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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-30
SOVIET MARKET MAY BE OPENED
Americans May Sell Them Millions of Dollars
 Worth of Goods

Moscow, Dec 30-(UP)-A Rns- sian market for many millions of dollars worth of American motor cars, tractors. machinery and rail- way equipment may be opened un- der a new giant plan of expansion. it was revealed to-day. The off, cial newspaper Izvestia announced that the political bureau of the Communist party had approved q project for vast expansion of Soviet industry by 1897 under the second five year plan of development.
 The program will be submitted to the Communist party congress in January, and approval is certain as the "Politburo" is the governing body, with Joseph Stalin. President Mikhail Kalinin and Premier Viacheslav Molotov among its members.
 Soviet heavy industry which was built up during the first five year plan will be relied upon for a large part of the manufacturers required under the new plan. But it was thought probable the project would open up an important Rus- sian market to the United States. thanks to the resumption of diplo- matic relations.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-30
HUGE COLONIAL
 MANSION BURNS
Show Place of John M. Dean at CranstOn Is
 Destroyed

Cranston, R. l., Dec 3O-(UP)- The huge colonial mansion of John M. Dean, wealthy Providence fur niture merchant, which for more than a quarter century had been a show place in Meshanticut Park. suddenly burst into flames early to-day and was destroyed.
 Loss, including almost priceless antiques collected by Dean during the past 40 years. was set at $100,900.
 Bremen were handicapped both by a lack of water and by 15- below-Zero weather. Two of them required treatment for frost bite. William OConnell having a frozen arm and Edward Rubenst frozen face.
 MT and Mrs Dean are spending the winter Tn Florida. A caretaker had been keeping fire in the un- occupied mansion. and it was be- lieved the furnace became over- heated.
 Located atop a hill, the blazing mansion provided one of the most spectacular fires hereabouts in re- cent years. The fire could be seen as far away as Fall River, Mass, 20 miles from here.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-30
SPECIAL CLASSES
 BEGIN JANUARY g
Federal Funds to Pay for Adult Education Course
 Garage Destroyed
Torrington Correspondents


 Plans for conducting adult edu- classes in this city with $480 al- lotted to Torrington by the fed eral government to aid unempl0y- ed teachers who are in need were made by George J. Fogel. superin- tendent of schools. The money to be spent here is part of a $23,00O allotment for the state.
 The classes, which are expected to open Tuesday, January g at the high and trade schools, will be held for the benefit of unemployed high schools. Enrolment will be held next Wednesday evening at the high school.
 Eight teachers selected from the list of unemployed on file at the county federal employment office. Glasses are expected to be con- ducted for at least a month, possi- bly two months. The eight most popular classes selected on en- roIiment night will be taught. Garage and Car Destroyed by Blaze Fire starting from an overloaded stove yesterday afternoon destroy ed a two-car garage at the home of Mrs Mary Ryan, 29 Eastwood | road, and a Pontiac sedan owned l by James Quinn. The rear of the | Ryan residence and garage owned by Mrs Olmsted next to the Ryan garage were damaged. The firemen used two streams of water and spent 15 minutes to extin- guish the blaze.
 Action Deferred on Ambulance Question
 The city council, at it's meeting Thursday evening. deferred action on the question of whether the city would maintain a new ambu- lance here if it were provided with funds secured by private subscrip- ton. After considerable discussion it was decided that the taxpayers in general should make a decision in the matter.
 Egg Shipment Arrives
 Sixty cases of eggs, provided by the federal government, arrived here yesterday to be distributed among needy persons. Shipments of pork and beans are also en- route here and are expected to tarrive in the near future. Engagement Announced
 The Rev and Mrs William B. I uiiCI VI hllCHllClu tiHlOuuCcQ tIlG engagement of their daughter, Elizabeth to Roger A. Lautier. MT Lautier, who is associated with his father in business in Litchfield, is a graduate of the Torrington high school and of Rensseiear Polytech- nic Institute at Troy. N. Y., and is a member of the Phi Kappa Phi fraternity.
 Miss Pruner is a graduate of Litchfield high school and of the New York State Teachers college at New Paltz, N. r., and is a teacher in the public schools oi Albany, N. Y.
 II SkulIy Funeral Services l Funeral services for Joseph . Skully, 56, were held from the Phelan funeral home yesterday , morning at S:30 and at St Francis khurch at 9. A high mass of re- : quiem was celebrated by the Rev } Joseph Flanagan. Miss Julia Car. . roll was at the organ. Mrs Thomas Dillon sang Abide With Me" as
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-30
|Lnuestn,ent Stocks Up
 Slightly This Week
l933 Witnessed Perpendicular Rise in Leverage
 Shares of About I95 Per Cent

