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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-24
In The Local TheaterS
PaIaes Announces
 Triple Feature


 Marie Dressler and Wallace Desry in '"Tugboat Annie" will be shown for the last times to-day. Beginning tomorrow the Palace win offer its patrons q triple fea- turs program. the feature screen attraction will be "Pilgrimage" featuring Henrietta Crossman, who will be remembered for her splen- did character portrayals on both the stage and the screen, plays the part of the mother who knows 1t fs not too late to correct her life's greatest error. Norman Foster plays the part of the son she sends Go his death, and Marian Nixon is seen as his sweetheart, the inno- cent victim of the mothers wrath. Heather Angel, young English is the young lover who, in subsequent years, is the means through which the mother effects her own reform. Others in the cast are Maurice Murphy, Hedda Hopper, Francis Ford. Jay Ward and Frances Rich.
 On the stage John Fogarty, radios favorite Irish American tenor will offer fifteen minutes of songs in his own original way. Many of you have heard this artist on the air. as guest star of the Jack Frost program.
 The added feature on the pie ture program "Tarzan the Fear less" in the latest episode entitled "Blood Money. Buster Crabbe is the star in this screen thriller and in this episode you will see some more hair raising stunts.
 To round out this all feature bill other short subjects will be seen and 6 continuous performance will be given starting at D. m.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-24
TRUCK Is BURRo EXPRESS

Springville, Cal = (UP) = Per- haps the only "burro express" in the country is operated by Art Brunson. He hauls oranges from the foot hill groves to the packing houses here. On the return trip he loads his truck with pack burros and prospectors, en route to the hills for gold. They pay him a small sum, and a long walk for animals and gold seekers Is saved.
 Japane has received from Irak a contract for 90,000 yards of khaki cloth.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-24

Red Lodge. Mont. (UP)-Using blows. dynamite and airplanes, pr Barnum Brown. curator of the American Museum of Natural His tory, Is going dinosaur hunting this summer.
 The blows and dynamite will be used to uncover likely looking geo. logic formations where surface markings indicate the presence of fossils.
 Planes win Be Used
 The airplanes will be used in surveying the Black Hills district and other sections for favorable fossil hunting grounds. It is cas- fer to pick out the yellow sand stone formations which usually cap fossil bearing strata, from the air, the paleontologist said, than to conduct long searches on foot.
 This summers hunt will be the third for Dr Brown in the Mon- tana, Wyoming and South Dakota fossil regions. Last summer he discovered several dinosaur skel-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-24

Manchester, England. has Install led It's hundred thousandth teie- nhone.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-24
Final Summer
 Dance at Park All Girl Orchestra to Be Heard This
 Evening

It's Thursday again and tonight is the night that every dance lover in Waterbury has been looking for ward to, Dance night" at Hamil- ton park. Incidentally, it will mark the final dance of the sum- mer season at the park where rec ord crowds have been tripping the light fantastic wekely to some of the greatest orchestras in the country.
 Tonight, in keeping with it's policy of presenting the best, the park department will offer as the final attraction of the summer sea son, Americas greatest all girl dance orchestra, Helen Compton and her 42nd Street Girls, Co., lum bia broadcasting band. The 42nd Street girls are the pick of the two former girl orchestras, namely Vincent Lopez Debutantes and the Bricktops. After a most successful tour of New England bathrooms, the Compton band will soon launch on an RKO tour of vaudeville houses.
 Following to-night's dance at the park, there will be no more affairs at Hamilton until September 18th During that period, the hall will be alterated and re-decorated for the gala fall opening Wednesday eve ming, September 18th. Beginning with that date, the fall and winter policy of Wednesday and Saturday night dancing will be in effect Watch your newspaper for an
 nouncements on the opening. 
 Parking on one side of bus! | street is to be permitted in Bel ] fast, Ireland.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-24
Dinosaur Hunt
 In Black Hills
Natural History Museum Curator to Search Fossil
 Regions in Airplane

