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Evening star., 1939-04-18
King and Randolph F ovor Cut
In DC. JobIess Benefit Tax
House Member Pledges Committee Action
As Soon as Possible on McGehee Bill

action on the bill he would intro
duce companion measure in the
Senate.
Chairman Randolph branded as
an ''unwholesome situation the fact
that the District now has more than
$ll 100000 tied up in its unemploy-
ment trust fund in the United States
Treasury.
Huge Reserve Unwieldy."
I'm creating this tremendous re-
serve fund" he declared. I'VE are
taking millions of dollars out of
circulation. OF course, we do not
want an inadequate reserve; we
don't wish to cripple the act. But
huge reserve such as the District
has to its credit is unwieldly and un-
balanced.
This is serious subject, and
whatever action Congress takes on
the proposed local changes may have
an important bearing on similar
action for other unemployment COM
pensation systems
Representative Randolph ex-
planned that, while he did not wish
at this time to give his personal
views on the provisions of the Nc
Gehee bill. he could say that this
measure will serve as the basis for
revision of the local Unemployment
Compensation Act"
3et Tax Held Unnecessary.
The chairman said the $1,000, 900
balance now credited to the local
system in the Treasury and the
rate at which certified benefit claims
are being met shows that continual
ton Of the present 3 per cent tax
is unnecessary.
The McGehee bill would amend
both the District Unemployment
Compensation and the Federal So
cial Security Acts and provide for
complete separation of the District
Board from the Federal Social Sc
curity Board.
Separation from the National So
cial Security Board is the only
method by which a tax reduction
could be effected for local employ
ers. according to compensation Off
cials. AS the Social Security Act
is worded, the difference between
a lesser tax in the District and the
3 per cent required under Title TX
of the Federal act would be paid
to the Federal Government.
Under the McGehee measure en-
ployers would no longer pay taxes
under Title TX, and the local board
would be given authority to fix the
rates and would operate as an in
dependent agency.
Evening star., 1939-04-18
Two Bills Carrying
District Items Go
To Conference
Several Institutions
Would Get Funds
Through Measures

Two appropriation bills containing
items of local interest-the second
deficiency and Interior-are headed
for conference with the House to-
day. following Senate passage yes
terday afternoon.
The 100000 deficiency meas
ure, intended mainly to speed up
national defense plans. also carries
miscellaneous items for the District
government for the remainder OF
this fiscal year amounting to $l15,-
000 OF this District total the only
part still subject to conference is
the s22,330 added by the Senate to
enable the Motor Vehicle Depart
ment to begin mechanical inspec-
ton of automobiles.
Several Institutions Included.
The SITS, 900 900 Interior Depart
ment supply bill contains the annual
appropriation for several institutions
IN Washington, as follows:
st. Elizabeth's Hospital, s1,227,-
28O; Columbia Institution for the
Deaf, $l50,950; Howard University
s745,O00, and Freedmen's Hospital
$484,840. Only a few of the items
making up these totals are still sub
]ect to settlement in conference
One is the $4,000 added by the Sen
ate for salary increases for custodial
employees at Freedmen's.
Checks Long Distance Calls.
A move to place a closer check on
expenditures for long g-distance tele-
phone calls throughout the Govern
ment service was taken by the Sen
ate by one amendment it added to
the Interior bill. Broad enough to
cover all departments and inde-
pendent agencies, it provides that
all payments for long-distance calls
would have to be supported by a
certificate from the department
head or his representative that the
calls were necessary.
The Senate added $37,5OO to the
deficiency bill to enable the Library
OF Congress to acquire the historic
papers of Charles Cotesworth Pinck-
ney and Thomas Pinckney relating
to the drafting of the Constitution.
Evening star., 1939-04-18
Ladies' Auxiliary
OfV. F. W. Plans Boil

Commemorating the 25th ami
versary of the Veterans of the For
eign Wars, the v. F. w. Ladies
Auxiliary, Department of the Dis
trlct, will give a ball at the An
napolis Hotel next Tuesday from
y pm. to am. The v. F. w. Or
chestra will furnish the music. Past
department President Adelaide M
Grant is general chairman. Others
on committees are:
Roberta Fawcett, Mercedes Nc
Callum, Edna McCutchen, Clay
keene Miller and Rose Luebkert,
Frances Van Houton, Ruth Bren-
ner, Mayvelle Buckingham, Hazel
Miller, Blanche Melton, Thelma
Graves, Hazel Perron and Beth
johnson.
Evening star., 1939-04-18
Sofety Razor Fought

BARRIERS of India have organized
nationwide campaign against the
safety razor, which they say is ruin
ing their business. BARRIERS in CAL
cutta recently held a parade, carry
ing banners with anti-safety razor
slogans. Six hundred then held a
conference to outline a campaign to
recapture their vanishing trade. A
national movement to boycott for
elgn safety razors and to boost bar
bers' services was started.
Evening star., 1939-04-18
BY JOHN H. CASSADY, Jr.

