Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 256, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 March 1935 — Page 1

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ALL U. S. IS GRIEVED BY DEATH OF GREAT JURIST, OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

Nation Has Lost One of ‘First Citizens,’ Says President Roosevelt; Supreme Court, Shaken by Passing, Recesses. FUNERAL ON 94TH BIRTHDAY FRIDAY Beloved Scholar Quits Life With Impish Gesture, Typically American; Thumbs His Nose at Felix Frankfurter. 'Details of Justice Holmes' Life on Pape Thyre) By United |Vr,* WASHINGTON, March 6. President Roosevelt, the Supreme Court ar.d Congress this afternoon joined with the nation in mourning the passing of Oliver Wendell Holmes. The former Supreme Court justice died peacefully at 2:15 a. m. today, a victim of pneumonia just two days short of his 94th year. President Roosevelt said America has lost “one of its first citizens.” He will attend the funeral services Friday a hen Justice Holmes, a veteran of the Civil War, will be buried with military honors at Arlington Cemetery on the dav that would have marked his birthday.

The Supreme Court sorrowfully recessed its session today in tribute to its former colleague, characterized by Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes as “a great jurist and a noble friend.” The court will adjourn Friday lor (he services, at which members will serve as honorary pallbearers. Congress rang with tributes to the great liberal justice whose dissenting opinions in 29 years of service on the high court bench were unique in American judicial history. Rrandei* Deeply Distressed Senator David I. Walsh <D.>, from .lustier Holmes' home state of Massachusetts. led the eulogy in the Senate. Justice Holmes.’ he said, “mas a veritable soldier all the years of his lile, always lighting for justice and truth.” Among Supreme Court members keenest sense of loss was felt. All had been his close friends and admirers. even those who disagreed with his philosophy. Justice Louis D. Branrieis. who with Mr. Holmes, made the phrase -Holmes and Brandeis dissent” almost a by-word of the court, was visibly shaken. Himself in his late seventies. Justice Brandeis was perhaps Justice Holmes’ closest friend of late years. Justice Brandeis was pale and distressed. He looked neither to the right nor left. Fellow members comforted him with a murmured phrase or a silent handclasp. Tribute raid by Prttingill In the House. Rep. Samuel B Pettingill iD. Ind. paid tribute to the justice. "It is my belief.” he said, "that if his dissents of 10.20 or 30 years ago had been accepted as the true guide posts to our development, much of the trouble of today would have been spared us.” '."he President said: "Oliver Wendell Holmes, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, retired, has left us. "The nation has lost one of its first citizens. ••We can not minimize the grief of his passing, but we can find solace in the thought that he was with us for so long. His mas a life of rare distinction; soldier, scholar, author, leacher. jurist and gallant gentleman. h$ personified throughout his long career the finest American traditions.” Fine Perspective. Sa Roosevelt "Endowed with a keen and piercing intellect mhich mas mellowed by kindly humor and understanding," said Mr. Roosevelt, "he had a pomerful and beneficent influence upon the nation. Imbued with a high sense of msttce and right he believed in the peaceful evolution of the new from the old. He had a fine perspective of history as a continuous and living thing and with courage and logic believed in the shaping of government to changing conditions. "The people of America mount the death of the venerable and beloved Justice. "Mrs. Roosevelt and I have had the high privilege of his friendship for many years. Our sorrow xn his passing is great.” End Is Peaceful Death came to the justice after a brace but futile battle against the great enemy of the aged, pneumonia. From the start there appeared little hope h* gallant but feeble bo<K could withstand the onslaught of the disease. Yet for a meek he carried on the fight with courage. The end was peaceful. A little knot of reporters had waned outside the old-fash-mned brick house, three blocks from the White House, for news of the death which physicians conceded mas inevitable. Justice Holmes lav m a roomy. Victorian bedroom on the second floor. A handful of people maintained vigil. -The Justice Is Dead” They were Edward Holmes, the hist ice'a nephew and closest relation: ha wife. Prof. Felix Frankfurter, one of Justice Holmes' closest friends, and his associate in phllwophy: Mark Home, a former i Turn to Page Three)

