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The Indianapolis times., 1934-03-03
CIVILIZATION NOW IS
DISINTEGRATING, SAYS
SEMINARY PROFESSOR

BIZ uffcd Press
CLEVELAND. March 3. A
gloomy picture for the future had
been painted today by Dr.. Rein
hold Niehbur. professor of ethics
at Union Theological seminary,
New York. as the ten-day series
of educators conventions drew to-
ward a close here.
Speaking before one Of the final
sessions, DR.. Niehbur warned that
the institution of democracy cali
not survive" and that the world
is coming to the END Of an era.
Civilization now is in a state
Of disintegration." DR.. Niehbur
said. The world has built up a
civilization in which there are dis
proportions of power. see no
possibility for any nation to pre-
serve the instruments Of de-
mocracy completely, because its
system of production is incom-
patible with its system of owner
ship. Inexorable forces are ex-
pressing themselves like the tides
of the sea"
The Indianapolis times., 1934-03-03
STATE OPTOMETRISTS
WILL ASSEMBLE HERE
President of U. S. Association Will
Address GrOup.

The Indiana State Association of
OptometristS will meet tomorrow at
the Severin, it was announced to-
day.
Honor guests and principal
speaker will be DR.. Thomas McBur-
ME, Brooklyn, N. Y, president of the
American Optometrists Association.
DR.. c. w Morris, Ft. Wayne, Indi-
ana association secretary, has
charge of arrangements.
The Indianapolis times., 1934-03-03
BANKS TAKE $4,000
HEALTH BOARD BONDS
Six Institutions Advance Sum AS
Temporary Loan.

Temporary Loan.
Bonds amounting to $175,O00 were
sold yesterday to six city banks to
obtain temporary loan for the city
board of health for the period from
March Is to May 81 The banks
submitted a joint bid and offered a
S26.35 premium with interest at
per cent.
The banks subscribing were the
Union Trust Company, Merchants s
National, Fletcher Trust, Indiana
Trust, American National and the
Indiana National.
The Indianapolis times., 1934-03-03
ROTARY CLUB TO MEET
Members viii Be Entertained by
LOCkSmith'S FeatS.

Audley S. Dunham, locksmith.
Will entertain members of the Ro-
tary Club at noon Tuesday in the
ClaypCol with featS of legerdemain.
Also on the program is George w.
Campbell. Cincinnati, song leader.
The Indianapolis times., 1934-03-03

century Charles Dickens for the teaching of his
ineligible the The
story neither intended for pbca permitted be pub
long the children lived Only few weeks with the
death of the last child Sir Henry Fielding Dickens h Story of Our
available the world read Disposal of the publication
rights made for the price B word Through the Ame
the FIRST anywhere the world The Life
Of Our Lord" will appear fourteen nsaments.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-24
GIRL SLAYER MAY
 PLEAD INSANITY

Boston, Dec. 24-(UP)- The defense of Miller Frank (French- ie) Clark, 44-year-old truckman's helper who faces trial for his life on a charge of murdering pretty Ethel Zuckerman, 1S-year-old balzeshop clerk, may be insanity, relatives indicated today. ss@ They said he had been irrational since school days, when he was an incurable truant.
 "I killed her because love her." he said in a signed confession which police claimed to have ob- tained soon after his arrest Sat- urday night. "I intended to mar. " her. I asked her to marry me. She kept saying, later on, later on.'
 Clark's arrest came almost one year to day after Miss Fucker man, girls high school graduate former Brockton resident, was Found slain in a south end del- icatessen, her body transfixed to the floor by a breadknife driven through her throat.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-24
COL A. N. SHEPARD
 DIES SUDDENLY

Middletown, Conn.,, Dec. a. (UP)-Col. Andrew N. Shepard, 72. banker, former legislator and member of the staffs of two gov ernors, died at the wheel of his automobile Sunday while driving with his wife. The car careened into a telegraph pole, which fell on top of the light coupe. Mrs Shepard was uninjured.
 Col. Shepard was president of the Portland Trust company. He was a native of that town and served three terms in the General assembly, two as a representative and one as senator. He was Q lifelong republican. The late Gov. George L. Lilley appointed him to his staff with the rank of Colonel. Upon the Governors death. his successor, Gov. Frank B. Weeks continued the appointment. He formerly engaged in tobacco grow ing and shipping and owned large holdings at Portland and Hartford. His widow, daughter and a son survive.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-24
Special Work Program
 For JobIess Women
U. S. Senator LOnergan Informed of Plans in COnnect- cut for JobIess Difficult Problem in Various States

