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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-08
CENTRAL Y JUNIORS
 LOSE TO NORWALK
Locals on Short End of P to IS Verdict-CrOwley and Lyons Locals Best Bets
Especial to The Democrat)

Norwalk, Jan S-The fast step- ping Central Y Juniors of Water- bury made their debut here We'd nesday evening and pressed the Y "13" club throughout, before lowing in a close encounter. 22 to IS. The game was complete with spectacular playing, the locals leading by a small margin which the visitors failed to overcome. The game in detail:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-08
TERRYVILLE IN LLTCHFTELD

Terryville, Jan 8-The Terry vile high school boys and girls basketball teams will play the Litchfeld high schools teams in Litchfield this evening. These will be Western Connecticut league games. A large number of local fans will accompany the teams.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-08

A late news flash tells us that the Waterbury District team is go- ing to roll the New Milford team next Wednesday night at Genlot's alleys after the regular league games. As the Waterbury and New Milford teams are both near the top of the c. l.. & P. Co. State
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-08
The Standing:

The Connecticut Light and Power Company bowling league express has reached the halfway mark of it's journey. It sidetrack- ed long enough for the twenty teams, which compose the league, to put on some real, red hot, rip- snorting matches in which the en- thusiasm of the different members sure rose to a very high pitch. In fact, the excitement that prevailed would lead one to think that sev- eral heart attacks would INsult but we guess the blood pressure of the boys must be very near nor- mai when they came through this weeks festivities.
 There Is no doubt in the state. ment that the success of any bow. ling league can be measured by it's attendance. The near 100 per cent which we have on hand each week Is evidence of the fact that this league of ours Is second to none as far as success is concerned. Wednesday night found only one member absent when the roll was called, 90 out of 100 is not so bad, brother.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-08
We-Matched Rituals Meet For Western Connecticut Lea

the last boxes were rolled. Prexy Tom Flanagan can feel proud that he installed this method of scoring in his circuit.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-08
Leavenworth Defends Title In Watertown
 Game This Evening

What are the 1882 prospects of Leavenworth high schools able and scrappy little team successfully defending their Western Connecticut basketball championship? On for the only obstacle to the natural desire of the local boys and their coach to win again. is Al Deands Watertown h. dans. The teams meet tonight at Wlby gym.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-08

istered by the Lautenschlagcr Ne'er Do-Wells when he was told that his name was drawn for the attendance prize.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-08

Referee-Wilkins. Score at half time, 13-10-Norwalk.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-08

sisy bent on several oscasions "Wednesday night with the result tIist slts score 0f e tviHe less than 800 was far hei0w what he usually turns ID. Never mind. Prank. saye en the Leroy, Drusnns0nd snd Mar. teIs tnc,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-08

Honorable mention this week. Buster Wallace. He tickled the wood for 38O. Dick Hyland, knock ed them down for 326. Jack Rob- erts-his score summed. up 317 for the night. Jack Murphy eased out with 316. Mrs DOdd's boy Tom tickled the lumber for 323. Maurice Chevalier KOrncr had ono nice game of 127. We can't forget Sf D'VeIisIxis with his S55.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-06-10

Democrat; Gov. Wilbur l.. Cross OF
Connecticut. Democrat; Gov. Joseph
B. Ely Of Massachusetts, Democrat
Alanson B. Houghton of New York
Republican Frank o. Lowden of I'LL
nois, Republican; William q. Croker
of San Francisco, member of Repub-
lican national committee; Charles Ma
gel Of st. Louis, Republican; Roland
S. Morris of Philadelphia. Democrat,
and John Grier Hibben. retiring pres
ident of Princeton university, Repub-
lcan.
Replies from the party leaders were
prompt but scarcely satisfying. Sen.
ator Jim Watson, majority leader OF
the senate, said: "The letter is three
months too late. We have done every.
thing they suggest toward a balanced
budget, but we are hindered by special
interests. There have been no signs
Of partisanship at any time"
Senator Harrison of Mississippi,
Democratic floor leader on the tax bill,
said: ''There has been no partisan
ship In the house or senate on the
problem of balancing the budget. This
legislation will be achieved without
any spirit of partisanship."
Other senators took occasion to
praise themselves and their opponents
for nonpartisan and wise action, and
then all went ahead with their scrap.
ping over the tariff features of the
revenue bill. The fight over these was
sectional if not partisan.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-06-10

