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THE LEATHER Bf V. 1. Weetker Bsjreaa ClOrOT TONIGHT AND TOMOKHOWl LIGHT SNOW FLURRIES TONIGHT. TeMperstvre, Yew eJD fn iimn It lean sse Daily STREET Stock and Curb Closing Prices ir it it it ic EAGLE hi Mat 94th YEAR No. 342 ENTERED AT THI BROOKLYN POST OFflCB AS 3D CLASS MAIL MATTER ir NEW YORK CITY, MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1934 28 PAGES THREE CENTS City Sales Tax Goes Into Effect (BUSINESS CHIEFS ARMS GRAFT JUST A CHINESE CUSTOM, DU PONT DEFENSE With Little Hitch or Resentment Rumania Acts ml iiiiiKWiiiira ft a nMWMMml 1 i r-ti! It I SALES TAX I 5 K- fill 1 4HL I iNEMPLMENTRELiEi! i I I "II 11 Wwi' pays the, sales tax to Miss Ruth Freedman in a Fulton St.

Food, Newspapers, Beer And Drugs Tax-Exempt To Avert War On the Danube Serbs Agree to League Compromise and Halt Magyar Deportations Geneva, Dec. 10 IP) Nicolas Titu-lescu, Foreign Minister of Rumania, poured oil on the troubled waters of Hungarian-Yugoslav relations today by telling the League of Nations Council that Yugoslavia's appeal against Hungary in no way questioned the national honor of Hungary. Since Tltulescu is a recognized leader in the Little Entente of Yugoslavia, Rumania and Czechoslovakia, his words were regarded as in the nature of an official olive branch. The statesmen present in the Council chamber were hopeful that Hungary would follow Yugoslavia's lead in accepting a League plan for settlement of the dispute between Yugoslavia and Hungary. France introduced the draft of a Continued on Page 2 $500,000 Bond Trial Started Stockholders Sue to Put Money in Treasury of Mortgage Company Trial of a stockholders' suit to compel the United States Bond and Mortgage Company or its 24 directors to replace $500,000 in the firm's treasury was started today before Justice McCooey in the Equity Term of Brooklyn Supreme Court.

The action is brought by Mrs. Florence M. Phillips and other stockholders who allege that for a period beginning Deccember, 1927, they declared dividends illegally. The complaint alleges that the firm's capital had become impaired and that earnings at that time were insufficient to Justify the dividends. By the latter part of 1927, the complaint continues, the capital of had been impaired by losses to the extent of $440,000.

General denial of all the allegations has been entered by the defendants. Siamese Ask King To Retain Office London, Dec. 10 (P) A Siamese delegation will call upon King Prajadhipok Wednesday to ask him to reconsider his decision to abdicate, the Siamese legation announced today. The audience will take place at Knowle Mansion, Surrey, where the King and Queen have been staying since the end of Summer, Girl, 11, to Be Able To Eat for First Time Pittsburgh, Dec. 10 UP) For the first time in her life, 11 -year-old Virginia Caquatto will be able to cry "Merry Christmas" this year.

Virginia has been unable to eat solid foods or speak aloud since babyhood. The physician who operated on her for lockjaw said she may now do Justice to food and words. POCKETLESS POLICE Boston, Dec. 10 IP) Boston police will not stand with their hands in their overcoat pockets this Winterthey have no pockets. Some of the force received new coats, sans pockets.

The others got the old coats back again, with the pockets sewed up. The 2 percent talet tax collectible on all parchatet except newtpapert, beer anil drugt on phytician'g pretcription. Exception if irrWe food or beer it terted in restaurants providing entertainment or levying cover charge. Record mutt be kept of tax paid on every tale. Tax money may not be absorbed in price of article.

Wholetalert telling at retail, retailert and pushcart venders must remitter with Controller and pott registration certificates. Evasion of this rule is a misdemeanor, seller and purchaser being guilty of violation. Articles bought outside of city taxable whether shipped or carried in. Tax application purchases 12 cents and under, exempli 13 to 62 cents, one-cent tax; 63 to 99 cents, tiro-cent tax, and so on. BOOST NEW DEAL Figures Bared as U.

Se Plans Publicity on Pay of All Big Corporation Heads Million-Dollar Income Class Doubled Washington, Dec. 10 (JP) Salaries of executives of big corporations were shown today in registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to have jumped 200 percent in some instances this year, while others remained stationary or increased less sharply. The reports ranged from an unchanged remuneration of $86,740 in 1933 and 1934 for E. M. Allen, president of Mathieson Alkali Works, to the $47,286 which Vice President Daniel K.

