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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-26
Germany Has Passed
 Gloomiest Christmas
 Since The World War

K as stable as tho dollar in the world money markets, oven though Germany's international credit fn- cilities arc now pnraiyzcd.
 Despite tho tho trade crisis which shut down n large percent agc of her industrios, Germany has ronald nearly Ave billion marks since last autumn, which is n fair ly astonishing performance, con- aidering economic conditions.
 Millions of households in Cor many nre afflicted with poverty, living on the barest neceSsities. Yet there is little evidence of ft In the streets of the cities md even fin the workmen's quarters Of Der lin, They retain the clothes rom more prosperous days hnd the Ger- mans have q characteristic or neat ness and carefulness Of appear ance.
 However, in Munich and the Ruhr district on washing day l saw several hundreds or clothes lines which revealed the ravhges on the more intimate parts Of the wardrobe, impossible to conceal on washing day.
 Although Christmas shopping has been considerably below pre- vious years. it has been bigger than might have been expected unuer inc circumstances. People wno have money to spend for tangible. useful objects have been impenea to buy through fear that tho marx might decline. They have not ior- gotten the imitation period when millions of marks would buy oniy single meal -
 Millions of Germans are racing cut of 10 per cent ln their wages which is highly unlikely 10 be offset by tho reduction in prices and rents prescribed by the latest decree. .s
 For hundred of thouaands of government employees. this seconn cut of the year makes n total oi 20 per cent in wages; bringing tue higher middle class employees down to between ss and 9G per cent.
 The marriage and birth rates have been failing because or eco. nImic conditions. In the hrht nhiI of 1881. there were 4b.OoO fewe. births than in inc same perioa of 1880.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-26
LECTURE AT THE
 SECOND CHURCH
Dr s. Ralph Barlow of Smith College Forum
 Speaker Tomorrow
WORLD WAR VETERAN

Stanley High who was to be the speaker at the Forum at the Sec- ond Congregational Church tomor- row evening is unable to be present owing to the fact that he is one of q committee for the establishemnt of c National Daily Newspaper and the enterprise is advancing so rapidly that he has had to devote his entire timc to that project. However, Mir High will be at the Forum on Sunday evening. April 10th.
 The speaker who has been en- gagged to take Mir Highs place is pr. S. Ralph Harlow. Professor of Religion and Social Ethics at Smith College, Northampton. Mass. Dr Harlow received his degree of A. B.. at Harvard University and his A.. Nj. at Columbia University. He also attended the Union Theological Seminary and the Hartford Sem- mary Foundation. Mir Harlow served in the World War with American and British Forces in France and was member of the Relief Commission in Asia Minor from 1919 to 1922 anL also served with the Near East Relief and the European student Relief. He has visited Europe many times and India, China and Japan. Every other year, Dr and Mrs Harlow take q group of students to Europe for conferences with students, poe iitical and religious leaders. pr Harlow has spoken In over 1bO American colleges from Maine to California and before many church club and forum groups. He has Just returned from over year spent In the Near East where he has trav- eled and lcctured widely in Egypt. Palestine, Syria and Turkey and has had many opportunities to meet the outstanding leaders In these countries.
 The subject of his address nt the Second Congregational Church Forum on Eunday evening is Psychic Phenomena: A Proof of Immortality"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-26
The Campaign
 for Prohibition Col Raymond Robins to Speak Here Next
 Saturday

Colonel Raymond Robins of Chicago who will visit Waterbury next Saturday with the Allied Cam paigners for Prohibition has had a varied and brilliant career He has been nt various times superin- tendent of tho Chicago municipal lodging house, head worker Of the Northwestern university settle- ment, member of the Chicago board of education. Bull Moose" candidate for D. $. senator In 1914, and commander of the American Red Cross mission to Russia in 1917. He is well known as m ad- vocate of organized labor. and tho outlawry of war. Trained as q law yer. he is said to have been con- suited as to the terminology of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-26
Haskin Succun1bs
 To Injuries When x Hit By Machine
Believe Man, Blinded By Rain, Failed to See Car--
 Southbury Garage Owner Meets Death When < Ol Stove Exploded Bad Smash on TOrrington. ThOmast0n Road

