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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-28
STRAND

Louis May Alcott's immortal
 classic, Little Women" heads the program at Warmers Strand today, tomorrow and Saturday.
 Made strictly in accordance with the authors original story, and in- volving an enormous amount of re- search work and the employment of a large cast of players, Little Women" stars Katharine Hepburn as Jo.
 Jos three sisters, are portrayed by Joan Bennett as Amy, Frances Dee as Meg and Jean Parker as Beth. Their suitors, who supply the romance around which the beautiful story revolves, are por- trayed by Paul Lukas as Fritz Bhaer, Douglass Montgomery as
 Laurie and John Davis Lodge as Brooke.
 Marmee, the lovable, idealistic
 mother, is enacted by Spring By
 ington. The incomparable Edna
 May Oliver appears as grumpy old Aunt March and Henry Stephenson enacts the role of irascible old MT Laurence, whose bark is horse than
 his bite, and whose heart Is as big as all outdoors.
 The companion feature is "Flam- ing Gold" romance of the west ern oil fields starring Bill Boyd with Pat O'Brien and Mae Clark. Sunday brings Metro's smash hit musical Dancing Lady" starring Joan Crawford with Clarke Gable and Franchot Tone. The compan- ion feature will be Universals my- stery thriller "The Invisible Man" starring Claude Rains, dramatic stage star, Gloria Stuart, William HarTigan and others. There will be big midnight show at the Strand on Sunday evening, Kew Years Eve, with admission price set at 25 cents for orchestra and balcony. Many novel surprises are being planned by the management.
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cutting the present $5 a gallon im- port duty on hard liquors to $3 or $4. The struggle over that proposal, as well as other liquor measures, will furnish an idea of the strength of the ''liquor lobby" now function ing here.
 CONTROL IS PROBLEM Roosevelt may be given discre- tion to fix import duties on for
 eign wines, liquors, and beers in
 reciprocal trade agreements with other countries. Tn that case, Scotch and Irish whiskies might be admit ted for as low as s2 8 gallon, with wines as low as 60 cents, instead of the present rate of $1.25. Liquor control is something else again. It now is entrusted to the federal alcohol control administra- tion, under Joseph H. Choate, Jr., which supervises codes covering distilling importing, rectifying, wholesaling, and beer.
 Under those codes, the govern ment has almost complete power over the indusry and can control prices and supply.
 Administration leaders in con- gress, apparently refecting the White House view, prefer to wait and see how FACA control works out. All kinds of control measures will be advanced, meanwhile, how ever, including some providing TOT
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flax as a credit for earned income -as distinguished from income from investments. Chairman Doughton of ways and means has forecast a whisky tax of between $2.10 and $2.40 a gal lon. He proposes that 20 or 25 per cent be returned to states which agree not to tax liquor by volume, confining themselves to oc- cupational liquor taxes. l But so many states have leaped
 into the liquor tax field, imposing
 levies of dollar a gallon or more, that it probably will be some time before that issue of double taxation is strengthened out. This matter of federal-state tax ation has direct bearing on the bootleg problem.
 $1.5O WHISKY FAVORED The whisky tax eventually may l be set at $2 or even lower, since congress probably will bear in mind that states will superimpose taxes of their own.
 There's a vague but general feel ing here that palatable whisky should become available at $1.50 a quart and that such a rate should
 discourage bootlegging. Unless
 liquor prices begin to sink toward
 that figure, investigations are
 promised.
 Sentiment also has arisen for
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-28
Comes C0Ngvsw4rhde No 3--~~-~~~-~~~~-~~ Tax Dodgers And Bootleggers
 Will Be Targets Of Congress
Liquor Levies Will Be Set Early In
 Session
SOME TAXES MAY GO

