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Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-22
To
Enter Auto Race

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 90 UP) -
Twenty-one of the country's lead
ing auto race drivers will face the
starters flag this afternoon in
qualifying trials for the 200-mile
1884 national speedway champion
ship event scheduled for tomorrow
at Los Angeles municipal airport.
Track conditions forced postpone
ment of the qualifying races yes
terday. wild Bill" Cummings,
indianapolis racer, ruled the favor
ite' to win the pole post and the
race itself.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-22
COACH SEEKS JOB

CHICAGO, Dec. % U.P) - Ray
Morrison, Southern Methodist Uni
versity head football coach, planned
to confer today with Kenneth
(Tug) Wilson, Northwestern Uni
versity athletic director who is
looking for a successor to Coach
Dick Hanley, resigned. Morrison
ducked questioners when he arrived
last night. Wilson said we're just
going to talk about this and that"
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-22
Accident Clues
Romero Victory

SAN DIEGO, Dec. %. W.H -
Johnny Romero, San Diego middle
weight, was awarded a technical
knockout over Cannonball Green
of Los Angeles last night in the
eighth round of their scheduled 10
round feature bout.
The fight was stopped when Ro-
nero floored his opponent and fell
himself. His knee caught Green's
chin, severely cutting the latter's
tongue. Romero weighed 166 and
Green ITO.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-22
BRONCOs VICTORIOUS

SANTA CLARA, Calf, Dec. %
U.P)-Santa Clara came from be-
hind last night to defeat University
of California at Los Angeles in an
intercollegiate basketball game in
the Santa Clara gymnasium by q
score of 1890.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-22

Beautifully made, all silk
crepe-de-chinel In lus-
cious pastels, trimmed
with lace, or tailored and
smartly monogrammedl
Priced absurdly low, to
make gtt-buying easyl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-06
Legion's Order And
Law Program Marked
Taking All Politics Out Of Law Enforcement Keynote
Says National Commander Edward A. Hayes

lief Of the American Legion in q
more effective an defficient law and
order program. Such q program in
order to beeffective. calls for the
enlistment Of public approval and
support. Such a program is of
necessity dependent upon the eff
cheney, morale and personnel of the
law enforcement agencies Of COM
munity, state and nation. Conse-
quently, your committee recon-
mends:
u. Better coordination between
federal, state and local law enforce
nent agencies. Since the criminal
does not recognize boundary lines
between towns, counties or states.
such lines should not prove barbed
wire entanglements to the officers
in pursuit. Information available
to the local officer should be made
available to the county, and state
authorities.
20. Better opportunity for in
struction Of law enforcement agen-
cies. Your committee believes that
schools should be established In
which future members Of depart
ments should receive q thorough
course of training before becoming
full fedged law enforcement agents
and officers. Make law enforcement
q profession. not just job. These
schools should be open to present
members OF forces who desire to
take 'refresher' courses. In addition
there should be special courses for
chiefs and heads of departments.
"3. In states and communities
where an officers job is dependent
upon the party or group In political
power, q p pr o p riat Q legislation
should remove such appointments
from politics. In other words, a
man who is making law enforce
ment his life work should feel that
his position Is secure"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-06
John DIS Gift Aids
Leagues New Library
Dedication Planned for 1885 BY Geneva Diplomats;
Two Million Dollars Given

The building will house ell the
most important International
treaties, pHicial publications and
books printed on international
political, social, economic and A.
rancial affairs. The league library
II the only institution In the world
to receive all government publica-
lions and Official documents.
Its treaty series containing all
international treaties registered
with the league Is the most Inn
portant collection Of It's kind In
the world. In addition the league
has chain OF 100 depositary IL
braries scattered throughout the
world.
Room for Million Books
The new library win have room
for 100000 volumes. At the pres
ent time, only 10 years after its
foundation, the league library pos
sesses 10000 books. Approx
saately 10000 new volumes are
added each year.
The new library building has
three hoors, On the ground door
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-06

