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Rn*e Macaulay Tiarper <fe Brothers have a lot of. faith in Rose Macauley s latest, novel, ‘ “The Shadow Plies.'" This novel was published last, Saturday and report* show that, it is demanding unusual attention. B B B BY WALTER P. HICKMAN BEFORE me. I have one of the most unusual books of the present, season It is "Night Flight’’ by Antoine de Saint-Exupery as translated by Stuart Gilbert. It, deals with the men "who smile and kiss the stars" in bringing the airmail from the southern tip of South America to the northern point w-here it goes by ship to Europe. You meet. Fabien, "the pilot, bringing the Patagonia airmail from the far south to Buenos Aires,” and it, is this man, who was a husband for six weeks before he "kissed the stars” in whom you are chiefly interested. I was not, so much interested in Fabien personally as I was the system that, Riviere, the head master at, the airport, w'as teaching the pilot*. Storms meant nothing to Riviere but he steeled himself to see. that the planes left on time and that, his new system of night air mail would be a success. This man well knew' that his pilots, some of them, would be, martyrs to a march in civilization but he kept sending up the planes regardless of Tveather. My story of "Night Flight" may seem trite, but it takes on tremendous beauty in the words and the short chapters. It is seldom that, I have encountered such beautiful waiting as In the chapter w'here Fabien and his radio operator run into an earthquake and the storm in the heavens that followed. On page 151 there is a paragraph whcih tells of Fabien getting altitude to escape the storm. Read this and you will agree with me that it is beautiful—"too beautiful," he thought. Amid the farflung treasure of the stars he roved, in a world where no life was, no faintest breath of life, save his and his companion's. Like plunderers of fabled cities they seemed immured in treasure-vaults whence there is no escape. Amongst these frozen jewels they were wandering. Tirh beyond all dreams, but doomed. Here is a modern classic for those who want to read the better things. “Night Flight" is published by the Century Company. Have received word in a letter from Claude Kendall, the publisher, that he is sending me a copy of "Tangled Wives" by Peggy Shane for review. Aaron Sussman. representing the publisher, in his letter tells me—- “ Let there be no confusion, this is not the great American novel, it is, however, swell entertainment.” Peggy Shane was born in Indiana and was brought up in Chicago. Her father was a columnist on the Chicago Daily News. Miss Shane also worked on the same paper with Ben Hecht. This is her sixth published novel. B B B Knowing that you are interested in movie and stage stars. I am going to tell you of anew book concerning Lillian Gish. It is called "Life and Lillian Gish” apd was written by Albert Bigelow Paine, published by the Macmillan Company. It sells for $3.50. Lillian started her career on the stage at the age of six, according to the author. Her life as a child was spent in dreary dressing rooms and smoky day roaches. Today she is a star on the .stage and the screen. This book gives the facts on her interesting career. A reader of this department asks me—What is the name of the latest book by Norman Thomas. It is, •What’s the Matter With New York.” published by Macmillan and sells for $2. Paul Blanshard is coauthor with Thomas. This book is an exposure of graft and mismanagement in the city government of New York. Here is a gigantic study of how grafting was reduced to a "successful system.” It is more than a handbook on city government. * * * Bobbs-Merrill has a best nonfiction seller in "Let's Start Over Again,” by Vash Young. This man has a cure for "personal depression.” I have reviewed it in this department. NEW STYLE IN BUSSES . Giant Motor Coach Has 12-Cylinder Pancake Type” Motor Under Floor, a.v i * il/d Pres* CLEVELAND. Oct. 21.—Development of anew type motor coach calculated to meet the problem of mass transportation in cities has been announced by White Motor Company. It is motored with anew twelvecylinder horisontally opposed or "pancake- engine, which is carried beneath the floor leaving unrestricted passenger area for fortyfour,end room for flfty-six to stand The designers claim the coach has more unrestricted floor space, and is easier riding than a street car.

