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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-11
ALMOST ALL GONE

Greenfield. Mass. March ii--(UP)
 With her 30-tlay spending period only one third finished. Mrs. Carrie 4. saben. first Townsend plan tester in the east, to-day had but t26.69 left on her original 200 "velocity dollars"
 Expenditures totaling e9.l0 yes- terday included s3.0S for . nair of blue kid shoes. sI.T5 for blue kid gloves. 75 cents for blue silk gloves and s2.D5 f0r five pairs Of stockings.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-11
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, March 1t- (UP) - Government expenses and receipts for the current fiscal year through March 2, compared with year ago: This Year Expenses Lnat Year 5,00S, ,932, ,303.72 $4,S75, ,9S7,7l3.Ss
 Receipts y2,S94.541,36 ,36G.90 $2,45S,27s,939.&
 Deficit $e.ll4.S9O, ,93c.S2 s2.417.7Os,77s.9
 Cash Balance $t.593, ,073.425.52 $l,75O,6O4,f76.Si
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-11
City Bond Bills
 Are Passed Early Today M Senate
They Amount to $2,S55, ,OOO-There Was an Amend. ment to Slaughter House Bond - Rescinds
 Authority of City to Issue Sewage Bonds
BY WILLIAM J. MORIARTY Democrat Leglslatiye Reporter)

State Capitol Hartford March II. = Especial to The Democrat Bills authorizing the City of Waterbury to issue bonds to the amount of were passed early
 this afternoon in the Senate They provide $1 900 for $3O0Oo sewage $ooooO for bridges and $350oo for
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-11

GREAT BATTLE NEAR
 Hendaye, Franco-Spanish From tier, March 1i.-(UP)-The greatest battle of the Spanish civil war seem
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-11
The Weather

Mostly Cloudy Tonight;
 Unchanged Friday Full Weather Report Page S
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-28

Nave pawned some of the stolen
goods.
Powell, IS, Of 1890 Thirty-sixth
st. N. W., is being held on charges
of grand larceny and housebreak-
ing. Police found $4,000 worth Of
jewelry, silverware and clothing in
his room and at secondhand stores
and pawn shops after his arrest.
woodward said Powell will be ar
raigned in court next week.
Has Long Racing Season
Chicago's racing season, which
started May /, will run until
october 80, when the meet at
SportSmanS Park ends.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-28
THEFT SERIES ADMITTED

ARLINGTON, Va, May 27.-De-
nying reports that they are seek
ing a young girl and middle-aged
woman in connection with the
series of burglaries in Arlington
county, police today said D. A.
Powell, a suspect arrested Tuesday,
has confessed to committing the
crimes alone.
Reports denied by Deputy Sheriff
Harry woodward today were that
Washington and Virginia police
were seeking a pretty 14-year-old
Arlington county schoolgirl, said
to have acted as chauffeur and
lookout for a male companion dur.
ing the housebreakings, and for a
middle-aged woman, reported to
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-28
EVASION
PROBE SET BY
PRESIDENT
International News Service

