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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-13
Democrats Forced
 The Soldier Bonus
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ministration acquiescence, though no one has claimed to speak for President Hoover.
 The bill, however, would not ne- cessitate any new long-term bond issue, the principal objection raised by treasury officials. It is planned to finance it out of sinking fund created by the Veterans Bureau to meet the veterans certificates at ma turity in 1894. Some form of short term notes probably would be is- sued to meet the loans.
 The cost figure of $700,000,000 for the bill is based on the Veterans Bureau estimate that 60 per cent o1 the veterans will apply for loans This would total about 100000 veterans, of which 1,600,000 would be those who already have bor- rowed.
 If a veteran has borrowed up to the 22 1-2 per cent limit of the present law, he can borrow 27 1-2 per cent additional. Those who have not borrowed can get the full 50 per cent. The four-and-a-h half per cent rate of the new bill does not apply to outstanding loans.
 The Veterans Bureau says it wilt take about six months to settle ali loan claims if 60 per cent of the veterans apply.
 Leaders of both parties in the sen ate will try to hold the measure to the terms of the house bill, as far as possible. though some increases may be made.
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BY BRUCE CATION NEA Service Writer

Copyright 1891. NEA Service. Incl
 Chicago - The death of J. Ogden Armour left his widow, Mrs Lolita Sheldon Armour, with only sha- dow of the vast riches he had owned a decade before.
 During the war he had been worth 2oo.0oo.000. When his estate was settled it showed him in debt $1,- Nor was that all of 1t. Tn addition, there was $1S,000,00O owing to Ar mour and Company.
 When the widows claim was fin ally settled, she got $750,000. Her daughter. Mrs Lolita Mitchell, got $500,000.
 This, to be sure, was a long way from Restitution. But it was also a long way from the rich luxury of the old days. Retrenchment was in or der.
 Mrs Armour's first step was to dis pose of Melody Farm, This country show place, designed as fairyland for a crippled, daughter, could not be supported on fortune as samll as hers; and in June of 1928 she sold it to a syndicate for $2,500,-
 
