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MissNWatk/ns X VOL. XVIII.—NO. 15 Every Thursday Rep. Doughton Creates - Sensation In Capitol As Successful Revolt Head Walter Brown, Washington correspondent of the Winston Salem Journal, sent that paper ■the following Sunday “Who is this man' Doughton? On what kind of meat has he been feeding to grow so strong that three-fourths of the Dem . ocrats in the House will bolt their party leadership, and fol low him, thereby making it pos sible to whip to a frazzle the sales tax feature of the 1932 revenue bill?” These are two oi the many questions that have been in the air on Capitol Hill since last Thursday when Representative Robert. L. Doughton, of the eighth North Carolina district, led a crusading band of “bolt ers” and by a vote of 251! to 173 struck the sales tax section from the revenue act. Doughton is just a plain, un assuming North Carolina farm er, with a head full of good old horse sense, and the courage to follow his convictions. The meat he has been feeding on is simply the doctrine of Jeffer son. This tall, fugged ruralist from the Old North State is one of the most picturesque men in Congress. Those as sociated with him have long ap preciated the qualities of states menship he possessed but it took a crisis for the nation to discover him. And there can he no doubt that there existed a crisis on a cold dark Monday morning ear ly in March when the House Ways and Means Committee gave its approval to the sales tax. The Democrats had a ma jority on the committee and with the exception of Doughton had gone on record for the new form of taxation. The Repub licans >vere, of course, solidly, for the sales tax. It was no easy matter for Doughton to take a position different from every member of the- commit teg and bolt his party leader ship. N.ot only*was the Dem ocratic leadership in the House favoring the sales tax but the Democratic national committee headquarters, working at Ras kob’s direction, was cracking the whip for the new revenue bill. When Doughton announced his position, there was the si lence which precedes a storm. Then the Democrats one by one sprung in behind the North Carolinian and. the fight was on. Doughton did not know wheth er he would be rebuked or prais ed for his stand, but as he stat ed to the writer, I knew I was standing by Democratic doc trine and nothing else matter ed. Not until the final vote was taken did Doughton fully appreciate the strength of his position. 0n votes m the committee of the whole House there is no roll call. The vote is by tellers who are stationed in the well of the House chambers and Eount the members as they pass y ip single file. Doughton was appointed tell er for the anti-sales tax faction. When his motion to strike the sales tax section from the bill was put, th.ere was a ground swelling of congressmen. Im mediately, there appeared a brpad smile on Doughton-’s face arid the manner in which he poured members through the well was indeed amusing. He would grab each member, pat him on the back and shove him through frith a bang. One of Correspondents in the, press gallery remarked that every time Doughton counted a man against the sales tax hris face lighted up as though he had gaught a tarpon ipher# has been much news paper talk about Speaker Gar ner getting to work early in the morning. This is true, but his early rising does not compare with Doughton's. the Nbrth Carolina representative gets up in Washington at the same hour he does on his farm. In the Winter’this is long before day-, light. While in Washington he lives with his wife and family in an apartment on Connecticut ayenue, abput four miles from the Capitol. After breakfast, (‘Farmer Bob” leaves his home and walks the four miles in about as good time as the street gar would carry him, When, he arrives at the House office building there is no one there but the guard and the scrubbers. Doughton is al ways at his office within ar few minutes after 6 o’clock. This is before daylight during the short winter days. Doughton has done a day’s work before the average government worker has his first cigarette after breakfast. The Tar Heel con gressman has never been able to understand why Washing tonians sleep so late. If he wers president, we venture the as sertion that government work ers wpuld get to their desks quite a bit earlier than 9 o’ clock. Doughton has been in Con gress 20 years. On the ways •and means committee, of which he is the third ranking Dem ocrat, he is known as the “old ' reliable.’’ Year in and year out he has been looking after the interests of tile people of his district, laying up knowledge on all phases of governmental routine. When the sales tax light came up he was thorough ly equipped for the task before him. Ooughton lives at Laurel Springs, which is a small vil lage located on his own farm. He is the only farmer in the North Carolina delegation. In I9g() he was a member of the state board of agriculture, in which position he served six years. He was elected to the state Senate in 1908. He serv ed as director of state prisons from 1909 to 1911. He was then elected to Congress and has served here since. “Farmer Bob” is trusted by every member of the House and because of bis victory in the sales tax fight he has emerged as a man who must be reckoned with in the lower House of Congress, The nation will hear •more about this sturdy oak from North Carolina who will not “shape his creed for his cravings or sell his convictions fora job.” That his stand on the sales tax meets the opproval of a v-ast, majority of the people of North Carolina is shown by the hundreds of telegrams he is re ceiving from the state. Dogs Doing Damage; Get Your Shotgun Madison dogs, and the town is full of them, for some time have been doing much damage, regardless of the fact that it is unlawful to let dogs run at - large at nighty Tuesday morn ing when Cabell Webster open ed his rear door he found five hens in the yard; when the front door was opened he was surprised to see five more ip the front yard. However, he has no dog, but the dogs had brought them to his home, though they were so badly mangled that they were of no use. On investigation it was found that the dogs had visit ed J. A. Starkey’s chicken lot just across the street arid de pleted his flock of fowls, the ten being recognized as being his. This dog business in Madi son, as we have before pointed out, is getting to be a nuisance, and unless the owners of dpgs keep them confined, especially at night, they are paving a way to lose their dogs, for we hear many residents say that they are going to exterminate these pests, and no one can really blame them. A Quiet Easter Things were pretty quiet in Madison Easter Monday, and the day really resembled Sun day. Many of our people were out of town, and trie bank, postortice and many other plac es were closed all day. Vir tually all the places of busi ness were closed during the af ternoon. However, the chilly winds kept many at home who had planned to make trips, A large number attended the Easter services at Winston-Sa lem, while a great many also attended the Moravian early morning services at Mayudan. At Baptist Church Prof. E. F. Duncan’s male quartette, Mayodan, will fling for the Baptist congregation Sunday at 11 o’clock. The pastor will preach on “The Joys of Jesus." The evening services, qt 7:30, subject wifi be “I Am Not Ashamed of the Gospel.” Just after the even ing services there will be a ’ monthly conference. Sunday ! school at 111 A. M., and prayer 1 meeting Thursday evening at 7:30. Stokes Court Monday The criminal term of Stokes court convenes Monday and will last one week. Three mur der cases, two for manslaught er, sixteen assault with deadly weapon and many other cases ! of minor offenses are to be | tried, Mitchell county farmers who l had planted early gardens and otherwise taken advantage of the warm winter weather saw their plants all go wrong when temperatures of from 20 to 4 i degrees prevailed during the | recent cold snap. Milk-For- Health Campaign Not Over Continues In Schools; State And Counties Offer Prizes In Milk Contests The State Board of Health calls attention to the fact that the Milk-for-Health Campaign is riot over; that while the of ficial week, March 14-20, is now a matter of history, the cam paign is being continued in the schools and will not close until April 25th. That is the date set for finishing up the contests now being conducted in the schools in writing essays arid rhymes and working posters, all on the subject of milk. The board calls further at tention to the six silver cups of fered by Governor Gardner, Dr. J. M. Parrott, Dr. A. T. Allen and Dr. E, C. Brooks which are to be won within the next three or four