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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-27
ExTRADIIE YOUTH FOR AUTOMOBILE THEFT
|EAISSARY FROM
 ROOSEVELT IS FRENCH PUZZLE
France Is Worrying as to the Man That VIII Talk About the War Debts

Paris. Dec s7-(UP)- French officials were: slightly puzzled to- day regarding who would become official United states emissary on war debts after the inaugura- ton of President-eiect Roosevelt, Edouard Herriot said jocularly be- fore his government was over- thrown on the war debts payment: CT have seen at least 500 Roose- welt special emmissaries, each claiming to be the only one"
 Jesse Isidor Straus, president oi IT. H. Macy and Company of New York, is highly regarded in Eropc as . possible member of the Roose- veit cabinet and q war debts nego- tiator. Straus was engaged in con- gtructive conversation with French government officials in Paris. An other possibility is former Senator Henry French Hollis of New Hampshire, a member of the liqui- dalton cofnmission for war debts appointed in 1919. Hollis now lives in Paris.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-27
Police Ready
 To Act Tn Case
 Of Ralph Farnham
Held in Newburgi With Car of John EaFgnoIe of South
 Main Street in His POssession Keegan Machine Recovered d-AnOther Machine Reported Missing

Extradition papers will be ape piled for by the local police au- thorities, if necessary, to insure the return to Waterbury of Ralph Farnham, or Farmer, of Nauga~ tuck. .The youth is under arrest in Newburgh, N. Y., on the tenn porary charge of having stolen car in his possession. If he is brought back hcre he will be for rally charged with theft of the machine.
 According to the report of the police a car ownod by John Farg- noIc of 635 South Main street was stolen in this city on March 17th. IL had been left parked near the corner of Grand and Canal streets. The car found in Farnham's pos session has been identified as the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-27
Electric Dollar To Replace The Gold
 Is Latest Theory
Scientists Present This New Idea With the Hope of Lifting the World From the Present Ruinous Financial Depression

ends in electric dollars" and in turn commodities and rents would be paid for with the new unit. "The source of Edison dollars he said,
 would be the electric light and power companies.
 "The present bond secured bank notes arise by banks depositing gold bonds with the treasury against which bank notes are is.
 sued to the banks and pass into the monetary circulation. Tn a similar way the electric light com panies would deposit with the
 treasury futures in kilowatt-hours.
 1. C., their promise to deliver kilo- watt-hours in the future to an
 amount fixed in certain manners. against which the United States
 would issue electric dollars The
 bond held by the government for | performance of the ultimate re- demption would be lien ahead of all obligations on the property
 of the electrical corporations" The "electric dollars" Dr Nor
 ton suggested. would go to the eiec-
 trical companies instetad of to
 banks as now. there to he paid out in wanes, dividends and in payment of supplies just as bank note cur-
 rcncy is paid out by banks. Banks would keep checking ac-
 counts in electric dollars" and
 their gold paper substitutes would
 be retired gradually In this man.
 ner, Dr Norton argued, $5,000 0,000,- 900 no longer would be needed to preserve the sanctity of the gold standard.
 "This sum-" he said. would rep-
 resent the advance that would
 have been gained by adopting the electric dollar a sum equivalent to one-quarter of the national debt."
 Dr Norton's plan was viewed as a concrete idea from the Howard Scott School of Thought which
 stresses an "cnergy" unit in deter mining the value of any product in the science of technocracy. The American Association for the Advancement of Science and its 41
 affiliated societies will hold meet ings throughout the week. Chief interest apparently will be held for a discussion Friday of the cosmic ray by Professor Arthur IT. Comp ton. of tho University of Chicago,
 and Dr Robert A. Millikan, presi-
 dent of the California Institute of
 Technology.
 Among the discussions scheduled for today was a thumbnail sketch of The Average American Family by William F. Ogburn, professor of
 sociology at the University of Chi- cago.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-27

