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Evening star., 1938-02-10
$3.50 Verdict
Is Awarded in
Admiralty Suit

An admiralty trial, unusual for in
land washington, ended in District
Court today with a $3.50 verdict for
the plaintiff, Thomas r. Monroe. who
contended his skull was fractured in
4 collision between a pleasure yacht
and the S. S. Potomac of the Potomac
River Lines on July IL, 1896.
Mr.. Monroe was represented by At
torneys Samuel F. Beach and Alber.
v. Bryan. who filed so-called libel"
against the corporation and the river
steamer.
The Potomac and the yacht Sea-
bird, owned by James r. Harding Of
Alexandria, we're in collision on the
river opposite Fort washington. The
impact caused canopy to fall, strik-
ing Mr.. Monroe on the head. It was
for this injury that he sued.
Evening star., 1938-02-10
VOTE FOR DISTRICT
HEAR|NGPROM|SED
Chairman Summers Plans
Early Quiz on Randolph
Resolution.

Chairman Summers Of the House
Judiciary Committee, who believes
something should be done to give the
District some adequate form of repre-
sentation in national affairs" today
promised early hearings on the resolu-
ton sponsored by Representative RAN
dolph, Democrat, of West Virginia.
This provides for a constitutional
amendment which would strike out
the phrase in the Constitution which
requires Congress to exercise "exclu-
sive" legislative jurisdiction over the
District. Chairman Summers has let
1t be known that he is not convinced
that this resolution is the right solu-
ton for national representation" but
hopes that out Of the discussion may
come proper relief" for the National
Capital.
No definite date has been set for
starting the hearings because of the
crowded calendar of the House
Judiciary Committee, but Representa-
tive Randolph said Chairman Summers
has assured him that open hearings
on the subject are extremely desirable"
and that they will not be unduly de-
layed.
Public hearings also have been prom
ised by Senator King, Democrat. of
Utah, chairman of the Senate District
Committee, who is also chairman of a
judiciary subcommittee, on a COM
panion measure introduced by SEN
ator Lewis, Democrat, of Illinois.
The pending resolution provides for
election by District residents of vot-
ing representatives in both houses Of
Congress. Other measures have been
before Congress for the past year
providing for national representation
and a vote In the electoral college.
These were introduced by Senator
Capper, Republican, Of Kansas. and
Representative Norton, Democrat, Of
New Jersey.
Leaders in Congress have been con-
ferring on the advisability of having
public joint hearings by the House
and Senate on all proposals for ma
tional representation for the District.
Evening star., 1938-02-10
UNIONS CERTIFIED

The Labor Relations Board certi-
fled the National Maritime Union yes
terday as collective bargaining agent
for the unlicensed seamen on ships
operated out Of Atlantic and Gulf ports
by M. & ]. Tracy and the United
Fruit Co.
The board certified the Interna-
tional Seamen's Union as agent for
unlicensed seamen on ships operated
by the New England Steamship Co.
Evening star., 1938-02-10
HOUSE BODY HEARS
D. c. CITIZENS ON
TAXES NEXT WEEK
Recess Postpones Public
Hearings by Fiscal At.
fairs Subcommittee.
NICHOLS AWAITS VIEWS
ON CREATING SURPLUS
Chairman of Group Expects In
come Levy to Be Discarded From
Three.Point Program
BULLETIN.


Chairman Nichols of the Fiscal
Affairs Subcommittee of the House
District Committee this afternoon
announced that public hearings on
the District 1899 revenue bill will
start at 10 am. Monday. The
House decision to adjourn today
until Monday caused postponement
Of the hearings. originally sched-
uled for the latter part Of this
week.
Public hearings on the Districts
1899 revenue bill will not start until
early next week, it was indicated today
as a result Of the program Of the
House to stand in recess from late
today until Monday.
Chairman Nichols OF the Fiscal
Affairs Subcommittee of the District
Committee originally had planned to
begin the hearings the latter part Of
this week. With the House in ad-
journment. he will be unable to do so
under the rules without special per-
mission, and such authority has not
been sought.
Views on Surplus Sought.
Representatives Of all business and
civic organizations interested in the
new tax program will be given an op-
portunity to testify. Mr.. Nichols is
particularly anxious to learn whether
they favor the three-point revenue
producing plan contained in the bill.
or the adoption of a program that
will raise only sufficient funds to bal
ance the budget for the coming fiscal
year. The three-point plan, it is esti-
mated, will produce more than twice
the amount needed to meet the antici-
pated shortage.
Mr.. Nichols is confident the income
tax plan will be removed from the
bill, either by the full District Com
mittee or the House itself. He does
not believe tax legislation should be
enacted that would build up q surplus
In District revenues and probably en-
courage a municipal spending SPREE
Flaws in Bill Sought.
Members of Mr.. Nichols subcom-
mittee are making serious study OF
the bill, picking out antiquities which
1t proposes to eliminate during the
hearings. Most Of the corrections, It
was said, probably will have to be
made in the income tax feature of the
bill, since the details were not given
careful consideration prior to print
ing of the bill.
In framing the new tax bill, the
subcommittee devoted a major por-
ton Of its time refining the present
business privilege tax law. which it
proposes to continue. Mr.. Nichols be-
lieves virtually all Of the inequities in
the existing law will be removed by
the new bill.
Evening star., 1938-02-10

