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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-30

had been engaged" by the vice sq Id O. the police department to secure evidence.
 Captain William Duggan and Lieutenant Patrick Moylan arrested Battiste as he stepped down from the witness stand. Judge Mascolo fixed bonds at 5000, and contin- ued the perjury case until next Wednesday morning. It is prob able that Judge Mascolo and Prose- cutog Mitchell. Meyers will be witt nexses at that time.
 Ziminsky Given Discharge
 In the case in which Battiste ap- peared as a witness, that of Anthony R. Ziminslzy, 25, of 157 East Main street, Judge Mascolo granted a dis chegge. ziminsky was charged with violating the state liquor laws by selling strong liquor while holding only a beer permit.
 Attorney Andrew Kata was the lawyer named by Battiste as having
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HOCKEY PLAYERS
 RESCUE WOMAN


 Natick, Mass. Dec. 30.-(UP)-A boy skater drowned in Lake Cochi- tuate late yesterday, while a young woman companion was rescued by two hockey players. James A Ellingwood, Jr.. IT, and Miss Mar garet Stone, 28. both of Natick broke through thin ice, but dark ness obscured their plight until their shouts brought other skaters
 E1lingwood drowned in 12 feet of water after several attempts to chamber onto the treacherous ice Seconds after he sank, William flanagan, IS, and Fredercik Thor sen. n, arrived an drescued Miss Stone. She was treated for inner sion and shock.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-30
Franco Warships Were Waiting for Destroyer to
 Come Out in Open DESTROYER LOST BUT
 TAXES HER REVENGE Insurgent Warship Was Ranlmed; British, French
 Ships Guard Both
BY MICHAEL McEWEN United Press Staff, Correspondentl

DA 4s44OAA3AAAAS 4AAAeAS " A4As 4f United Press Staff, Correspondenty
 Gibraltar, December 30.
 (UP) = British and French warships guarded the Span- ish Loyalist destroyer Jose Luis Diez today as it lay grounded at Gibraltar. Beside it lay the Nationalist de stroyer, Jupiter, which 1t rammed, when crippled by gunfire from seven in Surgent warships, it made for shore. Three British subjects were wounded, one seriously by Na- tionaIist shells which struck the vile lage of Catalan Bay, on the east side of Gibraltar, during the fight. The. guns of the great Rock. the im~ pregnable British Fortress which guards the strait, fired blank shots in warning - and full fun crews stood by ready to fire real shells if necessary. Seven men of the Luyal~ ist destroyer were killed in the battle and II were wounded.
 The destroyer fired six torpedoez during its fight against hopeless odds, and members of the crew told the United Press scorrespo lent tll4 they believed the Nationalist armed slo0p Calvo Sotel0, which was zl11Sl accounted for, had been struck
 As the crippled Jose Luis Die4 made for shore after the battle. two British destroyers and a French one raced in between it and the Nati0nr alist attackers so that any shot
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5AP TRAINS WRECKED.

Peiping. China. Dec. 3O.-( (Up)-- Chinese guerrillas wrecked two Jap anese military trains at Hsushi, north Of Pa0tingfu on the Peiping- Hankow railroad by removing rails. well informed sources said today, Casualties were believed to have been heavy because reports said that cars and engines were practically destroyed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-30
Insurgent Fleet Meets
 Destroyer Of Loyalists Off Coast Of Gibraltar
Nazi Doctrines Of Racial
 Superiority Are Only Fallacy

Richmond, 30-CUP)John R. SwantOn Smithsonian
 Institution anthropolOg told the Association for the that Maxi doctrines of racial superiority falacy
 udder complex designed fghten people into anything
 The antrpOlOg speaking before of Amercas distinguished scientists said the Na1 theories of racial superiority without historical biological justification
 Hybrdaon SwantOn sad has brought greater benefits to mankind than the pOruct of sOad racial strain He that totaan states deliberately utilizing fear psycho and false racial doctrines to achieve their Objecives
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-30
DIES FROM GAS

z Epringfield, Mass. Dec. SO.--(UP)
 ms bodies of Llcius Daily and an unidentified woman. Iegros, were found in q fDoning house early to- day. A Amedical examiner attributed death tc accidental asphyxiation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-30
ITALIAN ENINITY
 OF FRANCE SHOWN
Theater Patrons Demon. strated That Last Night;
 British Plans
BY STEWART BROWN limited Press Stan COrresnunize