Atlantic City, N. J, Dec 27.-- (UP)-The electric dollar" to re- place gold has been added to the pool of ideas scientists have ad. vanced with the hope of lifting the world from the depression and inc surfing 1t against recurrence of an era of defiation.
 This new monetary plan was ad- vanced by Dr John F. Norton, fi- nancial writer of Suffield, Conn, on the eve of the opening of the American Association for the Ad- xyancement of Science meeting here today. He proposed this new unit of exchange be known as the "Edi- son dollar," with its value in terms of gold as 40 kilowatt-hours.
 Dr Norton explained the kilo- watt-hour is an electrical unit which is the same in quality and quantity everywhere In the Knitted States. He argued that the cost of producing this electrical unit does not vary greatly over the country. He would provide for decreases in cost of production, made possible through progress in the industry, by having the new standard revaiued every five years.
 ID SthTt tIs bysteHU tDtV OpCTd- tlon." pr Norton said. Legislation would be needed, defining the stan dard value within the United States as the electric dollar, leral tender for all transactions or contracts with durations less than five years"
 Tho scientist, in urging his plan be enacted. cited these chief benc- fits claimed for the "electric doi- lar":
 A 25 per cent reduction in the national debt.
 Absolute stability with its secur- ity impregnable
 It can be expanded and contract. cd automatically to control the in- dcx number.
 Gold is left free for all to use in as standard of value in long term contracts, or as an intcrna- tional money.
 Dr Norton explained corpora tions would pay wages and diyid-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-27
Norman E. Mack
 Old Guard of the Democrats Is Dead

Buffalo, N. Y.. Dec 27-(U. p Democracy mourned to-day the death Of one of the "old guard" Norman F. Mack. former newspa- per publisher, who died Monday after q short illness.
 A steady stream of telegrams, expressing sympathy, included one from President-eiect Roosevelt.
 Mack was "A years old. He was democratic national committeeman f.r 32 years. He was a former na- tional and state chairman and form CT editor and publisher of the Buffalo Evening Times, which he founded.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-27

property of Targnoie. It is be. lieved that the accused youth bor- rowed the machine to tour New York state in search of employ ment.
 An automobile. owned by Will liam Keegan. Jr. Of Chestnut ave- nue was stolen last evening from in front of his residence. The ma chine was found early this morn- ing abandoned on North Beacoti street by Patrolfnan Joseph Petit of the motor patrol. The car was ir good condition. The only thing taken from 1t was e pair of gloves.
 The police are looking at present for a car owned by Thomas Mat thews of B Watertown avenue. II was stolen from South Main street last evening.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-27
Solemn Mass at
 Saint Margaret's
Mass in Honor of St Mar garet" Sung at Eleven
 O'Clock Christmas

On Christmas morning at St
 Margarets church, Willow street. the entire choir sang the Mass fin
 Honor Of Saint Margaret" written by John L. Bonn, organist and
 choirmastcr. which Mrs Bonn pre-
 scented Sunday in honor of his fifty years at the organ. The mass, strictly liturgical. Is . beautiful
 and solemn work, and is dedicated to St Margaret's pastor, Rev Ed.
 ward Brennan. The mass was written some few years ago but Sunday was the first time in sev- eral years since 1t has been sung at this church.
 The Kyrie of the mass was in- spired by . Bach prelude and Is in part Q transcription of same, while the .Credo Is based on Gregorlan themes. The mass Is impressive throughout. The rest of the pro- lgram for high mass Christmas Day was in keeping with the church ritual. Tho order Of the mass as
 sung by choir and soloists was as follows: Asperges, Gregorian; In- tr0it. Puer Natus", by MT Bonn: hyf1c, GlOria, CreuOs bhuctub hnu Agnus Dci from the St Margaret mass; Adcste Tidelis at the grad., uaI Of the mass; "Jesu Bambino" by Pietro Ton at the Offertory; and Benedictus by Gounod sung by male quartet composed Of
 Joseph Muicahy, Joseph Harri. gan, Joseph Connor and Thomas Doyle. The choir soioists were
 Mrs Erie Pape, soprano, Joseph
 Mulcahy, tenor, Jane ID. Culhane, alto, and Joseph Conn0r. bass. The celcbrant of the mass was
 Rev Edward Brennan. Rev Rich. ard Bowling, S. !. instructor ct Holy Cross college. delivered the sermon. taking for his text tho
 words from the gospel of St Luke. "And the angel said to them: Fear not; for. behold, I bring you good tiding of great joy, that shall bs to all the people," Father Bren. nan also addressed . few words of congratulation to the organist. John l.. Bonn for his services to God and the church, and extended the greetings of the season to the congregation,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-27
$29, ,634,O ,O0O
 BY ROCKEFELLERS

