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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-20
NelD Cold WaUe On
 Heels or Blizzard
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aground off Winthrop and her last radio message, picked up by both Mackay and Radio Marine, said she was being pounded heavily. Grave fears were felt for the safety of her crew, believed to number about 20 men, although two coast guard cutters were in the imme- diate vicinity and rushing to her aid. The snow storm rendered wis., ibility almost zero.
 During the. night an unidentified vessel sent out repeated whistle blasts which were taken to mean she was in distress in Long Island Sound, three miles off Southport, Conn. The whirling snow made it impossible to identify her, al- though she looked like an oil tank CT. An expedition was being or- ganized to reach her.
 The five known dead all were in Pennsylvania, but the death toll was expected to be higher when a complete check of all the area is made. Suffering among the poor was intense everywhere, although the cities engaged large emergen- cies crews to clear streets.
 New York city was preparing to hire 10000 men to assist it's nor nal street cleaning force. The snow fall at z a. m. ranged from four to 12 inches. In Buffalo the thermometer was falling rapidly and the unofficial reading at that hour was IA degrees below zero. Zero and sub-zero :, weather was predicted for all states during the day, The intense cold following the heavy snow fall redoubled suf- fering.
 New York, city where a large on the island of Manhattan and commutes back and forth daily from New Jersey, Long Island and various Westchester county com munities, was crippled as it has seldom been in recent years. All surface and elevated transport was running far behind schedules and Fsome lines were halted entirely over long periods. The Long Island railroad, which hauls thous- ands of commuters daily, reported its lines disrupted. Approxi- mately 100 poles were down and automatic signal switches would not work, thus halting many trains
 In New Haven, Conn, all trans- portation, trolley. bus and taxi was at standstill. William Clark, the United Press bureau manager, wad- td through snowdrifts four and five feet high for six miles in or der to reach his office.
 The Northern Sword first flashed a call for help at 6:25 a. m.
 "Helpless-drifting ashore. of Winthrop Head" were the words tapped out by the freighters' wire less operator.
 The coast guard wireless station at Winthrop immediately com. municated with the stricken ship Giving bearings it hoped might aid the ship in avoiding the danger ol grounding. But subsequent mes sages from the Northern sword ad. vised the vessel had been blowr aground. She was advised by a coast guard that it and tugs were racing to the rescue.
 The Northern Sword, formerl! the Norma, is owned by the Sword Steamship Line, Inc. It is of 2,64s tons, and 299.6 feet long. Its home port is New York.
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ARMY OPERATION
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NATIONAL STATE
 VETS COME HERE

National and state officers will be the guests this evening of the Wa terbury chapter, Disabled Ameri- can Veterans and its auxiliary at joint meeting tonight in Knghits of Columbus hall. State Comman- der John J. Mulligan, Edward Kelly of Meriden, national rehabil- itation officer and Peter Nugent of New Haven, national senior vice commander, will be among the speakers of the evening.
 Captain Christian Groh, who was decorated with the Iron Cross by the German government for excep- tional bravery during the World war, will be the guest of the veter- ans tonight and will describe some of the exploits which won for him the decoration.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-20
By. SAMUEL DASHIELL 'nifed Press Staff COrrespODdent


 Brussels, Feb 20.--(UP)-Thou- sands upon sorrowing thousands, Belgians passed today before the body of King Albert as it lay in state on It's catafalque in the Chap belle Ardente of the royal palace.
 Clad in generals uniform. the face bruised by fatal fall from a mountain rock face, the hands clasping a cruciflN, the dead kings body lay in a setting of silver and black draperies and green foliage.
 Candles ffickered eerily in the little palace chapel, near the grand ballroom in which only recently the king and queen had given a gala court ball.
 Grenadiers in khaki, with crepe draped swords, stood guard, as they had done all night while those first in line outside the royal palace were waiting, from midnight on, to pay homage to the monarch who had led them in war and peace.
 War veterans, war widows, chil- dren of war dead, men and women who could remember, all of the 24 eventful years of his reign; top halted men from the cities, peas
 
