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(Continued from Page l.D where Condon's plurality last fall was 21, 400.
 Risk made his best showing in the Blackstone valley which has been a democratic stronghold for many years.
 Republicans Like It
 Rhode Island republicans con- sidered his triumph as especially significant since the first district embraces both industrial and agri- cultural regions, part of Provi- dence, the states largest city, and the entire city of Pawtucket, one of the nations largest textile cen- ters. The districts population in. cludes thousands of voters oi rench-Canadian, Italian Portu. guese descent, as well as mem bers of Rhode Islands oldest families. and is considered a typical cross. section of American life. Prince was beaten decisively despite the fact he had the active support of a democratic governor and democratic U. S. senator.
 Risk received 11,S55 votes to 7.. 187 for Prince in the normally democratic stronghold of Paw. tucket. Last fall Condon's margin in this city exceeded 1000.
 Risk Won Strongholds Democrats had anticipated car. rying Newport by at least 1906 votes, but Risk won it, 4,637 tt 4,106.
 He also carried Central Falls which had been democratic for 2( years, 3,217 to 2.39S. In Woonsocket, another impor tant textile center, where Condon'i margin was 5,400 last fall, tn, democratic majority was reduced to 1,600. This city, which Is Prince, home, was the only city he carried That part of Providence that i in the first district was carried b, Risk. s.907 to 7.054. Risks victory was made nor, impressive by the fact that his op | ponent is of French Canadian descent and thus a, member of tn dominating racial element in tn state.
 The following bond issues wer approved by statewide vote:
 S3,000,000 for unemployment re lief.
 s600.000 for the purchase of vot ing machines. These bond issues were defeated $2,400,000 to establish a ney park system in western Rhod Island.
 $1,S75,000 for state forest. $Ss5.000 for new state audi torium in Providence.
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Byrns Firm in Saddle