New York, Dec 27.-UP)-- More than half of the 4,600, 900 given away by 102 American Phil- anthropic foundations in 1891, $29.- 634, 900, came from the Rockefeller fortune. the annual survey of the Twentieth Century Fund revealed today. Medicine and public health received $17,144,000, education, $13,579, 900, social science and phy- sical science, third and fourth with $5,832,941 and $4,667,600 respec- lively. Prohibition received $100. the smallest amount of the 27 fields represented.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-27
Chanukah Supper
 At 6:3O Tonight
Beth Fl Congregation to Attend-SpeciaI Services
 Over Weekend

showed motion pictures.
 Mrs Samson Holczor headed lne committee in charge of the cIitcr< tainment, assisted by Mrs Albert Berman, Irving Rosen. Mrs ie= adore Brcelau and Mrs 4. Henry Weisman.
 Rabbi Moses D. sheinkopf of Beth Israel synagogue will deliver an address entitled, Modern Hell Ienismv Friday night at sfJo o'clock at the Waterbury Hebrew Institute. Sermons at the other synagogues will be on the Chanu- kah the same evening.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-27

This evening at e:sO o'clock at the Beth El synagogue a chanukah supper will be served at which many of the congregation will be present ip conjunction with the Feast of the Chanukah.
 Special services were held Sum- day and yesterday for Jewish chiI- dren at the various synagogues. Al Temple Israel Sunday afternoon q children's entertainment was gpon- sored at which members of the sisterhood distributed gifts to the youngsters. Harry Fleischer also
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-27
The Rensselaer, l University Dance
Friday Evening at the Wa terbnry WOmen's Club

The first annual dance of Rcns- balaer University will be held Fri- day evening at the Waterbury Women'c Club on Central avenue. Iames Donneily of Clifton avenue ls chairman and is being assisted by Howard Finkenzellcr of Clifton btreet. Melvin Freeman and Rich- hrd Wolff of Clinton street and Louis Shaker of South Main street.
 Verne Verzier of Baldwin street and Earl Magester of Tracy ave. hue arc members of the graduate bommittee. The advance sale of 3ickets has been most pleasing and k large crowd is expected to he b the music of Jimmy Cayanaugh and his orchestra.
 Dancing will commence prompt- Ev at . o'clock and continue in a Few days by Chairman ponnelly
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-27
CIVIL ACTION AGAINST
 THE CITY WITHDRAWN

The s1.500 civil action of Jennie Silvestro against the City of Wa terbury was withdrawn from the common pleas court docket to- day. The plaintiff filed the suit to recover for injuries to her leg caused when she stepped into n hole on Abbott avenue on Oct 28. 1881. She charged she was about to step into car when she fell and was thrown into the gutter.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-27
AGREEMENTS

The fOIIOWIng c0mpenBntI0n agreements were filed to-day at the office of Commissioner Frederic M. williams: Laskas Motor Lines Inc, and William F. Laskas of this city, leg injury $12.50 weekly; Fitz- gerald Mfg Go of Torrington and Beatrice Morrison of Torrington, finger injury $5 weekly.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-27
BODY OF OTHER
 BOY IS FOUND

New York, Dec 27.-(UP)- )-- Funeral services for James (Rcd) Mcguire, 9, drowned when he fell through the thin fec of Indian Creek, will be held Wednesday. The body was recovered yesterday. James and his pal, Thomas Staff ford, g. fell through the ice Satur- day. Patrolman Louis Ettlinger plunged in, seized boy in each arm, and dreaded water for half hour until help arrived. He lifted tho Stafford boy to safety, but James slipped from his numbed fingers and was drowned.
 Automatic falanhonea ara being
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-27

The Maharaia of Kasmir. India. b the UntouchabIss.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-27

Plymouth. England. is experi- menting with . mIcr0phone to an- nounce stopping places Of busos.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-27

Automatic telephones are being installed in Northern Ireland.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-20
Large Decline Is Shown
In Central Europe Trade

VIENNA, Austria Foreign trade sta
tistics for Central Europe, Just an
nounced, show that trade in general
fell of about IS per cent during 1881.
Three countries still have favorable
trade balances, but the margin of
profit has seriously shrunk. Czecho-
slovakia's surplus sank from the 1880
figure of 1,75s,0oo,0oo Czech crowns
to 100000. 900. Hungary dropped from
$4,000 900 pengoes to 27,000, 600 Poland
also showed a decrease, but slighter.
Similarly, the deficits of the coun-
tries with an adverse balance con-
tinued to be augmented. Jugoslavia
had an adverse balance of 100 600, 900
dinars, while Austria's catastrophe
deficit of 100000 schillings in
creased to 868, 000, 900.
The position of Czechoslovakia re-
mains best of all the Danubian coun-
tries. that Of Austria worst. Bulgaria,
however, also was hard hit.
Copyright 1922
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Gypsies Prove Surprise
By Attending Schools

