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The Washington times., 1933-12-05

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 5 G.N.SO.
Hollywood scanned its wine list
today and several stars announced
recipes for their favorite drinks
to be served at parties tonight
celebrating the end of prohibi-
ton. although the pressure of
work at studios will delay most
of the Hollywood whoopee until
the Christmas holidays.
Carole Lombard will serve
Martini cocktails at her first
post-prohibition party today.
w. C. Fields declared brandy
scaffa his favorite drink, land
will lose no time in drinking it,"
Norma Shearer expressed pref.
erence for the "high-hat cock
TAIL" which is one part cognac,
one part grapefruit juice, and a
little sugar. The mixture is
trapped and served ice cold.
Joan Bennett said she preferred
a California champagne cocktail.
Bebe Daniels and her husband,
Ben Lyon, will serve good old
fashioned Tom and Jerry at their
holiday parties.
The Washington times., 1933-12-05

The one-time master bootlegger
did not amplify, however, what
he meant by illegal require
ments."
High Tax Aids BOOtlegger
Asked what he thought would
be the future of the bootlegger,
he replied:
"That all depends. If tax
alton per gallon is made too
high by our next Congress and
if the respective States place
too large a taxation on liquor,
then it will be an incentive to
distilI in the mountains and
elsewhere.
GOOD liquor at cheap prices
Is the answer to the question
Of how to do away with the
bOOtlegger."
Speakeasies in the big cities
will be eliminated, in Remus'
opinion, if the States do not
make it too difficult through tax,
alton for the legitimate places to
operate.
The Washington times., 1933-12-05
WOOD|N ARRIVES
IN ARIZONA

TUCSON, Ariz., Dec. 5 Q.N.S).
Expressing his faith in President
Roosevelt and the Administra-
tion's recovery program, William
H. Woodin, Secretary of the
Treasury, arrived here today to
pass several months with his son,
William Woodin, jr. He said:
"The impression has gone
out that President Roosevelt
and 1 have come to the parting
Of the ways over policies in the
Treasury Department. That is
not true.
"While I do not agree with
the President in several mat
ters, that does not mean we
are not continuing as close
friends and working together
for a common cause, the re-
cOvery of this nation which
must eventually come"
Woodin will be treated here
for a throat ailment.
The Washington times., 1933-12-05
TAX AVOIDANCE,
SPECULATION
HIT BY PLAN
Subcommittee Proposal for
House Action Revealed
In Detailed Outline

recommendation of the sub
committee of the House Ways and
Means Committee for revision of
income tax laws to yield more
than $27O,O0O, 900 a year include
DIVISION for one normal income
tax rate Of per cent instead of
2 as at present, one :" cent on
the first $4,000 of net income and
per cent on income over $4,000.
Surtaxes would begin at $4,000
instead of $4,000. Surtax would
be 4 per cent on n income, $4,000
to $4,000; per cent, $4,000 to
$4,000; 6 per cent, $4,000 to $10,-
900; 8 per cent, $4,000 to $4,000:
10 per cent, $4,000 to $4,000;
graduated to include 20 per cent,
$4,000 to $56,000; So per cent,
100000 to $150,O00; SO per cent,
over $1,000,000.
Dividend Exemption Cut
Dividend income exemption
would be cut from to 4 per cent
to boost taxes on persons with
fixed incomes.
All United States bonds issued
since 1917, about $4,000, 900 900,
are subject to surtax. The change
would boost the surtaX on income
from these securities. Constitu-
tional amendment is recon-
mended to make other bonds sub
ject to tax.
Normal deductions would be
allowed as credit against surtax.
For the years 1884. 1885 and
1886, depreciation and depletion
allowances would be cut Is per
cent.
Blow at Spectators
Capital gains or losses would be
taxable 100 per cent if property
is held not over one year; 80
per cent if held one to two years;
go per cent if held two to three
years; 40 per cent if held three
to five years: 20 per cent if held
over five years. These provisions
would hit stock market specu-
lators.
Where capital losses exceed
gains, excess losses would be dis
allowed.
Capital gains and loss percent
ages do not apply to corporations
which are allowed capital losses
to the extent of gains; percent
ages not applicable to stock in
trade or inventory.
ersonal holding companies
would be taxed 35 per cent on un-
distributed net, after allowing 10
per cent profit; personal holding
companies defined as corporations
deriving 30 per cent of gross in
come from rents, royalties, divi-
dends, interest, annuities, and
gains from sale of securities, and
whose voting stock over so per
cent is owned by not over five in
dividuals.
Tax Avoidance Hit
Corporations piling up sur
pluSes to avoid surtaxes would be
taxed Is per cent on net income
after amount of income has been
diminished by dividends.
Present provisions under which
taxes can be avoided through ex-
change of reorganization of cor
porations would be entirely elimi-
mated.
Deduction allowed against net
income for foreign taxes would be
repealed; corporations to be al
lowed to make foreign taxes paid
a credit against gross income.
Consolidated returns would be
abolished, and partners prohibited
from using partnership loss to off,
set individual income.
The subcommittee favors some
credit for earned income, but
made no recommendations. No
recommendation was made on
taxation of high salaries or COM
munity property. It recommended
that all future issues of Govern
ment bonds be made subject to
surtax.
The Washington times., 1933-12-05
BY JAMES L. KTLGALLEN
Copyright. 1888, by International
News SerYicel

