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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-06

The Boy Scouts Aeronautics club of the Waterbury council Of Boy Scouts, are to have the co-opera- tion of the state department Of aeronautics in connection with their exhibit which will be on dis play over the weekend in the Bank street windows of the Up- son Singleton & Co.
 Members of the club are enthu- siastic about their exhibit and are putting the finishing touches on the model planes which will be on display.
 Word has been received from Jack Lenox, deputy commissioner of aeronautics that they are send ing an exceptional feature. This will include a series of aerial pho tos showing the aerial mapping survey process which is done oy the department. Tn the exhibit will also be finished section of the eastern seaboard aerial map.
 There will also be a cross-cut section exhibit of an airplane mo- tor showing the internal construc- tion.
 Members of the club will exhibit planes as follows: Louis Monnerat. flying model. Wallace Finke, 2
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-06
ALLOCATE MONEY
 FOR POSTOFFICES

Washington, Oct 6.-(UP)-Al- location of funds for construction of more than 225 new postofiices and other federal buildings has been announced by the, treasury department.
 The buildings. aii with limits of cost under siO0, 900. complete the federal building program provided by the Garner. Wagner unemploy- n,ent relief act. Some 1s0 larger construction projects had been previously announced.
 Included among the projects an- nouneed yesterday are:
 Massac achusetts. Boston, Marine hospital, Dedham.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-06
Civil War Nurse
 Still Capable of
 Fighting Battles

Fort Worth, Tex. Oct 6-(UP)- Mother Minerva, 106-year-old Civil War nurse, Is quite capable.of win ming battles alone, newspaper re- porter found when he asked for an interview.
 "Get away from me-" she or- dered when questioned, by the re- norter in a bus terminal. She seized cup of hot coffee and waved 1t.
 A note from the Grand Army of the Republic said she Is the only surviving battlefield nurse from the northern armies. The note was written on hotel stationery from Springfield. III. and asked bus driv- CTS to give her a desirable seat or her trip to San Francisco.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-06
Guerrard

Lieutenant Edgar Guerrard Hamilton, the only American off, cer in the French Foreign Legion and formerly a resident of Water bury, was seriously wounded in ac- ton on September 9th according to a message relayed to Paris from asablanca, Morocco. Lieutenant Hamilton was shot In the jaw by q sniper while fighting African tribes men in the Atlas mountains. At the time he was picked off by q hidden enemy, the former Water burian was attempting to drag a wounded companion to safety.
 News of the shooting and the esta ablishment of the identity of the wounded officer was received by Dr Edmund L. Gross of the Amer ican hospital at Neuilly. He made inuuiries and learned that the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-06
Hamilton Shot In
 Morocco Fighting
Former Waterbmian, Lieutenant in Foreign Legion, Wounded While Dragging Wounded Companion to Safety

wounded officer was Lieutenant Hamilton, whose residence YVES given as Newcastle. Pa. Tie Ham, ilton family of which the wounded officer is q member moved to Penn sylvania several years ago. They are related to sevral local famii- ies.
 A few weeks ago Lieutenant Hamilton was on visit to the Uni ted States and 1ectured in several cities on the Foreign Legion. His remarks were unusually interesting as they constituted an attack on motion picture versions of life in the Foreign Legion. He ridiculed the general conception Americans had drawn of the famous French fighting outfit through such pict- ures as Beau Geste."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-06
The Political
 Forum at YMCA First of Series Will Be Held Tomorrow
 Night