+ EGALIZED beer lost another fight.
~ and won't have a chance again
until the national conventions meet
in June and go into spasms over the
wet and dry planks. for their plat
forms. Following the example set by
the senate. the house rejected the
O'Connor-Hull resolution legalizing
and taxing 2.75 per cent beer. The
vote was 100 to 22S. and Technically
was on the motion to discharge the
ways and means committee from fur.
Their consideration of the bill. which
If carried would have brought the
measure before the house. The two
parties were nearly evenly split In the
vote.
On Wednesday the senate again
swatted beer, rejecting by a vote Of
&c to So the Bingham amendment to
the pending tax bill which would
legalize beer of 275 per cent alcoholic
content and tax it at the rate of two
cents pint. Senator Borah did most
of the talking against the proposed
amendment. which was defended by
Senator Bingham.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-06-10

COME peculiar things are resulting
- from the prohibition controversy.
The Democrats of Texas, formerly
very dry, In their state convention
adopted resolution proposing resub-
mission Of the Eighteenth amendment
to the states The measure was car
Red by vote of S51 to 564 after
what amounted almost to riot. Pres
ident Hoover, 1t was reliably reported
in Washington, abandoned his attitude
of aloofness and took an active part in
framing mildly moist plank for the
Republican national platform. so mild
that it probably would not seriously
offend the drys and probably would
not satisfy the vets. Deets Pickett,
Democrat and dry leader among the
Methodist reformers. announced that
Franklin Roosevelt's moderately wet
pronouncemenf would be satisfactory
to the dry Democrats because that
probably was as far as he ever would
go.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-06-10

SOCIALISTS, meeting in national
~ convention in Milwaukee nomi-
mated Norman Fl. Thomas of New
York for President and James "a.
Maurer of Pennsylvania for second
place on the ticket. Mr.. Thomas, who
was the party's candidate in 1928, said
his campaign would be a war against
the Republican and Democratic par
ties and against "the kingdom Of pow
erty." Before the nomination, which
was by reclamation, Mr.. Thomas de-
feated an attempt to commit the So
cialist party to confiscation of the
principal industries of the nation.
The Communist party was to hold
its convention in Chicago May % and
20, and there seemed no doubt that
1t would nominate William Q. Foster
for President and James w. Ford Of
Alabama, negro. for Vice President.
HHEERED on by a throng of Tam
~ manyites and by the Democratic
minority members of the Hofstadter
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-06-10


the French government, either as pre-
mier or minister of foreign affairs, de-
clared he fully approved statement
by Senator ?aul-Boncour that Frances
program remains national security, ar
bitration and disarmament, in the or
der named. His policy as to repara-
tons, he said, was: First, maintain
European solidarity; second. permit
no rupture in the equilibrium between
credits and debts at the expense of the
French taxpayer.
Although receptive to the suggestion
Of armament reductions, the radical
socialist leader strongly approved the
plan presented at the Geneva confer
ence by Andre Tardieu. This plan
calls for International security through
an international police force to be su-
pervised by the League of Nations.
a DMIRAL MAKOTO SAITO COM
"A pleted Japanese Combination"
cabinet to replace the government
which retired upon the assassination
of Premier Tsuyoshi Inukai. Gen.
Sadao Araki, Nationalist leader, was
retained in his former dominant post
Of minister of war. Admiral Saito
himself will temporarily be minister
of foreign affairs. There will be no
great change in policies.
Gen. Yoshinori Shirakawa, COM
mander in chief of the Japanese i'm
perial forces at Shanghai. who was
wounded by bomb on April %, died
after relapse.
20. 1892, Western Newspaper union.l
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-06-10

ready with a PROPOSE
ton, which Gre a t
Britain is said to ia
vor, calling for a tenn
porary extension Of
the Hoover moratori-
UNI. and If this is
adopted the repara-
tons problems will
be turned over to ex-
pert c o m m | S sion 8
which may or may
not report in the fall.
Edouard Herriot, who
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-06-10

every form Of parti-
sanship" End, with
their party followers,
TO unite to balance
the federal budget.
The signers OF this
letter we're: Nicholas
Murray Butler, presl-
dent OF Columbia uni
versity, Republican ;
Alfred r. Smith, Dem
ocratic candidate for
the Presidency in
1928; Gov. Albert G.
Dfknhf@ 80 nQ-,1-S
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-06-10

