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The Washington times., 1935-03-14
j. s. WARNED
Of BUSINESS
CONTROL
S. Clay Williams UphoIds
NRA Wage Minima, But
Sees Domination Peril
international News Service


Senate NRA investigators today
heard one of the two heads Of
the big recovery unit recommend
that the Government stay out
of private business as much as is
possible.
The witness was S. Clay Will
liams, chairman of the National
Industrial Recovery Board.
Appearing before the Senate
Finance Committee, investigating
NRA in connection with impend-
ing legislation for it's continuance,
Mr.. Williams bluntly warned
against going too far" He said:
81 think the public will fare
better If we leave as much as
possible to business. Let the
Government go in and pre-
scribe rules only for Objectives
to be gained and certain prac-
tices to be eliminated"
SOUNDS WARNING
41CA1 CAAC WAG44Coo OSO44AO4 q
warning:
when we go too far we
reap a minimum Of benefit
and doubtful benefit at that
and a maximum of trouble for
ourselves"
Minimum wages and maximum
hours are the vital and proven
basic benefits that have come
from NRA, Mr.. Williams de-
clared. Wages, he said, should
be the one thing removed from
competition by a minimum which
would assure the worker living.
The Government should go
slowly in price-fixing, he added.
But he supported price main
tenance which would enable in
dustry to pay a living wage.
Complaints Cited
Senator Black (D.) of Alabama
explained that some persons had
written him they had to aban-
don their lumber business be-
cause the code would not allow
them to sell lumber as cheaply
as they desired.
Mr.. Williams replied with the re-
minder that the price-fixing pro
CONTINUED on Page 2, Col. ~
The Washington times., 1935-03-14
LONG BEATEN
AGAIN ON
RELIEF
Senate Defeats Education
Proposal, So to 27; Wage
FiIibuster to Continue

Senator Huey P. Long was de
feated in the Senate today by Sd
to ~ votes on his attempt to have
one hundred million dollars of the
funds from the Works Relief bill
earmarked for financing students
in colleges.
It was the second defeat on such
q proposition he has suffered this
week, his effort to have one billion
dollars allocated to the same pur'
pose having been rejected by IS to
5 earlier in the week.
Just before the vote Senator
Carter Glass (DO, Virginia, and
James E. Byrnes Cd, South
Carolina, who are steering the
measure for the Administration,
argued there was no necessity
for such an amendment, author
ity already being provided in the
bill for the expenditure of almost
any part Of it for education.
Up to President
Senator Glass declared the ap.
parent ALLEGATIONS in the bill
were merely limitations, and that
the President, as a matter of fact,
coulG virtually use the funds in
any way he sees fit, -.
Voting ! for the amendment
were IS Republicans and nine
Democrats. Voting against the
amendment were five Republi.
cans, one Progressive and So
Democrats.
It was generally believed that
Administration forces feared a
vote on this proposition, because
it was believed Administration
supporters might feel they had
to vote for such an educational
proposal rather than be criticized
by their constituents. However,
the. fear apparently was exag.
gerated.
Senator Long was expected to
continue his filibuster today. He
asserted yesterday that he would
continue to block a vote on the
McCarran prevailing wage amend
ment until he was allowed pairs
for his colleagues, Senator Over
ton and Senator Caraway.
Strangely enough, Senator Long
Joined with such conservatives as
Senator Glass CD of Virginia
Tydings CD of Maryland, and
Adams Cd of Colorado, in pro-
testing against the Administra.
tion's present policy of borrowing
billions of dollars to finance it's re
covery program. He shared their
view that the Administration was
piling a tremendous debt upon
future generations.
There was a hint the Admins
tration might try to impose
cloture on the Senate to shut of
debate. This would require a vote
by two-thirds of the membership
and neither the liberals nor the
conservatives want to be gagged
on O bill spending 1880 million
dollars. They said the Admins
tration held the bill in committee
unnecessarily for IL days whereas
the present debate has lasted but
four days.
The Washington times., 1935-03-14
Will Rogers
Says:

