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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-23

The spirit of Christmas is in the air! Blase announcers have a lit- tie more ring in their voices; mu- sic has bit more ire and qepth; programs have more swing and de- cisiyeness.l We're probably an old softly, but to us there's something essentially fine about 9 cheery "Merry Christmas" that links a ra- dio audience of millions into per- sonal, unified band.
 Radio, too, is doing a great deal to start the observance of Christ mas back to its truly religious as- pect. After all it's holy day rather than a holiday, and programs of real Christmas music and drama do much more to attain that end than do the last-minute rushes of Christmas shoppers who have to remember what their friends gave them last year and how much 1t was worth.
 There's more real Christmas in a 15-minute program of ancient carols than there is in weeks of shopping and hours of looking at enticing window displays. Radio has its faults, many of them, but it has yet to commercialize Christmas in even a fraction of the way which general business has done. Take your choice of any one of the multitude of special programs of- fered you from now till Tuesday; you'll find most of them entertain ing, and in a majority you'll find a reflection of real Christmas.
 Do you know your favorite or-
 chestra's theme song? Oz-
 zie Nelson's is "LOyal Sons of
 Rutgers" George Hall usu- ally reverts to "tOye Letters in
 the Sand" Glen Gray and
 his Casa Loma boys use "SmOke Rings" 7. Guy LOmbardo, who
 says 1t isn't theme, employs
 'sComin' Thru the Rye" He once
 used Garments "Coquette." -.
 Little Jack Little has the apprO-
 priate "Little By Little." Paul
 Whiteman's is "RhapsOdy in
 Blue." F'erde Grofe signs in
 with part of his "Grand Canyon
 Suite." The name of the move
 ment is "On The Trail"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-23

Mario Cozzl. distinguished oper- atic baritone who 10 heard twice weekly over NBC networks in song recitals, wili Do the soioiet In a concert by the Bankers Down town Glee Club ~ Cafueele Hall, New x 9ork. on ,.,,,s WsGnssdsy s; sss Deem Monoiogue from ssAndrea Chehier" and several spaninh eoncert num-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-23
BRONSON LIBRARY
 WILL CLOSE MONDAY

The Silas Bronson Library VIII be open tomorrow as usual, put IL will be closed all day Monday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-23

Big plans for 1884 continue to be announced by sponsors and networks alike. 1Oday's big news is the Joining up of the "Head- liners'' sponsors with NEG for another weekly series. The fea- tured stars will be Irving Berlin, George M. Conan and Will Rog. CTS, and the program will retain its schedule of Sunday nights at 9 over NBC-WJZ.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-23

The arrival of 1894 in Great Britain, hailed by the boom of "Big Ben" and cathedral bells, will be broadcast over the WABC- Columbia network on Sunday, De- cember 31, from 6:45 to 7:01 p. in., EST. Britain celebrates New Years five hours ahead of eastern United States.
 A radio tour of the bell towers of England's most celebrated cd thedrais will open the broadcast. Then, shortly before 7:O0 D. m, EST, (midnight London time), the program viii switch to the British capital for the roar of New Years eve trafiic and merriment and Big Ben's' booming death knell for 1883, The program was ar- ranged in cooperation with the British Broadcasting Corporation
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-23

And now it's time for us to offer our holiday greetings and good wishes to all of you. Thanks to those of you whO've been so kind as to offer us epicOnraging comment on our column; thanks likewise to those who sent Christ mas cards. To all of you we wish the Inerriest of Merry Christmas est
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-23

Wool prices in Australia are the highrest since 1929.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-23

Large cotton and woolen mills are being built in South China.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-23

