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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-29

a recent guest of friends in the borough.
 MT and Mrs George H. Waite, ST., of Johnson street, have re- turned to their home after visit ing at Bayview, Milford.
 William Benson of North Main street was a recent visitor in New York city.
 Miss Helen Harvey of Aetna street is the guest of Miss Jean Moriarity of New York city.
 Frank Waite of Johnson street is visiting in New York city.
 MT and Mrs Archie D. Hyde of Park avenue, who have been vaca- tioning in Canada, have returned to their home.
 Miss Ruth Malone of May street is visiting relatives in Seymour.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-29
Democrats Nominate
 Assembly Candidates
Culhane for Senate; Mahoney, Thoms for House Jus
 tices of the Peace Named Last Evening

by Fire and Police Commissioner Henry W. Minor and Attorney Irving W. Pasternak, clerk of the city court. Town Chairman John H. Crary presided at the conven- tion with Dennis J. Clancy as sec retary.
 Addressing the delegates, MI Culhane stated that when he an nounces his plautform formally ii will include many blanks in con- formity with the "new deal" He praised the democratic party of the state and nation and predicted a sweeping victory for the party in the November election.
 Mahaney, Thoms Named
 Finance Commissioner Charles A. Babin presided at the town con- vention and Alderman Harry Bau- mel was secretary. Representative Mahaney's name was placed in nomination first by Commissioner Patrick Cronin. Mrs Joseph Me- Ginniss offered the name of Rep- resentative Thoms. Both names were adopted unanimously. In short addresses the two nominees thanked the convention for the re- nominations given them and pledged themselves to work whole heartedly for the success of the democratic party.
 Justice of the Peace
 Nomination for justice of the peace is equivalent to election as the republican party will nominate
Evening star., 1934-06-17
LIFTING THE FACE
OF MOTHER NATURE
The Search for Seashue Souveniry Far
From the Bounding Sea.
BY WEARE HOLBROOK

waters edge if they expected to find half
buried chest of doubloons. "Lookit!" cries
Junior, grabbing the first shell he get his
hands or and offering it to his parents for in
specton.
oh isn't that pretty!" mamma COOS appre-
ciatively Such lovely colors'
Here's that's not bad. either says
papa, joining in the hunt.
"Oo, I see one that's better'n that" an
nounces Junior, imbued with the competitive
spirit He dashes off and returns with drip
ping shell not yet vacated by its original tenant.
You can keep it if you want to-" he informs
his mother generously. IN find some more
Thank you" says mamma, accepting the shell
gingerly and passing it to papa. will you put
this in your pocket dear, until get home?"
DURING the next half hour Junior cries
- "Lookit!' At times and papa receives Al
seashells, all pretty much alike, relayed by
mamme. The parental enthusiasm for conch-
ology is diminishing by leaps and bounds
There's stone that looks just like agate"
exclaims Junior teetering at the waters edge.
kin wade in and get it, papa?"
You better let me hold onto your hand"
says papa. He removes his shoes and stock
ings rolls up his trousers and leads his son
cautiously into the shallow water. 1t is the
first time that papa has gone wading this
Summer and he finds progress rather agonizng.
Whistlng through his teeth and holding his
elbows shoulder high help little but not
much. When the water is shin deep a bit of
projecting rock suddenly gouges papa under
the instep. Yelping with pain, he hops on one
foot, losses his balance and sits down abruptly
with a resounding splash shatterng a spiny
conch which mamma had placed in his hip
pocket for safekeeping
Good thing you held onto my hand, papa"
says Junior as he helps his father up. Papa
doesn't say anything; he merely hobbies to
shore and stretches out the sand, leaving
Junior to bring in the agate-nke stone alone.
In an effort to divert papa, who is very
damp and depressed, mama begins exercising
her imagination various fiat pebbles which.
she asserts, would make perfect canoes. II
Evening star., 1934-06-17
Continued From Tenth Page

