which has been shouted at us and now we are stepping out for ourselves.” With approximately 15,000 members on the rolls, the junior Republican organization is an important group today, when every G. O. P. vote will count. It looks very much as if the tiger which was reared on milk is ready to taste a little meat. “Watch out, my masters, watch out.” Hoosier Float in Parade By Times Special ALEXANDRIA, Ind., Sept. 17. The rock wool float of the local American Legion post which won first prize at the recent state convention in Anderson will be in the national convention parade at Detroit next week. A contribution of SBO by business men and other citizens here made the trip to Detroit possible.

QUEEN LAYS DOWN LIFE TO SAVE HER MASTER’S

IN a certain Indianapolis home today a motorist finished his breakfast with the probable remark; “Well, I killed—just another dog—last night.” In other homes, the news of the city is bulletined between husband and wife with, “Another child killed today by an autoist.” The fellow in the first home was right. It was “just another dog” tfcat he killed in front of

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structor, Mrs. Orpha Kendall, the intricacies of a Gatch bed. The bed is adjustable to the needs of the patient. The seventy-six new nurses study four months on probation before they receive their white bibs and shoulder straps. The bibs and straps denote that they have been accepted for the threeyear training course.

One of Four Problems to Destroy U. S. Balance, Bar Group Told. By United Press ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Sept. 17. —Addressing the opening session today of the fifty-fourth annual convention of the American Bar Association, President Charles A. Boston of New York liked prohibition with the bank, slavery and secession problems as having served most to disturb the equilibrium of the United States since the adoption of the Constitution. Today is the ’44th anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution of States and therefore a fitting occasion “to examine some of the historical aspects of the government which was thus established,” he said. “As I view the history of the last 152 years, four subjects appear to me to emerge which more than any others have served to interfere with the ‘arduous, but pleasing task of attempting to make a nation happy’,” he said. “These are the bank, slavery, secession and prohibition. “Os these, the bank is presently a conceded fact; slavery still casts its shadow in a number of ways, though no longer existent; secession whether threatened at an earlier date or attempted in 1861 appears to be dead; and prohibition, though in the Constitution, has not ceased to invoke violent opposition. “Regarding prohibition, I do not need to point more than the several reports of the commission upon the enforcement of law, with the concurring recommendations of most of its members, predicated upon their dissenting individual views. “I assume that every person now present has violent convictions, which, whatever they are, can not be shaken by any argument or any illustrative data. Indeed, the present state of individual opinion is more like a petrified forest than a vivified participation in the arduous task which the first President mentioned in his first inaugural address to the first congress.” Prosecutor Accused By United Press LAGRANGE, Sept. 17.—A warrant charging Ralph Foster, Lagrange county prosecutor, with issuing a fraudulent check was on file today with Milo Thompson, Angola justice of peace. The charge was filed by George Brattin. The check involved was for S2B. Thompson fixed Foster’s bond at SSOO.

4224 Carrollton avenue Wednesday night, but it might have been “just another child.” And it wasn’t, because Queen, German police dog, wasn’t “just another dog.” Queen knew how to retrieve rubber balls from the street for children. Queen was watching her master, Kenneth Perry, 6, of 4224 Carrollton avenue, throw a ball to other youngste‘4 in the neigh-

VICE LORD IS SLAINBY FOES Harry Volpe’s Body Found in Parked Auto. By United Press PROVIDENCE, R. 1., Sept. 17. The bullet-riddled body of Harry Volpe, 45, notorious racketeer, credited with exposing a nationwide rum ring at Cleveland a few years ago, was found in a stolen automobile here today. Volpe’s life was threatened in Cleveland several years ago when he turned state’s evidence after beng indicted for alleged violation of the prohibition laws. Since then, according to police, he had conducted an extensive liquor business in this state Police said there was no doubt he had been slain by the gangsters he long had feared. NATION FEARS REVOLT Precautions Against Revolution Taken at Libson and Oporto. By United Press LISBON, Sept. 17.—Precautions against an attempt at revolution were taken by the government today at Libson and Oporto. President General Oscar Carmona and his cabinet met to discuss the situation. It was understood that the leaders of the planned revolt were connected with the recent movement here in which heavy fighting took place in the capital and several persons were killed. DIES CLEANING GUN General Electric Employe Killed in San Salvador. By United Press CHICAGO, Sept. 17.—Ralph W. Wells, Central American sales engineer for the X-ray division of the General Electric Corporation, accidentally killed himself, Sept. 15, in San Salvador, capital of El Salvador, company officials were advised today. Wells was said to have been cleaning a pistol in his hotel room when the accident happened. The body is en route to the United States. Wells is survived by his mother, Mrs. L. Wells, Birmingham, Ala. Ralph W. Wells also is survived by an aunt, Mrs. George Stewart, 408 West Thirty-ninth street. SUES cur ON PERMIT Injunction Sought Against Ban on New Apartment. Refusal of the city to permit her to build an apartment house, caused Mrs. Wanda Martin, to file suit against the city in superior court five Wedensday. The suit asks the court to enjoin the city from enforcing a general ordinance defining powers of the building commis- | sioners. NAB ~TWO IN HOLDUP Cleveland Men Suspects in $14,000 Michigan Bank Robbery. By United Press MT. CLEMENS, Mich.,' Sept. 17Two Cleveland men were held today as suspects in connection with the $14,000 robbery of the First National bank here Wednesday. The men gave names of Sam Ventile and Carl Fink, 25, both of Cleveland. Two officials of the bank were forced to the wall under a fusillade of shots, while one of the bandits seized $14,000 in cash. HURT AS AUTOS CRASH Mrs. Frank Martin, 57, of 1729 Fullenwider street, was injured today when her husband’s car and a truck crashed at State and English avenues. Sweet Himand, 42 v Negro, 1068 West Twenty-fifth street, driver of the truck, was arrested on charges of reckless driving and failure to observe a preferential street.