It's most extraordinary when the entire House leadership deserts the president on an issue, but not hard to understand If you know why.
 You can hear plenty of loose talk about 8 possible administra- ton attempt to supplant Byrns as speaker, but it will continue to be jujst that.
 If anything were needed to show that the administration couldn't get away with it, the second vote on the holding company bill pro- vided the evidence.
 Byrns has done more favors for members than any other speaker within memory and there is more soreness in the House about "ex- ecutive interference" than at any other time since Roosevelt took office.
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, selves on the ropes. It was slow work.
 Rangers said the Chicopee gir and the youth she had met while yacationing in the park were al right as long as they fought of fatigue and shock and didn't try to reach each other or climb of their precarious resting places. Their cries for help and signal fires they had lighter drew atten- tion to their plight at 6:O0 p. m yesterday. None knew how long they had been struggling to find a patch down the mountain before calling for aid.
 Was c. of C. Secretary
 Chicopee, Mas, Aug 7-UP)- Miss Elizabeth K. Lorimer, about 2S, trapped on a dangerous ledge in Yosemite National park. recent ly resigned, preparatory to her marriage, as secretary of the Springfield office of the National Council for the prevention of war
 She is a graduate of Smith col lege and has spent two years in Labrador with the Sir Wilfred Grenfell medical missionary expe- dition and two years in Puerto Rico as a teacher.
 She left here with her parents MT. and Mrs. W. Allen Loriner on a motor trip to California las month. Her father is proprietor of a Springfield gasoline station and parking space. On her return from the west Miss Lorimer planned to marry John McLaren of Montreal. The engageemnt was announced June 2.
 Miss Lorimer has twin brothers Superior Judge Thornton H. Lor- inner of New Hampshire and the Rev. Allen I. Lorimer of Manches- ter, N. H. Both are Harvard grad uates.
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Form Secretary
 OfWar Was Witness
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And we're not, going to have any argument about politics at this hearing"
 Hurley previously had character ized the visit to his estate by sub poena-bearers as "an outrage to my family and a political frame up." He insisted that he had no idea where the elusive Hopson. sought for testimony about the Associated Gas and Electric com pany activities. against the utilities bill, might be found and that he (Hurley) was not Hopson's lawyer.
 Gets Angry Again
 Hurley was angered when Black asked him to disclose the fee he received for representing the Asso- ciated Gas and Electric company at the senate banking and currency committees stock exchange investi- gation in 1893. He had already testified he was paid $25.000 during the campaign against the utilities legislation.
 The handsome Hoover cabinet officer arose, removed his glasses and shouted:
 "IW state my fee in that case if you wish to hear it, but 1t occurred to me that you might asked Martin Conboy how much he received for representing Albert H. Wiggin in the same case"
 "Sit down, Mir. Hurley" Black said angrily.
 "I object to being called up here as the sole person." Hurley began again.
 Rebuked By Black
 That will be enough" the chair man shouted. "You were not called up here. You volunteered to testify and we'll ask you such questions as we see fit."
 The former war secretary. neatly dressed in a light gray suit. high white collar. and a dark blue tie, sat down and leaned back in the witness chair.
 "I think it's rather serious" he said. "that you single out a repub- lican."
 "Now see here," Black said, 'we're not going to have any argu- ment about this thing and we're not going to have any political partis- anship here. If you want to answer the question. you may do so."
 "Ail right" Hurley replied. "l received $50.00 for my services in the stock market investigation"
 Never Acted For HOpson
 He testified he had never repre- scented Hopson or any of Hopson's privately-owned companies.
 CT represented the investors ot the A. c. D. system.' he said.
 Hurley reviewed testimony he gave to the banking and currency committee. and then tangled with Sen. Lewis D. schwellenbach. d., Wash.
 "Dld you tell the committee that Mr. Hopson was taking e560.000 Q year from companies that were paying no dlvidenda7" schwellen- bach aekod.
 'f didn's know that 10 be shs
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Independent Group Of Democrats Organize
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i, that it sees fit to.
 Among those prominent in poli- tical circles present at the gather ing were Patsy Travisano, George McGrath, we'll known g. o.p worker, ex-Alderman Charles Schnitman, and City Sheriff Eugene Crosby. The slate of candidates was pre- pared by committee consisting of Edward B. McGrath, Lester Loner- gan, Rocco Calo, Timothy Costello, Edward Fox, Mrs. Loretta Stone. John Lally and John Capanna. The only objection to the slate was raised by John Lally who claimed that the second ward had been sighted in not being given any place on the ticket. As a result 1t was voted to give the town com mittee the right to confer with the second ward independent demo- crats and make any changes they might desire to make in the ticket so as to take care of the second ward. William C1eary offered to resign from the ticket and give his place to somebody in the second ward but the offer was turned down by the entire meeting.
 Town Committee
 The plan to give the power ot changing the ticket to town com mittee brought question from the floor as to who comprises that body and when it was chosen Chairman Moran explained that the committee was elected at a | previous gathering. It's personnel is as follows:
 First district, James Darlington; End, James Hartley; 3rd, Fred Edelberg; 4th, John A. Phelan 5th. Frank Conroy; 9th, Henr, Gagain; 7th, Edward McGrath Sth, William Derwin; 9th, Gu. Lonergan; 10th, T. Maxwell; 11th Eugene Sheehan; 18th, Fred Lal. Her; 18th, John Savino; 14th. J Whelan; 18th, J. Mccormack; 16tf w. Legge; 17th, Frank Mckay 18th, Patrick Moran; 18th, Ludd, Burke; goth. James McKenna.
 MT. Gagain of the 9th distric announced Saturday that he is no connected in anyway with the in dependent democratic group. liar old Hanlon acted as secretary ol last nights session. The resolu tions committe objected to re porting out it's platform until tn. candidates had been nominated Joseph Ippolito. chairman of tn, committee, declaring that "w, don't want to make a report unti we know who the top man is oi the ticket"
 Candidates Absent
 Many of those nominated by tn, independents were not present a last nights meeting. They i cluded Attorney Catherine Hanlon John Spellman, John Carney Frank Wall. Frank Romano, ST. Peter Lazdauskas, A. H. Blan chard, Brony Christian, Georg, Blinn, Floyd Fisher and John Max we'll.
 MT. Connor. the nominee fo mayor, is a native of Waterbur, and has been employed by the Wa terbury Manufacturing compan. for the past 23 years. He wa prominent in the city and indus trial baseball leagues for mum Der of years and is nepsew o the late Roger Connor, leading batsman in the. major league ; years ago.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-07
How the Revolt Began