to yell my condemned head off at you? Fetch
me that gun"
Joe Beck heard footsteps approaching the
door and he withdrew his foot rather hurriedly.
The door thus released closed with q bang
that could have been heard two blocks away.
With as much dignity possible with his
back turned to a door that might open at any
instant to permit the barrel of a shotgun to
poke out Joe Beck stepped to the glistening
goldenrod- yellow sport sedan and opened the
fore door without loss of time.
Then he hastily got into his car. He stepped
on the starter and the motor purred like
friendly kitten He touched the gear-shift and
the multiple disc co-ordnated gears slid silently
into reverse and the Ambart moved slowly and
quietly down the driveway toward the street
"Shucks! Joe exclaimed. Am the fool!
Now I have done it,"
He had, as a matter of fact, done every
thing Amy had warned him not to do. He
had been as undiplomatic elephant charg-
ing q mustard factory. He had behaved like
a small boy shooting roman candles at dyna-
mite shed.
He had in his enthusiasm for the new
Ambart model, forever Queered his chances OF
gaining MIR. Brissing's consent to his uniting
himself and Amy in the bonds of matrimony.
AS JOE BECK backed the Ambart sport
N sedan across the sidewalk into the street
he felt pretty blue He hardly noticed the little
man who stopped to let the Ambart pass, but
he did notice him as he brought the car to stop
to change gears He the look of admiration
on the little mans face.
II beg your pardon" said the little man,
'fbut will you tell what make that car
your re driving is?"
II sure WILL mister said joe and instantly
forgot Mr.. Brissing. He was all the agent
again. This is the new Ambart sport sedan,
and the best job for the money in this or any
other country. Look at the streamlines. Look
at the paint job. Look"
Lovely" said the little man, with
thing like ave- "Just lovely! And the new
knee action axle. see. A great improvement"
I'm say it is" declared Joe Beck, getting
out of the car. And compound gas injec-
ton"
II know" said the little man. with the
universal joint supported a coiled spring
And two extra cylinders this year, giving in
creased power with no more gas used. An
amazing car. A superb car. I'm going to
have one. I've always used an Ambart, but
I've got to have one of these. got new one
last year, but I'm going to turn 1t in and get
one like this"
And you're right" said Joe. You're q
man of good sense"
Evening star., 1934-06-17
Hsk Papa

Sometimes" agreed the little man modestly
and smiled with pleasure at the compliment.
He stood back and looked at the Ambart
Dealers license. see," he said. You sell
the Ambart?"
Il sure do" said joe "And I can sell
you one"
Sell one to my brother?" asked the little
man, with the thumb pointed up at the house
Joe had just left
your brother?" asked Joe
ED Brissing," said the little We
amt on speaking terms, it happens Haven't
been for years. He once spanked my daughter
Amy for"
Joe Beck's big hand reached for and grasped
the hand of Amy's father.
We'll, say!" he cried. And you're Amys
father, are you? I was just looking for YOU
I'm Joe Beck from Center City, and a kid gave
me the wrong steer. He sent me up TO this
brother of yours.
"Mr. Brissing. I know your daughter Amy.
The fact is that I'm in love with her What
I came here for today was to ask if I could
get your permission to marry Amy. Mr..
BriSsing."
WELL don't know that I'd object" said
Mr.. Brissing, looking at Joe Beck but almost
Immediately letting his eyes go back to the
sweeping lines of the goldenrod- yellow Ambart
sport sedan. Il don't know but what it would
be all right. Where are you going now? We
might get in the car and ride somewhere while
we talk it over"
"Ffnel" said Joe Beck "And just want
to say, Mr.. Brissing, that I think she's the
sweetest thing on earth"
YES" said Mr.. Brissing. as he sank back
into the luxurious upholstery, she's lovely
car
"Yes," agreed Joe Beck. but meant Amy"
Evening star., 1934-06-17

by the time the half way point is reached they
are practically empty handed.
This has been going on, day after day, for
more than a quarter of century. And as
result Pebbly Beach is at least half a mile
nearer the village than it was 80 years ago.
In another decade Pebbly Beach may be right
in the village itself. Generations of tourists
selecting, carrying and discarding their pebbles,
like ants with grains of sand have unwittingly
altered the face of nature And the geologists
of the future, equally unwittingly, will probably
blame the alteration on some innocent glacier
back in the Plestocene Age.
The Pebbly Beach phenomenon is typical Of
the sort of thing that is going on all the time
now. Put a bevy of vacationists down on the
sand with nothing to do and they Immediately
become amateur beachcombers If thev are city
dwellers out for brief holiday their acquisitive
zeal is unbounded. They gallop down to the
Evening star., 1934-06-17

she can protest "I'll get another for papa"
he shouts as he dashes away.
At the end of the day Junior has accumu-
lated an impressive heap of trophies on the
beach In fact, papa is so impressed by it
that he suggests leaving it right where it is.
a sort of monument for posterity to admire.
This suggestion is vetoed noisily and tearfully
by Junior, however. So papas pockets and
mama's handbag and Juniors little tin pail
trip.
But by the time our happy family reaches
home that night papa's pockets are empty Of
Evening star., 1934-06-17