bato CoianReio of Nichols street, damaging 1t considerably. Blogen- sky is being held by the police on the charge of operating q motor vehicle while under the, influence of liquor.
 Yesterday morning about 1 o. clock q car owned by George Kirschbaum of 223 Hill street crashed into the front of q First National store at the corner Of South Main and West Liberty streets. The driver of the car lost control of the machine and went onto the sidewalk and crashed into the store, damaging it considers ably.
 A report of an accident was filed yesterday with the police by Michael Gismondi of 1887 Baldwin street. He informed the authorities that his machine oclliedd with and knocked two men down near the Main streets. Neither one of the men. however. would tell his name or accompany tho driver to q doc tor.
 4 serious automobile crash on the Torrington- -Thomastor road re- suited early yesterday morning In injury to three men, Albert Shultz Gb McGuinness avenue, Torrington Edward Duffy of Fairview avenue NauRatuck and Henry Sherico oi no Wndhams' avenue, Torrington They were taken to the Charlotte Hungerford hospital. Schultz. who is believed to be suffering from . fractured skull, was most serious. ly hurt. He was driving n car owned by his father when 1t be- came involved in n collision with q machine driven by Philip Faber of Prospect street, Oakville.
 The police of Torrington inves. tignted the crash, but no arrests resulted.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-26
Ice Box Bandit
 Gets $7OO Cash
San Wolk of Oakvile Watches Through Glass Win. dow of Refrigerator While Lone RObber Rifles Cash Register

Sam Wolk, owner of meat market oh Main street, Oakville, vas robbed of $700 by an armed
 bandit Thursday evening. W0lk and his clerk, John Pierce, were locked in the refrigerator of the store as the lone worker rified tho cash register. Wolk is of the opin- ion that only one man was in- yolved in the affair although the chap carried on n conversation with q supposed accomplice, but r relther ono of the two men Hnw
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-26

Briand Kellogg peace pact. In his Saturday evening address at 7:30 at the First Methodist church he will discuss the question "The Con- stitution--shall We Scrap It?"
 Colonel Robins will speak brief ly also at the Saturday afternoon session at 2:30 nt which the main speaker will be Miss Norma Brown. Other Saturday features will be the women's lunch at the YMCA at 12s30 noon. and the youth ban quet" at the Methodist church at h,4b D. m.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-26

him during the excitement,
 The incident occurred about 10 o'clock. which was closing time. As Wolk was about to wait upon the lone customer, the chap flashed a gun and ordered tho proprietor Into the fec box. Pierce wag forced to join him. Both mon peering out of n small glass win dow witnessed the bandits actions Of robbing the cash register.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-26
THE A. 0. H. DRIVE
 FOR NEW MEMBERS
Will Be Considered at Meeting in Hibernian
 Hall Tomorrow
MANY VISITORS COMING

paans for the drive to be opened for new members of the A. O. H. will Do considered at q meeting In Iiibernlan hall tomorrow after noon. Judge D. J. Slnvin. former Mayor Francis Guilfoile, D. ]. Buckley of Abblngton, Mass, ms tiouni editor of the Hsberninn pn- DOT, and Michael D. Enright of New Lonaon will be the principal speak CTS.
 All tho st~te officers will be present. In addition to the bust. neus meeting there will be q social session and supper for the visitors and Invited guests of the Colon made.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-26
TxN0 MILLION DROP

New rk,--DurInR the iIrBt nlno months of 1881 tho cumuin. tive total value of commercial and military nirplnnc engine sales were .S2,bOO,000 less than during the same period of i03i, n report of the Acronnuticni Chamber of Com merce ahows. Fifty per cont of the total value of production and de- IlverleH during the first 9 months of 1880 was traoeabie to military activity, while during the Bame period of 1881. ca per cent came from this source.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-26

Kalamazoo, Mich. (UP)--The Allied Citizens, q new group to lioost prohibition. was formed here recently. The group, organized hf- ter q meeting held by the Allied Forces for Prohibition. has a mem beFuhip of 400 persons.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-26
KEAVNEY
 FORUM SPEAKER

Attorney William II. Keavney will speak on "Old Age Pcnsions" at the Central YMCA forum next Wednesday evening at s:30. This is one of the series dealing with un- employment md proposed roads to economic security. Previous dis cusslons have dealt with economic cycles. unemployment insurance and economic planning. These forums are open to men who arc interested.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-26
nnsI,LIANT ItECORD

washlngton. .-~- Major II. Y, uel. ger. who e,leceela the late Col Thomna C. Turner aa chief "t Marine Corps Aviation. has had a brilliant record in aviation. He was on duty with the iat marine hvln- tton forco in France and for his aervleaa there wnH awarded tho Navy crona. He also holds Ni- enrnatlnn and iiaiiinn campaign badges. na we'll aa inc expedition- nry ribbon for cuba and the sle- tory medal and button for France
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-26

