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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-14

on one shoulder, looked cooly past her, but Isabel smiled and Patty nodded coolly and the boys said, Hello, Boots," as she danced se- dately past them. She could feel the sting of Sylvia's calm disdain- ful, unseeing smile as she passed.
 Someone-it was the elder Adri- an boy who fancied himself as a bit of a master of ceremonies at these affairs-silenced the orches- tra for moment and announced a change partners" interval.
 Boots slipped out of MT Halli- hans arms as the music stopped and the drums tara -rara" filled the air She still held her head gallantly but with all her soul she was wishing to be out of this warm, crowded room with its trailing bunting, its confetti, its tables in a confusion of melting ice and cool ing coffee cups. The gayety at Syl- via's table had made her realize what she was missing. And they were laughing at her, all of them all but Hardy who was not, fol the moment, visible.
 She felt light torch on her arm A lazy, confident voice said easily Well, this is break. I've beer | looking for you" ...-....
 She felt her heart pound, hel pulses quicken. The young man 1T fianneis, with the dark blue double. breasted jacket. the crest of waving hair angrily ironed down, was Hardy Whitmore.
 She managed to say idly, "Oh have you honestly?"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-14
Olympic Prospects,
 May Be Discovered
Tests of Skill, Endurance Among Title Claimants to
 Feature "Kaceys" Outing

Drescher and Joe Lee.
 Under water swim, Dr Donahue, who has announced that he expects to be crowned the first decathalon champion of the K. of c. clambake, Bill Carney, the well-known drug gist and Waterville athlete, Dr M. A. O'Hara who is coming out of re- tirement to participate in this aquatic event, and pr Howard Ho- gan one of the city's finest water polo players.
 For the tug-of-war Captain Parker has lined up as his team mates John Canning, Mort Connor, Art Lunny, Tom Walsh and pr Frank Mahan. Danny Commerford will captain the opposing team and will be backed by Joe Mulcunry, Joe Commerford, Mitchell Corden, John O'Donnell and Harry Spell man.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-14
It All Happened At Larchneck
 One Summer
CHAPTER III.

. 4S4b HI.
 Who was that brought you home?" Mrs Raeburn, established in a deep chair on the porch, with her endless knitting, asked mild- ly as the girl came up the steps.
 oh, just nobody at all. The man who teaches the youngsters swimming at the club"
 Mrs Raeburn pursed up her thin lips ever so slightly, and. although She made no further comment, her laughter knew the incident had uspleased her. Dintsy Adrian was Ill very well: everyone knew him. But Larchneck's inner circle was a ittle closed corporation. Newcom- CTS were looked upon with the darkest suspicion. Although a scant 50 minutes from the spires of Manhattan, the small, compla- cent suburban town had the tight ness and narrowness of spirit which might have belonged to some provincial village far removed from any centre of sophistication.
 Boots went on into the house, f nodding to Linda, who was setting the table on the side porch. This morning everything had been love. ly. Birds, sunshine. flowers. even the smell of suds as Linda sang over her wash all had con- tributed to Boots sense of well be- ing. Rut now a cloud hung over all. Those girls who pretended to be her friends had laughed at her openly, cruelty. We'll. she would go to the party tonight. She would show them how much-or how Iit- tle-she cared.
 Not hungry?"
 She came back from her dreams to toy listlessly with the salad. Too hot, I guess"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-14
Summer Romance Viewed In All
 Its Glory

club The doorman smiled at her.
 Evening, Miss Boots."
 Mrs Waterman, a dowager with crisply marcelled silver hair and dynamic air of being equal to any ions toward the young girl.
 "So nice you could come, my dear. Ours is the table in the west window. I always like to be in the west window .. one sees the sunset"
 Boots, who knew the younger set always chose the east room because the long veranda gave onto the sound, making it possible for end less flirtations to be carried on un- der cover of starlight and the lap ping waves, smile brightly in return. She ought to be thankful, she re- minded herself sternly, that she was here at all instead of being stuck at home, curled up with magazine. Two or three people waved to her as she made her way through the dining room, brave with lanterns and the club colors. She saw Isabel Tn pale green, smil- ing up at a tall young man in white mess jacket, scarlet cum merbund around his slim waist. His back was turned to her, but she thought there was something vaguely familiar in the set of his sleek, dark head. The moment passed she could not recall who he was, and in an instant she was at Mrs Waterman's table, in the embrasure, and .wo elderly, ru- bicund and smiling gentlemen were wing for the honor of drawing out her chair.
 It was even as she had expected. Not soul at Mrs Waterman's table was under 50. Miss Florida Fleming. the village "poetess," en- veloped in black tulle with band of silver in her iron gray looped and oily hair, sat beside MT Water man-old William Francis himself. Vincent Paul Hallihan, who taught English at the high school and coached the amateur players in Shakespeare in his spare time, was at her right. For the rest, there were few vague persons whom Boots described in her own mind as wet smack" well preserved ladies and gentlemen of uncertain years and enthusiastic aspect.
 The dinner began. There was fruit cup There was soup. There was fish in aspic. There was the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-14