 in line to file slowly past the body and take last look at the re- posed face of a king who was re- membered also as a soldier, a sportsman, a devoted husband and father, and citizen.
 The dead kings body will lie in state tomorrow as well as today. The funeral will be held Thursday, with kings and princes in attend ance.
 The crown prince will be pro- claimed King Leopold III Friday after he takes, before a joint ses- sion of parliament, the simple oath of office that caused his father to defy the might of the German army in 1914, and hold back the endless German hordes until Bell gium's allies could organize their defenses:
 T swear to observe the constitu- tion and law of the people of Bel gium and to maintain the national independence and territorial, in- tegrity."
 On Saturday King Leopold and his consort, Astrid, new queen of the Belgians, will ride in state pro- cession through the capital.
 The coronation, the ceremonious confirmation of the new kings ac- cession, will be held after the per- iod of mourning-six months-for King Albert is over.
 King Alberts body was taken to the royal palace from Laeken,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-20

grees to 9 above zero, tying the low record for February 20.
 In Connecticut the snowfall reach ed a depth of 20 to go inches. Western New York reported sub zero temperatures, with an .unoin- cial reading of IA below at Buffalo. Motorists reported drifts 1V 10 10 feet high along the roads.
 The grounded ships were the Freighter Northern Sword and the Schooner Hope Leslie.
 The. Northern Sword, ashore on a ledge off winthrop Head with a crew of about 20, was aided by the coast guard, who attempted to send lifeboats from the Cutter Dix.
 The Hope Leslie, which went aground off Cuttyhunk Island, was freed by the coast guard after hours of effort. The patrol boat CG 235 attempted to tow her to New Beford, but abandoned the at tempt.
 New York, Feb 20-(UP)-Ar intense blizzard engulfed the east ern states to-day, causing at leas' five deaths and doing incalcuabit damage. TWO VeSSclS WCkO ACHOA - ed in distress off the New Eng land coast, with the freightel Northern Sword flashing repeated sos signals from off Winthrop Mass.
 All the New England states, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsyl' vania were blanketed under 8 deer layer of snow. At 2 a. m. 1t wal still falling in most sections. The snow was piled into impossible banks by strong wind. Dozens oi communities were snow-bound. Of fees in Boston, New York, Buffalo Philadelphia and other cities wer. handicapped b e ca u e crippled transportation systems prevented employees from reaching them.
 The Northern Sword was
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-20
Weeping Thousands Pass Bier OF Albert
Clad in Generals Uniform, Face Bruised By Fall, Hands CIasping the Cruci6x, Belgian King '
 Lay in State in Royal Palace

where it had lain since he was dis covered dead from fall on the Marches Les Danes Sunday morn ing, in state procession last night.
 The hoofs of horses, the rattle of accoutrements, the sobs of wo- men in the crowd and the dull echo at intervals of minute of cam non's saluting. fire broke the deep silence.
 Torches carried by bearers flank ing the gray gun carriage, drawn by black horses, on which the kings ,coff1n lay filckered fitfully as the procession passed.
 Leopold and his younger brother Prince Charles marched behind the coffin.
 A one minute halt, was made at the tomb of the unknown soldier
 There was communist demon stration in favor of republic last night after the procession to the Brussels palace. A police dispersed it quietly. Another demonstration was expected for Friday.
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SWEEPING CHANGE
 IN LOCAL CWA

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AWARD SCHOLARSHIPS.

Cambridge, Mass, Feb. 20 (UP) Award of Il scholarships, total- ing $1,530, to students in the three upper classes of the Harvard den- tai school was announced last night. Recipients included John Oskar, Lawrence; Edward s. Han- sis, Needham; Claude w. Thomp- son, Jr., Wilmington; Philip J, Pinel, Qincy, and Samuel Lewis, Brooklyn, N. Y.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-20

many times what I paid for the Vendol' medicine.
 1T have regained my strength and energy, never have those tired out draggy pains in my back and limbs. I eat hearty meals without the slightest sign of indigestion following. sleep sound all night, never have those splitting nervous headaches and my constipation has been completely relieved and there hasn't been sign of dizziness lately. I think Vendol is a splen- did medicine."
 Vcndol Is sold by all leading druggists everywhere and Is espc- cially recommended by the Water- bury Drug Company, 134 F. Main street,
Evening star., 1934-11-16
Text of Presidents Speech
Pioneers Of Century and Half Ago Compared
With Those of Today Who Have Great Respon-
sibaity in Hewing Out Commonwealth, He Says.