Tho average age of tho Socialist party in the now English House or Commons ia just under GO years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-26

Demonstration of how lifHinn goods nfN made are heinz kisen " London subway stations.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-26

The corner stone for the now national stadium at Ranking. China, was laid recently.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-05-27
LAST M|DSHIPMAN
 TRAINING 0N FR|caTE !. CONSTITUTION, DIES

SEATTLE. May 27, -The last man to serve Inidshipman training period on the U. s. frig- ate Constitution, commpnly known as "Old Ironsides," nF. William Robert Inge Dalton, was buried here today.
 Dr. Dalton died Monday at the age of 89; he served in the Con- federate naval forces during the Civil War and fought at the bat tie of New Orleans.
 Dr. Dalton had many impor- tant assignments among which were running the Charleston block ade, taking messages to Sidell; Confederate Minister at London and Paris.
 After the war he studied medi- cine and practiced first in New York, then Seattle, retiring in 1918.
 Two grown children, and his widow Surive.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-05-27
CANNED SALMON SHIPMENTS SHOW
 GREAT INCREASE
DEFINITE TREND TOWARD A TRADE REVIVAL; ADVER-
 TISING CREDITED

Heralding definite upward trend in the canned salmon mar Eet and revival of one of the Pa cific Northwests outstanding in cific Northwest's outstanding in canned salmon shipments for April, out of Seattle are noted.
 Shipments for April amounted to 14O,593 cases, nearly three times the total shipments for April ot last year. The figures, compiled by the Merchants Exchange, show that the Atlantic and Gulf Coast states were the largest consumers.
 The extraordinary increase was definitely attributed by Seattle and Alaska canners to the national advertising campaign launched last fall, and now being carried on by the salmon canning indus try.
 The increased April demand is only a beginning, it is estimated. Indications are that May ship ments will show proportionate increase over May of last year. It is predicted that by 1882 the canned salmon industry, with in- creasing benefit from the adver- Using campaign, will have attain ed a development hardly dream ed of a year ago.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-05-27
SOARING AlOFT ID
 HEIGHTS UNHEARD
 IN WORLD HISTORY
GERMAN SCIENTISTS, ENCASED IN METAL BALL ATTACHED
 TO BALLOON

AUGUSBURG, Germany, May 27. R)-Hermetically sealed with in an aluminium ball, Professor August Piccard, Brussels physicist, and his assistant, Charles Ripper, scared away on giant balloon scientific mission into the strato- sphere, that eerie fringe of the earth's atmosphere never seen by man.
 The basket shot up to an alti- tude of 1000 feet, then drifted northwest.
 The ball, seven feet in diameter, carries artificial oxygen. The bal loon ise the largest ever built in Germany and is 100 feet in dia- meter.
 Piccard hopes to explore from 10000 to 60,000 feet above the earth to obtain new data on the origin of cosmic rays and to dem onstrate that human beings can travel and live in such rarefied at mosphere.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-05-27
sTOCKH0LDER CHARGES sPRECKELs, Z OTHERS,
 WRECKED RADIO FIRM

NEW YORK, May 27, (P,-An echo from the collapse of the Holster Radio Corporation, was sounded in the Supreme Court Tuesday when Kritzer Barnes, stockholder, charged Rud olph Spreckles, capitalist, and two others, Frederick Dietrich and Ellery w. Stone, with having de- by conspiracy.
 stroyed the corporation unlawfully
 He charged them with monop- olizing stock market sales result ing in ruin for the Holster com pany and that they made $17, 100000 for themselves.
 Barnes asked for an accounting.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-05-27
NEW SUIT RECOMMENDED

PHOENIX, Ariz., May 27. (P- Undiscouraged by the action of the Supreme Court in dismissing Arizona's suit to test the consti- nationality of Boulder Dam Ari- zona's past and present Colorado river commissioners met and rec commended a new suit addressed to the Supreme Court and demanding reputable appropriation of the waters from the river"
Seward daily gateway., 1931-05-27
FIRE DESTROYS COURT

SAN JOSE, Cal, May 27, R- The historic county courthouse here, one of California's architec- tural showplaces when it was completed in 1868, was destroyed by spectacular fire which threatened the entire business sec tion. Although the physical loss was estimated only at $250 ,000, the fire destroyed many valuable re- cords which cannot be replaced.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-05-27
.EssEN's CITY COUNCIL
 0uTA0Wls FIRE SIREN