President Roosevelt was repre-
sented today as being ready to
direct Congress to conduct an in
veStigation into the methods
utilized by some big-moneyed in
terests to evade payment of Fed
eral taxes.
Mr.. Roosevelt indicated he
would ask Congress to conduct the
inquiry and to close the loop
holes through which some tax
evasions were made, after the
TreaSury's investigation of the
March income tax collections re-
vealed the Government had lost
between 100000 900 to $3.50, OO0,-
600 in taxes.
This investigation, conducted by
Undersecretary Roswell Magill, re-
Vealed numerous methods many
wealthy persons used to avoid IN
come tax payments. Some Treas
ury officials said perhaps 100
American millionaires may be
prosecuted for tax evasion.
LOOphOleS in Law
Some Of the loopholes in the
existing law which enables the
wealthy to legally escape income
tax payments explained to the
President we're:
An instance of a wealthy man
Incorporating members Of his
family and paying large salaries
to his minor children, one of whom
was only II.
A case where a wealthy man in.
corporated his yacht as a business
enterprise and converted part Of
the costs for it's operation for pleas
ure purposes into business losses"
Mr.. Roosevelt conferred with
Secretary of the Treasury Morgen-
THAI yesterday. Some officials
said he is anxious to have a con-
gressional committee investigate
every case of large-scale tax dodg-
ing and bring the facts before the
public.
Chief Counsel Morrison Shat
roth, of the Internal Revenue
Bureau, declared 80 per cent
fraud penalties will be slapped
on every person using a device to
evade tax payments"
Chance to Pay Up
Morgenthau told the President
the tax dodgers first will be given
an opportunity to pay up.
Failing to do so within so days
after notice, they will face fraud
prosecution in the Federal courts,
he said.
Morgenthau said he has as
signed Chief Counsel Shafroth to
take charge of the prosecutions.
Shafroth said that some of the
most prominent wealthy men in
the country will be involved" add
ing:
"Only the wealthy can afford
to adopt the elaborate device Of
setting up corporations in for
eign islands and nearby foreign
countries to evade income taxes.
"While 1 cannot discuss de-
tails, I will say that there are
considerable number of
wealthy persons involved, and
that there is a considerable
amount of money involved.
eve are going to slap so per
cent fraud penalties on some
and will seek prosecution of
others in the Federal courts on
fraud charges"
Shafroth explained that by i'm
posing a so per cent penalty tax
on the income levieS, the Inter.
nal Revenue Bureau will seek to
collect half again" as much as
the original taxes due.
The Washington times., 1937-02-26
B0RAH OFFERS
CONSTITUTION
AMENDMENT
Wants to Revise Due
Process Clause to
LiberaIize Laws
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powers to enact social legislation
caused wide discussion. Borah
would strictly limit the due
process" clause Of the amendment
to apply only to the administra-
ton or enforcement of State laws.
This would eliminate use Of the
clause to attack the constitution
atty of any State law.
Under the Borah proposal, no
citizen could ask the Federal
courts to invalidate State law be
cause it deprived him of "life, lib
erty or property without due pro-
cess of law" It was under this
clause that the Supreme Court re-
Gently killed the New York State
minimum wage law for women and
children.
Rights Protected
At the same time, the due pro
cess clause would protect citizens
against the unlawful adminiStra-
ton Of State laws. 1t would per
NIT such appeals as in the recent
Scottsboro case when the Supreme
Court twice held seven negroes had
not been given fair trials in Ala
ban1a on charges Of rape.
The Borah proposal won some
SUPPORT but most members pro-
posed to study it before COM
mitting themselves. Senator
Wheeler CD of Montana, who
offered a proposed amendment
which would give Congress power
to override Supreme Court de-
cisions by a two-thirds vote after
an intervening election, said:
"It has some very good fea-
lures, but I'm afraid it doesn't
go far enough"
The radio battle over the Presi-
dents plan continued with Senator
Capper (RO of Kansas, the latest
to "take the air" to oppose it.
Capper, declaring himself Symps-
thetic with many of the objec-
tives of the Roosevelt Administra-
tion," said:
"But I am opposed to any legiS-
lation which will enable any
President at any time to appoint
additional judges to the courts
and thus give the President un.
questioned influence on what
should be absolutely Independent
action on the part Of the
courts"
The Washington times., 1937-02-26
INSURING
T0GIVE MORE
u. 5. JOBS
$4,000, 1000 Agency
In Capital Planned
BY President
By EARL GOODWIN

For those who have been appre-
hensive that the aggregate govern
ment personnel Is about to be re-
duced, attention is called to the
fact that there is now pending in
Congress a proposal to create one
of the largest insurance companies
in the world-a hundredmillion'
dollar affair-with headquarters in
washington, which is to insure
most Of the wheat fields in sthe
United States.
This is the heart of the Presi-
dents crop insurance message;
and is about to become a part OF
the legislative program. With the
idea of an annual insurance OF
wheat crops in mind as a starter,
if the plan succeeds ,he farm ele-
ment of the country will then
press on to corn and other crops.
The only reason the Administra-
ton stopped at the insurance Of
wheat is that the wheat farmers
have been pressing for such an in
surance for many years and the
studies covering the wheat crop
have been completed.
New Jobs Expected
The bill of Senator Pope of
Idaho includes the general crop
insurance idea of the Administra-
ton, and provides for a Govern
ment nt-owned corporation into
which a hundred million dollars
of Government money will be
placed. The Government is to
take all the stock and run the
wheat crop insurance business. In
aSmuch as it will be a business
of vast extent and detail, it is
more than likely that a large
number of jobs will thus be Gre
ated.
Crop insurance is by no means
a new idea. Farm economists
have been studying and expert
menting on it for many years;
one of the earlier studies was by
a German economist for the Jap
anese government. That was
about As years ago. Since then in
this country several large private
insurance companies have at
tempted insurance on crops but
they are reported to have failed
in their efforts.
Figures Compiled
Agriculture Department experts
say they failed because they tried
to insure price as well as yield,
and that in many instances they
were not supplied with expert ac-
tuarial information; also that once
or twice they offered to insure
crops when a seasonal disaster
was already in sight. On the
other hand, Department of Agri-
culture farm experts say that in
surance against crop damage by
hail is more or less a success.
The Washington times., 1937-02-26
TO PLACE
TEXTILE TRADE
UNDER 'NRA'
Measure for Control
Of Industry Pushed
on Capitol Hill
BY WILLIAM S. NEAL
International News Service

