SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1935 THE MICHIGAN DAILY State Farmers is Will Back Tax System Change Grange Delegates Vote To Support Revision Of Tax Laws At Next Election BIG RAPIDS, Nov. 1. - (P) - Del- egates to the annual convention of the Michigan State Grange returned to their homes today, prepared tc back up at the polls a legislative pro- gram whose high points included a revision of the taxation system and sweeping changes in the state liquoI control system. Divergent views were reconciled at a harmonious closing session and the organization "went down the line" on a platform it will ask other farm groups to support. Grange leaders said the farmers would have the platform in mind next year in scrutinizing candidates for the legislature. Federal Program Approved Even a sharp attack on the agri- cultural administration was smoth- ered beneath a softly worded resolu- tion approving federal agricultural policies. The measure went unchal- lenged from the floor after leaders had stricken from it the three letters, AAA. Representative Maurice Post, Republican, of Kent County and oth- er Grangers had asserted that 95 per cent of Michigan's farmers were op- posed to the agency. In brief, the resolution urged con- tinuance of the Federal farm relief program "until such time as a better means of equalizing the opportunity of agriculture to realize a fair and proportionate return for goods" is de- vised. Favor Saloon Act The platform ao called upon the next legislature to re-enact the pro- visions of the old Warner-Cramton Saloon act, providing that all drink- ing establishments must close at 11 p.m. Related sections proposed a minimum age limit of 21 years for purchasers of alcoholic beverages, a ban upon the employment of women in drinking places, legislation to make drunk driving a felony and the pro- hibition of liquor or beer sales where there is dancing. The grange tax provisions includ- ed: A proposal that the state sales tax be reduced from 3 to 1 per cent, and an income tax law and a specific tax on intangibles be enacted to make up the deficit in welfare funds; a plea for adjustment of delinquent taxes so that they may be paid on present valuations, and not on the boom val- uations of a few years ago; reduction of the weight tax on farm trucks; a levy of five cents a pound on butter substitutes. Ware Counsel Closing Plea In Parentage Case Trial To Fix Housemaid As Mother Of Illegitimate Boy Involves Doctor ST. LOUIS, Nov. 1. - (P) - Coun- sel for Anna Ware, unwed house- maid, drew toward a conclusion today the evidence by which Miss Ware seeks to prove her motherhood of the disputed baby boy in the Muench- Ware parentage case. While a special commissioner heard the 'evidence, the child was cared for at the St. Louis Children's. Hospital under supervision of the St. Louis Court of Appeals. Announced by Mrs. Nellie Tipton Muench and her husband, Dr. Lud- wig Muench, as their own, the baby was in the fashionable Muench home until Wednesday when the Court of Appeals impounded it "as evidence." Counsel looked to medical testi- mony to assist in the. case. X-ray photographs of the child's wrists and hands were made yesterday in the attempt to establish its age. Miss Ware, in a habeas corpus suit to recover a son born to her Aug. 17 in a midwife's home, accused Mrs. Muench of obtaining the Ware child with the intention of "palming it off as her own." When the Muenches reported the birth of a son Aug. 18, Mrs. Muench was preparing her defense against charges of complicity in the Dr. I. D. Kelley kidnaping. She was acquitted. Mrs. Muench, sister of a Missouri supreme court judge, has been ex- cluded from the hearing as a result of her denunciation of the court for impounding the baby. Jimmy Walker Returns To N. Y. In Triumph -Associated Press Photo. Crowds cheered, bands played, and harbor whistles tooted in a lusty welcome to former Mayor James J. Walker when he returned with his wife, the former Betty Compaon, to his native New York after a three-year, self-imposed exile abroad. They are shown aboard the liner Manhattan as it steamed up theybay to its pier. Quakes Today Very Probable, Hobbs Predicts Professor Emeritus Says Ann Arbor Will Have A Bad Quake In Future (Continued from Page 1) not known. At 1:12 a.m., the time that the needle again came back onto the chart paper, the vibrations were "vigorous." They continued, decreas- ing in intensity, until 2:45 a.m., she explained, at which time the tremors ceased altogether. Miss