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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-01
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5:00--children's Program. 5:30-Tea Timers Band. 5:45-Mountaineers. 6:0O-Black and Gold orchestra. 6:45-Uncle Abe and David. 7:00-Boswell Sisters, Songs. 7:15-Science Speaks. 7:3O-Frances Aida, soprano;
 Frank LaForge, piano. 7:45-Back of the News in Wash
 ington-Raymond Clapper. 8:00--Bobby Jones, Golf Chats. 8:15-Varieties. S:3O--Orchestra Dennis King.
 Songs. 9;0o--Symphony orchestra; The
 Government and Business
 David Lawrence. -Orchestra---Olive Palmer, so-
 prano; Elizabeth Lennox,
 contralto; Paul Oliver, tenor;
 Revelers quartet. 10:30-Orchestra; Interview with
 John Held Jr, by Grantland
 Rice. 11:00-voice of Radio Digest-Nel-
 lie Revell. 11:15--Lopez orchestra. 12:O0--Richardson orchestra. A. M. 12:30--Morgan's orchestra.
 442m-WOR, Newark-71Ok 5:00-Italian Lessons--Elvira
 Alexay. 5:15--Strlng trio. 5:30--The School Goes Home With
 the Child Elizabeth Dexter. 5:33--Llmerick Contest. 5:44-Children's Guessing Game. 6:00--Uncle Don. 6:30-Sports Talk. 6:45-Astor orchestra. 7:15--Music. 7:30--E'iresidc quartet. 7:45-Phoenix Music. 8:00-WOR MinstreIs. 8:30-Rambles in Erin. 9:00-To be announced. 3:15-Blake orchestra. 9;30-Highlanders 10:00-~Tuneful Tales. 10:30-Roy Smeck, Music. f0:45-Globe Trotter. 11:00--Herbert Serenaders. 11:30--Moonbeams. 273m-WLWL, New YOrk--1 ,1O0k 6:0O-Francis Carin. readings. 6:15-Organ Recital. 6:45-Talk. 7:00-Pangrac ensemble. 7:30-Captal and Labor--Rev Mar
 tin J Scott. 7:50-Studio Program. 3SOm-WGY, Schcncctady-70Ok 6:15-H Health Talk. G:20--Legends of the East. 6:45-Same as WEAF. 7:00--The Song Hit. 7:15--Speed Blenders. 7:30-Orchestra 8:O0--Same as WEAF. 8:15-Orchestra 8:30-Same as WEAF. 11:00-HalI orchestra. 11:30-Same as WEAF. A. M. 12:30-Kenmore orchestra. 3O6m-KDKA. PIttsburgh--0sOk 6:00--Cereal Melodiers. 6:15-Cru- Bro Troubadourg. 6:45-Samc as WIZ 7:15-Twcnty Fingers of Sweetness. 7:30-Same as WIZ. S:00--Orchcstra and quartet. 8:15--Conestoga Days. 8:30--Same as WIZ. 0:00--Radio Teleyision Review. 9:3O-Same as WIZ. 11:00-Sport Review. 11:15-Joy orchestra. 20fm---WHAM. ROchcstcr-1,I50k G:15-University of Rochester Talk. 6:30--Same as WIZ. 7:30--Kendall Entertainers. S:00--Studio Program. S:30--Same as WIZ. 9.OO--On Wings of Song. 9:30--Same as WIZ.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-01

The taIlest announcer at NEG is Howard Petrie. He measures six feet, four inches. The smallest. Paul Du- mont, is ike feet, two inches.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-01

There are about thirty of the new condenser-type microphones in use at NBC's New York studios.
The Washington times., 1931-01-17
B|-CENTENN|AL
IS TOPIC Of
REALTORS
E. N. Smith and Rep. Bloom
To Be Principal Speakers
At Real Estate Meeting