inevitable joint of chicken, xith a discouraged spoonful of peas. There was limp salad. At long last, to the tune of Marching Along Together" during the play ing of which the owner of the win ming boat rose and bowed cere- moniously to the assemb bled com pany, there was an ice, giddily pink and green, formed in the shape of the pink flag.
 Boots lifted her demi-tasse and languidly drank. Across the table Miss Florida was cooing: Isn't it a delightful party? Isn't it too won- derful?"
 MT Hallihan asked Boots to dance. One could do no less than accept. She danced with him, hat ing the slow. old-fashioned steps, feeling her cheeks hot as the in- trepid Shakespearean scholar steered her in the direction of the East Room. She had hoped to avoid this-passing Sylvia Rivers table but now that the moment was at hand she met it with head up and eyes flashing. Sylvia, in sheerest white with a knot of brown orchids
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-14
800 Registered In
 Vacation Schools
Naugatuck Congregational Church, Experimenting
 With August Session, Only One Open

The tenth season of Vacation CRurch Schools sponsored by the Waterbury Council of Religious Ed ucation is drawing to a close, in fact, all have closed except that Of the Naugatuck Congregational church which, this year, is trying out an August session.
 As previously announced, the only attempt at uniformity was in the curriculum, all but two of the schools adopting the new Vaca- tinon Church Series put out by the Interdenominationa Committee of the International Council of Relig- iols Education. The kindergarten children liver, worked and played together guided by the course known as Our Happy World" One of the projects ofthis course was the building of happy home, in which the children made their own furniture and arranged it as they thought it should be. More important than these externals was the solving of character prOh- lens that arose during the experi- ence. The primary boys and girls studied course known as Learn ing About Our Church, which met with the enthusiastic appreciation of both teachers and children. Most of the groups made churches as nearly like their own as pos- sible with pews, pulpit furnishings and even pipe. organs.
 Those who did not, spent their tim on service projects for the church, such as nhending hymn books, visiting shut-ins and other worthwhile things. The Junior Course is entitled Friends at Work" This included such activ- ities as tours of investigation to the City Hal, to our hospitals and other institutions to see what our city is doing for the sick, the un- fortunatae and the aged. Out of these trips grew discussions, some of which showed keen thinking on thep art of our boys and girls, and also the making of toys and scrap- books for the hospital, the day nursery and other agencies. South Waterbury girls scwed for the Red Cross accomplishing much more than one would believe possible for children in so short a period.
 Discovering God in the Beauti- fuP' was the Intermediate Course used by three groups. It is course in appreciation of the beautiful in nature. in art, in poetry and es- pecially the Master Personality, Jesus. Pearl street and South Wa terbury boys and girls maiored in the first and last units, while Mid dlebury girls under the leadership of Miss Esther Millet made an in- tensfive study of great musicians and their contribution to the joy of living. The singing of this group was unusually fine. The Bunker Hill school "'wcnt Indian" this year, and thoroughly enjoyed itself. South Waterbury Juniors took up the study of African missions and had an equally enjoyable exper- fence.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-14

Then they were dancing swing ing along together lightly and gracefully to the tune of that sweetest and oldest of waltzes, 'The Blue Danube" Boots had not known dancing could be like this. She, herself, danced as naturally as she walked. It was in her blood. But she had never danced, before, with anyone whose step fitted her own so perfectly. Neither spoke. It was perfect this way.
 Almost before she realized what was happening Hardy had danced her out of one of the long French windows and onto the veranda Ii was cool here. A light wind belied the sails that swung at anchor just around the point. One or two vel low stars pricked the blue dark ness.
 Hardy held her arm very tightly in his. Lets grab ourselves 8
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Did you have a good swim 2"


