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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-07
POST AFTER RECORD

Daffle9VlIIe, Okla, Dec. 7s- (Upj .--WiIey Post decided 70 make another flight this morning 10 quest of a now alliiAie record for heavier than afr craft. His goal VIII he bQ,f 900 feet. He eEpeole1 to he in ihe nIF by a. ma CnT.s and down aaaln hg tt a. a.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-07
ur,cE TT1RNJp EYHTpTTED

Springfield, Mo (UP)-Archie Bay, local grocer, displayed a tur- nip weighing eight and one-half pounds and measuring 21 inches in circumference.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-07
POINT OFFICIAL,
 SENATOR DIFFER

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HEAD OF STATE POLICE

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Evening star., 1934-03-30
Ne,O Third Corps Colonel
Vas Actiue IN World War
Col. John G. Pegram Is
Graduate of Military
academy.
Transferred to area
From PHILIPPINE
Islands in 1882.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, March 30.-Lieut.
Col, John c. Pegram, recently pro-
NOTED to a colonelcy, was sworn in
at Sd Army Corps headquarters here
yesterday, the oath being administered
by Col. Dennis P. Quinlan, Judge
advocate.
Col Pegram, who is native of
Petersburg, Va, graduated from the
United States Military Academy in
1902 and with the exception of four
years, from 1924 to 1928, when he
served on the general staff at Wash
ington. has seen active service in the
Cavalry at posts throughout the
Western part Of the country. He was
a member of Gen. Pershlng's expedi-
tionary force into Mexico in 1916.
and during the World War was in
charge of the bakers, mess and cook
schools on the Atlantic Coast. later
serving in the adjutant generals Office
until the close of the war.
Col. Pegram was transferred to the
Sd Corps Area from the Philippine
Islands in 1882 as chief intelligence
officer in charge of public relations
He is a graduate of the Mounted
Cavalry School, second course; Dis
tineuished School of the Line, Cen
erai Staff School and the Army War
College.
During his service in the West, Col.
Pegram served with the 1st, 7th, 10th
and 26th Cavalry regiments.
Col. Pegram was married in San
Evening star., 1934-03-30

