Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 17, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 May 1932 — Page 1

HITLER LIKELY TO TAKE REINS IN GERMANY Fascist Leader Certain to Dominate New Cabinet, Say Observers. PARTY HAS RISEN FAST Nazi Chief Threatened With Treason Trial Not Long Ago. BY FREDERICK KFH | njtd FrM Staff Correspondent BERLIN, May 31.—Domination of the German government by Adolph Hitler, Fascist leader, was regarded as almost certain today alter the re-ignatlon of Chancellor Heinrich Bruening, Prospects favored the formation of a conservative cabinet of bureaucratic character, ranging from the Catholics to the Hitlerites. Such a regime presumably would b- a prelude to dissolution of parham nt. and a general election. It would be empowered to disband the reiehstag if defeated there. Dr. Karl Goerdclcr. mayor of Leipzig and price "dictator ' under the Hindenburg emergency decree, prominently was mentioned as the new chancellor. He is a former Nationalist. Clemens Bracht. Catholic mayor of Essen, also was a possibility. New Ministry Only Bridge Such a ministry, however, would br considered a bridge leading to a government under Hitler's domination. which would be certain in the event of new elections. The rapid rise of Fascism has brought Hitler’s Nazi party from a noisy, turbulent opposition group to the largest single party in the reichBtag. That rise was credited with being the most important influence in President Von Hindenburg’s decision to withdraw confidence from Chancellor Heinrich Bruening. which cause Brening's resignation. Responsible politicians admitted the latest Nazi gain, control of the Oldenburg diet in Sunday’s voting, indicated desire of the nation for a change in government. Bruening in 26 Months This also was pointed out that although President von Hindenburg sppnt only five minutes or so in conference with various political leaders after Bruening's resignation. he remained closted with Hitler for forty-five minutes. The Bruening cabinet fell after a record tenure of office of twentysix months. Von Hindenburg’s chief objection to Bruening’s p.ans was believed to have been against the proposal that part of the estates of big land owners be given to colonization of unemployed. Bruening also planned other extreme measures for balancing the budget, which would have found little favor with the conservative German people. Drift Is Toward Hitler Bui the immense drift of voters toward Hitler was regarded as the fundamental reason the aged executive abandoned the chancellor. Bruening had received the president's solid support during one of the most trying periods in Germany's postwar history. It was understood that Hitler would demand new elections as the price of participaton of the Nazis in the Reich government. The Nazis assert the present Reichstag no longer represents the sentiment of the voters, which has moved steadily in favor of Hitler since the vote of September. 1930. Shots were fired in the vicinity of the United States embassy today when police dispersed a demonstration, of Nazis in Unter Den Linden. The demonstration was made more impressive by crowds in the vicinity gathered to watch the guard parading to President Von Hindenburg's palace for the dedication of a memorial to the dead in the Jutland naval battle of the World war.

STEVE'S SUIT DELAYED Third Continuance Is Granted in “Censorship" Case. By l tilted Prett VALPARAISO, Ind.. May 31. Hearing on the mandamus suit of D. C. Stephenson, former Indiana Klan dragon, now serving a life term in state prison on conviction of first degree murder, against Warden Walter H. Daly, was continued to June 27. on agreement of counsel today. The suit, originally set for May 9. has been continued three times. In it Stephenson seeks to have Daly enjoined from listening to conversations between the prisoner and his attorneys. QUIT CHURCH COUNCIL Indorsement of Birth Control Prompts Presbyterian Act. B'j limit* * Pri * MONTREAT. N. C„ May 31.—Indorsement of birth control practices by the Federal Council of Churches in America caused the Presbyterian church in the United States (Southern! to vote 198 to 69 in assembly here against re-entenng the church organization. WINS ESSAY CONTEST Michigan City Pupil to Enter National Competition. Mildred B. Magenski of Michigan City, pupil at St. Mary’s academy, is the state winner of the annual Gorgas essay contest, it was announced today in the office of the superintendent of public instruction Her essay will be entered in th national contest, judging for which will be held in Washington.

