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Evening star., 1932-05-12
Bid and Asked Prices.
BONDS.
PUBLIC UTILITIES.
MISCELLANEOUS.
STOCKS.
PUBLIC UTILITY.

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Capital Traction Co t2). .... 1919 IL
Wash. Gas 1t Co. U6(. ..,,, s5 90
N w. Steamboat dbl, l35 IT'S
Pot, Elec. Power 81 pfd 49,. ..lOs1a los1a
Wash Rwy & Flee com. ~. 3gs3 W"
Wash Rwy. & Elec. pfd. to-. S2% 50
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BALTIMORE STOCKS
snecial Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, May Ia

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, May Ia
Sales. STOCKS. Last Sales
l25 Arundel Corporation .........--.
sc P Teleuhene, BALTIC pfd. Jfsit
Il Eonsoldated Gas eom........... 53Js
Egg Ccnsolidated Coal pid ........... -
100 Maryland Casualty Co o.,.. ai5
IS New Amsterdsm Gas Coz.
- q Fidelity Guaranty. 3fs
BONDS
100 Baltimore City IS 1851 eets
Aooo United REy j. kisc IS islS......... isB
1000 w B & A Railway 1st 5s,.,.....
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1000 ? 8 Subs Corn 5lss 40 441s 44lz "a
5000 Net West HI Is '3e 20 20 90
Bond sales today. $4,000.
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Lanston Monotype O0,,....... 5s ca
Mer TT. & Stge. com. Cd ..... 50 10
Mer. Tr 4 Stge. pfd. do, 74h 90
Natl Mtge q Inv Did. 0.... 5h 81
Peoples Drug Stores pfd. (61z). IS .
Security storsse t5s5 :. 80. of% loi1
Ter Ref. & VII Corp (0.. -. 40 SO
The Carpet Corp. (2)....,... oh 10
w Mech Mtge com. (9l .,.. -.
Wash. Med Bldg. Corp. o.. 90 los
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NATIONAL BANK.
TRUST COMPANy

Amer. Sec. & TT. Co, Cl5I...... 2ss as
Natl. Saw. & TT. G2D ......... ans 400
Prince Georges Blk. & TT. o.. 28 40
Union Trust (0sD D....-.......... 19i 200
Wash. Loan TT. 90 400 440
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-17
Football For Fun

One of the universities sadly announces that unless the alumni get busy and raise a fund for athletics there will be no football team next year. Yet the alumni show less interest than usual. and the public seems to care little about it one way or another. This is terrible. It is especially terrible to a few professional alumni who have been n- sistng for many years that good college is impossible without winning football team. They hang their heads in shame.
 As for the undergraduates, they are be- coming interested in less competitive forms of athletics. and in other activities like drama. music. and SO forth. Some of them are even interested in their studies. A eur- ous situation seems likely to develop. Foot ball will not die out. It may come to be played again. as it used to be. just for the fun of it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-17
A Rir FIa.h

Political proceedings are expressing. but what is going on in laboratories may be more important in the long run. Especially in electrical work. Old Ben Franklin would certainly have been pleased with the esIe- bration of his 1S0th anniversary of his kite experiment in the General Electric laboratory at Pitts6eld. Mass. He himself was daring innovator when he demonstrated the eleetri- cal character of lightning by tapping storm cloud with his kite. string and key. But in honor of the old philosopher scientist. Dr F. W. Peek. Jr. himself made lightning. thunder and all producing flash 60 feet long from 50.oo0. GOO kilowatt generator.
 That discharge was the most powerful thing yet produced by man. For some few millionths of second. it represented the expenditure of nearly twice the power of all the electrical generating stations in the United States. The voltage was 10000 900. Yet pr Peek was not quite love. A natural lightning flash might have been l00.000.000 volts. And that almost in- conceivable force is small compared with the mysterious eosmie rays coming to us from outer space. supposedly produced in the building up of atoms. pr Millikan says they represent l.000.000.000 volts. There is still plenty of work for more Franklins
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-17

When is a cornetist committing sacri- lege! Patrolman James Keating of Chicago thought that Charles Dellinghoff was doing that when he played The Star-Spangled Banner while walking around the streets as a sandwich man. Therefore. was brought into court. but promptly released when both the prisoner and the judge agreed that to play the national anthem on the eornet was certainly no einch for anybody. Incidentally the judge proved the exception to the general rule by not considering it a crime for this particular cornetist being the worst player the patrolman ever heard. Evi- dently the judge has never been serenaded by a beginner.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-17
FRIDAY, JUNE IS, 1882
Hoover and Curtis