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FEENEY ORDERS ESCAPE PROBE Blames Capt. Leach for Failure to Handcuff Fraud Suspect. A “thorough investigation” of the j escape of a prisoner from a state policeman was started today by A1 G. Feeney, state safety director. The prisoner. Mike Bisesi, escaped from State Patrolman Oscar Burkett late yestefday in a downtown office building Director Feeney blamed Capt. Matt Leach, who assured Burkett it would not be necessary to shackle the prisoner. Bisesi was arrested here by city detectives yesterday on a fugitive warrant from Crawford County. He is wanted at English on a fraud charge. City authorities turned the fugitive over to Capt. Leacn to be returned to Crawford County. Burkett said he was given custody of Bisesi late yesterday with orders from Capt. Leach to take the prisoner to see his brother, an Indianapolis commission merchant, before starting for English. The brother was expected to make arrangements for providing bond immediately. The patrolman quoted Leach as saying that Bisesi was "an upright citizen.” would cause no Trouble and that handcuffs would not be necessary. In blaming Capt. Leach for the escape Director Feeney said the officer had ordered his patrolman not : to shackle the prisoner in direct violation of a department rule. GIRL CLAIMS ATTACK BY CONVICT CAPTOR Alleged Kidnaper Returned to South Bend. I By United Press SOUTH BEND. Ind., March 6 Miss Dorothy Emmons, 17-year-old high school girl reported kidnaped yesterday, told police today that she was criminally attacked bv her alj leged abductor. Russell Knickclbem. 23. alias Allen, a former Michigan convict. Kmckelbein was captured in Dowagiac. Mich., this morning, waived extradition and was brought back j to South Bend, where local officials indicated he would be charged with criminal assault rather than kidnaping. Miss Emmons was returned to her home by Kmckelbein last night after spending the day driving around m his car through northern Indiana. She insisted that she accompanied him against her will, but admitted to police that she made no effort to escape. Boston Lawyer-Banker Dead BOSTON, March 6.—Frederic E. Snow, 71. prominent Boston lawyer and a director and trustee of many banks and corporations, died last ; night. DOUBLE SHYING BARED BY HOOSIER'S SUICIDE Wife and Son Found Hacked to Death in Humble Home. By United Press ROCHESTER. Ind., March 6 Mrs. Mary Clark. 47, and her son. Alonzo Singer, 23, were found hacked to death by an ax believed to have been wielded by the former's husband, in their oneroom farm home near here late vest er dav. The double tragedy was discovered by neighbors and Fulton County officials when they went to ; the Clark home to inform Mrs. Clark that her husband. Charles Clark. 68. had committed suicide by swallowing poison at the home of J a daughter. Mable Burton. Kokomo. ‘ yesterday morning.

Rain tonight, possibly turning to snow by tomorrow morning; colder with temperatures about freezing by tomorrow morning.

BIG ARTILLERY BOOMS IN WAR ON HUEY LONG Open Warfare, Sizzling and Personal, Declared by New Deal. BY THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, March 6.—Opening warfare, sizzling and personal, was on today between the Administration and Senator Huey Lc u * upon orders of President Roosevelt. It will crackle and rage from now until 1936, when the Louisiana “Kingfish” threatens to become a factor in the presidential election. Senate Democratic leaders, obviously at a White House signal, finally picked up the noisy challenge which Huey has tossed about for weeks, attacking President Roosevelt at will and seeking to rally radical forces against his program. The opening salvo fired by the bulky majoritv leader, Joseph T. Robinson, yestirday in a spectacular and tense session when he called his colleague a "madman,” seemed to forecast that the first move would be to prevent the investigation of Postmaster General Farley which Long is seeking. Long Refuses Request The Postoffice Committee, whose request for the names of his witneses Long has thus far ignored, was scheduled to make its decision today, and indications pointed to a vote against an inquiry. The Administration, somewhat confused for a few days, has closed its ranks about Mr. Farley and appears prepared to fight Long's drive on this front and on all others. The silent treatment came to an end abruptly and dramatically when Senator Robinson rose in his place after another attack by Long and delivered a speech that for personal bitterness has seldom been equaled in the Senate. He said Long was ignorant, egotistical and arrogant, and he called upon the Senate to assert its “manhood.” This provoked Long to reply. and all business was shunted aside as Senators and packed galleries feasted on a debate that reached personal depths very unusual to the Senate. Johnson Stirs Kingfish For the show the galleries had an outsider, a former Administration official, to thank. It was Gen. Hugh Johnson's biting speech against Mr. Long and Father Coughlin that provoked the Louisiana Senator. But it was the President himself, according to authoritative sources, who gave the word to turn the guns on Huey. The final straw for Mr. Roosevelt's patience was the Senator’s story that Mr. Farley had resigned and that Gov. Gen. Frank Murphy of the Philippines was to succeed him. There followed the rapid sequence of events which culminated in the tongue-lashing by Senator Robinson. First was Mr. Farley’s denial of all the Long charges. A few hours later followed the speech of Gen. Johnson which was read gleefully and avidly by Administration leaders. The general had provided the punch which others could not supply. L-ong, in his reply, centered his attack on Bernard M. Baruch, the general’s former boss, without attempting to answer Mr. Johnson's stinging phrases. Senator Robinson’s speech, which made Senators and galleryites catch their breath at times, had a unifying effect. First to shake his hand was Vice President John Vance Gamer, who is advising in the antiHuev campaign. Other Democratic Senators hurried to the front to clasp their leader's hand.