principal export Of those parts, he
the District of Columbia.
He previously had made an allot-
ment of 81 ,o00, 900 Of public works
funds To start q Government owned
rum industry there to rehabilitate the
economic life Of this insular de-
pendency.
There are selfish interests down
there that are trying to block this
project" Ickes told reporters. 80 far
as I can see, it's the only hope Of
rehabilitating the industry Of the
islands"
Evening star., 1934-03-30
LINGERING WINTER WINS
FIGHT ON GREAT LAKES
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, March 3O-Lingering
Winter won a tug O. war with the
sturdy steamer Crescent City and her
game captain. Clyde Tobin, yesterday
Out Of Detroit with 108 automo-
bileS, the steamer pioneered the lower
lakes for the season this week, only
to run into a barrier of shore ice at
Cleveland last night.
Capt. Tobin, undaunted, rammed
the barrier time and again; the Cres-
cent City belched black smoke into
the dusk, but to no avail.
Resuming the tug O. war, the
Crescent City plowed into the
worst pack in years at the Cleve-
land harbor again and again. But
Old Man Winter held his ground.
So the Crescent City sent out the
call for tugs which finally brought her
into port.
Evening star., 1934-03-30
CIGARETTE TAXES
HELDBURDENS0ME
Makers of 1O-Cent Brand
Say They Pay Too
Much.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Proponents of a graduated Federal
tax on cigarettes told the Senate
Finance Committee today the 10
cents-a-package cigarette paid the
Government twice the tax of other
cigarettes in proportion to the prod
uct's value.
M. H Thatcher, representing 10
cent cigarette manufacturers with
plants at Louisville, KY; Winston
Salem, N. c., and Petersburg, Va.
said that although this group had
been making fair profit, N. R. A,
costs and processing taxes "have
added greatly to the burden of 10
cent cigarette manufacturers and
threatened them with extinction"
Thatcher appeared at the commit
tees public hearing on the proposed
reduction of the Federal tobacco tax,
which has been under consideration
since Tuesday by House Ways and
Means Subcommittee.
Urge Graduated Cuts.
Manufacturers of 10 cent cigarettes
have urged a graduated reduction
giving them differential, while man
ufacturers of the standard" or Is
cent cigarettes favor horizontal re-
ductlon OF the tax.
Thatcher told the committee that
higher-priced cigarettes used foreign
tobaccos for blending with domestic
leaf and also used French cigarette
paper.
Manufacturers of 10 cent cigarettes.
he said, used a smaller amount of
foreign leaf and used domestic cigar
ette paper to lower the production
costs.
Appearance of the 10-cent packages
In the cigarette field. he said, provides
an element of competition which
benefited growers by increasing prices
for leaf
Col Wood F, Axton of Axton Fisher
Tobacco Co. Louisville. Ky. said he
believed tobacco had borne too large
a share of the national tax burden,
and that he would like to see the
tax reduced to give the producer and
consumer a substantial benefit.
Manufacturer Cited.
bCl4CHC l4idI 5CAlcl dlly IllC IlldIlu-
facturer has been getting enough, -
AXton told the committee.
He said 95 per cent of all the
cigarettes in this country were pro-
duced by four companies, and that on
several occasions these four COM
panieS have made simultaneous
changes in price which he believed
indicated some kind of agreement
between them
Junius Parker of New York. repre-
senting the big four" and a num-
Der of other cigarette and tobacco
manufacturers. presented arguments
in favor of a horizontal tax reduction
Parker said that a horizontal re-
duction, by making it possible fol
standard cigarettes to sell at 10 cents
and the cheaper brands for 712 cents
would broaden enormously the mar
ket for tobacco and the demand fol-
high-grade leaf.
Evening star., 1934-03-30
NEWS OF RESCUE
FLIGHT AWAITED
Another Plane Ready to
Take Off for SO Ma
rO0ned Russians.
BY the Associated Press.

by LILO hSoOCldICu EICobs
NOME, Alaska, March 80. Anx-
iously Nome waited today for wire
less message from the airplane expe-
dition bound out over the Arctic ice
pack to rescue 80 marooned Russians,
or the return of the big ship with
some of the refugees aboard.
Leaving one of the big nine-pas-
senger planes here to await orders,
Prof. George Yushakoff, leader of the
Soviet rescue expedition, and two
pilots hoped off yesterday for Cape
Van Karen, Siberia, their only stop
en- route to Camp Schmidt, where the
Russians have been stranded since
their steamer sank February 13.
I'VE may be back here in Nome by
tomorrow night with some of the
party" Prof. Yushakof said before
his departure.
At Cape Van Karen Prof. Yushakof
planned to confer with the Russian
aviator, Liapidevsky who carried sew
eral members of the party to the
mainland before his ship crashed.
Possible barriers to a speedy rescue
included difficulties in finding the
camp, unfavorable weather condi-
tions and the possibility that the i'm
Evening star., 1934-03-30
War Memorial on Scrap Heap.

Bearing the names of 16 men who
we're killed, a war memorial has been
found in a scrap heap in Sheffield.
England, by an unemployed ex-soldier
II is OF copper plate and bears the
following inscription: OF your charity
pray. for the souls of members of the
congregation of this church who gave
their lives during the Great War
1914-1918-and to whose memory this
tablet is erected Where it came from
Is mystery.
Evening star., 1934-03-30

provised landing field at the camp
might prove unsuitable.
A light snow was reported falling
at the camp, which is about $50 miles
northwest of here.
Prof. Yushakof was accompanied
by Pilot F. A. Levanevsky and Clyde
Armistead, an American pilot and me-
chanic. M. T. Sletneff, the Russian
pilot, and Bill Lavery, an American
mechanic, remained here.
Evening star., 1934-03-30
1876 RESCUED FROM ICE.

