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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-10-01

She shifted. IF you'd pay mors
attention to trifles like that we'd
be farther along in the world than
we are now" And 30 It went on
far into the night.
When Mr. Ellis walked into the
store the next day to get his suit
he was struck by the change OF at
mosphere. The owner stood beam
ingly awaiting him, all the hither-
to cold-faced clerks were now
smiling pleasantly and seemed
anxious to Sc him.
"How do you do, Mr-ah--" the
owner greeted him with out
stretched hand.
''Ellis is the name" He shook
hands, puzzled.
sAh, yes-Mr Ellis. Now, Mr.
Ellis, IL youth just step over here
a minute I have something want
to tell YOU"
"That's $40, isn't it?" Mr. Ellis
asked as he reached in his pocket.
"Now-ah," the manager smiled
apologetically. "Mr Ellis. that's
what I wanted to tell you about.
You see, we've made mistake
$50 you made a mistaken" he re-
peated, as IL surprised. He said
1t overly loud and the manager
glanced about him in dismay for
several customers stood within
hearing.
"Ahem,'' the manager coughed
and shifted nervously. Then he
smiled again, but it was feeble
smile and f1ickered out almost In
stantly. "You see, that suit was in
the wrong place in the basement.
It should have been among the
third floor suits-in the one huns
dred dollar class" He purposely
lowered his voice to a whisper.
hoping that Mr. Ellis would follow
suit.
Mr. Ellis didn't. s'what do you
want me to do ?" he asked cold1y.
The manager fiuttered his hands
unhappily. 1--WE thought maybe
you would select another suit or
else you could-you could
''Pay for this one, suppose ~ He
looked the manager straight in the.
eye and the man wilted.
Then he rallied. Eyes. sir. You
could do that, sir" A look OF relief
appeared on his face.
Mr. Ellis drew himself up to his
full height Of five feet two inches.
''Sir," he said. and his voice pene-s
trated to the far corners OF the
store. II never make mistakes my
self and / don't expect others to-
make them. ] bought the suit In
good faith and I'm sorry 49, but
you'll have to take the cOnse-
quences." He threw down four ten
dollar bills on the counter, picked
up the sait and walked out the
door. followed by the outraged
glances of the manager and his
clerks.
The worm had indeed turned.
copyright 1884. The Chicago
Daily News, Incl
ia
Monday: "Luck Stone" by CIar-
ence Carpenter. is delicate story
OF a little girl who dreamed
dreams about a beautiful sapphire
and learned to her surprise that
the precious stones history dove
tailed with her dream.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-10-01
WHOMgo FIR5To
IN AMERICA

BY Joseph Nathan Kane
Author Of Famous First Facts"
When was two-way telephone
conversation first effected be.
tween planes in the air?
Who was the first spiritualist
in America?
What was the first athletic
club in. U. s.?
Answers in next issue.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-10-01

Answers to Previous Questions
TYR. FULLER arrived on the
- Mayfiower Dec. 81, 1920. and
was, for a time. the sole physi.
clan in the colony Charles
Gustafson won the Boston hill
climb. Until then. people did not
believe a motorcycle had much
power Ersstus Brigham Bigelow
patented Bingham manufactur.
ing machinery in 1S45 and
opened the Lancaster Mills at .
capitalization of $500.000.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-10-01

Telephone poles are doomed n
England. 100000 miles Of line
having been placed underground
and the last 100000 miles VIII
be put there at once.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-10-01

Mongoose imported into the Is
land OF Meleda. or the coast OF
Dalmatia. to drive out poisonous
snakes have routed the reptiles
but the mongoose has now be-.
come the pest.
Evening star., 1934-06-17
MOVIES ILLEGAL.
CARNETT WARNS EXHIBITORS