NEW YORK, Dec. 5 G.N.s).
"Prewar liquor" is becoming
scarcer and it's price will be sky
high after the prohibition era ends
today. in the opinion of George
Remus, former king of the boot
leggerS."
Remus, one-time multi-million-
aire, has his eye on the future. He
plans to become a distiller, and
thus rehabilitate to some extent
his lost fortune. Remus' dealings
in contraband liquor in 1920 and
1921 Chis heyday as a bootlegger)
yielded him a personal fortune of
$6,500,000.
Good Liquor Rare
Remus said today:
"The prewar liquor is being
exterminated. 1t is becoming a
rarity. Only about 100000 gal.
Ions are available for case pur.
poses.
The Washington times., 1933-12-05
SOcidlizing Income
Will Be Discussed

Discussion Of "Socialization Of
the National Income Through
Taxation" will feature meeting
Of the joint committee on unem-
ployment Saturday. Among the
speakers will be Sidney Hillman,
head Of the Amalgamated Cloth
ing Workers; N. Max Dunning,
associate director of the housing
division Of the PWA. and Walter
West, secretary Of the American
Association Of Social workers.
The Washington times., 1933-12-05

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 5 GN.S0.
Finis was scheduled to be written
today to the romance Of Corliss
Palmer, beauty contest winner and
film actress, with Eugene v. Brew,
ster, one time millionaire magazine
publisher now attempting a come
back as writer and authors agent.
Miss Palmer was to appear in
court to press her complaint for
divorce in which she charged ne.
glect and said that Brewster had
made false accusations.
The couple were married in
Mexico in November, 1926, and
went through a second ceremony
here in 1881 because of doubt Of
the legality of the first ceremony.
The Washington times., 1933-12-05
Maryland To Claim
Islands, When and If

ANNAPOLIS, Dec. 5.-Mary-
land legislation which would give
the State first rights to any new
islands which might pop up"
in the SinepuXent or Chesapeake
Bays as the result of dredging
attendant on the cutting of an
inlet from the ocean into Sine
puxent Bay at Ocean City. The
legislation was suggested by
Swepson Earle, State conserva-
ton commissioner.
The Washington times., 1933-12-05
Sef-DefenSe Plea
Planned bv Schultz

George F. Schultz, So, former
clerk of the Maryland Health
Department, will plead self-defense
when he faces circuit court at
Frederick, Md, for the murder
of Mrs. Bessie Darling, operator
of a summer boarding house at
Deerfield, Md.
Schultz, under guard at
Frederick jail. where he is re-
covering from a self-inflicted
pistol shot, said Mrs. Darling
threatened to shoot him and that
he killed her in self defense.
Police said he was a suitor Of
Mrs. Darling and was Jealous Of
other mems attentions to her.
The Washington times., 1933-12-05
Michigan Deadlock
On Rum LdW Holds