LENINGRAD, U. s. s. r., March
80 (P).-The lcebreaker Truvor today
rescued 1876 fishermen and IS horses
from an ice pack in the Finnish Gulf.
The pack, about 11a miles square,
broke away from the mainland and
carried $50 men toward the open sea,
along with IS horses.
Two icebreakers rescued 54 Of the
fishermen. A dense fog draped the
gulf and rescue parties were unable
at first to locate the drifting pack.
Evening star., 1934-03-30
Judge Beaten to Docket.

PHILADELPHIA R).-Magistrate
Vincent ]. Girard, relieved of duty
after higher jurist twice criticized
him, announced he would hold court
as usual Right on the dot he
marched into the precinct station
house to hear the cases. But there
was no docket. Magistrate Richard
]. Kelly, his designated substitute,
had arrived As minutes early and
court was over.
Evening star., 1934-03-30
VIRGIN ISLANDS RUM
PLANNED BY ICKES
Secretary Would Force Out Foes
of Distillery for Re-
Mobilization.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Secretary Ickes Is going to distill
rum In the Virgin Islands, and the
Legislature of those Caribbean isles
can't stop him.
Advised yesterday that the legisla-
tive body Of the islands had refused
to grant q charter for a Government
corporation to make rum, once the
Evening star., 1934-12-19
CRIPPLE GIVES UP
IN GIRL $ Staying
Love Thwarted by Family,
He Says, Indicating /
Suicide Pact.

BY the Associated Press.
AUBURN, Me, December 19.-With
his sweetheart dead in his car. Willie
Bouthilette, IS. drove to police head
quarters yesterday and calmly an
nounced, II might as well tell you. I
just shot my girl friend"
Bouthilette. q crippled unemployed
taxicab driver. was lodged in jail on
a murder charge. while authorities
sought to draw from him the full
story Of the shooting Of the girl, Joan
Asselin, II.
Girl Found In Car.
Startled by Bouthilette's announce
ment as he walked into the station,
Desk Ofiicer Timothy Walsh rushed
outside and found the girl dead In
the car, shot in the breast.
Under subsequent questioning and
in statement made to police clerk.
Bouthilette was quoted as saying he
drove with the girl to lonely Sabattus
road six miles from Lewiston and there
fired the shot.
Sheriff David Walton and deputies
questioned Bouthilette at length with
out obtaining a motive for the Staying.
Bouthilette denied he and the girl
had argued and described her as "the
best friend I ever had"
For the benefit of Walton and others,
Bouthilette demonstrated how he fired
the bullet, the sheriff said. He put
chamois skin over the pistol and fired
through 1t, Walton said, eliminating
the possibility Of powder stains.
Police Skeptical Of Story.
Bouthilett's statement to Lewiston
police indicated he would claim he
and the girl had entered into a suicide
pact, that he had supplied the pistol
and she the cartridge, but police were
hesitant about accepting it.
Bouthilette and the girl, a shoe
worker, had been friends for four years.
He told police that her family OBJ
jected to their marriage. Until four
months ago, Bouthilette, who can walk
only by grasping his ankles with his
hands, roomed at the home Of the dead
girls sister, Mrs. Rose Lizotte.
Evening star., 1934-12-19
If Constipated.
Take This 1ip

Here's one of the friendliest
tips one can give another-how
to really relieve Constipation. It
is simply this: One or two E-Z
Tablets taken when bilious, due
to Constipation, are amazingly
effective yet so mild and
gentle. If you haven't felt good
for sometime ). have headaches,
tired feeling, no pep, you may be
suffering from Intestinal Fatigue.
commonly called Constipation. IT
so, E-Z Tablets are what you
need. You get so little E-Z Tab
lets for 25c. At all good drug
Observation-Disclosures.
Evening star., 1934-12-19