Announcement of plans to bring
motion pictures of the Baer-C Camera
fight to Washington for a showing at
a downtown theater brought a warn
ing last night from Leslie c. Garnett,
United States attorney. that while he
would not initiate prosecution, the
party bringing the films across the
District line would do so "at his own
risk"
The District now has no law or reg
ulation against exhibition of prize
fight pictures here. but a Federal
statute enacted in 1912, still operative,
prohibits the transportation in interA
state commerce of such boxing films.
Opinions to this effect have been
rendered by both the United States
attorney and E. Barrett Prettyman,
corporation counsel The latter gave
an opinion at the request of Albert
Levin, an attorney for undisclosed in
terests said to be planning to bring
-tlae championship film here soon.
Evening star., 1934-06-17
HAL SkELLY, ACTOR,
is KILLED IN CRASH
Truck He Was Driving Struck by
Train in Connecticut-Woman
Injured.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSS.
WEST CORNELL, Conn. June 10
Hal Skelly, AZ. actor and director,
was killed instantly late today when
truck he was driving was struck by
train at a crossing on the Pitts
field-New York division of the New
Haven Railroad.
Miss Helen Bell. riding with Skelly,
was taken to Charlotte Hungerford
Hospital in Torrington critically in
jured and attendants there held out
little hope tonight for her recovery.
Skelly was driving a small truck be-
longing to Maj. M. K. Lee, at whose
estate the actor had been guest
since yesterday.
State police investigating the crash
said that Skelly with Miss Bell, house
keeper for Maj. Lee, was returning
to the estate after search for one
of Maj. Lees dogs.
Mai. Lee, whose estate is the Push
'Em-Up Farm, was notified of the
accident at Williamstown, Mass,
where he was attending the Williams
College graduation exercises.
Evening star., 1934-06-17

Levin was optimistic about the
matter, but declined to reveal details
of his clients plans. He said he
doubted If the Federal law would
prove an effective bar.
Garnett said he had received sew
eral applications for an opinion on
the subject and had held that the
act of Congress permitting prize
fighting in the District had not
changed the ruling against interstate
transportation OF fight pictures.
He said he did not propose to in
itiate prosecution. but would do so If
q complaint were filed with his Of
flee that films made outside the Dis
trict were brought here for exhibition.
He indicated he doubted the wisdom
of the law since prize fighting now
is legal here.
Garnett said films made of boxing
bouts staged in the District could be
exhibited here le8auy.
Evening star., 1934-06-17
Huge Recovery Aid Credited
To p. W. 4. on First Birthday
Ickes Defends Fundamental Policies of
Program as Sound, Eouing to Con-
tinue to Pursue Them.

those hours in the ranks Of the idle.
Approximately as many more
q .468. .000.0 .000) hours Of direct en-
ployment in coming months are as
sured under p w. A. allotments,
plans, specifications, and contracts al
ready made.
And for each hour OF direct en-
plOyment on p W. A. construction
job itself some two hours OF behind
the lines" work is made possible on
materials production and handling in
forests and factories. shops and rail-
roads. mines and mills. There is to
be considered also the general re-
generative effect Of vast pay rolls
which means purchasing power for
recovery all along the line.
No simple citing OF eloquent figures
begins to tell the story Of the first
year Of P. w. A. 1t is an agency
Continued on Page 5. Column 2)
Evening star., 1934-06-17
FRANCE REJECTS
REICH ARMS PLEA
BarthOu Tells Hitler Ennis.
sary to Bring Demands Be-
fore Geneva Conference.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, June 16.-Chancellor Hit
ler's demands for rearmament OF
Germany we're presented anew to
France tonight in surprise secret
meeting at the foreign office. and
were summarily turned down by For
eign Minister Louis Barthou.
Barthou insisted that Germany re-
turn to the League of Nations and
present her demands at Geneva.
The German arms demands were
brought to Paris by Joachim Won
Ribbentrop, special German COM
missioner for disarmament. in an
unheralded VISIT to the foreign office
He came as an emissary Of Chancellor
Hitler.
Barthou told Won Ribbentrop, after
listening carefully to the detailed de-
mands, to take them to Geneva,
where they would be examined with
the impartiality they merit because
of their determining influence on the
peace of Europe"
The utmost caution surrounded the
meeting. Oficials guardedly revealed
that Won Ribbentrop and Barthou
had long conversation bearing par
ticularly on relations between France
and Germany"
Evening star., 1934-06-17
OFFICERS HEROISM
IN 1915 REWARDED
Lieut.. Comdr. R. w. Cary Given
Medal of Honor for Saw
ing His Men.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BREMERTON, Wash, June 49,
Nineteen years after he had saved
from death several sailors trapped
in boiler room of the naval cruiser
San Diego, Lieut.. Comdr. Robert w.
Cary today won recognition of his
act of bravery.
Comdr. Cary, now gunnery officer
of the U. s. S. Arizona. at the
Bremerton Navy vary for overhaul,
was awarded the Congressional Medal
of Honor.
In January. 1915. Comdr. Cary,
then an ensign aboard the San
Diego in the Gulf of Lower California,
was standing in the bulkhead door
way between two boiler rooms when
a boiler blew up. Scalding water,
steam and fire poured into one room,
killing several men and painfully in
juring others.
Immediately, electrical devices be-
gan shutting the watertight doors to
the room In which the accident oc-
Cured. Realizing the closing Of the
doors would cut off all escape for
the crew, Comdr. Cary blocked the
closing door and those able crawled
to safety.
Altogether. five boilers exploded and
nine men were killed.
Evening star., 1934-06-17
BRIDE WITNESSES
MURDER-SU|C|DE
Husband Kills Brother.i in.
Law and Himself After
Quarrel.