weeks. Gov ernor Gardner's cups are to be awarded, one to the graded school pupil and the other to a high school pupil writing the best essay on milk as a health food. Dr. Parrott’s cups are to go to the graded school boy or girl and the high school boy or girl making the best poster portray ing the value of milk as an es sential health food; arid Dr. Allen’s and Dr. Brooks’ cups are to go, one to the graded school pupil and the other to the high school pupil who coin poses the most forceful and “catchy” rhyme on the sub ject of milk. In addition to the above state prizes more than $1,000 worth of other prizes are being offer ed by the respective counties. Almost everything from calves to wrist watches, and from hair cuts to ice cream freezers have been offered as an incen tive to know more aboiit the food and health values contain ed in milk and to increase its use. According to the rules gov erning the contests, it has been pointed out, that all entries in any one of the three must be submitted first to the county campaign committee for the pur pose of selecting the five best which will be entered in the state contost.-Entries that have been received at the State Board of Health have been re turned to the authors in order that they may be entered in the proper county committee. Boards Of Election Have Been Appointed The State Board of Elections has appointed, for Rockingham county, the following: John W. Irving, Wentworth; Robert P. Mitchell, Reidsville; Ellis Mc Cargo, R. E. D. Reidsville. Caswell—Walter E. William son, A. C. Lindsey, Yanceyville; David W. Wright. R F. D., Ruffin Guilford—George C. Hamp ton, Jr., J. M. Millikan, Greens boro; D. C. McRae, High Point. Stokes—C. E. Davis, Walnut Cove; S. P. Christian, Danbury; C. C. McGee, Germanton. Another Charge Younce and Brinkley,who fig ured in the killing of Sheriff Leonard of Lexington in Feb ruary and who are novy being tried for manslaughter, will have to face another charge when they get through with the present trial—that of perjury. It will be recalled that at the first inquest held over the dead body of- Leonard these two men swore that they did not know anything about the shooting and that the boys who had giv en Leonard, Younce and Brink ley a lift, were held Oh the cha^gg of jqurder. At a second inquest Younce and Brinkley changed their testimony and ad mitted Leonard came to his death while Younce \vaa trying to get a revolver away from Leonard, after the latter had shot one of the boys. Mrs. Smith Passes Mrs. Mary Lou Smith, 67, died at her home in this place Sunday about noon after an ill ness covering many months. She had been a resident of Mad ison for many years and was a considerate, kindhearted wo man, being a consistent mem ber of the Methodist Church. Tile funeral services were con ducted from the home Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 by her pas tor, Rev. E. E. Williamson, as sisted by Rev. 0, E, Ward, a large pumber of sorrowing friends being present. The in terment followed in. Riverview cemetery, She leaves two daugh ters, Mrs. Charlie Homey of Greensboro and Miss Ivie Smith of Madison, besides several grandchildren, to mourn their loss. About 750 rural boys and girl? of Catawba county have joined the 4-H clubs organized in the county this spring. Chicago, Convention Champion of 1932 Chicago Stadium in which the Democratic National Convention will be held Inset—Melvin A. Traylor, member of the Clvie Committee which obtained tin Convention for Chicago CHICAGO has jumped into a long lead over other cities in the race for winning convention assignments. Getting the two great assemblages of Democrats and Republicans in June puts Chicago well in the lead and gives the “Windy City" an opportu nity to stage these colorful affairs as a curtain raiser to the “Century of Progress" which will be a headline at traction in 1933. Already the conven tion pot is boiling merrily as com mittees of prominent business men are organizing to receive thousands of visitors in Chicago during June. One of the leaders who has helped to bring the blue ribbon convention assignments to Chicago is Melvin A. Traylor, president of the First Na tional Bank and a business man with k ilair for tackling big jobs. Mr. Tray lor, a native of Kentucky, has achieved national and international ^<9(:4e3icaic4e3ie 4<4e9|C3K * MAYODAN * *********** Mrs. W. M, Powell of Dan ville and G, M. Suttenfieid of Leaksville spent Tuesday with Mrs. Paul Barrow. Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Benton of Winston-Salem spent a few days with Mrs. P. R. Vaden. Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Durban) and daughter, Mts: Nellie ton, and sons of Greensboro spent the week end with Mrs. J. V. Highfill. Clarence Poole of Roanoke spent the week end in town, Mrs. McKinley of ReidsviUe visited Mrs, Art Tucker last week. Mrs. J. D. Barrow visited friends in Leaksville Sunday. Miss Eva Woodruff of Roan oke spent the week end with Miss Louise Roberta. Mr. and M^s. Glenn Simpson of Leaksville spent Sunday in town with Mrs. T. H- Price. T. W. Lehman of Charlotte spent Sunday in town. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Price visited in Reidsville Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Paschal and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Wheeler of High Point spent Sunday with Mrs. R. E. Mansfield. Mr. and Mrs. P. T. Rdatt) of Martinsville visited relatives Sunday, Mr. and Mrs, E. F. Tulloch of Winston-Salem spent Satur day evening with Mrs. J. C. Johnson. Mr. and Mrs Gjd South of Leaksville spent the week end in town. Mr. and Mrs. Perry Ashe, and daughter spent the \veej) end at Charlotte, Mr, and Mrsi Troy Shrop shire and children of Winston Salem spent Sunday with rela tives. Mr. and Mrs. Hunt Smith and daughters spent the \veek end with relative^, Mr, and Ml'S. Fletcher Dug gins of Leaksville spent Satur day in town. Mr. and Mrs. John giapp nf Roanoke visited friends in town for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Tot Gilbert and daughter, Louise, Mrs. Thomas Heath and Miss Vinnie Cox of MartinsviRe spent Sunday with Mrs. N\ A. Gilbert. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Whitten of Fieldale spent the week end in town. Misses Beulah Whrtbeck and Dura Jones of Meredith Col lege spent the Easter holidays at their homes, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Gray of High Point spent the week end with Mrs. R. E. Mansfield, John Dempster, Jr., of Char lotte spent the week end in town. Miss Susie Dalton of Greens boro spent the week end with i Miss Maude Joyce. Mrs. C. L. Walters entertain ed a two tables of rook Wednes day evening. Those enjoying Mrs. Walters’ hospitality we*0 Mrs.i M. L. W*bb, Mka. J. L, Fulton, Mrs. Reuben Gann, Mrs. C. H. Myers, Miss Lillian Gillette and Mrs. George Mar tin and Mrs. Troy Shropshire of Madison. Delightful refresh ments were served, Mesdames Morton Grigga and J. C. Johnson beautifully en tertained their bridge club on Tuesday evening at the home of fame in finance and business; by hi." distinguished service in Chicago, Texas and throughout the Middle West. He was one of the -delegation headed by E. N. Hurley and Mayor Cermak of Chicago who went to Washington and clinched their bid for the National Democratic Convention with a fund of $20D.000. Chicago has exceptional facilities, for entertaining both Republican and Democratic conventions within a single month. Already the engineers are at' work with blue prints to ar range the interior of the huge Chi cago Stadium where both convention! will b« held. The assembling of both conven tions promises to be a great spec tacle, for the arena where delegates will be (seated will accommodate be tween *8,000 and 10,000. Circling the arena are 16,000 seats where guest! and visitors may be accommodated, Trojible Ahead For Taxpayers Th givei dela; of taxe: June aplie and sherif and Attorney General has,, as his opinion that the in granting an extension ,e in advertising unpaid from the year 1931 from st to November 1st, only to that particular yepr, c-cording to law, jtfihe of the various coumies A ond ^dvejjtisc< 1 property this year on schedule time—June 1st. Un less the county commissioners step ip and extend the time for paying taxes, and we do not know that they have the power to do this, it means that thous ands and thousands of homes in North Carolina will be ad vertised this year—thousands more than were advertised last year, and this is saying a great deal—for a large majority of home owners cannot pay this tax until another crop is pro duced. It is to be hoped that some way will be found to re lieve the situation. Hurt In Wreck Sunday Mrs, J, M. Jackson, son and daughter, Luther and Miss Lettie, and Kermit