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VOLUME 44—NUMBER 17

FRED FRAME, NEW KING OF SPEEDWAY, WILL GET $40,000

Awards Will Be Made at Annual Drivers’ Dinner at Athletic Club. eiftnr- n Sporli f|) Virtually crowned the 1932 king of speed after his victory in the 500-mile classic at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Monday, Fred Frame, 37-year-old veteran driverowner, tonight will receive almc*t $40,000 in prize money for his feat in winning the race and setting the amazing new record of 104.144 miles an hour for tne distance. At the annual drivers’ dinner tonight at the Indianapolis Athletic Club, Frame will be awarded the $20,000 first prize Tor the race. That amount he will share with Harry I Hartz, owner of the victory Miller- j Hartz machine. More than $15,000 in accessory j prizes will go to the Los Angeles j veteran, and an additional $3.800i in lap prizes. And then will come! his share in the $1,500 prize w’on j by his own Duesenberg racer, which \ finished ninth, driven by Billy Winn 1 and Jimmy Patterson. One Serious Crackup The race was free from many serious accidents. Only one car was involved in a serious crackup, that! of Billy Arnold, 1930 champion and now the "hard-luck" driver of the 500-mile race. Leading the race in 1931, Arnold lost a wheel and hurtled over a re- | laining wall on the northwest turn. | Seriously injured, he lay in the hospital for months. Monday while 1 leading the race, Arnold s car j dashed over the outside retaining wall on the northeast turn and the 1930 winner sustained a broken j collar bone. Spider Mallcck, his j riding mechanic, suffered a fractured pelvis. Arnold said he went j off of the trgck to escape a collision with a skidding car ahead of him. Second Last Year Regarded as one of the smartest and ablest drivers in the nation, Frame last year finished second in the 500-mile race, a scant fortythree seconds behind Louis Schneider, who won the 1931 event. The first four machines to finish i the 500-mile grind shattered the old 500-mile record of 101.13 set in 1925 by Peter De Paolo, Frame, Howdy Wilcox of Indianapolis; Cliff Bergere of Hollywood, and Bob Carey of Anckrson, all finishing at a speed greater than that of De Paolo. Only fourteen of the field of forty cars were running at the end and the last four cars on the track were flagged down and awarded the remaining positions. Packed With Thrills Mechanical trouble eliminated most of the machines. Although the race was free of serious accidents, it was packed with thrills. One car burst into fiames and two others lost tires, the wheels of the cars flying off and bouncing down thp track. Howd.v Wilcox, who took second money, had a miraculous escape from serious injury when Tony Gulotta s car threw a wheel in the front stretch. The wheel bounded into the turn and bounced over Wilcox’s car as he came hurtling around the turn. Frame, who has a 16-year-old son, started his racing career in 1916. He has raced here four times, finishing in the money three times.

COP IS SUSPENDED Sheets Given 60-Day Rest Without Pay. Earl Sheets, patrolman. 5734 College avenue, was suspended for sixty days without pay by the safety board today. Sheets was found guilty of charges preferred against him April 8. when he left town in uniform without permission. Charged with conduct unbecoming a police officer. Patrolman William Martin pleaded not guilty before the board and the case was continued. Petitions for stop and go signs at the following intersections were denied by the board: Eighteenth and Harding street. Jackson street and Holmes avenue. Jackson street and Warman avenue and Market and Noble streets. With records to testify that Philip Kile of truck company No. 13. is 70. Fire Chief Harry E. Voshell recommended his retirement. Kile claims he it only 67. M A NIAC Kl LL S DQC TOR Told He Would Be Sent to Asylum; Resists Arrest for Hour. By Unitrd Prrtt MONROE. La . May 31.—When Dr. Baster Porter told Jim Newsom. 35, that he would have to be committed to a sanitarium for the insane. Newsom killed the physician and held officers at bay for an hour.

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Simple, Sure! J. D. Forest of St. Paul. Minn., has a simple but effective solution of the war debt question, he informed Governor Harry G. Leslie in a letter today. Ignoring the moratorium or other panaceas, forest s plan la this: "Repeal the eighteenth amendment; tax liquor and let England pay her debt with whisky and gin; Italy with wine.” “America w'ould get something out of it, if nothing but a headache,” a reader of the letter observed.

NEGROES WIN TRIAL REVIEW Scottsboro Case Action May Mean Stay. By United Pren WASHINGTON. May 31.—The supreme court today decided to review the trial and convictions of seven Negro youths sentenced to death in Scottsboro. Ala., for alleged attacks upon two white women. The youths are scheduled to be executed next month. The court’s decision to take up the case when it reconvenes next fall will be used as a basis for a further stay of execution. The court set argument for Oct. 10. Extra guards had been stationed at the court chamber to handle any disorders -which might result when a decision was announced, but there was no demonstration. Extra guards were stationed at the supreme court chamber on the last two decision days. May 16 and 23, but no disturbing incidents occurred. Application for review of the case was filed last week by Walter H. Poliak, attorney for the Negroes. It vigorously was opposed in a brief by Attorney-General Thomas E. Knight of Alabama. The case has aroused wide-spread interest and has led to Communist demonstrations In other parts of the world. The American Civil Liberties Union also has been interested in the proceedings. According to the defense, the trial took place while the tiny southern village was crowded with visitors openly hostile to the defendants. The militia, armed with machine guns and tea gas bombs, was on hand throughout to protect the youths and insure an "orderly” trial.

