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The Lexington advertiser., 1932-05-05

The celebrated gasoline tax bill IS
another one that is in conference be-
tween the two houses. The Senate wants
to set aside one cent OF the gasoline
none. to pay the interest on state bond
issues and also wants to stop the busi-
ness OF exempting agricultural gasoline
from taxation The House does not
want either Of these. The Senate is
willing to exempt the gasoline used in
tractors and for agricultural purposes,
from taxation. but they want the farmer
to buy his gas, pay the tax, and then
present certificate and get his money
back. The House wants the exemption
to apply at once and that he not be
called on to pay at all.
The Lexington advertiser., 1932-05-05

Motorists usually find that in detour-
ing, one poor turn deserves another.
The Lexington advertiser., 1932-05-05

Members of the Legislature AZ
sessions receive $1,000 whether
sions are long or short. This Y
$4,000 a month for the fouf
already served. At extraordlnl
sions they receive $1,000 q a'
no time limit on Adjournment
The Lexington advertiser., 1932-05-05

Nowadays they have found out how
to do everything fast, except sleep.
The Lexington advertiser., 1932-05-05

man in Chicago who wanted a
street car to idetour around his auto
mobile, is expected to recover.
The Lexington advertiser., 1932-05-05

Youngsters in the last generation no
doubt decided that the road to know
ledge had too many branches.
The Lexington advertiser., 1932-05-05

With galleries crowded by Govern
ment employees facing drastic pay slashes
the elimination of holidays and pro-
motions and other curtailments, the
House engaged in bitter battle over
the omnibus economy bill. which, it is
claimed, would save s200,000,000 in Gov
ernment expenditures. The question of
adopting special rule, generally declar
ed to be gag rule" which would make
in order in the legislative appropriation
bill an amendment of II pages of highly
controversial legislation affecting all
phases of the Government, was vigorous
ly debated. Leaders on both Democratic
and Republican sides have broken party
lines in vigorous appeals either for
adoption of the rule or its rejection.
The Lexington advertiser., 1932-05-05

Secretary Stimson is leaving Geneva
a sadder, but wiser man. His mission
of Franco German meditation was wreck
ed at the eleventh hour by French Pre-
mier Tardieu's inability to meet the
American Secretary of State. the British
prime minister, the German chancellor
and the Italian foreign minister under
Col. Stimson's aegis. Instead of pre-
siding over big Five" Conference, as
he hoped to do, Secretary Stimson will
leave Geneva and return directly to the
United States.
Confessing his disappointment, he
contents himself with the reflection that
his trip does not represent wasted time,
because it has given him first-hand
knowledge of the European leaders and
their problems. Close acquaintance can
hardly have strengthened Col. Stimson's s
faith in the Old Worlds peace protesta-
tions. The cancellation of VI. Tardieu's
Geneva visit was officially caused by
the premier's attack of laryngitis.
Europe has a word for the indisposition
that overtakes statesmen at critical
moments. 1t is known as diplomatic
sickness"
The Lexington advertiser., 1932-05-05

There was time when the music in
the air was broadcast from the wood
shed.
The Lexington advertiser., 1932-05-05

The Senate also this week passed the
House bill cutting down the salaries of
state officers and employees. The Sen
ate made a number of changes in the
House bill and it is probable that a
nference committee will be called on
The Lexington advertiser., 1932-05-05

The auto speeder usually discovers
his mistake By accident.
The Lexington advertiser., 1932-05-05

The House has passed the Senate bill
to "ut the salaries of county officers
but has made many amendments there
to. The Senate declined to accept the
amendments and asked for a conference
committee. This committee will meet
the first of this week and seek to iron
out the differences.
The Lexington advertiser., 1932-05-05

Some towns are so lucky. An insur-
ance man is missing in Toledo.
The Lexington advertiser., 1932-05-05

The Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee were served notice that women
will fight to the last ditch against
American entry into the League Court,
by the National Domains party. The
committee held a regular meeting re-
Gently but did not mention the court.
There is general agreement to sidetrack
the issue in the Senate until next ses-
sion.
The Lexington advertiser., 1932-05-05