Lindsey held that there is a possibility that two distinct quakes hit the vicinity, but because of the fact that the needle went off the chart this cannot be proved. Sev- eral persons in Ann Arbor reported to the observatory that they felt two separate shocks. The exact spot that the quake hit, a spot possibly as far away as 1,000 miles, was not found last night, Miss Lindsey reported. It may be a week, she advised, before we know where the fissures in the earth occurred, she said. It is all the more difficult to tell because the observatory instrument is known as a "distant quake seis- mograph," Miss Lindsey explained. That Friday's tremors rent the earth at some near spot was known be- cause of the short time it took the seismograph needle to "build up" vibrations, she said. The needle started to make very minute scratches on the paper and within a few minutes had recorded marks more than two inches apart. The recording seismograph chart which would have contained the most distinct recordings came apart just at the time of the quake's greatest severity, further complicating an- alyses of the tremors, Miss Lindsey said. She termed the quake Friday "quite intense," and "nearly as bad as that in Montana." Slight quakes cause tremendous damage when they come in centers of population, she said, while the greatest jars take place in the ocean and are rarely noticed. Although some earthquakes occur in the earth at depths as great as 3,000 miles, this one was much closer to the surface, according to Miss Lindsey. Earthquakes are the worst, she pointed out, when the fissures occur at "faults" in the earth. "Faults" are the places where the sections or layers of the earth's surface come to- gether. The tremor here Friday morning was the second recorded at the observatory within 24 hours, the other being the Helena earthquakes at approximately 2:30 p.m. Thursday. TYPEWRITERS RENTED New Deal Fails To Raise Price Level To Goal Administration's Two-Year Effort To Restore 1926 Standard Falls Short WASHINGTON, Nov. 1. - (P) - The Administration's two-year-old drive to raise the price level was still far short today of the original goal, the 1926 level. Two years ago President Roosevelt launched his move to depreciate the dollar by purchasing gold through the Reconstruction Finance Corp. The Labor Department's wholesale commodity index was then 70.8 per cent of the 1926 level. It is now 80.3. In August, 1933, before the Presi- dent announced his monetary plans, the 1926 dollar would buy $1.44 cents worth of wholesale commodities. $1.24 Worth Today Today, despite the depreciation moves and talk of inflation, it will still buy $1.24 cents worth of goods. The same is substantially, though not exactly, true of the retail pur- chasing power of the dollar. There have been no recent admin- istration statements to indicate whether the campaign to raise the price level will continue. When Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Secretary of the Treasury, recently returned from Europe, however, he told newspaper- men that America was "ready to do its part" in stabilizing world curren- cies when other nations were "dis- posed to do theirs." Slight Drop Recorded Except for the rise in the price of farm commodities and food there has been little change in the general price; level in the last year. A year ago the wholesale commodi-; ty index was 76.2, or 5.4 per cent less, than today, but all commodities other than farm products and foods had an index of 78 as compared with the present figure of 78.4. In the last month, the wholesale+ index has been dropping slightly, in-+ stead of rising, because of declines in the prices of foods. A month ago it was 81, the highest it has reached for+ years. Guard Walker Apartment On New York Visit Former Gotham Mayor Comes Home Following Stay In British Isles NEW YORK, Nov. 1.