|, these, shares. according to Allied distributors index, rose approxi- mately 290To compared with rise in the general stock market of around 115cb.
 During the closing week of 1883 the average of non-aeverage stocks rose slightly to 1886 compared with 1878 on December 22. The average of the mutual funds stood at 1O.65 on Decembre 29 compared with 10.57.
 Allied Distributors, Inc, has eX banded its indices in all classes of trust shares in order to make thepl more representative. Henceforth the leverage stock trust index will be computed on the basis of ten stoclee, the non-leverage on the basis of three and the mutual funds on the basis of five.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-30

New York, Dec 30-In the final week of the year investment trust shares rose slightly in sympathy with the general market. The aver age for the common stocks of five leading management trusts in fiuenced by the leverage factor stood at 11.71 as of December 20 compared with 11.44 on December 22. The low for the year was S.22 and high 24.12.
 The rise from the low to the high, representing an appreciation of approximately 195 %, compared with appreciation in the general stock market figured on a similar basis ranging around 100% %. This perpendicular rise in leverage trust stocks from their 1893 lows to their 1893 highs was similar to the per- pendicular rise which occurred during the summer 1892, when
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-30

tContinued from Page D them suffered from burns on faces and hands from their courageous attempt, and one of the would-be rescuers was taken to the hos pital badly burned.
 There was not chance for any of the passengers" witnesses declared. Although every em- ploye of the wireless station did his utmost to rescue them, the whole ma chine was reduced to a mass of white-hot wreckage with in few moments. The bodies had to be left in the debris"
 Tt was horrible" one of the wireless operators told the United Press. "The force of the. planes collision with the wireless mast was so great that the entire top of the mast was sheared off" A passenger listed under the name Young" who booked his seat from Cologne to Croydon. was thought to have been an American but confirmation was lacking. Off, ciaIly the victim was listed as ot '-Unknown Nationality The re. mainder of the victims were be- lieved to be British.
 Weather conditions at this time l of the year in Belgium are more | hazardous than in other months | because of the low-hanging fog | belts that hamper observation. Continuing his description of the scene, wireless operator told the I United Press that from the mo. | nent the plane fell in flames there wasn't a sound nor a cry from the cabin all were obv. iously killed almost instantane ously."
 The Imperial Airways listed tht victims, without substantial iden l tification, as:
 | Miss Dismond. L. Green, Nil Perry, c. A. Young, Mir Mes, M Brown, MT Halperin, F. Schrodeg Pilot J. Gittins, mechanic.
 Mes was believed to be German Halperin Polish and Schroder Bel gian.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-30
CWA MEN SENT
 TO WORK INDOORS
Paul Dwyer Suffers Frozen Nose Yesterday-Gun
 Club Dance Tonight
Ty,omaston Correspondence

The severe cold of Friday drove the men employed by the c. w. A. inside and put a halt to all out side work. Paul Dwyer one of the workers was treated for frozen nose by pr Winfield Wight, who also treated another worker with frozen ears. Friday proved to be the coldest day recorded here in 70 years the thermometer in front of the c. A. Lennon store on Main street registered IT degrees below zero at 8 o'clock Friday morning and 12 degrees below at 4 o'clock Friday afternoon. Business suffered during the day as vedy few people came out to do any trading and the streets for most part were de- serted. old timers predict that Fri day night would reach the lowest mark of the year ani expected the mercury to drop to 25 degrees be- low zero.
 Large Gathering of Young People
 Attend Dance.
 Despite the cold weather a large crowd of young people gathered at the high school alumni dance in the high school gym Friday eve. ming and several of the number were from out-of-town. Wes Bill ings orchestra entertained before the dance and played for the dancing.
 Glemon and COr.ey to Open Tavern Edward Corley is moving his restaurant business from the w. H Lyons building on Main street into the store occupied by Thomas Glennon. He and MT Glennon will open a tavern the first of the year Rod and Gun Club Members Dance
 This Evening.
 The committee in charge of the dance to be given at the Rod anG Gun club house this evening have completed arrangements. W e Billings and his orchestra will en- certain and refreshments will bt served by George Dean.
 Waterbury Attorneys Move Offct
 Room.
 Matzkins and Cassell have givcr up their office room in the Robert: and Guernsey block on Main street Attorney Yale Matzkins is coach O. the Kaceys basketball team.
 Boys From Camp Roberts May
 Entertain.
 The Boys Minstrel club from thu c. c. c. at Camp Roberts hav' been invited to repeat their min ], strel show for the benefit of thi unemployed in the benefit to b' { given by the local committee at thu Paramount theater next month. Former Residents Attend Funera
 of Relative.
 MT and Mrs John Higgins O Bristol, and MT and Mrs Josepf Higgins of Plainville. former well known residents spent Friday il town attending the funeral O Henry Fox.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-30
OAKVILLE