With his bride of two weeks the
only witness, John Joseph Campbell,
"a. former Marine, shot and killed
his sisters husband and then took his
own life last night at the Soldiers,
Sailors and Marines Club. 1015 L
street, according to the account of
the tragedy related to police by Mrs.
Campbell.
The man slain was Sergt. Marion
Stone. 43, for many years a military
instructor at St. Johns College. He
was shot. according to Mrs. Camp
bell, during a quarrel which began
when Stone. in charge of the club,
told Campbell, who was the janitor.
that he would have to get out in the
morning.
Police were informed there had been
bad feeling between the two men,
Lieut. C. j. P. Weber of the second
precinct, said. Mrs. Campbell. how
ever, said she knew nothing of this.
Says Stone Was Drinking.
Mrs. Campbell. however, did say
that her husband always attempted
to keep out of Stones way when the
latter had been drinking. Police
were told Stone had been drinking
last night
The shooting took place shortly be-
fore midnight. Mrs. Campbell. in a
state of near collapse. told the police
that Stone summoned her husband
to answer a telephone CALI and that
after the conversation was COM
pleted the men started to argue.
Stone followed her husband upstairs,
she said, and when they entered the
Continued on Page 5, Column -
Evening star., 1934-06-17
u. S. LABOR GAINS
HAILED AT GENEVA
Great Improvement in Past
Year Reported by Delegate
to Conference.
BY the Associated Press.

i
GENEVA, June l6-Hugh S. Han
ma Of Washington. D. c., an American
delegate. told the International Labor
Conference today that during the
last II to IA months the improve
nlent in the industrial and labor con-
ditions Of the United States has been
very great indeed"
Hanna emphasized that the Ameri-
can industrial codes were designed
not only to restore prosperity, but
also to assure that prosperity should
be more equitably shared by the peo-
pie in general"
The American said that one ele-
ment Of this shared prosperity is the
shorter work week. I'VE regard the
shortening Of labor time not only as
spreading work." he declared. but
as good in itself and as practicable
for the United States"
Evening star., 1934-06-17
BRITISH DENY DIVER
FOUND HAMPSHIRE
American Locksmith's Story He
Reached Kitchener's Grave
Rejected.
RY the Associated. Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, June 16-Charles Court
ney, the New York locksmith who
believes he has located the wreck OF
the British cruiser Hampshire in the
North Sea-, spent two hours at the
admiralty today but failed to convince
officials that he holds the secret of
the ship which carried Lord Kitchener
to his death.
He left with the admiralty a gold
signet ring which he said he himself
had salvaged from The Hampshire.
Courtney will go to the continent
tomorrow, determined to continue
one Of the strangest treasure hunts
in history.
He offered to tell the approximate
latitude and longitude Of the wreck
he believes is the Hampshire, and was
told the admiralty knows where the
wreck of the Hampshire lies. The
admiralty informed the American
that no permission for salvage opera
tions has been given.
Evening star., 1934-06-17
BY HAROLD L. ICKES.
(Federal Public Works Administratt

(Federal Public Works Administrator
One year ago today. legislation was
enacted under which the United
States set out to translate a theory
that of public works as a means
to stimulate employment-into actual
practice. Today We may properly take
stock of our Public Works Admins
tration programme longer a theory
but an accomplished fact.
Were 1t possible to condense the
first years achievements into a sin
gle phrase. relating to employment,
it would be that the P. w. A. pro-
gram to date already has provided
roughly one and one-half billion
Q.4l8. 900 000) hours OF honest work
at honest wages on direct construc-
tion site employment only to men
who otherwise would have passed
Evening star., 1934-06-17
SLAP PRICED $4,000