 debts to Armour and Company.
 The syndicate planned an exclu- sive real esate development, with the 100O-acre estate cut up into rel atively small holdings for the we'll to-do. Later this plan was aban- doned, and Melody Farm was turn ed into @ country club. In it's place Mrs Armour bought a small estate in Lake Forest some two miles away. It cost her something under $10O,000-a sizab1e sum to spend for home, probably, but mo- thing even approaching the price of Melody Farm. Her new house was much smaller; its entire ground floor the newspapers said, was smaller than the ballroom alone in the pal ace at Melody Farm. triumph for Mrs Armour, after all of this.
 Among the assets left her by Og- den Armour were 400 shares of stock in the Universal Oil Products Company. This was 8 firm organized to handle certain patents issued. to an inventor of a new oil treating process. The process was sound, but for one reason and another the es- tablished oil companies shied away from it.
 When she was settling the estate, Mrs Armour offered this stock to cer tain creditors. They refused to take it, considering it practically worth less. Mrs Armour, perforce, had to keep it.
 It was just few days ago that this finally proved a great stroke of luck. The process became a big suc- cess. Mrs Armour was able to sell the stock for more than $S,000,000 and she became, once more, a multi millionaire.
 But the tale of the Armour fam fly as an industrial entity is nearly told. The personal fortunes of it's individual members do not count. The important thing is the history of the family as compact group in American industry; dynasty. as solid and influential as the great houses of 18th century Italy, a dynasty that had helped nightly in the enormous task of tranform- ing the American interior from a great wilderness to a workshop and market place for the whole world. The rise of that family began when old Philip Armour, expelled from school for a youthful esca- pade, set out to tramp all the way from New York to San Francisco, led on by dream of riches that
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where he reared great packing
 plants. -i A few days ago F. Edson White. president of Armour and Company fell from a window in his hotel suite to courtyard below. dying instant
 The directors met to elect sut
 cessor. Present was the first vice president. Philip P. Armour H grandson and namesake of the founder of the company. He had been trained for the presidency; ap- parently, he had always hoped for it. He was 36 years old.
 The directors admitted that 11e
 was able, admitted that he knew the packing business as well as sl man of his years could know ii. But they wanted greater age, long CT experience, at the helm; and they made T. c. Lee president, and
 Philip Armour, bitterly disap- pointed, resigned.
 Armour and Company. A family af- fair for three-uuarters of century, almost, the packing house now has only the name.
 Philip D. Armour II has tasted
 bitterness before - the death of his little daughter made one of Amer | ica's most tragic newspaper stories in 1922. Gwendo1yn Armour, 6. de- veloped blood poisoning from "a throat ailment. Ten doctors and four nurses were at her bedside as her condition grew critical. The police
 department placed barriers across fashionable Lake Shore Drive to de- tour all traffic from the neighbor- hood of the Armour home where she
 lay i'll. Every possible medical
 science was exerted, but it failed to
 save the child's life. She left a young CT brother, Philip Armour w. < h.5sAi The saga of the Armour family is
 over. The dynasty-still wealthy and
 able-is out of the leadership of the
 great Armour and Company.
 In the lobby leading to the gen.
 eral offices of the company, at the Union Stockyards in Chicago, there
 is a great painting of old Philip Armour I, the man who stumped across a continent to dig ditches at
 $5 a day. l THE END
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Dry Heads Are
 in Dispute
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of adoption of the Volstead act, Dinwillie said, section z9, exempting from penalties of the act those who make wine at home, was written by Wayne B. Wheeler, late superin- tendent of the Anti-saloon league. It is this section which has legalized the sale of the much discussed grape concentrate which turns into wine."
 This section was drafted, Dinwid- die said, with the express purpose of exempting from prosecution farm ers' wives and others who had been making light wines and cider for purposes
 In view of the original intention of the act, Dinwiddie said he could discern nothng illegal in sale of the grape contratrate marketed by Fruit Industries, Inc. He said the California grape concern merely was making available to city residents the in- gredients, for home the making al- ready available to rural dwellers.
 II do not agree with Dr Wilson and Senator Tydings that the Vol stead act should be amended" Dim widdie said. II have seen no reports of increased drunkenness as a result ot section 29 and believe we should wait and see how this grape business WoIhS ouI ueAoiS PlopoSAh6 oHy changes"
 As originally written, Dinwiddie said, section 29 contained the word wine" but this was changed after objections by some congressman and drys. It now reads:
 "The penalties provided in this act against the manufacture of liquor without permit shall not apply to 8 person for manufacturing non- in- toxicating cider and fruit juices ex- clusively for use in his home. .."
 The word "non-intoxicating" was interpreted to mean "non-intoxicat- ing in fact' so the wines in the home could contain more than the deqal minimum of half of one per cent alcohol.
 Views similar to those of Dinwiddie on the grade-wine question are held by Mrs Mabel Walker Willebrandt, former assistant tattorney-generaal in charge of prohibition cases and now counsel for Fruit Industries, Ltd. Two years before she gave up her post, Mrs Willebrandt told agents of a grape concern she viewed sale of the;c product as legal.
 Prohibition Director Woodcock has said he does not intend to intefere with non-commercial home wine- making. In endorsing Woodcock's s program, Dinwiddie said there was a movement among prominent drays to take a definite stand in favor of limiting the prohibition law almost entirely to commercial :violators. He said the home should not be invaded undess used as a resort for drinking or liquor sales.
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Chief And Other
 Officials Sit In
 At Conference
Meet Percy Bugbee of National Fire Protection Associa-
 ton in Round Table Talk at Elton This Noon Minor, CarIn, Hosey, Gregory, Curley, Chapman, and Green Among Those Present