 Rome, Dec. 30 -- CUP) Anti French feeling received new impetus today after a disorderly denaonslxa~ tiOn at the Premiere last night. at a leading theater, of the Italian motion picture film @Ettofe Eie1z amosca,s based on a legendary tournament between French and Italian Knights in the 18th century. The film depicts the siege o< Barletta during the war betWee4 Louis XII of France and Ferdinand of Spain. During the siege, there iS a challenge to . knightly tourfl& ment in which the Roman Prince ProSpero Colonna defeats the Erenci< Knight Bayard.
 Audience Worker Up
 As the tournament scenes vert shown. the audience became fr61s zied in its enthusiasm and held 5ii anti-French demonstration Hco&
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Michael Battiste Ordered Held On Perjury Charges
Testified That Lawyer Had Offered Him Bribe to Give Testimony Denies He Aided Police;
 Judge MascOlO Orders Arrest

After declaring that lawyer had offered him bribe to testify falsely and denying that he entered North Main street restaurant to aid the police in securing evidence against liquor permittee, Michael Battste, 24 of 523 North Main street, arrested perjury charge in city court this morning The arrest ordered by Judge the hrhe allegation was faSehood and that BattiSe
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-30
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, Dec. SO--( (up3 1st& ernment expenses and receipts f4. the current fiscal year through u2H 2Sth. compared with a year agot This Year Expenses K.mA9 XS34 $4, ,4S6, ,T42,647.77 $3,671.s2{ .8ll. .f '.
 Receipts
 $2,s1S,is3,s ,s36.92 $ss142,ass.s SC {. Sd sIs72.sss.sl0:s5 :s5 s5so.ass. .zs7 $ s $f.54s. .0s7, ,s10.ss $4s2.is7. se7 | $s.osz1si:ss7l7 Sa.sss. 7o7.sal 5
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Evening star., 1938-02-04

| conference, the President said it was
not fair to ridicule either those who
| attended or their efforts.
Turning to other questions asked
by the large group of reporters stand
Ing around his desk. the President
declined to comment on announce
ment by the Packard Motor Co. of a
reduction of 500 in the price of its
six-cylinder model. He declined, he
said, because he did not know whether
the new model was the same as last
years.
In response to another inquiry, Mr..
Roosevelt said the date had not vet
been selected for the discussion he
intends to have on railroad problems,
He added. however. he expects to
make public today the names of those
to be invited.
Business Mems Delegation,
Besides Mr.. Roth. members Of the
committee of little business men were
James G. DAILY, editor The Sample
Case. Columbus.
William D. Kimbal. vice president
Standard Napp Co., Long Island City,
NJ Y.
Harold D. North. president Ferry
Cap q Set Screw Co.. Cleveland.
o. L. Roach, Star Laundry Co., Dam
vile, Va.
B. F. McLain, Hart Furniture Co.,
Dallas, Tex.
w. K. Gunter. president and treas
urer Derry Damask Mills, Gaffney,
S. C..
Evening star., 1938-02-04
President
Continued From First Page.)

NSoAlClAuCO TIOIll E 81 IdSe.p
and farm prices were made in response
to question whether he agreed with
Senator Wagner, Democrat, of New
York, who recently contended in op-
posing the prevailing wage amend
ment to the housing bill, that collec-
tive bargaining would be eliminated
and the country put on the roao to
Fascism if the Government ever At
tempted to say how much a carpenter
or bricklayer and all other workers
should receive
The President said that argument
was in line with what he had always
said. But he warned reporters against
mislnterpreting that, pointing out that
In the pending farm bill he was at
tempting to put floor under farm
prices rather than to set prices. The
same analogy could be applied to wages
in industry he said.
Considerable laughter swept the
Presidents Office when a reporter
asked whether he planned any fur
ther conferences after the smaller
business mems meeting.
Conference Declared Requested,
The President replied he did not
know, but that the little business men
might ask for another one. He said
all those attending the meeting in the
Commerce Department in the last two
days had written letters requesting to
be heard.
Noting published accounts of some
OF the things that went on at the
Evening star., 1938-02-04