Weiskopf of National Distillers Products Corporation will receive this year against $15,640 in 1933. In view of these figures, required in the filing of security registration statements with the commission, and the efforts in and out of Congress to bring down excessive salaries and give investors more light, commission officials are considering a move to extend the salary reporting requirement to top officials of all corporations. No new law would be required. To Receive $75,620 Seton Porter, president of the National Distillers Products Corporation, will receive $75,620 this year aa against $51,660 last year. Vice President Otto H.

Watkins is getting $43,593 as compared to $21,156: Vice President Arthur Loasby, $32,740, as against $11,073. Remuneration to officials of Republic Steel Corporation was the highest shown by an examination of registration forms. T. M. Glrdler, president, received $117,420 In 1933, and will receive $129,372 this year.

B. F. Fairless and R. J. Wysor, vice presidents, are getting $64,692 this year, as compared to' $58,713 in 1933.

Continued on Page 2 New Evidence Blow to Bruno Flemington, N. Dec. 10 Two pieces of wood, one a rung in the Lindbergh kidnap ladder, the other taken from Bruno Hauptmann's home, were joined together by a State expert today and found to fit perfectly. In the report of Arthur Kohler, wood expert, officials saw proof of Hunterdon County prosecutor Anthony M. Hauck assertion that the State has found "important new evidence" which will "definitely tie Hauptmann to the electric chair." Gov.

A. Harry Moore said in Trenton today a representative of the State Police would be sent to Colorado Springs, to question V. E. Rowton, who wrote the Chief Executive he knew a man who "claims he can give details and particulars that should result in the conviction of the actual kidnapers of the Lindbergh child." Frederick A. Pope, associate defense counsel, refused to believe the report of Kohler's findings.

Trap Door Led to Clue One ladder rung differed in grain and substance from every other piece of wood in the ladder, Kohler found. It is a flat piece of wood about a foot long, three inches wide and less than one inch thick. Investigators, studying a trap door leading to the attic from the celling of a second-floor room in Hauptmann's house, found another piece of the same size nailed against the side of the aperture apparently to support the top end of a ladder. Kohler matched this against the run? rrom the kidnap ladder and concluded that originally they had been part of the same stick. He held the roughly-sawed edges to gether, he reported, and found that they Joined exactly.

On the Inside Home Port of the Seven Seas a series of six articles on the Brooklvn waterfront by O. R. Pilat; Page 15. Vice President Garner is now the White House's hot-potato-holclrr, Paul Mallon reveals; Pape 15. Tommy Holmes discusses probable deals at coming meetings of major leagues; Page 8.

GET 200 UNDER Stricken Vessel Starts to Port Under Escort With Captain and Two Mates Dead, Japanese Craft Rides Out Gale The Victoria Mara, her captain and two mates dead, was proceeding to the English Channel today under escort of the S. S. Amsterdam, according to the Associated Press. Four vessels were reported by radio this afternoon as standing by the distressed Japanese vessel Victoria Maru, floundering in the gale-swept mid-Atlantic more than 400 miles north of the Azores. I When the storms subside, accord 1 ing to radio dispatches received at the offices of the Mackay Radio and Telegraph Company in New York, the ships will send their lifeboat crews out to rescue the crew of 30 or more still alive.

First Word in 18 Hours The ships standing by are the Albert Ballin, the Pacific Trader, the Karl Clasen and the Amster dam. The wirelessed word of relief at hand for the stricken vessel was the first within 18 hours from the time the craft sent out its first SOS call at 6:02 p.m. yesterday. The meager radio dispatches from the gale-harassed ship, en route Continued on Page B.M.T. Laughs, But Not Last Didn't Sign Code but It May Lose Right to Display Blue Eagle Eade Bureau, Nation! Press Bulldinr, Washington, Dec.

10 President W. S. Menden of the B. M. T.

may think the joke In- the Blue Eagle labor dispute is on the Government, but, according to the National Labor Relations Board and the com pliance division of the NRA, the laugh is on Mr. Menden. The NLRB on Saturday sent the BAIT, case to the compliance division with the recommendation that it be deprived of its Blue Eagle for defying the board's ruling and refusing to re-employ 12 men al leged to have been discharged for union activities. The B. M.