LANSIN Mich, Dec. 5
N.S).-Michigan, the first
State to vote for repeal Of the
Eighteenth amendment, will meet
the end of the dry era tonight
with it's legislature as far from
enactment Of a liquor control law
as it was a week ago. Absence
of a new liquor law will not pre-
vent some of Michigan's thirsty
from celebrating repeal in a wet
manner-but not in all sections
of the State.
The Washington times., 1933-12-05
2 Hitch-Hikers Rob
Renef1ctOr of $50

Abe Shapiro, 600 block Prince
ton Place N. W., was robbed of $50
by two hitch-hikers yesterday
after he had taken them from
Baltimore to near the District line.
They ordered him at pistol-point.
he said, to go behind a signboard,
give up his money. return to his
car and drive on alone.
The Washington times., 1933-12-05
CONTRACTORS TO MEET

Regular monthly meeting of
the Electrical Contractors AS
Sociation of the District of Colum-
bia will be held tomorrow night
in the Potomac Electric Power
Company auditorium.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-11-16
The Same Row.
Boston News Bureau)

Secretary Wallace is going to keep on hoelng diligently at the (Which in his case means busy and effectively seeing to is the other folks have fewer literal rows to hoe0 No new de- gree of imitation talk action will deter him. according to reported views of his intentions.
 That is, he adheres with adamantine consist ency to his basic program of farm adjustment via crop curtailment Having set his official hand to that figurative blow, there could, of course, not well be any turning back politically practically till the great experiment--one of the many frankly it is not brief working; other than this must also be covered-meaning patience in too easily disturbed hinterland
 The philosophy of the undertaking remains quite the same, whatever refinements additions of detail may become expedient Just as gold is the new focal joint the monetary sector, is supply the apex of strategic assault in the farm field Commodity prices must come up; and both agencies may jointly but variousy help achieve this Or per- haps it may all be lkened to tilt now it is dollar and gold ounces at it's separate ends again it is crop volume versus buying need.
 So the Secretary who before now has expressed his inclination toward controlled inflation" firmly believes with his adjustment coadjutors that also the new decimaton of output is requisite Not scarcity value, with diamonds, but an end to crushing surpuses and carryovers And so we get the latest recruit And Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners will figure helpfuy in the relief program. Gold is but part of the story
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-11-16

any law adopted must follow the lines of puohc opinion They. therefore, propose number ol alternative programs Their prime recommenoaIloE' however for State monopoly to handle spirituous liauors and fortified wines, and the ready sale ol beer and natural wines by grocers and other mer- chants This plan appears to have enough merit for it be considered by the people of every state in which State prohibition is not contemplated, ana could be studied with profit by those in the latter category After all, temperance might be more readily and easily achieved under that plan than by prohibitory laws
 Because it is of the ablest and most enlght- ened well the latest approach to this vital problem the Fosdick- Scott volume is recommended earnestly to the attention of thoughtful citizens ana leaders of public opinion everywhere. It should be studied carefully here. If, we desire, Congress permits us to control and regulate the liquor traffic in the Territory, there is much in this book of value not only suggestions for specific liquor control law. but get from it fresh grasp of the basic principles which must underlie any lasting system of liquor control.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-11-16
SEPARATE SURVEY JUSTIFIED.

