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The Washington times., 1931-06-03
NEWS VIEWS AND GOSSIP OF SOCIETY IN THE NATIONAL CT
Sally Thatcher and
Alison O'Bri1n Will
Receive DiDLOn1GS

The Department Of Justice is
boasting of two sweet girl
graduates" at Smith College
this June.
sally" Thatcher, daughter
Of the Assistant Attoney Gen.
eral and Mrs. Thomas D.
Thatcher, and Alison O'Brian.
also knowl to her chums as,
Sally" daughter of the AS
sistant Attorney General and
Mrs. John Lord O'Brian, will
both receive their sheepskins
at the Northampton (Mass0
college next week.
Both the Thatchers and the
O'Briens are planning to go TO
Northampton to attend the
graduating exercises.
Will Sail on Saturday
ViScounte Chauncey-Depew de
Breson and ViscounteSs de Bres-
son, Of Paris, France, are at the
Carlton for a few days as the
guests of Miss Annie M. Hege-
man. ViScount and Viscountess
de BreSSon will sail for France
on June 6.
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Cubans Stop Here
Mr.. and Mrs. H. L. Machado,
of Cuba, are guests at the
Mayflower on their way to
New York. They are accom-.
panied by Miss Maria Machado,
Jose Machado, r. E. Machado,
G. j. Machado, Leo Melhado
and Daniel Dever.
At Wardman Park
Mr.. and Mrs. B. D. Phillips,
of Butler, Pa, with their two
children are at Wardman Park
Hotel for several days. They
were accompanied by Mr.. Char
les E. Redding, of Butler, and
Mr.. James c. Drinard, of Rich
mond, who will remain with
them for the duration Of their
stay.
The Washington times., 1931-06-03
BetrOthal Is
Announced
in Poland

Word has been received in
Washington of the engagement
of Stanislaw Lepkowski, former
counselor of the Polish EN-
bassy, now Polish minister to
Budapest, Hungary, to Miss
Sophie Szmidecka, former so
cial secretary to Nine. Fill
powicz, wife Of the Ambassador
of Poland. The engagement is
announced today by Nine.
Szmidecka, mother of the bride
elect.
Miss Szmidecka comes of one
of Poland's most prominent
families, her father having
been outstanding in oil indus.
tries in Caucasus.
Mr.. LepkowSki was one Of
the most popular bachelors in
: the diplomatic corps in Wash.
. ington and has a host OF
friends not only in the corps,
but in residential circles OF the
Capital. The marriage Of Miss
Szmidecka and Mr.. Lepkowski
will take place in Poland, no
date having been set for the
wedding.
Miss Combs to Wed
The marriage of Miss Sarah
Christine Combs, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Theodore
Combs, of Drayton, st. Marys
county, Md, to Garyton Col
ward Echols, son of Mrs. Will
lam V. Chambers of Washing
ton, will take place today at st.
PauPs Catholic Church.
The bride is a graduate OF
st. Mary's Seminary in st.
Mary's City and later attended
George Washington University
here.
Bride Is Guest
Miss Margaret West, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. William
Henry West, whose marriage to
John Homer Chase, son of Mrs.
William H. Rapley, will take
place on Saturday, was the
guest of honor at a luncheon
and bridge party given today
by Mrs. Rapley at the Shore
ham Hotel. There were "A
guests.
Luncheon for Niece
Mrs. Elizabeth Northrop en-
tertained a company at hlr1-
cheon at the Shoreham yeSter-
day in compliment to her nelce.
Mrs. Dwight Smythe, Of New
York, and Mrs. Henry SEEK, also
of New York. The guests in
cluded Mrs. Paris Brengle, Mrs.
E. Richard GaSch, Mrs. H. r..
Fulton, Mrs. D. Lee Smythe,
Mrs. c. F. Rockwell, Miss Edith
Osborn, Mrs. C. H. Fiske and
Mrs. William N. Sleet.
Mr.. ana MRS. blancndrO VIII
son, of Cleveland; Mr.. and Mrs.
George Hutchinson, of Troy,
and Mr.. and Mrs. H. Earl
Hoover, Of Chicago, who are
here for several days, are stay
ing at Wardman Park Hotel.
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Tronsfarrod Here
Col. and Mrs. Clyde Leslie
Eastman are now at the Shore
ham Hotel, where they have
taken an apartment for the sea-
son. Colonel Eastman has been
transferred from New York to
a Signal Corps post in Wash
ington.
Mrs. Schofield Grace, Of Lo-
Gust Valley, Long Island, who
has come to Washington for a
short visit, is staying at Ward
man Park Hotel. She is accom-
panied by Miss Frances r. Wor-
raj, also of Long Island.