etons, including an unusual speci- men of a hOplitosaurus-a squat short-necked. stubby-tailed type armored with heavy bone plates from stem to stern.
 Hopes for Two Species
 Dr Brown hopes to find two species of sauropods-membe of the dinosaur family-during his research this year, he has an- nounced. As was the case with the hoplitosaurus, existence of the sauropods is known, but scientists never have succeeded in obtaining any complete remains.
 Much of the summers work will be in the Beauvais Creek region near Red Lodge, in connection with the Princeton university geo. logic expedition. The university has conducted summer camps in the region several seasons. Par ticuiar importance is attached to the work this summer, since the expedition will be host to the in- ternational geologic congress.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-24
Movies Playing To-day "oapiuFsd." io
 Open siate Run

Ever SO often a motion picture producer somes thru with a new theme in cinema entertainment that at once sets a new "style" for other producers to follow. Tn this respect Warner Bros. have shown the way with such memorable films as "I Am A Fugitive, "Sil- yer Dollar" and the more recent successes which once again chang ed the style, namely, "42nd Street" and "Goid Diggers of 1933'.
 Their new production, "Captur- ed", which begins a four day en- gagement at the State on Saturday, is evidence that these modern pi- oneers of new motion picture themes have given the screen an- other unusual production which contains all the elements of stark drama and ipulsating action, top ped only by a love story that springs from the lives of it's tri- angular characters right to the heart.
 "Captured" is a big picture in every sense of the word-bif from the viewpoint og being entirely different from anything you have ever seen, big because it's superb cast includes Leslie Howard, Doug las Fairbanks, Jr., Paul Lukas and Margaret Lindsay.
 It is indeed absorbing entertain ment, screen fare that will finger with you for a long time. A pie ture you wil live over and over again in your mind.
 Performances today and tomor- row conclude the engagement of the current double feature pro- gram which includes Jack Holt in "The wrecker" and Pat O'Brien with Evelyn, Brent in. "The World Gone Mad.".
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-24
Japanese Praised Villages
 For Going "On Wagon

Tokio (UP)-Mfho village in Ina county, Nagano Prefecture has set an example for all Japan in praf- tices of thrift and sobriety "to meet the crisis" which confronts the em- pire, Admiral Viscount Kakoto Saito, premier, told a delegation of village headmen in presenting them a scroll.
 Tie premier said it had been called to his attention that for years the people of Miho had been notorious for their drunkenness, With the outbreak of the Man churian crisis, however. the head men decided 1t was time for re- form and induced all villagers to sign a pledge they would not use alcohol, or waste money until the nation crisis was passed. The pledge has been faithfully observ- ed for nearly three years and Miho has become model for other communities in the prefec- ture.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-24
HOLLYWOOD.
 GOSSIP
INTIMATE GLIMPSES AND. INSIDE STUFF ON THE
 MOVIE COLONY
BY DAN THOMAS
By DAN THOMAS NEA Service Writer