GIVEN PAROLE: DIES Allen County Ex-Sheriff Succumbs After Release From Prison. H'j t inted Pram FT. WAYNE. Ind., May 31.—A. Guy Emrick. 52. former sheriff of Allen county, who recently was released on parole from the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kan., because of illness, died today at his home here. Emrick was sentenced more than a year ago on a charge of conspiracy to violate federal prohibition laws, but had only recently started serving his term. His parole was granted less than a month ago. when it became evident that he had but a short time to live. The widow survives him. SAVE COURT RECORDS Squad of Janitors Cleans Room for Official Papers. Squad of janitors toda* is busy cleaning a room on the third floor at police headquarters in which municipal court records are kept. John L. Niblack, attorney, protested in a letter Saturday to Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron that the records were in a •‘deplorable condition.’’ Cameron, through whose efforts the records were arranged recently, said he did not know who was responsible for the present state of affairs, by which some records were piled in a room with brooms and mope. BOY, 10, HITS PROWLER Intruder Attempted to Molest Sister, 4. Mother Told. Report that the 10-year-old son of Mrs. Grace McFall, 909 Ashland avenue, routed a prowler who attempted to molest his sister Shirley, 4. was being investigated today by police. / The son. Frank, and his sister, ran screaming into the mother's bedroom early today, saying the man. described as “short and heavy set," escaped through a window when the boy hit him. The girl was unharmed, the mother told police. GRANTS VENUE CHANGE Ryan Sends Utility Assessment Suit to Boone County. Change of venue to Boone county of the case involving the Perry-De-catur townships line and assessment of the new million-dollar Indianapolis Power and Light Company Harding street plant, was granted today by Superior Judge Russell Ryan. War Veteran Is Drowned By United P<res SULLIVAN. Ind., May 31.—Winford Bolingcr, 40, drowned while swimming in a mine pond near Sullivan. He was a World war veteran.

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G. 0. P. 800ZE STAND ‘TO BE LIBERAL ONE’ ‘You Can Be Sure of That,’ Asserts Snell After Seeing Hoover. PLEDGES SATISFACTION Subject Was Not Discussed With President, Though, Says House Leader. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Pre* Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 31.—Minority Leader Bertrand H. Snell of the house today said that the prohibition plank in the Republican platform will be “liberal.” Snell made the statement after conferring with President Hoover. He made it clear, however, that the subject was not discussed with the President. Snell, who is permanent chairman of the Republican national convention, said in response to questions that ‘‘the plank will be satisfactory.” "The prohibition plank in our platform Is going to be liberal,” Snell said. "No matter what you hear you can believe that.—and it will be satisfactory. "But I w-ant it clear that I did not mention this to the President.” Snell added as he left the White House. “I never have mentioned prohibition to Mr. Hoover, now or at any other time." On Number of Things Snell said his conference with the President was "on a number of things, including the revenue bill and balancing the budget.” He refused to amplify this or his ideas on how liberal the prohibition plank would be. The task of shaping the Republican platform for the Chicago convention is being undertaken by James R- Garfield of Cleveland, a former secretary of interior and son of President Garfield. Garfield, acting as chairman of the resolutions committee after it had been decided not to have a senator in that position, is understood to have discussed the platform at length with Mr. Hoover. Meanw'hile. dry leaders of the prohibition "board of strategy” met in the capital to devise a campaign to prevent Inclusion of wet planks In the party platforms. Leaders preparing for the Republican national convention w-hich meets at Chicago two weeks from today, are pulling at President Herbert Hoover in opposite directions. Every member of the cabinet, and most of the important Republican leaders from large eastern states are in favor of the party breaking away from its traditional "law enforcement” stand, and declaring at least for a referendum. Star Campaigner Scowls On the other side, the mighty Senator William E. Borah, star campaigner for Mr. Hoover in 1928. scowls darkly at this talk. Ominous hints are seeping out that he may ■ lose his voice, if the Republican convention goes wet. Numerous organized dry leaders are shouting their warning. From one side Mr. Hoover is being told that he will lose New York, New Jersey. Illinois and a number of other essential states, unless he changes his prohibition policy. From the other side, come threats of a bolt by the drys which might rob Mr. Hoover of the margin of votes necessary to win in other states. Renomination Is Assured Despite all the problems of the depression, the $2,500,000,000 deficit, growing bread lines as local relief funds run out, politics—in its illogical way—decrees that the Republican national convention in Chicago shall become excited chiefly with considering whether the liquor traffc shall continue at the hands of bootleggers, or be provided with somewhat more legal facilities. Renomination of Mr. Hoover is assured, and the interest in candidates centers entirely upon the Democratic convention beginning June 27. Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt is far in the lead of a large field of Democratic aspirants. While he is favored by many to win, the possibility of a deadlock exists.