X 4
Miss Adela Beebe. of Milwau-
kee, with Miss Mary Douglas, is
spending about q week at Ward
mon park Hotel
The Washington times., 1931-06-03

Miss Eta LeedBeautician from Frances Denneys Salon
is Here to Advise You in the Care of Your Complexion
Hear Miss Leeds Radio Talk Over WRC Friday, 10 A. M.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-15
Another Beer Is
 Killed By Law
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 when he appeared in court. A plea of guilty was entered to the charges of conspiracy to violate the national prohibition act. "Neeco" was described in the gov- ernment's complaint as "as a powerful and efficacious ingredient in beer."
 The cases of the three alleged manufacturers have been pending for months. They were the opera tors of the New England Brewing company at 501 Windsor street, Hartford, where "Neeco" was ex- necticut. Various chemical tests were made of the product: It was mixed with water and after sev- eral days development" was con- sidered a splendid substitute for the beer of by-gone days.
 Two attempts were made in Wa terbur-. to establish agencies, but owing to the governments crusade against the original promoters of the Idea the venture was side- tracked here. "Neeco" was one of the first substitutes offered to per- sons who joined the "home brew CTS" brigade. Several other con- coctions have since made their ap- pearance on the market. Water bury has one or two plants now producing a substitute. Federal agents have taken samples and ap- parently have found nothing to worry about or to deluge Washing ton with queries as to the course of procedure.
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Plans were made last evening at a meeting in Elks' hall for testi- monial dinner in honor of Com- missioner Frank J. Brickel, who is about to join the ranks of the benedicts. The bachelor event will be held in the Brooklyn Athletic club on January 23rd. Various committees were named last even- ing to perfect arrangements. Wal ter Flynn was named chairman of the general committee.
 The committee includes prom inent city and state officials and members of both the board of fire and police commissioners.
 Reception committee include Robert, Birt, Daniel Mahaney, Arthur J. Lunny, Charles Ahearn, Attorney Martin Parker, John Gra- ham, William H. Dunlayey, Lieu tenant James Mulville, George Mulligan, Senator Joseph H. Law Tor, Dr F. T. Keeley, Dennis Clancy Michael O'Connell, Joseph Mulville. Peter Shea, Alderman Charles Schnitman, Former Mayor William H. Sandland, John Chick" Kelly. John A. Cluney, Thomas Long, Lieutenant William Pollard, Deputy Sheriff Benjamin Brady, Commis- sioner Fred Hungerford, Daniel T. Harrington, Edward Curley, Mur- ray Carter, Lou .S0mmers, Joseph Phelan, Thomas Fleming, William T. Harrington, John Fitzmaurice, Daniel Bofes, Edward Cass, Fred Chesson, Neil Maloney, Attorney Vincent Scully, Mark Tierney, Commissioner Harry w. Minor, Att torney Fred Bauby, Clifford Me- Hale, E. Christy Erik, John Ham,
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Ambulance Tagged
 While Passing
 Scene Of Accident
Responding to Bank Hotel Call Where Walter Pier- pont, Business Man, Suffers Fracture, Driver Halted and Asked to Convey Cornelius Griffin to Hospital Suffers Head Injuries When Hit By Steam Shovel

to his rescue. When it was found that he suffered painful injury to his ankle he was ordered re- moved to the hospital.
 The ambulance was dispatched for him shortly after II o'clock. As the machine swung into Cot take place and Grand street there was considerable excitement among workmen and spectators over MT Griffin's accident. He was knocked unconscious by a blow on the head. The driver of the ambulance was asked to rush him to the hospital Within less than five minutes af- ter the mishap MT Griffin was on his way to St Mary's. He was attended at the hospital by Dr Ed ward H. Kirschbaum. The doctor found painful decorations, but no evidence of fracture. MT Grif- fin is expected. to be discharged within a few days.
 The police received a word that a cable had snapped as the gang of workmen were attempting to pull down the front wall of the old building.
 MT DeBisschop, however, stated that MT Griffin was struck on the head by the bucket of the steam shovel. The long arm of the shovel swung around as Mi Griffin was passing near the mon- ster machine and clipped him on the head. Mir Griffin suffered from the loss of blood before giv- en medical attention, but his con- dition this afternoon was regarded as favorable.
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der this leadership the ship will safely reach port.''
 Increasing sentiment among some committee members to sup port a prohibition referendum measure developed after Earle s. Kinsley of Vermont urged that the republicans take a definite stand on the dry issue.