Recent appalling crimes against child
hood and the home have aroused Ameri-
can women to the dangers attending the
failure of law enforcement agencies to
cope with organized crime. The demand
that law shall be at least as efficient as
its violators is rising in volume through
out the country. Vigilant and intelli-
In tens of thousands of homes the men
are urged to attack this problem of sup
pressing modern crime. Out of the out
ragged souls of American women may
come the organization of society in such
form as to put an end to the regime of
bandtry, kidnapping, robbery, and mur-
der that endangers American liberty.
The National Society, United Daugh-
ters of 1912, concluded its 40th associate
council after reports and adoption of
resolutions. The I)licy of the Govern
ment in refusing diplomatic recognition
to Russia was approved in one of the
resolutions, which also opposed carry
ing on any trade with the Soviet. The
resolution read, in part:
We are not only unalterably op-
posed to recognition but to any trade
relations with the Communist dicta-
torshp, as free American labor can
not compete successfully with the
forced labor products of Soviet Rus
sia.' This resolution also urged
"the strengthening of the immigra-
The Lexington advertiser., 1932-05-05

If the seven Congresses.
by the state-at-large, the. }
haps be a score or NOR. !.
for the nomination the ~.
IN August, 1882. With u
number it would be imuo.,is|
candidates 10 receive a n
the entire field. This vo,l.]
a run-off in the second N
weeks thereafter betwee, \
candidates who received !
number Of votes in the n
and the seven candidates {
large ;t number Of votes /,
primary would be the non,
The Lexington advertiser., 1932-05-05

The Senate has passed bill regulat-
ing the adoption of school books, but
since | was away st the time l cannot
give its contents because l did not hear
it discussed.
The Lexington advertiser., 1932-05-05

private credit and to destroy confidence
and to prolong hard times" Mills told
the House Ways and Means Committee.
De declared mo measure was ever
drafted better calculated to destroy con-
fideuce than the one now before you.
Enact it into law and you will stifle
all hope of an early economic recovery
and write the most lamentable chapter
in American financial history"
The Lexington advertiser., 1932-05-05
THURSDAY. i.
MIRRoRs| \
MIsSIsslpS
BY EDGAR S. sp,'

jackson, Miss, Nav
seems to be a deadlo,ti
House Of Representa-
on the Congressions,
bill is broken, Mississ;.A A
elect seven Congressmsssn. ~
at-large. Mississiup; iias
gressional reapportiornssaase sae''
repeatedly stated, loses
gFessmen, requiring tbs s,. SAs 4
Congressional districts asl'l !, !
listing eight. Before tb;s y.
deadlock may be broken y. !
houses, but a failure Il =. ~
as above stated, will s. ..s'
nomination Of seven co,ss e'''
the state-at-large. repa,.i. ~
triets, the foutr Tuesdsr !
1882, to be elected at =
November election.
The Lexington advertiser., 1932-05-05

A bill to create commission to
regulate the gas and power companies
and other utilities was killed by de-
cisive vote in the House. The opponents
of this bill claimed that it would take
away from the towns and municipalities
the right to make their own contracts
with the power companies and the gas
companies.
The Lexington advertiser., 1932-05-05

The tobacco tax bill IS still hanging
fire. Both Houses have finally agreed
to eut out the tax on chewing tobacco
and on snuff However. the matter OF
the tax stamps is still unsettled. Both
Houses passed il saying that the stamps
must be put on by the wholesale dealer,
but the Attorney General said that this
is stitutional, and now We must
get some new agreement about the mat
ter Il Is still in conference.
The Lexington advertiser., 1932-05-05
Green Awarded $1,000
In Railroad Accident

The suit of s46,O00.00 against the Y.
G. NJ V. Railroad filed by Dalton Green.
resident Of Tchula, for the alleged in
juries sustained in an accident at the
Gwin yards in February, 1881, resulted
in a verdict for the plaintiff Of $1,000
according to findings OF the jury Thurs
day night. The case occupied practically
the entire time OF the second week Of
civil hearings at circuit court now in
session.
Green was employed by the company
an in some manner slipped between two
freight cars in the Gwin yardss, sustain
ing the loss of his foot. Suit was filed
by him through P. P. Lindholm, this city
and J. G. Holmes, Yazoo City. A. VI.
Pepper, local railroad attorney, repre-
sen-ed the corporation.
The Lexington advertiser., 1932-05-05

A bill has been introduced in the
House to cut down the number OF
court districts in the state from II to
-. If passed this would result in a
handsome saving in expense for the
state.
The Lexington advertiser., 1932-05-05

In this connection. I want TO say that
there Is q mistaken idea abroad about
jobs 70 be provided by the sales tax
Many OF MY friends have written to me
abou. these Jobs. So far as / know
there have been TO new jobs provided
or created BY the passage Of the sales
tax law.
The Lexington advertiser., 1932-05-05