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GREAT DREAM OF NORRIS IS j NEAR REALITY Nebraska Senator Happy as He Sees Progressives Aid Roosevelt. FIGHTS PARTISAN RULE Senators Turn On Hoover to Wage Battle for Liberal Policies. BY RAY TUCKER Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.—An old mans dreams may come to pass as I a result of the eagerness with which western progressives are 1 embracing the doctrines of Governor Roosevelt. Only a few weeks ago. sitting before the tiny fireplace of his $5,000 stucco horn® on the main street of

McCook, Neb.. Sen- ; a tor Norris again mused over the | prospect of a real j realignment o f politics through placing "another Roosevelt in the Whits House" and abolition of the electoral college machinery. And the 72-year-old senator was as thrilled p.s a child j, on Christmas eve —as happy as he ; was that day when | Hiram .Johnson of I California paid

| hind this tribute in the .senate; “They say you are dreaming dreams, sir. Perhaps they are i right; perhaps they are dreaming 1 dreams. But since the birth of ; civilization, sir, it is dreams like | yours which have emancipated j mankind and made the world a i happier and better place to live in. i Dream on, you senator from Nebraska!"

Colleagues Follow Lead Today, as he campaigns for the Democratic nominee and'denounces “partisanship" as the greatest evil of politics, Norris has the satisfaction of feeling that the majority of his progressive colleagues have shaken off the . partisan spirit to support Roosevelt. In fact, eight western states having ninety-three electoral votes may go to the New York Governor because of the progressive opposition to Herbert Hoover. Announcement of the La Follette brothers that they will back the Democratic ticket leaves only two progressive senators actively in the Hoover camp—Howell of Nebraska and Norbeck of South Dakota. Those taking the field on behalf of Roosevelt are, besides Norris and the La FolleUes, Johnson of California, Bronson Cutting of New Mexico, and Governor Floyd Ol~on of Minnesota, a Farmer-Laborite. Couzens May Bolt Tt. is reported that Senator Couzens of Michigan yet may indorse the. Democratic candidates social reform program, and that Cutting will make a nation-wide radio talk for Roosevelt. Still silent, but regarded as confirmed in their tacit hostility to Hoover, are Senators Borah of Idaho. Nye of North Dakota, and Brookhart of lowa. Frazier of North Dakota has said he will not support Hoover. This realignment marks a breakup of party lines as revolutionary as the swing to Theodore Roosevelt by western progressives in 1912. In view of the Democratic plan to permit progressives backing Roosevelt to retain their chairmanship, some predict that the long-predicted organization of conservative and progressive parties may follow if Roosevelt is elected and carries out his campaign pledges. Norris Is “Missionary” Such ideas have been vainly advanced many times in the past, but the combination of the depression and development, of liberal thought among leading Democrats, it is contended, w'ould give new' momentum to such a movement. It is no secret that this is the great hope of Republican and Democratic progressives supporting Roosevelt, especially Norris. The Nebraska senator is given most of the credit for attracting his colleagues into the Democratic camp. Resting at his summer cottage in Wisconsin last summer, he became a veritable missionary He wrote letters and distributed Roosevelt's speeches and legislative messages to his associates. When he found a Roosevelt statement he knew would please Johnson, he sent it post haste to San Francisco. JEAN HARLOW FACES BATTLE OVER ESTATE Dorothy Millette's Relatives to Seek Half of Bern Bequests. By United Pres* SACRAMENTO, CaL Oct. 21. Definite plans to oppose court approval of the will of Paul Bern, film executive made in favor of Jean Harlow, his platinum blond wife, have been announced here by attorneys representing the estate of Dorothy Millette. The contest is to be made on the ground that Miss Millette. who committed suicide by jumping into the Sacramento river shortly after Bern took his own life, w'as recognized as Bern's wife. A claim for one-half of the Bern estate will be made on behalf of Mrs. Mary Hartranft of Findlay. 0.. sister of Miss Millette. A telegram received today by Chester Gagnon. Sacramento attorney. from Marcus C. Downey. Findlay lawyer, said: "Have been investigating. Find no marriage license, although facts sufficient to establish common law' marriage.”