Delegate Dimonds request for separate survey of living costs in Alaska, in connection Wlth Iic reconsideration by the Government of its salary schedules is wholly justified by local conoltlohS' No average for the country as whole can oo justice to Federal employees attached to Government agencies anywhere in the Territory. They are not entitled to- any of them asking for any specla consideration that is . not based upon ecoonmlc grounds. That is they do not urge that py reaSon of Alaskan service they are entitled to more com pensation than similar employees receive m the States Their position, and it is well taken IS that living costs here always proportionatey higher than exists anywhere else in the country ana Naat the sharply decreased costs ot living experlenceo outside of Alaska during the past three years nave not been duplicated here. We believe their con- tention is correct But no general survey can possibly show these facts. Only an individual study of Territorial conditions can determine whether or not they exist
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-11-16

Don't neglect yoor Feet. Fallen arches corrected. Corns. Next tc Brownies Barber Shop. -adv
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-11-16
Recalcitrant Bankers.
Cincinnati Enquirer)

A huge outcry is coming from the bankers of the country just against the Federal system of guaranteeing bank deposits. The recent act of Congress setting up temporary mechanism TOT that purpose is to take effect January l. As the time draws nearer bankers are more than sure they do not want such a system. Since the act IS in effect compulsory, they have no choice but to comply but they are directing their efforts to secure repeal of the at the coming session of Congress.
 The objective student of banking problems can sympathize with the attitude of the banker, be- cause the statute as it now stands IS defective ln certan respects But he cannot overlook what Walter J. Cummings Administrator of the new deposit guarantee plan, calls "an unmistakable and perhaps unprecedented popular demand for insurance ot bank deposits, resulting in passage with only few dis senting votes in the House and unanimously in the Senate"
 This widespread public demand for absolute Safe- ty of bank deposits is factor to be reckoned with We have come through grave financial crisis, the effects of which not yet wholly oblterated. In no small measure the renewed confidence of the people is based on the knowledge that after January next their bank accounts will be insured by the sources of the Federal Government. To abandon the plan at the next session of Congress is to take a backward step and to invite renewal of fear on the part of depostors.
 This is not to say the Federal Banking Act of 1883 letter. perfect On the contrary, some revision is greatly needed It is particularly necessary that a proper distinction be made between savings banks and commercial banks taking account of the dif- ferential risks involved in their investment policies Likewise a permanent application of the deposit guarantee scheme requires the establishment of a more thorough inspection service and the extension of the Federal Reserve Systems control over the whole banking structure.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-11-16
WILL NOT IMPRESS THE WORLD.

The mandate given Herr Hitler last Sunday m the German elections will not impress the world greatly Every nation knew in advance that the Naz program would get an almost unanimous en- dorsement from the people of the country at large If there were an apprecable sentiment in Germany against the Nazi withdrawal from the Disarmament Conference and its notice that Germany will With draw from the League of Nations, which IS to be doubted it had no fair chance to be registered at Sundays polling.
 The result of that polling is to leave the sltua- tion unchanged. It doesn't persuade other nations that Germany should be permitted to re-arm or convince them that she should be allowed to dictate the conditions of disarmament among other countries. It merely shows that Hitler is firmly seated in the saddle for the time being. That IL will be followed by an effort from Germany to itself contrary to the Versailles Treaty seems almost incredible. France, England, Italy and ther allies in Europe could not be expected to stand idly by and watch her go to that extreme. None of them wants just now but they might act in concert to prevent Germany from creating great new military machine that inevitably would lead to a more serious and disastrous conflict at a later date
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-11-16
A TEXTBOOK OF TEMPERANCE.

The Rockefeller report on liquor control, by Ray mond Fosdick and Albert Scott, is now available lh final form at book stores It is one of the most important and timely books published this year because it supplies cogent facts and persuasive arguments on a subject of immediate concern to the whole American people. Although it recommends a specific plan for liquor control, and good one' it is eminently worth reading for the broad survey of the liquor problem which it contains.
 Messrs. Fosdick and Scott have had the assistance of dozen competent experts in studying the liquor control methods in various countries and here III the United States They have written from no ddactic point of view but have faced the whole problem in terms of finding system that Will work and will promote eventual temperance among our own people The result is book of clarity and persuasive reasoning
 The authors not trying to cram any specific plan down the throats of every reader. On the contrary they recognize as first principle that
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-11-16
Today and Tomorro,c
By WALTER LIPPMANN
Pern,anence of NRA
Copyright, 1883, New York Tribune Inc.