Monday will be Is much . fathers
day as q day for sweethearts.
Mothers will get plenty Of valen.
tines, too. There's . greater va
riety of cards for exchange be-
tween husband and wife, and chill
dren and their fathers and mothers.
Some have serious expressions Of
affection embellished with artistic
designs: others are humorous or
gayly casual.
But, as one dealer remarked
sadly:
ITS getting to be more like Just
another greeting card day than
anything else."
Evening star., 1938-02-10
INCOME PAYMENTS DROP

The Commerce Department esti-
mated today national income payments
declined S per cent between August,
1937-high point of recovery-and
January l.
Such payments include wages, divi-
dends, rents, etc.
Evening star., 1938-02-10
LINIMENT CAUSES BURN
Alexandria Woman Drinks It,
Thinking It Cough Medicine.

Mrs. Thomas H. Harlow, ~, of 222
South Henry street, Alexandria. was
badly burned about the mouth and
throat this morning when she drank
some liniment, mistaking it for
cough sirup.
The Alexandria rescue squad treated
Mrs. Harlow at her home. where she
was later taken by family physician.
Her condition was reported as not
serious.
Evening star., 1938-02-10
Gas Victim Recovering.

Mrs. Margaret E. Burton, 40, of 2l
@ street NE. was recovering today
from the effects Of gas inhaled yester-
day when a draft blew out the flames
of A gas stove
Evening star., 1938-02-10
ALLREDS IN TOWN
Governor of Texas and Wife to
Give Dinner Tonight.

Governor and Mrs. James v. Alfred
Of Texas arrived today to attend a
dinner to be given by Vice President
Garner tomorrow night for the Presi-
dent.
The Governor and Mrs. Alfred will
entertain members of the Texas con-
eressional delegation and their wives
at q dinner tonight at the Maynower
Hotel. Col. Alfred said he would trans
cat no official business while in WASH
inrtOn
Evening star., 1938-02-10
step up and take q
II bow. You're we'll on the way
toward displacing love-smit-

ten SWANS as the No. re-
cipients of valentines.
The old Romans probably would
be fighting mad about it. They
had q notion that birds began
mating on February II, and from
that sprang the custom of young
men and women selecting each
other as valentines" on that day.
And it's not hard to imagine
what Saint Valentine himself would
think about it. He Is credited with
starting 1t all In 207 AID, when
he whiled away long hours Of i'm.
Evening star., 1938-02-10
Finale, Under Orders" -Gloga,
"The Stars Spangled Banner"

BY the United States Army Band
in the Army Band auditorium at
$3.50 O'Clock this afternoon. Capt.
Thomas F. Darcy, leader: Karl Hub
ner, assistant leader.
Program.
March, "Blue Devils" ----------Levy
Hungarian dance, "Czardas," from the
"Ghost Of the Warrior" Grossmann
Trombone solo, "A Dream" Bartlett
Clarence e. Hurrell, soloist.
Popular, "The Old Apple Tree"
Scholl and Jerome
Ritornelle, prelude" Beghon
Valse, Pretty Eyes" ---P Phillips
March, From Tropic to Tropic"
Alexander
"The Star Spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1938-02-10
New Yorkers to Dance.

A Valentine ball and entertainment
will be held by the New York State
Society Saturday at 10 pm. in the
Shoreham Hotel.
Evening star., 1938-02-10
BAND CONCERTS.