 Kinsley last night reported that young people were demanding a change in the prohibition laws and that no mere law enforcement plank would satisfy them. Maurice .Maschke, Ohio, and Clarence c. Hamlin, Colorado, supported this view, but no action was sought. Chairman Fess to-day refused to discuss the incident, holding that the question more properly was one for the convention platform committee to consider.
 T think sentiment is changing, and we will have to meet it," Kinsley said to-day. That is what I told the executive committee meeting. I was just expressing my own view.
 "The congressional elections in- dicated some folks want it a little different. I know I do and have always been a dry.
 "When the convention meets the delegates are going to have some very definite views on this subject. In Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut there is distinctive wet sentiment. It may not be en- tirely wet but 1t is at least dis satisfied with existing conditions"
 Kinsley said he was for renofni- nation of MT Hoover first, last and always" He said he did not know if MT Hoover was wet or dry.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-15
Democrats Are
 Preparing Plans
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 The meetings are being held in the
 office of Speaker Garner. Demo- cratic floor leader Robinson will
 head the senatorial delegation.
 The democratic chieftains are thoroughly cognizant of the re- sponsibility that control of the house and near-control of the sen- ate has thrust upon them.
 Meanwhile, President Hoover's s foreign debt moratorium was being studied by the ways and means committee preparatory to it's con- sideration by the house itself, probably Thursday.
 Undersecretary of the Treasury, Mills, who had a part in originat- ing 1t, was called as first witness to discuss the bill of ratification in- troduced yesterday by Chairman Collier.
 Though still to be approved by congress, the moratorium became effective today by an administra- tion act of grace. A total of $124,- S0O,00O due today from foreign debtors was waived, informally, pending congressional action. This. it now appears, will not occur finally until after Christmas. Ad- ministration leaders predict its ap- proval.
 Collier will push the bill through the house, end expects final action Saturday night. It is the senate where the delay will occur. Chair man Shoot of the finance commit tee said today the senate will take up the bill next Wednesday. Shoot has called his committee together to consider the bill and to prepare for the investigation into private foreign loans abroad, au- thorized by the senate in adopting a resolution by Senator Johnson, reyn., Calf. Senate business is beginning to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-15

Sent in response to an emergency
 call from the Bank hotel the am ! bulauce in service at St Mary's
 hospital was passing the site of
 the old postoffice building this
 morning when 1t was stopped for
 an unexpected patient. Cornelius Griffin, 55, of St Margarets ave. nue. a workman in the employ of Charles DeBisschop and first vic- time of the work of raging the old federal building, was the pick up'' passenger. He was removed to the hospital suffering from in- juries about the head. He is not , believed to be seriously hurt. K
 rays were taken of his injuries. { After MT Griffin was received at the hospital the ambulance turned around and completed it's intended trip. The second passenger of the morning was Walter Pierpont, 53,
 well known West End business
 man who suffered a fractured left ankle in an accident at the Bank
 hotel. MT Pierpont, who is blind, weights about $40 pounds. It re- squired the services of six men to
 lift him on the stretcher into the ambulance.
 : MT Pierpont resides at the Bank hotel. It was explained that some time early this morning he stepped onto the rear fire escape and nar-
 rowly escaped dropping to the ground. He stepped through an opening on the landing and fell
 heavily, but only short distance. Other residents of the hotel went
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hand went down three tricks.
RESUME OF BIDDING

New York, Dec 15.-(UP)-The Lenz Culbertsons bridge teams be- gan the sixth session of their tour nament last night with the 184th hand on the 34th rubber. A re- sume of the bidding follows: Thirty-FOurth Rubber 184-All passed. 185-Mrs Gull bertson, 2 NIT, made 3. 186-Ja- colby, 5S, down 1. 187-Jacoby, 3S, doubled, made. 18S-Culbertson, 5H, made. 1ss-Culbertson, AS, made 5.
 Thirty Fifth Rubber 190-Cubertson. 3NT, made 4. 191 ,-Culbertson, 2S, made (10O honors). 192-Jacoby, 3 NIT, made. 193-Mrs Culbertson, 3 NIT. made. Thirty-Sixth Rubber
 194-Culbertson. 2 NIT. made 3. l195-Lenz, 3 D, doubled, down 5. 196-Culbertson, 4 s, made 5 (1O0 honors). 197-Lenz, S. made 2. 198-Jacoby. H. down 2. 199 Mrs Culbertson, 6 D, down 1. 200 l-Jacoby, 1 NIT, down 1. 201-Cul- bertson, 5 IT, down 1. 2O2-Ja- coby, 9 NIT, made. 203-Mrs Gull bertson, 3 S. made 5. 204--Jacoby, S, made 1. 205-Jacoby. 4 H, dOuDleu, maue.