you just draw an eye and a mouth on that
one it would look exactly like Mrs. Chudwen,"
she announces. Don't you think SOP"
Mrs. Chudwell doesn't have a goiter," says
papa examining the stone critically.
YOU'RE holding it upside down." mama pro-
tests. That's supposed to be her hair. See?"
Papa doesn't see. "It looks more like an old
man smoking a pipe"
"Pipe-nothing! That's her chin. Why, it's
as plain as the nose on your face"
who ever saw chin like that?" papa de-
mands. "It's a pipe, I tell you-a calabash
pipe!"
Indignantly ANY one with grain of sense
any one with a speck of imagination could see
at glance that"
The argument is interrupted by the arrival
of Junior with a jellyfsh impaled on
stick, which he bestows on his mother before
Evening star., 1934-06-17
$4,000, 900 in Benefits

Cotton, tobacco and corn-hog raisers who
signed agreements with the Government for
curtailed production in return for the benefits
of the processing taxes, have already been paid
more than $ls000000 by the Government in
accordance with their agreements. At the
present time the payments are being made ct
the rate of 81 ,000, 900 day.
Evening star., 1934-06-17
lacier."
DRAWINGS by Stuart Hay

shells and stones, mama has ostentatiously dis
posed of the jellyfsh and Junior is too sleepy
to investigate the mysterious disappearance Of
his little tin pail. Thus they arrive home
empty handed, leaving in their wake trail Of
bric-a-brac from the bathosphere to confound
the scientists Of the twenty first century.
The vacation fancy is ever fckle. And the
next time the geologists dig up a starfsh m
Simpsons COW pasture let them look around for
the rusty remnants of little tin pail before
announcing that they have discovered the site
of lost Atlantis. We don't keep our souvenirs Of
Asbury Park on the whatnot any more.
Evening star., 1934-06-17
Drought Hits Europe

IA /HIIE drought conditions have been Sc
w rious in curtailing wheat production in
this country, Europe has not escaped similar
damage, although not so extensively. Western
Germany has been hardest hit, with Austria
and Czechoslovakia also suffering. Rye. too.
has been seriously damaged by adverse weather
conditions.
Evening star., 1934-06-17


AN/ ments of coral. At about the
" same time quantities of sea
shells were uncovered by work.
men digging a cellar in Sioux City, Iowa, and a
well preserved starfsh found in quarry
at Peoria, Ill.
Such discoveries are so frequent nowadays
that they hardly rate Monday morning head
line. And each one strengthens the popular
geological theory that our past was all wet Ac-
cording to the professors with picks and chisels,
the relics of marine life which dot the prairies
SO anonymously prove that this continent once
was completely covered by water-a HYPOTHESIS
which will be small comfort to the nt-day
drought sufferers in the Middle West.
The biologists agree that but for the lapse
of couple of cons we might be in the same
tank with cur guppies- If the hinterland never
was submerged, they ask, then how did all these
saltwater souvenirs get there?
In answering this question let me first de-
scribe a geological phenomenon which 1 have
witnessed with my own myopic eyes on the
shore of Lake Michigan. There is, near the
village of Ephraim, rocky cove known as Peb-
bly, Beach Thirty years ago this cove was en-
tirely filled with small brightly colored stones
A peculiar wave action had rolled these stones
against one another until they were smooth
eggs; their 1awless contours would have done
credit to any lapidary. 1t is said that nowhere
except in a certain spot on the Italian seacoast
have similar stones been found.
h NATURALLY, Pebbly Beach is popular with
Y picnickers, sightseers and souvenir hunters.
There is something about the polished perfec-
tion of its stones which arouses magpie in
stincts in the human breast The Summer res-
idents of Ephraim never tire of making excur-
sons to Pebbly Beach and gathering its glitter
ing treasures But they do tire of carrying
these glittering treasures home. In the course
of the long trek back to the village they sur
rephtiously tighten their burdens. Portions OF
their precious cargo are jettisoned en- route, and
Evening star., 1934-06-17

HILE plowing wheat field last
J Spring farmer New Um.
n Mnn turned up several frag-
NM ments of coral. At about the
" v same time quantities of sea
shells were uncovered by work.
The Washington times., 1934-04-25
Joe Engel, Baseball Scout,
Indicted for Nonsupport

