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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-28
SOVIETS FIRED
 ON JAPANESE

Tokio, Feb. 2S-(UP)-The for eign office said today it had re- ceived word from the Kwantung army. in Manchoukuo, that Soviet Russian soldiers fired on 8 Japan csc airplane February 12, and Feb ruary 23. It was asserted that the plane did not leave Manchoukuoan territory, though 1t flew near the Russian frontier.
 The foreign office added that it had not been decided what action should be taken regarding the incl dent. K
 Simultaneously the foreign office announced that it planned strong protest to Moscow about flights made by Russian planes into north ern Korea and Manchoukuo.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-28
By LYLE c. WILSON United Press Stan COrrespondent)

2
 Washington. Feb. 2S-(UP)-| Twenty-four hours after the open ing here of an unprecedented pro- test forum, the MIRA is striding into campaign to mop up code inequalities and further to reduce hours of labor and increase wages.
 Hugh s. Johnson, MIRA adminis- trator, has definitely pledged NRA to that program as part of the Roosevelt administrations general job making effort. Individual and institutional brickbats flying about Johnson's head are less startling than his own reform plans. The MIRA has suddenly taken the off, fensive.
 If Johnson goes through with his program the MIRA code struc- ture is in for major revision. h. dustry is expected to battle on every front to avoid increasing production costs. Many industries now complain that costs have in- creased beyond the point where the burden be passed on to the public.
 Johnson is expected to make definite work-week proposals be- fore a conference of code authori- ties which will convene here March 5. The come-one-come-all protest meetings now in progress are side shows to the principal performance scheduled next week. They Will continue for a day or two.
 The plan to reduce hours and further incraese hourly wages was revealed by Johnson in his open ing address to the protest group. The average MIA work week IS now 40 hours. Organized labor is demanding a 30-hour week. John- son once inclined to a 32-hour work week but is not committed to any figure. There are indications he may propose a reduction from 40 hours to 36. Motivating Johnson and Presi- dent Roosevelt Is the urgent neces- sity to provide employment for the 7,0OO,O 900 or so persons who have not obtained jobs under the New Deal. Johnson comedies that re- employment of 2,700,0OO to S,00O,- 900, his own estimate, is not sufficient result from NRA. So far the complaining witnesses in the trial of MIRA have ranged from Robert Minor. communist, to c. N. Wrinkle. Hillsboro, O., bank CT. Minor felt the masses could not expect much from a capitalist society and Wrinkle said code pro visions so increased charges that many farmers preferred to bank Tn their hip pockets. Wrinkles bank has been losing accounts for that reason.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-28

which closed and paid 10 per cent, and how he finally put the 10 per cent in a bank which closed and paid nothing.
 'It is terrible" he said, "and r. ow-I'm on fire!"
 Smoke curled from his trousers. Bloom danced frantically for a moment. Then he inserted his hand into his hip pocket and drew forth 2 smouldering cigar.
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 q forgot it was lit," he explained.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-28
General Johnson Has Begun Neu Campaign
The Recovery Act Will Be Pushed Farther Ahead
 Reduce Hours and Increase Wages

of manufacture" she said, "and ] want these facts as found by the federal trade commission and not by one of NRA's industrially mind- ed deputies" Whiteside bowed.
 The plump and pugnacious Bloom told how his bank closed and paid 20 per cent, how he put the 20 per cent in another bank
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-28
Wiley Ebert May
 Be Given Parole
Cheshire RefOrmatOry Board Already Has Approved
 ReIease-RecaIIs Bitter Court Fight of Year Ago

The board of. parole of the Cheshire reformatory, so it was learned to-day, has approved the release of Wiley Ebert. 17 year old negro, whose midnight visits and attacks upon women caused a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-28
MILITARY ATTACHE

Washington, Feb 28--(UP) s--A Major Philip R. Faymonville was formerly named today as military attache to the American embassy In Moscow.
 He is in the ordnance branch 0E the army and is an aide to Presls dent Roosevelt.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-28
STUDIED BY PRESIDENT

Washington, Feb 2S-UP)-The airmail problem still is being studied by President Roosevelt, It was indicated at the White House today but it was considered likely that it will be several weeks before any definite policy is announced.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-28
NEW DEAL" RELIEF AND RECOVERY
 ORGANIZATIONS