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New York’s Wizard Solves Riddles of Mysterious Crimes

In the flies of this erudite, temperaments! giant. Dr. Charles Norris are more grippmc detective stories than vou ever might imagine As chief medical examiner of New York City, Dr Norris has studied greater horror than that which comes in dreams, has dissected, scrutinized it through u compound microscope. What are some of these stories? How has he. through the tools of science and logic, been able to solve the mvsteries of violent death? Earl Sparling has talked with the crime chief at the morgue where he plies the knife, at his office in the Municipal building where he keeps the histories of accidents, suicides and murders. In a series of articles, the following of which deals with the Bessie Troy case, he reveals what Dr. Norris told him. BY EARL SPARLING, Times Staff Writer iCopyright. 1932, bv the New York WorldTelegram Corporation! TYOOKS will be written about him one day—the fcewhiskered old pathologist who worked to destroy the coroner system in New York City because so many murders were going undetected, who became first chief medical examiner and therefore mogul of this metropolis of murders. Dr. Charles Norris has been the anonymous hero of more Actional detective stories than ever you might suspect. For fourteen years now he has been the pattern from which the boys have struck off their cultured, scientific Philo Vances. A good pattern—erudite, aristocratic, temperamental, Rabelaisian, a man to teach you how to love life and how to delve, even through the awful muck of death, for truth. Withal, a perfect personification of the scientist, a man with a gray Van Dyke and a many-syllabled tongue, but human. When he doesn't have time to get the beard barbered, which is often, he will complain that he feels like a goat, and the reason he isn t seven feet tall, he argues, is because he began drinking at 14. He washes his hands after a stenchy floater and goes home to finger Keats and Shelley. He saws through the skull of a Bowery bum or a Broad street banker to prove alcohol, and discourses half an hour later on the beautiful promise of America. * t) a MOST of all, however, he is the man who has sat in on crime in the most violent city of the western world. There were eighteen murders in London in 1928, and eleven of the murderers were convicted, the other seven committing suicide. To measure Doc Norris, compare these figures: There were 6,500 deaths by violence in New York City last year, there were 338 shootings, 120 stabbings, sixtysix assaults, thirteen baby-kill-ings; 636 miserables inhaled cooking gas; 239 hanged themselves, 243 jumped from windows, 187 shot themselves, thirty-eight drank lye, twenty-four took cyanide, 1,065 died in automobile accidents, 446 drowned, 326 died by fire, 169 died by accidental poisoning, etc. All of those 6.500 violent deaths had to pass through his hands. In each case he or his assistants, had to decide whether the violence was murder or accidental. Such is the grewsome kingdom of this hulking man with the gray beard and the quizzical eyes. No one in the whole world, perhaps. has studied horror as he has. He has dissected it, scrutinized it through a compound microscope, brewed it in a cauldron to obtain the legal essences. *ln

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Women Battle Savagely , to Buy Castoff Finery

‘Honest ’ Crooks Miss Betty McClain. 21 East St. Joseph street, reported to police she was dragged into an auto-at St. Joseph and Illinois streets, Thursday night, by two men and a woman, who robbed her of two diamond rings at the point of a gun. When she complained that the rings were not paid for, Miss McClain said the trio drove her to her home, accompanied her inside, where sne obtained $lO in cash, and gave back her rings in exchange for the money.

INSTALL LEGION HEADS C. A. Thompson Begins Second Term as District Commader. Officers of the eleventh American Legion district formally took office Thursday night at a meeting in Pendleton. C. A. Thompson w’as installed for his second term as dictrict commander. Ceremonies w'ere in charge of William O. Nelson of Anderson, state commander. Nelson flayed the National Economy League for its attack on the legion’s bonus attitude.