BY the United States Soldiers Home
Band and Orchestra in Stanley Hall
this evening at $50 o'clock. John
S. M. Zimmerman, bandmaster; An
ton Pointner. assistant.
Program.
March, "The Favorite Regiment"
Ertl
Overture, LA Gazza Ladra" (The
Thieving Magpie) -Rossini
Entr'acte:
ca "Madrigal and Valso Iente"
Wormser
90 premier Amour" Benoist
An Irish melange, "The Shamrock"
Myddleton
Popular numbers:
"Just Like Butterfly Woods
In Siam" Cooper
Valse de concert, "Violets"
Waldteufel
Finale, Under Orders" s"------Glogau
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-11-05
BOSTON BANDITS
WORK QUICKLY

Boston, Nov. 5.-(UP)-Bandits
who stole $3.50 in five holdups with
in "A hours were sought throughout
metropolitan Boston today.
The largest robbery occurred last
night at the Bentley School of Ac-
counting and Finance, less than 100
yards from the Back Bay police sta
ton.
Three masked bandits slipped into
the second-f1oor administrator Of
fees, forced Treasurer j. Earle
Bradley to hand over $500 to $500
in cash and checks and locked him
and three student-assisatnts in the
adjoining business law library.
None of the 720 night students In
classrooms at the time learned Of
the holdup until police arrived.
Earlier three gunner robbed the
Harvard Federal Savings and Loan
Association of Dorchester of $500.
Other bandits robbed a Dorchester
drugstore of $50, a South Boston
drugstore of $50 and truck driver
Of 500.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-11-05
Communists, Republicans
Are Put in Same Cate
CORY By F. D. R. !,
LEHMAN, WAGNER GET
HIS ENDORSEMENT
Dewey Is Assailed; Gov.
NMurphy's Labor Record
WINS Praise
BY FREDERICK A STORM
ut D white Eyo,.se Corresnn,,fle1.f

BY FREDERICK A STORM
~. p. White House Correspondent
Hyde Park, N. Y, Novenn-
Der S. - (UP) - President
RooSevelt's general election
message called upon the peo-
pie today for continuous lib
eral government - the New
Deal and grouped Com
munists and old-line Republi
cans alike among those with
Fascist aims. He did not
mention the Democratic party. But
he warned that both Fascism and
Communism would thrive If liberal
ism failed.
IT am not talking mere ideaIisIIl Z
Mr.. Roosevelt said. Il am pressing
realistic necessity"
Appeal For Unity
His speech was an appeal for in-
ternal and national unity In the face
Of dangers. He said we had learned
that democracy weakened by. inter-
nal dissensson and social injustice
was no match for autocracies. he
called for \ democracy of tolefazaEe
and unity at home. but one militant
against social oppression or milf
tary aggression.
He spoke last night from Hyde
Park in general appeal for liberal
government and In direct endorse
ment Of Governor Herbert 81. Leh-
man and Senator Robert r. Wagner.
Democratic candidates for re-elec-
ton here, of Representative James
M. Mead, short term Democratic
senatorial candidate in New York
state, and of Governor Frank Muir
ply, who stands for reelection and
heads the New Deal Democratic
ticket in Michigan.
Both Lehman and Murphy are in
hot fights, and In New York and
Michigan New Deal prestige win
stand or fall largely with them.
Eliminate Abuses
Pledging himself again to support
the private profit system, Mr.. Roose-
welt said government must eliminate
abuse where private initiative failed
to do so. He said the large majority
of business men had accepted Ger
(Continued on Page %
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-11-05
REHABILITATION
PLANNED FOR R. r.
Presidential Group Meets
in Washington to Draft
Program

Chicago, Nov. 5-(UP)-A presi-
Dental committee of three railroad
officials and three labor executives
will meet at Washington Monday tc
begin drafting q broad Legislative
program for rehabilitation Of the
railroad industry.
The committee scheduled its con-
ference yesterday after the. presi-
dents of 1879 class / railroads had
voted to abandon a plan for a Is
per cent wage cut for their $4,000
employees, thereby eliminating the
possibility of a national strike.
The carriers hopes for a solution
to their financial plight center or
the committees recommended onS
The program is expected to be pre-
scented to the next session of Con.
gress. Rail and labor leaders said
the committee will consider the fol-
lowing points in formulating the
program:
Revision Of the rate making ma
chinery of the Interstate Commerce
commission;
Low interest rate government
loans:
Repeal of the long and short haul
clause;
New regulation Of water transpor-
tation:
Elimination of the low freight
rates set up under land grant meas
ureS:
Exemption of the undistribute6
profits tax to permit railroads tc
lay UP SURPRISES during prosperous
years to tide them over during de-
preSsions.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-11-05
MASS. May Be
only STATE TO
COLLECT TAXES
Special Masters Report
liners Such Procedure
Be Taken
S36,OOO,OOO GREEN
| ESTATE INVOLVED
Three Other States Seek
Taxes; Domicile Claim
ed in Bay State
BY RUSSELL TURNER

UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
Washington, November S.
- (UP) ~ A special master
inferentially recommended
to the supreme court today
that only Massachusetts, be
permitted to levy inheritance
taxes against the $36,000,000
estate of the late Edward II.
R. Green, son of the famed
eccentric multi-millio
Hetty Green.
A report filed with the court to-
day by John S. Flannery, Washing
ton attorney, appointed in June,
1887, to take testimony and estab-
lish Green's domicile in connection
with conflicting state tax claims, in
effect, recommended rejection of
claims of Texas, Florida and New
York for the right to impose taxes
on the estate.
Lived In Mass.
Flannery based his recommen-
dations on the finding that Green's
E"dQrnicileD at The time Of his death
I'm June, 1885. was his 27O-acre
Round Hills estate at South Dart
mouth, Mass.
The finding was made despite the
fact Green owned an estate in which
he had invested 81, $780, 900 at Star
Tclopad MOO !. Miami FLA maintained
an apartment in the Sherry Meth
erlands Hotel in New York, died at
Lake Placid, N. Y, and claimed that
his legal residence was Terrell, Tex.
Flannery's report asserted that it
was the first time the high tribunal
had been called upon to settle dis
pute as to which Of several states
had the right to levy inheritance
taxes, and pointed out that If all
four states were permitted to col
(Contiuued on Page q
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-11-05
RAINS SNUFF OUT
FOREST BLAzES
By United Press

Heavy Rains. driven by a strong
gale, swept across Indiana and Illi-
nois today and drenching out for
est and brush fires which had de.
stroyed thousands Of acres of tim.
berland.
The rains were moving eastward
across the midwest and south and
were expected to bring relief today
to volunteers and CCC workers
fighting fires In 10 other states.
The fire belt extended from M
chigan to Norther.l Alabama an6
from the Mississippi to the Attain
tic.
An estimated 5000 CCC enr0llees
WPA workers, farmers and volilii.
teers still were battling fires rae.
ing through Kentucky, Tennessee
Michigan. West Virginia and Vir-
ginia. g
Rangers counted 275 fires ia
Kentucky, Michigan, West Virginia
and Virginia alone. They reported
that one-fourth Of West Virgmia'S
Timberland was dotted with fires.
Airline pilots and rangers report
ed scattered fires also IN the CaE0@
linas, Georgia, Mississippi and
Northern Alabama.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-11-05
KEY TOWN FALLS
TO NATIONALETS
Push Into Mora De EbrO;
5000 Loyalist Prisoners
Captured, Says Report

Hendaye, French Spanish From
tier, Nov. 5 80 (U.P) - Spanish Ma
tionalist troops have reached the
outskirts Of the key town Of Mora
De Ebro where the main Gandesa-
Tarragona highway crosses the Eb-
no river In Eastern Spain, Insur-
gent communicates said today.
According to the Nationalist
many Loyalists drowned in trying
to escape across the rain swollen
river.
It was asserted that the National
lists had captured almost 5000 pri-
soners since they started last Sum
day their seventh offensive against
the territory on the west (right)
bank Of the Ebro which the Loyal
lists had taken in a surprise drive
hast summer.
South Of Mora De Ebro, in the
rinell- Miravet sector, the National
lists asserted that they now held q
considerable stretch of the right
bank.
The Nationalist said that the
AiSyHtteuc WSAc IInActulS odVAAkAy Uut
vainly.
II On the, right flank. near Pinell,
the Nationalist said that their men
after capturing the Aliago Heights
attacked. the Loyalists with hand
grenades and bayonets and killed or
captured 500 Loyalists. Then the
Nationalist diverted q column
northward toward Mora De Ebro
and captured Benisanet, it was as
serted.
Comnuniqnes Of both sides told
of severe Nationalist airplane raids
on Loyalist east. coast towns.
The .Loyalists admitted that they
had retired along g part Of the Ebro
front but said that the retirement
was made for tactical reasons to
better and stronger lines.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-11-05
BALDWIN SAYS
SLUMP PLANNED
G. 0. P. Candidate Makes
Last Minute Charge; Nc,
COnaughy Lauds Jasper

Hartford, Conn. Nov. sup
Republicans began a last-minute
attack on the Democratic record to-
day as the Connecticut political
campaign, blurred by unpredictable
factors, rushed to its close.
Raymond E. Baldwin, Republican
candidate for governor, charged
the Democratic national administra-
ton planned" the recent slump.
"The Democrats planned it that
way" he said at a Norwalk rally,
instead of leading the world out
of world wide depression, we fell
to the rear of our neighbor, Canada,
and all Of the larger countries got
ahead of us.
''There are hundreds of thousands
Of young people recently graduated
from our schools who have never
had a regular, steady job"
James L. McConaughy, candidate
for acknowledgement, reiterated
his charges Democrats forced con-
tributions from merit system state
employees. He replied to Col. Thomas
HeweS, Democratic candidate for the
same position, who explained merit
system employees were paid by check
and that therefore money could not
have been taken from their pay en-
velopes.
a. -. - =
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-11-05
HUNGARIAN STAKE
OVER CZECH Zone
Troops Gross Danube To-
day-Island Is Now
in Hungary