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-28
ARMY PILOT pLEADs

Fort Sam Houston. Tex. Feb 28 -UP)-Major William c. Ocker. oldest army pilot in point of ser vice, pleaded not ugilty today at his court martial trial on charges that he spoke disparagingly and profanely of a superior officer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-28

Weighing IA pounds, an unexs ploded German shell was found recently on the roof of 8 house in Bexhill, England.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-06

has caused us no trouble at all" he
said. ''She has had more visitors
and more correspondence than any
of our prisoners in several years.
It's just too bao this murder had to
have happened in Coles county. We
haven't got too good a reputation
here anyway"
But I guess you people in Indi-
ana have your troubles, too," Sher-
iff Cochran reflected, good humor-
edly. What about the Dillinger
doings?"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-06
RAIN 9 INCHES
UNDER NORMAL FALL
June Promises But Slight
Relief, Figures Show.

Indianapolis has had almost nine
inches less rain in 1884 than is
normal. A repetition of the city's
record twenty-four hour rainfall
would make up more than two
thirds of this. There isn't much
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-06
Scouts Plan Installation

installation services for Boy Scout
Troop 81 will be held at 7:30 to-
morrow night in the Fountain
Square Christian church, conducted
by F. o. Belzer, scout executive.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-06

chance of it being made up in
June.
These facts stand out today
after a drought-prompted inspec-
ton of records in the Office of j.
H. Arlington. federal meteorologist
here.
The deficiency is 8.94 inches with
only 1856 inches falling during the
year. The record, made in Septem-
Der, 1895, SO inches. The average
rainfall for all of June is 1862
inches, normally divided into nine
days with falls of slightly more
than a inches each.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-06
LOvE-SLAYINC
SUSPECT MICE
SHERIFF SAYS
Mrs. SandStrom Is Model
Prisoner, Asserts Illinois
Official.
BY FREDERICK G. T-ATSON
Times staff Writer


CHARLESTON, Ill, June g.
"She's the incest prisoner I've ever
had"
Thus did Mack Cochran, Coles
county (Ill) sheriff, speak of Mrs.
Daisy (Anna) Sandstrom, attractive
Indianapolis woman held in the
county Jail here in connection with
the murder of her alleged lover, Carl
v. Thompson, 43, assistant sales
manager of the indianapolis Casket
Company, found shot to death May
9 in a Nation (Ill) hotel.
Mrs. Sandstrom is model
prisoner" Sheriff Cochran declared.
"She is reserved, quiet and clean.
Just the incest prisoner I've ever
had" he continued.
StoIidIy Awaits Arrangement
Meanwhile, the alleged confessed
killer of her reputed longtime lover
languishes in the terrific heat of her
third floor cell in the little county
Jail. 1t was LOT here yesterday.
Smoking occasionally, reading the
Indianapolis newspapers daily, Mrs.
Sandstrom stolidly awaits her ar
raignment for flrst-degree murder
here Friday. Trial date has tenta-
lively been set for June IL, accord
tyr ~ CLo1.iff Cochran
The Jail, situated across the
square from the Coles county court
house, is an uninposing brick and
stone structure that has a capacity
of only thirty-f1ve pensioners.
Only Adult Prisoner
1--WE have just twelve prisoners
here now" Mr.. Cochran told The
Times reporter.
oddly enough, eleven of them
are minors, charged with minor
crimes. The twelfth, and only adult,
is Mrs. Sandstrom."
First to visit her since her in
generation here almost month
ago was her husband and her son
John, Is. Accompanied by her at
torneys, they have made frequent
visits.
Arrived Day of Staying
Mrs. Sandstrom arrived in Mat
toon the day of the murder, and
registered at the U. S. Grant hotel,
according to the sheriff. She went
to a movie in the afternoon.
Coming out of the movie, she saw
MIR. Thompson across the street at
an undertaking establishment, the
sheriff said.
Apparently he was on business,
since he was an official of an Indi-
annapolis casket company" Sheriff
Cochran related
Mrs. Sandstrom did not immedi-
ately go to him, but returned to the
hotel, where she found out that
Mr.. Thompson had registered there
only an hour before.
'"The trouble started after Thomp-
son got back to the hotel" Mr.
Cochrane declared.
"She is a very good prisoner and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-06

African marabou storks are scav-
engers, but they wash all their food
before eating it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-06

Thirteen boys will be awarded merit
badges.
Evening star., 1934-05-10
COLPOYS CRITICIZES
HOUSE SUPPLY BILL
Personal Services Appropriations
Are Held Arbitrarily
Reduced.