urged to give more consideration to relief for unemployed single women.
 "This problem has been met in various ways in the states" she told the Senator. "and 1t is within the Jurisdiction of any State Relief Administration 10 make special provision for any group in need of relief
 Miss Woodward said that resi- dent schools for gidls were in oper- ation this summer, nd that other methods were being devised to take care of their problem.
 Senator Lonergan had urged some provision for the single wom- en when informed that in several states, including Connecticut, the relief organizations had more diff ficulty in providing for single women than any other class of ap- plicants. Special work programs are being planned for them in Connecticut, he said,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-24
LITTLE GIRL IS
 DEAD OF INJURY

Muskegon Mich, Dec 24-(U.P) Christmas Is over for Donna Ma wis Shaw. She died yesterday. Don na won an international host of friends before a cancerous growth on her left eye killed her. She was 5 years old and she cried only oc- casionally during IS months of pain. Surgeons who removed Don mas eye after a dog scratched the lid, and then found a malignant in- lection still spreading, told MT and Mrs J. Warner Shaw months ago that they were helples.
 The grieving parents arranged to have Christmas early. Presents poured into Donna's room from all America, Britain, France. Ger many-the whole world, 1t seemed. Donna never knew why her Christi mas came early. Her parents told her 1t was because people had heard of her bravery and sent so many presents that it would take a long time to open them all. She died without especial pain, inured to "a hurt in my eye" during fourth of her life.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-24
BANDITS ESCAPE
 UNDER CUNFIRE

New Haven, Conn, Dec 24-(U. P.)-Police to-day sought three bandits who escaped under gunfire with $l,100 from the office of the Millano Importing Company, Inc, Sunday after a free-for-all scuffle with employees.
 The bandits entered the office where Eli and Mendal Rosner, the proprietors, and several employees. were waiting for another brother, Max, branch manager, to arrive before they closed.
 Max came in during the holdup and grappled with one of the rob- bers. During the melee an employe smashed a chair over the head of one of the bandits. Another grab bed a gun from which had been dropped on the floor during the excitement.
 Shots were fired after the re- treating men but they escaped in a waiting automobile.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-24

(Continued from Page 1.) priest condemned a program which he said provided "bestial educa- tion' for Mexican children.
 Gales falsely maintained the program had been undertaken "in the name of free Masonry and of socialism, he charged, whereas neither could possibly be blamed for such religious bigotry."
 Ut is simply Satan himself who could have excogitated the perse- cution whose only origin was hell and whose only operator could be Gales" he declared.
 Mexico's population of 15,OO0,- 900, S5 per cent of whom are Cath olics, fewer than 100000 of whom are communists lis asking us in the name of the Infant Christ whom we revere at this moment to have pity on her and cease associating our selves with her crucifixion,' the priest said.
 Mexico under Gales has inaugu- rated the "most astounding educa- tional program in all history" ho said.
 Atheist Teachers
 "Only teachers dyed red in atle- ism were admitted. As the little boys and girls walked daily to their class rooms they saw printed in large type upon the blackboard the sentence, There is no God That Is their principle.
 ''The second principle is the age old companion of atheisn-the heresy, but nevertheless the psy- chological' fact, that through sins of sexuality even a child can be led away from his God. Therefore. these atheistic communists have adopted the principle that sex knowledge, sex practices must pe inculcated early into the hearts and bodies of the virgin boys and girls.
 'Come, look with me into the Mexican revolutionary school-the same school which Woodrow Will son fathered when he paved the way for it's functioning by lifting the embargo on arms and by mak- ing Mexico safe for the communist s the same school which Josephus Daniels helped to establish when he sent the American navy to Vera Cruz.
 'I could hardly blame you for stopping up your ears when tell you upon my word of honor that in these revolutionary schools sup ported today by the Mexican gov ernment, and as common in that country as our public schools are in our country that sexual per version is openly practiced and encouraged.
 "Christmas is the feast of these little ones," he concluded. May God grant that it remain so here in America and that it may be- come so among the children on the other side of the Rio Grande."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-24
Injured PoIiceman's
 $1O,OOO Suit Settled
John Marshall McMahOn and Conn Co Reach Agree
 ment in Action Resulting from Trolley Crash