The Ruby Keeler-Dick Powell
 team, whom we like on the talk-N ing Screen, failed to register as
 radio artists with us in their ap-
 pearance as guest stars on the
 Vallee show Thursday night. To tis it only proved that the micrO-
 phone does not reflect the same
 personality that the screen does,
 for over the air Ruby seemed
 just an ordinary vocalist and
 Dick just another nice voice.
 Their spontaneity seemed forced, and their performance lacked the
 sparkle that the duo have in the
 movies.
 Stardust. Alexander Gray took an engineering course at Penn State and worked his way. 1. Johnny Marvin is sponsoring a Christmas party at his island home in the St Lawrence, though he won't be there. Frank Parker's job with the Revelers is now per- manent. Victor Young says that hotel and night club dance orches- tras have lots of new ideas in syrl- copation. Sixteen members Of her family will join Jane F'roman in New York for the holidays. [. Frank Black has been asked to ex- plain the Revelers' methods for a new musical textbook. Kay Francis was born on Friday, the 18th.
Evening star., 1933-01-29
Europe Lays in Oil Drilling

century, however. the French made the first
serious European effort to obtain Oil through
mining methods. The practice vas to drive q
short heading into the outcroppings and permit
the oil to drain out into shallow pits. THIS
method was used at Pechelbronn, located In
AIsace, which was then French territory.
Subsequent to the driving of the Drake well,
we'll drilling wss undertaken In Pechelbronn,
but after time well-boring was dropped until
the outbreak of the World War. Germany
hard-pressed for oil, began working the Alsace
oil sands after the capture Of that territory
from the French IN the early days of the war
The production Of oil however, was expensive
and Yield Eman, due to the fact that the sands
had been fairly well depleted during the many
years Of prior, through inencient operation
Evening star., 1933-01-29

FHE modern method Of drilling for oil and
- hsfnsing 4 10 the surface BY means Of
psaznps after The diminishing Of the first gas
pressure, b . development Of the sinking of the
famous DSake veil IN Pennsylvania IN 1883.
This operation revolutionized o1 production
methods, but IA spite Of the discovery of this
neohod Of producing oil from the deep-Hing
Oh sands, Germany, for an her inventive genius
failed 70 make mach use of the method until
recent yeaR.
In The early days Of civilization there was
Ntue demand for petroleum and that demand
was MT simply by dipping the Oh from pools
oc1leetng - the outcropping Of the oil-beaFing
sands.
Alepg about the middle Of the eighteenth
Evening star., 1933-01-29
Farmers Miss Chance

\A.fTTH American farmers scouting around IN
w IA effort 70 locate a cash crop to which
they can turn without fear Of harmful cmpet-
itive swpauses. . golden opportunity has been
going By Tie boards. The Department Of Agri-
culture repxs that nearly 7,00o, 900 pounds Of
red clossr ned ase Imported annually into the
United Stases beease growers In this country
The department experts believe that ~
masrmomhain sse1sn would find such . sRup
highly dssae, mt only because It would m
. need of famHs n other parts Of the country.
bat Il aaso vusad be valuable in restoring nd
improving the sol On which It Is grown.
Evening star., 1933-01-29
Wkeat Men Hopeful

COM hope has been held out recently for
- the wheat farmer because Of indications
talaE the Orowing weather this Winter has not
been ovesly pruuaising, With the indications that
ne Winser wheat crop viii fall considerably
bslov last years, which would naturally cut
into the destructive surplus of last year.
This hope v1s tampered somewhat, however.
~ Esports from Argentine and Australia, vhieh
tepoat their crops higher than . year ego In
TIE AUenGine. Tor instance, the estimate b
~ $4,000 b.ahek. N incz,ase Of 100000
eRer hgt ysar, while n Aautzafh q 10, yooo-
bulsel suAn TO a total Of 30 go 600 bushels Is
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THE INDIANAPOLIS Times

to believe that he had suffered the
skull fracture in fall while walking
from the police station to his office
in the courthouse.
His physician. DR.. NJ. L. Wagner,
and DR.. Z. E. Yarling, mayor Of
Peru, discounted this theory. They
said after examination of the prose-
cutor that his wounds could not
have been caused by a fractured
skull.
Police recalled that Hartley had
been strenuous in his prosecution
of criminal cases and believed ne
might have been the victim of an
attack.
Coroner Newell conducted an
autopsy of the body last night, but
did not announce his finding i'm
mediately.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-08
ARQK
a DAY :.
81 BRUCE CATION