a path that was dependent not on
the AK and the rifle alone, but upon
their ability to govern themselves in
new ways as well
ITO most of the pioneers the ne
cessities of the new life called for
efforts and experiments to which they
had not been accustomed in their
earlier years in the more ordered civil
lization of the Atlantic seaboard.
Survival itself demanded immediate
and new action.
IT have called us who are here
today Pioneers Of 1894 I mean
everything that the word pioneer
implies. We, too, in these latter years
throughout the length and breadth
of our land have come to realiza-
ton of the pregnant fact that the
accustomed order of our formerly es-
tablished lives does not suffice to
meet the perils and the problems
which we are compelled to face.
Again, mere survival calls for new
pioneering on our part.
Blood in Veins Today.
"Some portion of the blood Of the
colonists and the blood of the pioneers
who worked their way, through the
generations, across the mountains and
across the plains and again across
the mountains until they came to the
Pacific, that blood is present In very
large part In the veins of millions of
our people. More than that. the ex-
ample and the spirit Of these earlier
Americans Is present In the mind and
the heart Of all our population.
"The events which We here cele-
brate were so vital in the extension Of
the new nation that it has been
thought proper for Congress to COM
memorate them not only in the spirit
Of gratitude, but in the spirit Of emu
lation as an example to guide us in
the conquest of new frontiers Of the
spirit that are neither physical nor
geographical.
I'VE are carrying on, We shall carry
on, the purposes of these men and
women Of Harrodsburg. They were
hewing out a commonwealth-and I
like that word commonwealth
I'VE, too, are hewing out a COM
monwealth-a commonwealth of the
States which we hope will give to its
people more truly than any that has
gone before, the fulfllment of secu-
rity, of freedom, Of opportunity and
of happiness which America asks and
is entitled to receive"
Evening star., 1934-11-16

under the covenant of the League,
to which she does not belong.
The letter was sent to Joseph A. G.
Avenol, secretary general Of the
League, by Prentiss 3. Gilbert, United
States consul at Geneva.
Brazil, also a non-League member,
had been invited to participate in the
committees work along with the
United States.
The League Of Nations resorted TO
unprecedented measures to protect
the secrecy of its deliberations.
The lobby leading to the room
where the members of the Chaco
Consultative Committee NIT was
locked and guarded by uniformed
ushers. who even refused to permit
the public to reach telegraph office
in the lobby or newspaper CORE
spondents to deposit dispatches there.
Extraterritorial Rights.
The League possesses extraterritorial
rights and declared 1t was within its
prerogative even to block access to
the oficial Swiss telegraph office, in
the League Building.
This extreme measure was gener-
ally attributed to the fact that the
committee is supposed to be discus
sing recommendations to be handed
to the belligerents, Paraguay and Bo-
livia.
It was also believed to be result
Of a leak In a report Of the Chaco
commission several months ago, be-
fore this report was even given to
the governments involved. Police in
vestigated at the request Of the
League, but 1t was understood they
were unable to fix responsibility for it.
Evening star., 1934-11-16
SECURITY COUNCIL
GETS N. C. u. HEAD
Frank Porter Graham, Former
Marine Officer, Appointed
Chairman by Roosevelt.

