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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-22
Tax Measure To
 Be Made Target
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The seven republican committee members caustically assailed the bill In Q minority report last night. The report forecast a partisan fight in the house, with determined efforts to materially change or amend the bill which is intended ot finance farm relief and bonus payments.
 Democratic leaders plan to bring 1t up for house consideration tomor- row under an agreement limiting general debate to 16 hours. They predicted it's passage in eight days. It will then go to the senate, where stubborn opposition is forming.
 President to Lead
 President Roosevelt was expected to hurry back from Fall River, Mass. where he is attending the funeral of his senior secretary. Louis McHenry Howe, to direct administration Strat- egy and insist that his demands for new revenue are met.
 The president, it was understood, made clear his position at secret conference with two congressional tax leaders at the White House yes- terday. He was said to be concerned over @ doubt as to the amount of revenue the measure would raise.
 Three separate estimates of first year yield were available. Internal Revenue Commissioner Guy T. Hell vering said $792 100000; Doughton said "$S00, ,c00000 to $S40,000, ,000," and Rep. Samuel B. Hill, chairman of the tax subcommittee which drew the measure, said "$700,000 900 to $500, 100000"
 The presidents budget-tax pro- gram called for $792,000,000 annu- ally for three years and $620,000 900 year thereafter.
 Minority Against Bill
 The minority report, in which Rep. Arthur Lamneck, democrat, Ohio, who joined republicans in vot- ing against the favorable report, did not participate. denounced the bill in terms that indicated the issue may be a major one in the election campaigns.
 After declaring they had been per mitted no part in drafting the bill and had not been given opportunity to examine it until yesterday, the minority members said basis for their opposition was tWofold:
 We do not favor the imposition of any new taxes until the waste of public monies is stopped.
 "The proposed bill is unsound in principle, will undermine business stability, and is another step toward the regimentation of all business. It
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 manslaughter charge against the doctor.
 Story of Parents Admitted
 Judge Simpson also denied mos tions by Attorney Mascolo asking that the testimony of the parents be stricken from the record as "aIl attempt to dramatize this whola trial" When Attorney Mascolo rosa to contend that the defense was not being given enough rights, Judge Simpson told him that he was exer~ cising every right to which he was entitled.
 Employer Testifies
 Mrs. Mary Fenn, of Pennington, for whom Mary Silva worked as Q domestic from May 18th to June 11th, testified this morning that on June 7th and June 10th, Mary told her she was going to visit Dr. Pet- rocelli in Waterbury. Mrs. Fenn'a testimony was admitted over the outspoken objections of Attorney Mascolo. The defense lawyer inter- posed an exception to every one of more than a score of questions ask ed Mrs. Fenn, and when the ques- tions were admitted, he took excep- tions to every one of Judge Simp- sons rulings.
 Attorney MascoI0 Protests
 AS the trial of Dr. Petrocelli near- ed the end of its second week, At- torney Mascolo's objections became more heated. On one occasion, in objecting to question, he declared that Assistant States Attorney Fitzgerald had no right to ask the question. Judge Simpson allowed the question to stand.
 State Trooper William Landon was on the stand as the trial was resumed this morning, and was ex- amined and cross-eXamined on de- tails of his previous testimony.
 Mrs. Fenn Called
 Mrs. Fenn, youthful Farmngton matron, was next called by MT. Fitz- gerald, and Attorney Mascolo ob- jected to her being allowed to take the stand. His objection was over. ruled and the woman testified that on the day of June 10th, Mary Silva told her she was going to see Dr. Petrocelli in Waterbury. She had also told her the same thing on June 7th, the woman asserted. Every question asked the witness was obs jected to by the defense attorney.
 Father On Stand
 Frank Silva, the girls father, was next on the stand, to testify as to the girls condition on June 14th, the day she died. She was mentally the same as ever," he testified when his wife and her were in her hospial room praying with her and cheering her up. When he finished, Attorney Mascolo made first motion for a mistrial, but it was denied.
