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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-17
By RODNEY BUTCHER
Democrat NEA Service writcr)

Democrat NEA Service Writcr) Chicago.--Who said Hoover was unpopular
 Until the republican convention here the theory was that his popu- larity was at it's height in 1928 and had waned a lot since. But now one must reconcile that theory with the fact that every regular republican who opposed his nomination four years ago was found in the Hoover camp when the 1882 convention opened-and some of those who once most bitterly attacked him are now among his eu;ogisto.
 Senator l.. J. Dickinson, the key noter himself. was one of those ! who inveighed against Hoover as a leader of the tll-fated Lowden movement of '2S. Senator Jim Wat son of Indiana, who was hurling all sorts of mean names when he himself was candidate. would have been here whooping for Hoov- CT policies as party floor leader in Washington.
 Charlie Curtis, another '2S can didate who had assured the party that it. might as we'll fold up and quit if 1t were going to nominate Hoover, was anxiously seeking a renomination for vice president.
 One could name many more such who contributed to the unanimity for Hoover. It seems to prove that g lot of the boys were dead wrong about minor that there really Is such a thing as practical politics. after all.
 .a
 In the Shop Windows
 The main windows and inside showcases of large store in the Congress hotel, which was conven- ton headquarters, featured tex clusively all the deplorable scan- dal books about Hoover and the republicans that haveS been pub lished in the last couple of years. And an automobile showroom in the hotel. facing on Michigan avenue, displayed large pictures of Al Smith, Speaker Jack Garner and Newton D. Baker.
 All About . Button ~ Wet and dry leaders, here for the platform fight, spent lot of their time posing for newspaper pictures. Most of them were will- ing to stand on their heads If re- quested.
 All except the famous Bishop Cannon, who did his best to elude the photographers. Handsome. alluring wet ladies were all over the place, trying to pin huge cel- luioid Repeal" buttons on ones lapel. A photographer approached one of the nationally known elder- ly dry ladies, asking the privilege of taking her picture. She spotted one of those buttons on his coat. She said: Are you g drunkafd? ? Have you no respect for your mother? If you will take that but ton off and throw 1t away will let you take my picture. I will not ai- low any man. to take my, picture who wears such q button"
 The photographer, who might have been a little more graceful about 1t but apparently decided to remain loyal to the alluring wet lady who had tagged him, refused to do anything of the kind.
 Packets Still with Us
 Experts on the subject report that. despite the incarceration of MT Capone, the syndicate which the gentleman left behind him Is stronger than ever. All the rackets which made Chicago famous. one Is informed. still flourish despite local activities of Uncle Sam and change in Chicago's municipal government from republican to democratic.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-17
JUDGE NoBBs' APPOINTMENT (Brfd4eport Times -Star.1

The appointment of Attorney Edward P. Nobbs as assistant clerk of the superior court in charge of naturalization work by the judges of the superior court yesterday reflects credit on the appointing power In all respects Judge Nobbs ards Of his profession. He is one |of the survivors of the old school lawyers who acquired their knowi- ledge of Blackstone. pouring through the dusty volumes in .
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-17
Personal Health Seruice (By William Brady, M. D.

Signed letters pertaining tO personal health and hygiene, not disease diagnosis or treatment, will De answered by Dr Brady Address him. care of the Democrat. semding stamp and addressed envelope.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-17

Just as the public has begun to rejoice that Congress would soon stop talking and go home, it learned that telegraphic ar- rangements had been made at Chicago to handle 350.000 words an hour from the political convention.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-17

With no disrespeet for Thomas P Aitkin of Manchester we really don't think it could have been bluebird that recently attacked him and punetured his scalp in several places
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-17

The main trouble with political conven tions is that they're SO conventional.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-17
TO G. F.