T. registered no particular fear but a broad smile on the theory that it has no Blue Eagle to lose, had never signed the code and is not subject to its regulations. What was overlooked, however, is the fact that the NLRB in its decision declared the B. M. T.

is under the transit code and that up to the time Mr. Menden's corpora tion ran afoul of that provision of the law providing for collective bargaining he had a perfect right to use the emblem. At the compliance division it was stated unofficially that whether or not Mr. Menden had affixed his signature to the code would mean little, since the code is in effect for the industry. It was also pointed out that in all cases what the compliance division actually does is to de prive an offender of the right to display the Blue Eagle.

McGoldrick to Fill Citizens Union Post josepn d. McGoldrick will step into me on ice or treasurer of the Citizens Union Jan 1 when he re tires as City Controller, according to announcement by William Jay Schieffelin. chairman of the civic body. Mr. McGoldrick is a former secretary of the union.

pital communicated with the police and dispatched an ambulance to the scene they drank iodine, police said. The place was in an uproar when help arrived, the girl having screamed so lustily that her cries penetrated the closed booth and reached the ears of patrons sitting at tables or standing at the bar. Dr. Diflorl administered first aid and the couple were taken to Belle-vue. Police are making an investigation to determine a motive), Commissions Paid to Officials Violations of Company's Policy Admitted by Sales Chief at Senate Quiz Washington, Dec.

10 Evidence that the duPont Company paid large commissions to secure powder business in China in 1929 was laid today before the Senate Munitions Committee. Du Pont officials did not deny the commissions were in the nature of bribes, explaining they had been told "it was an old Chinese custom." Documents laid before the committee showed a "commission" of 1 percent on a large powder sale 'in 1929 was paid to a Colonel De Fre-mary, a Dutch officer working under contract with the Chinese government. Casey did not characterize the 1 percent payment to Colonel De Fre-mary as "graft." Another "commission" of 4 percent was paid to "Chinese Army, Nanking." Would Stop Sales K. K. V.

Casey, Du Pont sales official, conceded the 4 percent was graft," but testified he did not know to whom it was paid. Casey accepted responsibilty for "violating" a company policy in this regard. He said he knew if this incident was reported the company directors would have stopped all further sales. Earlier, the company had denied paying graft to sell munitions to Polahd. Correspondence showed the Du Ponts sold 1,000 tons of smokeless powder to Poland on a contract providing for payment over three years.

Received $126,000 The evidence disclosed the Du Pont agent In Warsaw, named Klawe. received a 7 percent com mission, or (126,000, of which he was advanced about $30,000 when the contract was signed. Du Pont witnesses said there were Continued on Page Stocks Seesaw In Dull Session Stocks today were undecided and relatively dull. During the morning they rose a trifle above the finals of Saturday, but by noon were down lightly. Then silver and gold stocks became strong and active, and this was followed by a mild upturn in Industrials and utilities.

Rails were still slightly off by 2 o'clock, but rallied a little thereafter. Trading was dull throughout and reflected muddled views of nearby movements held in financial quarters. Sterling was strong against the dollar, rising to $4.95 up 1 cents. Francs were practically unchanged at 6.59 cents. Gold was 3 pence lower in London.

Commodities showed mixed tend encies. Wheat lost as much as I cent a bushel, but recovered most of its loss by mid-afternoon. Corn was easier. Cotton rose a few points. Rubber was lower.

Stock Table on Page 20 2 Mystery Deaths Probed in Jersey Rahway, N. Dec. 10 (IP) With two men dead, a third in grave danger and two others ill, officials today Intensified their investigation of the mysterious poisoning which felled the five as they repaired a furnace In a Carteret smelting plant. KAVE DON RELEASED Douglas, Isle of Man, Dec. 10 (IP) Kave Don, famous British speed driver, was released today after serving ten weeks and two days of a four months sentence for man slaughter growing from the death of his mechanic in a wreck on a trial auto spin.

In Today's Eagle rie Amusement It Art Arthur It Bridie IS Classified Ads 25-S6 Comlfi 37 ZCL Notices IS Dr. Bridr It Editorial IS rineneial JI-! Lost and Found, MotIm in Novel It Radio 10 Real Estate It Ship News 14 eeieir 11 parte S-ll Theaters It tnsw'i Pe H. Sava Kidnap Plotter Is Slain in Raid Gang Surprised in Lair Near Home of Their Rich Intended Victim East St. Louis, 111, Dec. 10 (IP) Sheriff Henry Siekmann said today that the slaying of James Hickey, Shelton gangster, by county authorities, is believed to have thwarted a plot of kidnap G.