Hollywood-If you would write for the movies, get started while you're young. At least that would seem to be the idea, judging from some of our most successful screen stories which have been authored by persons in their thirties or even younger.
 The outstanding example is Noel Coward, who at the age of 33, has turned out "Cavalcade," Private Lives" Design for Living" in ad- dition to many other Legitimate plays which have not yet been adapted for the screen.
 John Monk Saunders wrote ''Wings" before he was 30 and in a few succeeding years turned out ''The Dawn Patrol" "The Last Flight" The Eagle and the Hawk" and numerous other successful film stories. Vina Delrhar was only 25 when she wrote Bad Girl" Laurence Stallings wrote "The Big Parade" and What Price Glory?" before he was 35. "She Done Him Wrong" came from Mae Vests pen before she reached 30. Gene Fowler was responsible for ''The Great Mouthpiece" and What Price Hollywood?" while still in his thirties.
 Ben Hecht and Charles McAr- thur both were under 40 when they wrote "The Front Page" and Hecht was several years younger when he turned out Underworld"
 And from there on the list grows. Of course that doesn't mean 1r ..&r 1ry o hn are acceptable but they do seem to have the edge.
 And now Jack Oakie arises to remark that he wishes he were a tired business man-as 1t is he's just tired.
 Kind Hearted Ann.
 Ann Dvorak claims credit for be- ing the first person in the world to hatch a wild bird incubator fashion. 7
 After laying two eggs and sitting on them for several days, mother wren deserted her nest because she was frightened by the sprinkler system in Ann's yard. So Ann took the eggs, wrapped them in cotton and placed them under an electric light. Seven days later one of them matched.
 Ann still is feeding the baby bird-its diet consisting of milk, flies and ants.
 Here's a trusting soul for you. Lona Andre received a letter ask ing her to send some autographed photos of herself. And in closed was a signed blank check-just in case there was a charge.
 News Flashes From
 Studio Listening Posts.
 Samuel Goldwyn is going to re- make as talkies both Stella Dhl- las' and Dark Angel" the latter probably being used as a vehicle for his Russian importation, Ann Sten.
 Frances De has grabbed the coveted feminine role opposite George Bancroft in "Blood Money After a highly successful tour of Europe Jeanette Macdonald is back here again to make "The Prisoner of Zenda." And she claims to still be madly in love with her manager, Bob Ritchie, but T just haven't had time to get married When Fredric March's contract expires in November, he will begin producing his own pictures. Clark Gable will appear with Joan Crawford in Dancing Lady after all. Studio executives have decided to hold up the picture un- til Clark recovers from his appen- dicitis operation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-24

Parking on one side of busy street is to be permitted in Bel fast, Ireland,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-24

night will be a stage dancing con- test for the championship of Con- necticut between Art Watts Five Dancing Demons of Merideh and Ernie Ledger's Five Premiere Dancers representing Seaman's Studio of this city.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-24
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-24

Frazzled nerves have led the in- habitants of the Isle of Wight to sign a petition, asking the govern ment to reduce the power of the foghorn recently installed at Niton and change the mournful note to something less depressing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-24

ing s7s.es. nn1 60 annEls el s1 costing GIG. Gas prices varied Iron 1s cents at John Day. ore. tC n i-s cents at St Louis
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-23
Medieval Logic

Judge Thomas A. Green of Chicago be- lieves that habitual criminals ought to be cleo troeuted and that moving pictures of the exc euticns should be taken and exhibited for the education of first offenders
 The habitual criminal, he said, the other day. has forfeited the right to live in society and should be done away with; and if be. ginners in crime could see, on moving pie ture screen, all the details of executions they would be so filled with horror and fear that they promptly would give up the life of crime and return to honorable ways.
 The only trouble with all this is that it has been tried before, and it hasn't worked. A century or so ago England tried hanging as many of its criminals as it could lead to the gallows; and it made the hangings pub lie as lesson to youth
 Instead of providing useful lesson, these public hangings became popular spectaeles; indeed, unperturbed young criminals used to attend them to pick the pockets of other spectators although the crime itself was capital offense. Our crime problem needs. moro up-to-datc solution than this one
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-23
MONDAY, OCTOBER 2s, 1883
Social Progress