The story behind the liedown oi the House leadership on Roose- velt's holding company bill begins last summer, when the administra- ton secretly decided it would pre- Byrns when the House chose a speaker to succeed the late Henry Rainey.
 Rayburn was younger, abler, more vigorous, and more New Dealish than Byrns. But Byrns out t-maneuvered the White House, which never dared come out in the open, and Rayburn had to with draw.
 The bitterness engendered then and the deals that were made and attempted have echoed all through this session.
 Byrns was especially incensed at the argument that Rayburn had pushed such important bills as the securities and stock market acts through the House, while the name of Byrns had never been attached to an important measure.
 The Tennesseean was heard to say that Rayburn, although con- tinuing in his chairmanship of the interstate commerce committee, wouldn't be having much luck with important bills in the future.
 Three times Byrns was quoted he says misquoted-as disparaging the Wheeler-Rayburn bill or its chances. And by the time Demo- cratic Whip Paddy Roland of Pennsylvania-who gets his orders from Byrns-had expressed oppo- sition, the big democratic major ity in the House began to get the point that its leaders wouldn't crack down in case it succumbed to pressure from the power trust"
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Is for a 96 per cent payment of bonus obligations.
 S5 Per Cent of Wealth.
 Washington, Aug. 7- (UP) - Eighty-five per cent of all corpor- ate wealth in the United States is owned by only five per cent of the corporations, the senate finance committee was told today when 1t studied Roosevelt proposals to inn pose larger taxes on rich compan- ies.
 Robert H. Jackson, internal re- venue bureau counsel, presented the data, with a detailed statement of administration arguments in favor of a graduated corporation income tax.
 He said the depression had has, tened concentration of wealth in the hands of the biggest corpora tions and contended that trend was likely to continue.
 Should Shift Burden
 More of the tax burden should be shifted to corporations that arc most able to pay. Jackson said, just as the administration bill would impose greater levies on pri- yate fortunes.
 The graduated corporation tax would replace the present flat rate of IS 3-4 per cent. Jackson said 1t would mean smaller taxes for 95 per cent ot all corporations, with the increase fallnig on the five per cent of large ones.
 ''The i've per cent owing the S5 per cent of the corporate wealth and the five per cent whose taxes would be increased are not neces- arily identical" he added, "but most of the corporations in one class will also be found in the other"
 Just as the proposed higher inc come and inheritance taxes would shift more of the tax burden from poorer classes to wealthy indivi. duals. 50 the graduated corpora. ton tax would draw more revenue from tho larger and more stable businesses. Jackson eaid.
 lie said both tho shifts would iond to stabilize federal roRnues,
 As thc committee continued hearings. tlpax'lrHn afIYe Cor
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VIM. E. KENNEDY
 NAMED ENGINEER
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nedy's duties will be of great pro- portion.

nedy's duties will be Of great pro- portion.
 Former Local Man Named
 State WPA Administrator Daly today announced the appointment of Charles E. Beardsley of Bethle- hem, former Waterburian, as his acting assistant. MT. Beardsley was formerly president of the Beardsley and Wolcott Manufac- turing Company of this city.
 At the same time Administrators Daly announced the selection of Thomas J. Aubrey of this city as acting personnel officer and office manager of the New Haven dis trict. MT. Aubrey, up to 1929, was secretary of the Manufacturers Foundry Company. here. Both MT. Beardsley and MT. Aubrey have been named "acting" off cials. Mir. Beardsley will be direct assistant to Administrator Daily and it is likely that he will have charge of a local WPA office. MT. Aubrey will be in charge of the New Haven office.
 Sullivan Appointed 
 Administrator Daly also an- nounced the appointment of Vim cent J. Sullivan of Bridgeport as acting assistant director and chief engineer of the Bridgeport area. This is similar to the post to which MT. Kennedy is to be appointed in the Waterbury district. George M Coughlan was named acting direc' tor of construction in the Bridge port area. Senator Julius c. Stremlau of Meriden has been named district supervisor in the division of labor management and will work out oi the Hartford office. He will be ln charge of all labor. relation. occu- pational training, retraining, labor inventory and safety work amonR the workers in the Hartford dis A..sa
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STRIKERS OUT
 JUST ONE HOUR