BEVERLY HILLS, CAL,
March 14.-Say did you read
about what Mr.. Roosevelt said
about those "hOlding com.
panies." wouldn't want my
worst enemy to call me names
like that.
Now Huey Long, and Father
COughlin, and Gen. Hugh John.
son can call each other names,
but theirs is all in good clean
fun, they don't really mean 1t.
any of 'em. But Mr.. Roosevelt
amt kidding. And what makes
it worse, is that it's true.
A holding company is thing
where you hand an accOmplice
the goods while the policeman
searches you.
Copyright. 1888. Mcknight Syndicate.
The Washington times., 1935-03-14
MOntagu Rejected
For Foreign Legion

PARIS, March IA Q.N.S)
After only two weeks in his pretty
red uniform, with a shiny rifle all
ready to shoot fierce Riffs, Lord
Edward Montagu today was out
of the Foreign Legion again with
out ever having left the soil of
France. He started to write a
book all about the Legion too
soon, according to Paris-Midi.
A medical commission at Mar
seilles rejected him as unfit for
service" said the newspaper. The
real reason, it was reported here,
was the series of articles he wrote
for a Paris paper.
The Washington times., 1935-03-14
HELEN v ILLS
PLAYS AGAIN

SAN FRANCISCO, March IA
G.N.S0.-Helen Wills Moody, for
mer queen of the tennis courts.
has again taken up her racket
for the first time since the ma
tional singles finals in 1888 when
she was forced to default to Helen
Jacobs because Of back injury.
Mrs. Moody parried a question
as to when she would return to
competitive play:
II have just started, and my
practice was merely the first Of
many which, I hope, will eventu-
ally lead to tournament play"
The Washington times., 1935-03-14
ASKED CASE
Be DROPPED,
SAYSPOL|CE
Maghan Charges SChWeinhaut
Promised to Quash Hughes
Boys Indictment

With charges and counter
charges flying fast and furious
between the Police Department,
the District Attorneys office and
the Parole Board, developments
today in the special House Dis
trict subcommittee investigation
of crime conditions in Washing
ton were:
i. A precinct detective ap-
peared before the committee
to defend himself against
charges made by irate mother
that he had arrested her son
without due process of law.
Youth Indicted
2. Assistant District Attorney
Henry Schweinhaut was charged
befort the committee with at.
tempting to influence the de-
tectives to drop the case against
a juvenile charged with house
breaking.
3. The juvenile was indicted
by the District Grand Jury
while the case was being dis
cussed on Capitol Hill.
4. Denials of testimony that
collusion existed between men,
bers of the Metropolitan Police
Department and liquor runners.
5. Testimony that the District
Attorneys office has been un'
duly slow in bringing cases to
court.
Detective Testifies
Detective Robert j. Maghan, Of
the Third precinct, was on the
witness stand all morning before
the special House committee de"
Tending himself against charges
made by Mrs. Mary Parks Morley,
1000 block Twenty-third st. N. W.,
that he acted as Judge and jury"
in arresting her 16-year-old son,
Richard Parks, for housebreaking.
The detective denied he had
been influenced in any way in his
action against three boys involved
in the housebreaking charges and
testified that in the midst of the
case Assistant District Attorney
Schweinhaut asked him if he
would drop the charges against
one of the boys, John E. Hughes,
jr., II.
Accuses Prosecutor
Mr.. Maghan testified that the
prosecutor asked him if he would
agree to drop the charges against
young Hughes, who was indicted
today by the Grand Jury, if full
restitution was made.
According to the detective, he
told the prosecutor he would not
drop the case. He further testi"
fled that the Assistant District
Attorney had told the Hughes
boys father that if the boy were
indicted and if restitution were
made, he would nolle PROSE- the
case.
Questioned by Representative
Chauncey w. Reid CD of Hi.
nois, as to whether he thought
the Hughes boy should have been
indicted. Detective Maghan re-
Sponded:
probably So"
GrilIed BY Counsel
Under grilling by DR.. John r.
Fitzpatrick, committee counsel,
the testimony was as follows:
Q.-Why didn't you lock up the
CONTINUED on Page 2, Col. y
The Washington times., 1935-03-14
Railroads Appeal
On Pension Ready
International News Service

The attack of 1874 railroads on
constitutionality of the Admins
trations railroad pension bill was
ready today for submission to
the Supreme Court. The Gov
ernment's plea for a decision
holding it valid already has been
made. The broad aspects of the
case involve the entire Admins.
tration economic security pro
gram.
The Washington times., 1935-03-14
CRIME DATA PRODUCED
M .LOROe:S Attack