borhood on the Perry lawn. Kenneth’s toss went wide and the ball bounced into the street. It was Queen’s chance. Her change to play the game—the game of life. She dashed for the ball. She caught it on the run between her jaws. She re-crossed the street. A sedan speeding north on Carrollton avenue crashed into her and then wheeled on.

BLOWS DIDN’T j KILL COLLINGS, EXPERTS FIND, Autopsy Reveals Victim of Yacht Raid Met Death by Drowning. WIFE IS NEAR COLLAPSE Distraught From Week of Grilling, Re-Enactment of Brutal Crime. BY SIDNEY B. WHIPPLE United Press Staff Correspondent HUNTINGTON. L. 1., Sept. 17— Benjamin P. Collings, victim of one of the strangest murder mysteries in recent criminal history, diedJ?y drowning and not from the immediate effects of blows suffered in a death scuffle on his cruiser Penguin, the autopsy revealed today. Collings. young Stamford (Conn.) yachtsman and retired engineer, ] was alive when he struck the water, ' Dr. Otto Schultz, surgeon who conducted the autopsy, said. The body, found on the beach of the Marshall j Field estate on Long Island Sound , Wednesday was tied hand and foot and the head badly battered. The announcement by Dr. Schultze was regarded as one of the most important developments in a series of peculiar clews and vague leads which have baffled the authorities of two counties the past week. Possible to Talk The surgeon said it was possible for Collings to have talked after he had been struck on the head. In the weird tale of piracy, kidnaping and murder told by his widow, she claimed he did talk as the “pirates” trussed him up. The body of the slain yachtsman was to be removed from the barren morgue in this Long Island community where it has lain since its discovery, for burial late today. Persons close to the Collings family said funeral services would be in Brooklyn, and that the body would be cremated. Mrs. Lillian Collings, 28-year-old widow of- the dead man, was prostrate at their home in the outskirts of Stamford, wracked into nervous hysteria by a week of questioning and reenactment the story of the crime. It was said she could not attend the funeral. Noncommittal on Inquest \ District Attorney Alexander G. Blue of Suffolk county, in charge of the investigation, was noncommittal about the coroner’s inquest. Asked definitely whether Mrs. Collings was under suspicion, he replied: “I would not say now whether any one is under suspicion.” He said that he had come upon “certain leads” which he regarded as of sufficient value to warrant an investigation, but. would not disclose their nature. Discovery of another boat named Penguin, almost identical with the Penguin owned by Collings, anchored near the mystery vessel, was among the leads being investigated by the authorities. It was found the boat belonged to Thomas F. Masterson, steamfitter of Richmond Hill, .r fiends said they could think of no reason why any one should want to kill Masterson, and that they doubted the “pirates” were looking for his boat. TOO HOT FOR STUDY 56 Grade Schools Let Pupils Go Home. Fifty-six public schools were closed this afternoon because of heat, and with privilege of closing them optional with principals, they probably will have only morning sessions as long as the current heat wave endures. High temperatures make school attendance extremely uncomfortable, particularly in wooden portable buildings, school officials pointed out. Closed this afternoon were: Schools 2,3, 4,6, 8, 12, 14, 15, 19, 21, 22, 24, 25, 28 30, 31, 33, 34 35, 36, 37, 39, 40, 41, 42 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 54, 55*57, 60, 61, 62, 68, 69, 70, 72, 73, 75, 76, 78, 79, grades on to four in 80, 82, 83, 85, 87, 90 and 91. Farmer Hurt Fatally By Times Special BRAZIL, Ind., Sept. 17—Funeral services were held Wednesday for Edgar Armey, 31, farmer, who died of injuries suffered when a hay fork fell on him.