A round table discussion of fire sprotection and prevention was held 'iat the Elton this noon with Percy Bugbee of the National Fire Protec- tion association as leader.
 Representative officials from this city were present including Harry Minor of the police and fire boards, Fire Chief Henry H. Heitman, Build- ing Inspector Patrick J. Carlin. Jo- seph P. Hosey, president of the real estate board, Harry E. Gregory, sec-
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Handcuffs for <
 Prof, Levitt
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in ord ering prosecution of the public utilities commission after he has re- ceived a request to that effect from 100 electors, and repeal the statute requiring railroads to eliminate one grade crossing per year for every 50 miles of track operated in the state.
 Levitt, insurgent republican lead-' CT, had contested the bills bitterly in hearing. claiming the attorney general had protracted action on his suit for more than year in order that the legislature might repeal the obscure statutes under which he had won supreme court of errors vic- tory in the fight to compel the state counsel to move against the commis sion TOT alleged neglect to enforce the grade crossing removal law. f.
 The first Johnson bill would es- tablished the attOrney-generaPs dis cretion to act upon the electors pe- titiOn rather than compelling him to act as prosecutor as the state su- preme court has ruled the present law does.
 The measures were tabled for cal endar. 4.-
 House and senate disposed of rou- time business in half-hour sessions. The only business enacted by the senate, other than to receive com mittee reports, was the passing un- der suspension of the rules of two measures appointing three commis- sioners of the Grace Hospital Socie- ty, New Haven, B. Austin Cheney, Judge Stanley Dunn and Edith ". Cook.
 Bills received on favorable report and tabled for calendar in the house included:
 Establishing the Lafayette high way between New Milford and Tor ringtOn; creating the Guilford sol- diers monument commission; pro- hibiting state police from accepting fees for coroners' duty; requiring the coroner to investigate minor acci- dents as we'll as those involving fatalities.
 Measures rejected by the house on unfavorable report included: Allowing the medical examiner to act as coroner in the latter's ab- sence; requiring all employers to furnish evidence of financial respon- sibility; extending the power of the coroner over the entire state; pro- hibiting states attorneys from en- gazing in civil actions in the coun-
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COrOners Are Safe

M Hartford, Feb 13-Unfavorabl ble ac- ,, ,tion was taken by the house today !. pn the bill proposing to abolish the < office of coroner in the .arious coun- sries of the state.
 s A hearing on the measure was held :. Hast Tuesday and considerable oppo- . Sition was voiced. Coroner John T. { .Monzani was one of the many off, : cials present to protest it's adoption.
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ssa- half per cent. Different rates
 have been charged in different To- calities, but some ranged as high as ok per cent.
 !. The bill is expected to pass with - veritable whoop. Under suspen- sion of rules, only 40 minutes is al-
 Flowed for debate and only half of this will go to sponsors of full cash ' payment proposals for final pro- west. No amendments can be offered. Ss.A two-thirds vote is required to sus- <. pend the rules, but the votes are ss The bill adopted by the committee .stive Bacharach. republican, New x ,J ersey. but 1t will, as usual in such sscases, bear the name officially of ssChairman Hawley of the committee. ssHe dropped 1t in the house hopper sslast night in his name.
 Speaker Longworth, who had q apart behind the scenes in formulat- sssAs "a very fortunate solution" say ..fng 1t will give veterans Substantial
 srelief." Strangely enough, it was .sDemocratic Floor Leader Garner, ,ssranking minority member of the who presented the 50 sslsper cent limit bill to the committee \ n,s.after it had rejected proposals to 4. sAuCk OcoC IuC AAoS eo HV PSA \ .cent, and then to 45 per cent. fs It was democratic votes which ! drought adoption of the measure in z %scommittee after republicans had N sought, in vain, to set the loan limit ssat . lower figure. Four republi- scanA including Bacharach, joined xEarner and the democrats. Then the a.committee formally instructed Haw- s..ley, by unanimous vote, to introduce ssthA measure.
 .s Thus, with the democratic leader issspousoring a republican bill, the measure goes into the house under ..most favorable auspices.
 5s. There is much speculation about ts-the attitude of the White House on @.the measure. Treasury and Veter-
 -ans Bureau officials sat with the
 committee when it drafted the bill and 1t has that much color of ad-
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retary of the real estate board, Leo J. Curley, president of the fire un- derwriters, $. w. Chapman, secre- tary of the fire underwriters, E. A.. Barrows, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce safety committee, John c. Sherwood, chairman of the Mer- chants bureau, Frank J. Green. sec- retary of the Chamber of Commerce, Helen NJ. Hurley. assistant secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, How ard Isbell.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-13
More Snnerior Conrts