D. E. McAvoy. realty architect and
home building. New York City.
R. P. Hastey. president Sternberg
Sales g. Service Co., Chicago.
Leslie E. Sanders. publisher Orlando
Morning Sentinel. Orlando, Fla.
w. c. Tinsley. Mutual Insurance Co.,
Tampa, Fla.
The platform submitted to the Presi-
dent was adopted at midday yesterday
as the conference ended on the up
roarious note with which it was
launched Wednesday, two particularly
clamorous delegates being elected.
The program was the work Of 10
committees. and while the recommen-
dations in some instances overlapped
and IN a measure conflicted, these
were correlated yesterday afternoon
by supercommittee composed Of the
heads of the respective groups.
Evening star., 1938-02-04
RECOVERY PLANS
ARE FOUND ALIKE
Biu and Little Business Men
Disagree Mainly on
Procedure.
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
Big business and little business see
eye to eye on many problems affecting
the national economy, but in some in
stances they differ on the methods the
Government should employ to solve
them.
Both have spoken. Forty-nine men,
bers of the Commerce Departments
Business Advisory Council expressed
big business views to President Roose-
welt January 10. A thousand little
business men" have just concluded a
conference in which they had their
say.
Here are high lights of the expressed
views Of the two groups:
Wages and Hours.
Little business: Opposes all forms
of wage-hour regulation and legisla-
ton. Big business: Recommends q
fresh study of the subject. aided by
representatives of labor and industry
who participated in N r. A.
Housing.
Little business: Urges the necessity
OF large-scale housing program, with
Federal building loans at interest rates
as low as / per cent. Big business:
Pledges cooperation in the general
policy of seeking to reduce the costs
Of home construction.
Business Practices.
Little business: Urges Qualification
Of antitrust law provisions and in
creased penalties for violations. Big
business: Asks revision Of the anti
trust laws to make them more specific
and retain much that is desirable to
, preserve" in relation to the co-opera-
ton encouraged within industries by
the N. r. A.
Labor Relations.
Little business: Advocates putting
equal responsibility on employer and
employe ana restricting unions from
'harassing and intimidating business u
Big business: Declares that privilege
must be attended by responsibility.
Social Security.
Little business: Favors reduction ot
unemployment tax in industries where
employment is stabilized. Big business
Says amendments to the existing Law
are needed and pledges cooperation tt
this end.
Flow Of Capital to Private Industry.
Little business: Wants repeal or
modification of the undistributed
profits tax and capital gains tax;
creation of Federal agency to pro-
vide for small businesses an inexpen-
sive method of obtaining loans, and
modification of the Securities anc
Exchange Commission law to facilitate
the sale Of issues totaling $5OO,000 or
less. Big business: Urges modification
Of the undistributed profits tax and
the capital gains tax
Financial Policy.
Little business: Urges curtailment
of Government expenditures and
balancing of the budget Big business
Urges no further cheapening of the
dollar or pump priming."
Evening star., 1938-02-04

kits Bring Cold to Actor.
HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 4 R,.-Actor
Nigel Bruce, who is at least half
Scotch. is in bed with a cold. He
caught it wearing kits. his costume
for kidnapped"
Evening star., 1938-02-04
COMPROMISE TAX
MEASURE SOUGHT.
Family or CIoseIy-He|d Cor
porations Levy Stirs Up
Many Protests.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Friends and foes Of a proposed
special tax ON family or closely held
corporations are talking Of a COM
promise
The proposed levy, recommended by
House Tax Subcommittee, has stirred
up more dispute than any other pro-
vision of the subcommittee tax revi-
sion program.
On what middle ground the critics
and advocates might get together has
not yet been determined.
Representative Robertson, Demo-
crat, of Virginia has proposed the
tightening up of section of present
tax law which puts heavy taxes on
corporations improperly accumulating
surpluses.
Il am trying to write q provision. :"
he said, that will be effective in
reaching companies used for tax
evasion without hurting concerns
that are merely business firms"
Some committee members said the
President and the Treasury were in
sisting that the levy on closely held
companies be retained in the revision
program. Friends of the proposed tax
say it is designed to affect companies
used for avoidance of high surtaxes
on individual incomes of stockholders
The proposal is that closely held
corporations pay 16-to-20 per cent
undistributed profits tax and. after
deducting $4,000 or 80 per cent,
whichever is the larger. from the re-
naming income. pay another 20 per
cent tax on the balance
Chairman Doughton said Ways and
Means Committee Democrats probably
would consider definite suggestions to-
day
Evening star., 1938-02-04
OFF FOR SNOW SPORTS

Seventeen girls from Gunston Hal
were to leave Washington today fol
q week end in the snow at SkytoI
under the direction of Miss Marie Tay.
lor, director of athletics.
Those in the party, which will re.
turn here Sunday night. include
Katharine Averett. Perry Biedenharn
Cordelia Brumly, Martha Dobson, Bev-
erly Easley, Peggy Jones. Ellen Hall
Katherine Kearns, Frances Mckee
Virginia Moseley. Marguerite Old
Martha Rothschild, Gayle Stahl. Rose
Bud Webb. Mary Kathryn Willis Eliza .
beth Yerkes and Miss Taylor.
Evening star., 1938-02-04
Trees Saue Man
In 5GFo0t Fall
From d.. Span

strubey ]. Bowles, "a, Of 1913
Meridian place was reported to have
fallen SO feet from the east side of
the Sixteenth Street Bridge last night,
yet suffered only minor injuries. Park
police said he had been saved from
death by the branches Of q tree and
the soft, muddy ground on which he
landed.
Mr.. Bowles was found at tbs pm.
by c. T. Gellogg, Gil Twelfth street
NV. lying face down in the mud at
Evening star., 1938-02-04
AID
URGED BY GIBSON
Vermont Republican Offers
Measure Designed to Pro.
mote U. S. Interests.