"THE MERE LIVING" by B
L Bergson Spiro, is one of those
novels that excite the high-brow;
to spasms of praise, but that make
pretty dull reading for the ulti-
mate consumer.
1t may be, as sundry critics have
said, that it is a fine artistic achieve
ment. I wouldn't know about that
I can only report that it just isn't
very interesting.
In this book we meet four mem
bers Of an ordinary middle-class
English family-father, mother, son
and daughter We follow them
through one day, watching their &C
lions, reading their thoughts and
seeing life, by turns, through their
four pairs Of eyes.
The father is a rather Intellectual
business man, lord in his own castle
but something of dub in the marts
Of trade.
The mother, yearning over her
children and suffering from the first
pangS of an incurable disease, is a
pathetic figure, never quite taking
tangible form, but lowering over
the story like a ghost. The two chill
dren are more clearly drawn.
The boy is a dreamy adolescent
intensely aware of life, not yet sure
of himself ecstatic and somewhat
clumsy, eagerly savoring every min
ute of his daV
The girl is more sure of herself
or thinks she is; we follow her to
her boy friends apartment, where
she starts to have an adventure and
then backs out, and then we listen
in while she argues with hel
suspicious father about it.
Finally having told us all of this
the book simply ends. And while il
is a sincere and thoughtful attempt
to give us a slice of life" I doubt
if many readers will find it as alb
sOrbing as it might be.
Stokes is offering it for ST..
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-08
OFFICERS PROBE
MYSTERY DEATH
OF PROSECUTOR
Find Miami County Official
in Alley Suffering
From Fracture.
By United Press

By United Press
PERU, Ind, Nov. 8.--The death
Of Harvey w. Hartley, 40, Miami
county prosecutor, of a skull frac-
ture suffered mysteriously yesterday,
was under investigation by city po-
lice and Coroner A. S. SewelI today.
Hartley died in hospital here
last night without regainin g
consciousness.
He had been found in an alley
less than block from the police
station few hours earlier.
Two theories as to the cause of
his death were advanced. Hartley
had been subject to fainting spells
and had been found unconscious in
his office and other places during
the last three years. This led some
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Most Coughs
Demand Circumcision

Don't let them get a strangle hold.
Fight germs quickly. Creomulsion
combines the 7 best helps known to
modern science. Powerful but harm
less. Pleasant to take. No narcotics.
Your own druggist is authorized to
refund your money on the spot if
your cough or cold is not relieved
by OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
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WATCHMAKERS TO MEET
New Association to Hear Address
by Business Bureau Speaker.

Members of the new Watch
makers Association of Indiana will
hold their second meeting at 7:30
tomorrow night in the Antlers,
with representative of the Indian
apOlis Better Business Bureau as
principal speaker.
Temporary officers are Marcus
FurStenberg, president; Walter
Stahlhut, president, and Walker
Shaefer, secretary.
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DEER SHOT FROM CHAIR
Hunter Bags Animal While Seated
at Dining Table.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
EMMETT, Idaho, Nov. Solver
hover literally sits at dinner to
hunt deer, and gets his bag. A
2-year-old deer came to the Hover
home recently and he shot it with
out moving from his chair.
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Instant Relief From
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-08
SULLIVAN MAN GETS
MANSLAUGHTER TERM
Haskell Brown Sentenced to IA
Years in Mob Killing.

By Times Special
SULLIVAN, Nov. g. Haskell
Brown, 80, convicted of man
slaughter in connection with the
Staying of Andrew and Oral Reedy
by mob, today was under sentence
of two to twenty-one years in
prison
Another defendant, Otis Turner,
Hymera, is serving a life sentence,
and nearly a dozen others remain
to be tried
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NOV. s. 1893

Members of the federal committee.
headed by otto P. Deluse, Indian
apolis, are expected to act upon the
petition for the loan some time tho
week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-08

ceipt of a letter from the Indian
apolis Board Of Trade indorsing the
proposed 100000 loan to the city
to allow it to acquire the Citizens
Gas Company.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-08
PLAN TO BUY GAS
COMPANY ENDORSED
City Board of Trade Backs
Federal Loan Project.

Members Of the Indiana advisory
committee of the federal public
works administration announce re-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-24
BANDITS OBTAIN $500
Menace Fifteen Persons in Grocery
at Decatur in Daring Raid.