tribute to the work of those associated
with her in this enterprise.
In q supplementary report Mrs.
Hugh G. Wallace, first vice. president,
showed So general patients and 81
cancer patients admitted to the home
in the year ending November /. The
population there now is 1874, of whom
56 are INDECENT. The actual expense
of caring for patient, due to mount
ing costs, Is $54.12 monthly, Mrs. WAL
lace said. Congress gave $10,008.58
towards operation of the home.
Outsider Influx Shown.
The problem has been complicated
by the influx Of outsiders, the report
explained, adding: I'VE had hoped
that Congress would increase our ap-
preparation since we had assumed q
heavier burden in caring for many
more of the INDECENT now in the Dis
trict who come from all the States Of
the Union"
The report carries a foreword that
donations of money, food and old
linen for the cancer ward always are
gratefully received.
Evening star., 1934-12-19
COUSIN OF MORSE DIES

MINNEAPOLIS, December 19 P.-
John w. Morse, 81, veteran teleg-
rapher and third cousin Of Samuel
Morse, builder of the first practical
telegraph, died yesterday.
Born in Panama, N. Y, Morse
worked with Samuel Morse and later,
under A. B. Cornell, son Of the found
er Of Cornell University.
During the Civil War John Morse
was in charge Of telegraph station
established by Gen. Grant at Cairo,
III. While stationed at Peoria, Ill,
he handled Lincoln's first inaugural
address for newspapers there.
Evening star., 1934-12-19
SOCIETY
CONTINUED From Fifth Page.)

the organ for the Christmas Ora
torio." Prominent soloists on the
program viii be Mrs. Lily Carritt,
Mr.. Justin Lawrie and Mai. Charles
Trowbridge Tittmann. Mrs. Mildred
Colvin will he heard in the obbligatc
part in the popular carol, "The Holly
and the Ivy"
The service viii last but one hour.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ansel D. Talbert oi
33l7 Sixteenth street northwest will
have with them for the holidays their
son, Edward McLaurine Talbert, who
is pursuing a course of study at the
Pulitzer School of Journalism, Column
bia University, New York City. having
been awarded q scholarship after his
graduation at Columbia University last
June.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. G. Foss Of Boston
Mass. are guests at the Dodge for a
brief time.
A family Christmas party will be
held tomorrow evening In the audito-
rum Of the Woodside Methodist Epis-
copal Church in Silver Spring. Md.
A program Of music, recitations and
readings is being arranged and refresh
ments will be served. The entire
church membership has been invited
to attend.
Mrs. Harriet F. r. Moore, accom-
panied by Miss Katharine p. Moore Of
South Waterford, Me-, is q guest at the
Dodge.
Pi Chapter of Tau Phi Sorority held
its annual Christmas party last night
at the home of Miss Pauline Absher.
1901 Alabama avenue southeast. All
active members were present and the
rush girls furnished the entertainment.
Following the chapters annual GUS
tom, Christmas baskets will be made
UP and distributed to the needy.
Evening star., 1934-12-19
INCURAb[ES' HOME
PROGRESS SHOWN
S117,974.11 Expended in
Year, Says Report Of Mrs.
r Archibald Hopkins.

The Washington Home for Incur
ables has been administered in such
way as to constitute "a proud rec
ord for an institution run entirely
by women In such o fearful year as
1884 has BEEN" Mrs. Archibald Hop
kins. the president, said in her an
nual report made public today.
Mrs. Hopkins pointed out that
$l17,974.11 had been expended for q
new addition opened in January, and
repairs to the old building, at Wis
consin avenue and Upton street, and
that there now remains an endow-
ment of $546, 1920, with only a
small debt for the addition and some
what Of o deficit in the maintenance
Account.
Evening star., 1934-12-19
NEW OIL FIELD OPENED
Oklahoma Well Gas Production
Put at $4,000, 900 Cubic Feet.

MARROW, Okla, December 10 (R.-
The Angle & Brogden No. johnson,
9 miles northeast Of Duncan, blew in
yesterday for an estimated 10000, 900
cubic feet of gas and a showing Of
high-grade oil. The well opens a new
field in the southwest section Of the
State.
Evening star., 1934-12-19

Coal Mines to Be Worked.
Coal mines in Northern Shanshi,
China, are to be developed.
Evening star., 1934-12-19
Chronological Progress Told.