Fifteen years ago, Assistant Secre-
tary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt
honorably discharged Marine Cores
lieutenant, and few days ago Presi-
dent Franklin D. Roosevelt brought
him back to the Government as chair
man OF the Presidents Economic Sc
curity Council to study old age pen-
sions, unemployment insurance and
related topics.
This was recalled today at Marine
Corps Headquarters in the Navy De-
partment, where officials said Presi-
dent Frank Porter Graham of the
University of North Carolina enlisted
in the Corps in May, 1917, and rose
to be an officer.
President Graham, as Marine,
served with the 10th Regiment during
the World War, and was on duty at
Indian Head, Md. and at Quantico,
Va. The then Assistant Secretary
Roosevelt discharged him as a first
lieutenant in July, 1919, but he had
already been recommended for promo
ton to captain and to be retained in
the service.
Born at Fayetteville, N. c., October
IA, 1886, President Graham secured his
bachelor of arts degree from the uni
versity he now heads in 1909. Later,
he obtained the degree of master of
arts at Columbia in 1915, the year he
first became associated officially with
the University of North Carolina He
has been president of the institution
since June, 1880.
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special session Monday night, will ad-
journ sine die, thus completing the
most servile meeting held since Long
took control of Louisiana politics.
In three weeks the laws will be-
come effective, and Louisiana will be-
come the kind of State nobody has
dreamed Of and after that, says
Senator Long, he will use the State
as pattern to make the whole Ma
tion a Utopia Just when that will
happen, the Senator has not disclosed.
The bills comprising his "share-the-
wealth" program, said Long, will do
remarkable things.
Concealed Features.
"There's lots of things in these bills
they don't know about yet" said the
Senator.
The Senator's most ambitious legis-
lation is the statute proclaiming a
two-year debt moratorium for ha-
rassed debtors.
Another bill sets up a Civil Service
Commission, composed of State ad-
ministration leaders, with power to
remove police and chiefs. That will
give Long control of practically all
municipal policemen and flremen.
Long said the bill was intended to
take them "out of politics.
Police Chief Threatened.
Longs first contemplated move to
bring his new laws into use was dis
closed yesterday when he said Clint
O'Malley, Alexandria chief of police,
would have to be removed from office
by the Civil Service Commission be-
cause he permitted two riots in the
public square"
Longs remarks recalled one of his
political rallies In Alexandria about
q year ago when he was bombarded
with rotten eggs and overripe vege-
tables.
Evening star., 1934-11-16
BULGARIA CANCELS
DEBTS PAYMENT
Foreign Creditors to Be
Asked to Study Her Finan-
ciaI Position.
By the Annotated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SOFIA, Bulgaria, November 10
Bulgaria has decided to cancel pay
ment on her huge foreign debt, and
ask creditors to make a study Of her
financial position.
The decision was announced by
Premier Kimon Geogieff after lengthy
session Of the cabinet yesterday. A few
hours later Representative Chaysson
of the League of Nations left Sofia as a
protest against the action.
Before and After War.
In joining the lengthening list of
nations defaulting on foreign debts,
Bulgaria announced that the loans in
volved are those contracted before the
wars of 1892, 1896, 1904 and 1907 and
after the World War in 1926 at per
cent and in 1928 at ia per cent.
OF loans after the World War,
United States capital was involved TO
the extent of S12,250, 900.
May Is Agreement.
Conformable to the agreement Of
May Is. 1884. Bulgaria was to have
transferred 32R per cent Of annui-
ties due to the account Of these loans.
1t was generally believed that the
government would offer to pay for
Evening star., 1934-11-16

ter, No. 8, Masonic Hall, 1910 Wis
consin avenue. $50 pm.
Banquet and dance, Theta Kappa
Sigma Sorority. La Fayette Hotel,
pm.
Card party, benefit Seth Parker
Welfare Club, Colonial Hotel, 8 pm.
Card party, benefit Sergt. Jasper
Unit, No. 13, American Legion Aux
iliary, 6156 Thirty-f1rst street, 8 pm.
Bingo party. benefit Burnside wom-
ems Relief Corp, Hamilton Hotel,
8 pm.
Dance, Sacred Heart Of Mary
Alumnae, Hamilton Hotel, 10 pm.
Dance, George Washington Nurses
Alumnae Association, Hamilton Ho-
tel, 8 pm.
Card party, benefit Justice Lodge,
No. 6, Order Of Shepherds Of Beth
lehem, 1920 Connecticut avenue, $50
pm.
Evening star., 1934-11-16
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
TODAY.