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MANY cRIMEs-FEw CONVICTIONS
The Washington times., 1935-03-14

Mrs. James H. Wolfe, director
of the Women's Division of the
Democratic National Committee,
(COntinued on Page s, Col. p
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THE WASHINGTON TINES
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ice every evening. Should you
fail to receive yours, call Dis"
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Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1935-01-31
NIeIoS

When our friend Silas says Amen
to our statements we feel we &C.
b are right, or we Silas and
are both wrong. After due deliber-
alton we are convinced it would be
impracticable for editors to print
the facts-the whole truth. The
folks we would pick to take the
lead in the scramble to skidoo
would perhaps be staying the long
est, all Of which reminds us Of the
old lady who said My old man
thinks he has religion and it is
only old age" Let us keep on pat
ting folks on the back to their face
and giving them the devil to their
back
f. A. CASTOR remains seriously
ill.,
Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Bird and son
Howard are sick. Mrs. Bird seems
to be the most serious.
The Hills Shaver family are i'll
with grip.
John Bozman, route two, was re-
ported not so well Sunday
Mrs. Baz Wells who has been on
the sick list for some time, is bet.
ter.
W. F. and Robert Wilson were at
New Lexin gton, Sunday, to see the
formers son, Duane, who is threat
ened with pneumonia. They found
him quite poorly.
We find we had the date of /. T.
Winkins' death (Nov. A, 1929 cor
rect.
A. J. Lindimore who has been
crippled up with rheumatism, is bet
ter.
Bristol-Meigs telephone held
their annual meeting Monday of
this week.
We have the second Sales Tax
stamp issue at the Radcliff village
store. Samuel Ray got the first
one. We will likely get another be-
fore Ohio gets out of the red.
Ten below zero on Bear Run,
Monday, Jan. %, 1885. Phew.
There is crow somewhere in
Ohio that the state will pay $25
for. Kill him and present the band
Off his leg. Others having bands on
are Of less value.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1935-01-31

the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation
as voiced by John M. Hodson, chair
man of the bureaus legislative COM
mittee, in Columbuse HOdson
declared that the state tax commits
sion has ruled that farm machinery
is taxable under the new sales tax
law. but at the same time has de-.
creed that manufacturers are ex-
empt from paying the sales tax on
machinery which they buy to pro-
duce their products. The farm bu-
reau, therefore, believes that the
regulations are discriminatory and
unfair. 1.-THE farm is factory
which manufactures food and feed
materials, and uses machinery to
produce grain, cereals, hay, fruits,
vegetable, and other field and gar
den products used in commercial
channels of trade. The resemblance
is further borne out by the fact that
these agricultural commodities are
distinguished in similar manner
as commodities produced in urban
factories,' the farm bureau legisla-
tor added.
The Ohio Farm Bureau Fedora
ton will seek a reverse ruling of
the state tax commission, wherein
farm machinery and implements
will be exempt from the sales tax
and, if necessary, will take the mat
ter to the courts, states Mr.. Hod-
SON.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1935-01-31
When Does Sales Tax Apply

Nncn Does SatcS JaA Apply
To Farmers Sales?
Does the state sales tax apply to
my business and must | get ven
doris license? These questions are
being asked by many Ohio farmers
at this time-farmers who are in
the habit of making retail sales
under circumstances which make
the Interpretation of the new tax
difficult.
The tax commission Of Ohio has
cover some points, but it need be
understood that some time must
elapse before definite decisions are
made to cover all points, according
to H. r. Moore, of the department
Of rural economies at the Ohio eX-
pertinent station.
Retail sales of farm produce are
exempted from the sales tax when
sold on the farm where it is grown.
This includes roadside markets of
farmers. However, when the road
side market is run by a farmer some
distance from his farm, vendors 5
license must be obtained and the
sales tax collected,
Farmers who regularly make re-
tail sales to consumer-customers in
the other hand, an isolated sale,
such as that of a bushel of apples
or dozen eggs, can be made tax
free, being interpreted as casual
| sale" provided the farmer does not
regularly engage in making retail
sales at any place other than upon
his own farm.
Casual sales are tax free and
cover transactions such as the occa-
sional sale Of horse or cow, a
piece of farm machinery, or house
hold goods. Casual sales also
cover individual farm auction sales
but do not include sales at COM
munity auctions which are subject
| to the tax.
The most important points to re-
| member in the Interpretation Of the
sales tax, as it applies to farmers,
are Cd "The term retail SALE is so
defined as to apply to tax virtually
| only to retail transactions or sales
for consumption"
(2) "Sales by farmer are not
subject to the tax when the proper
| ty transferred is the product of his
farm, either owned or rented" If
the retail sales are made on the
farm.
go Casual sales at retail can
be made away from the farm with
out collecting the tax.
(4) Retail sales Of milk are tax
free except when for consumption
on the premises of the vendor, as
in a restaurant.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1935-01-31