 Mother Testifies
 Shortly after Mrs. Silva began tes- tifying, Attorney Mascolo again moved for mistrial, and again it was denied. The mother also testi- fled that her daughter was mentally alert but in great pain. During the mothers examination by Assistant States Attorney Fitzgerald, MT. made his two remarks about the attempt to dramatize this whole trial"
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brief periods of bright optimism, that, from the medical viewpoint, were considered by some to be too bright and too optimistic.
 Robertson was suffering from a heavy cold. Scadding's feet were known to be infected, and, with scant medical supplies and with only the hickering light of tallow candles in which to work, there was cause to worry whether Robertson, even though he is Q surgeon, would be able to check the infection.
 Silence May Be Sleep
 Despite the cold and damp of their prison, with flood covered at places with three to four feet of seepage water, authorities hoped that the periods of silence repre- sented periods of sleep which would give the prisoners some recupera- tion from the frightful emotional and physical strain of their torture.
 Most alarming was the sudden cessation of interest from the prison in the progress being made by the rescue workers. All day Sunday, all night Sunday night, all through Monday night, and for most of Tuesday, the men had demanded constantly to know when they could expect the rescuers to reach them. Tuesday afternon their frenzied inquiries ceased, and, early today, there had not been display of interest for hours.
 Also alarming officials was their lack of interest in food. Since Sun day night, .so far as officials could judge, neither man has had food though 1t has been lowered through the pipe repeatedly. To reach the pipe, one or the other had to wade through pool of water and the re- ward seemed not to be worth the effort to them.
 A stock of concentrated food and a number of test tubes of brandy were lowered Sunday and 1t was possible that Robertson and Scad- ding were having recourse to them.
 Menace Was Dead Body
 A new menace to the entombed living was the body of their friend and associate-Herman B. Magill. He died sometime between 2 a. m. and Il p. m. Sunday. It was be- lieved that the temperature of the tunnel was low enough to check na- tural processes somewhat, though the dampness would speed them. Robertson and Scaoding have no tools with which to make even a makeshift grave, but it was prob able that they had carried the body to the farthest end of their tunnel prison, where its decomposition would not endanger them.
 The labor in the Reynolds shaft was heart breaking and back-break- ing. The inner end of the bore had narrowed to four feet by five feet. There one man at time worked on his knees, chipping out slate with 8 pickaxe and handing it to a man behind him who was stretched out on his back, who passed it on to the next man. To enter or leave the shaft the men had to crawl on their hands and knees, their stomachs scraping the rough floor.
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VIM. AHERN IS
 GIVEN SENTENCE

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ReScuerS Break
 Through To Tomb
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nected with the microphone that had been lowered into the hole.
 Fred Scadding shouted encour- agement down the pipe and listened to his brother through the head set.
 Voice Strong, Clear
 T heard his voice strong and clear" Fred said. I'm confident he will hold out until they reach him. He served overseas. He has had plenty of experience roughing it, al- though never one like this. I am re- assured as is his wife"
 Later, the group around the pipe spoke again to Scadding and to Dr. Robertson. They said both sounded stronger and probably had been re- freShed by sleep during the night.
 The new feeling of optimism both on the part of the entombed and their would-be rescuerS represented another turn of the wheel in alter hating hope and pessimism.
 Since early Monday, the rescuers had hoped to break through to the tunnel prison almost hourly. They feared that unless their hopes were realized today, it would be too late.
 Rain Fell All Night
 Rain fell heavily all night, turning the entrance to Reynolds shaft and the road leading into Moose River into seas of mud. It also added to the weight on the roof of the dan gerous tunnel where the miners worked, but it was felt that emer- gency timbering would support it.
 A separate group of workers pressed the task of sinking a new pipe to the tunnel with a diamond drill, and hoped to break it through by Il a. m. (10 a. m) It will be larger in diameter than the first hole, used for communications, and through it electric heating pads, light blankets, and other equipment will be lowered to warm the men in their cold, damp dungeon.
 Rescuers Were Confident
 At 5 a. m. (4 a. m., EST) today, the miners, staggering in shere physical weariness, believed that by a. m. they would break through. They labored at a slate formation, thought to be 20 feet thick, and progressed at rate of approximately five feet an hour.
 But, since early Sunday, when the heroic human moles decided to risk death in the treacherous shaft in an effort to free the prisoners alive, they had expected to reach them within hours. Even their leaders admitted that the latest estimate was subject to the correction of un- foreseen obstacles.