Locke Tarlton, wealthy public works contractor, The slaying, announced today, occurred in a raid on a home in the fashionable Signal Hill section Saturday. "We had received a tip that gangsters had moved into a house in the Signal Hill district. Just a block from Tarlton's home," the sheriff said. "We also had a tip that they intended to grab Tarlton. It is possible also that they meant to take his small daughter.

"Saturday we decided to raid the place. As we broke into the house we saw Hickey coming down the stairs firing." Officers returned the fire with sawed-off shotguns. The gangster's body was taken secretly from the house after nightfall and authorities later arrested a man and two women who went to the house. John D. Jr.

Victor In Tax Cut iFght Washington, Dec. 10 OP) Settlement of a 1930 Income tax claim against John D. Rockefeller Jr, by the payment of $230,662, was announced ut a stipulation Judgment approved today by the Board of Tax appeals. Rockefeller had appealed a claim originally set at $828,708. Bertram Work Sued By His Wife in Reno RS-no, Dec.

10 M5) Miriam Starr Work, Akron, and Oyster Bay society matron, filed suit here today to divorce Bertram Work, New York social registerite and son of one of the founders of the B. F. Goodrich Company. She charged cruelty. SIX ESCAPE JAIL Jonesboro, Dec.

10 (P) Six convicts, cutting through iron bars with saws which Sheriff L. T. Lawrence said he believed were smuggled in by visitors, fled the Clayton County Jail here late last night. LONGEST AIRLINE STARTS Brisbane, Australia, Dec. 10 (P) With a wave of his hand, the Duke of Gloucester today dispatched the first two northbound planes to inaugurate service on the world's longest airline, the 12,846 miles from Brisbane to London.

OUST PRELATE AS RED Athens, Dec. 10 (P) Athens newspapers said today the Foreign Office had asked the Archbishop of the Armenian Church in this country to leave within five days on the grounds that he is involved In spreading Soviet propaganda. to as is if of $4. store. 2 Morro Officers Plead Not Guilty Acting Capt.

William S. Warms and Chief Engineer Eben Starr Abbott of the ill-fated steamer Morro Castle pleaded not guilty today before Federal Judge Cox in Manhattan to three indictments charging them with negligence during the fire at sea which destroyed the liner with terrific loss of life. 1 They were held In $2,500 bail each. No trial date was set. Reynolds Divorce Void, Says 1st Wife Winston-Salem, N.

Dec. 10 (IP) Charging that the divorce she obtained from Smith Reynolds in Reno was illegal and void, and that Libby Holman. "being versed in law," knew that the divorce was illegal and void before she married Smith Reynolds, Anne Cannon Reynolds Smith of Concord today entered the court fight for the Reynolds tobacco fortune. Valentine and Aide Off to Crime Parley Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine and Assistant Chief Inspector John J.

Sullivan entrained early this afternoon for Washington, D. C. where they will attend the four-day sessions of the National Crime Conference. "Just interested observers." explained Mr. Valentine, adding neither he nor Inspector Sullivan was prepared to address the conference.

mother at 1469 Bay Ridge Parkway. According to the story pieced together by the police the couple entered the Royal Cabaret at 4537 3d the Bronx, shortly before midnight last night and asked the bartender for change of a quarter. Then both squeezed into the same phone booth a short distance away. Villanagna, police said, called the Fordham Hospital and announced to the operator his intention of committing suicide. Whlla the hos Air Mail Base Here Backed by Civics The Brooklyn Civic Council today passed a resolution directing 75 delegates from various civic and social organizations to obtain 1,000,000 signatures on a petition demanding the designation of Floyd Bennett Airport as a mail base.

The petition will be forwarded to Postmaster General Farley in Washington. A house to house canvass is planned. The Relegates attending a meeting at the Hamilton Club, 146 Rem-sen heard Deputy Dock Commissioner F. William Zelcer administer a sharp rebuke to Acting Assistant Postmaster J. D.

Donaldson for his opposition to the plan and point out there was good chance of getting three more lines for the field. Huey Long Ignores High Court Ruling Washington, Dec. 10 (P) Despite the United States Supreme Court ruling that he was not immune from service in a civil suit. Senator Huey P. Long of Louisiana today filed a motion in the District of Columbia Supreme Court to quash the summons and service in the libel suit brought against him by Brig.