LOS ANGELES, June 16 (R.-Suit
for $4,000 damages was filed today
by Nita Cavalier, actress, against Mrs.
G. Benton Wilson, social leader and
wife of a wealthy yachtsman, charging
that Mrs, Wilson slapped her face on
a downtown business corner before a
large crowd.
Miss Cavalier asserted the slapping
occurred after an argument in which
Mrs. Wilson falsely accused her OF
waiting to meet Wilson, former COM
modore Of the California Yacht Club
Evening star., 1934-06-17
DANCER WHO PLUNGED
TO DEATH IDENTIFIED
Body of Nude Woman in Los An
geles Is Held That of Hazel
Juanita Pierce of Arizona.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, June 16.-The body
of nude young woman dancer, who
plunged to her 1eath from a fourth
story window of an apartment house
here last midnight. was identified to-
day as that of Hazel Juanita Pierce,
%, niece of ]. G. Higginbotham, for
mer treasurer of Coconino County,
Arlz.
Police said it evidently was suicide.
Friends reported the girl had been
despondent. She had given her name
at the apartment house as Lucille
Young, dancer, from San Francisco.
Police late today found three friends
of the girl whom they had been seek
ing. They were Edward Mendelson
of South Pasadena and Mr.. and Mrs.
Ernest Selwin, Los Angeles. Men
delson told police he had known Miss
Pierce about 10 years.
Evening star., 1934-06-17
Housing Plan
Is Trapped-in
Conference.
HOUSE LIMITS
AID FUNDS USE
Republicans Attack
Creating of Mort
gage Associations.

BY the Associated Press.
Two important pieces of legis-
lation on the administration S
must" Schedule-the housing
bill and the deficiency appro-
priation meaSure-remained to
be acted upon when the Senate
recessed late last night, but lit
tie remained to be done with
each.
The housing bill had been ap-
proved yesterday afternoon by
the Senate, II to II, with only a
few inconsequential changes and
terSe discussion. Moving quickly
the House went through the
formality of diSagreeing with
the Senate changes, but the
confereeS seeking to compromise
the differences had not reported
when the Senate recessed until
tomorrow.
The conference report on the de-
ficiency bill. which appropriates more
than $2000,000,000 for direct relief
and public works, was adopted late
last night by the House and sent tC
the Senate for action. The Senate
however, recessed before taking it up
Earlier, congressional conferees on
the bill had agreed on a compromise
limiting President Roosevelt's power
to divert funds from the Reconstruc-
ton Financing Corporation.
After six straight hours in the swell.
tering Senate Appropriations Com
mittee. the conferees announced they
had agreed to limit to $500, 0,000, 900 the
amount the Chief Executive could
take from the r. F. C. for reliet sro
public works This was the figure
fixed by the Senate
The conferees also adopted the Sen
ate's figure Of $525 ,000, 900 for drought
relief.
Demanded by Roosevelt.
The housing bill which was drafted
by administration experts, retains the
essential features first proposed and
approved by the President. The
House, however, added quite bit
to it. Mr.. Roosevelt's interest in the
measure was shown when he informed
his leaders at the Capitol that it
was to be in shape for his signature
before the legislators started for
home and the Summer and Fall cam
paigns. Mr.. Roosevelt hopes it will
stimulate that laggard in the recov-
cry march, the heavy industries
group, and provide work for millions
The hope of the average house
holder to own his own home is en-
compassed in the bills terms. as is
the hope of many citizens to lift
the mortgage of the houses they al
ready own.
The bill has these principal aims
to stimulate repair and remoderniZa-
ton of houses; to get new construc-
ton of homes under way; to establish
a standard mortgage with low interest
rates over long term of years
which will enable home owners to pay
of existing mortgages and take care
of new ones; to bolster building and
loan institutions through a guarantee
of their deposits.
To carry out these aims, the meas
ure provides for:
Federal guarantee of loans made fol
home modernization up to 20 per cent
of their face value.
Mutual mortgage insurance, guar
anteeing liens for construction on resi-
Dental property up to a total Of S16,-
600 or to 80 per cent of the appraised
CONTINUED on Page 3, Column ~
Evening star., 1934-06-17
BOMB BLAST REVIEWS
AUSTRIAN TERRORISM
Vienna Ponders Significance of
Explosion on Heels of Musso-
lini-Hitler Agreement.