ESSEN, Germany, May 27. (P- Frequent brawls, noisy disputes and wild yells in tn city council between radical deputies induced the burgomaster of this steel city to install a bowling fire siren in the hall here where the city fa- thers meet. The presiding offic- CTS gong has proven ineffective.
 Although the blast of the siren nearly blew the plaster off the walls, the first session was so lively that it had to be closed cary despite this new device.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-05-27
AC0N|zED MOTHER LOST SON IN FLAMES

G1RDLEY, Calif., May 27.. P)- An agonized m o her screamed and struggled with police while her only son was burned to death in their home.
 Trapped by fire and smoke the boy, James Beckwith, 15, beat uselessly against a tightly wedged door while the flames flowed in around him. His charred body was found in the ruins of his bed- room.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-05-27
VISITING YOSEMITE VALLEY

VISITING YOSEMITE VALLEY
 SAN FRANCISCO, May 27. P)- His Highness Prince Takamatsu of Japan and his bride, Princess Xii kudo, left for Yosemite Valley for a two-day visit. They visited the University of California at Ber- kelley and were entertained at tea given by President Robert Sproul of the school.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-05-27
HEAD OF PARTY FINDING ANDREE.
 CAMP |S MODEST
MODESTY IS SINCERE; ONLY INTEREST IS WORK AS A
 BIOLOGIST

OSLO, May 27, (R-Dr. Gunnar Horn, the quiet Norwegian scien- tist who headed the expedition which found the long-lost Andree camp last summer, is considering a tour of America.
 But he isn't sure. Suddenly caught up in an avalanche of pub licity when he returned home from the Arctic, Horn has been not a little puzzled by the hmelight.
 Discovery of the Andree camp had a certain scientific value, Horn said, but hardly merited the intense interest which follow ed.
 He has been on many expedi- tions into the Arctic, and plans another this summer, for the Norwegian bureau of exploration, state institution.
 He is greatly interested in the Wilkins submarine expedition, which he thinks is entirely feas. ible
Seward daily gateway., 1931-05-27
CUTTERS SEARCH F0R VICTIMS FROM
 F0UNDERED SL0OP
SEVEN WIDELY KNOWN PEO- PILE MISSING; TWO IN
 HOSPITAL

NEW YORK, May 27. R-Eight coast guard cutters searched Long Island Sound for. the bodies and victims of the Seafox, a, pleasure sloop, which apparently foundered Saturday with a loss of four men anG vuree women widely known in New York educational and medical circles.
 The body of Mrs. Marcia She'd den, 25, psychiatrist. was washed ashore at Darien, Connecticut last night. She was the wife of the New York University instructor and owner of the Seafox, who is also missing. He was a former Stan ford athlete.
 Mark Coyne, New York instruct or; Mrs. Florence Mendenhall, a former actress, and Robert, her husband, a statistical professor at Columbia University. and brother of Mrs Snedden.
 Robert Johnson, night club en- tertainer, and Miss Doris Dewey, a phychologist, are in Bellevue Hospital
 Most of them we-e former Stan ford students Friends notified po- lice that the sloop was missing and that it's motor had not been work ing we'll when the party left for a cruise with a 4O-mile gale blow ing.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-05-27
SOVIET SUBMARINE
 EXPL0DES AND SINKS

LONDON, May 27. R-Russian airplanes and warshipS crcled above the spot where the Soviet submarine No. 9 of the Baltic fleet sank Friday.
 The Soviet government remains silent but Riga and Latvia dis patches said the craft is under stood to have gone down after an explosion with all hands, 100 miles from Helingfors, Finland.
 The numbr in the crew is un- known.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-05-27
FIGHT MANAGER SAYS IS NOT INTERESTED

PHILADELPHIA, May 27, (R- Joe Smith, manager of Tommy Loughran, said that his fighter was not interested in substituting for Primo Camera against Jack Sharkey at Ebbets field, Brook lyn, even if the fight were billed as a world championship.
 He had been queried after Car nera had been ruled out of the fight game June 10 by an injunc- tion.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-05-27
DESCENDING CLOTHING

BERLIN, May 27. (P)-Nude cul- ture is sweeping over Germany with hundreds of men and women being converted weekly Their fervor is almost equal to that of participants in religious revival. More than Is societies and clubs which believe in doing away with clothing are in existence.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-05-27
ARREST ORCHESTRA DIRECTOR