Bresf. France. August 7-(UP)
 - workers on the battleship Dun- kerque at the Great Brest ship yards struck suddenly for an hour today and authorities feared a new outbreak of rioting.
 After a tense hour the strikers want back to their jobs. Vigilance #as not relaxed. in fear that the inn might be temporary.
 1f Q bile guards. gendarmes French and colonial troops and re- oubIicnn guards were on duty zhreurhout the city with orders to =0nprcs sany resumption of rioting z.f6 protest against wage cuts un- z<f lhe sovofnment's economy de-
 1Es men at the navy yards re. .@ufnSf fo work today. But they #z1 returned under promise tnaI I6<r< would bo nc 1uHrea ~ the
 Without warming. shs men weEk. lzz 1n fAS UNuHoETTz. #rp wsss =z Ett6 |a stsIer1ef't [|pi'''# 'o,o, ..
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(Cont1nued from Page 1.) phone and telegraph messages and also to conduct radio programs be- tween some of the nations largest networks, are badly routed and may fall down, thereby causing a seri- ous interruption in the service.
 Was Electioneering
 MT. DeBisschop said today that he was in Providence, R. l., yester- day working for the republican party in its drive to elect an anti New Deal congressman. The anti Roosevelt man was elected. While in Providence, according to MT. De- Bisschop, the American Telephone and Telegraph company secured employees of the Southern New England company to dig holes for new poles. The new holes were dug about four feet away from the places occupied by the present poles, MT. DeBisschop charges, and some of them are on the property of Mrs. DeBisschop which is not involved in any right-of-way agree ment.
 Has An Agreement
 MT. DeBisschop claims, further, that he has written agreement from the American Telephone and Telegraph company to the effect that the concern will remove it's poles from his land any time that he makes such a request.
 According to MT. DeBisschop the concern took advantage of his ab- sence from town yesterday to dig the new holes and trespassed on the property held in the name of Mrs. DeBisschop. This morning, he said, MT. Ladrigan of Norwich was in charge of the workmen on the land. MT. DeBisschop claims that he discovered the men at work and promptly ordered them off the land. He also placed his young son in one of the holes, daring the workmen to touch him. Simultane- ously a call was put into police headquarters but when the police arrived the workmen and their chief had gone. according to MT. DeBisschop.
 Has Won Five Suits
 
 Mir. DeBisschop said today that he had beaten the AT&T company in five similar suits during many years past. Twenty-four years ago he placed his sister in hole dug for a pole on the DeBisschop land at the foot of Southington noun tain and obtained subsequent Judgment of $s.sO0 against the company, he said.
 It will be remembered that MT. DeBisschop was one of the star witnesses for the defense in the fa- nous Hauptmann murder trial in New Jersey when the German car penter was convicted of Kidnapping and killing the Lindbergh baby. During the trial MT. DeBisschop was given nationwide publicity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-07
By RODNEY BUTCHER Democrat Washington
 COrreSpondent.

Washington, Aug. 7-Bald-head- ed, bushy- bearded Congressman George Holden Tinkham of Massa- chusetts strutted through the lobby and accosted Speaker Joe Byrns soon after the administration had taken its second bad defeat on the holding company bill:
 "Well, guess we were right!"
 Joe Byrns jujst grinned.
 One observed no symptom of mental reservation in that grin, but was reminded that insiders are giving large credit for the ad- ministration's two death sen- tence'' defeats to none other than this same elderly Joe Byrns, titular Administration leader of the House.
 To get such credit for the sec- ond administration licking Is something of distinction, as it followed disclosures of power trust" lobbying tactics which would be a bit too much except for un- usually strong stomachs.
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adjournment appeared to have put democratic leaders in full comman nd of the tax bill situation and doom- ed the bonus and other infiationary proposals to failure this session.
 Presented Report.
 Jackson presented an official treasury report analysing the pro- posal for a graduated tax on cor porate income instead of the present nat rate of 13 S-4 per cent.
 Upon the basis of our estimate of corporation incomes for the calender year 1885," he said. "182,- 900 corporations or 95 per cent of all of those expected to report net incomes for this year would pay a smaller tax under such a schedule than under the flat rates now in effect.
 Tt Is apparent, therefore, that the proposal of the president, in addition to producing additional revenue. involves a redistribution of which 95 per cent of all corpora tions obtain some tax relief and about 5 per cent, consisting of
 The funeral will take place from the largest corporations. would sus- tain an additional burden.
 Would Be Desirable.
 "Such a shifting of the burden would produce desirable conse. qences from many standpoints.
 "A weakness of our income tax structure revealed by the depres- sio his the violent fiuctuation Of government rev enues resulting therefrom.
 "it is apparent that if we com- bine tax on ability to pay with increased reliance for revenues up- on that class of corporation whose income is most stable, and decrease our reliance for revenues upon those corporations whose incomes shows tho greatest of fiuctuatlon, we move in the direction of stab- iilsing the revenues and tho even- inR cut of fluctuations"
 Jackson sadi that continuor in. crease ln corporate slxe appeared likely unless action wer taken Co change ihe trend.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-07
GREAT SHAKE-UP
 IN HOCKEY TEAMS