Three civil actions asking a to-. tai of S2S,0OO were withdrawn from the dockets of the common pleas and superior courts today. Among the actions was the $1O,- 900 suit of John Marshall Me- Mahon, we'll known member of the Waterbury police department, against the Connecticut Co.
 The suit was based on injuries the officer suffered Feb. {, 1884 when a trolley in which he w9s riding, ran wild down Willow street and crashed into another trolley at the intersection of West Main and Willow streets.
 The City of Waterbury came in. filed his suit, as a party plaintiff. It set up in its allegations, that the officer was paid $1,654 in wages from the time of the ac- cident and asked reimbursement from the trolley company. It was ported today that the amount had been paid to the City, in addition to substantial damages to the pa- trolman, who has now resigned from the police department.
 Attorney William B. Fitzgerald represented the patrolman. Cor poration Counsel Charles s. O'Con- nor appeared for the City of Wa terbury and Attorney W. A. Null vilhill of New Haven represented the Connecticut Co.
 Anothep action settled was that of Joseph Macchio of Ansoria against the Tidewater Oil Sales Corporation. Tho plaintiff asked $15,OO0 damages for injuries suf- fered in a triple automobile crash on the Bridgeport-Nichols road at Shelton. Dec. 17th. 1893.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-24
AIRPLANES HAVE
 BEEN UNLUCKY

(Continued from Page 1.) on the route, but the plans was seen to pass there.
 The family had come here to at- tend the funeral of another son, Jules Stinton.
 Seven Fall Into Sea
 Magaltan, Mexico, Dec. "A. - (UP)-Hope was abandoned to- day for two American pilots and their five passengers, including a woman and an infant, who clung helplessly to the wreckage of an airplane 135 miles at sea and saw a searching plane circle over them and then fly back to land because it was not equipped to alight on water.
 Noel Bullock and Parker Ab- bolt, of Los Angeles, pilots, and their five Mexican passengers left La Rag, lower California, for Ma zatlan Friday in a seaplane of the line operated. by H. c. Goakes of Los Angeles.
 An airplane went out to look for them yesterday and its pilot re- ported seeing the passengers and pilots clinging to the wreckage of the plane 135 miles off Mazatlan. The wreckage was in sinking con- dition, apparently a wing had broken off in forced landing. The pilot reported. He could not alight and returned to port. An other plane went out, but could see no sign of wreckage or occu- pants at the position given. Coast guard cutters and other surface also failed to find the plane.
 Nashville, Tenn, Dec. a. (UP)-The mail from a wrecked plane was brought from the noun tain fastness near Sunbright to- day. Preceding it was the body of the Planes pilot, Russell Briggs.
 The plane; missing almost 24 hours, was found yesterday against q mountain-si
 Briggs was veteran Air Mall lot.
 Valley Park, Mo-, Dec. 24-(UP) Two died when monoplane crashed here yesterday. The dead were Tom Giarard and Clarence Broz. They were flying their own plane.
 Trumbull, Conn, Dec. 24-(UP) Arthur G. Townsend and Alfred w. Wells, Hartford, escaped in- jury last night when their arr plane struck tree top during forced landing and cracked-up in q pasture.
 Wells, the pilot, said a dead battery necessitated an emergency landing while they were returning to Hartford from Danbury.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-24
CAMPBELL LOSES
 IN PICKET FIGHT
Committee Votes Against Advice of Local
 Leader

Over the protest of Charles w. Campbell, communist organizer, members of the committee alleged ly representing 125 discontented Mutual Air workers voted to aban- don the plan of picketing city hall at a meeting of the group held during the weekend, MT Campbell said today.
 Although he held out for the picketing. the men were of the opinion that nothing could be gained by this method, according to MT Campbell. In answer to de mands' of the committee for a 5 per cent increase in food and cash allotments, William M. Harris, ex- ecutive secretary of the Mutual Aid Unemployment fund, pointed out the impossibility of extending the relief program at this time.
 The Mutual Aid is having some difficulty in maintaining an ade- quate balance and is in no position to grant requests for added bene- fits, MT Harris said in a letter to the committee last Friday.
 Campbell said he had been warn- ed by police to "stay away from city hall," but that he intended go- ing there whenever he had oc- casion to transact business.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-24
--~----------------------------- CITY TEACHERS NOT IN HARMONY