PARLEY MOVED UP Republicans to Convene at Claypool Friday. Te Republican state committee which originally had been scheduled to meet today to make final arrangements for the state convention June 8 and 9. will be convened at the Claypool Friday noon, it was announced today. One of the most important matters before the committee is selectoin of a permanent chairman. So far no name has been advanced. but it is expected candidates for the Governor nomination wiil present recommendations, it was said. CAPONE PLEA IS DENIED High Court Refuses Review of Gang Lord's Conviction. By United Preti WASHINGTON. May 31.—A1 Capone today was denied a rehearing of his recently unsuccessful plea for a supreme court review of the income tax conviction for which he now is serving in Atlanta penitentiary.

Hoover Appears in Person Before Senate to Indorse Manufacturers’ Sales Tax

‘Free-Wheel’ to City on ‘Floating Power Bike

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Harold Whipple (left) and Leon L unsford with their “economy” twoseater.

Man Gives Hitch-Hiker Lift on ‘Bicycle Built for Two.’ "Spark plugs? No. But she’s got floating power, free wheeling and is low on gas consumption." Thus Leon Lunsford, living west of the city advertised his bicycle-built-for-two during a brief visit here, en route to his home near Rochester, ind. Lunsford and Harold Whipple of Logansport, both unemployed, Friday peddaled their two-seater “job" from Logansport in record time, despite heavy traffic. Riding alone, Lunsford left Rochester at 5 a. m„ picked up Whipple. a hitch-hiker, in Logansport. and rode into the city in exactly nine hours for the 100 miles. “It’s a great sport if you stick to it,” Lunsford said. “It takes plenty of compression and a lot of spark." he added. “When I picked up Whipple I thought he’d quit on me after the first five miles, but he stuck with me fine." The bicycle, purchased eighteen years ago by a member of Lunsford's family, originally was bought from a pioneer who rode ’er alone from Wisconsin to Indianapolis. “She's old and battered, but her tires hold up and she sticks to the road,” Whipple said. “I've been out of work for a couple of months, so I thought I’d resurrect the old buggy and sec some of the state. I wouldn't trade her for a baby car," he added. AWAITS CONVENTION Bingham to Make Wet Fight at G. O. P. Convention. By Scripps-Hoicard \ctctpaper Alliance WASHINGTON, May 31.—Regardless of whether the senate continues in session Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut, most active Republican opponent of the eighteenth amendment, will attend the Chicago convention to fight for a straightout resubmission plank in the G. O. P. platform. Many senator*, heretofore chosen as delegates, are abandoning plans to attend the convention. “Os course I am going,” Senator Bingham announced today. "I can do far more good by seeking to persuade the Republican convention to approve a straight-out resubmission plank, without any frills, than by remaining in Washington during the period of the convention. GAS TAX INCOME FALLS Decrease of $101,737 Noted for Month; Consumption Off. Gas tax revenue for May decreased $101,737 over the same period for 1931. Joseph M. Tracey, gas tax collector for State Auditor Floyd E. Williamson revealed today. Total revenue for the month was $1,584,324, representing tax on 39.604,281 gallons. Decrease in consumption. according to Tracey is 2.571,314 gallons. ROOSEVELT"KEEPS BUSY Intimates He Will Not Attend Democratic Convention. By United Prct ALBANY. N. Y.. May 31 —Sources :lose to Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt indicated today he would not attend the Democratic national convention at Chicago in June. The Governor himself, by saying he was going to be busy the next several weeks “running the state of New York.” inferred he might not an