Washington and the Bi-Centen-
NAL celebration will be the fea-
ture topics discussed before the
washington Night" meeting OF
TIE washington Real Estate Board
at the Mayflower Hotel next
Thursday evening.
Ernest N. Smith, executive vice
president Of the American Auto
mobile Association, will add1 ess
the real estate men on the sub
ject Of washington and It's Fu-
ture Possibilities" Representative
Sol Bloom, director, United States
Commission for the Celebration
of the Two Hundredth Anniver-
sary of the Birth of George Wash
ington, will discuss the 1882 Bi-
Centennial and its advantages to
the city Of Washington.
Five Minutes with the Com
munity Chest" will be outlined
BY c. L. McGray, of the speakers
bureau of the Community Chest.
and a special musical program
with Fred East and Bill Raymond
as soloiSts will be rendered dur
ing the evening. At the conclu-
sion Of the meeting an informal
buffet supper will be served.
Members Of the committees on
the District Of Columbia of both
the House of Representatives and
the Senate, the Board Of District
Commissioners, and others promi-
nent in the business and civic af-
fairs Of Washington have been
invited as guests of the realtors,
as well as the members Of the
Alexandria, Arlington and Fairfax
Real Estate Board.
The Washington times., 1931-01-17
BUILDERS Plan
1881 PARLEYS

Organization Of building con-
crosses, linking architects, build
ers, bankers and workers, will be
a major aim of the committee on
industrial relations of the Amer
lean Institute of Architects dur
ing 1881, according to the annual
report of the committee, of which
William Orr Ludlow, of New
York, is chairman.
Establishment Of credit asso.
Citations for the guidance of the
building industry in distinguish
ing between financially respons-
BILE and irresponsible firms is also
projected. The committee will
continue it's efforts to secure rec
ognition of superior craftsman
ship.
The committee also seeks united
action to relieve unemployment,
and to inform the public of the
advantage of building now, while
costs are from Is to 20 per cent
below normal.
The Washington times., 1931-01-17
P POWER SCHEME
To GRAB SITES
DISCLOSED
Projects Being GobbIed Up
by Unrestricted Leasingss
0uSted Aide Is Reinstated

A bold attempt by the Power
Trust to steal many of the coun-
try'S finest water powers, under
the guiSe of unrestricted leases,
it is seeking from the new Power
Commission which the Senate
has repudiated, was revealed yes
terday.
At the same time, the commits.
sion reappointed Chief Account
ant William v. King, whose dis.
missal with Solicitor Charles A.
RusseN provoked the Senate'S
move to oust three commissioners
which President Hoover blocked
It conceded that King is t&
most desirable" of six applicant
for his post.
Russell Turned Down
A reappointment was refused b
Russell, who, aided by King. Ell
posed the Power Company invest
ment initiation Of hundreds of mil
lions, and angered the Hoover Ad.
ministration by helping to block
the unrestricted leases now being
revived.
In the new license move, it was
learned authoritatively, the power
interests are attempting to hold
up the Government by refusing to
put 1000 unemployed men in Vir-
ginia to work on a new plant ul1-
less given power rights upon their
own terms.
These call for surrender Of all
regulation and rights by the Gov
ernment and the State ever to
take over the plant. They would
establish substantially the per-
petual vested rights Congress pro-
hibited ten years ago. They also
would open the way to capitaliza-
ton of water power rights, like
wise unlawful, and the saddling Of
this burden upon consumers IN
electric rates.
Planned to Grant 1t
The key to the plan is an applf
cation of Electric Bond and Share
Company interests for power
rights on the Virginia section G
the New River. The old commits"
sion made plans to grant it. Go.
ing over the heads Of Russell and
Acting Chief Counsel j. F. Law
son, it obtained a ruling, through
President Hoover, from Attorney
General Mitchell.
The Washington times., 1931-01-17
Jail for 'Dope" Peddlers
ADVOCATED by Courts