Tomorrow evening at s:15, the central Y. M. C. A. will start a series of political forums under the direction of the forum commit tee. Albert M. Simons of Hartford, prominent republican party man. will be the speaker and will pre- sent the republican party princi- pies. Following MT Simons on later dates will be speakers repre- senting the democratic. socialistic and independent parties. All these forums will be held in the east lobby of the Y and are open to all Y members. The usual question period will be held following the speaker
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-06
Scout "Aviators''
 To Exhibit Planes
Upson- Singleton Window to Display Work of Local
 Council

models. Robert Seaman, 1 model. Robert Lidell, 2 models. Harry Bartlett. 2 models. Raymond White, ] model. Joseph Dessereau, 1 model. Francis Meehan, mod el, and John Johnson, 1 model.
 Photographs taken at the time of the dedication of the airway marking sign on Bunker Hill will also be included in the exhibit.
 James Kelly, assistant scoutmasr ter of troop 20. Frank Mercer, scoutmaster of troop II. and the scout executive are assisting mem bers of the club with the arrange ments. q
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-06
LATE REALTY NEWS
NJortpa1e Deeds

Mortgage Deeds
 Gaetano Calli to the Thomaston Savings Bank, real estate at North Main and Division streets, $1S,000.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-06

That Mrs Arsenic f. Garcia No. i helped her husband win the af. feetiona 0f Mrs fiarcin Aq, was revealed in the bIgafny trial oi Manila. p. r.. optieIhn reeeniiy. and Garcia was sentenced 70 " yaar9 lmprLaenment
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-06
PROMISE MORE ARRESTS IN POLICY RACKE7
Two Accused Men Get Continuances;
 Order Roundup
Judge Meyer Intmates Entire Group Should Be Ar-
 rested and City Rid of Their Presence = Ad- dresses of Local Agents" Revealed

It would be difficult to establish a case against them unless actual evidence is found in their posses sion.
 Mccarthy has taken the attitude, apparently, that was shown recent ly in the arrest of two suspected "hi- -tackers." If we can't run our game then all the gambling outfts in Waterbury must fold up IS their contention. After their arrest the "boys'' want to help the po- lice to put the "other fellow" on the we'll known griddle. The em- ergency squad, however, evidently intends to get it's own evidence for fear some of the regulations of the volunteer vice crusaders might wilt in a court atmosphere.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-06
AN APPETIZER

And don't you know anything about religion?" queried the mis- sionary. |,
 Well, we got little taste of il when the last missionary was here," replied the cannibal chief -Hummel. Hamburg.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-06
EDWARD P. DERWIN
 b NIGHT SCHOOL TEACHER,

Edward P. Derwin has. been ap- pointed to succeed Charles J. Ban non, a chemistry teacher in the Free Evening schools, resigned. MT Derwin Is graduate of Holy Cross college. ;.
The Washington times., 1932-01-05
j. s. To STRESS
ARMY CUTS

The question of Europe reduc.
ing her standing armies, rather
than further material reduction of
navies, is expected by the Admin
istration to dominate the discus
sions at the Geneva armament
conference.
This was officially disclosed to-
day as the five delegates opened
their preliminary discussions with
President Hoover and Secretary
of State Stimson on the forma-
ton of an American policy.
The question of reducing armies
is one in which the United States
has only an academic interest,
inasmuch as the American Army
is now the smallest of any major
world power in proportion to
population.
Gen. Charles G.. Dawes, who will
head the American delegates, at
tended today'S conferences.
On the very day of Dawes ar
rival. the House Naval Committee
began hearings on the VinSon bill
to spend $616,000,000 over the
hext 10 years in building up the
depleted American Navy to Lon
don-treaty strength.
The Washington times., 1932-01-05
WRITERS
| SNUB LINDSAY

Secretary of State Stimson to-
day was seriously considering
whether he will be guest of honor
at banquet to- be given by the
State Department Correspondents
Association, to which Sir Ronald
Lindsay, British ambassador, was
not invited.
The affair has diplomatic
Washington agog. When the din
ner was arranged it was decided
that Secretary Stimson should be
guest of honor. A committee of
two was delegated to invite the
higher ranking members of the
Diplomatic Corps. The committee
decided that Sir Ronald should
be eliminated.
Several members of the asso-
citation, who had subscribed for
the dinner, and in quite a sub
stantial. sum, yesterday recalled
their subscriptions.
The impression at the State
Department is that Secretary
Stimson cannot countenance the
apparent discourtesy by attending
the dinner and that it PROBABLY
will be called off
The Washington times., 1932-01-05
BLOOM To QUIT?
| No! SAYS HE