Our 100000 still may seem like
lot Of soldiers, but the figure Is
less impressive when whitfield down
to available uniformed troops. Our
regular army numbers 1900 off,
GERS and $4,000 men, but many
are stationed in the territories. In
the continental United States, aside
from soldiers assigned to schools,
CCC camps and the like, there are
only $500 officers and $4,000 men
scattered about the country in nine
skeleton infantry and three skele-
ton cavalry divisions. Skeleton" is
the right word, too; General Doug
las Macarthur, Chief of Staff, has
declared that in many cases there
Ii but one officer on duty with an
entire battalion.
As for ordnance and other ma
terial, General Macarthur has
said: That most Of the army's pres
ent motor equipment was built
during the World War and is obso-
lete as well as largely worn out.
That except for about half a dozen
machines, every tank in the army
is Of World War manufacture, in
adequate in number, obsolete In
design, and useless for modern
awrfare. That the United States
has spent about 100000 since
1920 for experimental and devel-
opment work in naturalization,
while within four years England
appropriated $20,000,000 for army
mechanization projects.
Rifles Imported
On April 8, 1917, the United
States had about 100000 Spring
field rifles, model Of 1908, for its
fighters. Government arsenals
could produce only 700 a day, and
actually had no specifications and
blueprints which could be turned
over to private manufacturers. So
we had to depend on Enfield rifles
which were being made for the
British.
We also had to depend on the
Allies for machine guns--the
Chaut- chaut automatic rifles of the
French, the Lewis gun and the
Browning machine gun, both the
latter inventions of Americans. We
had no 81 nm. guns, infantry how
tiers or trench mortars worth
mentioning. For field artillery we
had a few 5-inch pieces of German
MANUFACTURER! These proved un-
satisfactory anyway, so we bought
the famous French 1858. We had
absolutely no medium or heavy
mobile artillery, no practical in
struments for indirect fire. We
had some motor transport facil-
tiles. thanks to General Pershing's
truck supply trains used while
chasing Villa In Mexico. But we
had no air service chemical war
fare or tank corps.
The Picture Today
Naturally the picture is quite
different now. Technicians have
developed armor- piercing bullets,
better machine guns, semi-auto-
matte shoulder arms which prob
ably will replace the old-style
rifles, fast airplanes, speedy tanks,
and spotting and range-fnding in
struments and anti-aircraft, artil-
lery which conceivably may erase
the threat of any serious offensive
from the air. 1t Is possible only to
speculate on the new horrors our
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-06

indianapolis, Ind. - Taking all
politics out Of law enforcement Is
the keynote Of q national law en-
forcement program to be inaugur-
ated Immediately by the American
Legion, Edward A. Hayes, national
commander, said here to-day, In an
nouncing the report of the execu-
tive committee Of the national law
an dorder committee.
Charles r. Ely, attorney, Of
Westfield, Mass, chairma nof the
law and order committee, made the
report to the national commander.
Other mem bers of the executive
committee Of the law and order
committee who signed the report
are: Vincent A. Carroll, attorney,
vice chairman, 1905 Lincoln Liberty
building, Philadelphia; Judge Ben
Jamin d. Farrar, Of probate court,
Rock Island county, Rock Island,
Ill; Judge Z. p. Mills, court of APP
peal. second circuit, Shreveport, La,
and John Eden, attorney, 500 Hip
prodrome building, Cleveland, o.,
past national head of the 40 and 8,
fun and honor society Of the legion.
Posts to Get Copy
The national commander said
the report would be distributed i'm
mediately to each of the 10,879
posts of the legion, with the request
that every opportunity be taken to
encourage a better coordination be-
tween federal, state and local law
enforcement agencies, as recon-
mended by the executive committee
Of the law and order body.
The report of Chairman Ely and
the other four members of the exc
cutive committee to the national
commander follows:
"In compliance with instructions
OF the national commander, an
executive committee of the national
committee on law and order met at
the Hotel Roosevelt, New York
city. March IL, 1894, with the Hon.
orable Joseph b. Keenan,, assistant
United States attorney general.
Public Support Needed
Sensing that the mandate OF the
Chicago convention creating this
committee requires immediate af-
firmative action, your committee
believes that the most pressing
problem requires transmitting TO
the general public the sincere be-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-06