At St Mary Magdalen's church. Rev Leo Finn, pastor. masses will be at 7:30. g and II o'clock. There will be a 9 o'clock mass held in the basement of the church for the children, followed by Sunday school. The last mass is at II o'clock followed by benediction of the blessed sacrament.
 At the Union Congregational church, Rev Oscar Locke. pastor: Sunday school at 9:3O o'clock: morning worship with sermon at 1O:45 o'clock. The subject of tho sermon will be Passing the Time" The Christian Endeayor society will meet at 7:30 o'clock in the evening at the church hall.
 At All Saints church. Rev A. N. Samwell. rector: Holy communion at 8 o'clock; church school at 9:3O o'clock; morning prayer and sermon at 10:45 o'clock. There will be Christmas music and the singing of carols.
 Community Conference
 The Community conference oi the church and the home will be held from January 8 to January 12. in the five Protestant churches of Oakville and Watertown. pr Robins w. Barstow of Hartford will be the first speaker in the Congregational church: The sec end night will be at All Saints with Rev Lowell of Waterbury as speaker. The remaining evenings will be held in the Watertown churches. Other speakers will be Dean Ladd of Berkely Divinity school, and Doctor Luther A Weigle of Yale. This is an experi- ment in a United Church project The home and the church are tive important character forming insti- tutions. It is important that they be more closely linked in this great work.
 Honor Roll
 The members of All Saints church who received grade oi SO6 and over at the Watertowr high school are as follows: Mar that Tenn, Grace Flisher, Ada Hallock, Muriel Corcoran, Bernict Lowrey and Dorothy Calkins.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-30
SLUMP DIDN'T BOTHER TRIBE

Big Rapids, Mich, lUP1-Mrs Fred Legant, in her missionary travels, discovered a people who refused to be bothered by the de- precision. she told friends here. They are the Indians of the Gran Chaco region, in Bolivia. These Indians make their own food and clothing, and for entertainment dance or imbibe heavily of liquor they make themselves, Mrs Le- gant said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-30
FACTORY BUICK
 STARTED TO BURN

A Buick coupe owned by the Chase companies caught fire in front of 141 North Elm street this mrrning about 11:40 o'clock. A short circuit was responsible for the blaze and a telephone alarm to fire headquarters. TNr ccMpanies of apparatus responded.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-30
PURCHAsE BANNED

Hartfofd, Conn. Dec 30- (UP)- The Connecticut health council has banned transportation, purchase or sale in this state of parakeets. or love birds as a precaution against psittacosis, state health director DE Stanley H. Osborn has announced. The ban becomes effective January 16
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-30
CARD OF THANKs.

We wish to thank our relatives, friends and ncighbors for their kindpess and sympathy and floral offerings during our recent bereave- ment, the death of our beloved hus- band and father, William J. Flynn.
 MRS WILLIAM l. FLYNN,
 w. JOSEPH FLYNN. JR.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-30
AM Issues Ab0De The
 Closing OfLast Year
Leaders Went Up From to Points This Morning
 ChrysIer Was Outstanding Feature

for many, government employees The R. F. c. rate closed at $S4.V6 per fine ounce, in contrast with the statutory price of S20.67 per ounce in effect "a year ago.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-30
WRECKING CAR
 CAUGHT FIRE.

