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Evening star., 1931-12-24
PASSENGER AND MAIL
RUSH FILLS AIRPLANES
Extra Sections Go Out on Many
of Regular Runs-W Gather
Cuts Service to West

Christmas airnail and passenger
business is crowding to capacity all the
air transport lines running out of
Washington. with extra sections going
out on many of the regular runs.
All the night airmail planes last night
were jammed to the hatch covers with
equally heavy loads piling up for to-
night. The mail compartments in pas
senger planes on the day runs also were
jammed to capacity, even when extra
sections were flown.
All lines were operating out of the
Capital this morning, except on the
Pittsburgh Cleveland airWay, where
heavy weather over the Alleghenias and
to the west put a stop to operations.
This heavy weather, general in all the
country west of the mountains WSS
moving eastward, but was not expected
to reach the Capital until tomorrow
All the lines reported unusually heavy
passenger reservations away from the
Capital this afternoon, many of them
made by Government employees who eX-
pect to fly home for Christmas.
Evening star., 1931-12-24
SOUGHT IN RIVER,
MAN REPORTS SAFE
Chester Smith Unable to Ex-
plain Suicide Evidence,
Wife Tells Police.

Chester Smith, who W2s thought to
have drowned himself following a
quarrel with his wife. turned up alive
last night after harbor police had spent
the day dragging the Georgetown
Channel for his body.
The search for the war veterans body
was begun following discovery of his
hat and coat on the shore of the chan
mel. near the District end of Key Bridge.
In the pockets of the coat were a
wallet and number of papers bearing
Smiths name and address. Among
the papers were copies of three cita-
tionS for bravery during the war. in
which Smith who is about 40 served
as a sergeant
At his Wife's home in Clarendon. Va,
Sergt. Coleman Brown and Policemen
c. E. Adams and R. c. Ault all of the
harbor precinct learned he had not
been heard from since Tuesday night,
when he telephoned to ask for a recon
ciliation.
Smith the officers were told was
fined $3.50 after a quarrel with his
wife several weeks ago and was com
mitted to Jail in default He was re-
leased Saturday, it was said
loId OF Smltn S domestic difficulties
the policemen began dragging the chan
mel, continuing their efforts to locate his
body until last night.
They had just about given up for the
night, determined to resume the drag
ging this morning, when Mrs. Smith no.
tilted j. M. Horten, night desk sergeant
at the police station, that she had heard
from her husband.
Although she said he told her he did
rot know how his coat and hat han
pened to be on the shore of the channel
the officers offered the opinion he placed
them there in the hope of effectine a
reconciliation. He asked his wife to
make up" she saiG.
The coat and hat are being held at
the police station by Desk Sergt, M
Howard until called for by Smith The
veteran refused to tell his wife where he
Is staying she said
Evening star., 1931-12-24

-SldT SldII fnOlO.
Bruno first got his" at Chateau
Thierry on July Is, 1918, the day the
Marne ran red" He had enlisted a
year before in the 30th Infantry Sd
Division. This second Battle Of the
Marne opened on the night of July IA.
1t was a German offensive. an attempt
to march on Paris. The fighting was
bitter and lasted through the day of the
18th. Bruno, whose outfit was IN the
first line of defense. suddenly went
down from machine gun bullet He
was carried off the field and shipped TO
a base hospital.
Two months later he was back at the
front. but in the Meuse- Argonne drive
of October he was hit again 1t was
Bruno's last scrap. He was through.
From then on it became a personal
battle with the front shifted to
hospital cot. Complications set IN ana
the spectre of amputatlOn became hlS
constant bedfellow. At St. Francis
Hospital he was operated on p times
in two years The best Army doctors
have worked to cure him; he has been
in most of the Government hospitals
in the country, And the end is not vet.
There is one Christmas gift that
Bruno has wanted for l3 years. ITS
something you can't stuff into stock
ing" he says, or tie up in fancy
package. It's a simple thing and yet
nobody seems to be able to give It TO
me 1 want the power to get out of
this bed and walk straight out of
hospital door forever
Until then, Christmas for Bruno is
Just another day.
Evening star., 1931-12-24
RECEIVES STIFF SENTENCE
ON POSSESSION CHARGE
Colored Man Fined $3.50 or 60
Days in Jail-Also Gets go
Days on Gaming Count