no control beyond federal protec-
 ton for dry states.
 SOME TAXES MAY GO
 Late in the session some con- trol bill is likely to be introduced
 with administration backing. It
 might provide, as Assistant Secre- tary of Agriculture Rexford Tug
 well urged, a federal cooperation
 to buy the output of distilleries
 and sell it to the wholesale and re-
 tail agencies.
 Roosevelt is believed to be in- terested in the idea.
 Besides the taxes automatically
 eliminated by repeal, several nui-
 sance taxes which now bring in only about $20.000,000 a year may
 be repealed because they are ex- pensive to collect and bring little return.
 Such taxes include those on bank checks, candy and chewing gum,, soft drinks, radios, refrigerators, matches and firearms and shells.
 LoOPHOLES TO BE CLOSED Acting Secretary of the Treas uTY nOEkGULIdu Ald6 6tA OoSOA SAAS taxation principle of ability to pay, in pre-congress discussions and the issue will be fought out on the floors of both houses. A proposed single normal in- come tax rate instead of the pres ent two classes of rates would be accompanied by higher surtaxes to offset resultant decreased reve- nues.
 Measures to reduce tax avoid ance include revision of capital gains and losses provisions and Of the partnershi pprovisions, both
 of which helped Morgan and his partners to escape income taxes, as
 well as compulsory joint returns
 by husband and wife. Once more there will be move-
 ment for a sales tax, but it isn't likely to get anywhere. EXEMPTION UNDER FIRE A showdown is certain on taxa ton of tax-exempt securities, with the outcome doubtful. Senator Borah of Idaho is one of those who have come to believe congress should impose such tax and then let the courts decide whether it is constitutional.
 Senator Augustine Lonergan, one of the chief proponents of the plan, estimates the tax would raise from $14O,O00,000 to $150,0o0,0OO a year.
 Tax-exempts include federal, state. county, and city securities.
 The chief objections raised to tax
 ing them are the questionable con- stitutionality of it, the moral issue involved in "breaking faith" with investors, the possibility that nee essarily higher interest rates would offset revenue gain, and the added difficulty of selling such bonds when no longer tax-exempt. PUBLICITY ASKED ON TAX
 Progressive hopes for return of the excess profits tax at hlgher rate were raised by Morgenthau
 suggestion that an excess pronts tax for large business be con- sidered.
 They also will ask publicity for income tax payments as 9 method of preventing tax evasions. Senator Norris of Nebraska has promised an attack for inheritance taxes such as will prevent the pas- sage of huge fortunes from one generation to another, and pro- gressiyes generally feel that sur taxes should be increased from their present maximum 55 per cent lew on net incomes above 1,OO0,- 900.
 Copyright 1888, NEA Service. Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-28
GARDEN

ssMr Broadway playing at the New Garden theater today and to- morrow is the conception of Ed Sullivan, the brilliant Broadway columnist of the Daily News, who appears in person in the film and conducts a tour of Broadway that leads from the Paradise Night Club to the Hollywood Night Club, and thence to the Central Park Casino and the Bowery. All these high spots are alive with the kind of action that attracts the playboys and butterflies, and the tour Is timed to reach them at their most hectic moments. Such celebrities as Jack Dempsey, Primo Camera. Tony Canzoneri, Maxie Rosen- bloom, Bert Lahr, Billie La Tiff. Ruth Biting, Josephine Dunn, Ted Husing, Blossom Seeley, Benny Felds, Jack Benny, Gus Edwards, Jack Haley, Lupe Velez, Nils Gram lund, Ernst Lubitsch, Abe Lyman are exposed in the act of relaxing from the arduous duties of the daily grind. Accompanying MT Sul- livan in the peregrinations are Producer Johnny Walker and Jo- sephine Dunn. All the sequences were filmed on the original loca- tions, and, as a consequence, the atmosphere is authentic. The all night journey of the trio is con- cluded in the cold gray dawn of Manhattan just outside the Central Park Casino, where they encounter a mysterious derelict who gives point to the story.
 There will be a number of choice featurettes. and on the stage will be four real Broadway acts of real big time calibre. Headlining is The Wilson Trio in Flash and Pep" Lee and Day Comedy En- tertainers," "Orren and Cynthia in sHocum Plus" and Joe Nathan in Cartoon Capers." Music for the acts will be furnished by a picked combination from the former Pal- ace orchestra under the leadership of Joseph DiVito. Everything is'
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STATE