Denying rumors that he would
resign as associate director of the
U. S. George washington Bicen-
tennial Commission because the
House Appropriations Committee
had slashed his budget request
for $427, 900 to $25O,000, Repre-,
sentative Sol Bloom said today:
Resign? Why? This is the
first 1 have heard about it.
"Resign because some mem
berS of Congress may have at
tackled me or the Bicentennial
Commission? I'd be a fine de-
fender of the principles and
ideals Of George Washington if
1 were to quit.
"NO, I'm getting together
facts and figures showing some
of the accomplishments of this
commission, which will submit
to the Congress. Many mem.
berS have not found the time
or the inclination, perhaps, to
visit the headquarters in the
Washington Building to see for
themselves what we are doing
and how"
The Washington times., 1932-01-05
Veteran Policeman
Narrates Liquor
Experiences

Stirring tales of days when
the Washington Baltimore Boul-
evard was a 12-foot pike and
State road patrolmen were
charged with enforcing a liquor
law, are told by Officer
Menash E. Katz, veteran of the
service.
Bootleggers in those days, he
states, bombarded pursuing
officers with cases of whisky
and smeared the road with axle
grease to skid police motor
cycles. He says he has often
come in with several cases of
booze balanced on his handle
bars.
So difficult it was, Katz says,
to watch liquor cars that ex-
cited roadside dwellers would
often phone HyttSville authori-
ties and tell them to block the
pike"
County police have an easy
time these days, according to
Katz, what with 40-foot boule-
ward and only Smoke" to con-
tend with.
The Washington times., 1932-01-05
SCHOOL NAMES
.. To Be PICKED

The controversial problem of
the selection of names for new
District public schools will be
thrashed out tomorrow at a
meeting Of the Board of Educa-
ton when a special committee on
the naming of schools makes its
report on three new school
projects.
The school body will be asked
to approve a name selected by
the committee for a new high
school in Reno for which a site
ds now in the process of being
purchased. An item for compile
tion of plans for the school is in
cluded in the 1888 estimates now
before the House.
An elementary school in Fox
hall Village and a junior high
school for Anacostia will also be
named. The new budget includes
estimates for the construction of
buildings on sites already pur-
chased.
DR.. Frank w. Ballou, Superin-
tendent of Schools, will report to
the school board on the delin-
uuency Of local teachers in paying
their debts to Washington mer-
chants.
The Washington times., 1932-01-05
PICKS UP
1885 POINTS
international Photo

NEW YORK, Jan. S Q.N.SO.
It looked a little less like a COM
plete washout for Sidney Lenz
today.
BY dint of hard bidding, coupled
with favorable distribution and
the breaks" in several delicate
situations, Lenz and Comdr. Win
field Liggett, jr., last night re-
duced by 1886 points the lead
held by Ely and Mrs. Josephine
Culbertson in their contract
bridge tournament, now nearing
a close.
The Culbertsons started out
with a lead of 20,22O points.
They ended nine rubbers of play
16,835 points ahead. The match
ends Friday night. Lenz and his
partner won six out of the nine
rubbers of the evening.
The Washington times., 1932-01-05
Court Sets Aside
Freight Rate Cut

An order of the Interstate Com
merce Commission for a 13 per
cent reduction in freight rates on
grain and grain products in West
ern territory was set aside yes
terday. by the Supreme Court.
The carriers estimated the rate
cut would have cost the roads
$20,000,000 year in freight rev.
enues.
In rendering the decision the
Supreme Court took judicial cog
nizance of the financial Difficult
ties of the railroads and virtually
served notice on the INC. C. it
will set aside all rate orders that
threaten their stability.
The Washington times., 1932-01-05
.COUN NTY DELAYS
!. ROAD WORK