DECATUR, Oct. 24-Menacing
fifteen persons in the Brunnegraff
grocery here, three armed bandits
obtained 5000 in a daring raid. The
customers and employees we're forced
TO walk out Of the store after the
money had been scOoped up.
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ARMISTICE DAY
PARADE PLANS
ARE ARRANGED
Open HOUSE for Veterans
and Dance Will Be
on Program.

Armistice day observance in In
dianapolis Nov. II will consist of a
parade, open house for veterans in
the Antlers, and a ball at the Murat
theater sponsored by the Forty and
Eight, according to tentative plans
made last night at a meeting of the
general armistice committee.
The parade will begin at Gas
a. m. with Adjutant- General E. P
Straub as marshal.
Flags will be unfurled along the
War Memorial plaza At II the line
of march will halt in silent tribute
to the war dead.
Soldiers from Fl. Benjamin Harri-
son, the American Legion, Veterans
of Foreign Wars, Disabled American
Veterans, G. A. R., and other patri-
otto organizations will be in the line
of march.
The war memorial shrine will be
dedicated and the flag room, sixty
feet square, will be used for the
ceremonies.
No commercial floats will be per-
mitted in the parade.
Harry NJ. Franklin Of the United
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LEGION HEAD TO
SPEAK BEFORE
NINTH DISTRICT
Annual Convention to Be
Held on Weekend at
Jacksonville.

Edward 4. Hayes, American Le-
gion national commander, will be
the principal speaker at the annual
convention Of the Ninth district at
Jacksonville Saturday and Sun
day.
In addition to the 10000 Legion
naires, Civil war veterans, Spanish
American war veterans, Veterans Of
Foreign Wars and disabled veterans
of the World war also are expected
to attend.
The delegation from Indianapolis
will be headed by Captain Otto Ray,
Twelfth district commander. Other
officers who will attend are Glen
Hills, Kokomo, national executive
committeeman, and George Hush,
Gary, northern vice commander.
Kentucky legionnaires will be
represented by James Lackey, de-
partment commander, and Thomas
Hayden, department adjutant.
Mr.. Hayes will make the principal
address Sunday afternoon.
Other speakers include Mr.. Lackey,
Mrs. Blanche Robinson, East Chi
cago, president of the Indiana aux
iliary; Raymond S. Springer, Con-
nersville, past department COM
mander; v. M. Armstrong, Indian
apolis, Indiana department COM
mander; Mrs. Sylvia E. Pittman,
Bloomfield, past department presi-
dent of the auxiliary, and Clarence
Jackson, indianapolis, past depart
ment commander.
The convention is under the chair
manship of Frank R. Kossa, Jeffer-
sonville, southern vice commander.
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SEEK ELIGIBLES FOR
TOUGH u. S. PRISON

WardenS Asked 70 Name CanuldateS
for New Devils Isle"
By United Press
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.-The de-
partment of justice asked wardens
of all federal penitentiaries today
to recommend candidates" for the
new Alcatraz prison for hardened
criminals.
Wardens will submit lists of their
worst criminals and rebellious in
mates to the bureau of prisons.
From this list, authorities expect to
select approximately 100 convicts to
be isolated at Alcatraz.
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my skin became

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Try a course of S.S.S. and note the
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-24