DRESIDENT HOOVER voiced his
opposition to the Democratic pro.
posals Of big government bond issues
for construction of federal public
works as a measure for relief of I'm.
employment. In the same statement
from the White House he further
urged his own plan of legislation to
permit loans by the reconstruction
finance corporation to states for relief
of restitution and to public and pri-
vate agencies for incone-producing
projects. Huge OUTLAWS for federal
public buildings and similar works he
said would he wasteful and destructive
of the public confidence essential to
economic recovery.
The Democratic leaders indicated
they would fight the President on this
issue even al the risk of prolonging
the session of congress. which already
appears likely to run on until after
the Neutrality-suspicious. have been held.
Senator Barbour of New Jersey. Re-
publican. introduced a bill carrying
out Mr.. Hoover's ideas. It would pro-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-06-10

-. Mayor Walker
torts, and his attacks on his attacker,
and emerged from the first days
hearing with his head unbowed
though somewhat bloody. Much of
the examination centered on the grant,
ing Of bus franchise to the Equit-
able Coach company.
The outstanding developments were:
The story Of an adventure into
high finance with Paul Block, the
newspaper publisher, in which Mayor
Walker made profit of $246,692 in
Wall street without putting up a
+. penny.
The marking for Identification Of
a number of mysterious and unex-
planned letters Of credit issued by
Mayor Walker in which no names
were made public.
The revelation by Mayor Walker
that he was being paid out of the
trading fund at the rate Of $4,000
every few weeks during 1927, 1928 and
1929 and that he was taking his money
in cash and putting it in safe in his
home for spending money for him
self and Mrs. Walker"
The inability of Mr.. Walker to
explain why one of the Equitable
Coach company's hackers should have
paid a $1,000 overdraft Walker made
on a letter of credit in Paris in 1927.
The explanation by the mayor Of
a $4,000 letter of credit which he
took to Europe to pay for 1.-THE party's
personal expenditures" on a junket
financed by Rodman Wanamaker. The
mayor said every one-or almost every
one-in the party contributed to the
$4,000 pool and that it lust hap
pened to be issued by the Equitable
Trust company"
Early in the week 1t became known
that the federal authorities had be-
come interested in the revelations and
were investigating Mayor Walkers
status as an income taxpayer for the
years 1928 and 1929.
DR. JOSEPH 1. FRANCE Of Mary
- land aspirant for the Republican
Presidential nomination, captured Ore
CONS thirteen delegates to the con-
vention-and probably that is all he
will have, since he lost his own state
to Mr.. Hoover. The ten Oregon votes
in the Democratic convention will be
cast for Franklin D. Roosevelt.
THERE is good reason to believe
L that the Lausanne conference on
Preparations will do nothing definite be-
fore early next year. The French are
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-06-10

CENATOR WILLIAM e. BORAH of
~ Idaho says he is not going to at
tend the Republican national conven-
ton, and there are indications that he
will sulk in his tent throughout the
campaign. His determination to stay
away from the gathering in Chicago
was something Of blow to the drys.
who had counted on him to lead their
forces in the convention and to intro.
duce their dry plank.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-06-10

p. Putnam, landed In
Ireland after the first
solo fight across the
Atlantic ever made by
a woman. The intre-
pid young aviator
had started for Paris,
but a burned out ex-
haust manifold and
other motor trouble led
her to descend at Gull
more near London
derry. She had made
the distance from Har.
Dor Grace, N. r.. in IA
hours and "a minutes,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-06-10

THERE is good reason to believe
L that the Lausanne conference on
Preparations will do nothing definite be-
fore early next year. The French are
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-06-10
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
Mrs Putnams Great Solo Flight Across the Atlantic
House Rejects Legalized Beer-Hoover Against
Democratic Relief Plans
By EDWARD W. PICKARD