ARREST ORCHESTRA DIRECTOR
 PARIS, May 27. R)-Declaring the incident when Arturo Tosca- mini, New York orchestra director, was held under technical arrest following his refusal to play fascist anthem at concert was a disgrace to the Italian govern ment, Serge Koussevitsky, con- ductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, refused to keep an en- gagement to play in Milan.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-05-27
PLANE SPEED RECORDS /. SHATTERED OFTEN

CALSHOT, England, May 27. (P) The worlds airplane speed rec ord of 357 miles per hour, made by Squadron Commander August H. Orlebar in 1929, was reported to have been broken several times by pilots in training for the Schneider Cup races.
 It was understood that pilots exceeded 360 miles per hour.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-05-27
ONLY 1O3,O00 BARS
 SURVIVE LIQUOR LAWS

BRUSSELS, May 27. tP There are only 103,022 public bars in Belgium, as against 219,405 shortly before the war.
 The decrease is due to legisla- tion forbiddlng tn retailing of spirits in cafes, restaurants and hotels. ts
 Spirits can be bought, but only in bottles from licensed stores and at least two quarts must be purchasd at "a time.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-05-27
STATE SOUGHT SEND
 YOUTH ELECTRIC CHAIR

VALPARAISO, Ind, May 27, (R Virgil Kirkland, 20 year-old Gary steel mill worker, was con- victed last night of assault and battery in an attempted attack upon Arlene Draves for whose death the State sought to send him to the electric chair.
 The jury recommended that he be sentenced from one to 10 years in prison.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-05-27
FLIGHT POSTPONED

LIBERTY, N. Y., May 27. (P- A soaking field forced Otto Hillig to postpone his take-off on the first leg of projected trans-At- lantic flight. Hillig and his pilot, Holgar Hoirtis, were at the Liberty field ready to fly to Roosevelt field but the weather kept their plane on the ground.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-05-27
DEMANDS REDUCTIONS
WASHINGTON n

WASHINGTON, D. C., May 27. R-The first gun in the Army appropriations war was fired In Congress by Representative Rose Collins of Mississippi. Speaking for the Little Army" supporters he demanded wholesale reductions of the officer personnel.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-05-27
NEARLY 100 PLANES IN AIR

MITCHELL FIELD, May 27. P) 700 Army fighting planes winged their way to New England to protect that area from a the oretical enemy. The planes start ed off from the five Long Island flying fields at daybreak.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-05-27
SWEDISH AVIATOR RETURNS

SWEDISH AVIATOR RETURNS
 COPENHAGEN, May 27. R- Captain Albin Nuremberg, Swedish aviator, returning home after his flight over the Swedish ice-cap to assist in the rescue of Augustine Courtland, explorer, arrived here by steamer.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-05-27
HALIBUT PRICES

SEATTLE, May 27, (R-Halibut
 from two vessels, 22.500 pounds, brought Sc and 10c. At Prince Ru- pert 500,000 pounds of American halibut brought 4c and 2 and three-tenths; Canadian, Sc to 6c.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-05-27

WELTERWEIGHTS FIGHT
 CHICAGO, May 27. R)-Bucky Lawless, welterweight, defeated Gorilla Jones, Negro, in a 10- round decision fight here.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-05-27
REFUSED CITIZENSHIP

WASHINGTON, D. C., May 27. B-A Yale theology professor and a Canadian war nurse were re- fused citizenship by the Supreme Court because of their scruples against bearing arms in time of war. One was Douglas c. McIn- tOSh and the other was Marie Ablandi.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-24
JOHN REED CLUB
COSTUME BALL

Of writer's and artists who organized
the John Reed Club about year and
a half ago and are working in con-
junction with the revolutionary labor
movement on the cultural front and
are extending to the dressmakers the
support of of the organization in their
present strike will give their first an
nual costume ball in Teutonia Hall,
10th Street and Bird Avenue on Fri
day evening, February 81.
In giving this first annual ball, the
John Reed Club, reminds all workers
that being a costume affair which
will attract many outside sympathetic
elements ut would be appropriate to
come in costumes expressing various
shades of our struggles here that will
bring home to these new elements the
theology of our whole movement"
The John Reed Club attracts to
most of its affairs not only the mill
tant section of the working class, but
being an organization of cultural
workers, many writer's and artists
sympathetic to the working class
struggle attend the club affairs. 1t is
expected that Theodore Dresser will
be one Of the many outstanding fig
ures in the literary world who will be
present.
Tickets for the costume ball can be
had at various places throughout the
city including the Workers Book
Shop, so East 18th Street.