Meeting in special session last
night, the new county board of
Arlington county voted, upon rec,
ommendation of County Manager
Roy S. Braden, to suspend road
construction operations until such
time as a survey of the county
can be made and the road situa-
ton surveyed.
In accordance with this order,
q standing order for four carloads
of stone dust per day was can
celled by the board.
The board decided to consider
applications for water extensions
next week. This action came
after a request for water exten-
sion had been made by representa-
tives of the Lee Heights Citizens
Association.
The Washington times., 1932-01-05
,WidOW of P. D. Head
Dies at Aqe of 86

CHARLES TOWN, w. Va, Jan.
5.-Funeral services were held
this afternoon at the Baptist
Church here for Mrs. Mamie H.
Wilson, 86, with interment in
Edgehill Cemetery.
Mrs. Wilson was the widow of
William L. Wilson, former presi-
dent Of Washington and Lee Uni
verSity at Lexington, Va, where
he died in 1900. Previously he rep
resented the Second West Vir-
ginia District in Congress for IL
years, and during President Cleve-
lands administration was Post
master General.
The Washington times., 1932-01-05
CONTROL Of JOB
AGENCIES, AIM

Regulation of private employ.
ment agencies in the District was
asked by Mrs. Mary r. Norton
CD New Jersey in a bill intro
duced in the House yesterday.
The measure aims to prevent
the taking of unjust registration
fees from those seeking employ
ment. 1t also is intended to bet
ter conditions in employment
agencies so that applicants for
positions will have better chances
of finding work through these
channels.
The bill to create a board for
the condemnation of unsanitary
buildings was also introduced by
Mrs. Norton.
The. board would have power to
secure condemnation of structures
which are unhealthy and a detri.
ment:
Both bills were referred to the
District of Columbia Committee.
The Washington times., 1932-01-05
BY GEORGE E. DURNO
Copyright, 1882. by International
News Service)

Organized racketeering.
under the comforting arm OF
corrupt politics and grating
police, has grown with leaps
and bounds in the past 10
years until it has embraced
with cancerous grip the very
necessities of life.
AL Capone and his ilk showed
the way in the earlier days to the
lesser fry with their highly bust
ness-like traffic in whisky, beer
and gambling. Machine guns,
bombs, and automatics proved
such effective "sales talks" that
soon the gangsters had bloSsomed
out to the point he was-and is
controlling employment, the cost
of food, and a hundred other es-
sentialS.
Entire East in Grip
1t remained, however, for a
typical gangster hold-up and kill
ing in the Old Colonial Tea
House at Bladensburg to set the
slow-moving wheels of justice into
operation that are just beginning
to disclose the hideous complexity
of the most vicious racket of them
all-tf1e traffic in young girls.
The entire East is mired down
under a system of organized vice
that is appalling in its ramifica.
tionS.
Every city of any size from Chi
cago to the Atlantic Seaboard is
an operating point for the crimi-
nails who are dealing in human
souls.
Girls for the most part under
20 years of age, and in some in
stances 16 and less, are the COM
modify in which the vice ring is
dealing.
Legitimate "big business" has
nothing on the white slave rack
eteer for perfection of organiza-
ton.
A Regular Business
A"circuit" of the towns and
cities in the rings vast territory
has been functioning in a man
ner to do credit to legitimate
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The Washington times., 1932-01-05
TGrin1Gn Gives Up 81,
Has to Walk Home

Bandits preying on taxicab
drivers added insult to injury in
the case of Raymond Edelin,, 100
E st. S. w.
Two white men stepped into
his cab last night and ordered
him to drive to Alexandria. On
the way, in Fairfax county, they
robbed him of ST, ordered him to
drive through Alexandria, threw
him out on the other side of
the town and made him walk
home.
The Washington times., 1932-01-05
Daughters of Isis
Pick NeLU Officers