Budapest, Nov. 4-(UP)- Hungar-
ian troops crossed the Danube to-
day and occupied zone No. In
the minority area ceded by Czecho-
slovakia.
Troops OF the engineer corps
started at dawn to build bridges
across the Danube from the Hun
garian side to Shuett Island. formed
BY an arm Of > the river and CONF
y prising the first zone TO be occupied,
AT s q. m. bridges strong enough
to hold artillery had been complete
ed. Il, .
At 10 a. M, under agreement
reached by q Joint military COM
mission, Hungarian motorized units
and troops in full field equipment,
their uniforms decorated with flow
ers and oak leaves, started across
the bridges at four points In the
neighborhood of the. villages Of
Medve. Bota and, Dob0rgaz.
Cheers rose from the crowd which
was waiting on the SIovak side Of
the river 81 .zsses ~ 4
The island which comprises the
first zone Is between Bradshaw and
KuuaroEi.
Under plans Of the general stan,
the troops who marched into the
ceded territory today had orders
only to occupy the areas Just ahead
Of their pontooIn bridges and To es-
tablish lines extending 10 kilometers
IS lniles) into Theisland.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-11-05
CLOSED BANK
DEPO.SITORS TO
Get Dividend
Merchants Trust Co. to
Make so Payment in
Savings Dept.

Savings depositors of the defunct
Merchants Trust Company are to
receive an additional five-per cent
dividend, depending on the sanction
of Judge Earnest C. Simpson OF
superior court at a hearing next Fri
day. Commercial department de-
poSitorS are not scheduled for any
dividend at this time.
Bank Commissioner Walter Perry,
receiver for the Merchants Trust
Company, today petitioned superior
court for permission to make pay
ment of the five per cent. dividend
to savings department depositors.
Dividends totalling As per cent have
already been paid to the savings
group.
Dividends totalling SIS per cent.
have been paid to date to the COM
mercial department depositors. With
the payment of the additional five
per cent, the saving department
depositors will have received so pei
cent. of their original deposits.
According to the petition filed to-
day, it will require SIC, 068.07 to pay
the Dividend. Commissioner Perfs
reports that as If OF Octiber 81
1888, the Merchants Trust had sos,
| 800. 10 on hand ID cash.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-11-05

Defense counsel expressed anxiety
for an early trial, and Special Pros
'ecutor Acorn said he would move
for trial as soon as possible If his
motion was granted. His stand now
is that he would rather try the cases
In Waterbury than New Haven, be-
cause he fears New Haven has no
Jurisdiction.
vi Facilities Inadequate
Judge Simpson transferred the trial
to New Haven when he found the
Waterbury courts facilities made
Quate. He denied q motion Of AL
corn for change Of venue. Mr..
Acorn Indicated yesterday that
there would be no appeal from de-
NAL Of the change of venue.
A motion for trial filed on behalf
of Carl d Olsen by Attorney John
II. Cassidy yesterday is not expected
to be pressed Immediately. Attor-
ney Cassidy said at the trial yes
tefday that in filing the motion ct
New Haven he had assumed that
thD case was on the New Haven
docket.
ct was my error he said to
Judge simpson. The files Of the cases
have never been transferred to New
Haven and thus the cases are not
before tiie New Haven court despite
Judge simpsons order Of October
rs. D.
Yesterdays arguments on the new
motions against having the trial ct
New Haven required exactly an
hour. In q very quiet tone, Special
Pros. Acorn opened the proceed
tnRs by asking the courts per1nis-
sion to argue on the matters Of
transfer to New Haven.
with permission for this being
granted, he proceeded to present
his case, the basis Of which he ex-
planned by the statement, with all
its faults and shortcomings, /
would rather try. the case here than
take chance with the jurisdiction
question which would arise from
trialsat New Haven"
His chief argument was that as
New Haven has no jurisdiction to
try the case, q conviction could
not stand. Judge Simpson COM
mented at this point that on the
other hand should the defendants
be acquitted, under Alcorn's the
Dry, he would have the right to ap-
peal from that acquittal.
No Statutory Power
Mr.. Alcorn argued that the ques-
ton OF right Of transfer was not
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