The Administration has approved
separate legislation for control oi
the far-flung textile industry in
line with the general plan to re
store basic principles Of NRA, II
was disclosed today.
Both the Budget Bureau, which
passes on legislation to determine
whether it conflicts with the Presi
dents financial policy, and Secre'
tary of Labor Perkins have ap
proved objectives of a textile con
troll bill framed by a House labor
subcommittee headed by Repre-
sentative Kent Keller CD of Il
linoiS.
The Administrators plan, II
was said, contemplateS separate
legislation only for the bituminous
coal and textile industries, on the
ground that their problems are
more complex than those of in
duStry generally. The House Ways
and Means Committee, acting at
the request of President Roosevelt,
already has reported a revised
VinSon- Guffey bill regulating the
soft coal industry.
Armed with a friendly report
from both the Budget Bureau and
the Labor Department, Chairman
Keller Of the Labor subcommittee
announced that work of revising
the present textile bill will be car
ried on speedily.
The textile measure, introduced
by Representative Ellenbogen CD
Of Pennsylvania, was revised by
the House subcommittee in the
last session after Gregory Hankin,
former NRA attorney, worked on
it at Keller's request. The bill in
its present form is said to embody
The Washington times., 1937-02-26
JUROR HALTS
TRAFFIC CASE

A man charged with joy-riding
faced a second trial today because
a juror in his first trial announced
that he would not agree with his
fellow jurors until the heavens
fall"
Mrs. Josephine Shortall, the fore
man, sent word to Justice Peyton
C. Gordon about 5 p. m. yesterday
that the jury could not agree.
When Justice Gordon asked her
opinion as to the probility of agree.
ment by II p. m, she reported the
statement of the one unnamed
"holdout," adding:
81 surely can't tell when the
heavens will fall"
Justice Gordon flushed as he
said:
eff this were not 50 near the
end of the term / would have
that jurors name taken out Of
the jury box and he would never
serve on another jury in the Dis.
trict. If 1 learn who he Is 1 will
do it anyway"
Hudson EppS, colored, was the
defendant. When agreement ap-
peared impossible a mistrial was
declared. Several other members of
the same jury were said not to
have made up their minds as to
the mans guilt.
The Washington times., 1937-02-26
Will Be $3.50 and $22.5O Monday

Will Be $3.50 and $22.5O MOnda
Here's a sensational windup sale that
every man in Washington will welcome
BUT ONLY 289 MEN CAN PAR
TICIPATE IN THE EVENT. Just 289
thrifty purchasers can buy Bell gar
ment for $1275 today and tomorrow un-
til 9 P. M. Monday the same garments
go back to $3.50 and $22.5O. You don't
have to be tailor to appreciate these
values but any tailor or merchant
will tell you that these suits, topcoats
and overcoats at $12.75 are priced lower
than wholesale cost. Hurry down!
We expect sellout!
The Washington times., 1937-02-26
GROWS
ON u. 5. SHIFTS.
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posed to strip this office Of most
of its power and to change it to
an auditor-general's post. The
fact that the revised plan specific
ally says that it will be an indie
pendent agency does not alter the
picture.
It is proposed to give the new
auditor-general the power only to
make audits after the money has
been accepted, and report to Con-
greSs if the auditor-general be-
lieves it to have been carried out
illegally. In the present setup the
comptroller-general auditS expen-
ditures before they are made and
if he believes them to be illegal,
he does not allow the payment.
This control feature in the
present plan is turned over to the
Secretary of the Treasury who will
pass on the expenditures of all
government departments, and in
event the questions of legality, ne
will report the matter to the at
torney-general.
Control of Money
In this respect, it is pointed out
that the Treasury Department con-
trolls about one-third of the govern.
ments money, and opponents say
they would hardly expect the Sec.
retary to report to the Attorney
General that he expended any
monies illegally.
Carrying the proposition even
further, it is said that if the
auditor general find in a post
audit that any department had
made an expenditure contrary to
law and it was reported to Con.
gress, Congress would be powerlesS
to recover the money.
The Joint committee is not in
session today and is awaiting the
call of Chairman Joseph T. Robin
osn, majority leader, which will
come perhaps the first Of next
week.
The Washington times., 1937-02-26