BY JOHN ii. Cassidy, Jr.
Senator King. Democrat, of Utah
and Representative Randolph, Dem
ocrat, of West Virginia, chairmen
respectively, of the Senate and
House District Committees, Joined
today in expressing hope that Con-
gress will pave the way for a reduc-
ton of District unemployment in
Surance taxes.
Asserting that the local unem-
ployment compensation act lis Ger
tainly one which needs attention
and revision" Representative Ran
dolph gave assurance the House
District Committee will act on the
McGehee bill as soon as possible
after hearings have been completed
by the Judiciary Subcommittee.
The McGehee measure, sponsored
by Representative McGehee, Demo-
crat. of Mississippi, chairman of
the Judiciary Subcommittee, would
give the District Unemployment
Compensation Board authority to
vary the rate of contributions to
be paid by Washington employers
as long as balance of approx
mately s100O0,0OO is maintained by
the board to meet claims for bene-
fits.
Senator King said he was not
familiar with the provisions of the
McGehee bill but indicated that he
favors a scaling down of the insur-
ance tax on local employers below
the per cent rate now in effect.
General Reduction Hoped For.
I'm fact" he added, I'VE hope to
bring about a general reduction of
unemployment insurance taxes
throughout the United States.
Whenever it can be shown that the
reserves have become too great un-
der the present tax, that tax should
be reduced 1t certainly has be-
come evident that the District is
raising far more than it actually
needs, and the same situation ex-
lists in other unemployment COM
pensation systems"
Senator King said he planned to
give the McGehee measure his i'm
mediate attention and indicated
that if there is any delay in House
Evening star., 1939-04-18
Extra Burden on Home
Laid to Inadequate Aid

Inadequate relief funds has fos-
tered q steady increase in the popu-
lation of the Home for the Aged and
Infirm at Blue Plains, Supt. Frank
B. Haskell reported to the Board OF
Public Welfare yesterday.
The average daily population dur
Ing the month was 705, he reported,
as compared with 702 in February
and 625 in March a year ago.
The dearth of relief funds. he
said, has resulted in referral of per-
sons who otherwise would receive
relief to the home.
Evening star., 1939-04-18
Man Faces Trial
On Charge Dog HowIs

Henry Noon, Al, of 801 Twenty.
first street NV, will be tried ir
Police Court Thursday on a charge
Of letting his police dog howl, bark
and disturb the peace.
Mr.. Noon was charged on a COM
plant by Pvt. j. T. Marshall of No
8 precinct, a neighbor.
The defendant pleaded not guilty
yesterday and said Cubby, a 4-year-
old female he has had since she
was puppy, howls and barks only
when unwanted prowlers come
around.
Mr.. Noon plans to have several
neighbors testify In his behalf.
Evening star., 1939-04-18
Route ! Bypass Picked

The Mount Vernon Memorial bou-
levard, between Washington and
Alexandria, Va, has been designated
a bypass route for U. S. Route No.
by the National Capital Parks Office
according to word received today by
Arthur H. Surprise. director of the
Arlington County (Va.) Safety
Council.
Evening star., 1939-04-18
Editor to Speak

Alexander F. Jones, managing ed
ltor Of the Washington Post, will be
q The principal speaker at the ANNA,
banquet of the Arlington CVa J
Chamber OF Commerce April "a at
Washington Golf and Country Cmh
Walter U. varney is to be toastmas-
ter.
Evening star., 1939-04-18
Service Period Doubled

LONDON, April 18 P.-Exchange
Telegraph British news agency re-
ported from Tallinn today that the
Estonian government had increased
the period Of compulsory military
service from one year to two years.
Evening star., 1939-04-18

Modification OF the nnemplou-
ment tar liability on District en-
ployers is the objectiue OF n hill
recently introduced in the Hou,e.
Why this legislation is deemed
necessary to proper administra-
ton OF the local Unemployment
Compensation Act is discussed IN
a series OF articles, of 1Uhich this
Is the third.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-16
Glamorous Mexican Star In Disclosures On Jack Doyle