If the social sciences only could catch up with medical science, this ought to be pretty fair sort of world before very long. Dr George w. Grille of Cleveland, meh- cal man who sees visions and dreams in the laboratory where he examines the riddles of life and death, told the recent congress of the American College of Surgeons that the human race will be much finer and healthier outfit inside of century.
 Doctors then will prevent disease rather than cure it; indeed, the doctor who has to treat a disease will have to confess that he has failed in his duty Of preventing it's in- ception. Such plaques as diphtheria. ty~ phoid. smallpox malaria, and typhus will be eliminated; tuberculosis, diabetes and most diseases of the heart will be mastered; cancer and the social diseases will be reduced sharply. and childbirth will be made safe.
 And yet Dr Grille does not believe that this healthy race of 2033 A. D. will be very happy one The race, he believes, will be menaeed increasingly by the development of technology. The pace of day-to-day liv- ing will continue to increase, so that there will be more disorders of the mind and the nervous system than ever before. This bit of prophecy seems to indicate that we have mastered just about every science except the simple and homely one of conducting every day affairs so that human beings can be happy instead of unhappy. We can conquer the toughest problems the physical world has to offer us but we can't seem to solve the simplest riddles of human nature.
 We ride in airplanes and automobiles in. stead of the springless ox-earts of primitive man. we tunnel under mountains and dam up rivers and cure disease and weigh the stars and send our voices across the seas. But when it comes to the business of getting along with one another, and giving every human being decent break in life, We don't seem to he very much wiser than the citizens of Au. gustan Rome. The great untouched field be- fcre us today is the field of human relations. The great problem is the one of putting our triumphs in the physical sciences to work so that they can provide the greatest good for the greatest number.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-23
Are Savings No Longer Safe?

The mania for originating new tax methods to pay for governmental 'extrava- sance, reached peak in New York city with a proposal to pick out handful of busi- nesses for new brand of class taxation. The financial, real estate, insurance, savings bank and public utility worlds were astounded. The proposal would tax life insurance, for example. one quarter of one per cent of such portion of the value of its total capi- tai. investment and gross assets as shown by ts books as its receipts on account of poli- :ies of insurance in the city of New York bear to its total receipts.
 This is negotiable taxation of funds held in trust for millions of people. The great proportion of life insurance policyholders are persons of small means Life insurance : is often their only safeguard for families and dependents. But politicians point to the &C., eumulated savings of these small policy hold CTS pooled in an insurance company and say. Let's tax this rich corporation They do not tell the people that such plan is an in- stallment method of destroying savings of the masses.
 Supposng other cities and states adopted the tactics proposed in New York city. What would happen to the savings of the nation! One hesitates to conjecture. Have we reached point where no investment IS sacred; where politicians can eonflseate private funds to fill public treasuries which their mad schemes have depleted? Unless such class legislation and confiscatory taxa ton of private savings and investments are stopped in this nation, private property rights. that great heritage of American eiti- zens, will have disappeared.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-23
Farm Cooperatives Necessary

C. o. MoSer. vice president of the Amer ican Cotton Cooperative Association, recently observed that cotton producers like other groups of farmers, have three problems to the exchange of their product for the pro- ducts and services of other producing groups; third, national and international occurrences and issues which affect finance, employ nent, buying power and so on.
 This gives pretty good idea of what the farmer who trys to go it on his own, faces. Even the first and simplest of his problems, production, cannot be intelligenty handled he can't know how~ many of his acres should be fruitful in order to produce the highest possible return. When it comes to exchange. he is almost powerless - he simply takes what some buyer offers, and that is usually very unfavorable price. And when he, in turn. buys the necessities and luxuries of life he must buy in organized markets. where other producers .have cooper. ated in, one way or another to create prof itable prices. In the case of national and international economic trends, he is com pletely at sea,
 z It is testimonial to the Vision of pro- gressive farmers that, recognizing the diffi- culties faced by the individual they have created eooperatives to fight and solve their problems for them. The cooperative has size, it has power, and it can employ experts in many fields. It is force in the forming and passing of legislation, and is considered and consulted in pursuing the national agri- cultural policy. It is, in brief, the farmers greatest vehicle on the road toward recovery and prosperity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-23
Thwarting Escape