:, One man convicted of possessing
liquor received stiff sentence in Poo
lice Court today, while a second
charged with transporting % gallons
of liquor, was held for the grand i1ry,
under bond of s1,5OO by Judge Ralph
Given. p-'
Buster Anderson. colored. %, of 81
x street was found guilty of possession
OF half gallon of liquor and was SEN
fenced to a fine of $3.50 or 60 davs
in jail. Anderson was also convicted
OF permitting gaming and sent to iail
Tor 80 days more on this charge. He
was arrested by raiding squad headed
by Sergt. N. o. Holmes
Eugene Goodall, 80, of the 300 block
V street was arrested for transporta-
ton Of liquor when police. who stopped
his automobile for a minor traffic vio-
latlon, reported finding % gallons of
alleged whisky in the rear of the ma
chine. His case was sent to the grand
jur1.
Evening star., 1931-12-24
HOTEL CLERK INJURED
Henry s. Hodges Victim of Auto
Accident in Vermont.

Henry S. Hodges, SOL Eleventh street,
chief clerk at the Harrington Hotel, was
severely injured yesterday when an au-
tomobile in which he was riding ran
into a ditch at Ferrisburg. VT. He sus-
tanned several fractured ribs and minor
injuries His brother, passenger in
the car, escaped with slight hurts
It was learned at the Harrington Ho-
tel that Hodges was spending a short
vacation at his family's home in Ben
nington, VT. He is not married and is
said not to have any relatives here.
Evening star., 1931-12-24
TREASURY HITS
CRITICS Of PLAN
TO RAISE TAXES
Statement Holds Lower
Brackets Would Contribute
but Small Part.
WEALTHIER PERSONS
WOULD BEAR BURDEN
Only $27,0O0,O0o of $222 900, 600
Would Come From Those Earn
ing $4,000 or Less.

By the Associated Press,
The administration struck back to-
day at criticisms that its tax increase
plan mainly affects individuals with
small means.
The Treasury said persons with in
comes of $4,000 and less would con-
tribute only $27000,000 Of the proposed
increase Of 1922 100000 which would
come from the added income tax. 1t
was estimated persons with incomes Of
$4,000 and more would contribute
Sl82 900 900 additional.
Higher Incomes Cut.
The administration believes il is out
of the question to obtain from taxation
OF larger incomes anything approach
ing the total amount Of additional
revenue needed The number Of in
comes Of 100000 and over fell from
10000 in 1928 to 5000 in 1880. and the
tax on such incomes dropped from
100000 coo to less than S240 100000
The formal statement, issued at the
Treasury also was intended to clarity
the administration position in asking
Congress for more revenue in face of
a deficit now ct 81 1853 567l09
A year ago today income tax receipts
had swung deficit to a G6,335 600
surplus but the fiscal year END on july
first saw a deficit of S903 100000. Pros
pects are for this figure to be more
than doubled this fiscal year.
Proposed Changes Cited.
Shrmkage in individual and cor
porate income has brought about the
need for additional revenue. AID the
shrinkage in the amount of inc me
available for tax cannot be made good
by increasing the rates of tax
At present It was pointed out. normal
and SurtaX rates on incomes of $4,000
are II per cent. while under the pro-
posed rate the maximum would be %
per cent.
Under present law. the maximum rate
on income of 100000 is "a per cent
while under the proposed law it Will be
~ per cent. Income in excess of
100000 now is taxed at maximum
rate of 25 per cent. while under the
proposed increases the maximum would
be from 43 TO as per cent.
Under the proposals married man
with one dependent with an income
of $4,000 would be asked to pay S3l so
and Cne with an income of $4,000 would
pay Sl53
Evening star., 1931-12-24
THREE TAXI MEN
ROBBERY VICTIMS
Driver GrappIes in Vain With
Armed Quartet-0ne
Loses Cab.

