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This assertion, which was made with ;o much force that it strained his /oice evidently, was in reply to suggestions recently made that control of :he party was getting away from him md many things about which he knew lothing were being plotted. Especially iid this seem the case when he turned it once to the subject of communism and described the main mission of the Nazis as its destruction. It was spreading, he said, from Russia to China with strongholds in all countries. Calls Communists Scourge "If we succeed in mastering the Bolshevist pest," he continued, "the world will be saved. The Communists them-~d\ea number 6,000,000 in Germany. Four million dissatisfied Socialists are bound to join them. This means that 10,000,000 Germans are under orders from the Moscow Soviet. Communists are the scourge of nations. The war we are carrying on is not a platonic but a bloody one. Communist assassins
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BROTHER-IN-LAW OF HOOVER FREED
.eavitt "Did Exactly As Any
Of Us Would Have Done,"
Says California Judge
:aught with liquor
denies Knowing Contents Of Sack He Took From Friend's Store
(When Raiders Appeared [By the Associated Press]
Santa Monica, Cal., Dec. 4—Cornelius Van Ness Leavitt, brother-in-law of President Hoover, was acquitted of a liquor-possession charge today by Police Judge C. A. M Spencer.
After hearing Leavitt's explanation of his arrest on November f, while carrying a sack containing nineteen pints of liquor out the back door of C. R. Dailey's grocery store, Judge Spencer said:
"I don't think there is a person in the courtroom who would hold Leavitt guilty. He did exactly as any of us would have done under the circumstances. Therefore, I order the acquittal of Leavitt."
Applause Greets Verdict
The verdict was received with applause by the crowded courtroom.
Leavitt, a retired plumber, testified he did not know what the sack contained. It had been thrust into his hands by Dailey with a request to 'throw it away," he said.
The defendant related that he had
dropped into the store and found
Dailey and two other men taking a
drink of whisky in the rear of the
uilding. He accepted a drink proffered
gress over tne question oi maxing increased tax rates retroactive by making them effective on incomes of this year. There are some members of both Houses which hold the idea that the new rates should not become effective until returns of incomes for next year 'are made, and that in the meanwhile the Treasury should be contented with the additional revenue obtained from the imposition of excise and selected sales taxes, which would become effective with a month or so after the President signed such legislation.
The question of making any revision in tax rates retroactive becomes a serious and disturbing one for business. if the tax on corporation profits is increased. In such a case corporations would be kept in a state of uncertainty as to the amount of money they should set aside in their budgets for 1932 to cover payment of Federal taxes on earnings this year.
Smoot On Corporation Tax
In the event that corporation taxes are increased along with the general tax boost, Senator Smoot (Rep., Utah) said tonight he would oppose making the revision apply to incomes and profits of this year. Instead he saw the act might be worded to make the tax on corporation net incomes effective on profits earned after July 1 next. Such taxes would be made in the first half of 1932.
There is strong opposition, however, to increasing the present twelve per cent, tax on corporation incomes. It is contended that this tax in the past was not reduced in the same proportion as the tax on individual incomes and therefore should not be increased at this time. It is contended alio that any increase in taxes on corporations would delay the business recovery which the Treasury is hopmg for to make up the difference between the estimated expenditures and the estimated revenues, including ?1,200,000,-000 of new revenue.
Representative Collier (Dem., Miss.),
MISS HELEN V Upon entering the hospital repi party are reported to have gone d tendent, and demanded the Negro they are reported to have asked hi Wise is said to have replied, "do i
RENEWAL OF FAITH URGED BY RITCHIE
People Must Uphold American Form Of Government, Governor Says
SPEAKS IN NEW YORK
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Marylander Guest At Yacht Club
Luncheon And Virginians'
Annual Dinner
[New York Bureau of The Sun!
New York, Dec. 4—In his third public appearance in New York city in a few weeks, Governor Ritchie tonight addressed 400 members and guests of the Virginians in the ballroom of the Plaza Hotel and was loudly applauded as "one who stands on the Constitution; who is no trim mer; who says what he thinks with out quibbling."
These words of praise which brought the diners to their feet were uttered by Dr. Fielding Lewis Taylor, governor of the Virginians, a society composed of distinguished natives of that State.
Faith in American Institutions was the subject of the Governor's speech. It was a study of the history of
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Clara Bow Reported Married,
But Rex Bell Says She Isn't
Nevada County Authorities Claim To Have Witnessed Secret Wedding Of Flame-Haired Actress And Film Cowboy
Las Vegas, Nev., Dec. 4—Clara Bow, after months of seclusion in the desert, came back to her public today, presumably in the dress of a bride, but Rex Bell, whom two witnesses said they saw her wed last night, denied he had become her husband.
A situation typical of the turbulent career of Clara Bow grew out of the unexpected disclosure by the witnesses that the couple had appeared lere last night, obtained a marriage icense and were wed secretly by District Judge William E. Orr.
The cowboy actor denied he and Vliss Bow had married, intimating hat to do so would endanger certain contracts. Frank Dunlap, Miss Bow's agent in Hollywood, said, however, that he knew of no contract she held that would be violated by marriage.
The witnesses, Harley Harmon, District. . AHnrnpv__'¦r-- -•"'—iim^^^
[By the Associated Press]
Schuyler, deputy county clerk, who issued the license, described the brief ceremony, even to telling of the dress of the principals. They said Miss Bow wore a wine-colored gown, fur coat anH F.mnress 'Eneeriie hat. Bell, they
r.
[New York Bureclu of The Sun]
New York, Dec. 4—Informed of the lynching of Matthew Williams, Salisbury (Md.) Negro, tonight, Governor Ritchie, who was the g ;Uest of the New York Vir-ginians, said:
"I will leave New York on the midnight train for Baltimore and will be in Ball .imore ail tomorrow. I want to ascertain the exact facts with reference to this case before making any statemen t. If they are as reported briefly to me tonight I will have something to say,' and something very emphatic to S£ iy.''
[Special Dispatch . to The Sun]
Salisbury, Md., Dec. 4—Mattl iew Williams, Negro who killed
oniel J. Elliott, prominent box n imufacturer and lumber dealer,
us officjyhis afternoon, was h anged from a tree in the court-
tere at 8.05 o'clock t< might. Twenty minutes later his
down and burned 0n a vacant lot on the edge of
egro settlement.
. six men entered the Peninsula is was under treatment in the pistol wound, lifted him from with them to the street. g men and women surrounded •d with him to the courthouse ts, three blocks distant. OOSE DRAWS ned a rope while the mob was I men flung it over a limb of a .he ground, and two others tied l-swathed neck of the Negro. ugged the Negro about fifteen ob, which had grown to about
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vered several times as the mob's rope was secured and Williams
wenty minutes, as the mob, con-several men stepped forward, e Negro's body, shouting to the
co county Sheriff, ordered the
it he was brushed aside by the
n.
it on Poplar Hill avenue, within
38, and, after drenching it with
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st of them members of the mob but many new recruits, grouped
nen fell in behind them; the mob nembers appeared from stores, side treets, corners, and when the crowd
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