 Thirty ty-SeveRfh Rubber 206-Mrs Culbertson. H. made 207-Mrs Culbertson, ? H. made. 2O8-Mrs Culbertson. 3 NIT, made 4.
 Thirty Eighth Rubber
 209-Mrs Cuibertson, 5 s. down II GOO honors). 210-Mrs Gull bertson, NIT, made 6. 211-Mrs Culbertson, NIT, made 6. 212- Mrs Culbertson. 4 S, made 5. Thirty-Nin Rubber 213-Mrs Culbertson, 1 s. down 1. 214-Jacoby. 3 NIT. down 2. 215 -Cuibertson. 4 s, made 5. 216-- Lenz, H, down 2. 217-Culbert- son, II. made.
 F0rtieth Rubber
 2fs-Lenz. s, down ?. 219- Lenz, 6 c, doubled, made. 220-- I.enz, 2 IT. made. 22i--Mrs Cul. bertson, 6 IT, doubled. down 2. 222 Mrs Culbertson, 2 II. down 2. 22a --Culbertson, NIT. down 2. 224-- Jaeoby, ( II, down g. 22b--Jacoby 2 H, down I. 226-Mss Culbertson Ia Fl, made. 227-Lenz, 2 g, made Lenz-Jacoby lead for six sessions l15.
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accumulate at a rate that promises an early end to the "Sons of the Wild Jackass'' dispute over election of a president pro temporal Min- ority leader Robinson has pledged democrats to support any move to proceed with legislative business in preference to the futile balloting to elect a senate presiding affiver.
 The world court issue, around which the senate has fought for nearly a decade, probably will be placed before 1t again soon.
 Chairman Borah of the senate foreign relations committee, has called committee meeting for next Wednesday. It is expected expert witnesses will be heard, and that afterward the senate will be asked to decide whether the so- called "root-formula" provides the safeguards intended by the senate in its famous fifth reservation"
 The forces of opposition, led by the courts traditional enemy. Sem ator Johnson. repn., Cal, are ex- pected to fight bitterly against rat ification.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-15
Fess Grows Flowery

Washington, Dec 15-CUP)- Chairman Simeon D. Fess of the republican national committee ap- pealed to his party lieutenants to- day to join in a campaign to win greater public recognition for the achievements of President Hoover. Addressing the republican na- tional committee assembled here to select the convention city for 1882, Fess thrust indirectly at the de- featism which has spread among many republicans as result of MT Hoover's difficulties.
 "It is the purpose of this com mittee," Fess said, ito assist in convincing the disaffected that the president is not responsible for the spots on the sun, the storms at sea, the droughts on land, nor the numerous epidemics that frequent ly sweep sections of the country. Our business is to place MT Hoover in the minds of the public where his stupendous efforts and brilliant leadership justify. This stage reached there will be no doubt about the results of the contests next November"
 Fess reviewed MT Hoover's counter-depression measures.
 "If the president succeeds In nothing more than preventing great suffering during this period of depression, and preventing the advocates of the dole seizing upon
 1t as the occasion to fasten upon our country through their wide- spread sympathy for the unem- ployed a system with which Eng land Is struggling, that service alone would be found to distin- guish him in history" Fess said. Fess said the moratorium pre- vented a calamity. He contended the presidents national credit cor poration and his proposed recon struction finance corporation.
 "While in former crises the pres ident then at the head of the gov ernment was inclined to leave the forces undisturbed to work them selves out, President Hoover has felt that the crisis through which | the world Is now passing is so widespread and its menaces are so imminent that drastic treatment Is demanded, and he has supplied a type of leadership without prece- dent in American history" Tess said.
 ''Were it not that we are ap-
 preaching a presidential campaign, MT Hoover would be the most
 widely supported public man in his efforts to relief here.
 "The decks are washed by the
 waves; the furniture of the ship | thrown topsy-turvy; the passengers confined to their staterooms; and the crew bewildered as the storm
 smashes through the portholes. In the midst of the confusion both passengers and crew are aware | that on the bridge stands the pilot
 with a poised brain and steady
 hand. He is directing the ship in her course. Her speed is some
 what lowered. But both passengers and crew have confidence that un-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-15
Insane Inmates Are
 Forced Into Storm
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one more man was missing. The known dead were:
 William McGuinn, of Vernon, P. E. l., burned to death. John Mackenzie, Flat River, P. E. l., died from injuries received when he jumped from the top of a ladder.
 William Macdonald, Morrell, P. E. l., jumped from a hospital win dow and was fatally injured. Mackenzie and Macdonald be- came mad with fear, attendants believed, and might have been sav- ed if they had waited for rescue.