Between January 1 and
October l, 1880, not a single
narcotic drug peddIer was sen.
fenced to the State penitentiary
by a San Francisco Judge.
Only five prison sentences
were given by Los Angeles
judges.
Rather a perplexing situation
isn't it?
And yet it is human enough.
Rarely Suspected
The big dealers are seldom even
suspected.
The chiefs of the dope ring
keep out of sight in their pros,
porous and apparently respectable
offices and clubs.
They send the dope. out by
small peddlers, these peddlers
are nine times out of ten poor,
trembling, abject dope slaves
themselves.
When they are arrested and
brought into court for peddling
dope, they are such a pitiful
sight that the average judge has
not the heart to be hard upon
them.
So he lets the dope peddler
shuttle out of court - and keep
on selling dope.
What is true in San Francisco
and Los Angeles is undoubtedly
true in every big city in the
United States today.
The Washington times., 1931-01-17
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. II
CU.S0 What is a dope dealer?
Who is he, where does he come
from and what does he do for a
living?
That's easy to tell.
Anyone who knows anything
about the anguish and despair,
peddled in the alleys and in the
halls of. good hotels and in the
anterooms of some Of the best hos
pitalS in the country-knows the
answer to that question.
A dope dealer is person who
sells misery and madness and the
degradation of body and soul for
so much grain.
Prison Suggested
When these dealers are arrested,
what ought to happen to them?
Wouldn't it be just and honest
and kind to send such people to
prison, to keep them away from
their victims and give them a
chance to realize what it is that
they have been doing?
So it would seem to the every
day looker-on but the State Mar
cotic Commission has just turned
in a report to the California
legislature, and that report de.
clares that the judges of San
Francisco and Los Angeles are
too lenient to the dope sellers.
It declares:
The Washington times., 1931-01-17
HOME. BUILDING
DUE To GAIN

Business looks to home con
Struction to lead the way back to
prosperity in 1881, according tt
Harvey L. Harris, general manager
of the building materials division
of Sears, Roebuck and Company
He said:
Residential construction has
suffered the longest and Severest
depression in the vast building
industry, over a period of more
than two years. No consider
able or permanent recovery in
the construction industry gen
orally may be expected, except
under the leadership of residen-
tiaI construction.
'T believe that during 1881
substantial progress will be
registered in the direction of
providing better housing quar-
tiers, and that q sharp upturn
in residential construction, pro-
nounced enough to point the
way for an early return to gen.
eraI prosperity. will be shown"
The Washington times., 1931-01-17
POSTER ZON|NG
PROPOSED BY
REALTOR
Real Estate and Advertising
Groups Work Out Plan For
Removing UnsightIy Signs