Grading and constructing bridge
on new location. Open to traffic.
Route No ~
New Britain Berlin. Corbin ave-
nue. and Pennington avenue. TX
miles of bituminous macadam I'M
der construction but open to traf-
fic. Rough due to muddy condi-
tons.
Route No 80
No. Branford- Madison. No Bran
ford-Killingworth road. About 6H
miles bituminous macadam pave
ment. Open to traffic.
Route No SO
Norwich. Norwich Hadlyme road
Is being oiled for miles.
Route No "a
Groton, Stonington, North Ston-
ington. Old Lystic-R. I. line trunk
line. Bituminous macadam, length
about 10 miles is under construc-
ton. Traffic should avoid this
route.
Groton. Center Groton road.
Travel should proceed slowly.
Route No 80
Lebanon. Lebanon illimantie
road. Bituminous macadam.
length about Az miles. Closed
down for winter. Traffic should
avoid this route.
Route No %
Norwich. Gallows Hill road Is be-
ing oiled Tor miles.
Lisbon. Newent road is being
oiled for A miles.
Route No 95
Voluntown. Ekonk Hill road.
Waterbound macadam length about
5 miles. Closed down for winter.
Traffic should avoid this route.
Route No 100
New Fairfield. Balls Pond road.
Travel should proceed carefully.
Route No 1O6
Easton. Easton Center road.
About mile bitumlnous macadam.
Open to traffic. Caution should be
used in travel over this road.
Route No 118
Burlington. Burlington Harwin-
ton road. About 2 miles of blum
nous macadam under construction
but open to traffic.
Route No 1873
Griswold. Pachaug road is being
oiled for miles.
Route No 1874
Old Saybrook. Point road Ia be-
Ing oiled for 2 miles.
Route No 155.
Middletown. Randolph road Is
being oiled for / mile.
Route No 1876
Preston Griswold and Volun-
town. Preston-R. I. Trunk line. b.
luminous macadam, length about
11k miles under construction.
Traffic should avoid this route.
Route No 2Of
Pomfret. Hampton-Abing
road. WATERFOWL macadam, length
about IN miles. Closed down for
winter. Traffic can pass.
Route No 34f
Kent-Warren road. Waterbound
macadam about 81 miles under
construction. Grubbing, grading and
installing culverts. impossible due
to mud.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-06

Road condition bulletins were
suspended during the months of
February and March because of
the unusual snow conditions. How
ever, no restrictions have been
placed on the use of any state road
IN the way OF weight limitation, ex-
cept that all loads must conform
to the general laws In this par
ticular.
Users of the highway should OBJ
aerve the recommendations given
IN this report.
Details of road construction in
progress and oiling follow:
Route No u. s. 1
Il Bridgeport. Boston avenue. About
~ sheet asphalt on concrete
Base. Open to traffic. Groton. Gro
ton and westerly road.
Old Lyme. Boston Post road Ia
being oiled for / mile.
Stratford. Boston avenue. About
Ia mile reinforced concrete pave
ntent. Open to traffic.
Route and 80
Norwich e. Franklin. Norwich
and willimantic road Is being oiled
for miles.
Route No A.
I Sharon Cornwall road, from
Cornwall Bridge eight miles west
Grabbing, grading and installing
cuiverts. Open but unsafe for traf-
fic.
Route No o. s. 8
West Hartford. Pennington
avenue. From Pennington town
line to Woodrow street. Two miles
o8 sheet asphalt under construc-
ton but open to traffic. Short
detour.
Manchester. East Center street
iS, being oiled for miles.
Route No 8
i'Torrington. East Main street.
Concrete pavement / mile In
length under construction. Two
Iahe concrete complete and open
t0i traffic.
WATERBURY. Section of Thomas
ton avenue. ! Ia miles of rein
forced concrete pavement under
c1nstructlon but open to traffic.
Route No 0
Cromwell. Hartford Saybrook road
III being oiled for mile.
Route No 10
sTarmington. Pennington Plain
Vile road. Grade separation.
Bridge under construction but open
ia traffic.
Houte No ~
Ledyard. Submarine road. Due to
frost conditions there are some
breaks, travel should proceed eau
d0UgIy.
Kiilingly. Norwich road is being
oiled for 2 miles.
Putnam. School street fs being
oiled for x mile. Mechanic street
q being oiled for ! mile.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-06
Road Conditions In
4 Connecticut Improve
Details Of Highway Work in Progress Listed By State
Il Department Thomaston Avenue Open to Traffic

Thompson. Worcester road Is be-
Ing oiled for "a -mlle.
Route No IA
Portland. Portland East Hamp-
ton road is being oiled for l mile.
Columbia. Columbia Marlboro
road Is being oiled for two miles.
Route No is
Union and Stafford. Union-Staf-
ford road. Travel should proceed
cautiously.
Route No 10
The Comstock Bridge -Colchester
Trunk Line. Bituminous macadam,
length about 6 Ia miles. Traffic
should avoid this route.
Route No 20
Granby-Hartland. East Hart
land-West CRANKY. Three miles BIZ
luminous macadam under construc-
ton but open to traffic.
Route No rs
to frost conditions there are some
breaks, travel should proceed eau
tiously.
Brookfield. Brookfield Center
road. Due to frost conditions there
al bcHlc LTdtcl
proceed cautiously.
Route No 80
Mansfield. Willimantic-S Stafford
road Is being oiled for miles.
IsOute No 35
Ridgefleld. West Lane. Due to
frost conditions there are some
breaks, travel should proceed eau
tiously.
UPAu.fa No
New Fairfield. Pembroke road.
Travel should proceed cautiously.
Route No 30
luminous macadam 2 miles In
length under construction. Grub
bling grading and installing Gull
verts. Impossible due to mud.
Route No Al
Washington. Bee Brook road
Due to frost conditions there are
some breaks, travel should pro.
coed cautiously.
Route No So
Redding. Georgetown road. Due
breaks, travel should proceed eau.
tiously.
Route No SO
WATERFOWL. Straits turnpike. Five
miles bituminous macadam under
construction. Grubbing, grading
and installing culyerts. Impossible
due to mud.
Route No 81
Seymour. Hoadley Bridge rein.
forced concrete and conc. encased
girder bridge. Closed to traffic.
Oxford. Southbury road. Three
miles OF reinforced concrete pave
ment under construction from the
southbury- Oxford town line north.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-06
Ry sTEWART BIsoWN