Thre" ta.:icab drivers were held up
last night by robbers who obtained
total of $3.50 and cab The auto
mobile was found abandoned shortly
after it was taken from Austin T. Nor
ris 4516 Holiday street. Brentwood,
Md.
Norris was robbed of S5 by four men
who entered his cab at North Capitol
and H streets and ordered him to drive
them to the 1900 block Half street
southwest. where one of the men dis
played a gun while his companions took
the drivers money.
Grapples for Gun.
Richard E. Leith, 800 Ninth street
northeast. attempted to Wrest the gun
from one of a quartet Of robbers, an
swerng the description of Norris pas
Sengers. who made him drive them from
First and B streets southwest to Half
and streets southeast and then rob-
bed him. He was unable to get the
gun. however. and only managed to dis
suade the men from shooting him by
pleading that he had wife and chill
dran to support The thieves obtained
81 from him.
William F.. Smith. 32l B street south
east, was robbed of S780 by two colored
men after he had driven them to South
Capitol and streets about 2:30 this
morning.
Alice Hunter 1912 Northampton street,
CT evv Chase, and Wallace 7. Enright,
Glenbrook road Bethesda, yesterday
told local police their automobiles
parked on the streets, were robbed.
Cars Are Ransacked.
The formers car was robbed of wear
ing apparel and other property valued
at sl0I in the 100 block of S street,
While wearing apparel. glassware,
Christmas seals and other articles,
valued at S3o50. were taken from the
lattor's car at Seventh and M streets:
Loss of satchel containing surgical
instruments. small quantities OF mar
cotics and book of liquor prescription
blanks was reported to the police last
night bv DR.. John H Trinder of 5000
Connecticut avenue.
More than 80 arrests have been made
in the stores by members Of the police
squad detailed to look after shoplifters.
Detective B. C. Kuehling. in charge OF
the squad, said most of the stealing
in the stores involved the taking OF
only small QuantllleS Vi Sln Alllido
goods.
RAYMOND OBanen, 36, Of the. 900
block of H street, reported to police
today that he was held by four white
men at the point of pistols, at EleIenth
street and New York avenue last night
and robbed of $25. Each of the men
drew a pistol. he told police.
OBanen furnished police with a
description of the four men and gave
them the serial number of a $40 bill
he said was included in the loot.
Evening star., 1931-12-24
ATTORNEY is NAMED
Lehman Will Aid in Valuation of
Gas Light COMPANY.

Roland j. Lehman. valuation attor-
ney, has been appointed a special as
sistant by Corporation Counsel William
w Bride to help in the valuation of the
Washington Gas Light Co.. ordered for
next year. Mr.. Lehman will be paid
$500 month.
Mr. Lehman has had considerable ex-
perience in valuation work and was rec
cmmended to Mr.. Bride by several men,
bers of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission. The appointment was approved
by the Public Utilities Commission.
Evening star., 1931-12-24

with holiday buyers but contributed
its quota 70 the baskets. which were
assembled in the market office.
The merchants did not 60 in for
fancy groceries knowing that hungry
men, women and children need plain
food
Each basket contained 4 or pound
smoked shoulder. pounds of potatoes.
pounds of -four. 3 pounds of apples.
2 pounds of sugar, l pound OF rice, !
pound Of navy beans = pound of but
ter, half a dozen oranges. l pound of
lard, l pound of coffee and a big head
of cabbage.
The baskets We're labeled with tags
saying, Christmas greetings from the
New Center Market Dealers Assocta-
ton. Fifth, K and L streets"
The association has a virtually COM
plete enrolment of l25 merchants do
ing business at Center Market and the
Evening star., 1931-12-24
Approves Police Sports.

Oros " 2ation of basket ball. wrestling
end boring teams among meT'bers of
the Police Department has the cp-
proval of Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glass
ford. superintendent. Through the
courtesy of the Boys Club of Wash
ing on, located at 230 C street, the
athletic equipment of the club has
been made available to the police with
out cost.
Evening star., 1931-12-24

Christmas baskets represented the asso-
cations first charitable Undertaking
The baskets were assembled under
direction of F. w Loetsch. president:
c. Cassard Schroth, treasurer. and
Fairfax Oyster, vice president of the
association, by two willing volunteers,
S. R. Mullin. superintendent Of the
market. and w. H. Souder. auditor
The names of the recipients of the
baskets were supplied by The Star by
the Council of Social Agencies and
Central Union Mission from list care
fully checked to eliminate Implications
and TO insure that each basket reached
the home which needed it most.
The merchants were catering to the
buying public today with beaming facpc
happy in the knowledge that their
.harlty has filled 100 empty cupboard,
Tor families which could not qualitv as
cash customers.
Evening star., 1931-12-24

gress, were cautioned last night by
Comdr c. w. Browning of Victory Post,
American Legion. against any great in
f1uX of eX-service men into the Capital
unless means for their support has been
provided. The advice was given at an
entertainment arranged for the Western
veterans by the Legion post, which
adopted a resolution urging the national
officers not to soft pedal" the anti-pro-
hibition resolution adopted at the Ma
tional Convention in Detroit Post men,
bers called for positive and aggressive
action toward execution of the resolu-
ton,
Evening star., 1931-12-24
ARTERIAL HIGHWAY URGED