SENTENCES WOMAN IN MYSTERY PARTY

When Mrs. Fay Burke, 27, Drexel Arms, started on a party Wednesday night she had no idea it would last until noon today. But in this alcoholic generation, odd situations occur and Mrs. Burke found herself before Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron. Still garbed in the green evening dress that had been the sensation of the party, it is said, Mrs. Burke

Queen dragged herself across to her master. She laid the ball down with her life at his feet. So you’re wrong, Mister Hit-and-Run Driver, about Queen. She wasn’t “just another dog.” Drivers who speed away from scenes of accidents might have a classification like that, but Queen —why, hardly. She saved what to jou is “just another

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Entered a# Second-Class Matter at Postoffiee, Indiana poll*

Face Lifter Judge Promises to Erase Negro’s Grin If Fine Isn’t Paid.

WILLIAM (BIG PREACH) GIBBS, Negro, 32, of 321 Ellsworth street, reported federal stool pigeon, smiled in municipal court today, but Judge Clifton R. Cameron has promised him a change of countenance. Gibbs was arrested Thursday night by Sergeant Barrett Ball and patrolman Dan Schulz for causing an alleged drunken disturbance in the 500 block Indiana avenue. He was released after four hours in jail as a sobering influence. An hour later Gibbs, armed with a revolver, aimed it at James Pope, Negro, 503 North West street, police charged. Pope fcflok the revolver from Gibbs and hit him on the head, he reported. Today in court, the officers testified to the fight in substantiation of drunkenness, drawing deadly weapons, vagrancy and disorderly conduct charge against Gibbs and assault and battery count against Pope. Search of probation records revealed Gibbs still owes the court $52 of a fine assessed in October, 1929. Since then Gibbs has been arrested several times. “I’m going to continue the case to Sept. 30 and if you haven’t paid that fine it’ll be too bad for you,” Cameron warned. Gibbs smiled broadly. “I mean it,” Cameron said. “You’ll be laughing on the other side of your face.”

THROW FLAMING TORCHJN HOME Incendiary Plot Foiled as Woman Awakes. Attempt by a firebug to burn the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Dunn, 2032 East Maryland street, by placing a gasoline-soaked torch in an inclosed rear porch, was thwarted early today by Mrs. Dunn. Awakened by smoke, she found the interior of the porch enveloped in llames. She and her husband extinguished the flaming walls and the firebrand with a garden hose. Neither could give police any reason for the firing attempt. The torch w r as made of waste that had been wrapped around a clothes hanger. “We’ve lived in this nearborhood twenty-six years and I don’t know why any one could do anything like that to us,” Mrs. Dunn said. “After I smelled the smoke I saw a light flickering on the bedroom window. When I went to the kitchen the panes of glass in the door were redhot.” A daughter, Edna Dunn, 14, was asleep in the house with her parents, and a son Alfred, 26, had not returned from work when the flaming torch was found. The porch walls w T ere scorched, but damage was silght. BUS BIUJJP AGAIN Judge Chamberlin’s Ruling Expected Soon. Oral arguments on house bill 6, legislative act stripping cities and towns of their * control over bus transportation, were to be heard at 2 today in circuit court. Judge Harry O. Chamberlin is expected to give his final decision soon on a suit asking the court to enjoin permanently the secretary of state from publishing the act. Charges that the bill was passed by conspiracy and fraud now are being sifted by the Marion county grand jury. A temporary restraining order has been in effect since previous hearings on the measure in circuit court last spring. This order prevented the secretary of state from including the bill in publication of 1931 acts. FRENCH EXPORTS~DROP Trade Balance Steadily Grows More Unfavorable. By United Press PARIS, Sept. 17.—French foreign trade was hard hit during the first eight months of 1931, according to a ministry of commerce report issued today, which showed exports ror the period were 9,000,000,000 francs, or about $360,000,000 below imports. This compared with an unfavorable trade balance of 5,681,000,000 france, or $227,240,000, for the first eight months of 1930, reflecting a steadily, decreasing volume of foreign trade.