A legislative program designed to aid
the Philippines economically and to
promote American interests in the
islands was presented to Congress yes
terday by Senator Gibson. Republican.
Of Vermont, who has visited the islands
four times as q member Of the Senate
Committee on Territories and Insular
Affairs.
with the impairment Of our eco
nomic position in China" Senator
Gibson commented, "the Philippines
acquire more importance to US as the
base for our vital interests in the
Orient. and instead Of weakening
Philippine-A ties we should
strengthen and stabilize"
Would Amend Tydings Act.
The Senator's program would be
realized through amendments to the
Tydings-McDufne Independence Act
and other laws The substance Of its
provisions are:
Repeal OF the export tax provision Of
the Independence Act as threat of
early destruction to Philippine COM
merce and industries, which depend on
the American market for their exist
ence."
Make the American coastwise laws
operative In the Philippines with guar
antee against unreasonably high
freight rates Ito promote the Ameri-
can merchant marine along with the
projected expansion of the Navy"
Modify the sugar law so that Philip
pine farmers would be paid the same
processing tax on sugar received by
growers in the United States, Hawaii
and Puerto Rico. Amend the coconut
oil excise tax law to permit the Philip
pine government to extend direct
monetary help to the coconut indus
tries.
Admit duty free the sugar allocated
to the Philippines by the Secretary Of
Evening star., 1938-02-04

Agriculture under the annual con.
sumption estimates In excess Of the
Tydings-McDufne quota.
Extend liberal treatment under the
Federal tax laws to American business
men In the Philippines, ''for they are
under many handicaps and uncer-
tainties, while they are also among the
vanguard In the reconquest Of Amer
ica's receding commercial positions in
the Orient"
Senator Gibson pointed out that
many leading Filipinos are for con-
tinued relations with the United States
and that President Quezon has re-
Gently declared early independence for
the islands would be inimical to
Philippine welfare and discredit to
America,
Evening star., 1938-02-04

the side Of the Piney Branch parkway.
Prints In the mud indicated he had
dragged himself about is feet to the
road.
Mr.. Gellogg notified police. and Mr..
Bowles was taken to Emergency Hos
pital, suffering from q knee injury.
Later he was taken to Gallinger Hos
pital for observation, walking to the
ambulance without assistance.
Evening star., 1938-02-04
Madrid Cab Driver
Loses Horse by Shell,
But Gains Wealth
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MADRID, Feb. Am un-
happy cabby whose horse was
killed yesterday by shrapnel from
an insurgent shell that exploded
against the front of the Asso-
ciated Press Office found conso-
lation today in sudden wealth.
While he was bewailing his
luck and his loss of a livelihood
three food buyers appeared and
the bidding for the horse worked
up to 625 pesetas ($43.5O. The
successful bidder removed his
purchase Immediately to re-
plenish the supplies of a collec-
tive dining room.
Evening star., 1938-02-04
CYCLISTS LEG BROKEN
IN CRASH WITH TAXI
Youth Taken to Hospital for
Treatment-Dr. Patton's
Condition Good.

In the only serious trafiic accident
in the District last night, Seth r.
Bishop, 20, Of TOT Hamilton street
NV, suffered q compound fracture
OF the left leg when the motor cycle
he WAS riding was in collision with .
taxicab at Thirteenth street and
Massachusetts avenue NV The youth
was taken to Emergency Hospital. The
cab driver, John r. Irvine, 81. Of 742
Tenth street Sc, was not injured.
Meanwhile. the condition OF DR..
Harald Smith Patton, injured when
struck by bus yesterday. was re-
ported good" at Emergency Hospital.
DR.. Patton, an adviser on interna-
tional economics in the State Depart
ment, was hit As he stepped from the
curb on K street NV. between Six
teenth and Seventeenth streets. He
received several fractured ribs and
body bruises.
Evening star., 1938-02-04
Hal Roach Directs Film.