Joseph w. Engel, scout for the
Washington baseball team and
president of the Chattanooga base
ball club, was indicted today by
the District Grand Jury on a
charge of nonsupport of his first
wife, Mrs. Mary P. Engel, 1400
block Of New Hampshire Ave.
N. w.
Mr.. Engel was married for the
second time last week in Chat
tanooga. He is facing a 15-day
sentence in the District Jail i'm
posed March / for contempt of
court because of failure to pay
alimony to his first wife.
Alimony $225
The alimony was fixed origin
ally at $500 a month, but was
reduced to 1925. Mrs. Engel COM
planned she received no support
since August /, 1888. that she
was i'll, unable to work and "if
it were not for my mother I
would have to get the local chari-
ties to help me-"
Arthur E. Moulton, 42, a law
yer, also was indicted for non
support. His wife, Mrs. Mary
Moulton, complained he deserted
her in October, 1929. and since
The Washington times., 1934-04-25

then has failed to support her.
He is believed to be in Brooklyn,
N. Y.
Albert N. Berg, jr., accused Of
representing himself to be Sen
ator Wheeler's secretary, was in
dicted on a charge Of impersonat-
ing government official. Through
the impersonation, Berg is alleged
to have obtained the release Of a
soldier from the guard house at
the Army War College.
Gypsy Accused
Grand larceny of $4,000 was
charged against Anna John, alias
Anna John Mitchell, a gypsy for
tune-teller. She is said to have
obtained the money from Mrs.
Lena Ross, of the 1900 block Of
Seventeenth st. N. w., through a
trick. The gypsy is alleged to
have told Mrs. Ross she would
lose her eye-sight if the money
was not blessed.
Howard o. Burnell was exoner-
ated by the Grand Jury on a
manSlaughter charge growing out
Of the traffic death of Joseph S.
Sansbury, who was killed in a hit
and-run accident last November
on B street, near First, Southeast.
The Washington times., 1934-04-25
TROLLEY. RAM 8
PARKED CAR

Elmer Eilmey, who lives in the
14O0 block of Wisconsin Ave. N.
w., parked his automobile in the
1900 block of P st. N. w. last
night to make sure it would be
safe. Wisconsin Avenue, he fig
ured, is such a busy thoroughfare
that anything hight happen.
Imagine his amazement, this
morning, when he went around
to get his automobile and found
it badly smashed.
Seventh precinct police eri1ight-
ened him. They told him a Cap
ital Transit street car. piloted by
John E. Walter, motorman, of the
1900 block Of East Capitol St.,
lurched from the rails and plowed
into Mr.. Eilmey's sedan.
The Washington times., 1934-04-25
CHANCE MISSED.
BY HOPKINS

Harry Hopkins, Federal relief
administrator, almost, but not
quite, had the distinction yester-
day Of speaking ahead Of the
President at the ceremonies at
tendent upon the opening of the
subsistence homestead exhibit at
the Department Of Commerce.
M. L. Wilson, in charge Of the
homestead program, introduced
the speakers. Making a slip, he
announced at the opening Of the
program that he "now had the
pleasure Of introducing Harry
Hopkins" Immediately he recog-
nized his error and substituted:
'I mean the President Of the
United States"
The audience roared and the
President laughed heartily. Later
Mr.. Hopkins, opening his own
address, the last on the program,
said:
"Well, I almost became IA
NOUS, didn't II"
The Washington times., 1934-04-25
DEALS
IN SILVER ARE
DISCLOSED
New Morgenthau List Shows :
Futures Operations of
Former Wilson Aide
By International News Service

The National City Bank, with
holdings of 7,594,166 ounces Of
silver and a total of 379 future
deals, headed another list of sill
yer holders sent to the Senate
today by Secretary of the Treas
ury Morgenthau.
Secretary Morgenthau again in
formed the Senate that he was
unable to ascertain the holdings
of some unidentified persons.
The new list showed banks and
industrial corporations were the
heaviest holders of silver.
Tumulty Heavy Trader
Joseph P. Tumulty. secretary
to the late President Wilson, fear
tured the list Of future oper.
ators. He had four long future
contracts for $4,000 ounces each
on January /, for deliveries next
month.
The Washington times., 1934-04-25
PLIGHT Of JEWS
ABROAD TOLD

Three weeks canvass for funds
in behalf of the destitute Jews
of Europe was under way today,
following the launching of the
$35, 200 United Jewish Campaign
last night. Several hundred VOL
unteer workers are participating
in the drive.
Isidore Hershfield, drive chair
man, presiding at last nights
meeting, stressed the urgent need
Of raising funds to assist German
Jewish refugees who are looking
to Palestine as their only haven.
Other speakers were Joseph c.
Hyman, secretary of the Ameri-
can Joint Distribution Commit
tee, who told the audience that
there had been no real improve
ment in the condition of the
Jews Of Germany and Mrs. Golda
Myerson who described the
progress of the Jewish Homeland
development. Mrs. Meyerson, a
Palestinian labor leader, said that
there was an actual shortage of
labor in Palestine and that it
was necessary to close the schools
to permit the young men and
women to help harvest the crops.
''NOt only German Jews but
the destitute Jews of Poland
and Rumania are claHnOring for
admission to the Holy Land.
In order to take care of these
people larger agricultural col
onies and settlements must be
built and funds are urgently
needed for this purpose"
The Washington times., 1934-04-25
5000 Found in Closet
FORGOTTEN Bu Gunner