A wrecking car owned by the Capitol Garage on North Main street caught fire in the garage yesterday afternoon at 3:20, caus- ing slight damage. The car was pushed out into the road by garage employees and the blaze was prac- tically extinguished when firemen arrived on the scene.
 the funeral procession entered. Ave Maria" at the offertory, and 70 Rest in the Lord" at the close. Burial was in the new St Francis cemetery.
 British Guiana expects 1884 to be very prosperous.
 Harvesting is now in progress in Arna0ffna
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-30

Harvesting is now in progress in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-30
AMERICAN MAY
 BE A VICTIM

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Evening star., 1933-04-30
Attempting to Solve the
OddDoings ofHollywood
But 1t Is Almost Impossible to Figure Why Author
Ben Hecht Is Assigned to Prepare design for
Living" for Screen-Those National Players.
By E. de S. Melcher.

frankly, we did not think that
their opening piece amounted to
more than casual good fun, and
that it was apparent that Donald
Woods and Forrest Orr should
have changed places, still, it did
afford us an opportunity OF in
specting these players closely and
recording their quirkS and their
earmarkS.
This season you will notice, for
instance, that Leona Powers has
not changed one single little bit.
You will notice, however, that Ona
Munson has an assurance which
was completely lacking last year.
You will notice, too, that Donald
Woods is learning to stand up
straight, and that his nose, which,
before, ran slightly off the track
before it reached its tip, is now
straight as an arrow and prepar-
ing for what should be an inter-
esting career in Hollywood. You
will notice, too, that Addie Hib-
bard radiateS that kindly spirit
which is hers as much as ever over
the footlights, and that Kathryn
Givney, tall, wide-eyed daughter
of Eve, has tossed a couple OF
pounds to the winds and is now
handsomer and simmer and more
provocative than ever. Romaine
Calender, too, brings to any role
distinctiveness which few other
players can accomplish, and
Freddie Sherman can say or do
anything and the entire gallery
goes to pieces.
Evening star., 1933-04-30
Fred Warine Says

/" Jazz is here to stay and all this
talk about its passing Is far
fetched and foolish" says Fred Waring.
Jazz may not retain its present form,
but 1t is bound to color all our music In
the future, both the lighter and the
more serious compositions.
ITO me jazz is the articulation Of the
mood of life expressed in terms of
rhythm, and it is an essential element
of human Life.
'The public likes music that it can
understand and there is no use Of any
orchestra in vaudeville trying to play
things that are too high-class of the
music that goes over the audiences
head. Jazz has succeeded in awakening
in US the responsiveness Of that rhyth-
mic impulse that is born in us. Music
and do not care If it is hot or sweet
will always appeal to the public. Synco-
patton is the cry of the age; jazz Is the
most adaptable form Of musical express
sion we have at present, and it has been
demonstrated that 1t can be suited to
any mood, which is something that can
not be said of the older forms of musi-
cal expression"
Evening star., 1933-04-30
A HOLLYWOOD Achievement.

COLORED motion pictures, shown on
- the same screen and at the same
time with the usual black-and-wh1te
variety, are now to be seen by audiences
for the first time in film history. This
Is one of the latest achievements OF
the ingenious Hollywood technicians.
In the Columbia feature, Below the
Sea-" there is a scene representing q
gathering of scientists and their guests
aboard a yacht just about to start for
the tropics in search Of rare fishes
and ocean-floor vegetation. The pro-
fessor in charge tells his audience I'VE
will now observe the results Of our
previous expedition" There is a small
motion picture protector beside him and
q small screen at the end OF the assem-
bly, room. An actor operator turns the
crank of the little protector and images
appear on the little screen.
Tropical fish are shown in their bril-
liant reds and green's and COLDS. Deli
cately- tinted bits of vegetation and
coral appear. And meanwhile, In the
conventional black-and-white, the audi
ence aboard the yacht Is visible in sub
dued light, and voices can be heard
commenting upon the brightly -hued
specimens.
The Columbia cameramen produced
this effect, Of course. by double exposure
Of their film; but it was difficult and
complicated process and something al
together new on the screen.
Evening star., 1933-04-30
"FOremOst Actresses" Who
Failed the Drama Critics
In. List of Eight Young Players, Compiled
Several Years Ago, Only Two Have Lived Up
to Early Promise Gotham New Plays.
By Percy Hammond.