faced the court on a charge of drunkenness. Sergeant Arthur Hueber and members of his squad said they found her arguing with a man who said he was her husband, at 4 a. m. at Walnut and Illinois streets. The man told officers he wanted her to *go home, but she refused. Exercising their strength, the officers placed Mrs. Burke in their car and slated her at headquarters. Cameron today asked her to name j the source of her liquor. She refused and was ordered to ; think it over. At hour later she refused to tell. “I was on a little party and that’s all there is to it,” she told the court. Cameron sentenced her thirty days in the woman’s prison and fined her $lO and costs. “I think you're getting a little wild,” he said. Mrs. Burke neither affirmed or denied it, but police matrons had to call for police aid to remove her from the courtroom. ,

NAVAL HOLIDAY WINS FAVOR OF HOOVERREGIME Borah’s Proposed 5-Year Truce Would Advance Disarmament, View. ECONOMIC RELIEF SEEN Extending London Treaty Program Would Set Plan in Motion. BY RAY TUCKER Times Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sept. 17—The five-year naval holiday proposed by Senator William E. Borah would be ' a great advance along the p ;*h of j general disarmament, according to statements of high officials of the Hoover administration today. It has been learned that the state department is making a study of his proposals as well as the suggestion of Dino Grandi, Italian foreign minister, for a one-year naval truce. Although pointing out that neither Borah nor Grandi has furnished any detailed program as the basis of a definite move in the direction of more drastic disarmament than was attained at the London 1930 conference, it was intimated the United States would be receptive to any formal proposal from other nations involved. The administration virtually told the world it is willing to go along in a holiday designed to improve conditions all around. Three Advantages Cited The success of any plan for a cessation of construction, it was pointed out, would be helpful in three ways. It would permit the Geneva gathering to meet next February in an atmosphere more favorable to solution of political difficulties which lie across the path of world peace and disarmament. It w T ould distract the minds of delegates of Geneva from the unhappy noises of munitions shops and dockyards. It would provide great economic relief to nations | now suffering under armament burdens totaling $4,138,000,000 a year. It would, if successful, save signatories of the London treaty— Great Britain, United States and | Japan—more than $2,500,000,000 in | building up to the London standi ard.

Plan Easy to Start Far from agreeing with criticism of the Borah plan that there is not enough time to formulate a definite program before the Geneva conference, official spokesmen pointed out the mechanism for a holiday would be comparatively easy to set in motion. It would require, In the opinion of officials, nothing more than a five-year delay, or spread, in the operation of the London treaty program. Instead of reaching parity with Great Britain by 1936, our navy would remain slightly inferior until 1941. In fact, officials answered the criticism of Senator David A. Reed (Rep., Pa.), a delegate to the London conference, with the statement that a holiday would not place the United States in a relatively worse position than it is in now. The fleet is better balanced as a result of new construction since 1929, in the official view, and there would be no threat to this nation if the other powers agreed to call off all new construction. Gives Cue to Europe Borah’s appeal, together with economic conditions in this and other countries obviously has given force to the administrations’ expressed desire for further disarmament. The willingness to make public its favorable attitude toward the Borah program is taken to be a cue to European nations as to the part this country will play if they show the way. It is known that President Hoover and Secretary Stimson have discussed both the Borah proposal and the steps which might be taken to put it into effect. The administration, as a result of Stimson’s reports following his recent European trip, thinks Europe first must settle some of the disagreements which have prevented the complete success of previous conferences. It is, therefore, somewhat cautious in stepping out boldly as the international bell wether at this time. GANG CHIEFTAIN SLAIN Brooklyn Alky King Found Shot in Squalid Tenement. By United Preaa NEW YORK, Sept. 17.—Gang vengeance caught up today with Meyer Shapiro, chief of the Brooklyn alcohol racket. Shapiro, who, with his brother Irving, incurred many enmities because of their activities in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, was found shot to death, a bullet wound behind his ear, in the basement of a squalid lower east side tenement. Irving Shapiro, with whom Meyer was engaged in the slot-machine and Laundry rackets before branching out into ' ie “Alky” trade, w" shot and kill, . last July. B 0K _ l 7 *ves millions Estate of Editor-Philanthropist Is Valued at $23,718,981. By United Preia NORRISTOWN, Pa., Sept. 17. Edward Bok, editor and philanthropist, who died Jan. 9, 1930, left an estate valued at $23,718,891, according to a transfer inheritance tax appraisal on file here today. The federal estate tax was listed at $3,609,070 and Pennsylvania’s state tax of $2,886,730 in the appraisal. The philanthropist gave to relaI tives, friends and charities a total i of $3,327,211.71 in 1916 and the en- | suing years. Since these gifts were I not made in contemplation of death | they are not taxable.