Virginia avenue should be made an
arterlal highway, particularly in the
vicinity of the Navy and Munitions
Buildings, Capt. E. N. Chisolm, jr.. en-
gineer of the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission said today.
He pointed out there has been num-
ber of serious automobile accidents on
that thoroughfare recently and the
Co-ordinating Committee has recon-
mended that stop signs be placed along
the avenue.
The next meeting of the Co-ordi-
mating Committee, of which Capt.
Chisolm is chairman. will be held on
January II, and it is expected that
the matter will be brought up again,
unless the District authorities carry
out the program in the interim.
Evening star., 1931-12-24


" Flat on his back as a result
II of machine-gun bullets that
4 \ riddled his legs on the battle
fields of France, Bruno 1sa-
brand, patient at Walter Reed Hos
pital. is spending his thirteenth con-
secut.ve Christmas on a hospital cot.
Fer him Christmas is just another
long day of helplessness. The same
routine of daily treatment. of having
to b waited upon like a child. OF
watching the world go by From habit,
his eyes wander to the big clock that
hangs on the wall near him. only to
rems mDer that it doesn't mean a thing
Today, Christmas cards and letters
will be stacked high on his bedside
table. and doctors and nurses and
friends will drop in with cheerful
greetings. Outside his window a huge
tree gayly trimmed with lights, will
glow warmly. and inside his ward is
smaller tree also lighted. Carolers
VIII sing for him and gifts will flood
his table
But real enjoyment of these things is
slipping away from Bruno. Thirteen
years Of bcdridden existence have
brought him too closely to reality not
to recognize it. He can't forget that
'CnorroW they will sweep away the rib
Is and the tinsel The bright polish
g. a happy imagination has been rub
bed away by the more than so opera
tions he has had
But his smile is as happy and infec-
tiouS as ever. Bruno's gameneSS has
been the great factor in the desper-
ate fight Army surgeons have made to
save his legs.
Evening star., 1931-12-24

ton trucks this afternoon 10
the doors of the neediest families in
Washington.
Small faces frightened, weary backs
Strengthened and willing hands re-
Celyed the gift baskets as the trucks
rolled up TO the door to Danish the
prospect of an empty larder on Christ
mas day.
Half a hundred additional baskets
were delivered by other newspapers.
making total of 100 as a Christmas
gilt to the poor from merchants who
we'll know the need for wholesome,
food in Impoverished homes.
Scarcely booth or stall in the big
market which Just now is thronged
Evening star., 1931-12-24
Rabbi to Preach.

Rabbi Abram Simon will deliver a
special address on Moses and Jesus"
in the Hebrew Temple Friday evening.
The discussion will draw a parallel
between the lives of the two great bib
lical characters.
Evening star., 1931-12-24
NIFTY baskets heaped high with
I food by the merchants of new

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-20

To date Mir Hoover has remained silent and Governor Roosevelt is inclined to take the former to task for not interesting himself personally in the matter. Obviously good campaign issue for the president and the likely democratic candidate Cat this writing to discuss has been created. Governor Roosevelt's stand on the St Lawrence water way and also on public utilities in general is pretty generally known. He is a firm be- liever in public ownership and operation of the much discussed lake-to-sea route and he also has come to bat frequently during his governorship on the subject of lower utility rates for small consumers Whether or not he can provoke some sort of utteranee from the President remains to be seen. We'll wager. though. that in this instance President Hoover will be hummer than Coolidge ever was.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-20
Secondary Roads Needed