VIENNA, Austria.-Gypsies are going
to school these days in Carpathian
Ruthania. following the vigorous edu-
cational policy Of the government Of
Czechoslovakia.
The first gypsy school in Europe was
set up In 1927 In Uzhored, capital of the
province Of Ruthania. At. first critics
scoffed, saying that to get gypsy child
to come to school was something like
repeating the law of grayitation.
The teachers had hard shedding dur
ing the first few years, bet now gypsy
kids are thoroughly Injured to the idea
of sensible education, leading attend
ance in the school to be doubled re-
Gently.
Encouraged by success, the munich
pality of Uzhorod Is going to donate q
plot Of ground tosthe gypsy community,
to erect new and bigger school.
: (oopyrisht, 1890
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best tram service in South America;
nowadays the tram tracks meander
through en- almost unbroken jungle, and
the once populous surburbs are without
suburbanites.
Not. until the traveller reaches
Iquitors, however, can he appreciate the
calamity which befell the Amazon re-
gion two decades ago when the Orient
went in for rubber growing and robbed
it of its market.
For Iquitos, once a mere Indian viii
lage, grew overnight to metropolitan
proportions back in the good old days
of the boom. It's optimistic citizens
laid out wide avenues and extensive
parks. They erected three-story
hotel, a veritable skyscraper in this
land of the low, matched huts. They
built countless huge warehouses for
their latex, put up mansions of i'm
ported tile and opened innumerable
shops, saloons, restaurants and cafes
for the rubber .gatherers and rubber
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citic. SO much wealth was stored in
its custom house, indeed, that the city
became a favorite objective of fortune
seeking revolutionists, who could seize
the local government. rob the cash
drawer and retire down the Amazon
long before the news of their coup
could even reach the rest Of the coun-
try on the opposite side OF the Andes.
Prosperity, however, was not destined
TO last.
The rubber gatherers of Amazonia
had never bothered to cultivate the
trees. In their haste to supply the
demand they simply tapped the trees
which grew wild. The process was
simple enough; one merely cut the
tree and let its sap drip into a cup.
These cups, however had to be emptied
daily. and the wild trees, instead of
growing in compact and convenient
groves, were often scattered widely
through an almost impenetrable forest
Now, labor in this region happens to
be exceedingly scarce The primitive
Indians of Amazonia, having little
need for money or the things which
money buys, were not to be tempted
by wages. 1t was not long after the
boom when a great many nasty ru-
mors began to reach the outside world
to the effect that white overseers were
practically enslaving whole Indian
tribes. The British government sent
out the late Sir Roger Easement (who
was then in its good graces) to inves
tigate, and he aStounded the world
with reports that the overSeerS on &C.
casion resorted 10 the most iendish
torture known since the Inquisition.
This is but an incident in the history
OF the region. but 1t had another and
greater effect. 1t focused public at
tention upon the rubber industry. An
other Englishman hit upon the happy
idea of swiping rubber tree seeds and
planting them in the tropical Far east,
where there would be more than q suf-
ficiency of cheap labor. And presto
change-o-a few years later the ANA
ION district aWoke to discover that 1t
was no longer the sole source Of rubber.
For heels, tires, erasers and what not,
the world now looked to the scientih-
cally planted estates of Malaga, Su
matra, Borneo and other Oriental lands.
Hotel Still Stands.
In the slump which followed, all the
Amazonian towns became mere hollow
shells. Iquitos was not an exception.
It's three-story hotel still stands, for
the accommodation Of the few scientists
or bughunters who may drift in from
the jungle. incidentally. this hosiery,
along with everything else that's worth
owning. is now the property of jew
iSh gentleman who came out to 1Qui-
tos as a $20-a-week clerk But the
warehouses stand empty. Cows Craze
in the center of the wide bouleyards,
while the motor cars ordered by OPP
timistic citizens rust in the central
plaza. And the former inhabitants
have largely drifted away, until bare
10000 remain.
But the city is not quite dead 1t
makes a brave and sometimes rather
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impossible, his delegates would be likely
to turn to Roosevelt One can hardly
imagine a Murray delegate, one thor
