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March 3, 1932

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End of Hostilities Ordered.

By the Associated Press

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SLEEPLESS FATHER PERSISTS IN SEARCH; Lindbergh Races Off With State Troopers to Follow Every New Clue. SLEEPLESS FATHER PERSISTS IN SEARCH

By From a Staff Correspondent.Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

HOPEWELL, N.J., March 2. -- Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh took personal charge of the hunt for his infant son, Charles Augustus Jr., today, transforming his pretty mountain home near here into field headquarters for an army of searchers.

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TAX BILL HITS SNAG; COMMITTEE SPLITS ON SALES LEVY RATE; Some Members of Ways and Means Body Oppose Pro- posal for 2 1/4 Cents. YIELD AT 2 ONLY $517,000,000 Members Fail to Agree on In- clusion of Special Excise Items in Sales Impost. HAD EXPECTED LAST DRAFT Crisp, However, Still Hopes to Get Program Before the House This Week. TAX BILL HITS SNAG IN SALES LEVY RATE

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Tax bill hits snag when presented to full Ways and Means Com; difficulty presented by mfrs' sales tax; opposition develops to special excise taxes as discriminatory; opponents advocate lump sales tax with 2 1/4% rate instead of flat 2% rate

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