Common school and Confederate pen
sions will be reduced each twenty five
per cent under the terms of the bills
proposed in the present legislature over
what they were two years ago.
Nav 9 1922
The Lexington advertiser., 1932-05-05
WASHINGTON
SNAPSHOTS
Taken By
The Helm News Service

Addressing the Governors OF the
States assembled al Richmond, Virginia
President Hoover forcibly presented the
most serious problem confronting the
country. Il Is the mounting costs OF all
government, Federal, State and local.
which are breaking the backs Of the tax
payers. The figures are startling. Be
fore the World War eighty per cent OF
the national income went for this pur-
pose In the succeeding period Of pros
peri:y the proportion jumped 10 fifteen
per cent. Incomes were greatly IN
creased. but they could not keep pace
with the growing expenses Of govern
ulent. Today, with business depressed
and when the cry for economy was never
more heartfelt and insistent, taxes are
taking q toll Of twenty per cent Of the
peoples earnings.
The Lexington advertiser., 1932-05-05

Both Houses passed a bill which
would have allowed the state auditor
to contract for new kind of auto tag
which was claimed would have been
sefety device in the matter of keeping
cars from being stolen. This bill had
hard sailing, however, because the Gov
ernor very promptly vetoed it. My
guess is that Governor Conner remem-
bered the extreme unpoularity of the
| vanity case" which was put on auto
mobiles by law several years ago.
The Lexington advertiser., 1932-05-05

TO help solve these problems also. The
bill as passed by the Senate will save
the state OF Mississippi about ninety
thousand dollars year on salaries Of
state officials and employees.
The Lexington advertiser., 1932-05-05

I sincerely believe that the Legisla-
ture will break up about Saturday, May
18th. Although there IS much Work 20
be done between now and that time
and event II the work is done, there
will be much left that should have been
Evening star., 1932-12-01
SALMON OIL HELD BETTER TONIC
THAN DERIVATIVE OF COD LIVER
United States Scientists Find 1t Is Twice as Powerful for
Treating Rickets.

After months OF experimenting with
white rats in the Bureau OF Fisheries
laboratory in the Commerce Depart
ment, Government scientists announced
today they have discovered Oil taken
from salmon is twice. as potent as cod
liver oil and will aid materially in
fighting the childhood disease of ricketts,.
The discovery was made by DR.. c. D.
Tolle Of the Bureau Of Fisheries. DR..
Martha NJ Eliot of the Childrens Bu-
reau and DR.. z. M. Nelson Of the Agri-
culture Department.
In making the announcement, the
Labor Department Children's Bureau
said salmon oil contains twice as much
vitamin d, the vitanin necessary to
prevent and cure ricketts,, as does cod
liver oil, which has been considered
the best known anti-rickets medicine.
Rickets occurs among children under
2 years and In some localities as many
as rs per cent of the children under
1, who have been examined, have active
ricketts, In some form.
The Bureau Of Fisheries, In an effort
Evening star., 1932-12-01