There is little doubt that the great ma jority of Americans heartily will endorse Attorney General Homer Cummings plan for a new federal prison in which the most vicious and "irredeemable" of prisoners can be isolated. The place chosen for this prison is Aleatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. It seems to be ideally adapted for such purpose.
 Most prisons unfortunately, are not "es- cape proof for the really desperate eonviets We have bad enough prison breaks in the last few years to convince US of that This island prison ought to be something else again. Mir Cummings is confident that man immured there would stay there. no' matter how great his efforts 10 get away; and his confidence seems to be justified.
 It is hard enough in this country to catch and convict men of the Capone or Kelly type. without having 10 take chances on seeing them break loose from their cells. Such men ought to be isolated in a prison designed especially to hold desperadoes
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-23
The Facts About Railroad Rates

The Interstate Commerce Commission ecently rendered most interesting railroad decision. It concerned the rates charged by the carriers for handling freight It com pletely blasts any supposition that rates are too high, and that the railroads are enjoying . financial feast at the expense of starving shippers In the first quarter of 1893 the average rate per ton-mile charged was about 22' per cent below the 1920 peak, and about II per cent below the 1922 level, when general reduction of 0 per cent was ordered. Some rates have been, reduced as much as 50 per cent
 If. according to the commission. rates were again reduced by 10 per cent as com pared with the 1o3l level the carriers as a whole would fail to meet their fixed ex- penses - as distinct from profits and sur- pluses = by over 20 million dollars during the next l2 months. With rates 25 per cent below those of l93l, net income would fall short of fixed charges by about $500,- OOO.O00. The result would be that many more carriers would be forced into receiver ships with serious loss to investors. unless governmental aid were extended --in which case tl,e general public. instead of the shipper would be called upon to foot the freight bill. Tn. railroads credit would be per manently impaired.
 h conclusion. the report says; The eoun-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-23

A sigh of satisfaction went up from this country when word came from Berlin that at last the German government had taken in hand the fanatics who have been attacking foreign visitors for not joining in the Nazi hurrah. Two storm troopers who assaulted an American citizen from Meriden, Conn. when he failed to salute the swastika carried in parade, were sentenced by speed court to six months in jail. So Germany. which lately has drifted far from her old standards of hospitality and "gemuetlich keit." behaves, little more like the Germany we used to know and love.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-23
THE RoCKEFELLER PLAN
Bridgeport Times-star)

Repeal of the eighteenth amend ment, arriving with 6 speed few people in America thought pos- sible, does not simply mark the end of q great experiment. 1t also marks the beginning of new one and 1t Is going to be very easy for us to make just as many mistakes with the new as we did with the old.
 For this reason the Rockefeller plan for liquor control is an ex- tremcly valuable thing. Whether or not we accept the solutions 1t offers for the various phases of the liquor problem. 1t at least serves to re- mind us that simply repeating the prohibition law Is only half of the job.
 We have tried one method of meeting the liquor issue and we have found that 1t didn't work. Now we must try some other method; and the suggestions in the Rockefeller plan can be very use- ful in helping us to make up our minds.
 The best point, perhaps, is the one which the Rockefeller plan emphasizes most strongly-that 1t would be wise to make Q clear dis tinction between the kind of con- trol that is ffeeded for beer and wine and the kind that is needed for hard liquor.
 It is suggested. in fact, that the sale of beer be almost unrestricted and that very liberal rules be set up to govern the sale of wine. On the other hand, very stringent regu lations for the sale of whisky and other distilled liquors are recom- mended.
 Let beer, in other words, be sold by almost anybody who cares to get a license. Let wine be served freely with meals in hotels. restau- rants and cafes. Confine the sale of hard liquor to a few carefully chosen retailers, for consumption in the buyers own home.
 Needless to say, no such plan as this is going to satisfy everybody. The prohibitionist will find 1t too liberal; the man who looks back fondly to the old days will ind 1t too strict.
 But 1t does serve as an excellent point of departure for discussions of the liquor control problem. It recognizes the perfectly obvious fact that beer and wine present one kind of problem, while distilled liquors present another.
 Probably we shall have to spend