Accord With Germany Urged on France By U. S., Arms Fate Hinges on Decision

B 1 WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Seriii*-How*ri Foreitn Editor WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.—1n an effort to save the world arms con- ! ference. the WTiter understands. American diplomacy is attempting to convince Prance that security for ' her lies not in superior armaments, but in an accord with Germany. Premier Herriot, it is said, is convinced of the wisdom of such policy, but he must reckon, first, with the French general staff and* second, with French public opinion, now genuinely alarmed over the menacing turn taken by German > nationalism, i

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INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, OCT. 21, 1932

Dr. Charles Norris, photographed at his desk in Municipal building.

short, the detective of detectives. But try to get him to talk about that. It goes something like this: “None of that detective stuff, old man. Christopher Colombo! Go easy on that!” "But look, Doc” "I picked up a paper the other day and read that I w'as soaked in crime. I’ve been soaked in a lot of things, old man, but not in crime.” , "But, Doc, you’ve performed 25,000 autopsies . . .” B B tt “TF you w'ant detective stuff, go to the homicide squad. Those fellows have done the most beautiful work done anywhere in the world. Steve Donahue, Tom Martin, Chubby Tralnor, and the rest of them. Good observers, old man. Julius Colombo! You can’t beat those fellows!” "I know, chief, but you can tell the scientific side of . . .” “There's an awful lot of bull w'ritten about scientific detective work. An awful lot of hokum, old man.” "And you can tell the truth, Doc.” “Now' look, old man. Christopher Colombo! You can't make an old son of a seacook like me into a detective. You can’t make a fatbellied doctor into a sleuth." So, It took a lot of talking to make him talk. “Well,” he grumbled, and he has a very good grumble, indeed. “If there is any case I have a right to be proud of it’s the Troy case. I

Debutante Frocks at 15 Cents Start Riot at Junior League Shop. By United Press CHICAGO, Oct. 21.—Eight hundred women fought twenty policemen in their battle to obtain debutantes’ castoff frocks at 15 cents and up. The women broke a plate-glass window in the Junior League's §tore on Michigan boulevard, fought among themselves, once they got inside, tore dresses in small pieces, and struggled so fiercely for bargains that one of the sisters fainted. When she was revived by police, she insisted upon joining the fray. Mrs. Catherine Patrick lost her purse containing sls. The Junior League girls took up a collection to buy her several frocks. When the counters had been swept clean, the women had left, and the perspiring police had returned to their regular jobs, the empty purse *was found on the floor. The customers began lining up in front of the store at 5:30 a. m.. but at 8:30. when the store was opened, there was such a crush that police responded to riot call. Business proceeded at such a pace that by noon there was no merchandise left, not even an unmated shoe.

The fate of disarmament is seen here as hinging upon the decision of France. Unless Germany can be included in a general disarmament treaty, along with France and the rest of the world, it is feared Germany will take matters into her own hands. • The American thesis is that while France is relatively secure from invasion for the time being, time and nature run against her She has a population of 40.000.000 and is almost at a standstill because of a balarfbed birth and death rate. Germany has 65,000,000 populate

think, myself, old man, I did good work in that one." The Troy case. That takes you back through the files to May 4, 1919, w'hen Mrs. Bessie Troy. 21, was found in a huddled sidew'alk heap under her window' at 1455 Amsterdam avenue. Mrs. Bessie Troy had been a bellhop at the Pennsylvania hotel. A bare ten lines told the story at first in the papers. A milkman found the body at 2 a. m. He summoned Policeman Bart Wilson, hysterically. While the policeman gingerly Was prodding the body, Michael Troy put his head out of a fifth floor window. Mike was Bessie’s husband. "Hey, w'hat’s w'rong,” quavered Mike. "Plenty w'rong." answered the policeman. “A woman. Looks like she’s dead.” tt B B B/iTKE came down in his pa- -*•"■“• jamas. He stood there aw'kw'ardly. with the wind whipping up his legs,, mumbling, "It’s my w'ife." He said she had been beside him in bed. He got up to get a drink of water. When he groped back to the bed she w’as gone. Dr. George Hohmann, assistant medical examiner, came and examined the body there on the sidew'alk, said.it was suicide. “Dear old George,” parenthecized Chief Norris. “The slickest, nicest kid I ever met. He was a wizard, old man. He knew' it w'as suicide just looking at the body. "Christopher Colombo! there