EXACTLY five years after Charles
IL A. Lindbergh completed his epoch-
making flight from New York to Paris.
Amelia Earhart, who is now Mrs. G.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-06-10

leSlSlatlVe c0mmlttee,
Mayor Jimmy Walk
er Of New York con-
fronted Counsel SAM
uel Seabury and I'M
dertook to defend or
explain away numer-
GUS alleged facts that
had been brought out
before the committee
and that implied
grating. The dapper,
wise-cracking mayor
kept the crowd in a
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-06-10

vide the reconstruction finance cor
poration with $1.5O0.OOO,OO0 additional
capital for loans for self-liquidating
projects that would furnish jobs for
the unemployed.
Senator Bronson Cutting, the .'pro-
gressive" Republican from New Mex
leo, followed with bill providing for
just the kind of relief aid which the
President had opposed, anC in intro
ducing It Cutting made caustic at
tack on Mr.. Hoover. The Cutting bill
carries three billion dollars for road
construction and two billions for rivers
and harbors work as well as public
buildings and other federal works.
COMMITTEE hearings on Repre-
~ sentative Fred Britten's bill to
place the Hawaiian islands under an
army or navy commission began and
attracted large number Of witnesses
and spectators. Among the former
was Mrs. Granville Fortescue, mother
in-law of Lieut.. Thomas Massie and
his co-defendant in the recent sensa-
tional murder trial In Honolulu. Testi-
mony was heard from Gen. Douglas
Macarthur. chief Of staff; other army
and navy officers, and Floyd Gibbons,
war correspondent.
ELEVEN men of great national prom
II inence sent to the Republican and
Democratic leaders Of the senate and
house an earnest appeal to LAY aside
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-06-10

and landed without injury to herself
or her plane. It was her second cross
ing of the ocean by plane, but the
other time, in 1928. she was merely a
passenger with Wilmer Stulz and Lou
Gordon.
Il made this fight just for fun" said
Mrs. Putnam after landing, and she ad-
mitted her achievement meant nothing
to aviation. Nevertheless, she was
the recipient of innumerable congrat-
ulatory messages. from President Hoo
yer and Prime Minister Macdonald
among others. and when she flew on to
London In borrowed plane she was
given great ovation. She was the
guest of Ambassador Mellon who. with
members OF his embassy staff, met her
at the Hanworth airdrome.
Besides being the first woman to fly
the Atlantic alone, this young Ameri-
can girl set new speed record for the
crossing and also bettered the dis
lance record for women set by Ruth
Nichols at 1916 miles. Her distance
was 2.026.5 miles.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-06-10

DRESIDENT P. B. CAREY of the
Chicago Board of Trade went down
to Washington and conferred with Sec.
rotary of Agriculture Hyde, and took
occasion to make the fiercest attack
on the federal farm board and its do
ings that has been heard. He called
the boards record "ghastly smear"
and said its result had been the almost
complete adjustment of the open, CON-
petitive market which required rs
years to establish. He declared wheat
could and would advance If the board
were forced by congress to desist at
once from its "senseless efforts" and
said he could appoint committee Of
six members of the Chicago Board Of
Trade who "in short time, and with
absolutely no drain on the taxpayer,
could and would dispose of all the
government wheat for cash at a
steadily advancing price with the in
evitable favorable reflection on the
general condition Of the country"
Mr.. Carey selected rather unfa.
vorable time for his attack, inasmuch
as just then the wheat market showed
a decided tendency toward higher
prices. J. @. Stone, chairman of the
farm board, seized his advantage and
replied sharply to Mr.. Carey's assault.
He said: "Wheat is the only great
major commodity which for the last
five months has shown a definite up.
ward tendency. Its influence under
the present favorable statistical posi-
ton may well lead other commodities
to higher ground. That opportunity
will not be risked in the hands of the
people in group representing those
who have grown rich from the profits
gained by market manipulation"
Mr.. Stone challenged the Chicago
"grain gamblers" as he called them,
to explain how 1t is that wheat has
been held from 5 to IS cents a bushel
above the world market; this, he
averred. is the result Of the farm
board policies.
Evening star., 1932-03-10
saving of 100000 to taxpayers ir