Iris true that Mfr l.. F. Pllant lives
 In his birthday suit; But this suit 1t has no pockets, so It follows, now, fOrsOOth, He had to have Q place to put tho
 things lic cherished most, Like hls hamiMar and his anvil,
 his winch and sniibbiilg post {; His garden hose, his sprlnkling can,
 his pinccrs and his slcdgcs, His bill-hOOk and his sickle, for
 trimming trees and hedges, So his trunk was built to Order-- and you must admit, my dear, He needs 1t very badly, If I've
 nlade nay meaning clear. -M. J. M. t.l o-O-O From the above I'm sure all of. us know now just why the elephant carries U trunk. Mir McDonough's E facile pen has told the story about as sweetly as I've ever heard 1t related. His contributions to Day by Day" and the Tower are cn-. joyed by a large reading public. He, unquestionably has gone through life with q rose in his but ton-ho1e. And willing to share its nectar with those less fortunate. The Ed. .a
 o-O--o Georgia P. is one of the many who follow M. J. Ms toasts to life. On hearing that his famous black tabby Is i'll, Georgia diagnosed the case in quick order. She tells about 1t in this way:
 TO NJ. J. M.. SECRETARY TO HIS ROYAL RICHNESS You say that your black cat Is III, From staying out at night, I'm certain now, this Is the cat That's causing all my plight. Y, I try to sleep nOctural hours, But my nerves have grown quite
 tense, Behold! hear a black cat And It's yodelIng on the fence. Some night I'll take Q rifle, You'll hear Q sudden sliot, And next day in the news, you'll Black cat put on the spot.
 -GcOrgia P.
 O-O-O Some people stop smoking in the nicotine of time.
 o-O--o
 The prizes. a wife wins at bridge will never compensate the husband for the shin bruis- es sustained in the heat of battle.
 O-O-O Did you ever notice but it's al- ways the littel fellows who talk about big business.
 t o-O-o
 Chaps wearing those orange sweat shirts put you in mind of human awnings.
 Some men are born rich, some work hard to get 1t and others get 1t by keeping their mouths shut and their hands open.
 o-O-o
 AND so ON A loaf of bread, n jug of wine, Thc wilderness and thou, So Omar wrote, he knew his stuff, And how!
 o-O-0 On Friday, when flapper hears q horn, she's puzzled, not knowing whether it's the fish man or her boy friend.
 Who can remember the good old days, when the only avn ings about the house was the natural one, provided by the grape arbor?
 DING. DING Insratitudc, you've heard the word
 Before, Ingratitudc, 1t kills the love
 Wed store.
 o-O-o The thread of circumstance ale ways fits the needle of suspicion.
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 You've got to HAND it to the FINGER lake district when 1t comes to beauty.
 o-O-o Justice holds the scales when 1t should be left holding the bag.
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 Nobody loves a fat man but the cannibals.
 o-O--0 This concludes our regular Fri- day evening program. It came to you over DBD and was aircast by the Waterbury Evening Democrat. pioneer int his type of newspaper work. We are signing off at this time. to be back on the air again tomorrow at the usual hour.
 o-O-o Good night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-17

All vehicles must be lighted not later than 856 daylight saving time) tonight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-17
BEHIND THE SCENES afHe CONVENTION
 MtA RODNEY BUTCHER
Hoover Unpopular? Just Take Look at All the Flops
 to His Camp!
RODNEY DUTCHEl

| The racketeers still walk in on speakeasy proprietors and success fully instruct them to take so
 much beer. so much whiskey and
 so much alcohol per week. And
 even cigars and ginger ale. Not in
 all parts of town: but most.
 Convention "Priccs" In accordance with time-honored l pre-convention custom, republican l prohibition enforcers staged nu- 1 mcrous raids in tho Loop district
 and made that section tight" dur l ing the convention period. That
 stimulated considerable bottle delivery service of poor liquor at I high prices--eight dollars pint
 for medium rye whiskey. was of- ! ten asked. - Someone, for goodness knows what reason, left the following
 price list in your correspondents l room: Bottled beer, SIP per case. Bour-
 bon, $6 a pint: $100 8 case. Scotch, $10 per fifth: $1O0 a case. High grade Scotch." $11 and $115.
 "Baccardp' rum, $11 and $100. Gin, $4 and $40. Three-Star Hen-
 messy and champagne, SIP and $120.
 No Sale!
 Not Appropriate!
 A prominent democrat was
 sent here in advance to look over the arrangements for his party's | convention. On the eve of the I republican convention, some of
 the proud Chicagoans pointed out
 into the stadium and asked him to comment.
 T like all the red chairs" he | said, Out it's a--- of a color to use for q funeral"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-17
Good evening.
 o-O--o GRANTING THEIR STYLE
"A SMILES THE rHrNo.'