AUTO CRASH IS FATAL Second Traffic Fatality in 24 Hours Here. Second traffic, fatality within twenty-four hours was recorded early today when A. C. Hendricks, 40, Negro, 1160 North Sheffield avenue, w'as killed instantly w'hen the ——— auto he was driving n overturned following collision w'ith another at Twenty-fifth street and Boulevard place. _______ His death raised the toll for the year in Marion county to seventy-one. Hendricks’ car struck another driven by Martin Violet, 21, Negro, of 2741 Columbia avenue, who is in a serious condition at city hospital. Hendricks was pinned beneath wreckage of the car, ow'ned by Mrs. Sadie William, Negro, 2520 Paris avenue, where Hendricks was going when the accident occurred. He w'as dead w'hen reached by rescuers. First fatality Thursday was that of William Small, 48, Negro, of 3819 College avenue, v/ho died at city hospital of injuries received in an auto crash Sunday at Fortysecond street and the Monon railroad. Retires After 30 Years on Job Retirement of Sol B. Prater. 966 North Gray street, from the sales staff of the International Harvester Company after thirty years service, was announced today. During his long service he never missed a day due to illness.

tion and is growing fast. Her birth rate is high. Germany, moreover, possesses one of the finest industrial equipments in the w'orld. She has a genius for organization, invention, and mass production. Now, is the time, therefore, to bind her with the rest of the world to keep her arms down to an agreed scale. If this opportunity is missed, she again may startle mankind with a war- machine such as never w-as seen before, Broadly speaking, it is observed, the arms conference now is attempting to do two things; One,

was no one like dear old George. He died of overwork, trying to make ends meet. Thank God. he didn't have any children.” It w'as a slick story, an insignificant suicide. Looking back at it from this distance, there are incidentals that become important. Michael Troy had been an inspector in a New Jersey munitions plant. After the war he had become a golf caddy in Van Cortlandt park. That w'as the caliber of a man who judged in wartime whether shells were fit to be shipped to the army in France. But no one was interested in that in 1919. The story got ten lines. Bessie Troy was embalmed and ready for burial before those ten lines grew'. They grew when her father. Sanford Cook of Ridgefield, N. J., complained to District Attorney Edward Sw'ann that New York police were trying to cover up what he, the lather, believed to be murder. The district attorney ordered his medical assistant, Dr Otto H. Schuitze, to perform an autopsy. B tt tt NOW Dr. Schultze and Dr. Norris, both brilliant pathologists. w'ere the two men chiefly responsible behind the scenes for wiping out the old coroner system arid inaugurating the medical examiner’s office the year before. The offices of medical examiner and medical assistant to the district attorney had come into being, as it were, simultaneously. There w'as a bit of rivalry.

Farmers Given Leniency, Claim of Federal Banks

‘Shylock’ Charges Made by Borah Are Denied by U,. S. Officials. By Scripps-Howard Xefcspaper AUianct WASHINGTON, uct. 21.—Senator William E. . Borah’s charges that federal banking agencies are pursuing a “Shylock” course on farmers’ mortgages were met today by statements of the joint stock land bank at Lincoln. Neb., and the federal farm loan board that they were showing the utmost, leniency under existing circumstances. Since Borah pointed out in the Scripps-Howard newspapers that government and government-super-vised agencies were foreclosing on the farmer right and left. President Hoover and his subordinates have taken action to improve this situation and placarte the farmers of normally Republican western states. Moratorium programs have been discussed, and the policy of immediate collection of seed loans has been replaced by one of temporary delay. The new statements emphasize that the farmer's main hope for holding his farm is a "fair price for his products,” and that little can be done for him by government agencies, because they must pay interest on their bonds.

to reduce and limit armies and navies, and. two, ban certain type weapons. That is to say. it hopes to limit arms, both quantitatively and qualitatively. It is vaguely veering in the direction of the Hoover proposal to cut all arms one-third, on the one hand, and to ban 1 y Janks, superhcwitzers ant guns, long-range bombing planes, and other so-called •offensive” weapons on the other. A Franco-Gsrman understanding still is regarded as a distinct possibility, if both countries can be brought to take the long view' of things, •* m

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KnttrH aa Swood-Olaaa Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis

“Dr. Schultze. telephoned me that day,” re6ounted Dr. Norris, 'and told me he was going to perform an autopsy. He asked me If I cared to be present. I said. ‘No. I am busy today.' ” “You felt pretty sure of Dr. Hohmann's findings?” “I did," replied Chief Norris. "He was a ''riiliant fellow, poor boy." Dr. Schultze performed the autopsy and asserted the woman had been strangled and thrown from the window. Detectives reinvestigated the Amsterdam avenue flat and found blood stains on a pillow. Michael Troy was charged with murder. He was well on his way to the electric chair. Mike's father was a gardener for an influential Westchester family, and through that connection got good attorneys, Charles A. Perkins and Arthur C Train. They sought Chief Norris. “Doctor, you claim this was a case of suicide?” “I do. old man.” "But they claim it is murder." “I* can’t help that, old man." b tt b THE attorneys urged Chief Norris to make a second autopsy. He declined, but suggested that they obtain his friend. Dr. George B. Magrath. the Boston medical examiner, as picturesque a figure as Dr. Norris himself. So on the night of May 23, the body of Mrs. Bessie Troy was exhumed secretly from a cemetery at Ridgefield. Dr. Magrath, wearing his inevitable black artist's tie, bent to the job. Dr. Norris, smoking his inevitable black cigar, stood at his elbow witnessing. "Magrath did as beautiful a piece of work as I've ever seen, old man. "Christopher Colombo! It was wonderful. There was a beautiful blood aspiration in the lungs. That proved that she was alive and breathing when she hit the sidewalk.” The upshot was that Dr. Schultze was accused in court of having performed a "careless and hasty” autopsy. Michael Troy went free. "There," grumbled Doc Norris, “that shows you how things can happen, old man.” "Yes, a strange case, Doc. But how in the world were you so sure all the time that Dr. Hohmann was right?” “Well, old man, the woman weighed about 145 pounds. The husband weighed only about 125. "I knew a little fellow like that couldn’t choke such a large woman and then carry her all the way from the back room to the front room and throw her out the window." B tt B "’VFOU did do a little detective X work, then." “Well, a little bit, old man. If he were going to kill his wife, why wouldn’t he drop her down the dark back window into the airshaft? Why would he carry her all the w'ay to the front and throw' her out of a lighted window?” "But what about, those blood stains on the pillow'?" "He had bleeding teeth, old man. He could spit blood any time. During the trial he spat blood all over the courtroom. It was wonderful. Every time Arthur Train would point to him he would spit some more blood.” Next—Dr. Norris discusses the Elwrtl case with Earl Sparling.

Sol Spattered Kindly Mr. Bloom Breaks Egg in His Hand With His Autograph.

By Bcripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance TTtTASHINGTON, Oct. 21.—Rep- ~ * resentative Sol Bloom of New' York, energetic sponsor of all things pertaining to the George Washington bicentennial arose early to watch 5.733 pigeons flutter above the Washington monument. The pigeons were released as a feature of the Bicentennial Futurity <a big pigeon race). As the birds flapped aloft with a great “br-rr-r-rr” of w’ings, someone made a discovery. One of the pigeons had laid two eggs in its cage before flying away. “Will you autograph an egg for me, Mr. Bloom?” asked a quickwitted bystander. Sol donned his prince-nez, withdrew his fountain pen. smilingly wrote “Sol Bloom” on the egg. "Oh, please autograph the other one, too,” begged another spectator. Obligingly, Sol took the second egg. wrote his name on it, started to hand it back. He must have squeezed it just a bit too hard. Crack! The shell crumpled in Sol s fingers, and his white buckskin gloves were inundated with the contents. "Ha! Ha!” laughed onlookers. “The joke’s on me,” said Representative Bloom good naturedly, and—like a true sportsman—he laughed also. GLASS FIRMS MERGED Root Company of Terre Haute and Owens Interests are Combined. Bp tnited Pretn TERRE HAUTE. Ind., Oct. 21. Merger of the Root Glass Company of Terre Haute with the Owens Illinois Glass Company was announced here. The Root company will continue to operate here in the same capacity. The Owens Compary has headquarters in Toledo. mt