TODAY'S WEATHER

Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 45 10 a. m 52 7a. m 44 11 a. m 53 Ba. m 46 12 (noon).. 55 9 a. m 50 1 p. m 54 Tomorrow's sunrise, 6:09 a. m.; sunset, 5:43 p. m. GOVERNMENT PLANES BOMB GREEK REBELS General Attack Expected to Start Soon. By United Press ATHENS, March 6.—Thirty governmental airplanes attacked the rebel naval barracks at Cavalla today with bombs and machine guns. Inhabitants hid themselve? in terror. The extent of the casualties was not revealed. Airplanes also attacked the rebel armies in the field pending a general attack which was expected to start momentarily.

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ANSWERS DEATH'S CALL—BUT HIS SPIRIT LIVES ON

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Storm Hits Northwest , Leaves Chaos in Wake Damage Exceeds $1,000,000, Is Estimate Following Devastating Sleet Storm and Gale. By United Pre** ST. PAUL, March 6—Duluth. Minn., and Superior, Wis.. twin communities of the head of the Great Lakes. w r ere cities of chaos today, 36 hours after a devastating sleet storm and gale swept the Northwest.

SENATE MAY REVIEW MERIT BILL ACTION Members Learn Administration Not Opposed. Efforts will be made tomorrow to reconsider the Statehouse merit personnel bill, which was killed so summarily yesterday in the Indiana Senate. The measure, which establishes a personnel bureau of three members in the state executive department, met. death on a voice vote when the word was passed around that it was opposed by the administration. Gov. Paul V. McNutt said today, however, that such was not the case and administration leaders in the Senate immediately prepared a motion for reconsideration. WOMAN HURT BADLY IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENT Struck by Auto, Mrs. Anna Maney in Critical Condition. Mrs. Anna Maney, 67, of 810 N. Oxford-st, is in a serious condition at St. Vincent's Hospital as the result of injuries suffered last night when she stepped into the path of an auto driven by Gale Duckwall, 26, Noblesville, at Rural and North-sts. FIREBUG IS SENTENCED Youth Who Fired School Goes to Plainfield Institution. Edward Carter, 16, of 1720 N. Gladstone-av, who set fire to Public School 62. Jan. 26. was sentenced to the Indiana Boys' School at Plainfield until he becomes of age by Municipal Judge Charles J. Karabell today. The fire caused a loss of S2BOO at the school, which is located at 4715 E. lOth-st. Times Index Page Auto News 4 Bridge . Broun ...* 9 Comics 15 Crossword Puzzle 15 Curious World 15 Editorial 10 Financial 11 Hickman —Theaters 13 Junior Aviation 16 Napoleon's Letters 9 Pegler 9 Radio 5 Shooting School 5 Sports 12-13 Woman's Pages 6- 7 SUM ASKED BY RAY FOR CARS IS PARED Council Points to Appropriation Left by Summer Regime. The Marion County Council today cut Sheriff Otto Ray’s request for S4OOO for new autos to S3OOO and pointed out that Sheriff Ray had available an additional S3OOO appropriated for cars but not used by former Sheriff Charles (Buck) Sumner. Albert O. Deluse. council president. appointed William A. Brown, David H. Badger and George Kincaid as a committee to examine the Marion County jail for proposed repairs. The council also granted Sheriff Ray slso for handcuffs and badges. The sheriff yesterday requested an increase in the appropriations for his office.