Gen Samuel T. Ansell. Car Jumps Tracks, Traffic Is Delayed Traffic was tied up for 18 minutes this morning about 8 o'clock when a Flatbush Ave. trolley car Jumped the tracks at Fulton and Tillary Sts. The car got back on the rails before a B.

M. T. emergency truck arrived. Confusing Problems Are Gradually Worked Out Public ShowsWilling-ness to Pay Levy as Share in Aiding Needy With very little of the grinding of gears In store machinery that had been expected, and not much grumbling from customers, the city's 2 percent sales tax, designed yield $40,000,000 in the next 12 months, went into effect today. Confusion and misunderstanding to the provisions of the tax, while noticeable at the opening of business this morning in some stores, subsided hour by hour until by afternoon things were reported functioning as usual.

Many stores gave special preliminary instructions to clerks, and where unexpected problems arose a phone to the City Collector's office, on the sixth floor of the Municipal Building, in Manhattan, where 12 men were assigned solely to handling Inquiries, usually straightened out the situation. Two Problems Explained Where customers were balky, they quickly subsided upon explanation that the tax was a city affair for the benefit of the unemployed, local stores reported. Two points -were rather troublesome. They were: 1. Whether a retailer may absorb the tax.

2. Whether an out-of-towner, from Nassau or Suffolk County, must pay the tax like any one else. Th eanswer to question No. 1 Is that in no case may a retailer ab sorb the tax, which must be shown with every purchase. The answer to the second question that the out-of-towner must pay, he deals with a city store.

Explains Exemption Alderman Morton Baum, who drafted the original bill, was asked this afternoon by The Eagle specifically whether a Long Island resident outside the ciyt limits would be exempt from th esales tax if said resident ordered by mail or telephone from a Brooklyn store and paid by check or C. O. D. "Such resident would not have to pay the tax," said Mr. Baum.

This opinion suggested that Long Island residents might come to city Continued on Page 2 Smoky Fire in K. C. Club Causes Stir Smoke rolling from the KniRhts Columbus Club at 1 Prospect Park West caused excitement in the neighborhood today after a fire started in a kitchen flue. The 200 residents were undisturbed as firemen put out the blaze. Charles Town Results FIRST RACE -Srvrn furlonns (of! 1 48).

Won by 112 IO Horn), $780. $4 20, srrond, BARK MISSION. 10 (Atkins), $4.40. third, WHITE HYKR. 108 (Feltnen.

$17.80. Time. 1:26 4-5. Gdyth Lodorus. Sunny Suxnn.

Morocen, Barhelorette. Three Grand also run. SECOND HACE-SIx nd hlf furlongs off 2:21, Won by Flowrr Tlmr. 108 (C. Jackson), $13.20.

$7.20. second. I.urky Dsn, 111 (C. Walters). S10 4O.

$4.40: third. This r-ly, 105 IH. Rdwsrdsl. Tlrpe. 1:26.

Councilor Billy. White Bud. True John, Gate Boy nd Mint Mael b1u rsn. THIRD RACE Won hy St. Clsrei second.

Tiny Mini third. Peiy Can, Epsom Downs Results First rare Won by Rudaon Bayi see-one). t7eeulai third, Utile ralrf, NEWS FLASHES Girl and Her Escort Drink Poison, But Advance Publicity Foils Pact FRANCE DEFAULTS AGAIN Paris, Dec. 10 (P) France's fifth war debt default to the United States was approved today by the Cabinet, which sanctioned the sending of the customary note to Washington. NAVY QUITS ULM HUNT Honolulu, Dec.

10 (P As hope dimmed that Lt. Charles T. P. Ulm and two other Australian fliers at sea since last Tuesday would be found alive, the Navy today abandoned its widespread search over the Pacific. GETS FREE TRIP TO SAAR Rochester, Dec.

10 (T) August Motsch, German war veteran, will sail Dec. 27 on a free trip to his native land to vote In the Saar plebiscite next monUa. An amazing story of an attempted double suicide in a public telephone booth was registered on Manhattan's police records today by a pretty 19-year-old blond dentists assistant and her 30-year-old male companion, a printer, who lives in Brooklyn. The couple, under observation in Brllcvue Hospital, described themselves as Shirley Larsen, originally from Franklin, now living at 447 E. 44th Manhattan, and Paul VUlanagna, who Uvea with his.