(Continued from Page 1.) ton at Fridays special session is given as the reason for the break. In the meeting held at Crosby last Friday morning the board was deadlooked in a A tie and the schedule allowed to remain un- changed.
 The communication read at the meeting, signed by Miss Mary Ken- nedy, president of the asso- ciation, was regarded by several members of the board as being somewhat evasive. While the first part of the letter expressed the willingness of the teachers to "abide by their former decision in regard to teaching on December 31" the closing statement, after listing reasons why many of the teachers desired the holiday, rec- commended approval of the pro- posal not to teach on December 31." It closed with the statement that i've are perfectly willing to abide by your decision to the con- trary.
 Miss Daisy Lord, president of the organization, is on a visit to the west coast and Miss Kennedy was delegated to contact members for an expression of their opinion.
 Reading of the letetr by Dr Thomas J. Condon, superintendent of schools, who is also clerk of the board, precipitated one of the hot test discussions in the history Of that august body. Commission CT Harry Beardsley declared that he was at loss to understand the meaning of the message. He then moved for an adjournment over the protests of several of the other members of the board, after the tie vote had bene made by roll call.
 Only after one of the most heated sessions conducted by the board in years, in which several members exchanged personalities, was an adjournment effected. That interest in the decision on the holi- day was at high point among the teachers was evident from the large number of telephone inquiries Fri day morning at the office of the Democrat.
 Several of the teachers who called to inquire about the results of the meeting expressed surprise and disappointment at the out come.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-24
Waterbury To Haue
 Happiest Holiday
tcontinued from Page ll

The Boy~Scouts and Girl Scouts joined today in aiding the various charitable and welfare Organiza- tions in distributing cheer to the needy. The 1ocail Boy Scout troops cooperated with the Chase dispen- sary Saturday Saturday afternoon sary Saturday afternoon and lter served as guides to large group of children who gathered at St. Johns parish house for the party sponsored by the Kiwanis club. Today they were busy helping the Lincoln House officials.
 The Girl Scouts, using money taken in at their play contest last week, were busy today distributing toys, sweets, clothing and food to many needy families. They will sing carols outside the windows of shut-ins during the Christmas sea- son, also.
 The various clubs ofthe YMCA were busy gathering food and dis tributing the same to needy fam flies on the list. This evening nt s:15 o'clock the Ruserr Gra-Y will sing carols at Brookside under the direction of Miss Nolan and Bill Briggs ofthe Central "Y".
 
 Stores throughout the city re- ported a tremendous business dur ing the past week and were con- stantly filled today. Auto traffic was very heavy and the policemen were kept constantly on the go keeping the pedestrians and mo- tor vehicles moving evenly. All business will be suspended tom orrow inthe city. Banks, stores. factories, the library, the post of flee and the schools will be closed. All city departments, with the ex- ception of the fire and police de- pratments, will suspend operations, also.
 Railroad and bus line officials today reported a very heavy busi- ness. It was expected that this evenings travel will be very great with thousands of Waterburians coming home for the usual Christ mas family reunions.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-24
WOMAN MET WITH
 STRANGE INJURY

Putnam, Conn, Dec 24-(U,P.)- Mrs Ora Spenard. North Grosve- nordale, mother of 12 children, to- day breathed through a glass tube inserted in her throat after her tyhroid cartilage was crushed in an automobile accident at Pomfret Saturday night.
 Mrs Spenard was riding with her son when the car skidded on the icy highway and struck pole. She was thrown through the wind shield, shattered glass blocked the air passage to her lungs and she was slowly strangling to death when an emergency operation was performed at Day Kimball hos pital.
 Another operation to remove the crushed cartilage, will be per formed when her condition inn proves.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-24