A proposal for voluntary zoning
of portions of rural highways
having scenic vale against de-
facement by billboards, hot dog
stands, and other unsightly way
side enterprise was advanced by
Herbert U. Nelson, of Chicago,
executive secretary of the Nation
al Association of Real Estate
Boards, at a national conference
on roadside business and rural
beauty held in washington, D. C.,
last week.
The proposal was put forth as
q method of conserving the aes-
thetic and commercial values
along highways. It is novel in
that it obviates the necessity Tor
arbitrary action by state author1-
ties, and in that it give owners
of property abutting scenic high
ways a quid pro quo for the
property rights they would give
up where such zoning was put in
to effect.
State Board Would Act
The plan proposes that an
enabling act be passed by the var1-
Gus States, under which there
might be set up in connection
with the State highway depart
ment special zoning board Tor
non-urban regions Of the State.
This board would have the right
to zone any stretch of roadway as
scenic region upon petition OF
rs per cent of the owners of abut-
ting property. Along the highway
SO zoned, waySide commercial
business of all kinds would be
banned, not only on the highway
itself, but on abutting property,
except at such intervals as may
be established to meet public
necessity and convenience.
The plan proposes further that
on roads along which the owners
of abutting property voluntarily
3orego the commercial use OF
their properties in this manner,
the State highway commission
would undertake a definite pro-
gram of Identification, through
the planting of trees and shrubs,
care that bridges erected should
harmonic with the general scenic
effect and the adaptation of the
highway to the natural contours
of the landscape.
Plan Is Outlined
The Zoning board would not be
empowered to zone a stretch of
less than a minimum length,
which might be placed at two
miles, but would be empowered
to zone a stretch of any length
beyond the minimum. The plan
would apply to the problem of
conserving rural land values the
principle Of zoning under the
police power which has been
found practicable in cities gener-
ally in excluding from residential
sections such industrial and COM
mercial uses as are contrary to
the general welfare. Such zon-
ing and commercial uses as are
contrary to the general welfare.
Such Zoning, in cities, is recog-
nized as conserving and Stabiliz-
ing real estate values for the
city as a whole.
More than a score national
civic and business associations
took part in the conference,
called by the National Associa-
ton of Real Estate Boards and
the Outdoor Advertising Associa-
tion Of America, Inc.
The meeting resulted in the
formation of a permanent con-
ference, which will consider Mr..
Nelson's proposal and will at
tempt to draft model legislation
for recommendation to the sev.
eral States.
The Washington times., 1931-01-17
Press Club Inducts
Officers This EUe

With a note of dignity and q
note Of levity, Eugene s. Leggett,
washington correspondent of the
Detroit Free Press, tonight will be
inaugurated the twenty-third
president Of the National Press
Club.
Coast.to-coast radio hook-ups
over two chains will broadcast the
lighter hour Of the evening, begin
ming at $50 o'clock.
The Washington times., 1931-01-17

Louis r. Peak, $1,000, to erect
one six-room brick and frame
house at 1914 Military Rd. N. w.
j. Edward Chapman, $4,000, to
erect gasoline service station at
200 Florida Ave. N. w.
Waple g. James, $1,500, to erect
one one-story addition at 5506
Second st. N. W.
The Washington times., 1931-01-17

temporary roof over first-floor
level.
j. j. James, $45, 900, to build six
two-story houses at AIS to 429
Nicholson st. N. w.
American Paint and Varnish AS
sociation, $4,000. to erect two
story addition to present building
at 2201 New York Ave.
The Washington times., 1931-01-17
Building Permits

Building permits issued for the
past week amounted to $270,085
and were issued as follows:
Catholic University, $193,235,
footings and foundation walls and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-15
FOUR GIVEN TERMS
FOR HOLD-UPS HERE
SchooIboy, 10, Placed on
Probation in HOUSEKEEPING.
Another Investigated.

-Four young bandits received prison
terms, another was put on probation,
and the case Of a sixth was referred to
the probation officer for investigation
and report, by Justice Peyton Gordon
in Criminal Division 1 of District Su-
preme Court, yesterday.
Theodore r. Brewer, IS years old,
Of Winston-Salem, N. c., got seven
years for hold-up on January 10, at
an A. g. P. store, Tenth and C streets
southeast, which melted $31.34.
John Boyd, 26, of Philadelphia, his
companion in the crime who shot him
self when apprehended. entered a plea
Of guilty when arraigned, and his case
was referred to Probation Officer Amos
Steele.
Boy, Is, Gets Six Years.
Morris Carlton Peck, 1S, who broke
into a drug store in Chevy Chase last
month, while on probation after con-
viction of participating in the hold-up
Of runner for the Mount Vernon Saw
ingS Bank, got q six-year sentence. A
three-year sentence suspended in the
bank case also was invoked, but allowed
TO run concurrently, as was a one-year
term for grand larceny.
James de Lafayette Carpenter, 19-
year-old schoolboy of 1916 Kilbourne
place who was indicted with Beck on
the HOUSEKEEPING charge, was given
sentence Of six years and placed on
probation.
Prescription Rum Stolen.
The pair broke into Samuel T. Hig-
gers drug store, at SOFT Connecticut
avenue, January 5 and stole 5000 in
cash and a quantity Of prescription
liquor.
william c. Anthony, 81, and Lester p.
Hickman, rs, recently convicted of rob-
bing a gas station, were sentenced to
three years each in the penitentiary.
They held up and robbed David N.
Potts, assistant manager Of the station
at 720 Rhode Island avenue northeast
December %.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-15
TAX COLLECTIONS UP
$40, 900 IN JANUARY
SIC, e02, 626 Taken in First Seven
Months Of Fiscal Year.
Real Estate Leads.