Oasis Court, No. 2, Daughters OF
Isis, of the Eastern Star, has
elected Lillian P. Diggs, illustrious
commanders.
Other officers include Emma S.
Martin and Carrie E. Ashton,
first and. second lieutenants; Isa.
bel Carter, priestess; Mamie H
Mccoy, recorder; Nettie Miles,
treasurer; Bette Miles, oriental
guide; Gertrude Harrington. cere-
monial daughter; Lucinda Wash
ington, inner spy; Mamie Taylor,
outer spy; Anna James, grand
deputy, and Clarence w. Lewis,
royal advisor.
The Washington times., 1932-01-05
High Court UphOLds
Rent Car Li1biLity

A city ordinance of Cincinnati,
Ohio. requiring owners of Rent
a-Car automobiles to carry liabil-
ity insurance was upheld by the
Supreme Court yesterday. The
Hodge Drive-It-Y Yourself Company
had appealed.
The Washington times., 1932-01-05
Worlds Greatest Woman Bridge Player
Copyright, 1882. by International
News Service)

NEW YORK, Jan. 5.-The
bridge battle of the century,
as Ely calls it, the match of
$50 rubbers with Sidney S.
Lenz and his partners to test
the merits of the approach
forcing and official systems of
contract bidding, will end Fri
day. There remain only 81
rubbers to be played.
After last nights session J. am
taking a short vacation from
play, returning, however, to the
bridge table Friday night to play
the final session with Ely as my
partner. When this match was
arranged, I had agreed to play
only IS rubbers.
High Cards Even
That number today had been
passed, but my husband is such
a Romanticist he insisted I play
the last session, as the first, with
him.
I have been so interested in
the demonstration of the accuracy
of the approach-forcing system
of bidding that I was willing to
devote more time to the match
than I had expected to do at
the beginning.
An accurate count of the aces
and kings held disclosed that the
high cards held by the opposing
sides had been about even. The
matter of distribution, which
plays a very large part in the
success or failure of contracts at
the bridge table, has, if anything,
favored our opponents, and yet
we are 16,835 points ahead, due,
as 1 firmly believe, to the fact
that we used the better system
of bidding.
It's the System
AS a player and in analyzing
the hands, I have watched with
keen admiration the play of all
three of my opponents-Mr.
Lenz, Oswald Jacoby, and Comdr.
Winfield Liggett, jr.
They have lived up to their
reputation as brilliant and &C
curate players. In view OF this,
the results speak for themselves.
AS much cannot be said for
the system of bidding used by
them, however.
The Washington times., 1932-01-05
Lord BedUerbrOOk
Asks Debt EraSUre

LONDON, Jan. S USO Brit
ain must protect herself from
starvation by increased home
production and must deduce or
cancel her war debts to the United
States, Lord Beaverbrook, the pub
Usher, said in an article in the
London Evening Standard today
He added:
Eve lent our European allies
for the prosecution of the war
more money than we borrowed
from the United States.
1--WE have the right to be re-
garded as an intermediary whose
credit was pledged on behalf
of our allies"
The Washington times., 1932-01-05
Explorers in China
Reach Li1nQchOUfu

The Citroen-Haardt Tran s.
Asiatic expedition, travelling by
motor from Sinkiang to Peiping,
has reached Liangchowfu, in
KanSu Province, China.
The expedition made in CO.
operation with the National
Geographic Society, is the guest
of missionaries in Liangchowfu.
This expedition is one of several
through the unexplored sections
Of KanSu Province.
The Washington times., 1932-01-05
Woodward to Rule
NicdraqlIG Election