John B. ColpOys, me- United States
marshal for the District, accused the
House Of arbitrarily reducing the item
for personal services at the Court
House, during recent hearings on the
1885 District supply bill before the
Senate subcommittee on appropri-
atiOns.
The estimates recommended $3l, ,76l
for personal services, and the bill as
it passed the House carried $4,000.
Senator Thomas, Democrat, of Okla
homa, chairman of the subcommittee,
asked Colpoys why the amount was
reduced.
Il think it we simply arbitrarily
eliminated, If you ask me, from what
I have cleaned from the investigation
I have made" Colpoys replied. THAT
particular item is for the maintenance
Of the employees of the court hor
What is necessary for the proper
maintenance OF the court house, pay
ing the salaries that are now being
paid, would be $37,380, for which we
are allowed $4,000.
"Of course. We can get along on
$4,000 and give the kind at attention
that $4,000 will give; but to my way
Of thinking the court house should
be kept in a way commensurate with
its dignity, and the least we can do
it on would be $37,380."
Evening star., 1934-05-10

Senator Thomas Of Oklahoma-And
they do not get the benefit Of the
county and State government here.
Senator King-Well, think that
they do, in q measure.
Mr. Richards-I have used both
here. Senator King. both the city and
county and the State SO you can COM
pare the two.
But. our assessment Of $50. or
SIS per thousand gives us $35.O5 per
capita as against what a city pays
alone without the county and State
OF $32 20, and If you include the State,
of $43.
Spending Limited Here.
Washingtonians also have always
contended that when their tax bur-
den is compared with other cities, al
lowance should be made for the fact
most other cities have gone in for
heavy bonded Indebtedness and that
q substantial part of their tax rates
are necessary to meet interest and
sinking fund requirements.
During these years in which other
cities were assuming large bonded in
debtednesS Washington was forbidden
by Congress from borrowing at all
The taxpayers Of cities that borrowed
in large amounts for Improvements.
having received those benefits. must
now tax themselves sufficiently to meet
the interest and sinking fund. These
factors increase their total tax levies
and rates. But WashingtOnians have
made the point that. since they did
not have the opportunity to borrow
and receive the benefits Of bond-issue
improvement programs. they should
not have their tax burden compared
with borrowing cities. unless an ad-
justment is made for the factor of
interest and sinking fund. The sig
nificant comparison of city tax bur-
dens would be between the tax bur-
dens for current maintenance and de-
velopment. it has been pointed out.
exclusive Of Indebtedness, which varies
in every city and which may be due
to extravaganza or to a desire to
spread cost of public improvements
over many years.
Cost Of Debts Shown.
Chairman Thomas called attention
to this factor during the Senate hear
ings by asking Richards what per cent
Evening star., 1934-05-10
LIGHT FUND SLASH
SUITS ARE FEARED
Damage Actions Growing
Out of Accidents Likely,
G0tWaIS Declares.

The District will run the risk Of
lawsuits and of having its rates for
street lighting increased If Congress
sustainS the House In cutting the ap-
preparation for street lighting from
1927, 400 to 100000. Engineer Com
missioner John c. Gotwals told the
Senate subcommittee on District ap-
preparations.
The transcript OF the hearings, made
public today, quotes Gotwals as fol-
lows:
The estimate was 1886, 900, and
that was cut to 100000. The only
possible way OF making up that differ
ence is by turning out certain per-
centage of the street lights and in do
ing that, I rather think that We will
get into lawsuits, and have them on
our hands, and the company (the
Potomac Electric Power Coz will 60
to the Public Utilities Commission and
ask to have the rate raised.
Our rate for street lighting is rea-
sonably low. We have always made an
earnest effort to cut it down. Last
year We cut off a total Of $l50,00O of
our annual charges. This last time
We were not successful in getting them
to lower rates. So. if we run on this
$70O, 900 there is no way out but shut
ting off given percentage of the
lights used. say about one-sixth Of our
street lights"
Evening star., 1934-05-10
HOSPITAL OPENING
IN 1SMONTHS SEEM
GotWals Declares Tubercu-
IoSiS Institution Could Be
Built in 80 Months.