,. Hartford, February 13 - Hear Z. Jngs were slated to day on the proposal to hold sessions of super !, ior court in Meriden and for ses- ..sions of superior court in Litch- 1. field and Winsted. Members ot sihe State Bar Association were ex- pected to discuss the features of the 2. new plans. Under the new arrange i. ,ments Meriden would share in some .of the business not carried on in .waterbury and in New Haven. In
 the Litchfield county three sessions I. would be held in Winsted and one {. in Litchfield.
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Reflects Armory Bill

s. Hartford, Feb 13-At the request
 < of the state committee on military 1. 'affiairs the house today rejected the
 bill, which would give ex-servicemen
 free use of all state armories. Atten-
 ], stion was called to the fact that at < .present veretan organizations have X s1uarters in the different state build { Sings and are accorded many privi- !. 1eges. To give veterans unrestricted ., privileges, it was argued, would re- {, suit in many conflicts and consid- ',serable expense.
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install automatic safety devices on motion picture apparatus was de- feated in the house to-day. A num- Der of theater managers, including Richard Halliwell and John ID. Sirica of Waterbury appeared before the judiciary committee yesterday and voiced their opposition to the plan. A number of operators who were present before the committee seeking the adoption of a bill re- quiring two attendants in a motion picture booth, where "talkies' are in evidence, did not speak for or against the bill yesterday.
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Hearing on Banks

ss Hartford, February 13 - An i'm {. portant hearing on a number of bills .affeoting banks of Connecticut was 1. scheduled for this afternoon. Sem < ator Lewis M. Reed of Waterbury. l. chairman of the banking committee, sNvas not present in Hartford today. {. He is the sponsor of several meas z lures, which were slated to he dis cussed at the hearings.
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Cross on Railroads

Hartford, Conn, Feb 13.-(UP)- Governor Wilbur l.. Cross believes New Engalnd should operate its own railroads.
 He made this statement yesterday fin commenting on the speech of Professor William z. Ripley of Har- yard here Wednesday night in which the economist stressed clos
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Mahaney Bill Killed

.. Hartford, Feb 13-As was gener- ], ally expected the bill of Representa- ! tive Daniel J. Mahaney of Waterbury z calling for the elimination of fixed : electric and gas charges, was offici- ally killed" today. The house ac- !. 6epted the unfavora ble report of the :. judiciary committee.
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All Municipal Bills Delayed
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ection to pedestrians and to reduce,

< dection to pedestrians and to reduce, ' if possible, the ever increasing num- z .ber of fatal accidents on highways ' under state supervision. A lengthy 7. nearing was held this week on the
 {. measure in which considerable sen :. timent was manifested.
 ~. The commission will be appointed ssby Governor Wilbur l.. Cross and its \ report will be made before April ' list.
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States Attornevs Won

Hartford, Feb. 13.-State's attor- {. ,neys of Connecticut may appear as {. counsel in civil cases in the coun- ties in which they are expected to !. prosecute. criminal cases. A bill be- -dieyed to have been aimed at States Attorney l.. L. Lewis of Waterbury
 was introduced two weeks ago ask Ing for restriction on the practices ]. of all attorneys. It was claimed that s.she prestige of states attorney ap- appearing before juries often obtain .sfnf1uence for them while serving as
 scounsel in civil cases. The bill to :. .restrict them in their respective is counties was unfavorably acted sssupon to-day.
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KILLED BY TRAIN.

Ancona, Italy, Feb 13.-UP)- Leopoldo Cesaretti, a stone mason, and Miss Nerina Francheschini were killed by a passenger train from Be- logna to-day while walking on the railway track between Mondolfo and Senigallia stations.
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Appeal for Blind,

Hartford, Conn, Feb 13.-(UP)- An eloquent plea for a more liberal appropriation for the state board of education for the blind was made be- fore the legislative appropriations committee by the Rev Edward P. Aver of Branford, blind chaplain of the state senate.
 He urged approval of an expendi- ture of $99.00O for the sightless in and out of state institutions.
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EACTORY. BURNED.