 There were long periods of silence from the tomb which could only alarm further the anxious officials keeping watch at the surface ter minus of the pipe sunk into the mine tunnel with a diamond drill early Sunday. After almost eight hours of silence, Dr. D. E. Robert son, one of the entombed, an- nounced at 11:30 o'clock last night.
 Good For 90 Hours
 "We're good for another 30 hours more."
 There was no word from his com- panion, Alfred Scadding, at that time, nor had there been for almost 12 hours, The officials, including physicians enlisted by the provincial government, did not know how far they should entrust Robertson's es- timation of his and Scadding's ca pacity to endure. Repeatedly, there had been evidence that both were suffering from hysteria and even delirium. These alternated with
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-22
Student Peace Plan
 Was Put Into Effect
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they had arranged in connection with high school leaders would take 10000 students from classes.
 Headquarters of the league against war and fascism estimated that strikes would involve 30,000 stud ents in Philadelphia, 10000 in Chi cago, 10000 in Boston, and 5000 in Los Angeles.
 The first student peace strike, in 1884, pulled only 25,000 students from classrooms. The second strike, last year, gained allegiance of ap- proximately 100000.
 Many Colleges Join
 Cambridge, Mass, April 22-UP) Students of Harvard and Rad cliffe colleges assembled in San ders theater today to hear speeches and pass resolutions in connection with tn, third annual nationwide peace strike" Frank Darvan of England, leader of the Geneva ln- ternational Students Union and a member of the Royal Academy of Public Affairs, was principal speak CT at the assembly sponsored by the Students Union, Teachers Union and Avukah society.
 Resolutions to be Introduced in- cluded one calling for abolition of student R. O. T. c. units, as pro- posed in the Nye-Kvale bill before congress. David w. Prall, assistant professor of philosophy at Harvard represented the faculty.
 Decision to hold the dcmonstra- ton indoors was the result of last years meeting on the steps of Wid- ener Library, when unsympathetic interests made mockery of the af- fair.
 Syracuse, N. Y, April 22-UP)- Cheered by them ilitary strains ot an R. o. T. c. band, some 4,OOO Syracuse students abandoned their classes today to participate in the anti-War strike sponsored by the American Student Union.
 Schenectady, N. Y, April p = (UP)-Classes were suspended for one hour today to permit Union col lege students to participate in the nationwide students strike against war"
 Students will be addressed by
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is not designed to raise revenue, but is admittedly another New Deal ex- pertinent"
 The report said the measure was prepared by the democratic major ity behind closed doors, from which we were excluded" and added they mus tassume full responsibility for it."
 Keystone Is Target
 It was the keystone of the bill, the provision to force distribution of corporate surpluses into hands of stockholders and subject them to income taxes, complained of most bitterly.
 A graduated tax on corporate earnings, steepened in relation to the volume of current profits with held from dividends, would displace the present 121z to Is per cent cor porate income tax.
 A preferred rate schedule ranging from to 295 per cent would be ap- piled to so-called small corporations earnings $l0,000 or less, while cor porations in the higher earnings brackets would pay between 4 and 425 per cent on surpluses with held.
 Principal temporary revenue would be derived from a "Windfall" tax, reduced to 30 per cent from the pres ident's recommendation of 90, on processing taxes unpaid or refunded by courts after the supreme court held the AAA invalid.
 The report was signed by Reps. Allen T. Treadway, Mass: ISaach Bacharach, N. J.; Frank CroWther, N. Y.; Harold Knutson, Minn.; Daniel A. Reed, N. Y.; Roy o. Wood ruff, Mich, and Thomas A. Jenkins, Ohio
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-22
GUARDSMAN TO
 GET HIS TRIAL

Springfield, Mass, April 22.-(UP) A young national guardsman faced court-martial here today for breaking a doctors skull with rifle butt during last months flood em- ergency.
 The defendant, Private Mario J Cassenelli, 21. of Pittsfield, was to go on trial at 3 p. m. before members of the high command of the state militia.
 Dr. Benjamin Alport, 45, former city physician and victim of the at- tack, was able to return home Mon- day after months hospital treat ment.