Hollywood, Jan. 16-(UP)-Mo- vita, the glamorous Mexican screen star, corrected general misunder- standing today-she is not, as yet the wife of Jack (The Irish Thrush) Doyle.
 Moreover, she sadi, she was chap eroned by her married sister at the time she and Doyle were found in the same hotel at Ensenda. Mexico two weeks after Doyle had been de- ported from the United States and was supposed to be on his way tc Italy.
 He just wanted to kiss me good bye again" she said.
 Movita revealed that if it hadn't been for the president of the Repub- lie of Fl Salvador, that romantic in- terlude on he seashore at Ensenada wouldn't lave come about. Doyle, whose exploits as not-so- bad tenor, not-so-good boxer, anc ladies man deluxe have made head lines these many months, was de- ported from San Pedro, Calf, ir December because he had entered the United States illegally. Movita kissed him goodbye as he sailed aboard a liner for Genoa, Italy. fortnight tier Doyle and Movita showed up at tn resort hoetl at En- senada. They were reported to have been married at Tijuana.
 '"These reports were lies, all lies, Movita said.
 ..It was foolish gesture on Jacks part. but lovely one. He just wanted to kiss me goodbye again
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-16
Five German Bund Leaders In Los Angeles Face Arrest

seeking to cancel his citizenship, were Michael, Drey. Robert Lee, August Mueller, and John asse. The four comprised the bund "color guard' at meeting where marching drills are held beneath the American flag and the Swastika. Police took from one of the men a handbill pur- porting to incite Jews to action and to be of Jewish origin. Officers said it was a fake. It was entitled Jews of America" and read:
 "You need only fighting leader from among the Baruchs, the BrandeiseS, the Frankfurters, the Dicksteins, the Lehmans, the Dub inskys or the La Guardias to make a mass attack upon the insolence of non-jews in this democracy and force them, by taxation, to contri- bute to Hitler's 400 million dollar demand and thereby release German Jews for immigration to the United States.
 ''The promises of Abraham are nearly fulfilled. We Jews own the United States of America. It is OUT promised land"
 John Klein. district attorneys in- vestigator, said similar anti-Jewish handbills had appeared recently iu Los Angeles. Several hundred were thrown from an upper window of a Jewish-owned department store.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-16

And he did and we weren't married at all. I stayed in Ensenada with my married sister for week and then Jack sailed again for Italy and he's sorry and I'm sorry if we've caused the government any worry
 Movita, who was born Maria Cas- teneda at Nogales, Ariz., said Jack had spent lonely Christmas at sea.
 And when the boat stopped at San Salvador" she continued, "he got off and wEo should he meet but his old friend, General MaXmiliano Martinez. Jack had known General Martinez in London, and here the general was president of Fl Salva- dor. So Jack told the president his troubles and how badly he wanted to see me end-snip-the president cut all the red tape.
 "Jack got on an airplane and flew to Mexico City and he phoned me from there and begged me to meet him at Mexicah. So I drove down there with my married sister, Mrs William Franklin, and then we all drove to EnSenada. I registered al the hotel with my sister and Jack took another room and I wish people would come to me before they gc around printing articles about my being married.
 Anyway, Jack took another boat after a week and this tinie he really went to Italy. He's going to take singing lessons there and then he's coming back-legally -and we'll get married. He's such lovely boy" Copyright, 1889, by United Press)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-16

Los AnteleSs, Jan. 16.-UP) Five German-American bund lead CTS. including West coast director Herman Schwinn, were threatened with criminal syndicalism charges today after police had confiscated 10000 anti-semitic handbills. Auth critics told them that if the hand bills were reprinted. They would be charged under city or state syndi- caliSm statutes. The men were then released. The handbills were to have been distributed, police said, before daybreak, Sunday. They were con- fiscated at bund costume ball. The Dodgers urged Christian VigilanteS to Arise" and read:
 Buy gentle. Employ gentle. Vote gentle Boycott the movies! Holly wood is the Sodom and Gomorrha where international jewry controls vice-dope- gambling; where young gentle girls are raped by Jewish producers, directors, casting direct ors who go unpunished.
 '"The Jewish Hollywood anti-Nazi league controls communism in the motion picture industry. Stars writers and artists are compelled to pay for communistic activities.
 (By) "Anti-C Communist Federation of America"
 Taken with Schwinn. who is fight ing federal attorney's complaint
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-16
REGISTRAR M. F.
 SHAWN BETTER
May Attend Trial TOmOr= row When It Resumes;
 Supt. Fleming Still III
By JOSEPH P. DONAHUE Democrat Staff Reporter)