saving Of s2,ooo,ooo to taxpayers in
1882.
That was item No. Of the economy
program. Item No. was added by
legislative enactment. When the Cen
eral Assembly met last Spring it passed
a law requiring all taxing units, coun-
ties. townships, municipalities and
school districts, to reduce levies in 1881
and 1882 per cent. 1t is estimated
this enactment reduced local taxes five
or six million dollars.
Then came the third item. In equal
izing assessments of various taxing
units, the State Board of Assessment
and Review lowered the assessed valua-
ton of farm property $4,000, 900 and
of city property $30,000,000, total re-
duction of $160, ,0O0, 900 in assessed val
uation of the State. It is estimated this
saved taxpayers $4,000,000.
Adding the three items, 1t is seen the
taxpayers will have upward Of Sl2,000,-
600 less to pay this year than in 1881.
In each case the estimates, lacking final
tax reports for the year. are by Dr.. j.
w. Reynolds, chairman OF the State
Board of Assessment and Review.
Iowa, being a leading agricultural
State, its tax problem Is of special in
terest. Situated in the heart of the
Middle West, the State may be regarded
also as fairly typical Of the great farm
ing region surrounding 1t.
Evening star., 1932-03-10

would have to be cut. The present
policies of highway development would
have to be changed.
"If we accept this as necessity, no
doubt considerable decrease IN taxes
can be brought about"
The greater burden Of Iowa's tax
load falls upon the farmer. His gen.
eraI nronerty tax can neither be evaded
nor nassed on. And at present prices
of live stock, farm income In the
famous corn and hog State Is at tne
lowest ebb in generations.
OF general property tax ana us re-
lief, DR.. Reynolds said: :.
"rhere is no question property Is
overburdened from taxes, ana thaC
plan must be devised to take some OF
the load of visible property such as
real estate. When it taxes 1our 10 iVe
months rent on a business Duliolng,
three to five months rent on a resi-
dence and S1.50 and 81 an acre on
farm to pay taxes, something must oe
done to relieve this load.
I'm the case of farm, sucn CaA
is the same as a perpetual mortgage
of SIS on each acre, and under present
prices of farm products sucn siIua-
ton is impossible.
I'm our State those trying 10 point
the way to relieving visible property
have suggested that an income tax'
Evening star., 1932-03-10

As chief taxation official, DR.. REYNOLDS
was asked to outline the tax situation
in Iowa, its effect upon agriculture and
how the situation may be further re-
lieved.
In a general way, after ordinary
economies of government" he replied,
tax reduction means-if it amounts to
anything in the way of real reduction
Of the burden-that We must do without
many services we now have and be con-
tent to accept less from government.
I'm Iowa the income from all sources
for governmental use amounts, in round
numbers, to S140, 100000 annually.
About $110,000,000 of this is produced
from property tax and tax on moneys
and credits. We get about $25 900 900
tax About SIS 900 900 comes from other
taxes and miscellaneous sources.
I'm spending this We devote S65 600. =
600 to grade and high schools. uniyer-
stiles and other State educational instl-
tutions. We devote $45 900, 900 to pri-
mary and secondary roads. Thus all
but $50 10000 is expended and from
that must come all money for govern
ment, State, county, municipal and
township.
$50 you see what must be done when
tax reduction is demanded. Any ap-
preciable reduction must come from
money for roads and education. and
they are the two things people do not
want to give up.
1T is very possible our taxes are
based on too high standard. 1t is not
too high for the period of 1928 to 1929
perhaps, but it is too high under pres
ent conditions. If these conditions con-
tinue the answer is very plain-we must
do with less and pare expenses.
Sacrifices Necessary.
"This would mean we would have To
be satisfied with lower standard of
education. Teachers salaries might
have to be reduced. Salaries of all
persons taking part in government
Evening star., 1932-03-10
BY MALCOLM CUTTING.

DES MONIES, Iowa, March
(N.AN Quietly and effectively
Iowa last year established a system of
economy which reduced taxes, payable
this year, between 10 and IL million
dollars. That is probably a national
record for 1881.
All this saving, State and local, was
in the tax on general property. And
in Iowa 80 per cent of all taxes are
derived from property, two-thirds of it
farm property. So the slash this year,
10 per cent of the general property tax,
is a rSal measure of relief.
To Gov. Turner perhaps more than
any one else IS due the credit. Gov
ernment economy was principal plank
in his platform of 1880, and when he
was elected he Immediately put this
policy into effect.
Calling together heads of depart
ments early in 1881, he urged lowering
all budgets, that the levy on property
might be reduced.
This admoniticn was ZealouSly OBJ
served, With budgets rigidly pruned,
legislative appropriations were reduced,
and it was possible to lower the State
levy 20 per cent, 10 to 8 mills, with