U. S. TREASURY DEFICIT MAY REACH BILLION Excises Are Yielding for Less Than Estimated by Experts. MILLS MAKES DEFENSE Calls Roosevelt's Charges Fantastic: Total May Go Higher. BY MARSHALL M’NEIL Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.—A paper deficit of a billion dollars and an operating deficit ,of $500,000,000 probably will confront the United States treasury at the end of this | fiscal year June 30. The deficits may exceed these amounts if congress, in the short. December session, ;s compelled bv the depression to pass further measures for relief of unemployment. business and agriculture. This is the conservative conclui sion reached by tax experts after | a study of new' treasury figures made available today by the United | States bureau of internal revenue, i These figures show that the new j excise taxes are yielding more than | in the first months of their op- ! eration. But they also show that on the | basis of the August payments, made ; in September, and detailed today by ; the revenue bureau, receipts from ! these excises are running about ! $200,000,000 behind annual esti- | mates. Answers Roosevelt Charge* At the treasury no comment was j made on these estimates of deficits. But Treasury Secretary Ogden Mills, just back from the grand political tour for the Hoover administration, issued a lpngth.v statement in an effort to refute the charges made by Roosevelt at | Pittsburgh Wednesday night. Mills called the Democratic can- ! didate's figures on federal finance I "fantastic." The estimate of the impending j deficits is bolstered by the fact that | the last daily treasury statement I shows an operating deficit of more than $500,000,000. It takes into consideration debt service charges, extraordinary appropriations made at the last session of congress; but does not include any estimate cf a possible reduction in yield from the new and high income taxes These will not become due until next March; and while it is evident that national income this year—on which these taxes will be paid —has not risen, but fallen, the approximate effect of the drastic provisions of the new law which abolish the earned income credit, and change, administrative features, is unpredictable now'. May Be Billion L. H. Parker, chief of staff of the joint congressional committee on international revenue taxation, and one of the recognized tax experts in official Washington, holds the opinion that the treasury's paper deficit may be about a billion, and its operating deficit half that sum when I this fiscal year ends next June 30. j The new and preliminary figures | indicate. Parker thinks, that the j treasury’s revenue from new excise j taxes are about $200,000,000 a year under the estimate, in addition, he points out that in the balancing ! of the budget the $322,000,000 : emergency relief measures were not ; taken into account, so that w r e may ! have an operating deficit of around j $500,000,000. The sinking fund requirement is | nearly $500,000,000, so that there ; may be a paper deficit of nearly ; 5i.000,000.000. It appears from the internal revenue figures today that the new and higher taxes on stock and bond transfers and on conveyances will ; yield more than the treasury estimated last June, when the tax bill passed, and that the new tax on safety deposit boxes will produce more money than expected. Levies to Yield Less But most of the other excises, on the basis of annual yield, probably will produce less than was forecast. But these new statistics also show that in August—the payments were in large part made in September on transactions of the prior month—mast of the excises yielded more than in the previous thirty days. The stock and bond transfers and Conveyances taxes went up more than 50 per cent, reflecting renewed activity in Wall Street. The tax on futures deliveries increased over the previous month The gasoline tax was up almost $8,000,000: taxes on tires and tubes and mechanical refrigerators showed decreases, and some of the other increases were small. COUNTY GROUP WILL MAP RELIEF BUILDING Money for Projects to be Borrowed From R. F. C. A county organization to launch self-liquidating building a*_d improvement projects was to be formed today by business and labor representatives at the Y. W. C. A. A . H. Worsham, Eleventh and Twelfth district organizations secretory, will have charge of the meeting. The county group is expected to co-operate in the state*wide movement, as part of Governor Harry G. Leslie's unemployment relief work. Funds to finance projects will be borrowed from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Fireman Injured in Slide Sliding too rapidly down a pole in response to a fire alarm. Haney Davis. 36, of 1524 Sheldon street, city fireman stationed at Engine House 7, 301 East New York street, incurred severe leg Injuries when he dropped on the cement floor. He was asleep when the alarm sounded. He is in city hospital.