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Continued from Page 1.) lin, Jr, and John who came down from Harvard university for the fu- neral
 Close by were Col. Howe's vii dow, son Hartley, and daughter, Mrs. Mary Baker, while thousands of townsfolk were massed in all di- rections.
 When the clergyman completed reading the Episcopal committal ri- tual, a navy bugler stepped forward and sounded the mournful note of taps" to end the service.
 Brought On Special Train
 Col. Howe's body was brought here on the presidential special train which left Washington late last night. His flower -draped cas- ket was borne through the streets where thousands of citizens had ranged themselves to pay silent homage.
 Governor James M. Curley of Massachusetts and Governor Theo- dore Francis Green of Rhode Island joined the Roosevelt and Howe fam ilics for the cemetery services.
 Immediately after the burial the President and Mrs. Roosevelt mo- tored to the station where they boarded their train for Washington. A special funeral train that car ried the President and Mrs. Roose- welt, members of Col. Howe's fam fly and close friends arrived at Fall River shortly before 10 a. m. from Washington.
 The plain bronze casket which had rested on the overnight jour ney in baggage car transformed by flowers into a temporary chapel was lifted out immediately on ar rival and preparations begun for the trip to the cemetery.
 The services at the grave were to be brief. The president will head for Washington at the conclusion of the rites for the man who was his right bower in half dozen political campaigns.
 Presidential Party
 Besides the President and Mrs !
 Roosevelt, those who accompanied the body to Fall River were Mrs. Howe, her son Hartley and daugh- ter, Mrs. Mary Baker, Secretaries Stephen T. Early and Marvin H. Mcintyre, Miss Marguerite Lehand, Miss Margaret Durand, secretary to Col. Howe; Captain Wilson Brown, | IT. q N. Col Edwin M Watson. U. s. A., David Stewart, MT. and Mrs. Richard Hartley, Admiral c. J. Peoples and Joseph A. Maynard, Boston customs collector.
 Hundreds of persons stood silent | ly about the station as the funeral cortege arrived and lined the route to the cemetery to pay final tribute 1 to Col. Howe, a citizen of this city since his marriage. | | Production of gold in RhodeSia l L.. zn
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(Continued from Page 1) Jurisdiction when it was learned that the money had changed hands in the capital city of the state.
 Judge Booth sentenced him to four and half to five years on the conspiracy count, and to three years on the second count, that of obtain ing money by false pretenses. Dur ing the trial Ahern did not take the witness stand.
 Blocked Kidnap Plans
 States Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn, prosecuting the case, told the jury in his summation that the arrest of Ahern in New Haven interrupted plans made to kidnap Denton and hold him prisoner until he turned over more money to Ahern and an aceomplice, Frank Foster, who is stiu at large.
 Several Waterbury hotel employees testified at the trial, identifying Ahern as man who stayed in this city last May, when the swindle was perpetrated.
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Production of gold in Rhodesia is breaking all records.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-22
PRESIDENT WAS
 AT FALL RIVER

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FISH STORIES START

Oregon City, Ore-CUP)-It's no trouble at all to catch smelt when the finny tribe makes its annual spring run, according to William Lightower. He fell into the Shady river and came up with his pockets full of fish.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-22

Especial to The DemOcrat)
 Washington, D. C., April 22.- Senator Lonergan (Conn.) was today officially advised of his appointment as honorary presi- dent of the Izaak Walton League of America at the an- nual meeting of the league fin Chicago which closed last Sat- urday.
 Notification was made by Dr. Darcy Magee, of Washington,
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-09

THE sound of kiss in the movies is as important
to the sound technican-the man who operates
the microphone boom-as pay check rent
day.
So important is this osculatory sound, indeed
that on the supporting posts of the boom on every
sound stage in Hollywood is a slip of paper.
On this paper is listed the names of the i'm
portant players and the approximate distances the
microphone must be kept from them during kiss
ing sequences.