Engineer Commissioner Gotwals
told the Senate subcommittee on ap-
propriations during recent hearings
on the 1888 District supply bill, that
If Congress passes the bill authorizing
. public works loan for urgently
needed municipal projects 1t would
take about two and one-half years to
build the proposed new tuberculosis
hospital.
The Commissioner, however, said he
thought it might be possible to open
the institution in l8 months. but it
could not be entirely completed in
less than 80 months.
During the discussion on the tu-
berculosis hospital. DR.. j. w. Pea
body. superintendent, made a strong
plea for restoration Of items for ad
ditional employees eliminated by the
House
DR.. Peabody explained that in the
beginning he asked for 20 additional
employees, and that by the time the
appropriation bill reached the House,
the number had been reduced to
three The three that remained. he
said. were excluded by the House.
DR.. Peabody said the institution is
not functioning properly now, and
that unless three additional employees
are allowed it would be seriously
handicapped in the coming fiscal year
He pointed out there are two resident
physicians to care for 200 patients.
whereas there should be at least one
resident physician for each so pa
tients.
Evening star., 1934-05-10
GRADE CROSSINGS
REMOVAL URGED
GotWalS Also Prefers Re-
placing Dangerous Bridges
to Costly Structures.

Elimination Of remaining grade
crossings and replacement Of small
dangerous bridges. rather than the
construction Of the proposed new
Chain Bridge and the Pennsylvania
Avenue Bridge, was urged by Engineer
Commissioner Gotwals during recent
hearings on the 1885 District supply
bill before the Senate subcommittee
on appropriations.
Maj. Gotwals specifically recon-
mended an appropriation of $450,000
for construction OF a viaduct over the
B. g. o. Railroad tracks at Michigan
avenue. which he said could be
financed out of an anticipated surplus
OF $5OO,OOO in the gasoline tax rev.
enues.
Advises Caution.
Congress has authorized and the
Commissioners have built more bridges
in the past three years than in the
previous 20 years." Maj. Gotwals de-
clared. but there Is a little tendency
among the citizens to ride a good
horse to death. and so they have in
mind q very great bridge at Chain
Bridge, bridge to replace the Penn
sylvania Avenue Bridge. a new bridge
at South Capitol street and a new
bridge in place of the Highway Bridge.
BY the time all the esthetics play on
them, those will be tremendously
costly bridges and I believe Congress
ought TO 60 toward them very cau-
tiously. On the other hand. we have
many small and dangerous bridges
and dangerous grade crossings, and
this michigan avenue) is one"
Safe For Light Loads.
Maj. Gotwals also declared if there
Is any surplus In the gasoline tax
fund at the close Of the coming fiscal
year there will be "a great drive for
an exceedingly monumental and to
some extent an unnecessary new
bridge"
Both Chain and PENNSYLVANIA
Avenue Bridges, he explained, are safe
for light loads. He said he believed
the Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge could
be reconditioned SO as to make it
suitable for any load. but the citizens
do not want it rebuilt. Instead. he
said, they want masonry bridge with
no rock in sight-"a whale of a tech
nical job"
Evening star., 1934-05-10
SEWER COST. LAID
BUT SUM UNSPENT
GotwaIs Bares P. W. A. A.
Iotment Angle, Explaining
Reduced Allowance.