There should be no surprise at the action of the Republican National Convention in endorsing President Herbert Hoover and Vice President Charles Curtis. It certainly would have been suicidal for the party to have thrown down the president It would have been. next to that to throw Mir Curtis out of office and replace him with some body who might be rated as a concession to some faction. Whether or not the republi- can candidates can extricate themselves from the unenviable positions in which they are by virtue of rash promises of four years ago remains to be seen.
 We can't recall a republican national convention of recent years that presented as stormy sessions as this one at Chicago. Never has the republican party been confronted with a bugaboo in the form of a political issue that it could not smooth out in com mjttee. However. the prohibition plank proved the party's downfall. It labored with it and ultimately brought forth freak. We don't think that even the ovation that was rendered President Hoover's renomination can wash away the bitter taste of this flat failure at compromise.
 Republicans would have us believe that their convention ended much more smooth ly than it began. But did it? Can the nomination of Vice-President Curtis be de- seribed as sentiment of unanmity in the ranks' Far from it to our way of think ing. There were well-formed minorities who found the vice-president not to their liking. Why. we don't know. for Mir Cur tis has acquitted himself as eapably as any vice president can. It is too obvious that his removal was for political reasons alone. And these reasons must have been allied with issues of the day with which the vce-pres- ident was not in sympathy. All of which reveals rift in the hitherto unbroken re- publican ranks. Can it be closed before November!
 The New York Herald Tribune. which regarded the prohibition plank as the worst compromise ever produced says of Mir Hoovers chances Fortunately for Mir Hoovers prospects. the strength or weakness of the Chicago platform can have little bear ing on his campaign. He is his own plat form. His record speaks for itself without ambiguity. Where the platform tersely enuncates policies which the president has already expressed in swift. decisive action. it is eloquent and effective. - But where the platform bogs down as it were. it isn't quite SO eloquent or effective and the president looks sort of siekly. He has never and we don't ever expect to see him alter his stand on prohibition. We think he is still dry. but will try to satisfy the dis satisfaction in republican ranks by apparently declaring for resubmission of the 18th amendment. What an example to set be- fore the American people.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-17

with its bill. The story that Mr Aitkin tells, however. is 2 convincing one. He notked q bird hatching some eggs under the cave of his versnda roof. He placed crumbs nearby for the mother bird. One day he dangIed piece of meat on string near her. She merely peeked at it disdainfully before returning to her maternal duties However. the male bird descended like a plunnmet from nearby tree and attacked Mr Aitkin. causing the wounds described above. Now if it was blue-jay. we could well believe that he might do some such damage. but for tiny bluebird. usually the most timid of birds as we'll as the most melodious. that sounds unusual to say the least. We hope Mr Aitkin is up on his ornithoIogy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-17
Not Sold Yet

Somebody in republican circles in this state is trying to do bit of dctating or else employ bit of psychology on those who will name the state ticket this fall. Promi- nent at the convention hall in Chicago were banners naming Hiram A. Bingham for U. S. Senator. State Attorney Hugh Alcorn for governor and Professor Charles Bake we'll of Yale University for lieutenant governor. It failed to arouse much enthusi- asm among the Connecticut delegates. for they were too deeply engrossed in the more pertinent matters of suitable platform and the president and viee-presidental eandi- dates to care about mere state nominations.
 The Hartford Courant saw in this combi- nation of names a play for the Babist' vote of the state. Unfortunately we don't presume there are any 'Babist" in Conpec- tieut, nor can there be many in this country. The followers of Bibism are pantheistical sect flourishing in Persia and apparently combination of various other sects common to this region of the world. Therefore. the "Bab' banners will have to be inter- preted literally and not fguratively. They mean simple. Bingham. Aleorn. and Bake well, and nothing more nor less than that. The trio are being boomed by somebody or some organization in Hartford. for it was from this city that the postcards were mailed to the Connecticut delegates.
 Somehow or other we can't yet believe that States Attorney Aleorn will be the gu- bernatorial candidate on the republican ticket. We think that Mir Rorabaek. if he is to have any say in this coming election. and who is to say he isn't. would be quick to place his stamp of approval on almost any other candidate than the purposeful Mir Aleorn. He might be even more than the state chairman could manage. And once in office we don't think that etven the wishes of the state chairman would be respected if he went SO far as to indicate that the executive had erred in judgment and must not be returned to power.
 We'll wager that there will be determ- ined effort to bring former Governor Trum- bull back into the fold this fall as Governor Cross' opponent. If he remains firm in his present Calvin Coolidge attitude. then Mir Rorsback may declare the trials open to all and let the best man win. hoping perhaps against hope that Mir Aleorns former un- compromising stand on various issues will decrease his availability in the eyes of the re- publican delegates.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-17
Corporation Gardens