Perugia, Italy, Feb 13.-(UP)- Fire destroyed 8 valise owned by the Valigeria Italiana company here to- day. Two hundred and fifty em- ployes were made idle. Damages were approximately 1,500.000 lire.
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WERE AxPHYxIATED.

Pescara, Italy, Feb 13.-UP)- Giovanni Savochi, 19, from Teramo, and Serafino Masucci, 27, from Cam pli, bakers. were asphyxiated by car bon dioxide gas last night while sleeping in bakery owned by AL fredo MarionoZzi
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Movie II,eater Bill.

Hartford, Feb 13.-Among those opposing the bill heard yesterday af- ternoon before the judiciary com mittee which provides that two men shall be employed in boths of sound picture theaters at all times were Richard Haliliwell of the Garden theater, Waterbury, John Sirica of the Lyric theater. Waterbury. and Ralph S. Pasho of the Community theater, Watertown. The operators union favors the bill but the oppon- ents, all operators of independent theaters, contend that the extra man is not necessary and pointed to the added expense that would be forced upon them by the passage of the bill.
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Mayor Hayes Present

Hartford. Feb 13.-Mayor Frank Hayes was again in Hartford yes- tefday afternoon. He, as member of the commission in charge of the erection of the new state building which is nearing completion, ap- peared before th9 legislative com mittee on appropriations. The com mission seeks an appropriation with which to finance the work of com pleting the building and furnishing it. All the members of the com mission were present. Mayor Hayes endorsed tho appropriation and it is expecetd that the added money will be granted
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Governor on Efficiency.

Hartford, Conn, Feb 13.-(UP)- Governor Wilbur l.. Cross urgent desire to assist in reorganizing the state administration on a more eff cient basis was explained to the legislative judiciary committee yes- terday by Colonel Thomas Hewes of Pennington, a member of the gov ernor's staff, and Rep Roy l. Kim mel, dem, North Stonington, Yale graduate student in government.
 The two appeared at hearing on a bill yesterday afternoon which would authorize the governor to appoint committee to investigate the organization of state depart ments and report by March 20.
 Hewes said the bill was an att tempt to "bring a little order out of chaos" and described it as an oppor- tunity to do something construc- tive". Rep kimmel concurred in these opinions and said even some members of the legislature were un- able to decide what departments they should go to for information on some occasions.
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Loan Companies Ready.

Hartford, Feb 13.-Small loan companies throughout the state are reported to be preparing for hear ing scheduled to take place soon be- fore the judiciary committee on a bill introduced by Representative Hugh Burns of Naugatuck. The bill would lower the rate of interest the small loan companies could collect from AZ per cent to 24 per cent. The small loan organizations are prepar- ing to combat the Burns bill when the hearing takes place. No date has been set yet.
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aNOW COVERS, JAPAN

Tokio, Feb. 13.-(UP).-Heavy snows fell throughout Japan to-day. causing distress to coastwise shipping land hampering communications.
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PORTRAIT PAINTER DIES.

Trieste, Italy, Feb 13-(UP)-Eu- genie de Blaas, noted portrait paint CT. died here to-day at the age of ST.
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CT bond between the New York, New Haven and Hartford and the Boston and Maine railroads to pro- tect New England shipping.
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FULL WEATHER REPORT

Washington, Feb 13.-(UP)-Fore- cast for Friday and Saturday:
 Maine: Rain or snow tonight and Saturday; not so cold in interior to- night.
 New Hampshire and Vermont: Rain or snow tonight and Saturday; slightly colder Saturday. Massachusetts: Rain tonight and except on the southeast coast.
 Rhode Island and Connecticut: Rain night and Saturday; slightly cold CT. Saturday. by rain tonight and probably Sat- urday morning; colder Saturday and in west central portion tonight: |: fresh to strong southwest winds shifting to northwest Saturday.
 Western New York: Rain, slightly colder tonight; Saturday light snow and much colder.
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One Movie Bill Lost

Hartford. Feb. I3.--A bill making t mandatory to theater owners to
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was to find it's fulfllment
 he Sacramento with
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TEMPERAHUREs

Washington, Feb 13.-CUP)-Highest temperatures yesterday and lowest last night in 20 cities were reported by the weather burau to-day as fn1J0We.