Rear Admiral Clark Howell
Woodward, in command of the
Third Cruiser Division, was
selected yesterday by President
Hoover to supervise the Mica
raguan elections next summer.
He will fly to Managua on Jan
uary 10, then rejoin the fleet
at Panama for winter maneuvers,
and return to Nicaragua in May.
The Washington times., 1932-01-05
80 VICE RACKET
OUTRAGES IN
EAST Barred
Bombings Laid to Business
Now Being Probed by
U. S. Agents

Is there an organized "tDItite
SlGUe" traffic? The Federal
Government is noD engaged in
the most intenSiue Investigation
in yedrS into this reUiUed racket"
and already evidence has been u1l-
edrthed of its appalling eTtent
along the Eastern SeGbodrd. The
Washington Times herewith pre-
SentS the first of a series of
articles describing some of the
evidence uneGrthed by GoUern-
ment investigators in running
dolUn the ring.
The Washington times., 1932-01-05
Bingham Bill Asks
Airport for CdpitGL

Establishment of CONNER
cial airport" for Washington by
consolidation of Washington Air
port, Hoover Field ard other land
in Arlington county is provided in
a measure introduced in the Sen
ate yesterday bv Senator Hiram
Bingham (R.) of Connecticut.
The bill is identical with one in
troduced at the last session by the
Senator. 1t specifies that the
field will be under regulation of
the Secretary of Commerce.
The Washington times., 1932-01-05
John Thomas Taylor
JASPER Post Speaker

Sergeant Jasper Post, Amer.
lean Legion, will meet tomorrow
at the Thomas Circle Club, 1926
Massachusetts, Ave. N. w. The
speaker will be Col. John Thomas
Taylor, commander Of George
Washington Post and vice chair.
aman of the national legislative
committee of the American Le-
giOn.
The Washington times., 1932-01-05
DOG TAGS ON HAND

Although new dog tags are not
required until April, a supply is
now on hand at the Bethesda
substation of the Montgomery
county police.
The Washington times., 1932-01-05
RELIEF BODY TO MEET

A meeting of the Municipal
Immediate Relief Association
will be held at 4:30 o'clock
tomorrow afternoon in Room Is,
District Building.
The Washington times., 1932-01-05
WIFE SET.
To PARTNER"
LAST SESSION
But Until Then Mrs. CuIbert-
son Takes "VaCation";
Praises Opponents

The tollo,0ing article UdS writ-
ten expressly for The Washing.
ton Times and International NetDS
SerUice by Josephine CulbertSon,
t0ite of Ely CulbertSon and Dith
hin, originator OF the approach
forcing system of contract bid
ding.
By JOSEPHINE CULBERTSON
Worlds Greatest Woman Bridge Player
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-10
MILITARY HONORS AT
 FUNERAL
Michael J. Donlon Was Buried This Morning With Every Tribute Firing Squad From Company G at Grave

Military honors were accorded Michael J. Donlon this morning when the funeral was held from the home, 70 Wood street, at 8:l5 o'clock, to St Francis Xavier 5 church where Q solemn mass or requiem was celebrated by Rev James O'Connor. assisted by Rev John Dillon, deacon, and Rev James Egan, sub-deacon. At the offertory Mrs Robert Birt rendered "Pie Jesu" and following the mass Professor Robert F. Birt rendered "The Star-Spangled Banner" Bur ial was in Calvary cemetery with committal services by Father Dll- lon.
 Church call was sounded by Ser geant John Brenneis. The firing squad, members of Company G. 102nd Infantry, in charge of Ser geant Raymond Parks. included Sergeant John Kennedy. Corporal John Dempsey and Priyates. ls' Class, Calvin Traver, Thomas Fibre and Joseph Simone and Privates Vincent Kurtin and J. Kelliher. Taps were sounded by Sergeant John Brenneis at the grave anu reechoed by Henry Strom. A dele gation attended, representing Com pany G, 1O2nd Infantry. in charge of Captain Peter Fox, assisted py William Dillon. First Serageant George Burns. Corporal Wallace Inglis and Corporal Vincent Ma
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