Kay Francis has the most dram attic characterization of her screen career in "The House On 18th Street" which heads the double feature program at Warmers State today and tomorrow.
 The story ceuters bout the un- usual incidents in a mansion on 56th Street, built by 8 millionaire New York clubman for his chorus girl bride. At the height of her happiness, the young wife is torn from husband and home and sent to prison on a charge of murderine a former lover though innocent Later she returns to the same house, now a fashionable gam bling house, as mistress of 8 Blackjack game.
 Colorful scenes take place in the famous old Casino theater, now only a memory, at the time when Floradora was the most popular musical show of the day: at Sher. rvs and Delmonico's and other rendezvous of the Broadway play boys of the early part of the cen tury. The story then leaps across the years covered by the World war and comes down to modern times, winding up with spectacu. lar denouement in the 56th street house.
 Miss Francis is supported by a sterling cast of notable players 1n- cluding Ricardo Cortez, Gene Ray. mond. John Halliday. Margaret Lindsay, Frank McHugh, Sheila Terry and William Boyd.
 The companion feature is Zane Crews sThe Last Trail" with George o'Brien, El BrendeI and Claire Trevor heading q large cast. Saturday brings Joe p. Brown in his new comedy riot, "Son of a Sailor" mad Frank Borzage's "Man's Castle'' with Spencer Ira cy, Loretta Young and Walter Connolly. The State will hold 3 gala midnight show on Sunday evening, New Years Eve, present. ing the aforementioned pictures and many novelties and surprises m. o...~ xx,fI1 fo van QdVQnCa in nriCeS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-28
By IT. o. THOMPSON fTIuitad press Staff COrreSDOndel

Limited Press Stan COrrespOndent)
 Washington, Dec 28 (UP)-The MIRA will enter the new year with substantial achievements behind 1t, but with critical problems to be faced and settled.
 As the old year ends, the whole labor question shaped up as one which might require congressional action.
 Chairman Robert F. Wagner of the National Labor board, coming into direct contact with this prob- lem in his series of difficult con- ferences with employers and labor leaders, may propose legislation giving unquestioned authority to the boards activities.
 Board Challenged.
 The board has been challenged in two notable cases recently. The first was that of the Weirton Steel Company. The second the Budd Manufacturing Company, of Phil adelphia, questioned the boards right to supervise an employees election in it's plant.
 The board was set up by Presi- dent Roosevelt during the summer, when Q general strike was threat ened in the bituminous coal indus try and other critical labor con- troversies indicated nationwide un- rest might seriously handicap the recovery program.
 Senator Wagner has relied for his authority on Section of the National Industrial Recovery Act. The section guarantees to labor the right of collective bargaining and freedom from interference from employers in selection of workers representatives.
 Enforcement Branch.
 Tn practice, the labor board has fitted its activities into those of MIRA and has come to be consider ed as the enforcement branch for the recovery acts labor provisions. How this attitude will stand in the courts is matter of conjecture.
 Because of the differences of opinion over these provisions, Wag- ner may press for congressional interpretation which will end all squabbling over just what collec- tive bargaining means and the rights of the working man under the thew deal"
 Nf6A liStb llS pTilCipdt dCHlCNC- ments during the first six months of it's career as follows:
 1.--An estimated increase in em- ployment of approximately 5.000,- 900, exclusive of those granted work in emergency government projects.
 2.-Increasing purchasing pow CT through higher wages.
 3.-Successful coal operation In
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-28
MIRA Faces New Year
 With Many Problems
Congressional Action May Be Necessary to Clarity
 Several of the Hard Questions

!, steel, coal lumber, oil, automobiles and other leading industries. 4.-Elimination of child labor sweat-shops and poorly paid home
 work"
 5.-Abolition of manly unfair trade practices. In the closing weeks of 1888 in-
 dustry showed a new spirit toward MIRA. There were two principal reasons for this-satisfaction of
 leading industries with their op- erations under codes and a new
 spirit of compromise and concilia-
 tion on the part of Administrator Hugh s. Johnson.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-28
TARIFF TRUCE IS GIVEN ANOTHER
 SMASH TO-DAY
France and Spain Are Out With Threat to Begin
 Economic War
BY RICHARD D. MvMILLAN United Press Staff COrreSpOndent)

Paris, Dec. 2S.-CUP).-France and Spain today announced trade offensives calculated to lead either to economic war or to early ne- gotiations to lower the barriers to which some economists attach much of the blame for world de- pression.
 American exports in dozens of categories including machinery and foodstuffs were effected seriously.
 Minister of Commerce Laurent Eynac revealed that on January 1, France would reduce by 75 per cent the volume of goods now per- mitted to be imported under its li- cense system.
 The Spanish government, in a formal decree, announced it's adop- tion of the license system.
 Both trade offensives are for purposes of negotiation, in the hope that a threat to trade of other nations will bring concessions per- hitting greater French and Span ish exports. The alternative to agreement on such concessions would be retaliatory barriers to French and Spanish goods.
 The new drives, mark the death Ol lHe tlTllL LTuCc IGdCHcu idSl summer at London, to prevent boosting of trade imposts pending Q world agreement to lower them. One by one, nations have de- nounced the truce until even before today it was riddled with holes.
 AS France and Spain made their announcements, Germany announce ed the collapse of it's trade nego- tiations with France and ordered that Germans travelling to France could take with them only 200 marks ($74).
 Laurent Eynac, discussing the trade drive, said that beginning next Monday all import quotas would be reduced to 25 per cent of their present total, and that the remaining 75 per cent would be subject to negotiation.
 with a trade deficit of more than 60,000.O00 a month," he said, i've are forced to the measure, which affects all countries equally and hence is not discriminatory.
 ''We are prepared to negotiate with the United States and other countries in the order of their trade importance.
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By RODNEY BUTCHER