ceeded in obtaining this in
formation and delivering it to
a foreign country.
Had we been at war your
acts would have been treason,
punishable by the extreme PEN
atty. In times of peace, how
ever, the law takes a less severe
view but requires a severe pen
atty and it seems to the
court in assessing punishment
in a case of this kind, it should
be done with a view to a warn
ing and deterrent to others.
ut must be known that others
who are tempted as you have
been, to sell out their country
as you have, must be prepared
to take the penalty"
The Washington times., 1937-02-26
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NCOnClnueQ from rage ~
ernment information and data
relating to our national defense"
Farnsworth stood with folded
arms and coughed spasmodically
as the jurist continued his castiga
ton:
"YOur plea of nOlO cOntendere
is tantamOunt to one of guilty
-. the charge is not merely a
plot to commit a single act, but
a conspiracy contemplating a
continuous course of dislOyal
conduct towards your govern
ment such a plot is abhOrrent
to any American citizen.
"STEALTH" FLAYED
'NOt merely the plot itself is
abhOrrent but it was continued
and persistent course of intrigue
cleverly carried on by you and
emissaries of a foreign govern
ment, maSquerading under the
protection of diplomatic i'm
munity.
Through stealth. thievery and
the imposition upon your friends
in the Naval Service you sue
The Washington times., 1937-02-26
BILL TO PROTECT STATES FROM u s. COURTS PROPOSED
Lindbergh, Flying to Calcutta,
Leaves Wife At NaSpur

NAGP VI r, India, Feb. 26
G.N.SO-The Charles A. Lind
bergh air ferry, solving the prob
lem of how three can cross the
Subcontinent in a two scatter
plane, was in operation today.
Colonel Lindbergh flew Mrs.
Lindbergh from Bombay to Nag
pur, midpoint on the Calcutta
route, then took Sir Francis
Younghusband, whom he had
flown to Nagpur yesterday, on to
Calcutta. Tomorrow Colonel Lind
bergh will return to Nagpur for
his wife.
Colonel Lindbergh and Sir
Francis arrived at Dumdum Air
port, Calcutta, this evening.
The Washington times., 1937-02-26

Hankin's idea of a constitutional
control measure.
Under terms of the Ellenbogen
bill, q national textile commission
would be created. The measure
provides for regulation of hours
of labor and minimum wages, in
vokes the NRA "blue eagle" idea
of an insignia for textile manu-
facturers complying with fair
trade practices and bans child
labor.
The Washington times., 1937-02-26
DeraiIment Is Probed

NEW BRUNSWICK, N. j., Feb.
26 Q.N.SO.-Officials of the Penn
sylvania railroad today were in
vestigating the derailment Of one
car of a 100-car freight train here.
Part of the eaStbound track was
torn out of alignment, and pas
senger traffic was delayed while
repairs were made. No one was
hIIrt
The Washington times., 1937-02-26
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The Washington times., 1937-02-26
Kills Woman, Self

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 26 UN.sJ.
Mrs. Carrie Lauterback, so, was
shot and killed in her home at
Baden Station, st. Louis county,
today by her father-in-law, Adam
Lauterback. II, who then COM
mitted suicide, according to q re-
port to the sheriff's office.
The Washington times., 1937-02-26
'FARNSWORTH SENTENCED4TO1 "A YEARS

} Attorney Tedrow would not eX-
plain his unexpected action in
withdrawing the motion in arrest
of Judgment.
Evening star., 1937-04-23
Charge it the Bond way

land pay weekly or twice month.
This popular service does away with
large lump payments and monthly
bills 1t is q most convenient way to
buy good cIothes-ond it costs you
not q cent extra.
Evening star., 1937-04-23
TODAY.
2:3O PM.