Cay ton 'were pretty badly shaken up in an automobile wreck at the intersection of the Greens boro and Stokesdale road, near town. Tfio> were coming in from ^tokesdale and Jess Wil liams was coming in from to ward Greensboro, when the lat ter’s car hit thp r&av end of the Jackson ear, Miss Jackson suf fered a broken rib or two, while Luther’s face was scratch ed. The car, which belonged | to Bennie Newnam, was badly damaged. It seems ^ have j been Williams’ fault, and he | satisfied all parties Tuesday ev- ! ening by paying for the dam age done. J, El wood Cox J. Elwood Cox,' prominent High Point Citizen, died at his home in that place Monday, af ter an illness of several weeks. Mr. Qox was president of the Commercial National Bank and had been for several years— since jt| erganizatoin. He was also a member of the highway commission from this district for a term of ten years, and it was while such that many of our people learned to know and appreciate him. Alamance county farmers continue to plant pastures and legume grazzing crops for their dairy cattle. They have pur chased cooperatively about 15, 000 pounds of lespedeza and 750 ! pounds of red clover seed so far i this season. the latter. The home was beau-! tiful with Easter flowers. At j the end of the sixth progression Miss Julia Mulligan held high score and Perry Ashe second. 1 A delicious salad course wa3 served to members of the club and the following visitors: Dr. and Mrs. Keenan Casteen of Leajcsville, Mias Julia Mulligan of Stoneville, Miss Eunice Bar ham of Leaksville, Mrs. Reuben Gann, Mrs. 0. M. Whitbeck and Aaron Turner. *********** * STONEVILLE * *********** Bill Stone, W. and L. student, Lexington, Va., spent the East er holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Stone. C. P. Robertson was a visitor in Greensboro Wednesday. Air. and Mrs. Merlin Fagg and daughter, Jane, spent the week end with the former’s parents. Miss Mary Nolen spent the week end with her parents, Air. and Mrs. C. K. Nolen. Miss Anna Macon Ward of Farmville spent the Easter hol idays with her aunt. Miss Anna Lee Price. Mrs. T. J. Glenn and Mrs. Joe Scales visited their sister. Mrs. George Price, in Lyneh • burk Wednesday. ■Mrs. T. L. Smith visited her sister, Mrs. Maude Dicks Fri day afternoon, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Robert son, Mr. and Airs. J. AI. Vernon, Airs. E. W. King and Miss Dor othy Robertson attended a birth day dinner in Aladison Friday given by Airs. Sam Robertson. Airs. Remit Martin, was a vis itor here Friday. Edward Smith, Sam Vernon and Aliss Evelyn Vernon spent the Easter holidays in Ashe ville. Misses Pauline, Elinor and Grace Grogan spent the Easter holidays with their parents, Air. and Airs. J. R. Grogan. Mr. and Airs. Tuttle and their daughters, Alisses Myrtle, Hel en and Ann Tuttle of Walnut Cove were visitors here Sun day. Mrs. Nannie AIcAnallv of Richmond visited Mrs. Maude Dicks last Friday. Airs. Bettie Wall spent a few ’ days here last week. Garland Daniels, Misses Dor othy Miller and Alargie Fuller were guests of Mrs. J. AI. Thrasher Sunday. .Miss Lucy Hundley of Lynch burg visited her Sister here Monday. Miss May McCabe of Nettle Ridge was the guest of Mrs. R. B. Price recently. Alisses Helen Bryan and Sa rah Carter, Thomas Williams j and Sam Fuller of Whiteville i were visitors to relatives Mon day. ** 1 V ’ - •*> ■ ] Mrs. Noah Hall and Miss i Florence King gave their Sun day school class an Easter egg hunt on the lawn of Aliss King’s home Alonday afternoon. STORM KILLS SIX HEIFERS Strong wind of cyclonic pro portions passed over Mocksville and vicinity Sunday night about 8:15 o’c lock, doing minor damage in town, but when the gale struck the plantation of Tom Morrow, his 70-foot dairy barn was lifted from its found ation and smashed on the earth, killing six head of Jersey yearl ing heifers and badly injuring two others. Oats and feed stuif were scattered a half mile.The storm struck from the south and caught up the big barn, lifted it over twenty head of I Jersey milk cows and fell on a I pen of sixteen young cattle, ten of which were rescued after i the storm had passed on. Twelve large pine trees near the barn were twisted off and j blown some distance. Other houses in the environs of the | community were unroofed and I blown down. Mr, Morrow lives' | eight miles north of Mocksville j and is one of Iredell’s