An iron ore company operating in upper Michigan. laying off its l,500 men until next November because it cannot mine ore under present conditions all year long. and it is better for the men to have work in the winter time provides them with land for gardens during the summer.
 Here is another example of the new spirit of industry. The modern corporation. an extent that would have been unimaginable 20 or 30 years ago. feels an obligation to look after its employees even when they are not employed It is somthing like the old patriarchal spirit of taking care of ones own people" Such spirit does much to solve American industrial problems.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-17
American Portraits

Foreign portrait painters are fattening on our national capital" speaker tells the General Federation of Women's Clubs. She does not like to see President Hoover paint cd by an English artist, Mrs Hoover by Russian artist and Vice-President Curtis by a French artist. American artists. she n- ssts. should have chance.
 So they should. But not necessarily for the reason given. which was purely eeo- homie. Art is usually regarded as interna- tional. or supernational Great art of any kind, whether painting. sculpture. music or what not, is universal in its appeal. We do not think less of Mona Lisa because the picture was painted by an Italian. or less of Beethoven symphony because it was written by German. Americans rightly buy and bring home masterpieces wherever they can find them.
 But when it comes to portraits of living people and national heroes. there is differ ,enee. We want them lifelike and natural. with their national or racial characteristics along with the personal resemblance. And this is where a foreign artist nearly always fails.
 A Frenehman who paints a celebrated American. living or dead, nearly always un- consciously paints Frenehman; Russian makes his subject Russian. It seems as if the subtle differences that make an Ameri-. can. Russian. German. Englishman. etc.. can only be portrayed by fellow-eountry- man. So American artists are best for Americans
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-17

We like the attitude that Representative Lonergan of Hartford takes with respect to the bonus marehers now eneamped around Washington by the thousands. He declares although he voted against the bonus pay ment this week, that These men are here now and while they are here they should be treated as veterans. think they should have food and clothing until a reasonable time after the bonus bill is disposed of. Then. feel they should be provided with enough food and transportation where nec- essary to enable them to go home. :" This view of the Connecticut legislator was submitted to Secretary Joslin of President Hoovers staff with the intention of having him communicate it to the president for action. Incidentally Representative Loner- gan intends to present bill to Congress authorizing the payment of the bonus marchers' expenses. If we recall correctly Uncle Sam eventually had to resort to some such expedient to rid Washington of Coxey's Army forty years ago. After storming the Capitol they were finally placed in camp outside the District of Columbia limits and later transported to the states from which they had come. We feel sure that this plan will again have to be followed. at least the last part of it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-17
So They Say

Whats the matter with boys here? went out with a boy and had to punch him to make him behave. never had such trouble in Shanghai. But love Holly wood. = Lyda Roberti, movie tm- portation. who once danced in Q Shanghai cafe.
 Germany is in a terrible state.
 Wilhelm. ex-crown prince or Germany.
 It is vital in . democracy that the public opinion upon which IL rests shall be an informed and educated opinion. - President Herbert Clark Hoover.
 After three years. the govern ment has finally realized the emergency that exists. Now after having @ other conclusions or what ought to be done. it realizes the necessity of relief for suffer ing citizcns. Senator Hiram Johnson of California.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-17
A Book a Day
by BRUCE CATION
No Marvel Was Too Dizzy for
 Him to Credit

Charles Fort, who died the other day just as his new book, Wild Talents" was coming from the presses, lived in . world entirely unlike the one which most of us inhabit.
 His world was place of mar vels: a place where common sense and the axioms of science did not exist, a place in which almost any thing could be true, no matter how bizarre 1t might be-
 Probably 1t wasn't real world at all. But it must have been in- teresting.
 If you read his earlier book, "Lov all that need say about "Wild Talents Is that 1t is some more of the same thing. If you didn't, 1t is necessary to tell you that Fort spent years gathering newspapers clippings about. out. landish events which never get ex- plained clearly.
 Wild Talents" tells you, for in- stance. about showers of stones falling from 6 clear sky on the head of Q bishop; about two men who died, for no reason at all, oi. the same park bench within two days of each other;- about dead human and . dead bird, found in a field with mysterious wounds in the head; about people. who burn to death in bed from flames that, strangely enough, do not harm the bedding or tho room that contains 1t bit; about an automobile that seems to possess will of it's own --and so on through a long list of freakish happenings.
 Fort accepted none of the con- ventional explanations for these things. Instead he persisted in see- ing the world as a place where anything could happen. Wild Talents" as result, may be non- sense--but.it's interesting.
 It is published by Claude Kcn- dall, and sells for 8.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-17
Here, There And EDeryDhere