There are three million miles of roads in the United States. One hundred and twenty thousand miles are high-type main high ways. 100000 miles are stone. gravel or sand-clay. Fifty thousand miles more have been graded And the balance is unimproved. To produce this result more than $l2,OO0.- 100000 has been spent. Yet there are millions of Americans. principally on farms whose business and social contracts are out of adjustment because of poor roads, i'm passable during several months of each year.
 Only by the wisest, most cautious use. of funds can necessary secondary roads now be built without plunging communities into debt. We take justfiable pride in the magnificent, heavy traffic. trunk highways that go here and there throughout the na- ton each mile of them represents neces- sary expenditure of tens of thousands Of dollars. In contrast to this, full-wdth roads, passable at all times of the year. and . adequate for tributary traffic, can be built of local materials, Unanimously treated at fraction of the cost.
 The secondary. farm-to- market road might be called the backbone of our high way system. A million dollar highway IS of small use to farmer who lives five miles away on a dirt road, or to merchant Tn a village which tourists avoid because of the bane of dangerous semi-impassable roads. Americas highway evolution will not be complete until our primary highway system is augmented by nation wide feeder arteries of inexpensive, but weatherproof local roads
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-20
CORNELIUS T. DRIsCOLL

(New Haven Journal-Courier.)
 Comparatively few of the citizens of New Haven have any distinct impression of former. Mayor Dris- coll. He was the first citizen of the town when the population was a little over one half of what 1t Is to-day. From the social point of view it was a different New Haven from the New Haven of to-day. It was a more solidly compact com munity with fewer distractions, a calmer spirit of political and social life, and less restless in It's com radeship. The mores of the town were of a more modest character and public service drew its inspira- ton from less selfish motives. The duties of the office of mayor were less burdensome and the govern ment itself was less ocmplex. This in brief was the character of the city when MT Driscoll was our first citizen.
 Into this picture or condition MT Driscoil fitted admirably. He was educated in our public schools when the forms of education were simpler and as we believe more effective in their underlying pur- pose. He was graduated from Yale in the class of 1869 when Yale was a college and not even dreaming Of the day when university ambitions would overtake it. If the express sion is not open to either criticism or reproach. life was simpler in It's indulgences and more earnest in It's activities. The town meet ing was still the agency for the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-20
Here, There And Euery1Dhere

enforcement of public opinion and the discovery of political leaders. The city had a court of common council fashioned after the state and federal legislatures. The town had not yet been merged with the municipality and the scholo dis trict was a government by itself with its commissioners elected by popular vote. The horse cars car ried the people from one destina- ton to another. The streets were lighted by gas and electricity was an infant industry and traffic jams were unknown. But this is no time to write of the history of tha, period except as in this brief form 1t carries, we hope, to the minds of our readers the social conditions which existed when MT Driscoll was mayor, and the great majority of us were slowly approaching the voting age.
 The record shows MT Driscoll to have been a devoted and conscient- ious official carrying his duties with dignity and self-respect. and with a clear appreciation of community needs. His agreeable personality made him welcome guest of so- cial gatherings while his human in- terests were shown in his contribu- tion to the early history of the Knights of Columbus.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-20
Roosevelt Forges Ahead

Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt has cer- tainly scored in his first pre-conventlon skirmish with President Herbert Hoover. With the chances of both these dignitarles opposing each other at the polls in Novem- Der, l932, anything that might possibly bring d difference of opinion IS welcomed by the politicians today. In the recent ex- change of letters between Governor Roose- welt and Acting Secretary of State William R. Castle. Jr, there is plenty of foundation on which to build bridges and it isnt sand either. Fearful that the United States and Canada were indulging in secret conferences on the proposed St Lawrence river water way project Governor Roosevelt on August 10 wrote the President letter of inquiry.
 Failing to receive an answer or even an acknowledgement. Governor Roosevelt evil dently became disturbed. Inquiries at both the White House and the State Department eleited no information, However it ulti- mately developed that the President had turned Governor Roosevelts letter over to this latter office. Its reply to the governor of New York was to the effect that no se- cret negotiations were underway between this country and Canada relative to the pro- posed waterway Furthermore it was stated that at the proper time the interests of New York state would be protected. Acting Secretary of State Castle signed the letter.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-20

What has happened to Waterbury's dirt road fund of Sl7,750? We haven't heard anything of it in recent months. Nor have we noticed Waterbury's name among the list of towns where bids on contracts were asked. There are so many dirt roads in the town of Waterbury requiring attention that it will be many years before the dirt road fund will have proved its value. Of course. the fund was intended primarily to care for farmers and people who reside in isolated sections and who are often cut off from the rest of the state for weeks at time during the winter and spring months when travel ing over dirt roads is extremely hazardous. Still there are farmers in and around Water bury who might not mind being taken out of the mud. They ought to make their pleas now so that the proper authorities can see that their roads are repaired