Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 5, Decatur, Adams County, 6 January 1938 — Page 6

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TAXPAYMENTS SHOW INCREASE Gross Income Tax Payments Show Sizeable Increase Indianapolis, January 6—(UP)— Grose income tax payments for the third quarter ot 1937 show a total Increase of nearly $900,000 over the collections In the corresponding period in 1936; also the numbe- of returns filed for the same period in- I creased more than 7,000 it was announced today by Clarence A. Jackson, Director of the gross income tax division. This Increase in collections and the number of returns filed was attributed to substantial business gains over last year and to increased incomes necessitating ‘.he filing

Public Auction SATURDAY, .January 8 - 2:00 P. M. YAGER BUILDING Household Goods, Furniture, Dishes. Rugs, Radio, Garden Tools and many other articles too numerous to mention. In addition to this we will have the regular auction sale consisting of all kinds of merchandise. Free Prizes. Plenty of entertainment. Sale Every Evening at 7:30 p. m. Conducted by Students of Reppert School of Auction The Treat Everyone Enjoys a refreshing glass of your favorite BOTTLE BEER I Stock up today for over the week-end. Your dealer has your favorite brand and will be glad to make delivery anytime you wish. ORDER TODAY Curtain Sale 100 pair RUFFLED CURTAINS at January Clearance Price ■M 84c Pair pL 0 w. Full length Ruffled Curtains IW" “T" “jf with tie-backs. 2' t to 2 l / 2 yards ' I /JL. i° n S‘> Full width. Colors are pastel shades of blue, green, orchid, peach and rose; white IjL'aa/ 7 with colored dots. Also Cottage Sets in green, red, blue, gold and black, and white combinations. Washable Window Shades Perfect Quality Fibre Window Shades mounted on sturdy rollers. Tan or Green colors. Sizes- > * S 36 in. x 6 ft. Mm ’’ML—.... 45c * 1 Niblick & Co I All sales final in our January Sale now going on.

of quarterly returns by those whoso tax previously amounted to less I than SIO,OOO per quarter. "All news today la not bad, notwithstanding the fact that we have experienced a business recession," Mr. Jackson opined. "Gross income | tax, being principally u tax on the volume ot business done, furnishes u fairly accurate barometer of business conditions. This increase In gross income tax payments and In the number of returns filed is enlightening when considered with re--1 cent business recession news." JAPS FURTHER (CONTINUED fleet, left for .Manila today. Admiral Yarnell transferred his flag to the navy patrol vessel Isabel and made the gunboat Sacramento the station ship. Japanese continued marching slowly through Shanting province, north of the Shanghai area, toward Tsingtao on the coast. Eight Am-