The sound man has his list down perfectly for
he has learned by experience that the sound of
kiss can be either romantcaly right or ludcrously
wrong Ii wrong, the audience laughs at the wrong
place and whole scene is ruined
Therefore, Richard Williams, sound technician
warner Brothers. for instance, is one of the
many who is pretty familiar with his kssers. Will
hams knows their technique, their artistic touches
as it were, and having this knowledge he knows
exactly where to place his mike" during the reg
istration of kiss
Williams has topped his list with the name of
Dick Powell. After Dicks name he has written
the words "shy and hestant" Then he goes on
to explain:
'Dick is like bashful lover. He kisses SOFTLY
without making much sound. The microphone
must be held six inches away. But this next fellow
here" pointing at the list, "is George Brent and
Brent it seems kisses extraordinarily loud.
"PR RENT gets off quietly enough" Williams re-
him. They grow in volume So keep the mike two
feet away to begin with then pull it back quickly
during the kiss, until it is five six feet away"
Adolphe Menjou must be watched constantly by
the sound man, as he has habit of sneakng up
on his screen loves and smacking them without
Pickering eyelash.
Ross Alexander, juvenile player, is timid almost
difdent, as if he self distrustfu of his ability
to impant the kiss with the necessary ardor Alex
ander leaves most of the business up to the op-
posite player, while Warren Hull goes about the
job in workmanlike way
Frank McHugh is "smacker,' and the wise
boom man swings his mike far out of the scene
when Frank goes into action. Warren William and
Ricardo Cortez rather infrequent kissers, but
when they do kiss they go about it quietly, the
technican says.
Pat OBrien gets cheated out of most of his
screen kisses by the scenarists, but when he does
get chance to osculate, he goes about it energeti
cally, and the mike must be kept five feet away.
Likewise, Joe E. Brown. There are few senti-
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-09

which they brought with them
were the honored ones and
their host was Mr.. Martins pooch
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tended as it all seemed rather
complicated =. bit confusing
and er, we'll much too much
:. for us.
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And, if the dog party doesn't
slay you, Elsie de Wolfe's pillow
will. Elsie disclosed while visiting
here in cinemaland, that on her
travels-and they are many-she
takes a little pillow with her,
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-09
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REVIEWS AND COMMENT
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MAYHEM Eugene ONeill wrote "Ah, Wilderness" )"
w he termed it his comedy of recollections,' %
and it is believed to be the play of all his plays,
which satisfies the playwright most.
Fortunately, the scenarists have dealt kindly with
the authors original script. And again, an
American family of 1906 with the young of
the house in the throes of his first love affair He
is undergoing all the transports and despairs of
such experience, which is in stark contrast to
the steadfast love of his parents and the mature
romance of his spinster aunt and shiftless uncle.
AS the story unfolds, the boys Intellectual urge
to do something important, which involves him
with sinister charmer, the coming to the rescue
of the father, and the varied human angles that
parallel the main theme, is spread out in the talk
ing version, like white dusty lane in the country
The honey sequences, the streets of the quaint
New England town, effects which only
the film version could achieve. Such Shots create
an atmosphere, which, in the stage version, had to
be built up by words.
The picture is triumph not only for Lionel
Barrymore, who plays the part George M. Cohan
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spending six months in London . . and Anna
May Wong the Los Angees-born Chinese actress,
has gone back to her fathers native land to drink
tea with relatives.
now completed his Modern Times" and it should
be on the market at the time you are reading this
1t is four years since his last, "City Lights
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-09

gotten away from it all, and is
alternating up at Big Bear all by
herself. Cecilia likes to be alone
to hike alone to ride
horseback alone to cook and
eat alone C. and then by gosh,
adds Cecilia, | know I am alone.
X II
When John Barrymore arrived
on the set to go to work in
Romeo" he was greeted by
Norma Shearer, Basil Rathbone
and others who were talking to
Henry Kolker, a friend of Johns
for MANY wears. dating hack to
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-09
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= GOOFY entertainments are common in Holly
~ wood, but here, we think, is one for the book:
Al Martin, scenarist wanted to do something nice
for his dog, so he reserved the Lido room in the
Knickerbocker Hotel for party He invited such
screen celebrities as Patricia Ellis Joan Crawford
Stu Erwin, Lawrence King, Mervyn Leroy, Nor
man Mcleod, Fuzzy Knight and Others Al told
these film brighties, we hear, that they were not
the honored guests. however. but that the dogs