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STREET CAR CO. SALE APPROVED Chamberlin Places 0. K. on Price of $2 ? 600,000. Sale of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company to bondholders for $2,600,000 was approved today by Circuit Judge Harry O. Chamberlin, definitely clearing way for reorganization of the system. Attorneys fees and a $20,000 sum to Receiver George C. Forrey in final payment for his services, were approved by the court. Bondholders agreed to the allowances. Fees to attorneys included $20,000 paid Charles O. Remler, attorney for the receiver. The company, purchased by Wendell Sherk. vice-president of the Fletcher American Company, on behalf of owners of $11,396,000 of the company's bonds. A second corporation, the Traction and Terminal Company, will result from the reorganization plan, but all its common stock will be held by the Indianapolis Railways. Inc. This corporation will control the Traction Terminal building and real ’state of the firm.

UTILITY HEARING SET Water Company to Present Plea June 13. Hearing on the petition of the Indianapolis Water Company to return to the precompromise rates, pending audit and appraisal in their new rate increase case, will be held at the statehouse June 13 at 10 a. m., it was announced today. Date was set by Commissioner Harry K. Cuthbertson of the public service commission, who will preside at the hearings both on the petition for an interclocutory order and final disposition of the case. Cuthbertson was presiding commissoner when the compromise rates were effected. These reduced the minimum to small consumers, but increased the larger users. Protest against the increase finally brought an injunction suit whereby the company was forbidden to collect the higher rates from the Monyhahan apartments. This suit caused the company to petition for a complete rate increase and return to the old precompromise rates during the interim.

GRID INJURIES FATAL Michigan Freshman Succumbs to Infection of Leg. By United Prett ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 31. Berne T. Gustafson, 19-year-old freshman engineering student from Melrose. Mass., died Monday night in university hospital, the result of an injury suffered May 1 in football practice. Gustafson's leg was injured. It was not thought serious at first, but infection set in and this was followed by pneumonia. Rumanian Cabinet Resigns By l nit id Peru BUCHARSET. Rumania. May 31. —Premier Nicholas Jorga announced today that the cabinet has resigned. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 62 10 a. m 72 7 a. m 64 11 a. m 76 Ba. 65 12 (noon).. 78 9 a. m 69 1 p. m 79

GRAVE WARNING SOUNDED AGAINST FURTHER DELAY IN BALANCING U. BUDGET ‘Entirely Unjustified Run on American Dollar’ Because of Foreign Fears Cited as Need for Speed by Congress. (Secretary Mill*' statement a bout federal taxes, parr 3) By United Prrs* WASHINGTON, May 31.—President Herbert. Hoover went personally to the senate today with a superlatively grave warning to that body against further tax bill delay. In a rousing speech—the first he has made before that body—he advocated a general manufacturers’ excise tax, exempting, however, food and clothing. This tax, which, he pointed out, he and the treasury had not sponsored, should not be confused he said with the general sales tax for this would be for a limited time and could not lie pyramided. A serious picture of the state of national affairs was painted by Mr. Hoover as he sounded his counsel.

Foreign countries, swayed by fear of a possibly unbalanced budget, had started "an entirely unjustified run upon the American dollar," he said, as he spoke in measured I solemnity to the attentive senate. The President's descent on the senate was made known only briefly before he arrived, rushing by automobile from the White House. The senate had just passed the Connally amendment increasing income taxes, and a committee had heard trom Treasurer Secretary Ogden L. Mills an advocacy of extension of excise taxes to meet a deficit which the tax bill failed td cover. The administration recommendations as related to the finance committee by Mills included sponsorship of the sales tax idea and the higher income rates ot the Connally amendment. Tells of New Emergency Mills said, however, that if the senate did not wish to adopt the ! sales tax amendment, it could raise ; the necessary' revenue through the Connally amendment, a gasoline tax i of 1 cent per gallon and restoration of the exemption on admissions to 10 cents. These provisions without the sales tax. Mills estimated, would yield *a total of $275.000.000—c105e to the estimated new deficiency of $285,000,000. "An emergency" has developed in the last few- days, said Mr. Hoover, and he felt it his duty to advise the senate thereof. Then he pictured a drab view of the nation's affairs—doubt and anxiety rampant over delays in congress; foreign countries, realizing that unbalanced budgets mark “the road to ruin.” foolishly exaggerating the effect of the present situation; diminished business activity here and a growing unwarranted run on the dollar from abroad. The President voiced his "sympathetic realization of the task con - fronting congress and the sacrifices with which the nation is confronted.