Vn1teQ kfeGe SgaM COETeHpOWQeut
Geneva-The worlds most iri-
portant international library will
be attached to the leagues new
S5.000,000 palace when It IL In.
eugurated in 1895.
a gilt Of $4,000. 900 from John
D. Rockefeller. Jr, has enabled
the league to lay plans for a II.
brary research institute which will
be the JOY OF world scholars.
Plans to organize tho library
as an autonomous international
Research institute now are under
consideration. The institute library,
although attached to the league,
would be a separate institution
with q distinct charter.
Building Million Dollars
Approximately half OF the Rock
efeller gift has been used to con-
struct q beautiful building adtoin-
ing the new league assembly hall.
the largest In the world. The re-.
mainder Of the fund viii 60 into
an endowment fund.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-06
SUPPER SPONSORED
BY MEMS LEAGUE

A box supper social will take
place Monday night at Davenport
hall under the auspices Of the
Mems league of the Second Con-
gregational church. Professor
Beckett of Cheapside, London, auc-
tioneer and wit, will auction
off the box suppers. Traditional
lines will be followed, the success
full men bidders sharing their
lunches with the lady who pre-
pared the box. Howard r. Tracy
and the boys glee club will enter
tain and Rev DR. d. B. Eddy of
Boston will speak.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-06

ana In the center OF the building
will be an information ONCE con-
taining the catalogue and lending
department.. Connected with II will
BE- q zllhsenm room for exhibi-
lions.
There viii ps . newspaper and
periodical reading room, q general
reading reom ana 9 lecture room
A. nor on ,v ths dn sst oo The sseSs
rooms dividsa By topics, such Is
mandates, opium. public health
ana communications.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-06

-
n But II another such emergency
should arise to-day the situation
would be much more encouraging,
) "a spite of the fact that we now
have a slightly smaller navy and
regular army than on April 9.
3g17. The important difference ia
Mat, on paper, the United States
y infinitely better prepared for
war.
II s,oo0,o 900 men now were to
/. spring to arms overnight, author
Niles would know exactly what to
! DO with them, where ard how to
train them, and could assign them
he once to companies, battalions,
Regiments which already exist In
ekeleton form. There was no such
z Urganization scheme prior to the
National Defense Act Of 1920 and
the Four-Army Plan Of 1888.
More Men Available
More than 10000 officers and
men of the National Guard, well
trained, uniformed and fairly well
equipped. would be Immediately
available for action. In 1917 most
or the National Guard was not sub
aJect to the call of the president,
and its organizations were broken
up by the drafting Of its individ-
stials.
A mobilization would bring some
10000 reserve officers from civil!
life to take up military duties
which they have trained and stud
fed to perform. There was no Or
5Eanized Reserve in 1917. and no
plan, as at present, for training
civilians for reserve commissions.
q The United States ranked below
the British Empire and Germany
in tonnage of fighting ships when
we entered the war. We now are
.second only to the British Empire,
and Germany is out OF the picture.
AZ In 1917 we had neither combat
sairplanes nor pilots. To-day we
are third in the world in number
or war planes. However, accord
ing to Major c. J. H. Mackenzie
Kennedy, British pioneer in avia-
ton development, we are sixth in
number Of factories making fight
Ing planes and motors. And the
machines we have, he calculates,
are SO low and inefficient that
American air forces theoretically
could be defeated even by the tiny
Belgian armada, or by 80 per cent
OF the British, 40 per cent of the
French, or so per cent of the Ital-
ian, Russian or Japanese air forces.
OF course there are many Ameri-
can experts who disagree.
Scarcity of Officers
There are other unfavorabIe as
poets Of the comparative picture.
At the time OF our declaration of
war the total strength of our
army was 190,000-less by 10000
than the peace time armies OF Italy
or Japan, and about one-fourth the
size Of the British, French or Ger
man armies before they began
fighting. To-day the United States
has q maximum military strength
Of 100000, more than half reserves.
France and Italy each have fifteen
times that number, counting
trained reserves, and Japan FIVE
times as many. Even Germany.
with a treaty army of 100000 has
an additional trained reserve Of
C00 000 ..A
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-06
CLAIMS cow LISPS