 Her cheeks famed with the memory of it. Tt was all right" T declare, Barbara" her moth- er's fretful voice came to her as from distance, T declare I don't know what on earth Daddy re- newed his membership in that club this year for, anyhow. You act som metimes as though you didn't care about it, and we could i'll af- ford it. :"
 Familiar words. Familiar set ting. Boots scarcely listened. Oc- cupied with her own thoughts. her own misery, she let her mother drone on.
 ITO make matters worse you let every Tom, Dick and Harry drive you home. When I was a girI-" It didn't matter. It would be over soon. "No more spinach" Boots almost snapped to the surprised Linda who, with a rather battered apron tied or haphazardly, was handing around the dish again.
 Spinach, indeed, when her heart was breaking!
 But later in the cool of dusk when, bathed, powdered and scent ed, she presented herself at the liv-
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2 E&Y BEACH CLuB GIRL 7'si a;l-'.
 SMN l
WHAT HAS HAPPENED so FAR

BOOTS RAEBURN, IS and pretty, belongs to the yoMnger set Gt LGrchneck fashionable Neo York suburb The Raebs hGve had Boots tries not to be jealous of the other. .aOedlthier girls
 SYLVIA RIVERS, richest girl in toUn, s givtng Q party Gt the Yacht Club and Boots broken becase she s rot ivted She accepts last-nue ivitction dinner to be gven at tue club the night SyvGs pGyty by MRS WATERMAN, ome of LdrchnecRs social Grbiters.
 Meet dag Boots overhears her croa0d discussing her. Mrs Waterman they say ony asked Boots because she fet her, Boots home shocked and geved by this snkindJiness
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-14
Local Veterinarians
 Given Certificates

Certificates of membership in the 12th International Veterinary Congress which meets in New York this week have been received by Dr Charles H. Beere and Dr Mer- ritt H. Beere of this city. The meeting will mark the first time it has been held in America. Presi- dent Roosevelt has agreed to act as patron for the congress and Secre- tary of Agriculture Wallace will off, ficially open it. /
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-14
MISSING AGED MAN
 LOCATED IN CANAAN

Missing for two weeks, Alvin Bartlett, 70, was found on the property of Frank Langdon of Canaan Valley, near Canaan, last night. Weak and hungry, the man was given medical care and food. 2
 He said he had been wandering about the outskirts of Canaan for two weeks, sleeping in outlying barns. His absence was noted two weeks ago and searches failed to show any traces of his whefe- abouts. He had existed on fruits and berries during the two weeks. Bartlett is a resident of Canaan.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-14
WATCHED SEARCH
 FOR HIS BODY

Lewiston. Me - (UP) = Willie Giroux watched peacefully from q piazza across the street while fire men searched the ruins of his house to determine whether he had lost his life. It had been rum ored that Giroux had not been seen since the fire had been dis covered.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-14
HEAT POPPED POPCORN

Elba, Neb = (UP) - Popcorn has been popped in the fields in this vicinity as a result of the re- cord breaking summer heat. Sev- eral farmers have reported the bursting of popcorn kernals on the ear and several ears from the field of Ben Gasst have been exhibited in town here for proof of the story.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-14
HOW UNCLE SAM WILL SAVE YOUR HOME

If home Is morgaged and in danger losing It, needn't Uncle Owners corporation who unable mortgages otherwise where foreclos Our Washington Bureau ready a bull letn telling what eligible plicatiOn the when extension a list offices where apply helr bulletin the national housing and what seeks accomplish made by private agencies for home building and renovizng old old homes,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-14

Smokers of Holland are consum- ing more American tobasso than year ago.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-14
As Refres hing As The Salt
 Air Itself

boat" he said quickly. Let's 20 for a buzz. It's too hot in tbere."
 Boots was tempted To carry Hardy away from the crowd, to which she did not. tonight, belong would be q grim triumph. Mrs Waterman's stren facade rose up before her and she wavered.
 "Ah, come along! Be sport"
 His face, flushed and handsome, was close to her own. The thrum of the music came to her dimly. the breeze cooled her hot cheeks.
 1T think I'd better not"
 "Ah. don't be silly!" He had her arm row and, almost without knowing what it was she did. she followed him down the broad flight of shallow steps toward the boat landing.
 (To be Continued)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-10