Concert, until 2:30: United States
Navy Band Orchestra, Lieut..
Charles Benter, leader.
Assembly call.
Entrance march: United States
Navy Band Orchestra. Entrance
of the president general, the hon.
orary vice president general elect,
retiring vice presidents general and
vice presidents general elect, re-
tiring State regents and State re-
gents elect, and reelected State
regents, escorted by the pages.
Confirmation of the election and in
stallation of State regents and
State vice regents elect:
Presentation by the organizing
secretary general.
Confirmation of the election by the
president general for the Con-
tinental Congress.
Oath of Office administered by the
chaplain general
Installation of vice presidents gen.
eral elect:
Presentation by the recording SEC
retary general.
Oath of Office administered by the
chaplain general.
Confirmation of the election of hon.
orary vice president general elect
Presentation by the recording Sec
retary general
Confirmation of the election by the
president general for the Con-
tinental Congress.
Evening star., 1937-04-23
Missing c. 4. r. Delegate, 10,
Found Dosing in Hotel Lobby

"After the ball was over" meant
only long hours on hotel lobby sofas
for 10-year-old Johnny Tate OF
Columbus, Miss, after the last strains
of music had died at the c. A. r.
dance in the small hours yesterday
morning.
Yesterday friends and police were
mystified as to his whereabouts until
touzled head peering over mezza-
nine sofa in the Mayhower tipped
them off.
Here for the convention, Johnny has
been staying with Mrs. Lucille Brown
Mayield, a cousin, at 1901 Cathedral
avenue. Leaving the Washington
Club at II midnight, after Wringing
the last ounce of pleasure from Paul
Jones, Virginia reel and swing time
he proceeded to the cousins apart
ment house only to find the door
locked and no one to answer
The first obstacle in the path tc
Sunderland proved to be "drive-it-
yourself elevator.
Il didn't know which button tt
push" said Johnny in an interview
today, 80 I pushed them all ane
ended up on the second floor of the
apartment house. That's where
wanted to go. knocked on the door
long time, but nobody answered
Il reckon somebody was there, but
was sleepy, so went downstairs
and rang for the janitor. I couldn't
get him either. There wasn't much
else to do but lie down on sofs
and Sleep"
Along about S am yesterday
Johnny woke up and decided he't
Evening star., 1937-04-23

better find Mrs. Eta Palmer, who
came up from Mississippi with him.
This necessitated q trek to the May
flower.
II didn't know how much q taxi
costs, 50 walked down the street and
across the bridge with the lions on IT.,
you know the one mean, and got q
taxi man to take me to the Mayfiower.
I didn't want to wake Mrs. Palmer,
so I lay down on another sofa by the
elevator.
Every time that darn old elevator
man would come downstairs he'd
whistle and wake me up. so had to
90 up on the 'rezzlene' floor and find
me another.
Il got me some good sleep there and
woke up about 7 o'clock. didn't want
to go back to sleep again, cause I was
afraid they couldn't find me. Next
thing I knew, though, it was 10
| o'clock.
Great day in the morning, said
to myself, I'm supposed to be carrying
a flag down at the convention right
this minute. Just then they found
me-"
While all this was going on Johnny's
friends from the home State had
given him up for lost. Mrs. John
Morrison Kerr, national organizing
secretary of the c. A. r., had been
notified and police, who had been
called about am, were sending out
calls to precinct and scout cars.
Pretty, young Catherine Butera, Mis-
sissippi page, was the sleuth who
| finally discovered Johnny.
Evening star., 1937-04-23
Program of the d. A. r.

Collect: from D. A. R. rituaD in
unison, led by the chaplain gen.
eral. Lord God, we pray that We
may be joined together in loyalty
these who now are placed In lead
ership, and we who have chosen
them to guide us. Bless their
faithfulness and ours, in a united
service to our Society and to Thy
Kingdom. May we have an aware
ness Of Thy companionship In all
our plans and projects; and the
assurance of Thy benediction upon
our work. Amen"
Music: The assemblage.
"Blest Be the Tie That Binds"
Benediction: The chaplain general.
The retiring of the colors.
Adjournment: Forty-sixth Conti-
mental Congress.
Exit march: United States Navy
Band Orchestra.
ANNUAL BANQUET,
THE MAYFLOWER HOTEL
1880 PM.
Mrs. Elmer E. Woollen, chairman:
Mrs. David D. Caldwell, vice chair
man; Mrs. Loyal R. Alden, vice
chairman; Miss Byrd Belt, Mrs.
Ryland c. Bryant, Mrs. William
A. Buckingham, Mrs. Harry K.
Nield, Mrs. William E. Northam,
Mrs George w. Stapp.
Music by the United States Marine
Band Orchestra.