The District Government would be
paying back to the United States
some money that 1t has not spent and
never will spend. II the House sue
ceeds In its effort to require the city
to reimburse the Treasury for TO per
cent of the sewer allotment made by
the Public Works Administration last
Summer.
This new angle on the sewer allot-
ment issue was brought to light by
Engineer Commissioner Gotwals In
his testimony before the Senate sub
committee on next years appropria-
ton bill
The House, In passing the supply
bill last month, reduced the FEDERAL
share Of next years expenses from
$5.700,0 900 to $4,364 ,295. on the theory
that the District owes the United
States 10 per cent Of the sewer aIlot-
ment. The amount taken of the Fed
eral contribution for next year was
equivalent to 70 per cent Of the public
works sewer allotment.
Restricted Against Loan.
The District Commissioners insisted
before the Senate committee that the
sewer fund was a grant and not a
loan. pointing out that the law for
bidding District officials to incur in
debtedness would have made it i'm
possible for them to accept the alIot-
ment had it been represented to them
as even partial loan.
AT the Senate hearings. however,
Maj. Gotwals went further and
showed that the sewer projects COW
cred by the allotment will be car
ried out for s25O,000 less than the
allotment. SO that the House program
would require payment of some money
that will not be used.
Sewer Fund Unspent.
The following discussion took place
in the Senate hearings:
Maj. Gotwals-"There is another
very important point in the sewer
item which I should like to leave
with you. and that is that this money
Is not yet expended, and $3.50 900 OF
1t is not obligated. and probably never
Will be. We asked for the amount
Of sl,750.000. but We have let the con-
tracts, and will complete all the work
We planned for S25O,00O less than
that; so a very strange thing has
happened. We are going to be
charged with this p. w. A. money.
which is usually returned in the long
distant future gradually: but We are
asked to return some Of it that we
will never spend"
. Senator Copeland.-"That is very
interesting"
Commissioner Hazen.-"Not only
that, Senator. but may say that
money was accepted with no PROM
ise that We would ever refund IT,"
NO Borrowing Authority"
Maj. Gotwals.-"And, on the other
hand, there were repeated assertions
when We were asking for it that we
had no authority to borrow-none
whatever. We were continually asked,
Gould you not borrow it?' We said,
We cannot. 1t is against the law"
Commissioner HaZen.-"We want 10
impress on the committee. Mr.. Chair
man. that the Commissioners would
not have assumed this obligation be-
cause 1t is in violation Of the law. and
they would not haye thought Of do
ing it."
Evening star., 1934-05-10
Trotsky's Former
Retreat in France
Offered for Rent
BY the Associated Press.


PARIS. May 10.-The "for-
rent" sign went up today at
Leon Trotsky's hiding place At
suburban Barbizon.
The mysterious forest villa
from which the Russian exile
was spirited by the French secret
service was advertised In Paris
American newspapers.
lowing to the sudden de-
parture of the tenant" the ad-
vertissment read. "the Villa Ker
Monique is to let. On borders Of
Fontainebleau Forest. Five
rooms. bath room, garage. every
convenience, shaded park
Trotsky himself presumably
still is on an automobile tour Of
France with detectives. pending
final arrangements for him to
live in some other country.
Evening star., 1934-05-10

of the tax rate in the various cities
Is necessitated by interest and sinking
fund requirements OF bonded debt.
The table the assessor presented to
show per capita real estate tax bur-
dens did not show separately the cost
of bonded debt elsewhere, but Mr..
Richard gave Senator Thomas an
other table showing in dollars the in
debtedness of so American cities,
and, in parallel columns. the popu-
lation. assessment and per capita tax
lew of those cities. Richards said
these figures were for 1880. and part
of them down to date. Referring gen.
orally to the debt question. the dis
cussion before the committee con-
tinued:
Mr.. Richards have here a copy
of the taxpayers dollar in the city OF
Detroit. Twenty-Five cents Of that
dollar goes to education. Twenty-Five
cents. or a little less than Is cents,
goes to the sinking funC and the in
tereSt.
Calls Estimate Fair.
Senator Thomas Of Oklahoma-Do
YOU llidL 10 AuAA SceAAAAOe> ~
percentages throughout the cities OF
the country-25 per cent for interest
and sinking fund on bonded indebted
ness?
Mr.. Richards-I should say IS per
cent or less.
Senator Thomas OF Oklahoma-And
the District having no Indebtedness,
we get rid. of course, Of that Is per
cent: and il the 25 per cent were nee
essarily added-in other words, If we
had the Indebtedness in the District
that the average city has-the tax
rate, instead of being $l.70, would be
at least 25 per cent higher. Is that a
fair statement?
Mr.. Richards-Yes
Mr.. Richards also testified that in
the past II years about $4,000, 900
has been taken cut Of the assessable
property in the District by reason Of
land purchases by the Federal Gov
ernment Questioned by Senator King.
the assessor said this did not include
about $4,000 900 of taxable property
lost through purchase of the Munich
pal Center site. He said it also in
cluded park purchases. bat that they
would not exceed one-third CT the
total.