 Probability that Deputy Registrar of Voters Michael F. Slavin would be sufficiently recovered to attend superior court for the opening ses- sion of the eighth week of the con- spiracy trial was expressed today by Dr. Joseph E. Slavin, who has been attending him the past week.
 Dr. Joseph F. Burke reported, however, that Superintendent of Streets Thomas J. Fleming, who col lapsed from nervous exhaustion January 6, will be unable to leave his bed tomorrow or any day this week. He said that the possibilities of his attending court next Tuesday were good"
 Dr. Slavin reported his brothers condition as improved" Dr. Burke said that MT. Fleming's condition was about the same" with some steady improvement showing.
 Eighth Week Tomorrow
 With the jury of 12 completed, but one of the two prescribed alter mates still needed, the conspiracy will enter its eighth week tomorrow. when court convenes for the 22nd session. Throughout the past week MT. Slavin and MT. Fleming were absent from the proceedings because of their physical conditions. Their absence was legalized by the signing of waivers by them, and their coun- sel, Attorney Patrick Healey. with the sanction of Special Prosecutor Hugh M. Alcorn and Judge Ernest A. Inglis.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-16

The struggle for Barcelona-with probably three-quarters of . mill lion men participating = appeared likely to oe the greatest battle of the two-and-a-half years old civil war. The outcome may decide the conflict which has divided Spain, destroyed areas of her proudest cities and cost hundreds of thou sands of lives. M
 Rebel field headquarters report ed their armies near the strongly fortified Loyalist city of Igualada, on the Lerida- Barcelona highway only 30 miles from the capital. A swift thrust by rebel troops moving up the valley from Bcrjas Blancas and the capture of Cervera made possible an attack on Igualada, the insurgent messages said.
 Rebel Planes Bombing
 At the same time, fleets of rebel airplanes bombed and machine gunned refugees fleeing from the fallen city of Tarragona toward Barcelona, the Spanish 0oyalist) news agency reported The bomb ing planes roared up and down the road to Barcelona, the dispatch said, bombing Villa Neuva Geltru, Gava, Castel De Fels, Wall Carca and other towns within a few miles of the capital.
 A steady advance all along the Catalan front was claimed by in- surgent dispatches as the Loyalists reported their troops digging in for a supreme effort to prevent the cap ture of Barcelona as they prevented the occupation of Madrid early in the war. The insurgents have put probably 3o0000 men into the of fensive, while the Loyalist mobiliza- tion of all able-bodied men from lt to 45 is expected to provide at least 100000 and possibly half a million men for the defense of the capital,
 Loyalist Fertilization
 Notifications have been under
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-16
POLICE DOG WAS
 FINDER OF BODY
Leads Way to Point Where His Young Master Had
 Been Drowned

New York, Jan. 16-CUP)-A police dog credited today for the re- covery of the body of his master Francis Foster, IA, from the Hudson river. The body was taken from the river at the exact spot indicated by the dog, Jack, although he had not been with Francis when he fell into the water four days ago and was drowned. Francis and his brother William, 12, and the dog went to the river bank to collect driftwood on Wednesday. William and the dog went home because of the cold, but Francis remained.
 Francis father, Ernest Foster, went to the river that evening and noted that there were holes in the planking of the rickety pier at 134th street. He assumed that Francis had fallen in there. But police couldn't locate the body.
 Saturday Foster took the dog with him to watch a police launch still grappling for the body. Jack would not go out on the pier. He trotted to the pier at 133rd street, block away and lay down on it, shifting and wimpering. The same thing happened yesterday. Foster was im- pressed and asked the police to grapple at that point. Within few minutes they brought up Francis body.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-16
SHE DID SLIDE

Boston, Jan. 16 -. (UPA - Miss Alice Bradley, 30, felt sudden de- sire to slide down bannister as she left a Brigton apartment house yes terday.
 As she mounted the railing, she slipped and fell 20 feet to a tile floor. She was hospitahzed for pos sible hip and nose fractures, eye and scalp laceratlons, a dislocated left wrist and multiple bruises.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-16
TWO DROWN AND
 FIVE ARE SAVED