Her report was chronological ac-
count of events at the home in the
past year, recounting in this con-
nection a trip of inspection by Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt. She also paid
Evening star., 1934-12-19
EDUCATIONAL.
National University
Law School
Winter Term Begins

January 2, 1885, at $3.50 PM
Standard three-year course lead
ing to degrees of LIB. and ]. d.
Graduate courses leading to de-
grees of LIN, M. P. L., and S.
j. D.
All classes held at hours con-
venient for employed students.
Evening star., 1934-02-04
Bal Boheme Boxes
Being Rapidly Taken
By w ashingtonians
Reservations Have Been
Made for First Lady and
Ladies of the Cabinet.

With the box of honor at the Bal
Boheme of the Arts Club, to be staged
on Shrove Tuesday night, February l3,
at the Willard. being held for the
First Lady and her party from the
White House, and with another box
already reserved for the ladies Of the
cabinet. many boxes for this spectacu-
lar and midSeason ball of the arts
are being rapidly taken by prominent
Washingtonians in official, diplomatic.
society and art circles.
The cabinet box flankS the honor
box on the right, and on the left of
will be the Arts Club box. in which
will be seated the judges Of costumes
in the grand march of the ball and
the Executive Committee Of the Bal
Boheme for this season, including the
president of the Arts Club, Mr.. Charles
Bittinger, and Mrs. Bittinger; Miss
Anne Abbott chairman of the ball;
Mr. Hugo linden, designer of the ball;
Mr. william I. Deming, Mr.. Henry
Jay Stanley. Mrs Theodore j. Pickett
and DR.. Hans Kinder.
Another box which will receive in
terested attention of artists at thi:
ball will be that occupied by the di.
rector of the Corcoran Gallery of Art
and Mrs c. Powell Minnigerode; the
director Of the Phillips Memorial Gal.
lery and Mrs Duncan Phillips; the as.
sistant director Of the Phillips Caller!
and Mrs. C.: Law Watkins. and thu
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Evening star., 1934-02-04
Mrs. Dern In Line at
Bachelors February 12

Madame SEE, wife of the Minister Of
China. will head the receiving line
at the third and last Washington
Bachelors Cotillion of this season, to
be given on Monday, February II. at
the Mayf1ower, when members of resi-
dental society will be especially hon
ored. Others in line will be Mrs.
George H. Dern, wife of the Secre-
tary of War. representing the official
group. and from the local circle will
be Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Mrs. Ralph
Worthington and Mrs George H. Cal
vert, jr. Brig. Gen. William E. Hor-
ton, U. S. A., will make the intro
ductions.
Miss Marian Worthington. debutante
daughter of Mrs. Ralph Worthington
will be the partner of Mr.. w. WaVerly
Taylor, jr., treasurer of the Bach
elors," who will lead the figures that
evening. Mr. George H. Calvert, jr.
vice president; Col. Reginald L. Foster
secretary, and Mr.. Wilton J. Lambert
will direct the figures.
Solicitor General James Crawford
Biggs is chairman of the Floor Com
mittee Mr. Archibald c. v. Wells
is again in charge of the delightful
hot supper to be served shortly after
midnight. and Maj. Gen. George over
Squire, U. S. A., is chairman Of ths
Music Committee. The usual hand.
some favors already have been selected
and will be given those in attendance
Evening star., 1934-02-04
Ambassador and Mrs. May
Back Home With Daughter
New Counselor of Embassy. Prince de Linee
and Princess de Linee Will Be Guests
of Belgian Envoy.