January both was again celebrat-
ed as President Roosevelt's birth
day. The Warm Springs Founda-
ton in Georgia will benefit. Fifty
years from now this may be just an
other day. On the other hand, 1T
may be universally commemorated
in memory of great president, un-
der whose leadership a nation was
led from the threat of ruin. revolu-
tion and chaos into new era OF
steady employment, economic secur-
itv and prosperity. Historians, fif-
ty years from now, viewing the coli
lapse of the entire financial struc-
ture of the United States and the
hopeless situation on March 4th,
1888, may pay tribute to President
Franklin D. Roosevelt as one OF the
greatest Of our presidents. VINO
knows?
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1935-01-31
Camp Morgan Using Forests
For Erosion Control
(By J. r. Benjamin J


The average American farm is
about as self-sustaining and inde-
pendent an enterprise as can be
found on the American continent.
The farmer decides how much shall
be in crops, in pasture and in wood
land His decisions are governed
by the type of land, the market fa-
cilities and prices. The one factor
that has been overlooked in times
past is that items that are compara-
lively worthless to one generation
may be very valuable to the next
one. This is especially true of our
woodlands. It is becoming more ev-
ident to the forward-looking farm
ers of Morgan county that our wood
lots are some of the most valuable
parts of the farms, and will increase
in value faster than any other type
of farm production, and with less
effort. This is especially true of
steep slopes that have been cut over
in past years, and from which the
soil is washing away rapidly. The
obvious remedy is to replant these
steep slopes to trees, and permit
them to replace the worthless trash
that SO often grows wild in fields
that have become unproductive.
This work has already been done
on many farms of the county~by the
enrolles of Camp Morgan. Some Of
the larger paintings are on eroded
areas on the farms of Jacob Stalker,
Postmaster Harry Gordon, Ode Cor
dray, and Mrs. Anna Jones. Most
of these paintings have been either
of black locust or pines. which have
proven to be the most valuable for
reclaiming eroded land. They are
especially hard on poor land, the
locust being legume that enrich
es the soil, and will produce timber
of commercial value more quickly
than almost any other tree. The
pines, with their deep taproots and
! high shade value are especially val
liable for anchoring slips and for
use in mixed paintings, for wind
breaks, etc. Information on plant
ings can be had from Camp Nor
! gan.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1935-01-31
Items From Morgan County
Democrat Of twenty-five Years Ago

ter, Mrs. Amy Glover.
w. B. Wells, former proprietor
of the Bijou, has opened picture
show in Athens.
Mrs L. J. Hess of Pomeroy has
been the guest of her sister, Mrs.
Bush McKeown.
The following officers of Hia-
watha Rebekah Lodge, No. 1872, |.
O. o. F., were installed: Noble
Grand, Sadie Carroll; Vice Grand,
Elizabeth Siler; R. S., Alice Smith;
F. S., Martha Sheridan; Treas .
Maggie Boxell; Warden, Myrtle
Newman; Conductor, Sue Travis:
Chaplain, Ella Mendel; I. G., Nancy
Henery; o. G., Mabel Van Horn.
Agnes McVeigh was the installing
officer.
A. r. Schmidt of Bridgeport
Okla, in renewing his subscription
to the Democrat says he reads the
paper with great interest. He in
forms us that Mrs. Sarah j. Bell of
Reinersville is at the home of her
daughter Mrs Schmidt, and that all
are enjoying fairly good health.
Captain Thomas E. Clark died
last week at his home in Marietta.
He was a native of Stockport. His
I wife who died about six years ago
was a sister of Thomas Muse OF
Stockport Captain Clark was a
well known river man.
Whenever I got to drinking
whisky or using cocaine, seemed
1 to have lost control Of myself, and
my mania was to break into some
4 business house and take everything,
/ seems in substance, according to a
Marietta paper, to be the statement
of young man who has confessed
to three burglaries in Marietta
within the past month. He is said
to have been an exemplary young
man except when drinking.
The paper at the Scientific So
ciety meeting Monday night was on
1.-The Wives of Napoleon, by Miss
Jessie Wells /. J. Weber who pre-
/ sided at the meeting, in DR.. True
absence, exhibited a piece of Irish
linen 130 years old, which had been
woven by Caroline Tascher, a niece
of Josephine one of Napoleon
wives, and which is a priced heir
loom in the family of the Webers
at Rokeby Lock.
Walter NJ Roach, aged 81 years
a brother of Mrs. Herbert Matson
! formerly of McConnelsville, died al
! his home in GAINESVILLE, Jan. "a, OF
/ tuberculosis.
In speaking of "The Girl of the
/ Mountains which was played at the
| Weller theatre in GAINESVILLE, The
Times Recorder said in part: Miss
/ Nance Naylor, daughter of DR.
James Ball Naylor, is in the cast
+ playing the ingenue role of Winnie
Lambert. She does her work fine.
Emmett c. Scott and Miss Faith
Best, near Mt Zion M. P. church
west side, were married Jan. p a
the home of Rev. Grimsley in Nal
ta Mr.. Scott is one of the teacher:
of Morgan county.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1935-01-31
Renrock