Not for General Sales Tax Correction of the situation immediately is imperative, he said. Congress must undertake: 1. Drastic reduction of expenditures. 2. Passage of adequate revenue legislation. 3. Passage of adequate relief legislation. Then he swung into the tax problem and advocated the general manufacturers’ tax for a limited period and counselled the senate to make wider economies than heretofore planned. “I have not and do favor a general sales tax," Mr. Hoover said. “It has not been proposed by the treasury. This is not, however, to be confused with an extension of the special manufacturers' excise taxes to a general manufacturers’ excise tax with exemptions of food and clothing. “This is an entirely different tax from a so-called sales tax and can not by pyramided. Committee Against It “Even this general manufacturers excise tax has not been proposed by the treasury, although at the time such a tax was unanimously recommended by the ways and means committee by the house, representing both political parties and their leaders in the house of representatives, the secretary of the treasury accepted it in the hope that immediate passage of the bill would result. “In order, however, to solve our problem and give assurance to the country and the world that we are ready to meet our emergencies at any sacrifice. I now favor an extension for a limited period of the j many special excise taxes to a more general manufacturers' excise tax. and will support the congress if it should be adopted. "Whether this be the course ori not some future emergency tax source should be incorporated in the pending bill." Ten minutes after Mr. Hoover left the senate chamber, the senate 1

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finance committee voted against the : general manufacturers' sales tax. Foes Still Confident Majority Leader James E. Watson said the vote was 12 to 8 and Democrats said it was 12 to 7. The committee also approved a 5 per c.enfc tax on domestic sales of gas and electricity estimated to raise i $60,000,000 in additional revenue. Anti-sales tax senators refused to concede that the President had changed the senate situation. Fifty-five senators, six more than a majority, have pledged themselves ; to vote against the sales tax. Senator Robert J. Bulkley (Dem., O.) who initiated the anti-sales tax petition on the Democratic side, said of the signers; t “Those fellows will stand pat.” Senator David J. Walsh (Dem., Mass.), who offered the sales tax i amendment said: "It won’t pas stoday, that is certain. The senate will have to hear j from the country." Wagner Has No Comment Senator James Couzens (Rep., Mich.) said: “The President's messge did not change a vote, but if anything, it made opposition to the sales tax i stiffer." Senator John B. Townsend (Rep., Dal.: “It’s a splendid summary of conditions. It was delivered in convincing and sincere langueg. It should make a deep impression on ; the country.” Senator Robert F. Wagner (Dem.. N. Y.), who introduced the unemployment releif plan, which includes the bond issue disapproved by Mr. Hoover: “I have no comment. What could I say?" This is the first time President Hoover personally has appeared before either house or congress. All of his messages have been sent in writing to be droned out by reading clerks. Connally Amendment Passed The senate, spurred on by the realization that the tax bill as framed would fall short by some $285,000,000 of balancnig the budget, began its renewed consideration of the revenue bill earlier today by adopting, 86 to 3. the Connally amendment putting an additional burden of $70,000,000 on income taxpayers. This would re-establish the 1922 rates of 4 per cent on the first $4,000 of taxable income and 8 per cent on the second $4,000, with surtaxes ranging up to 55 per cent on $1,000,000 or more. Every income taxpayer would be hit by the change. The senate Monday night had approved all items in the bill as it stands. These had been estimated to raise s963.soo,ooo—within $46,500,000 of the amount first set by the treasury a? necessary to balance the budget. Hoover Calls in Leaders Then President Hoover called Democratic leaders to the White House and told them that between $200,000,000 and $400,000,000 more was needed. He said further business recessions had forced the treasury to lower its estimates of what the bill would yield. With the senate Democrats at the White House were Owen D. Young, New York financier, Governor George Harrison of the New York federal reserve bank and Treasury Secretary Ogden L. Mills. With fifty-five senators —six more than a majority—pledged against the general sales tax. advocates of that system staved off every attempt to force a vote that would dispose of the issue.

PULLED FROM CANAL Negro Fined as Drunk; Thinks "He’d Better Have Been Left In.” Pulled out of the canal twice by police. John Smith, 49. Negro, 543 West Michigan street, told Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer today he might be “better off’ if he had stayed in the water. Smith said he was despondent over the depresssion. He was fined $lO and costs on conviction of being drunk and the costs were suspended. He went to jail to remain for ten days to settle the fine.