Ticonderoga, N. Y, Jan. 16.-(UP) -Three-year-old Marie Bezio, and Katherine Snow, 20, both of Ticon- deroga, were drowned last night when their automobile broke through the ice on Lake Champlain.
 Henry Bezio, Marie's father, saved his four other children.
 Motorists use the frozen lake to cross, into Vermont during the win ter.
 The Bezio automobile was almost to the center of the lake when the ice cracked. Miss Snow, who was holding one of the children was trapped in the rear seat with Marie
 Bezio leaped out of the automo- bile and rescued his four other chil- dren-Doris IS, Raydene 10, John 2, and Vernal 5. All are recovering from exposure,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-16
VIOLENT DEATHS
 IN CONN.,, FOUR
Yale Senior Took Life By POisOn-l2=Year=Old
 Boy Suicides
lBy UNITED PRESSl

Violence claimed the lives of four persons in Connecticut over the weekend.
 Nicholas s. Kerr, 21, (W. 68th St. [, New York city, a Yale university senior and member of the varsity track team, committed suicide by drinking poison, according to the medical examiner.
 No motive for the act could be found. Fellow-students said Kerr had been Respondent recently.
 Twelve-year-old James w. Hamil- ton, Jr, Greenwich, committed sui- eide by hanging himself with sash cord in his parents home, the medi- cal examiner said.
 No reason could be ascribed for the act.
 Mrs. Mary S. Swanson, 36, Hart ford, died of loss of blood after she severed an artery in her leg in a fall at her home.
 Mrs. Anna Hull, 31, New Britain, died from effects of an overdose of sleeping tablets, according to the medical examiner.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-16
BOMBINGS FELT
 IN ENGLAND

London, Jan. 16-CUP)-Scotland Yard assigned its best men today to investigate a series of bombings sus- pected to be an organized sabotage plot with a political motive in Eng land.
 Six explosions occurred almost si- multaneously early today, two il London, three in Manchester and another near Liverpool.
 Detectives investigated the theory that the bombings might have beer instigated by sympathizers with the Irish Republican army, which has many adherents in London and k now conducting an anti-British cam paign in Ireland.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-16

The protest started so far as the telegraph companies were con- cerned, before o'clock yesterday afternoon before Father Coughlin had finished his weekly broadcast, in fact, broadcast heard over Station WATR from o'clock until 5 o'clock every Sunday afternoon.
 Wires Start Quickly
 While the radio priest" was still issuing his warning" that the United States would be "regi- mented into another World War should suggested changes be made in the neutrality act affecting the embargo of munitions to Spain the messages started arriving at local telegraph ofhces.>
 By this time the telegraph com panies were ready to handle the volume, their officials recalling the time when their offices were swamped with listeners of the De- troit radio priest when he urged 2 similar protest to Congressmer over the projected reorganization bill.
 Had Advance News
 Managed David Spiegel Of the To- cal Western Union office, said that he had received advance news that Father Coughlin was to seek an other protest" of his listeners to Washington. He had arranged fol (Continued on Page A
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-16
l24 Retail Stations in Waterbury May Be All
 Included in Scrap
RETAILERS OF GAS
 SANCTION PRICE CUT
President Lane Predicts All Gas Dealers Will Be
 in Battle Very Soon

Lay-offs and wage slashes affected employees of service and gasoline stations today as the four-day-old gasoline price war gained momentum and showed promise of in- volving Waterbury's 124 re- tail stations before the dawn of a new week. Regular and high test gases were selling at 13 1-2 and Is 1-2 cents a gallon, an average of four and one-half cents less than pre- batlet days. An inferior grade is selling for 12 1-2 cents.
 Edward Lane, president of the Waterbury Gasoline Retailers asso- ciation said today that the price war has the sanction of the asso- ciation-but that the association has no control over its duration. He said that of the approximately 124 stations in Waterbury, 65 are as Sociation members, but only half that number are active.
 All Will be In
 Asked how many stations re participating in the war, MT. Lane who was elected to the association presidency only recently, replied, "the majority-but' they'll all be in by the end of the week if they want to stay in business"
 He said that even at this early day in the war, dealers had been forced in many cases to lay-off em- ployes and impose wage slashes.
 Blame for the necessity of a price war wa5 laid to an alleged in ferior product which was brought into Waterbury several months ago and retailed for 12 1-2 cents per gallon. Before that time the low est price in effect had been IA cents per gallon.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-16
RUSSIANS BUY
 FIRST BANANAS

Moscow, Jan. 16-(UP)-Russians stood in queues for hours today for a chance to buy bananas, the first on sale in the Soviet capital in 20 years.
 The bananas have just been inn ported from Colombia and sell at IS rubles per kilogram (approxi- mately $1.5O a pound) Despite the high price, curiosity brought many purchasers.