BY the Associated Press.
VIENNA, June ia bomb ex-
plosion. renewing the months-long
terrorism that has beset Austria. sent
a defiant echo tonight to the Hitler
Mussolini agreement that this nation
must become peaceful.
The explosion wrecked the labora-
tory of the Vienna Agricultural
Institute. In accordance with recent
decree of the ministry of education,
the damages will be pro-rated and
assessed against the students
The general public was most inter-
ested in the effect the meeting of the
leaders will have on the bombings
which have shaken Austria for weeks,
and which the government attributes
to NaziS.
Evening star., 1934-06-17
STRIKERS AT a. PLANTS
TO RETURN TOMORROW
Remington Rand Agreement Is
Accepted-Walkout on
Five Weeks.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 16.-Russel E.
Benner, vice president of Remington
Rand, Inc, tonight said striking en-
ployes at four of the company's plants
would return to work Monday.
Benner said SO per cent OF the
strikers at Middletown, Conn; Syra-
clIse, N. Y; lion, N. Y. and Nor
wood, Ohio, today voted to accept an
agreement reached here Friday be-
tween representatives and company
officials.
Under the agreement, the company
recognized the union and the union
agreed to a continuation Of the open
shop policy.
The strike had beeen on for five
weeks and 1000 employees were af-
fected.
Evening star., 1934-06-17
NEW RESERVE BOARD
BUILDING AUTHORIZED
Member Banks Will Pay for
Structure to Be Erected
Here.

Congress last night authorized
the Federal Reserve Board to erect
building in Washington for its head
quarters.
The funds for the structure would
be provided for 5y an assessment on
member banks of the reserve system.
The authorization for the building
project was carried as a Senate
amendment in the loans to industry
bill, and was accepted by the House
conferees yesterday afternoon.
Evening star., 1934-06-17
D.C.AGENC|ESFACE
LOSS IN WORKERS
Final Action on Funds for
Three Boards Is De-
Iayed.

Three agencies of the District gov
ernment are facing the prospect of
going through the next fiscal year
without adequate personnel as a result
Of the action of Senate and House
conferees yesterday in striking from
the deficiency appropriation bill addi-
tional money needed for these activi-
ties.
The House ratified the conference
report last night. but Senate action
was postponed until tomorrow when
last-minute jam prevented adjourn
ment and caused Senate leaders to
recess.
The agencies are the Public Utilities
Commission. the District Alcoholic
Control Board and the Board of In
determinate Sentence and Parole.
The Senate tried to avoid the sit
uation by adding amendments to the
deficiency bill Friday night as fol-
lows: For the Utilities Commission,
s36,823; for the Liquor Board, S18,-
408. and for the Parole Board, $l3,-
ITO.
Yields to House.
In conference late yesterday, how
ever, they had to yield to the House
and strike out all three. 1t is under
stood the House conferees insisted in
the breaking of an agreement the
Senate made with the House when
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column 81
Evening star., 1934-06-17
ADAMS SON WE'D

BEVERLY, Mass, June 16 (P).-
Miss Margaret Stockton, daughter of
MIR. and Mrs. Philip Stockton of Bos-
ton, today became the bride of Charles
Francis Adams. jr., son of former
Secretary of the Navy and Mrs.
Charles F Adams. The ceremony was
performed in st. Johns Episcopal
Church at Beverly Farms.
The bride, prominent in Vincent
Club-Junior League circles, wore a
gown of white chiffon and carried a
bouquet of bouvardia. Adams, Har-
ward. 1882, was graduated from the
Harvard Graduate School of Business
Administration with the class Of 1894.
Evening star., 1934-06-17
FIRST LADY ON TOUR

WEST ORANGE, N. j., June 16 Up.
At the wheel of roadster she had
driven from Washington, D. c., Mrs.
Franklin d. Roosevelt arrived at
Llewelyn Park tonight to spend the
week end at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Parish, jr. The latter is
her cousin.