oughly indoetrinated with the Murray
principles, turning to such a conserva-
tive or relatively conservative candidate
as Ritchie, for example
Roosevelt Is in q strong position. His
weaknesses are two: He Is opposed by
substantially all the most powerful ma
tiona; readers Of the party. To say they
oppose" him Is inaccurate. It is more
exact to say they are strongly of the
Judgment that 1t would be better to
nominate another man.. The sum of the
influence Of these nom Roosevelt leaders
In the convention, expressed not so much
in delegates as in prestige, will be very
great. RooSevelt's other weakness is
that he has not developed so far any
compelling strength among the people
There Is no mounting popular tide for
him as there was for Woodrow Wilson
in 1912. At this moment Speaker Gar
ner Is accommodating a personal follow
ing more rapidly than Roosevelt. Roose-
velt's lack of a strong popular following
will make it comparatively easy for
the national leaders to refrain from
nominating him II they should decide
to do 20.
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prosperity!
Down below the Tapajos
tributary upon which the estates are
situated, the BraZilians confidently be-
leve they will; they even hope that In
some vague way the magic of a Ford
VIII make the sprouting trees grow
faster
In the neighborhood Of the Tapajos
itself the natives are even more enthusi-
astlc. The clearing and planting of a
1000, 000-acre tract means employment
for many men at steady wages The
nalt-breed river jewellers may not take
kindly to American efficiency, which, If
FORD transfers the we'll known Detroit
system to South America, would mean
the tapping Of tree 387 at AIS each
Gay. But they are housed and fed, and
uosed With much needed quinine, and
receive in the bargain the munifcent
minimum wage Of about 81 cents a day
UP above the Tapajos, however, many
OF the property owners look upon the
new project as menace. 1t may mean
migration Of their workers and the
patrons OF their shops to Fordiana, and
the river cities already are mere shells
OF their former selves.
To most Americans the term ghost
Town suggests an abandoned mining
camp IN our own Southwest, a boom
settlement whose prosperity has fed, to
leave IL a. mere empty shell. Such
communities, however, are by no means
peculiar to the United States. They
are to be found in many other parts of
the world, wherever a once promising
trade or industry has failed to meet
the expectations of optimistic settlers
And nowhere are there so many as exist
along the great Amazon River, where
the cities that Sprang up during the
rubber boom OF the early 1900's are now
mere monuments to vanished grandeur.
Para Suffered Least.
Para, the city that gave its name to
rubber, probably has suffered the least,
for 1t lies at the mouth of the stream
and Is still the entrepot for vast and
fertile region embracing at least a
quarter Of the South American con-
tinent. Fewer fine automobiles may
roll across its wide Partisan boulevards
but business still struggles along. largely
in the hope that Ford's plantations on
the TapaJoS sooner or later will send
new cargoes OF the Amazon's chief pro-
duct to its wharves and thus revive
Paras prosperity.
But as one ascends the river the
towns become more ghost-like.
Manaos, a thousand miles up the
stream, Is a mere skeleton Of its former
self. Above the river bank towers the
majestic bulk of a $1,000, 900 opera
house, stiit the pride of the local citizens
but it contains no opera singers.
Farther back in the city geological park,
of which sthe people of Manaos once
were equally pf0und-but today 1t con-
tains no zoo. And still farther out are
the suburbs, which. once boosted the
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'rawn for The Sunday Star by Dewitt Welsh.
buyers who made this their headquar-
tiers. The permanent population, to be
sure. might never have exceeded 3d.
600, but it was swelled daily by hun
dreds of swarthy visitors who flocked
in from the forests to sell the zap from
the hevea trees and to spend their
money in the bacchanalian reyels COM
mon to frontier towns
Iquitos not only became metropolis,
it also became seaport, and was ia
nous as the most inland seaport of the
world. Although situated some $500
miles from the Atlantic, up where the
big river passes the Brazilian boundary
into Peru, Iquitos became a regular
port of call for many ocean liners from
Europe or the United States which
navigated the long. winding stream in
order to load their cargoes at her
wharf
| In fact, Iquitos ranked In those days
as Peru's second seaport, exceeded in
! Importance only by Callao. on the Pa