dren," he said, was there greater reason for making the words of the gospel our daily prayer and our incessant hope
 The ceremony occurred in the Consistorial Hail, there the Pope occupied his throne. The Cardin- als sat on glided, red-plush cere- mOnial chairs placed in horseshoe fashion around the throne. The plates of the Roman Curia and various lay dignitiaries, accom- panied by secret and honorary sword and cape chamberlains, were in the background.
 When the Pope had finished his speech, he imparted the apostolic blessing and te cardinals filed be- fore the throne, where they knelt and kissed the Pope's ring. The prelates and lay dignitaries follow ed.
 On Christmas the Pope cele- brat three mas~ $ during the night in his private pei. Few persons are privileged .o attend.
 In Rest Of Europe
 Paris, Dec. 24.-(UP)-Mangers built by peasants of provence were ready today for Christmas Eve celebrations of the nativity play m churches, farm houses and red roofed village houses.
 When the play ends gifts will be offered to the Christ Child by villagers in costume. The gifts are simple symbolic ones of salt bread, eggs and warmth-the warmth now represented by matches.
 Madrid, Dec. 24-(UP)-Qufet family celebrations with family dinners will mark Christmas Eve in Spain tonight.
 The faithful will go to church at midnight to attend mass.
 Distribution of Christmas pres ents will not occur until Jan. 6, the day of the three wise kings, who fill kiddies' shoes with toys.
 Rome, Dec. 24.-(UP)-The an- nuai ceremony of the solemn dis. playing of the five wooden boards which tradition says formed part of the original cradle of Christ, was held today in the Rome Bas- ilica of St. Mary Major.
 Vienna, Dec. 24.-(UP)-Car- dinal Innitzer will consecrete at midnight a Christmas mass, d chapel in the great Karl Marx apartment house which was bull wark of marxian atheism year ago. Socialists used this house as fortess in their February upris- ing.
 
 Paris, Dec. 24.-(UP)-Men of the foreign legion will celebrate Christmas in northern Africa to- morrow with the consciousness of task we'll done-the pacimication of the fierce tribesmen just sig
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-24

(Continued from Page 1.) nate and postoffice robber. Chief Postal Inspector Walter Johnson doesn't want his agents sacrificed.
 Johnson wants Terrible Tom my'' chiefly for $130.000 post office truck holdup in Charlottes- vile, N. O., but also for smaller robberies of postal funds in Sac ramento, Calif, and Butler, Pa. He is suspected, also, of participation in the $417,O0O holdup last August of an armored money truck in Brooklyn, N. Y.
 Touhy is one gangster who has a genuine claim to the "toughness" in which his kind takes pride. Suf- fering from advanced consumption underworld reports say he ex- poets death from a hemorrhage at ,any moment-he still is as arrogant as on the day when he stuck h;S face within inches of that of AL phonse (Scarface AID Capone and told him:
 You get yourself and your gorillas out of my territory-and stay out--or I'll>send you out of here feet first"
 "Scarface' obeyed. To m m y Touhy and Roger Touhy. with their Irish mob." ran northwest ern Cook county unmolested in the days when Capone and his gum men gained ascendancy elsewhere
 He dropped from police sight before repeal.
 Police have heard that Tommy has reorganized shattered bits of the John Dillinger gang and his own former followers.
 The officers looking for Touhy known to be in Chicago, have in the case of Peter Kozlinski. beer gangster who carried nitroglycer. inc as a weapon, warning of what they face. Kozlinski, like Touhy carried a vial of the "soup." When officers cornered him one day he fled into a building doorway and up a stair. Half way up he fell.
 Most of the building was wrecked Kozlinski was killed and three po' licemen at the doorway were stunned.
 Touhy carries larger charge informants say.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-24

The third suit settled was that of Ellsworth c, Cornwall of this city against the Cooke street Bus Line, Inc. The plaintiff sued for in- juries he sustained when his car was allegedly struck by a defend- ants bus at Pearl and Bronson streets, Nov. 21, 1888. Attorney Clayton l.. Klein appeared for the plaintiff. Attorney John F, Me- Donough represented the defend ant.
 Two Civil Suits
 Damages of S15,O00 are claimed in two civil actions filed in the local courts today. In the first, Robert s. Borg of New York brings a $5,OO0 action against An. drew Herman of Wallingford and in the second, Mrs Alice Wheeler of Prospect brings $1O,O00 action as adn1inistratrix of the estate of Orlando Wheeler, against Treat Hotohkiss, also of Prospect.
 In the latter suit, the papers charge the death of Wheeler was due to the negligent operation of 8 car by Hotchkiss, in gravel bank at Prospect last Jan. 26th. Wheeler was working in the gravel pit when the Hotchlsiss car, negli- gently parked by the defendant, rolled down upon him to cause fa- tai injuries.
 In the other suit, the New York plaintiff sues to recover for in- juries sustained Nov. 29, when the car in which he was riding, was struck by the defendants car at Wallingford.
 Cruelty Alleged
 Divorce on grounds of cruelty and desertion is sought by Pett on- ele Arminas against John Arminas in a petition filed in superior court today. The plaintiff says she and the defendant were married Jan. 8, 1912. The desertion took place Sept. 4, 1881, says the complaint.