Good evening.
 o-O--o GRANTING THEIR STYLE I hope he tries to cross the sea In an old and leaky. dory. The guy who says: Yes. yes"
 to me
 When I'm telling story.
 Buffalo News. And with a doodad could poke The everlasting lout. Who. when I'm telling my best
 joke,
 Gets up and moves about.
 Youngstown Telegram. In front a coming train I'd lay. And gladly. too. the bore, Who greets my story with "Oh.
 say.
 I've heard that one before!" Warren (Ohio) Tribune And then there is the smirking
 pest.
 Some day he'll get his due. The bloke who wiseeraeks from his
 chest. "Sez you!"
 o-O-o Dear Christy: Well, here I am again to the rescue. After care- fully studying the subject as filed In my cabinets under F. E. D. and L. E. F., am able to tell e. F." what Patch l.. Derm carries in his trunk. Here 'tis:-M. J. NJ.
Evening star., 1932-05-18
RELIEF PROGRAM
ACTION ASSURED
Third Party Seen Unless Con-
greSs Settles Issue Before
Adjournment.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Assurance was given today by Senator
Watson, republican leader of the Sen
ate, there would be no adjournment or
recess Of Congress until after the relief
program for the unemployed has been
put through Congress.
At the same time a warning of pos
sible third party movement unless Con-
gress enacts an unemployment relief
program before the party conventions
was sounded by Senator Borah, Repub-
Hcan, Of Idaho.
He said he could not conceive Of the
two great parties going to their con-
yentions without having adopted pro-
gram for relieving the jobless.
IF anything would call third party
into existence that would" he declared
Senator Watson's statement was made
on the floor Of the Senate during the
debate Of the Tydings beer amendment
to the pending revenue bill. The Ty-
dings amendment authorizes the man.
ufacture and sale of 2.75 per cent beer
Separate Bill Proposed.
Senator WalSn OF MASSACHUSETTS,
Democrat, declared that in dealing with
the relief program a separate bill ap-
$500 900, 900 to be loaned
by the Federal Government to States
to relieve the unemployed and dis
tressed should be brought in and put
through without, delay.
The Massachusetts, Senator pointed
out that Both President Hoover's relief
and that advanced by Sena-
tor Robinson of Arkansas, the Demo-
cratic leader of the Senate, proposed
appropriation of such sum to be
loaned to the States.
He said he saw no reason why such
a reliel measure should be complicated,
perhaps DELAYED, by adding to it other
relief proposals, including a big bond
issue for a public works program.
Committee Continues Work.
While this debate was proceeding in
the Senate, a subcommittee OF the
Democratic Steering Committee, headed
by Senator Wagner of New York, still
was mulling over a general relief pro-
gram which it hopes to embody In a
bill
Senator Borah of Idaho was respon-
sible for bringing into the Senate de-
bate the statement by Senator Watson
that there would be no adjournment or
recess of Congress until relief measure
has been passed.
Senator Tydings of Maryland urged
the adoption of his beer amendment
to the revenue bill on the ground that
Continued on Page 2, Column g.
Evening star., 1932-05-18
WEAVER SUCCEEDS
WOOD IN GAS POST
Georgetown Official Named
Acting President of Wash
'-' inyton Company.