-(P)-A po- lice guard kept an eye on Jimmy Wal- ker's hotel apartment today - just as in the days when he was mayor - while Walker and his wife rested after their tumultuous welcome home. "All I want is two aisle seats on the Isle of New York," Walker replied to queries about his plans. He re- peated that he is through with pol- itics. Mrs. Walker - the former Betty Compton - also declared she would not go back to her one time profes- sion, the stage. "Being a wife is sufficient job for a woman," she said. "I love chil- dren; that's what I want most." The Walkers, who returned from a three-year sojourn in Europe Thursday afternoon, reached their suite after a flying wedge of police- men had rescued them from a cheer- ing throng at the pier. A freight elevator completed their escape, but after driving to their hotel behind a police siren, they faced another crowd. A man leaped to the running board and embraced Walker. "Hey, Jimmy!" cried the throng, just as the crowd at the pier had done. Walker, smiling but appearing fa- tigued, escorted his wife into the building. There they had a family reunion with Mr. and Mrs. William H. Walker and their family and Mrs. Nan Walker Burke, the former may- or's sister. They weren't "at home" to besieg- ing friends all evening. Reports said Jimmy went to bed at 7:30. Mrs. Walker, however, remained up to talk with two intimates, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Newman. Philatelists Seeing Things In Boulder Dam Stamp Issue WASHINGTON, Nov. 1. - (P) - People who examine the new Boulder Dam stamp issued by the Postoffice are seeing things. A few days ago one stamp-lover re- ported he found, with the aid of a magnifying glass, a tiny picture of President Roosevelt tucked away amid the decoration. Today Robert King, government stamp expert, took a squint and re- ported he found a mountain climber, the Liberty Bell (cracks and all), September Morn, and the initials "U.S." But all these things are either ac- cidental or imaginary, he said. The stamp designer never intended them. "You can find anything you want to find, practically," he said. "Some people can see a man in the moon. I never could." Long Follower On Denocratic Ticket MEMPHIS, Tenn., Nov. 1. - (P) - Gerald L. K. Smith, Share-the- Wealth disciple of the late Huey P. Long, has become a self-avowed Democratic candidate for President. He announced last night he would enter the April preferential primary in Georgia - the stronghold of Gov. Eugene Talmadge, who also is con- sidered a possible Democratic starter. "Who knows?" mused Smith with a shrug. "I may be the next President of the United States. Stranger things have happened." For support he looks primarily to the nation's Share-the-Wealth so- cieties, with a purported membership of 10,000,000. Once pastor of the Christian church in Shreveport, La., he was a national organizer for the Long units and took over their lead- ership on the assassination of the Senator Sept. 8. -Associated Press Photo. Mrs. Blanche LaDu (above), member of the Minnesota state board of control, was elected pres- ident of the American Prison As- sociation at its convention in At- lanta, the first time such an honor was accorded a woman. Chinese Dog owned By Dope Fiend Has Laugh On Reporter A stout, grey-haired woman about 40 years old, posing as an osteopath and claiming to be caring for a dope fiend in the capacity of nurse, loaned her Chinese dog to the inquiring re- porter the other day and there' hangs the tale. The reporter promised to care for the Chinese dog, which was reputed to have been raised in China and of Ching variety and, she said, had been shipped over to her by a missionary friend. The reporter having become at- tached to the black and white dog, whom the nurse said was more com- pany than the dope addict, wished to borrow the dog again on Friday. When he arrived at the house of the osteopath, he was informed by the owner that the osteopath was not caring for a dope fiend but was one herself. The question is, did the reporter cause supposed osteopath to go crazy or was she crazy before he arrived? I! 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No one else was in the held yesterday when the size of the house. squad was cut from ten to six mem- Police and fire investigators said bers. there aparently had been a Hallowe'- The freshmen selected for the en party in the house earlier in the squad, as announced by Arthur Se- evening and expressed the belief that cord, debate coach, are William Par- a live cigaret had been dropped on a ham, Reid Hatfield, William Elbin, sofa. Robert Rosa, Edward Macall, and Robert Nebetoff. ruling, freshmen are not eligible for Parham, Elbin and Hatfield will intercollegiate debating. constitute the affirmative team and This is the first year that Mich- Rosa, Macall and Nebeteff the nega igan has had a freshman debate tive team. Because of a conference squad, Secord said. AFTER THE GAME bring your mother, dad, and your friends to Starbuck's College Inn. JUST WONDERFUL FOOD 319 South Main Street Across from Wuerth Theater Your favorite brands of draught and bottled beer. 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