to cut down waste in the salmon can
ming industry, started experiments here
on potentialities of oil taken from this
fish. Hundreds of white rats were used
in DR.. Tolle's laboratory to carry on
the test. Upon completing the prelim-
mary stage of the experiment, the bu-
reau called in the Agriculture and La
Dor Departments scientists for collab-
grafton.
In making their discovery known,
these scientists said the salmon oils
most valuable In treating ricketts, were
those now being discarded as waste in
the canning industry in the Northwest
States. The bureau suggested If this
oil could be prepared and sold cheaply,
a new and inexpensive anti-rickets med
icine would be provided for children OF
poor families who usually need 1t most.
After tests were completed here, the
bureau said, the oil was tried on Is
children in New Haven, Conn, early
this year All had active ricketts, and
each received three or four teaspoonfuls
Of salmon oil q day, the same dosage as
is usually given Of cod liver oil. All but
one, the bureau said, showed very
prompt response"
Evening star., 1932-12-01
SMITH ASKS UNITED
CITY GOVERNMENT
Urges Unification of Five New
York Boroughs and Two
House Legislature.
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK. December Former
Gov Alfred E. Smith today presented
to the Hofstadter Legislative Commit
tee a detailed plan for complete reor-
ganization of the city Government,
under which the mayor would be the
supreme executive officer with Legis-
lature Of two Houses, a city Senate
and a city Assembly, under him.
Smith, WHIT was reared on the lower
East side, served in the Assembly and
was four times elected Governor Of
New York. told the committee that the
borough system, adopted 35 years ago,
had become antiquated and that 1t was
time to decide whether there are to
be five cities or one city.
He said that the present time offered
the first opportunity that has arisen
during his quarter century IN pubic
life to obtain a thorough -going reor-
ganization to bring the city Govern
ment up to date.
Crowd Greets Ex-Governor.
A crowd greeted the former Governor
as he arrived for the hearing, wearing
4 black derby and overcoat and smoking
q cigar
Under his arm as he went to the
stand he carried a sheaf OF Wnat ap-
peared to be charts and Other data
from which he was to give his suSses-
tions for bettering the city Govern
ment.
The former Governors plan provided
for replacing the present numerous clty
departments with 10 city-wide depart
ments under the mayors ofnce and an
additional department OF audit ana
control replacing the controllers once,
the head of which would be ndepend-
emily chosen by the electorate. Inc
controllers office, according to the plan.
would be shorn of its present admin.
lstratiye duties and the controller would
be purely an auditor.
Terms Charter Antiquated.
In speaking OF the city charter and
calling it antiquated, smith Salo ne
knew of nothing else in the city SO oio
except the Criminal Courts Buildlng,
the city prison, the City Hail ana the
sewer system"
He said that former Mayor Walker,
who resigned after testifying before the
Hofstadter Committee, had once re-
ferred to the borough presidents as
my five little mayors" Most people.
he continued, thought the mayor was
the supreme executive officer fs;e wss IN the the
20. as evidenced by the manner IN Wnlcn
the Board of Estimate recently frus-
trated Mayor McKee's economy plan.
1T makes no difference, Whetnep !,
Mayor McKee's plan was good or pad,
he said. 1.-THE point is that whea
Mayor Mckee had plan the rest OF
the Board of Estimate overruled MN.
No big business would be operated tnae
way.
L have come to the conclusion that
the City of New York is 50 big, her
problems are so many and SO varied
that possibly the best form OF govern
ment would be the form we now have
in the State. I am not in sympathy
with the city manager plan. You've
got to have some man who has respon-
sibility and when it has been tried IN
other cities the city manager does not
fit."
Evening star., 1932-12-01
CITY SALARY SLASH
DELAY IS REQUESTED
New York Employees Head Acts
7 Against Special Session
of Legislature.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 1.-Charging
that city officials had been "coerced
and intimidated" by bankers into re-
uuesting q special session OF the Legs
lature to adjust city salaries. Deputy
Controller Frank j. Prial telegraphed
Gov. Roosevelt and Acting Gov. Lehman
today requesting delay.
Prial, acting as president Of the Civil
Service Forum, asked that before the
proposed special session Is called,
hearing be granted to civil service en-
ployes. :.
aIt is the intention Of the forum"
he said, that II such hearing be
granted, to point out that the resolu-
ton adopted yesterday was not the free
and willing act of the elected city OH
cials, but that they we're coerced and
intimated by bankers. who themselves
could not be elected to the humblest
position that Is in the gift OF the
people"
Mayor Mckee and Controller Charles
Berry are going to Albany this AFTER
noon formally to present to Acting Gov.
Lehman the citys request for legisia-
tive aid IN solving It's financial problems.
Evening star., 1932-12-01
CABINET POST SEEN
FOR CARTER GLASS
Virginia Senator Believed
Certain to Be Offered
Treasury Position.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WARM SPRINGS, Ga, December |.
The opinion grew in Roosevelt cir
cles today that Senator Glass Of Vir-
ginia was virtually certain to be offered
the post of Secretary Of the Treasury
in which he served in the Wilson ad-
ministration.
In the minds Of some of those close
to the President-elect, two cabinet posts
were being definitely allocated, the
Treasury post to Senator Glass and the
postmaster generalship to James A.
Farley. chairman Of the Democratic
National Committee. Whether Glass
would be able to accept the Treasury
portfolio was uncertain, however, be-
cause he has been in Ill health for some
time. si4as.-se
Other cabinet possibilities that have
bsen discussed for various posts include
Senator Walsh of Montana for the At
torney Generalship and Gov. George
II. Dern Of Utah, Owen d. Young and
Newton D. Baker for various other DO
sitions. James NJ. Thomson, publisher
of the New Orleans Item, was proposed
yesterday by Senator Long of Louisiana
Ior secretary or War.
Took Usual Swim.
During the morning the President
elect talked with Farley and Frank D.
Walker, treasurer of the National Com
mittee, and took his regular exercises
IN the patients pool Of the Warm
Springs Foundation.
Gov. Richard B. Russell, jr., and SEN
ators George and Cohen of Georgia and
Robert w. Bingham of Kentucky, pub
Usher of the Louisville Courier-Journal,
were on the list Of callers to see Presi-
dent-elect Roosevelt today.
Some of them will bring additional
information that will go into the shap-
ing of the plans for the legislative pro-
gram that gradually Is being rounded
into shape on Pine Mountain.
Already the President-elect has given
study to the development of a farm pro-
gram, including both measures to deal
with crop surplusses and steps to ale
viate the farm mortgage situation.
proposal was put before him yester-
day, also, by Senator Connally of Texas
for reduction in taxes and use of the
Federal borrowing power to a greater
degree during the period of budgetary
stress.
Bonds for Building.
1t also was disclosed that Mr.. Roose-
welt has been studying the possibilities
OF Incorporating all elf-sustaining Fed
eral construction projects into one pro-
gram, so that bonds may be issued for
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Evening star., 1932-12-01
OHIO FUGITIVE HELD
:. NARCOTICS CHARGE
Man, Wife and Son Arrested in
Fliladelpllia-court Criticizcs
$1,000 Fee.
b. the Associated Press.