Tax collections during January
showed an increase Of more than $780,
900 over the collections for January,
1880, according to Tax Collector
Chatham M. Towers annual report.
The total for last month was 81, 806,-
240.64, and for January, 1890, $1,458,-
240.64. The collections for the fiscal
year are also keeping above those for
the preceding fiscal year, although in
some of the earlier months there were
decreases.
For the first seven months Of. the
fiscal year the collections amounted to
SIS, 602 ,625.42. For the same period in
the preceding fiscal year the collections
were SIS, 768, 003.41.
OF the January collections, real es-
tate taxes led with $434, 520.29, fol-
lowed with motor vehicle taxes with
$421, 664.06. Then came water rents,
$166,616.02; gasoline tax, $121, 060. ~;
motor vehicle registration, $117,623;
tax redemption, $115.258.S2; Police
Court fines, &31, $3.50; interest and
penalties; $35,074.4S; intangible per-
sonal tax, $23, 063.55; insurance COM
pany, taxes, $2l,30S.95, and tangible
personal property taxes, $20,315.71.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-15
portion Of the earnings of the COM

portion Of the earnings of the COM
panieS.
It is claimed that the bill will not In
crease unemployment, the terms OF the
bill not being effective until all present
contracts have expired. The duration
of these contracts Is usually one or two
years.
VIII Not Hurt Farmers.
II Is further declared that the bill
viii not curtail the farmers revenue rs
it does not prohibit billboards. The
boards liable to be moved under this
act are those at interesting roads In
suburban areas and not on farms. APP
proved locations should command q
better rental than at present, 1t .
said. The bill does not cover cities or
incorporated towns.
Organizations sponsoring the bill, as
listed on the circular, are the Southern
Maryland Society, the Garden Club OF
Maryland, the Civic League. the Mary
land League Of Women Voters, the
Eastern High School Alumnae and the
Council of Jewish Women.
Delegate Metzerott already has pre-
sented similar bill, which was IN
dorsed by the Prince Georges County
Community Council. Mr.. Metzerott's
measure would have the commissioner
OF motor VenlcloS retneT tk1Au tn0 Sbece
Roads Commission supervise the u.
censing and administration OF the biu-
boards. He fixed the tax on each sign
at rs cents per square yard, cents
lower than the rate in the other bill.
Senate and House conferees Will meet
tomorrow afternoon to work out an
agreement on the bill, which has passed
both branches of Congress, to confer
on the District Commissioners the
necessary authority to regulate out
door signs. The purpose of the con-
ference is to iron out the text of House
amendments to the measure.
The conferees for the Senate are SEN
ators Capper of Kansas, Jones Of WASH
ington and King Of Utah. The House
win be represented In conferences by
Representative Zihlman of Maryland.
Hall of Indiana and Norton Of New
jersey
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-15
SENATE MAY STUDY
FUND BILL AT ONCE
$46,090,837 Decided Upon
by Bingham Committee
for City's Needs.

