Evening Star Newspaper, July 17, 1932, Page 16

B—4 SPENDING RECORD 1S BROKEN IN STATE Legislature, Guided by Huey Long, Defeats All Economy Measures. @pecial Dispatch to The Star. NEW ORLEANS, July 16 (NAN.A). —Louisiana’s citizens, especially taxpay- ers, are beginning to survey conditions in the State and to anticipate effects of the 1932 session of the Legislature, which has just ended. Administration majorities in both Houses of the General Assembly, fol- Jowing the urging of United States Sen- ator Huey P. Long, voted new taxes, passed the largest appropriations bill in the history of the State, killed all meas- ures designed to reduce the cost of gov- ernment, defeated all bills intended to decrease salaries of public jobholders, and thrust aside measures drafted to Telieve the taxation burden of owners of real estate and automobiles. The new taxes imposed by the Legis- lature are on tobacco, soft drinks, elec- tricity, insurance premiums, corporation franchises and chain stores. $5,000,000 More Spent. Appropriations made out of the State’s general fund for the next two years exceed by more than $5,000,000 appropriations made out of the same fund for similar purposes in the past two years. - Among t- e specific things the Legisla- ture did in addition to imposing new taxes and making the largest appro- priations in the history of Louisiana are: Killed a proposed constitutional amendment to put the State depart- ments, boards, institutions and com- missions on a budget system. Killed a proposed _constitutional amendment to put all State employes under civil service Killed a bill prohibiting the receiving of undated resignations by the Gov- ernor or any otker State official. Killed a bill making it possible to prosecute election crooks. Killed a bill to curb promiscuous bor- rowing by the State Board of Liquida- tion. Killed Tax Relief Bills, Killed four constitutional amend- ments designed to give relief to prop- erty taxpayers. Killed a constitutional amendment to abolish the property tax on automobiles. Killed a constitutional amendment and enabling act designed to reduce the minimum license on automobiles from $15 to 85. Passed_a bill authorizing the Com- mission Council of the City of New Or- leans to levy a 10 per cent amus:ment tax. Passed & bill giving Mayor Walmsley control of the New Orleans Police De- partment beyond the expiration of his term of office. Passed a bill aimed at the insurance business of Dudley J. Le Blanc, mem- ber of the Louisiana Public Service Commission and unsuccessful candidate for Governor in the last State election. Cut Salaries of Foes. Passed a bill authorizing the Com- mission Council of New Orleans to re- duce by 12!, per cent the salaries of deputies and clerks in the office of Criminal Sheriff George Willlams of Orleans Parish, who broke with the old regular organization and supported Le Blanc for Governor. Killed resolutions designed to compel heads of State departments, institutions, boards and commissions to produce their records, to show their receipts and expenditures during the past two years, with lists of employes and the salaries paid them. Killed a constitutional amendment proposing to abolish the existing High- way Commission of three members and to substitute one highway commissioner at a salary of $5,000 a year, and con- taining the provision that no employe of the highway department be paid more than $5,000 & year, Senator Long spent a greater part of the G0-day session in Baton Rouge. He participated in the drafting of the tax measures and the general appropria- tions bill, and handled the compromises THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, DI G JULY AT, 1932—PART * ONE: PRISONER OWN KEEPER |REYNOLDS’ WIDOW KEEPS SECLUSION Interview Refused as Former Torch Singer Plans Trip to New York Jail Is Not Locked Dur- ing Night Hours. A jall in which the lone prisoner is | cook and keeper—that's the Hamilton County, N. Y., institution built in 1839. | “The jail s not locked at night be- | cause it is a fire trap. When Depart- ment of Correction inspectors arrived, the inmate was in charge because the | deputy was away. Mountains. By the Associated Press. richest countries agriculturally. N. C, home two weeks ago. The widow of Smith Reynolds, heir to tobecco millions, remained at the gar- dened home of her sister, Mrs. Myrcn Kahn, at suburban Wycming, Ohio. Neither Summer heat nor the cool shade of rich follage could entice her from the house. There were unconfirmed re- ports she planned to go to a mountain cottage. Members of her family maintained, as Libby has, that Reynclds died by his CINCINNATI, July 16.—Seclusion en- | own hand. Czechoslovakia is one of Europe's |forced by a zealous family continued to | | surround Libby Holman today as she | father, Alfred Holman, said. “It cannot | passed out of existence. grieved for her youthful husband, shot | be permitted now or any time. She and killed at their Winston-Salem, |Dever wants to talk about this great sorrow for the public prints again.” HAVE NO COUNTRY 'JAMES S. ALEXANDER, FINANCIER, SUCCUMBS Couple and Children Lost Nation. Former Chairman of Guaranty | ality in 1925. ‘ Arman Varhatian, his wife and their two children, living in Detroit, consti- tute a family without a country. While in the United States o & visit “Libby will not be interviewed,” her | in 1925, their native country, Armenia, Alexander, | Board of the Guaranty Trust Co., died Trust Held Many Important Directorates. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July former chairman of 16.—James S. the Park avenue. He was 67. He retired as chairman of the Guar- | anty Trust on January 1, 1930, but con- tinued to hold many important di- rectorates. Funeral arrangements have not been made. He was chairman of the Executive Committee of the Prudential Life In- surance Co. and & member of the Execu- tive Committees of the Southern Pacific Telegraph Co. He i3 survived by his widow, one son, | james 8. Alexander, jr., of Scarsdal N. Y, and a daughter, Mrs. Emm: Alexander Sheafer of New York. Railrcad and American Telephone & | ——————————— of heart disease today at his home on MOTHERS AT CAMP, Only two of the mothers in the group of 157 campers at Camp Pleasant, Blue | Plains, D. C., which is operated by the | Associated Charities, have ever been to a camp before, Mrs. Mary Ellen | Whitlock, supervisor of the seventh dis- trict, reported yesterday. ‘The mothers and children now vaca- tioning at Camp Pleasant and Camp Good Will in Rock Creek Park number | about 300. 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