By RODNEY BUTCHER WASHINGTON, Dec 28- W Bootleggers and wealthy tax dodgers will be the chief victims of congress when it works out changes in taxa tion.
 :. At least so it is hoped. There also is some prospect that the burden on persons with small incomes will be frightened.
 Revised liquor taxes will be rushed through early in the ses- sion. Repeal caught the treasury with hard liquor tax of only $1.1O gallon and that figure is likely to be doubled in an effort to in- crease revenues and get the added federal "profit" coming in at once.
 Everyone hopes the tax will be low enough to allow legitimate in dustry to compete with the boot leggers. Hot debate as to whether it can be done may be anticipated.
 LIQUOR PRICES STUDIED
 Liquor prices will be scrutinized and congress also will consider the issue of liquor control.
 Repeal automatically eliminates about $200, 100000 in special taxes. and as much more in nuisance" levies may be wiped out at this ses- sion. The administration hopes to raise about $500,000,000 through beer and liquor taxes.
 The normal budget will be bal anced in the fiscal year 19S4-35, according to present plans with Q sizeable surplus left over.
 Hence, no additional taxes or higher rates are contemplated ex- cept as to liquor and as regards unanimous disposition to plug loopholes revealed last summer, when it was learned that J. P. Morgan and other millionalres weren't paying income taxes.
 Progressives, however, will wage another fight to 'soak the rich" They would like higher inheritance and big income rates. Some or them want to go after the $35,0OO,- O00,O0O of tax-exempt securities. MAY AID SMALL INCOMES The average tax-paying reader, ! however, will be interested chief Ely in the proposal-endorsed by both treasury and house ways and means committee-to lower tax
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now in readiness for the New Years Eve mid-nite show and headlining a monster picture bill for this one show is "The Big Broadcaster'' with all the great stars of the radio--Ring Crosby, Mills Brothers, Burns and Allen, Boswell Sisters, Kate Smith Arthur Tracy, Cab Galloway and orchestra, Vincent, Lopez and screen stars galore. Tickets are now on sale and in keeping with the New Gar- den management, Live and Let Live Prices'' slogan the prices for both balcony and orchestra will be only 25c.
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rates on earned incomes of less than $25,000.
 This may mean restoration Of the pleasant privilege, granted un- til this year, of 8 deduction of 25 per cent of the ordinary income
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sidewalks but these cases are not frequent.
 It has been said that eternal vigilance is the price of liberty' and the saying may well be attrib- uted both to operators of motor ve- hicles and to pedestrians. substitute ing the word safety" for liberty
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Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria. which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel camel--Amos, e:1.
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"A Showdown Due On Tax-Exempt
 Securities

This Is the third of Q series of five articles on "Here Comes Congress- giving the back ground of the many important issues that will be at stake during the session to open Jan. 6.
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TOMORROW: The Recover Measures and Congress.
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no control beyond federal protec- tion for dry states.
The Semi-weekly Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 1923-19??, 1933-03-21
Former Linotype
Operator Dies
JOHN H. BROWNING, SR., AN EN-.
PLOYEE OF LONDON PAPERS
SOME YEARS AGO, DIES
IN COLUMBUS

John H. Browning, Sr., of Colum
bus, for number of years linotype
operator for the Madison Press and
the Madison County Democrat, drop
ped dead of heart disease last week
at the home of his son, John H.
Browning, jr., 1431 Minnesota avenue,
Columbus.
In a letter to the Press company,
the son states that his father had
been in i'll health for the past several
years, following the death of his wife.
He had resided with his son for the
past three years and dropped dead
just as he reached the foot of the
stairs Of the home after he had greet
ed the family.
In addition to the son, he leaves five
daughters and two sisters. The fu-
neral service was held at the sons
home and burial was made in Union
cemetery, Columbus.
The Semi-weekly Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 1923-19??, 1933-03-21
P.O. EMPLOYEES
ENJOY BANQUET
SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF
LONDON POSTAL GROUP
HELD MONDAY NIGHT AT
TRINITY CHURCH
JOS. H. TWAY, WHO RETIRES ON
APRIL / AFTER 28 YEARS OF
SERVICE, GUEST OF HON
OR-FINE PROGRAM
(Contributed)