The District appropriation bill, re-
ported from the Senate Committee yes
terday, carrying total of $46 5000, 1877,
may be taken up for action in the SEN
ate tomorrow afternoon.
Senator Bingham, Republican Of Con-
necttcut, in charge of the measure, said
last night he would ask the Senate to
consider it tomorrow. In view Of the
fact that both the House and the SEN
ate Appropriations Committee have de-
cided to leave the Federal contribution
nscal year, 1t Is probable that the bill
will be disposed of in a comparatively
short time.
Senator Bingham made known sew
eral days ago that his reason for favor
ing continuation of the present lump
sum in next years bill was to enable the
Mapes Committee of the House time to
complete its study of the fiscal rela-
tons problem.
The net amount added to the bill by
the Senate Appropriations Committee
was $474,089. Included in the Senate
amendments, however, were salary in
creaseS for employees in underaverage
grades, amounting to $111,520. These
increases are on the same footing with
the amendments the Senate added to
all the Federal supply bills, and, since
the Senate yielded to the House by
dropping similar increases from the In
terror bill yesterday, it is expected these
District government increases will be
eliminated before the bill becomes law.
The principal increases placed in the
bill by the Senate Committee were: For
the expenses of the local George WASH
ington Bicentennial Commission, $780,
900; for an eight-room addition to the
Janney School, 100000; for the Wood
ridge School addition, $4,000 added to
the House item; for the Ben Murch
School addition, $4,000 more than the
House allowed; for the home care Of de-
pendent children, under the mothers
pension law, SIS, ZOO additional; for road
building in Rock Greek Park, $37, 900,
and for beginning development of a rec
reational center in the Manor Park Sec
ton, $20, 1000.
The Senate Committee amended the
item for paving B street between Four
tenth street and Virginia avenue by
eliminating the provision to widen it to
80 feet. This means the conferees Of
both houses will finally determine how
the street should be widened in con-
nection with the paving.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-15

The war risk insurance act went into
effect April 6, 1917, the day the United
States declared war against the Ger
man government and five days after
the sinking of the Aztec. But Eopo-
luccis mother can not file her appli-
cation and obtain the benefits Of that
act because the records show that her
son died on April /, 1917.
Josephus Daniels, then Secretary OF
the Navy. made the following state
ment concerning John e. Eopolucci:
He was the first sailor who lost his
life in the World War His mother
gave more to the country than the
richest man In America. She gave her
SON.
Two letters are made a part Of this
report. The first Is from the Secretary
of the Navy, addressed to the chairman
Committee of War Claims, under date
Of April 10, 1880, corroborating the facts
stated above, and the second is letter
from the United States Shipping Board
confirming statement that emergency
suppliNs were undoubtedly carried by
the nfeboatS of the steamship Aztec.
Your committee reported that due to
the fact that this sailor died as the
result Of enemy activities and his de-
PEN ent mother. whom he would have
named as beneficiary in insurance
policy, should he given the same rights
and privileges as were accorded all
othEr mothers who lost sons between
April 6. 1917, and the passage of the
wal risk insurance act October 1917.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-15
PAVING BILL FAILS
OF SENATE ACTION
Copeland Expected to Seek Vote
This Week on Borland Law
Substitute.

Another effort to obtain Senate &C.
ton on the new street paving assess.
ment law for the District, which has
passed the House, proved unsuccessful
late yesterday.
Just before the Senate quit for the
DAY Senator Copeland of New York
asked for unanimous consent to con-
slider the measure, which is intended to
take the place of the Borland law.
which has been rendered ineffective by
court decisions holding it unconstitu-
tional in several respects.
Senator Reed. Republican Of Penn
SyIvania, who obtained a postponement
OF its consideration earlier in the week,
when ne characterized certain features
OF the bill as of dubious constitutions
atty" told Senator Copeland yesterday
he understood Senator Blaine of Wis
consin was studying the bill. Senator
Copeland said Senator Blaine has as
sured him he is satisfied with the bill.
Senator McNary of Oregon, assistant
floor leader. asked Senator Copeland
not to press for action at that time,
The Senate was just completing action
on number of nominations and re-
cessed for the day few moments later.
Senator Copeland probably viii seek
action on the paving assessment bill
this week.