Travelers trickling out of the stricken cities in creeping trains, and the feeble crackling of emergency radio hookups revealed a confusion of transportation and communication seldom equalled in modem metropolitan districts. Sleet that snapped copper cables like string and sheathed streets in inch-thick ice paralyzed utilities serving 150,000 persons. There were no electric lights, no street cars, no schools. Coal companies were swamped by orders they could not deliver. Many persons chopped up telephone poles toppled across streets by the weight of ice and used them for fuel. The storm abated last night, but wire communications companies said it might be 48 hours more before they restored service, and four days before they reach normalcy. Damage in the sister cities and the rest of the stricken district of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan was estimated at close to $1,000,000. The storm extended across Wisconsin into the iron country of Michigan and south to Rhinelander and Carlton. Conditions to the west, in Minnesota and North Dakota, were as bad, but absence of large cities made them less spectacular. Only one telegraph wire linked Fargo and Bismarck with Minneapolis today. An amateur radio operator in Duluth told another amateur in St. Paul that "every tree and pole looks like it had been dipped in molten glass. "Streets are littered with debris. Thousands of trees and telephone poles are down. Every power line is a tangled snarl. Nearly every other radio antenna in the city is down. Those still up do not have power to operate.” Railroads poured crews of workmen into the region by the trainload. Train crews arriving here hours late told of panicky hours of creeping progress over tracks where block signals did not work and where debris littered the roadbed. BABY BONDS POPULAR: CITY QUOTA EXHAUSTED Additional Supply Is Ordered by Seidensticker. So popular has been the sale of “baby bonds” since they were offered to the public at the post office Friday that Adolph Seidensticker announced today he had wired the Treasury Department ir. Washington for an additional supply. Issues of SIOO and SSOO have been sold out, Mr. Seidensticker said, and only a few of the $25 and SSO bonds remain on hand. At the close of business last night, local sales of the securities totaled $41,850, maturity value.

UPSIDE-DOWN GIRL SLIGHTLY IMPROVED Doctors Report Gain After ‘Miracle Operation/ By United Pret* FALL RIVER, Mass., March 6. Little Alyce Jane McHenry smiled again today as she gained fresh ground in her uphill battle toward recovery from a ' miracle operation” in which her upside-down stomach was righted. The 10:30 a. m. bulletin from her “rose room” on the second floor of Truesdale Hospital read: “Alyce slightly improved. Temperature 100.2, pulse 128, respiration 24.”