Folks, you didn't get all our let
ter last week,-only the bones.
Whatever meat there may have
been, if any, the editor took it him.
self. And say, old boy Of Meigs
fame, if Father Time will grant us
an extension on the lease, We'll be
over on that side in the spring, rid
ing the skeleton Of a dinosaur, a
peddling the itch, and well give it
to you (not the itch) verbally, that
is. in our own uncouth and unvar-
nished language, which can't be
used on an ordinary linotype. And
by the way, as a side-line, We'll have
some invisible, or veSt-pOcket
arouches, which we will sell cheap,
or, what have you got to trade .
And in the meantime, Brother By
ron, you might tell your friend, Mr..
Bamfeld. believe it was,-not to
put too high an estimate on that
old fiddle of his which has been in
the family for SO long,-not over a
couple o. thousand dollars. We
have one which has been in the
family long time, bearing the
name. t"Antonius Stradivarius,
1920" and it is probably worth
only SIS or $50.
yankee tricks, plus Ameri-
cas- ingenuity. One day last fall on
our return from Caldwell We took
the Sharon-Olive Green road home,
as we frequently do. For some rea-
son we didn't see our Versatile
Meigs scribe with the road main
tenance gang,--nor, did We meet
Ellis Foster 1t was a strange day.
But it was on this occasion that we
stopped at the Burlingame home,
Frank. we mean, the man who is
prepared to help you "say it with
towers" in case of funeral or a
wedding. OF course there is no diff
ference between these two ordeals,
except in the latter, you have q
chance to smell your own posies.
But what our contrary, and ever
deviating stub of a pencil started to
say was, that we saw something in
the Burlingame door yard that at
tracted our attention. At glance,
we lust took it to be some kind OF q
new tangled beehive: since where
there are so many flowers, it would
be a utopia" for honey-bees, ana
then glancing at the greenhouse, II
was evident that Mr.. Busy Bee could
81
he could do would be to look long
ingly through the glass and "cuss,
and swear vengeance as to what ne
would do, if he ever caught the fei-
low ont. who erected such decep-
tive barrier. No, it wasn't bee
hive, but Immediately we guessed 1t,
we were certain. Frank had
been to the Chicago fair, and prob
ably on that eventful halloWe' en-
night. and he had swiped one of the
many amplifiers that were placed
here and there over the ground,
and no, it's not that because
there's a thing that wasn't on the
amplifier,-well what can 1t be any
IL
know there are lot Of us who don't
know much, and if Well just ask
questions, and remember the an
swers, after while we'll have quite
little stock of information.
Frank? What dye call that ther'
thing down ther' anyway" Point
ing in the direction. "Well now!
Don't it beat a fox what some fell
lers kin study up, nowadays" We
were surprised; it had nothing to
do with holly-hocks, sunfiowers,
snap-dragons, or other rare flowers,
not at all. Frank has charge of a
government thermetrograph that is,
self-registering thermometer, and
he makes daily records of the tenn