Montreal, Aug. 7.-(UP)-Re- ports were circulated in hockey circles to-day that a wholesale shakeup of players is impending in the National Hockey league. Ten players and five teams are in- volved in the rumored deals.
 According to the reports the fol- lowing shifts wil 1be made: New York Rangers acquire Nels Stew. art, Boston Bruins center. Mon- treal Canadiens obtain Lorne Cha bot, goalie. and Bus Buswcll. for ward, from the Chicago Black Hawks, and Cooney Weiland. re- gently traded by Boston to Detroit.
 Boston gets Howie Morenz, Al Jenkins and l.. Couture from Chi cago. Chicago acquires three Canadiens, Wifi Cude, goalie, and Carson and Riley, crack for wards.
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Visitors To Yosemite
 Park Were Trapped
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their holds. The girl appeared fresh and strong despite her experiences but there was doubt about Pate's condition.
 Greatest Danger Is Shock
 9 Their greatest danger was shock -realization of their position and a consequent relaxation which might drop them hundreds of feet over the talus slopes. The air was comparatively mild, although to- ward dawn it usually becomes quite chilly.
 They wore comparatively light clothing and had no coats, so far as could be ascertained. Thel lighted brush fires in the meagre vegetation to call attention to their plight but there was not enough wood to keep them warm. Rangers went immediately to Mirror lake and called to them through megaphone. Mirror lake formed a sounding board for their replies. They told of their positions, although Pate's responses garbled. Apparently he is slightly deaf. for he had difficulty understanding what was said.
 The men on the valley floor told them to stay still and wait for res- cue.
 At midnight Miss Lorimer's mother talked to her daughter through a megaphone.
 Are you all right?" the mother called.
 "Yes," came the reply, resound- ing against the sides of the noun tains fringing the lake. Stay where you are, you're sure to be rescued Mrs. Lorimer said.
 Rescue, though, was long time away, Fatigue may overtake the couple before it arrives.
 Rangers Jerry Mernin, Ron Chis- holm and Jerry Jackson, and CCC Foreman Bob Russell rode sturdy mountain horses up the Vernal and Nevada Falls trails to the point se- lected for their rescue attempt. Russell is park "old-timer, said to know every rock on half Dome's granite face. Chisholm was with Father Hubbard, "the Padre of the Glaciers" in the Jesuit priests explorations of Alaskan vol canoes.
 Long Ropes For Rescue They carried long double ropes on which to lower themselves down the face ofthe mountain from a point 1000 feet above the lodges where Pate and the Massachusetts | girl are trapped.
 The rescuers travelled Tight" taking only the ropes. flashlights to guide their way over the noun tain inthe dark, food and first aid supplies.
 Only a rescue from above was possible. Park veterans said the couple could not be reached from the valley floor.
 Acting Chief Ranger William (Billy) Nelson was directing the , rescue. The party kept in touch with him through field telephones along the route. After four hours on the trail they had still eight miles to go before lowering them
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AMERICANS HELD UP

London. August = tUPl - Two hundred prospective passen- gers for the $. 6. Champaign. most ly Americans. arrived at Waterloo station today for tho g D. nj. boat train, only 70 discover that it had been NaHH&IINds
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BEHIND l THE SCENES |
 IN WASHINGTON

Joe Byrns Smacks His Lips on Sweet Revenge Re- volt in House Traces Back to Rayburn's Speaker Boom Rout of Administra- tion on Holding Company Bill Shows Power of Opp0- sition.
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A nursery home at Dresden.
 Germany. is serving Adolph Hitler Pudding.
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TAX MEASURE IS
 SURE OF PASSING

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Argentina's maize crop will total 12,650.000 tons. nearly 1000, 900 tons above the previous record of 1881.
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ELECTION WENT
 TOREPUBLICANS

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co. IS
 IN POLE FIGHT

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GERMANY NEAR
 OUTLAWINC JEWS

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