Berlin, Conn. (UP)-Thith 18th
the sthory Of a COW that lithps.
joe Pastek claims he has o. two.
year-old Holstein with d fissure on
the tip Of its tongue which makes
the animal lisp when 1t MODS. Con-
sequently, Joe's pet "Moo-ths."
Yeth Thru
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-06

Ky, which has even begun the
transformation.
Americas preparedness lies
largely In it's establishment Of
huge skeletonized organization into
which readily may be fitted mil
lions of new men, and in its far
flung plan for the mobilization of
industry. Some 1900 leading
manufacturing concerns have been
surveyed to determine which war
materials they best could make.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-06

chemists have brewed against any
future enemy.
These and many other things
have been developed, but that
doesn't mean our army has been
equipped with them. For exam
pie, complete mechaniZation of
cavalry units has been cherished
plan of the army almost ever since
the war, yet appropriations have
been 80 small that to date there Is
only one regiment, at Fort Knox,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-06

Cash register factories can, and in
an emergency must, turn out shell
fuses; artificial silk plants, explo-
sives; steel mills, guns; auto plants.
tanks and trucks, and so on. Minute
specifications have been worked out
for each product, and even the nee
essary machine tools have been
provided. Another war would find
American industry ready and able
to melt its ploughshares into
swords.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-06
". S. Is Better Prepared ION Paper
Now Than 1t Was IL Years Ago To-day
Army And Navy Are Smaller Than On
Our Entry Into Last War, But Skelet-
0nized Defense Is Held Ready
For Emergency"

q authorities
which,
world To-day, with
fields would United
defend itself I'm the
This pertinent
the United States entry into the world
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-06

Lime house, Lcndon's famous
Chonatown, and only one Of
town, now has only about 100
Cinnamon, and only one OF these
smokes opium.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-06

New York. April 6-Seventeen years ago today, when
this country entered the World war; allies took look
reports Of understood and equpped offensive forces
and dsconsoatey agreed that about all they could
from American money. food and materials for
rfooffs
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-06

More than 10 OF every 1000
school children in England's poor
districts are reported to be euf-
fering from malnutrition.
The Washington times., 1934-11-30
., F. |. CLAIMS
UNEMPLOYED
INCREASING
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president of the A. F. of L. He
estimated the percentage drop at
2.6.
Add this increase in unemploy-
ment to the decrease in the gen.
eral business level and the mount
ing figures on relief rolls, and the
composite picture is not reaSsur-
ing, Mr.. Green said. Especially.
when it is considered that food
prices are higher than a year
ago, thanks to the AAA's pro-
ceSsing taxes, and the NRA's
higher manufacturing costs.
Officials Concerned
Although the Administration IS
not ready to accept labor's esti-
mate of the situation as neces-
Sarily accurate officials are keen
ly concerned ov>>r the situation, as
demonstrated by President Roose-
velt's summoning most of his
recovery heads to Warm Springs
for conferences during Are next
week.
Harry L. Hopkins, the Relief Di-
rector; Public Works Administra.
tor Ickes; James A. Moffett, direc-
tor of the gigantic housing pro-
gram, and others, are either in
Warm Springs or en- route there.
The Administration is looking
to the housing program to supply
the push" to the tagging heavy
industries group.
Seek Coordination
This housing program now Il
running in several direct direo
tions, and is under directors who
have radically different ideas. Ef
forts are now being made to CO.
ordinate it, with private capital
working through Mr.. Moffett's or
ganization. and public capital
through the PWA, which is di-
rected by Mr.. Ickes. Mr.. Moffett
and Mr.. Ickes have differed
sharply on phases of the housing
program.
While wholly sympathetic with
the housing program organized
labor does not believes it will be
sufficient to correct the existing
unemployment situation.
In that belief. Labor is going
to propose it's own remedies to the
incoming congress. Chief among
them are the revival of the 80
hour week law to spread the
work" and a new law to take the
place of NRA's Section IA. which
will leave no doubt as to labors
status.