 Many of the patients received minor injuries. Francis Mac Donald, of Forest Hill, P. E. l., fell off a roof but suffered only a dis located shoulder.
 Bremen who reached the hos pital first tried to check the fire with dynamite. The explosions added to the horror of the inmates The dynamite was ineffective.
 Superintendent Mclaughlin issu- ed 6 statement praising every member of his stan for heroic work. The superintendent also praised the patients who aided the hospital staff in quelling the more violent inmates crazed with fright.
 Oficialdom rubbed shoulders with firemen, police. doctors, nurses. ordinary citizens and lunatics as hundreds of volunteers worked ceaselessly in the rescue work. Mayor T. W. L. Prowse and his city councillors adjourned late session to rush to the scene. Clergymen did their bit. Premier James D. Stewart of Prince Ed ward Island and Honorable G. Sheldon Sharpe gave of their serv- ices.
 Defective wiring was blamed for the fire.
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four of them.
 Five other attacks on white wo- men have occurred since then.
 Today there are ominous mutter- ings. From picturesque Chinatown to the Japanese fishing colony on the waterfront, from the lavish mansions of Green Manoa valley to the Filipina huts in the sugar cane fields the undercurrent of unrest is manifest.
 But no more than in the army barracks and naval station where youths from Missouri and Kansas and Texas demand protection for the white women.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-15
.Lonergan Bill
 to Help Locals
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The bill is agreeable to the federal employees, it Is understood, in view of the fact that no reduction in pay Is proposed.
 Yesterday Congressmen Loner- gan and William L. Tierney of the fourth district, both democrats, were given their committee ap- pointments. Congressman Loner- gan goes on the interstate and foreign commerce committee while Congressman Tierney has been named to the committe on banking and currency. Congressman F. w.. Goss of this city remains on the military affairs committee while Senator Hiram Bingham has been given assignments to the appro- prlations, finance, library, rules and commerce committees of the sen ate. Senator F. c. Walcott has received assignment to the agri- 1 culture and forestry, banking and currency, education, labor, civil service and Indian affairs commit tees.
 Congressman Tierney is a new member of the house and his ap- pointment to the so-called "exclus- i've" banking and currency com mitte is considered an important start in his career at Washington
 The work before the banking and currency committee of the present congress will be unusually important. In the presidents mes sage to congress, there were Q number of recommendations relat- ing to the country's banking sys' tenn, among them one for an a. mendment to the federal reserve act to increase the fiexibility of tht countrys credit system. These recommendations go directly to tho banking and currency committee in which legislation affecting thu federal reserve system and all ma tional banks will originate.
 Prior to democratic organization of the house, republicans charged that outhern democrats. because O. their committee seniority dUe tt long service, would selfiishly grai all of the important psts in tho house. What the demcrats of tho house actually did refutes thii charge, for they not only unan' imously chose a northern man Henry T. Rainey. of Illinois, foi majority leader, but are giving many northern and western demo crats assignments to the most i'm portant committees, such as that o Mir Tierney to banking and cur rency, and of Representative Gran field, of Massachusetts to the pow erful appropriation committee.
 All the democratic member chosen on the banking and cur rency committee are old conserva tive members of the house and bankers, except Mir Tierney whs is q lawyer. selected for his abilit, and legal advise fin banking affairs ! x.as -.......A nK nn0 0An s.nFnA
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-15
Racial Outbreak
 at Honolulu
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eliminated in the American sailors, bitterly resentful at what they called a miscarriage of justice, talk ing the law into their own hands.
 It was a starry September night on the famous beach of Waikiki, noted in song and legend, when the 20-year-old matron left a dinner party at cafe in the heart of the city and started to walk home. A few blocks from the restaurant, she testified in court, she was halted by five men in an automobile. One of the hoodlums smashed her jaw and dragged her into the car. She was carried off to lonely spot near the beach at Waikiki and assaulted by the gang.
 She was found by the coral fill at the roadside, broken and hyster- ical, by passing motorists. Within 12 hours the police had five sus- poets under arrest. She Identified
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were ghastly as they were march led from the doomed building into the storm and eventually to shel- ter. Patients were brought here and 'quartered in hotels, a theater, and
 arm0ries. The more violent were { placed in the Queens jail. Supplies of food and clothing were taken to the hospital for patients quartered
 near the ruined building. ' Trucks, ambulances. private cars, | staxicabs, and carts and wagons were pressed into service carrying supplies to the stricken district. The same vehicles then brought hack dazed, blanket covered pa tients to be housed and treated here.
 , Three dead were identified and Superintendent Mclaughlin said