The postal employees of the Lon.
don postoffice, their friends and fam
lilies, fifty in number were served a de-
lightful dinner in the dining room Of
the Episcopal church at the seventh
annual banquet last evening, after
which an excellent program was given
a part Of which was in honor of JOS
eph HI. Tway, who will have COM
pleted % years Of service on April 1st
1888, and will retire on that date.
The evenings entertainment was in
the nature of radio program with
Floyd Williams the announcer of Sta
ton POEL (Postoffice Employees
London).. All announcements were
made over microphone through a
radio.
The program opened with introduc-
tory remarks by Rev. F. c. F. Ran
dolph, rector of Trinity church. The
announcements were then made by the
president, E. v. Roberts and follow in
order: Nominating committees re-
port, o. E. Peters, H. l.. Baker and
e. r. Ballenger being elected presi-
dent, vice president and secretary re-
spectively; group singing by the stu
Continued on Page Two)
The Semi-weekly Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 1923-19??, 1933-03-21
FLOODS CAUSE
MUCH DAMAGE
HIGH WATERS IN THIS SECTION
WRECK FENCES. WATER
GATES, BUILDINGS, CAUSE
OTHER DAMAGE
FLOODS IN SOUTHERN OHIO RE.
PORTED WORST SINCE 1913
COLD TO LESSEN FLOOD
DAMAGE TOTAL

The cold snap of late Monday night
and today has halted the flood waters
of the country to a certain extent and
the heavy property damage in pros
pect in the county will be lessened, it
is estimated today.
The cold is expected to halt the SER
ious flood in other sections of Ohio
which has already cost several lives
and a million dollars in property dam
age
Flood waters in other sections are
much worse than reported on Sunday
and many parts Of the state are suf-
fering from the flood to almost as
great an extent as that of the flood
of 1913, which occurred just 20 years
ago this week
Many of the low sections of Madi-
son county are under water today with
fences, flood-gates, water-gates and
small buildings either washed away or
wrecked.
Reports indicate that only a small
acreage of cultivated land has been
flooded in the county, the water COW
ering for the most part the pasture
Continued on Page Two)
The Semi-weekly Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 1923-19??, 1933-03-21
COUNTY NURSE
FILES REPORT
RECORD FOR FEBRUARY SHOWS
MANY DEFECTS IN SCHOOL
CHILDREN INSPECTED
FEW CORRECTIONS

Miss Pauline Baker, Madison coun-
ty health nurse, has filed her report
for the month of February, showing
activities listed as follows:
Number of visits to schools, IL; in
cidental inspections, 78; routine in
spections of physician and nurse, 107;
total number of defects found, 1873;
corrections noted, 10; number of chill
dren with no defects, Is.
Number of consultations with teach
ers, 6; home visits for school nursing,
&; infant visits, /; crippled children
visits, 2; communicable disease visits,
5; visits to physicians, 5; miscellan-
eous visits, 6.
The record shows that Miss Baker
made a trip to the Children's hospital,
Columbus to attend the orthopedic
clinic.
The record shows also that 412 miles
were travelled during the month and
that hours We're spent in special work
as follows:
Field work, 32.5 hours; office, 60;
schools, %; travel, l4.5, and meetings,
two hours.
The Semi-weekly Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 1923-19??, 1933-03-21
Streams Will
Remain Open
REGULATIONS FOR CONDUCT OF
FISHERMEN OUTLINED, WITH
SAME CLOSED SEASON
FOR SPAWNING

Definite word has been received
from the state conservation depart
ment that streams. will not be closed
this year as was formerly proposed
However, stringent rules still apply
to the catching of fish during the
spawning season, for instance, the
bass season is closed from May / to
June Is. These days do not exist
for the sportsmen in search of bass
The conservation measures taken
so far in Ohio seems to be populat-
ing the streams more and more
Mad river and its tributaries will re-
main closed but the remainder of the
creeks and rivers of Ohio are thrown
open according to the latest report