lawyers office, not infrequently by the aid of the midnight oil.
 Judge Nobbs Is a product of that school and throughout his long and active career at the bar in the state of Connecticut he has ad- hered to the highest traditions of his profession.
 Bridgeport has known him as a practicing attorney for many years, and 1t and the surrounding towns of Thumb bull and EastoD have honored him by election to the important and dignified, once Of judge of probate.
 Judge Nobbs. shortly after be- ginning practice in Bridgeport gained experience as clerk in the city court. Az judge of probate he won merited recognition for his kindly and humane practices. Upon his retirement from that office he entered into the practice of law. which he has since carried on in this, the city of his adoption. One of his former law partners was the late James Wilson, father of ex- Lieutenant Governor and ex- May or Clifford B. Wilson.
 To his new duties Judge Nobbs will bring a valued experience. It Is difficult to imagine how the Judges could have selected one more eminently equipped by train- ing and experience for the impor- tarit duties devolving upon the legal ipquisitor, whose work re- quires that he understand and ap- preciate the difficulties which are faced by every alien seeking the advantages of U. s. citizenship.
 The immigrant aspiring to citi- zenahip needs a friendly counsellor. and such a one Judge Nobbs will prove to be. our judges are to be commended for exercising such wisdom, and the state is fortunate in having available for such post one possessing such excep- tional qualIfcations.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-17
NEGLECTED GRAvEYARDs
(Hartford Courant)

A recent letter in the forum pleaded that decent care and re- spcct he shown to the many an- cient graveyards Scattered through out New England, notably Con- necticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. It was suggested by the writer that the selectmen of the various towns might devote some thought to the matter. They might. especially in the smaller towns, which are often among the older ones. and yet one can see clearly the difficulties that arise.
 Tn one of the older towns of Con- nccticut three family burial lots that dated as far back as the be- ginning of the eighteenth century have been eliminated within the past three decades. In two of the cases there is nothing left to show their location and in neither case was the burial plot of any great sible error that in no one of the three cases did the title pass to persons of foreign birth. The CTS who were of native stock. IL WAbS OL CVuIbS, au CEIOE UH bbc VhKt of the early settlers to establish these family burial plots. AS one may see in this city, New Haven, Branford and other old ,comn1uni- ties. the early burials were in tho center of the respective towns, 1t being simple enough to carry the body on a bier to the burial place. But when homestead was estab- lished four or five miles away the problem, especially in winter, pre- sented difficulties; hence the fam fly or neighborhood burial place.
 There are other matters in con. nection with this matter of sepul- ture which will remain difficult to solve. For years 1t was not an un. common act on the part of the res- idents of shore towns to bury bod les washed ashore not far from the point at which the tide left them and to mark the grave by field stone. Again 1t has often occurred that some cherished son or daugh- ter, now dead for a century, was buried near the old homeAn [ place set apart by the parents and cared for by them during their lifetime. For the preservation of these bur- ia1 places there is little hope. but something should be undertaken for the care of district or neigh borhecd graveyards.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-17

Anybody who has seen the laurel display along the Chase Park boulevard the last few days was treated to a sight. It was partic- ularly fine after the recent rains. We hope to see the city expand this bower of blos-
 soms at some future date. The Sled Haul Brook would be an ideal spot for few bushes. True. there are some along it's banks now but many more could be added to make it more attractive than 1t is already.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-17
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AusrRIANs CHECKED

On June IT. 1918. strong force of British and italian allies inassed In the regions of Asiago and Monte Grappa and succeeded in checking a determined Austrian advance on this front. Many Austrian pris- oners were taken.
 West of the piave river. how ever, opposite San Dona al Jiave. Austrians extended their positions and captured Capo sile.
 French troops between the oise and Aisne, near Hautebraye, en the western front. improved their positions. American troops wers subjected to ono of the heavies gas attacks they had received during |tha war.