best j farmers. Flour For The Needy Is Coming The local Red Cross commit tee—W, S. Byerly, J. O. Rags dale, Jr., J. Siewers Wall and T. J. Robertson—met last af ternoon and discussed the best method for distributing the flour to the needy in five town ships, Madison, Price, Mayo, Huntsville an,d New Bethel. There will be 42,000 pounds in the shipment and it will come in 50-pound bags. The instruc tions from headquarters are that as much care should be displayed in distributing this flour as in distributing motley. It is estimated that it will take 25 pounds of flour per week for the average family of five, in needy cases, and the distribu tion will be based on this amount. At present it is esti mated that the coming ship ment will last ninety days, and then it is hoped that another shipment will be secured. The various chairmen in these town ships are urged to use discre tion in the distribution and to see that all needy persons get their proportion—in some fam ilies it will take more than in others, from the fact that some have corn meal to augment the flour, while in others there is no bread material at all. The needy are many and should be served to the best ability pos sible. Read The MeuNOger ada. List of New Taxes Adopted in House STOKESDALE * ' ?}: sjc ^ sfc ^ M iss. Mary Hemv McC'rorie is improving, after a short iil . ness with tiu. Victor Jefferys and Tommy Sizemore of Oak Ridge were v i si tors i n town S u n day n ight. Miss Bertie Rowland spent the Easter holidays with Miss Aiafy Vaughn at her home in Virginia. Mrs. J, S. Knight and chil dren spent Sunday ii. Siler City with Mrs. Knightrs mother. Mr. and Airs. W. P. Powell and little son, Billy Payne, and Air. and Mrs. A. ii. AIcCrorie motored to Greensboro .Mon day. ■ Airs. W. A. Neal and chil dren spent several days with D, P. Lemons recently. Mrs. Clara Gant Carlton and small son of Greensboro spent Sunday with her grandmother, Airs. Martha .1. Gant. ' Air. and Airs. Sample Angle of Winston-Salem visited Mr. . and Airs. Bill Goode Sunday. A number of people from here attended the Easter ser vices at Winston-Salem. Raymond Lemons of Salis bury and Harris Powell of Win ston-Salem spent Easter at j their homes here. Friends will be pleased to learn that the condition of Bill Sharon is very much improved. Aliss Ruth Edna Vaughn spent the week end at Dunn. Alisses Virginia and Maurine Lemons motored to Walnut i Cove Friday evening. Rev. Lee Turner, Baptist minister of Greenhorn, died at his home after a iong period of j illness. He was buried at Oak Level Church Tuesday after- j noon. The funeral was conduct- j 6d by Rev. J. H. Bowman of i Greensboro. > Mr. and Airs. J. M. Henley of j Salemburg visited in the home ! of Mr. and Airs. S. E. Adcock last week. William Vaughn, Duke Uni- I verity student. Was* in town-1 ; Monday evening. J. A. Powell and daughter, j Hilda, spent Tuesday in Win- | ston-Salem. ' Mr. and Airs. Bill Powell i spent Sunday in Rural Hall. Mr. and Airs. J. S. Young of ] Winston-Salem spent Sunday with Mr. and Airs, W, A. Young, j S. Turner Captured; 40 Gallons And Car Leaksville, March 27—Sheriff i Sheffield, aided by his deputies, ; Davis, . Robertson and Cook. 1 j captured Sam Turner and his helper, one Ecke Belton, on the Leaksville-Reidsville road with forty gallons of old Virginia moonshine ahd in the act of loading ten gallons on to anoth er car. The police officers have been laying their plans for some time to catch Turner, who is known as Rockingham county’s largest wholesale liquor dealer, and their efforts have been reward ed. Turner is one of the old tim ers at the liquor game and was tried and convicted at the last term of the Federal Court by Judge Johnson J Hayes, and | his ease comes up for judgment at the June term of the Federal Court before Judge Haves in Greensboro. ^ . Turner has found out that boasting don’t pay, as he had made his brags that Sheriff Sheffield and all of his depu ties couldn’t catch him. but bootleggers will sometimes get ' caught and when they do they should be dealt with according to their sins, and so Mr. Turner when tried and convicted before Judge R. tV. Walker was fined one hundred and fifty dollars ( and court costs and his car was ordered sold. Dr. Taylor Coming Dr. Wesley Taylor, a neurol ogist of Greensboro, will ad dress the Mavodan P.