"'YOU-YOU'RE SOULLESS!
 CONTEMPTIBLE!' boy, didn't you, Jimmy? I'm so glad. So happy, darling. Could can l see-?" The fingers loos- ened.
 Hurry, Jimmy, please. -I feel .. sleepy"
 Suddenly he turned and strode to the cot where the Slavic-fea- tured woman cuddled her baby to her breast. "Gimme!" snarled Dr James Chalnor, fiercely. "Gimmei'
 Stunned, the startled mother gaped iii terror at the ogre who snatched at her child, whisking it away like some horrible one-eyed giant of her childhood's folklore. Awed, she watched her infant be- slowed upon another.
 My baby!" The whisper was a prayer. The man knelt, mocked by his own helplessness. An ugly | child. crude, i'll colored, badly fea- tured, hopelessly deformed. A gargoyle baby. The woman held it close.
 He knelt and laid his cheek l against hers. The woman smiled. "So sweet, Jimmy. So dear. You and .. ." Her eyes closed gently.
 Slowly, reverently and with in- finite kindness, Dr Chalmer took the baby away. From behind him came stifled sound. He turned.
 Mary Meade was watching. Her eyes were wide, wet, tender. She | faced him bravely.
 "Dr Chalner, I'm sorry about" | For moment he stared duly, a | curiously subdued man with | black, swollen eye, who held an awkward baby, awkwardly in his arms.
 "Here!" He thrust it into her arms.
 Mary Meade petted the child, flushing it, deftly restoring it to l smile at the mans embarrassment. 'Il attend to everything,' she said competently. You do some thing for that eye" Dr Chalnor essayed a smile un- aware the result was a grimace. Come, do something for it your self. It-it's your baby"
 The wailing ceased. Mary Meade paused an instant to draw a screen around the cot where a woman had found paradise. Then she turned to follow Dr James Chalnor Her face wore the mysterious smile of one who guards lovely secret.
 Copyright. 1894, The Chicago
 Daily News. Incl
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DAILY SHORT STORY GAMBLERS CHANCE Dr James Chalnor Was Hard-Boiled; Little Miss Meade, a Nurse, Was Gentle, but She
 Poked Him in Eye
By H. F. CASKEY

Jimmy"
 The voice barely reached him.
 "Yes, darling" Very gently he took the white fingers in his own.
 The smile grew radiant. "Oh. Jimmy! You're here! I = I'm all right, are-aren't I? - I wasn't afraid-hardly any, dearest. I--you my baby!" The fingers. frightened. "My baby, Jimmy! Is she-he ?''
 "Grandr" God smiled at the lie. '"The finest baby in the world. dearest. He-'
 "A boy? A baby boy?' The woman's eyes grew brighter. 'Oh. wonderful! You - you wanted q
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-10

Tomorrow: "Vacation," by Selma Diamond, is story of a popular bank leader who fled to the coun- try seeking rest and found him. self in the midst of rcvels that bored him so badly that he want- ed to steal back to the city and finish his vacation there. But h0 met, Ellen and she changed his point of view.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-10
JUNGLE HARRY" SAYS

Hello, Kiddies-Here's your Uncle Harry again telling you boys that in order to keep up to fellows like Freckles, Nutty and Tubbs and you girlies like Betty Boop and Boots you must be healthy and be able to take it
 that's why you should ask your Mother to order quart of Worden's VITAMIN ID" MILK today and every day.
Evening star., 1934-05-27
STOCKS CONTINUE
TO DRIFT UPWARD
Sugar Shares Attract Some
Buyers-DuIIness Still
Rules Market.

what Stocks Did
Evening star., 1934-05-27
BY FREDERICK GARDNER,
Associated Press Financial Writer.