b. the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, December l.
Charged with being fugitive from Co
lumbus, Ohio, where he had been un-
der S25,000 bail on charge of sale
and possession Of narcotics, George
Colletti, 20, today was being held under
similar bail for extradition or removal
to Ohio.
Couetti's wife. Josephine, who, with
her son, Charles, 10. was arrested with
Cole 1T, told United States Commits
sioner J. Howard Patterson of giving
81 500 to a lawyer so that everything
would be fixed up"
This is disgraceful," the commission
er said
The lawyer said he accepted the
large fee because he expected to use
part of the money to obtain a new
be Il bond.
Evening star., 1932-12-01
DEMOCRATS PLAN
SENATE PROGRAM
Economy, Farm Relief, War
Debts and Prohibition in
Robinson List.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

The Democrats in the Senate, under
the leadership of Senator Joseph T.
Robinson Of Arkansas, are undertaking
formulation of definite program of
legislation covering Federal economy,
farm relief, the war debts and prohibi-
tion, Robinson revealed today on his
return to Washington.
THE Democrats in the Senate" the
Senator said. Intend to do everything
in their power at the short session Of
Congress to respond to the obligations
which rest on them as the result of the
election"
Senator Robinson, in reply to Ques-
tions, said that if the House passes a
resolution repeating the eighteenth
amendment on the first day of the
short session and sends it to the Sen
ate 1t probably would be referred to
the Senate Judiciary Committee. There,
he said, the form of the resolution and
the amendment to be submitted would
be given consideration.
Speedy Action Desired.
The Arkansas Senator said he be-
lieved action on the prohibition ques-
ton should be taken as speedily as
possible.
When the prohibition legislation
reaches the Senate" he said, "I think
the question will be raised of modifica-
tion and direct and unqual lifted repeal" !"
He pointed out that the Democratic
platform -tated that cry States should
be given protection If they need it
against importation Of liquor from wet
territory. Also the platform declared
against the return Of the saloon.
Senator Robinson took the position
that If bill to modify the Volstead
act so as to permit beer is passed by
the House, the Senate should give 1t
as early consideration as possible
II believe that the country should
have the benefit Of the revenue from
Senator Robinson said. He took the
position that during the short session
both the question Of repeal of the
eighteenth amendment and modifica-
ton of the Volstead act should be voted
on in Congress and gave the impress
sion he would do all he could to ex-
pedite such a program.
II do not consider these questions OF
prohibition the most important that will
be before Congress at the short session,
however" he declared. He said farm
relief legislation was Of very great i'm
portance and that 1t was difficult sub
ject to deal with. He did not indi-
cate today what the Democratic farm
relief program would be although he
admitted that the domestic allotment
plan was under consideration.
Question OF Bond Issue.
In answer to another question, Sen
ator Robinson said it might be advis-
able for the Government to issue bonds,
the proceeas of which would be used
to pay for capital expenditures" and
thereby help balance the budget. Until
the size of the deficit Is definitely
known, he said 1t would not be pos
sible to say what will be necessary in
the way of revenue legislation.
Senator Robinson in formal state
nent said the Democratic program
would be resolved through conferences
as speedily as possible"
Democratic Senator'S" he said, "are
conscious of the fact that in addition
| to the natural obligations which rest on
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