-T. A. next Mondav evening, April 4th. at 7:30 iii the school auditorium. His subject is“Defective School Children.” Everyone is cordial ly invitefl. Colored Woman Dies Cora Moseley, wife of Char lie Moseley, colored, passed away early Saturday morning, after a lingering illness. Be sides the husband she leaves several children. The remains were laid to rest in the colored cemetery Sunday. Eleven-Pound Boy Born, Tuesday morning, to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph McCollum of the Midway section, a son, weighing 11 pounds. Washington. March 29- The new tax program presented to the House today by the Ways and Means Committee as a sub stitute’for the sales tax, part of ■ Avhbh were adopted, calls for a total of $569.oo(>,000 in new taxes. Of this program, the taxes approved today, with the rev enue they ire estimated to pro duce. are: Three per. cent oh automo biles, two percent mi. trucks, and one per tent on accessories, 857,000,000. : Five per cent <0" caiidv, $1, ooo.ooo. : Ten per cent ,on <■< .emetics. $25,000,000. Ten and one-half per cent on furs, $20,000,000. Ten per cent on jewelry, $15,-' ooo'.ooo. Ten per. .cent oi snorting goods and cameras, $4,000,000.. Four Sents per. thousand on matches. $1 j,(it*0.000: Five per., cent on .chewing. ■ gun.. |S,OOOiOOO. j Five per cent (in ,iadios and phonographs, $11,000,000. Ten. per cent on yachts’ and motorboats. $5.00,000, In addi.i i'.in:-to the excise tax es, the .House also adopted to day administrative changes re lating to deductions for divi dends. They y, ver dividends accrued before 1934 when the income tax law was enacted, arid distribiAed subsequently. Under present law, these divi dends may he deducted from taxable income. Under the pro vision adopted today, they can not. These changes, are design ed to produce $11,0.00,000. The rest of the new program still to be^onsidered follows: Restoration of the higher 1921 rates on beverages of all sorts, including medicinal liq uor, grape' juice and fountain drinks, $11,000,000. Five per cent on mechanical refrigerators, $4,500,000, Surtaxes beginning at 1 per cent on $0,000 instead of $10, 000, as in the bill, $7,000,000. Reduction of corporation-ex-‘ emption i rom -$2,0< >0 tvSf $6,GOT,000. V Administration changes af fecting depletion allowances and net loss deduction. $32,000, 000, One-quarer of. 1 per cent on value of stock transactions, but not less than 4 cents per slurre, $75,000,000. One-eighth per cent on bond transfers, $13,000,000. Ten cents per $100 on capital stock and bond issues, $13,000, 000. Fifty cents on real estate conveyances from $100 to $500, $10,000,000. Five cents per $100 on pro duce on exchanges, $6,000,000. Admission over 45 cents, 1 . cent:for each -30 cents or free- ■ fion, $40.00(1,000. Revision of consolidate in come tax returns provisions, $9, 000,000. Ten per cent on rent of safe ty deposit bn.xgs, $1,000,000, Increase from 2 to 3 cents in first-class postage rates, $135. (100,000, Administrative changes in postal service, $30,000,000. This program, added to other ■ provisions rn the , measure al ready approved, would produce a total of $1,245,000,000 suffici ent to balance the budget by Tulv 1. 1933. according to the Ways and Means Committee estimates. The admission taxes are ’in addition to thg flat 10 per cent tax on all admissions of 25 cents and above as provided in the bill. Under the net loss provisions in the new program, a corpora tion which has losses in any one year which wipe-out its tax liability in that year is pre vented from distributing these .losses over three years, as pro vided under present law. Un der the new provision, these losses canont be carried over. The program also contem plates a 10 per cent reduction in appropriations, which would save $243,000,000. More Slobberers New York, March 29—Young women from four leading East ern colleges will go to Wash ington tomorrow to ask individ ual congressmen to intercede for several negro youths under death sentence in Scottsboro, Ala., for alleged assault on two white girls. The students are from Vas sar, Smith, Wellseley and Barn ard colleges and expect to be joined by representatives of Goucher College^ in Baltimore; Swarthmore College, Pennsyl vania, and the University of North Carolina. A map holder that is illum inated by an electric lamp has been invented for automobiles by an Iowa man.
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