1OOA1s
Supper, benefit American Gold Star
Mothers, 1902 Rhode Island avenue
northeast, to pm.
Card and bingo party, benefit st.
Francis de Sales Church, auditorium,
Twentieth street and Rhode Island
avenue northeast, 8 pm.
Dinner dance, Theta Alpha Phi So
rority, Mayflower Hotel, 8 pm.
Card party, Francis Scott Chapter,
United Daughters of the Confederacy,
Mayf1ower Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, Ohio Girls Club. 1926
Massachusetts, avenue, pm.
Meeting, Ladies' Auxiliary, National
Rainbow Division of Veterans Asso-
ciation, Willard Hotel, 8 pm.
Dance, Idaho State Society, Willard
Hotel, pm.
Dance, Virginia State Society, Will
lard Hotel, 9 pm.
Meeting, Col. Henry w. Lawton
Auxiliary, United Spanish War Vet
Grams, $50 H street, 8 pm.
Supper, benefit Grace Church, Par
ish Hall, Ninth and D streets south
west, pm.
Oyster roast and barbecue, United
States Treasury Post, American Le-
gion, 623 D street southwest, z pm.
Card and bingo party. benefit La
dies Sodality of St. Pauls Catholic
Church, Fifteenth and v streets, 8:15
pm.
Supper, Testers Club. Hamilton
Hotel, 8 pm.
Dance, Sigma Tau Lambda Frater-
nifty, Hamilton Hotel, 10 pm.
Card party, benefit Marietta Park
Women's Club, Sholl's Cafe, 1919 G
street, $50 pm.
Lecture, M. H. Hedges, Capital City
Forum, 709 G street, BIS pm.
Card party, Areme Chapter, o. z.
S., 14O2 Massachusetts, avenue south
east, 8 pm.
TOMORROW.
Luncheon, Harvard Club, Univer-
sity Club, lis pm.
Meeting, Political Study Club,
Washington Club, 2:30 pm.
Outing, Red Triangle Outing Club,
meet Seventeenth street and New
York avenue, 2 pm.
Dance, Local No. 2, N. F. F. f.,
Mayflower Hotel, 10 pm.
Dance and card party, Holy Cross
Alumnae Association, Mayflower Ho-
tel, pm.
Dance, N. r. A. Athletic Associa-
ton, Willard Hotel, $50 pm.
Gard party. benent Mispah Chap
Evening star., 1934-11-16
COSMOPOLITAN CLUB
PLANS MERIT AWARD
Seeks Nominations for Most Out
standing Unselfsh Service
Here in 1884.

Plans are being made by Col. j.
Rozier Biggs. permanent chairman of
the Cosmopolitan Service Medal Com
mittee, to select the citizen who has
performed the most outstanding un-
selfish service for the Capital during
1884.
A meeting of the committee will be
called within the next 10 days, and
Col. Biggs is anxious to have nomina-
tions for this honor, not only from
members of the Cosmopolitan Club,
but from other citizens as well.
The last recipient of the medal was
Robert v. Fleming, president of Riggs
National Bank, who was chosen for
his service during the bank holiday.
Evening star., 1934-11-16
IL. S. REFUSES PART
lin CHACO DISPUTE
Declines to Join League of
Nations in Efforts to
Settle War.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GENEVA, November 16.-The
United States, 1t was learned today,
has declined to participate directly
with the League of Nations in efforts
to settle the Chaco War.
A letter refusing to join the Leagues
Chaco Cancellation Committee was
read at a private session of the Chaco
Consultative Committee.
1t was understood the United
States agreed to continue cooperating
in friendly way with the Leagues
Chaco work, but chose to act inde-
pendently and. especially at this late
hour. not to participate in the COM
mittee.
Position Reiterated.
Washington thus reiterated its pre-
vious position of aloofness in connec-
ton with the handling Of the war
Evening star., 1934-11-16
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HARRODSBURG, KY, November
16-The text Of President Roosevelt's
speech today follows:
Gov. Laf1oon. my friends Of Ken
tucky:
I'VE pioneers of 1884 are come to-
gether today to honor the pioneers OF
century and a half ago. On my
journey hither I have been reading
once more of those thrilling days
which saw the first peopling Of these
fair lands beyond the mountains and
seized the perfect moment which des-
tiny offered to our forbears to create
these United States.
1T has seemed to me in reading
history that Harrodsburg can lay claim
to having been the scene Of more
historical first things than any other
spot have ever known. 1t seems not
enough that this delightful and his
toric place was the first permanent
settlement we'll beyond the mountains,
that here were the earliest pioneer
homes, that here came the first school
teacher and the first doctor, that here
was the first court in the West. To
this you must add many other firsts,
the first corn raised in Kentucky, the
first peach stones and apple seeds
planted, the first wheat field, the first
grist mill, and, perhaps most i'm
portant of all, the first spinning wheel.
Honor to Home Builders.
"That is why am happy that in ad-
dition to paying tribute to the memory
of George Rogers Clark, who led his
men from here to his great invasion
and preservation of the inland empire
to the United States, you are also
honoring the men and women who
made his expedition possible and who
followed him with the permanency OF
home building.
"It has come to be generally &C
cepted rule of civilized nations that
mere discovery of new lands conveys
no sovereignty, and, indeed, that
mere conquest conveys but little better
title. It is, after all, only the peopling
of the wilderness which gives perma-
nency in the form Of an ordered So
ciety.
There is a very definite analogy
between those days and ours. Upon
the pioneers Of these great stretches
of the Central West were forced new
activities because of the circum-
stances of their surroundings. They
were compelled to hew out new path