Robert D. Weaver, president of the
Georgetown Gas Light Co., today was
elected acting president of the Wash
ington Gas Light Co. to fill temporarily
the vacancy created by the resignation
last Thursday of George A. G. Wood.
Weaver also was elected first vice pres
ident Of the Washington company.
The election of Weaver was an
nounced by the board of directors of the
gas company at the close of two-hour
meeting which was held despite warn
ing from the Public Utilities Commits
sion that session at this time would be
construed as a violation of the recent
order forbidding voting of the majority
stock while 1t is held by the present
owners
Three Members Elected.
The directors also named three new
members to the board-Sidney F. Talia-
ferro, former District Commissioner and
now vice president and trust officer of
Riggs National Bank; Rear Admiral
Cary T. Grayson and Corcoran Thorn,
president of the American Security &
Trust Co Mr.. Thorn was a former
member of the board and resigned about
year ago.
Two vacancies existed on the board
Of directors until the meeting, due to
the resignation some time ago of Mr..
Thorn and Albert Peirce, president of
the Central Public Service Corpora
ton of Chicago. The third vacancy
was created by the resignation at the
meeting of George B. Frazer, vice pres
ident of the Washington company, who
has been acting president since Mr..
Woods resignation Frazer was elected
a member of the board of directors at
a special meeting last week, when
Woods resignation was accepted.
Stockholders Adjourn.
The election of Mr.. Taliaferro, Ad-
miral Grayson and Mr.. Thorn to the
board was looked upon in public utility
circles as a move on the part Of the
owners of the gas company to restore
management of the concern to Wash
ington men with the hope of minimiz-
ing opposition to foreign ownership.
A scheduled meeting of the stock
holders held Immediately after the
session of the board of directors was
adjourned for the second time within
the last 10 days because of the lack
Of quorum. The adjourned meeting
was called for noon, June Is.
Evening star., 1932-05-18
CURTIS ACCUSED
OF SWINDLING
BY BOOTLEGGER
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MINEOLA, N. Y, May 18.-Inspector
Harold r. King OF the Nassau County
police said today that one hour before
John Hughes Curtis confessed his whole
story about the Lindbergh kidnapping
hoax he was confronted in Hopewell
with a Long Island bootlegger, who
charged him with having double-crossed
him in a deal involving a substantial
sum of money.
King said the bootlegger was found
by John Fogarty, a private detective
employed from the start by Col. Henry
Breckenridge, Col. Lindbergh's friend
and attorney.
Lived in Long Island.
He withheld the name of the boot
logger, Who he said, lived in Rockville
Center. Long Island.
The mans story, according to King,
was that last December he paid Curtis
a substantial sum of money with the
understanding that Curtis was to use
it to purchase influence for him with
the authorities at Norfolk. This. he
said, Curtis failed to do.
After Curtis entered the search for
the Lindbergh baby, King said, the
bootlegger started among his associ-
ates in the vicinity of Norfolk an in
vestigation of Curtis.
Fogarty also had become suspicious
Of Curtis story, King said, and had
investigated his activities. He was
looking for the bootlegger, King said,
when the bOOtlegger got in touch with
him. They both told King the story.
Phone From Fogarty.
King said that at $50 Monday aft
ernoon he received a telephone call
from Fogarty summoning him to
Hopewell At am. Tuesday, an hour
before he sat down to write out his
confession, Curtis was confronted with
the bootlegger.
The bootlegger is described as a
Scotchman, about As years old, big
and powerful. He is married and has
several children, the youngest about
the age of the Lindbergh baby.
Evening star., 1932-05-18
SEES CONSPIRACY
TO DANISH M'LEAN
Peyser Tells Court White
Slave Charge Is Being
Used as Threat.

The charge that conspiracy exists
to prevent the return to this country
of Edward B. Mclean, with a threat
of his arrest on a white slave charge
was made in District Supreme Court
today by McLeans attorney, julius /
Peyser, at the opening of the defense
testimony In the suit Of Mrs. Evalyn
Walsh Mclean to oust her husband as
co-trustee Of the estate of his father.
Peyser's charge came shortly after
Nelson T. Harrison, Mrs. McLean's at
torney had rested his case, referring
to an agreement of counsel. made yes
terday, that the plaintiff would refrain
from offering testimony Of a sensational
character If testimony offered by the
defense did not necesSitate 1t.
Checks Are Banned.
Peyser's charge was made during an
argument between counsel over the ad-
mission in evidence Of number Of
checks held by Miss Elizabeth E. Poe,
literary and music editor of the Post,
who was the first witness for the de-
tense.
Peyser claimed that through these
checks he would attempt to show Nc
Leans return to this country is being
prevented through the threat of white
slave charge against him.
Introduction of the checks was over
ruled by Justice Jennings Bailey as the
court recessed for lunch.
Harrison rested his case after intro
duction of testimony of Mr.. McLean's
former chauffeur, Harry r. Kohler. that
In view Of the agreement made by coun-
sci yesterday, the plaintiff would not
present sensational testimony.
The announcement came as sur
prise to Maj. Peyser who sent court at
taches scurrying about the courthouse
rounding up his witnesses.
Kohler said he first went with the
Mclean family as a chauffeur about
20 years ago. He said he left the first
Of the year because Mr.. Mclean owed
him three months salary and a To-
month garage bill for which he sued.
the money was paid, he said.
Drove During Means Deal.
About three months ago, Kohler
said. he was employed by Mrs. Mclean
TO do all the driving in connection with
her negotiations with CASTOR B Means,
in an effort to return the Lindbergh
baby.
He said he last saw Mr.. Mclean the
he drove Mr.. Mclean by a roundabout
route from Belmont Farm. the Mclean
estate near Leesburg, Va, avoiding
entering the District, to Baltimore
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Evening star., 1932-05-18
MILITARY CONTROL
OF HAWAII ASKED
Britten Bill Proposes Army or
Navy Officers of United States
Govern Islands.