HOLLYWOOD. Feb. 4 P,.-For the
first time in 10 years Hal Roach, head
of the studio bearing his name, Is in
the directors chair. He took over the
reins this week when John Blystone,
directing Laurel and Hardy IN Swiss
Miss" contracted laryngitis.
Evening star., 1938-10-30

buStion engine that made possible the
modern automobile was made clear
to the boys by the simple firing of a
rubber ball out of toy cannon. The
ball, loaded into the cannon, was the
piston: the rod that rammed it in was
the connecting rod, the gunpowder the
fuel and the fuse the spark plug.
Other Exhibits Seen.
After hearing and seeing all this, as
we'll as how the telephone and tele-
graph and other inventions that have
made life more comfortable for man
came into being, the club boys were
escorted to numerous stationary ex-
hibits in trucks around the park.
In the City of Progress exhibit the
citizens Of the future saw how the city
OF the future may look, with building
tops used for airports and motor traf-
f1c sped along one-way thoroughfares
and tunnels for safety and less con-
geStion.
Sponsored by General Motors as an
educational project to reveal and make
clear some OF the magic-like achieve
ments Of modern science the EXPOSE
ton will remain here through Tues
day night. 1t is free to the public.
1t will be open from 2 pm. to 10
pm. today and from noon to 10
pm. tomorrow and Tuesday. The
main show is from stage in a tent
seating 1,400. with minor exhibits in
trucks encircling the park.
Evening star., 1938-10-30
YOUNGSTERS SEE
SCIENCE MARvELS
Boys Club Members Hear
LiQht and Look at
Sound,

Several score members Of the Metro
politAn Police Boys Club were thrilled
yesterday to see" sound. hear" light
and observe an egg being cooked on
. stove that never gets hot.
This seeming magic was part Of a
special demonstration for the club
boys Of the wonders of modern science
ct the Parade Of Progress Exposition
On the park at Pennsylvania avenue
and Fourteenth street NV.
Startled exclamations of delight,
amusement and amazement came from
the youngsters-and many grown
ups who drifted In for the show
q the demonstrator did one almost
incredible thing after another with
electricity. light and sound and ex-
planned in simple terms the scientific
principles involved.
30 the boys could "see" sound
he spoke into a microphone hooked
up with . cathode ray tube 50 that
the vibrations of his voice caused
vibrations in . beam of green light
visible from an end of the tube.
Current Made Audible.
Then he played a phonograph
record with = needle so connected with
ether instruments that instead of the
impulses being translated into sound
In the ordinary way they caused a
neon light to flicker many hundreds
Of times q second
The neon light was on one side of
the stage, with photoelectric cell
opposite it, about 20 feet away The
flickering light set up a current in
the electric eye" that, when run
through amplifiers and other instru-
n1ents, could be heard as the music
Of the phonograph record
So the audience. in a sense, heard
the light. The demonstrator explained
It amounted to broadcasting by light
waves instead Of radio waves-a
method OF communication that works
over distance of at least 80 miles
but has as yet found no commercial
usage.
The stove that never gets hot may
sGswer a lot of household problems
IN the future. 1t won't burn a news
paper nor a human hand, but quickly
heats an iron skillet.
In fact. you could sit on the stove,
hold a skillet in your lap and fry an
egg in the skillet.
Secret Is Explained.
The secret is high frequency elec-
tricity and induction Instead of
the common household 6e-cycle cur
rent-that is the current going first
one way and then the other through
the stoves coil and making this cycle
so times a second-the heatless stove
current makes 5000 cycles a second.
A substance easily magnetized. like
non. picks up this current by induc-
ton when held even close to the coil,
and the current sets up such a frc-
ton among the molecules of the metal
that 1t gets hot. But it has no effect
on the human body or a newspaper,
for instance.
The boys believed this when they
saw the deinonstrator hold first
newspaper and then his hand between
the stove and skillet, while an egg
cooked in the skillet
The principle OF the internal COM
Evening star., 1938-10-30
DRAMATICS COURSE

Voice recordings for comparison of
student talents before and after"
will high light l0-week course in
dramatics opening tomorrow at the
Phil Hayden Studios of Dance, 6 Du-
Ipont Circle.
M. Forney Reese will direct the
course and all students will appear
lin a studio recital before the HOLIDAYS
Evening star., 1938-10-30

Voice, diction, poise and stage bust
ness will be emphasized.
Evening star., 1938-12-18
Engineers to Elect

A discussion Of the work Of the
American Engineering Council will
be given by Frederick M. Feiker,
executive secretary, at the annual
meeting Of the Washington Society
Of Engineers at 8:15 pm, Wednes-
day in the Cosmos Club. An election
Of officers will also be held. A dinner
for the guest speaker will be given
by the board Of directors at pm.
In the main dining room.