NEW YORK, May 26.-For the
third consecutive session. stocks edged
upward today. Dizziness was unbroken
as the stock exchange ended one Of
its slowest weeks in recent years.
Sugar stocks attracted some buying
following announcement of Beet Sugar
quotas for domestic producers. and
on expectation insular quotas would
be fixed next week under the recent
sugar bill passed by Congress. Amert-
can sugar rose more than 2 points,
holding most Of its gain to the close,
despite a reduction Of lilo of a cent
in the price of refined sugar.
Rails, motors and tobacco shares
extended their advance a little.
Otherwise the market provided no
action Of note.
Professional trading continued to
mark time. The market was too thin
to lure in-and-out traders. Transfers
on the stock exchange during the
two-hour session totaled 279, 800
shares, not much larger than the
turnover a week ago. The average
price of 80 stocks moved up FIVE
tCILtlS OIL q pOult W ITO.
An additional rise of more than a
cent a bushel in wheat supported an
early show Of strength in stocks, but
proft-taking erased gains of cereals.
Wheat closed Is to "a of cent lower.
Corn reacted also after further early
advance, closing fractionally lower.
Cotton expanded a slow advance to
score net gains Of IS to 40 cents a
bale. Silver, rubber and sugar futures
ruled steady to firm.
Week end tapering of Of business
accentuated quiet In foreign exchange
and bond trading. Quotations moved
narrowly.
Conflicting influences in the news,
centering around strike developments
and progress on the final draft of the
Federal stock exchange control bill,
contributed to idleness in the share
market.
American Telephone, United States
Evening star., 1934-05-27
French Trade Quiet.

Steel, American Can, Montgomery
Ward, Sears Roebuck and Standard
OIL of New Jersey closed only frac-
tionally higher after early gains had
been pared somewhat in late trading.
Santa Fe, Pennsylvania and North
ern Pacific added fractions to their
previous creeping advance. Electric
Autolite and other motor and acces-
sorry shares held up well against the
strike news from Toledo.
Evening star., 1934-05-27
BRITAIN FORESEES
CONTINUED GAINS
IN TRADE ACTIVITY
Continued From First Page.)

ors, the gold cover Of q bare 4.8 per
cent and the continued unfavorable
trade balance in April are sufficiently
bad to make the outlook gloomy.
"The Nazis are discovering that the
ban on imports, added to the numer-
GUS restrictions already placed on
various products, Is jeopardizing the
export trade, and only the severest
government control of the situation
is maintaining prices at normal
level. There is growing group In
Germany which believes that any
further ban on imports would only
defeat the purpose Of the govern
ment, and that some means must be
found for increasing exports.
Soviet gold shipments to Germany
to meet maturing obligations is q
matter of public interest because of
the depleted gold stocks of the
Reichsbank. Soviet payments due in
1884 amount to CSC, 900 marks.
These receipts are net whether pay
ment is affected in gold or in mer-
chandise, since new shipments to Rus
sia are negligible. Arrivals Of Russian
gold during the first quarter Of 1894
totaled 102. 2.000, 900 marks, and 1t may
be estimated that the Soviet govern
ment will pay about two-thirds of
amounts due in gold and one-third
in merchandise"
French Trade Quiet.
PARIS.-"Business still shows no
sign Of improvement. The govern
ment has offered a tonic in the form
Of an indirect subsidy to the coun-
try's merchant marine OF $50, ,00o, 900
francs. This much aid is expected
to give a mild boost to the steel.
shipbuilding and transportation in
dustries.
"It also Is an acknowledgment on the
part of France that currency depre-
citation in other countries-particu-
larly in the United States, Britain
and the Scandinavian countries-has
given their merchant vessels q dis
tinct advantage in international trade
competition.
Frances active fleet has been re-
duced by one-half since 1882"
Evening star., 1934-05-27

l5M 10k Ohio OIL th15c).....
= 8h Oliver Farm Equip. >.
27k IL Oliver F Eq pr pf A.
6h ~ Omnibus Corp. ....,
95 SO Omnibus pf (A) (s)
IAN w oppenheim Collins. ..
1884 IL Otis Elevator (e0c).
102 81 Otis Elev pf (s,...
8 ~ Otis Steel. ......~..s
25 8 Otis Steel pr pf. .s..
1l4h 81 Outlet Co pf (7)...~
% 73h Owsns-Ill Glass (3)
Evening star., 1934-05-27
WASHINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE
YEAR 1884

by W. L D.
INCLUDING FRIDAY,
Evening star., 1934-05-27
Weekly Financial High Lights

By the Associated Press.
Brokers' loans
Holdings United States securities.
Gold reserve. e.......................
Rediscounts ........................
Bank clearings .....................
Electric output (kw. h.
week ending May 19.............
Ffnal three ciphers omitted
Car 1oadings, week ending May 49,.
Crude oil production (barrels) ......
Stock sales IN. Y. Stock Exchange)..
Bond sales IN. Y. Stock Exchange)..
New financing ....................
Federal Reserve ratio.
Steel output rate.
Call money rate. e..................
Time money rate.................
Commercial paper ................
aGold certificates.