By the Associated Press.
Expressing belief that 'the very life
OF our Nation might some day depend
upon a military campaign" around the
Hawaiian Islands, Representative Brit
ten, Republican, of Illinois, today pro-
posed that they be placed under COM
plete military control Of the United
States.
He introduced a bill to permit the
President to appoint. with approval OF
the Senate, the governor and secretary
Of Hawaii, selecting only active or re-
tired officers of the Army or Navy. At
present. only citizens of the territory are
eligible for appointment to the executive
Offices.
mo other nation on earth but our
selves would allow so important pos
session to be so completely dominated
by a native population" Britten said
In a statement.
THE Massie case has shown us the
extreme to which the civilian popula-
ton as well as the courts will go to up
hold the native spirit against anything
that Is American. The complete pro-
lection of American citizens and Amer
lean rights makes 1t advisable to put
the islands Immediately under Ameri-
can control"
Evening star., 1932-05-18
JUSTICE "KIDNAPED" 8 MONTHS,
FOUND BOUND ALONG ROAD
Unable to Tell of Whereabouts During Strange Disap
pearance-Believed Drugged

he was imprisoned by his captors and
other important details of his expert
ence, police were inclined to the theory
he had been given drugs to dull his
senses.
He said three men jumped upon him
as he sat In his kitchen last Fall and
fed with him in his own truck which
was later found abandoned five miles
from Montoursville. He Is married but
has no children.
Kenneth Stigner and Michael Kosrak,
printers on a Scranton newspaper,
found Fague attired only in blue shirt
and overalls. His eyes and mouth were
closed with adhesive tape and the rope
which bound his hands and feet was
covered with tape.
Fague told police he seldom saw his
captors who kept him an idle prisoner
In different buildings whose location he
did not know. From his weight of l6S
at the time of his disappearance he had
dropeed to 13o pounds. n
Evening star., 1932-05-18
CANTON -NANKING UNITY
PLEDGES ARE DOUBTED
Reports That Hatchet Has Been
Buried Are Termed
Propaganda.
BY the Associated Press.

BY Lhe hSSOCIdVtU EItss'
HONGKONG, China, May 1S.-Re-
ports that the Canton and Marking po-
iiticaI factions had buried the hatchet
and exchanged pledges Of unity were in
terpreted here today as window-dress-
ing.
Interest centered on Kwangsi Prov
ince, which hitherto has supported
Wang Ching-Wei, Nanking premier.
Gen. Chang Chai-Tong, Cantonese
leader, must have the help Of Kwangsl
for any independent movement.
Naval insurgents have established
themselves on the Island OF Hainan,
where they have dismissed all magls-
trates and seized the funds of the Cen
tral Bank. They have invited DR.. c. c.
WI, widely known Cantonese leader, TO
become civil governor.
Evening star., 1932-05-18
.E|GHT-DAY PENANCE
IS ASKED BY POPE
Calls World to Prayer to
Save Itself From Present
Conditions.
BY the Associated Press.

by the hsSOClaIeQ fress
VATICAN CITY, May 18.-Pope Plus
XI, in an encyclical issued today, called
the world to prayer, penance and NOR
tification to save itself from "the peril
of terrorism and anarchy" and the
still graver evils that are threatening"
For this purpose he set aside period
of eight days for PREPARATION" on the
octave Of the feast of the Sacred Heart,
beginning June 3.
He abjured the faithful to abstain
during the eight days "at least from
entertainments and amusements, how
ever lawful" and urged that those in
easier circumstances" give to the poor
"the proceeds of this retrenchment."
In the encyclical, entitled "Charitas
Christi"-Christs Charity-he lists the
causes Of the present "eyils that are
crushing humanity
Cites Six Causes.
They are, he said. greed, the accumu-
lation of the wealth of nations in the
hands of a small group of individuals,
exaggerated nationalism, unequal dis
tribution of wealth, Communism and
"the revolt of man against God"
From greed, he said, arises the
mutual distrust that casts blight on
all human dealings" He reiterated
the words of st. Paul: THE desire Of
money is the root of all evil"
Turning the point of his criticism
equally upon Communists and specula-
tors, the Pontiff said small group OF
holders of the worlds wealth "manipu-
late the markets Of the world at their
own caprice to the immense harm OF
the masses"
Even those very few" he added. who
with their speculations we're and are In
great part a cause Of so much woe, are
themselves quite often the first and
most notorious victims, dragging down
with themselves into the abyss the for
tunes of countless others"
Restraint Broken Down.
"Profiting by so much economic dis
tress," he added, 'and so much moral
disorder. the enemies of all social order.
be they called Communists or any other
name, boldly set about breaking through
every restraint.
This is the most dreadful evil of our
times, for they destroy every bond Of
law, human or divine; they engage
openly and in secret in relentless
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