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REVALUATION OF DEBTS STILL NEEDED IN U. S, IS ROOSEVELTS VIEW

FIGHT DIE AS SENATE MS LIQUOR STUDY Committee Promises Close Scrutiny of Bill’s Provisions, The state administration's liquor control bill, approved Monday by the House of Representatives after a fierce battle, this afternoon faced another bitter attack in the Indiana Senate. Possibility of considerable revision of the measure by the Senate was revealed by Senator Walter S. Chambers (D. Newcastle), member of the public policy committee which is studying the bill. The committee this afternoon wjll hold a closed meeting at which proposed amendments will be discussed. Meanwhile the Senate recessed until 10 tomorrow when the committee report probably will be ready. Tooth-Combed, He Says "We have a fine group of attorneys in this Senate and they have been devoting a lot of study to the bill,” said Senator Chambers. "We are going over it with a finetooth comb. One point that the committee noticed at the public hearing last night was that there were few constructive suggestions. Almost without exceptions the persons who appeared were activated by selfish interests,” the Senator declared. The Senate approved Weiss bill, which would have allowed only attorneys to appear before boards and commissions was killed in the House by indefinite postponement. Reps. Carl Woodard (D., Michigan City) and Joseph A, Andrew (R., Lafayette) called the bill “vicious.” Wage Bill Advanced The House advanced a bill to require payment of prevailing wages on public works contracts. Rep. Justin Roberts (Rep., Noblesville) urged indefinite postponement. He said approval of the bill would amount to a repudiation of the policies of the Roosevelt Administration. The “prevailing wage” dispute in Congress, however, relates only td wages paid on work relief projects. Both houses recalled, for minor corrections, the Dyer State-NRA bill which has been on Gov. McNutt's desk for signature. The Senate dealt a death-blow to the Webb bill which would have repealed the 1933 law giving Marion County one-half the revenue collected for motor licenses. Approve Legal Bill With only one dissenting vote the House approved a bill to allow judges and county prosecutors to comment on a defendant's failure to testify in his own behalf in criminal cases. The triple license system and the proposed excise taxes were attacked by representatives of the hard liquor and beer wholesalers alliance, at last night's Senate hearing on the liquor control bill. L. E. York, Indiana Anti-Saloon League superintendent, asked an amendment prohibiting retail outlets within 300 feet of a church or school. The local boards may decide this question under the present draft. Senator Jessf E. Wade (D., Mt. Vernon), strenuously objected to the sale of hard liquor by the drink. Bootlegging Is Cited "We have been talking about dollars and cents and have failed to consider the souls of the people or the corruption of our youth,” he declared. Senator William B. Janes (D., New Albany), in reply to Senator Wade, charged the older generation with responsibility for prohibition evils. The bootlegger is the one who ruined the younger generation,” he said. "It is better to have a drink at the bar than a drink from a flask in a parked automobile. My generation has suffered from the damnable laws that tried to legislate our morals,” Senator Janes added. COUGHLIN TO ANSWER ATTACK BY JOHNSON Priest to Speak Over NBC Network at 9:15 Monday Night. By United Press WASHINGTON, March 6.—Father Charles E. Coughlin will answer Gen. Hugh S. Johnson’s radio attack in a radio address Monday night, the United Press learned today. The address will be delivered over the Blue network of the National Broadcasting Cos. from 9:15 to 9:45 p. m. (Central Standard time) from Detroit. It was understood the priest asked time from NBC on the ground that the broadcasting company was duty bound to allow him the same opportunity for reply which it allowed Gen. Johnson for attack. , NBC

Further Devaluation of Dollar to Reach Goal Is Denied by Chief Executive After Press Parley. PROGRESS MADE, PRESIDENT SAYS Raising- of Prices, Reduction in Number of Obligations to Continue, White House Declares. By United Pre .l* WASHINGTON, March 6. President Roosevelt feels there should be further adjustment between the dollar and the nation’s debt structure, but suggestions that he contemplates further devaluation are absolutely unfounded, the White House said today. After Mr. Roosevelt had discussed the economic situation at a press conference, a White House attache declared that any inferences that he contemplates further devaluation were absolutely untrue. Any reports that such a step was planned or indicated were made out of whole cloth, it was asserted.