Elliott Nugent If you desire another
name.
Daily Variety has this to say about
white Woman"
A powerful expertly made picture is
white Woman" but dealing with subject
matter of such strong meat that it will ap-
peal more to class than mass. Out Of 1t
towers a performance by Charles Laughton.
which will stand up with all distinctive
screen characterizations; part so domi-
mating and so cannily developed that the
other roles practically are feeders.
Csrole Lombard, Charles Bickford and
Kent Taylor stand out in well conceived
parts. Miss Lombard and Bickford
should help pull biz. with an alluring title
Stuart Walkers direction is sure, intelli-
gent, and hewS unwaVeIingly to the line
Of the story and screen play. He captures
a dreadful kind Of suspense for the jungle
drama revolving about the white woman
lakes it to the last foot. Play has unusual
unity and sustained mood and is as valid
in its main evolvement. and elements as a
Conrad's Heart of Oar knesS."
Sets and photography are in keeping
with the artistic standard.
one serious production fault is the poor
and sometimes almost unintelligible diction
by several players. especially Laughton.
whose lines are often completely lost, a
eerle characterization.
story is an almost pathological study
of a genius of evil. white emperor of the
jungle who brings a castof white woman
of breeding to his horrible retreat. She
falls in love with Kent Taylor. LaughtOn
tries to send them to their death-he has
done this to other men, but BickfOrd. an
escaped convict, as tough as the river king.
comes TO interpose and to die with the
mailman in a terrific final scene of native
uprising.
The picture is an artistic triumph, a
prestige number, and accomplishes pre-
cisely what it set out to do.
This movie probably will be
shown either at the Indiana or
Circle theaters here.
Indianapolis theaters today offer:
"Once in a Lifetime" at the Play
house, a Civic theater production;
"Bombshell' at the Palace, I'm No
Angel" at the Circle, Love, Honor
and Oh, Baby" at the Lyric; ITO the
Last Man" at the Ambassador,
Song of Songs" at Keith's; En-
peror Jones" at the Apollo; Sally
Rand on the stage and Mary
Stevens, NJ. D., on the screen at the
Indiana, and burlesque at the Mu-
tual and Colonial.
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BANDIT ROBS HOTEL;
ESCAPES WITH $50
Robber Locks Porter i
Closet; Clerk Forced
Into Room.

A guest who turned bandit OBJ
tanned $50 early today in a holdup
at the Meeker hotel, $50 South Me-
ridian street.
Howard Johnson, 81, night clerk,
said porter was summoned to a
room by a guest who registered as
Frank Green, Rushville, and was
locked in a closet.
Coming downstairs, the bandit
took $50 from a cash register, $40
from Johnson and $40 from a hid
ing place in the Office Johnson
was forced to go to the robbers room
to clear the way for his ecape.
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clear"

wouldn't you like to be able to say
this, too? Then pause a moment and
reason -. skin affections usually re-
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from below the skin surface. Then
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ParaIyzing Fear Reaction of
Witnesses to Bank
Raid.
BY TRISTRAM COFFIN
Times staff Writer

GREENCASTLE, Oct. 24.-Para-
lying fear was the reaction of wit
nesses of the bank holdup in Green
castle yesterday. Man-handling
employees and customers, the four
desperadoes brandished submachine
guns, believed to have been stolen
from the Auburn and Peru police
stations.
II never felt anything like it, =
said Hugh Hammond, gas attend
ant, who was robbed of $500. Il
wouldn't go through with it again
for a thousand dollars.
when came in the door of the
bank during the holdup, one bandit
grabbed me and, brandishing a re-
volver, sent me to the rear Of the
bank, where another bandit shouted
gruf1y: Put your face in the cor
ner. Get back with the rest of
them"
Looked Like Flour Sacks
David Nicodemus, De Paw fresh
man from Japan, who witnessed the
holdup from outside and saw the
bandits leave, had his first init
alton into American crime.
ct was terrible" he said. When
I saw them coming out of the bank
with those sacks it looked like they
were carrying sacks of flour. But
when they threatened the crowd, I
knew they meant business.
boy, I don't want to have that
experience again"
Len Ratcliff, aged employee of the
bank, who entered the scene of the
holdup after fixing the furnace,
said: Eyes, they treated me pretty
tough. They frisked me and thrust
me back in the corner"
Bandits Well Dressed
II saw two men entering first, -
said Gordon Savers, bank employee.
They looked like they were doped
because their faces twitched and
they shouted this is a stickup,' and
that revolver looked awfully big to
me. I can't describe my feelings.
1t was very strained calm in the
bank.
They were pretty well dressed
and were shaved. They seemed to
me to be about Is to 80 years old"
R. P. Mullins, druggist, who saw
the holdup from a nearby corner,
said he stood there and saw them
going out with all that money, but
I couldn't do anything.
ut seemed as though I were
paralyzed,' he said. People were
milling about the street, because it
was busy time of day, but I guess
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