R. A.. both in relation to organ ized labor and in relation to the government. But would these problems be any easier if, instead of dealing with the N. R. A. ad- ministrators they had to deal with the Department of Justice?
 He who objects to N. R. A. in principle must therefore answer the question: do you prefer compulsory competition, or is it unregulated monopoly that you desire?
 The truth is, think, that any, thing tending toward unregulated monopoly will not be accepted by the American people. Compulsory competition, on the other hand, has broken down as completely as national prohibition It fol- lows that N. R. A. is not bit of Wishful idealiSm, is not a phan- tasv of the brain trust, but an unacceptable recognition of this breakdown of compulsory compati- tion. At bottom it is not, there fore. a new experiment but the acknowledgement of condition which has been becoming increaS- ingly evident over the course of a generation. N. R. A. registers the end of an era in which an old theory was gradually knocked out by new realities. It has become necessary for business to combine and cooperate, but combination in business is intolerable II, in the control of the combination, organ ized labor and government is the representative of the general in- terest are not partners. This is the meaning of N R. A.
 That is why, in spite of all the tacital errors and superficial mis- conceptions of the first few months, N. R. A. is almost cer- tain to mark permanent and a basic change in industdial con- trol In so far as public opinion recognizes this, it will be prepar- ing itself to work out the many theorietical and practical adjust ments which are required by this new industrial order.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-11-16

The N. R. A. has now passed out of the phase of ballyhoo into the phase of critical discussion. The country has realized that as a means of promoting quick re- covery too much was promised and too much was expected, and that the real importance of N. R. A. is that it inaugurates long-term change in industrial control.
 In influential quarters there is a disposition to challenge the idea that such long-terrn change of industrial control is desirable or is warranted. The argument is that the Roosevelt Administration has 1 no mandate entitling it to inaugu- rate permanent changes; that N. R. A. must jusify itself as meas ure of immediate recovery. It has to be admitted, I think, that the Administration laid itself open to this form of attack when, last July, it persuaded itself that the blue eagle campaign was the way to restore prosperity. For it was only as a method of quick recov- cry that the blanket code, the boycott, the general coercion to set up codes in hurry, could pos sibly have been justified.
 Yet whatever the initial mis- takes of policy in executing N. R. A. however necessary it may be to correct those mistakes, the basic conceptions of N. R. A. are, it seems to me, bound to remain and to determine the future of indus trial control in the United States. This conclusion, is, think, ines capable, and is also easily demon strable.
 What is the paslc conception Of N. R. A.? It is that compulsory competition, as embodied in the philosophy of the antitrust laws, does not produce an orderly and satisfactory industrial system; that for compulsory competition, it is | necessary to substitute method of combination and cooperation; that combination and cooperation merely among business men work ing for profit would, however, pro duce all the evils of monopoly that consequently if combination is to be permitted, this concen- tration of power must be checked and balanced by organized labor on the one hand, by government on the other For once you ad- init that competition is not to be the principal method of regulat- | ing business, the only alternatives are private monopoly or a part nership" with organized labor and with government.
 Now business men who object to the principle of collective bar gaining and to the principle of government regulation should ask themselves, before they go the whole way in opposition to the N. R. A, what is the alternative? What would happen, if, at the end Of the two-year period of trial the act were allowed to lapse, and we reverted to the status quo ante The law of the land would then again be compulsory competition. Now this law has been like the prohibition law; it has been en- forced just enough to be nul- sance and not enough to do any good Yet if N. R. A. is scrapped, the government will be compelled to resume the effort to enforce the antitrust laws. Is that a de- sirable alternative to N. R. A? should doubt it. Enlightened business men are faced with plen- ty of difficult problems under N.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-11-16

Comptroller McCarl ruled the other day that Ford dealers eligible to be awarded MIRA con- tracts We note too that the ruling was made after it was announced Ford now within the re- qurements of the automobile code.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-11-16

Advertisements spr a q world products before you.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-11-16

A Kentucy Colonel thinks nothing is more import ant than mint julep, in which opinion we agree. Mint can be had on occasion, but the liquid for the more important part of the connection seems to be more than ordinarily scarce.