, | erlcane at Plngtu refused to leave i there despite efforts of American consul Samuel Sokobln to persuade them to Join other Americans at . Tsingtao, ready to exaciiate if nee- ' essary. , I Advices to foreign military ex- • Iports today were that the situation 1 In Shangtung province was as fol- - ■ lows: 1 The Japanese sought to occupy 1 the entire railroad line from Tien- ■ tain in the north to Nanking on the . ■ Yangtze. They had one column, 1 marching northward, a little north 1 of Nanking. A second one, marching ' southward, was SO miles north of Hsuchow. There was a gap of about I 240 miles between the northern and southern columns. At the same time , the third column had struck south-1 eastward from the railroad and had ' reached a point somewhat less than 1 150 miles west ot Osingtao, This third column was marching on Tsingtao. It was the work of the other two, by dosing the gap on j the railroad, to cut off the entire | area to the east and trap anv Chin-| ese soldiers left in that area. MOTOR COMPANY (CONTINUED EnnM. said that re-employment of the men would help restore confidence and Improve business and therefore there would be something for the men to do. "Do you think putting 30,000 men back to work would dispel fear?” Knudsen asked. "I can't say myself whether It would." Sen. Bennett C. Clark, D., Mo., asked how soon after sales dropped the company started to lay off men. Knudsen said that at the end of October they had 221.000 men at work. They carried 216.000 to Dec. 4 and then reduced by 22,000 before Christmas. Additional layoffs came after Christmas. “We didn’t lay the men off to get business bad,” Knudsen said. "It was just the reverse." Clark emphasized that Knudsen attributed the recession to psychological fear of an undetermined origin but Knudsen insisted it was not fair to argue that the General Motors layoff helped cause it. o LIBERALS HAIL (CONTINUKDFROM - ONE’ they once were scored. “It seems to me that this is the definite end of an epoch,” Sen. Sherman Minton, D.. Ind., said today of Sutherland's retirement. “The future will see a definite extension of the power of the federal government to protect the people. It will be less difficult to make a democracy work ” Minton's words seemed to reflect the spirit of new dealers who battled in vain for Mr. Roosevelt's judiciary reorganization bill. All j now left of that bill is the shadow t casts across the new deal-Demo-cratic party which divided bitterly and possibly permanently on issues it raised. Senators were confident that Mr. Roosevelt's next supreme court nominee would be amply examined by a senate committee before confirmation to avoid the recent embarrassment and second guessing which accompanied discovery that the newly confirmed and sworn j associate Justice Hugo L. Black had been a member of the ku klux klan in Alabama. Geographical and political considerations suggest that Mr. Roosevelt will name a western new dealI, er to the court, but there is no 1 absolutely compelling reason why he must go west for a man merely because Sutherland was from Utah. | Senate gossip favors solicitor general Stanley Reed. The new "Roosevelt court" probably would uphold legislation to forbid child labor, in the opinion ot new deal lawyers in congress. Appointment of a “Roosevelt justice” to succeed Sutherland will put a great and needed prop under the forthcoming new deal crop control bill which congress may finally enact this month. The old agricultural adjustment act was invalidated in January, 1936, by a 6 to 3 vote in which the majority supported Associate Justice Owen J. Roberts’ opinion that the act provided for compulsory regulation of agricultural products, that such regulation was not within the scope of federal power; and that the act therefore invaded the rights reserved to the states by the 10th amendment to the constitution. That adverse 6-to-3 majority is gone now. or will be when Sutherland leaves the bench Jan. 18. He and former Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter were two of the six. Van Devanter was succeeded by Black, who believes the AAA was constitutional. Mr. Rooesvelt undoubtedly will pick a like-mind-ed man to succeed Sutherland, and the court lineup on that issue then will be five for the new deal act and a maximum of four against. Moreover, changes in court personnel may put a firmer floor under Mr. Roosevelt’s wage and hour bill, intended to provide minimum pay and maximum working hours for workers. It may be assumed, too, that Mr. Roosevelt’s belief that national emergency serves in away to enlarge federal powers under a flexible constitution may be bolstered by additional “Roosevelt justices” to the supreme court. There ■ is not much support for that the-

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ory among non Roosevelt appointees to the high bench. Mr. Roosevelt stated his flexible constltu tlon theory In his first Inaugural address. It was a factor in the Schechter case arguments over constitutionality of NRA ami the court voided NRA unanimously. The new court probably will pass on two more major cases this year und it is assumed that Mr. Roosevelt will hurry his new nomination ito the senate to obtain the advantages of another favorable vote. ; Also pending, although decision 1 may be delayed until next term, I is a case involving the method of I assessing electrical power utility valuations for purposes of determj Ining rates —on the theory that ' rates should provide a fair return !on capital invested. And it is not- ! able that with changes now in progress in personnel of the court, there probably Is an anti-utility majority in the making. The first major utility decision 'was in 1898. Smyth vs. Ames, when 1 the court laid down the rule that | valuations should be based upon I reproduction cost of the plant and Its facilities. Mr. Roosevelt and others directly challenge that reproduction cost theory. They argue that valuation should be based on a determination of prudent investment so that if a; plant or property has been built up

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by imprudent purchases or unecon'ornlc practises ih.> consumers shall not pay high rates to maintain a fair return on that unnecessarily high capitalisation. But since 1898 the court has stood by Its reproduction cosl theory. reaffirming it when necessary. Mr. Roosevelt will be looking for a man who leans heavily toward I I the prudent investment theory of | utilities valuationUp for decision this term are; the Electro Bond and Share eotn-i puny's test of registration and penalty provisions of the utility hold-1 Ing company act, and a < use involving the Tennessee Valley auth-l ority. The government lias asked j that the holding company cut be j argued us soon us possible, prefer-; übly early next month. That case i may be a factor persuading Mr. , Roosevelt to nominate Sutherland’s successor quite soon. ♦ I Adams County Memorial Hospital J Admitted Thursday morning: . Mrs. Samuel Shamp, 427 Mercer | Avenue; Mrs. Fred H. Konnemann, rote 2. Decatur. Dismissed this morning. Smith Runyon, Geneva. Trade In A lown — UroiWr

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