4 WAY back in 1925 the editor Of
~ Vanity Fair undertook a search
~ for three young women who
would be successors to Mrs
Fiske, Miss Ethel Barrymore
and Miss Lauretta Taylor as the fore
most actresses of the American stage"
To aid him and his magazine in that
quest, he asked Mr.. Woollcott, Mr..
Mr.. Broun. Mr.. Benchley and
me to beat the bushes of the drama
sequences Of our reconnoitering. Each
Of us was to uncover eight young play
ers who seemed most qualified, not
for greatness, but to be first
in the "admiration and affection" OF
the American playgoer. From their
number the starry triune was to be
chosen have forgotten the result Of
our auguries, but in view Of our un-
questioned reputation for reliability.
have no doubt that We elected Miss
Katherine Cornell, Miss Lynn Fontanne
and Miss Ina Claire. But Richard
Nancy. the remembrancer Of "Twen-
tieth Century" recalls the roll Of my
own candidates, the names of which,
he intimates, add but little to my re-
pute as a horoscopist. My vote eight
years ago, he says, was as follows:
Miss Claire, Miss Cornell, Miss Helen
Menken, Miss Margalo Gilmore, Miss
Phyllis Povah, Miss Queenie Smith,
Miss Mary Hay, Miss Flora Shedield.
Only two Of these have fulfilled my
hopeful omens, the others having de-
cided for various reasons to shine or
to be shadowed elsewhere In the skies.
Miss Menken Is now Mrs. Smith, the
bride Of an eminent New York eye
surgeon, and her lapses back into the
old life are furtive and infrequent.
Miss Gilmore, disdaining the cheers
and torchlights Of celebrity, aspires, I
am told, to be stage director and
prefers to instruct her friends how to
act rather than to act herself. Miss
Smith, temporarily, trust, has deserted
her career for the more pungent joys
Of matrimony with a drama-critic,
Mr.. Garland. And Miss Povah, Miss
Hay and Miss Shefield, in whom had
such high faith in 1925, have been
swallowed in the cryptic silences that
SO often engulf talented artists Of the
Theater. Where, now," the Villon Mr..
Nancy inquiries, where now are your
girls Of yesterday" Probably they are
contented wives, mothers and divorces,
and maybe happier than they would
be had they remained under the con-
Evening star., 1933-04-30
Assigned to Write.

FIRST NATIONAL PICTURES, INC,
announces that Charles Kenyon
and Robert Lord have been assigned by
the studio to prepare two OF its impor-
tant story properties for early produc-
ton. Kenyon has been assigned to do
the dialogue for RED Meat" the David
Karsner story about an important figure
in the Chicago meat-pachng industry,
which will serve as an Edward G. Rob-
inson starring vehicle. The studio has
not yet decided whether or not 'Red
Meat" will precede THE Kingf1sh," an
other Robinson starring picture sched-
uled for early production.
Lord was assigned by First National
to write the adaptation of Convention
City," which will have an all-star cast,
and is based on an original by Will
Turner. The theme is concerned with
Atlantic City's place in the sun as
Americas playground and the mecca OF
conventiongoers from all over the
country.
Evening star., 1933-04-30

spicuous and exciting opiates Of the
stage.
MISS SUSAN GLAsPELL, one Of lit
A erature,s most flaming nuns, again
removes her wimple in "The Comic
Artist" and barges into, as the school
children would say. the battle Of the
sexes. She presents an ignobly noble
artist Orchard Hale), living comfort
ably with his devoted squaw (Miss
Blanche Yurka) In q fastidious Cape
Cod farm house, full Of sentiment and
traditions. Into that tranquil scene in
trude's the painters Partisan past in
the person of a wicked nympholet
(Miss Nora Baxter), who, when she
kisses him in the spot-lit darkness, dis
turbs his comfort as well as that Of his
wife and child Miss Glaspell causes
them all to discuss their dilemmas in
language literate though understand
able, and disposes them In positions
and predicaments well within the
proscenium rules. Are you interested
in the sex-nfe of painters, writer's and
their wives and sweethearts? If your
answer to that inquiry IS NO" ad-
wise you to keep away from "The Comic
Artist" which in honestly poetic terms
discusses the complex problems Of male
and female loyalty in q fairly enter
LAlumS W6y.
4 4 4
THE scene Of Little or Boy" Il .
L reform school inhabited by many
youthful and involuntary criminals en-
gagged in atoning for their misbehaviors.
They are all sullen, mean and hateful
of discipline, most Of them resembling
precocious rats. However, at the end,
the snarfing hero is to be seen taking
it pluckily upon the jaw. He and his
tinid pal have tried to escape from the
sheriffs, with tragic unsuccess, and a.
the alarms are sounded and the posse
grips them in its iron grip little Or
Boy" stops-an honest enthusiastic
propaganda play; II not q popular en-
tertainment. Mr. Bein, its author,
knows from personal experience what
the prison cells are like and how
brutally the governments bailids
starve and cruelty their more or less
innocent charges. He, himself, has
been a convict, and he enthusiastically
deplores the savage practices Of the
penologists, as in Little or Boy" they
change innocent insects into vicious
beasts. If anything can be done to cor
rect the situation, such sentimental
tragedies as Little or Boy" will do It,
If given half q Times Square chance.