HEIRESS' DEATH STILL MYSTERY Conflicting Stories Told to Probers; Denies Bride •Got Tight/ By United Pre** PINEHURST, N. C.. March 6.—A coroner’s jury inquiring into the death of Mrs. H. Bradley Davidson was informed today that the Statler heiress announced at a party shortly before her death that she was “going to get tight”—but didn’t. The testimony of Bernard Freeman, Pinehurst publicity man, climaxed the morning session of the inquest which had produced a maze of conflicting testimony concerning whether Mrs. Davidson u'as melancholy, had wept or had said “Nobody loves me,” shortly before her body was found on the running board of an automobile in her garage. The 22-year-old heiress, a bride of two months, did not become intoxicated, Freeman added. He was sitting at the same table with her in Montesanti’s spaghetti roadhouse, he said, and she had a drink on the table in front of her, but did not take all of it. Freeman said Mrs. Davidson did not weep. NEGRO CULT STARTS JAIL HUNGER STRIKE 20 Men, 22 Women Protest Arrest After Fatal Riot. By United Press CHICAGO, March 6.—Forty-two defiant members of a fantastic. Negro cult that caused one death, and injury to 41 persons in a riot in Municipal Court yesterday entered a* hunger strike today in protest against imprisonment. Police forcibly took a baby from the arms of a mother who refused to nurse it “until all men are free and equal.” The 20 men and 22 women were charged today only with contempt of court, but faced possible charges of manslaughter or murder. A post-mortem examination of the body of Capt. Joseph Palcyznski revealed that the veteran died of heart disease aggravated by excitement and trampling. A complete report of the autopsy would determine further charges against the cultists. MELOY HOLDING POST AS DEMOCRATS FIGHT A .. ... U. S. Marshal Awaits Seection of Successor for Office. Affable Alf Meloy, United States marshal, is grinning. Ten days ago his term as marshal expired, but because Democratic leaders are still quarreling over his successor, Mr. Meloy, a stanch member of the Republican Old Guard, remains in office. Marshal Meloy rps appointed by former Senator Arthur R. Robinson and has served two terms. He balked the Democrats two years ago when he refused to resign and turn over his position to Omer S. Jackson, now Democratic state chairman. SANITARY AND WORKS BOARD MERGER PASSES House Sends Measure to McNutt for His Signature. Merger of the Indianapolis city sanitary board with the board of public works was culminated yesterday by the Legislature when the House of Representatives concurred in a minor Senate amendment to 1 the bill and it was sent to Gov. Paul V. McNutt for signature. The measure will mean a saving of aproximately $43,000 yearly and will, in combining two boards, increase the new board of works and sanitation to four members. In the past the board of works and the sanitary board have each had three members.

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The White House position was made clear as a result of apparent misinterpretation in some quarters of the President’s observation that ha felt the dollar and the debt burden were not yet fully adjusted. The White House attache said nothing that Mr. Roosevelt said could be construed as containing the slightest suggestion of any intention to further devalue the dollar. Mr. Roosevelt expressed belief that the debt burden has been relieved normously, but that the debt column of the national balance sheet is still much too high. As the President has explained previously, the Administration ha.:' been seeking to readjust the national economic situation in two ways—by reducing the great volume of debts themselves and by raising prices so that it is easier for debtors to pay their obligations. Goal Not Announced As to how much further he believes this process should go. particularly with respect to prices, ..*r. Roosevelt gave no indication. Prices of foods have been rising sharply, due in great part to the AAA program and the drought, but \ in other lines the changes have not been as great. The dollar now stands at 59.08 cents of its former gold value. Mr. Roosevelt retains congressional authority to make further adjustments only between the range of 50 and 60 cents. That margin, according to all present indications, he will retain for "trading purposes” m'hen and If the time comes to consider monetary stabilization agreements with other nations. Gold Weight to Stand The President’s remarks were interpreted in some quarters as indicating a desire on the part of the Administration to promote further increases in domestic price levels without interfering with the present gold weight of the dollar. Devaluation of the dollar on Feb. 1, 1934, to 59.06 per cent of its former gold content has been disappointing to some as a stimulant to domestic prices. From the extreme low r of 60.2 in March, 1933, the commodity price index of the Bureau of Labor Statistics had risen to 79.6 per cent on March 2,*1935. The index level is based on the average 1926 level as 100. It has been understood that tha Administration was desirous of promoting domestic prices to som? level around the 1926 average, although officials never have set any definite goal. TOKIO DISCOUNTS NEED OF LOAN BY CHINESE “God Helps Those Helping Themselves,” Reminds Spokesman. By United P'rex TOKIO, March 6.—Remarking that “God helps those helping themselves,” Eiji Arr.au, spokesman for the Japanese Foreign Office, said today that it appears to him that China neither wants nor needs international financial assistance such as Great Britain is sponsoring. “Judging by all reports available concerning the Chinese economic situation, China doesn’t need a loan greatly,” Amau said. "I believe that the world-wide opinion is that China must solve its own economic problem. “You have a phrase for it—namely that God helps those helping themselves.” INCOME TAX PUBLICITY REPEAL BILL FAVORED Right-of-Way Pledged After Report by House Committee. By United Pren WASHINGTON. March 6—The House Ways and Means Committee today favorably reported the Doughton resolution for repeal of the income tax publicity section of the Revenue Act. Speaker Joseph W. Byms said the “pink slip” repeal resolution would be given right-of-way in the House and probably would be considered ahead of the soldier bonus bill