will entertain at dinner Wednesday
evening.
The Minister of Venezuela and
Sonora de Arcaya viii entertain at
luncheon today in compliment to the
new Ministre OF Ecuador, Senor Cap
itan Colon Elcy Alfaro.
The retiring counselor Of the Fin
nish legation, Mr.. Elmo Walikangas,
sailed yesterday for Brazil, to which
post he has been appointed Minister
of his country. Mr.. Walikangas will
remain in Rio de Janeiro about a
fortnight before going to the Argen-
tine, where he also will represent Fin
land as its Minister.
The first secretary Of the British
embassy and Mrs. Wiggin will enter
tain at dinner Wednesday evening in
compliment to the retiring first secre-
tary of the embassy and Mrs. Torr.
The secretary Of the Polish embassy
and Nine. Moscika will entertain at
bridge and supper Tuesday evening.
The retiring first secretary Of the
British embassy and Mrs. TORI will
sail Saturday for the formers new
post at Latvia. Mr.. and Mrs. Tori
have made many friends in Washing
ton during their several years station
here and are among the most popular
of the younger members OF the d1plo-
matte circle.
The retiring first secretary OF the
Belgian embassy. Viscount de Lant-
sheere, will leave Washington tins
week preparatory to sailing for his
home in Belgium. He will be on duty
at the foreign Office before being as
signed to another post. Viscount de
Lantsheere will be greatly missed in
Washington, where he is among the
popular bachelors of the diplomatic
corps.
The first secretary Of the Canadian
legation and Mrs. Mahoney have with
them the latter's sister, Mrs. H. Q.
CARING Of Windsor, Canada, who Will
remain q fortnight. Mrs. CARING
came to Washington on account Of the
| illness of Mrs. Mahoney.
The secretary Of the Guatemalan
legation, Senor DR.. Don Ramiro Fer
nandez. has returned from a vacation
in his home in Central America and
has Joined Sonora de Fernandez In
their apartment in Cathedral Man
sions.
The attache Of the Panama legation
and Sonora de Alfaro will have as
their guest Miss Ruth speake, who
will come Thursday from her home In
Philadelphia to remain over Sunday
Evening star., 1934-02-04
Cummings House Guests
To Be HOnOred at Dinner
ATTORNEY General and Wife Will Entertain This
Evening Dorothy Tirren Has
Dinner for Miss Dern.

spending a few days in New York.
will return to her apartment at the
Mayfiower early in the week, and on
Thursday will entertain at luncheon
in the Chinese room of the hotel.
Mrs. Thomas T. Gaff of Washing
ton, who is in Hamilton, Bermuda,
gave a dinner Monday for Mrs. John
w. Dumont of Plainf1eld. N. j. 9th
er guests included Miss Marion Oliver
of Washington, Mrs James j. Stor-
row of Boston. Mrs. j. Roosevelt
Roosevelt. Mrs. Luis James Phelps and
Mrs. S. Wakeman Andrews Of New
York and Mrs E Maccullock.
Mrs. Lawrence Townsend will en-
tertain at luncheon wednesday at the
Mayflower, following the last of this
seasons morning musicals. The guest
of honor will be Miss Rosa Ponselle.
well-known prima donna soprano OF
the Metropolitan opera Co., and Mar
eel Grandjany, French harpist.
Miss Betsy Anne Simpson, daughter
of DR.. and Mrs. C. Augustus Simpson,
will entertain at a buffet supper this
evening in the home of her parents,
on Massachusetts, avenue.
Miss Alice A. briggs entertained at
luncheon at the Shoreham yesterday.
having as her guest of honor, Mrs.
John Corrigan, who with Mr.. Cor
rigan, consul of the United States to
Venice, Italy, is visiting in Washing
ton.
Guests included Mrs. Royal S. Cope.
land, Nine. Anita Gabcuri, Mrs. Will
liam Fitch Kelley. Mrs. Harry Moore
Payne, Mrs. Charles H. Martin, Mrs.
Elonzo Tyner, Mrs. Dorothy Lee Ward,
Mrs. Paul M. Linebarger, Mrs. Charles
H. Williamson. Mrs. Stella Wheatley.
Mrs. Benjamin Hill, Mrs. Carl D.
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