NEW YORK, April 25.-John T.
Prout, removed by Cardinal Far
ley in 1917 as pastor of the Roman
Catholic Church Of st. John the
Martyr, has laid claim to $6,700
in IS and $40 bills which a woman
tenant accidentally discovered hid
den away in a wardrobe in an
apartment vacated by Mr.. Prout
IA months ago.
Prout, who became wealthy
realty holder after his church was
taken from him, explained, in
claiming the treasure, that he had
forgotten all about the money for
more than a year.
The Washington times., 1934-04-25
DR.. Kinder Presents
Music Contest Prizes

DR.. Hans Kinder, conductor Of
the National Symphony Orchestra,
yesterday awarded prizes to the
winners of the orchestral and
muScial memory contests held in
connection with the recent season
of students and childrens'
concerts, at Central High School.
The presentation was made at
the Arts Club. First and second
prizes, a gold medal and a bronze
medal, went respectively to Ben
jamin Levenson, IA, Of the 500
block Of Decatur St., N. w., and
Walter Swank, Is, Of the 1400
block Of Fairlnount st., N. w.
The Washington times., 1934-04-25
MEASURE SEEN
AID To AVERAGE
WAGE GARNER
Sheppard Predicts Victory,
Sees Vast Buying Power in
U. S. Made Available
BY International News Service

BY International News Service
Creation Of a Federally-super-
vised credit union system to fur
nish the 1000 million dollar an
nual credit needed by the average
man in the street, was demanded
on Capitol Hill today as a final
spur to national recovery.
This credit would be extended
the average salaried man and
wage Garner through formation
Of consumers credit unions, under
supervision of the Government.
A bill, setting up such agencies,
has a favorable report from the
Senate Banking Committee.
Consumers "GOuged."
Sponsors of the legislation de-
manded its enactment on the
ground that consumers were be-
ing gouged by usurious interest
rates in time purchases. They
argued that Congress has ex'
tended Federal aid to banks,
farmers, railroads, and industries,
but thus far has failed to do any
thing to make credit easier for
the ''ittle fellow"
Senate passage Of the bill was
predicted by Senator Sheppard(DO
of Texas. He charged "usurious
money lending" was destroying
"vast totals Of buying power"
Buying Power Essential
He declared national recovery
depended principally on the buy.
ing power Of the people and that
a great credit agency for the
common people would go far
toward preserving and increasing
the buying power.
Inquiries by some Of the code
authorities have revealed interest
rates as high as "a per cent being
charged by corporations financing
credit purchases.
In every instance it was found
the interest rate ran against the
initial credit and the buyer was
given no credit for reduction OF
his debt.
In recommending the bill, the
committee declared tn at two
thirds Of all purchases in this
country were made by men and
women earning $40 or less week.
Usury Charged
It added that most Of these
citizens required credit to make
their purchases and that this
credit was extended through in
Stallment plans.
The committee said:
"The high rate meney-lending
business, now tOtaling more
than 1000 million dollars annual
", destroys this buying power
i'm the exact amount Of the hun
dreds of millions of interest
charge for this credit at usuri-
Gus rates and the normal rates
which credit unions would have
charged"
Outside Federal Reserve
Pointing out there were some
objections to the bill, because it
would set up a banking system,
the committee added:
practically every criticism Of
this bill could be eliminated by
removing from it the contacts
with the Federal Reserve Sys-
tenn, which could be done with
out material injury to the bill.
We raise the question, however,
of the great worth to the Fed
eral Reserve System Of contact
with the average working peO-
pie in credit unions, which
would result from leaving juris-
dictiOn in the Federal Reserve
hanIxSN
The Washington times., 1934-04-25
Coffee IL 4; 25s

Certified Arabian Mocha and Java and the finest South
American Coffees skIfulIy blended. Packed in i'm.
proved can-keeping the Coffee freshness and
flavor intact.
The Washington times., 1934-04-25

The Best Proof of their goodness is in the
drinking. Try one of these favOrite blends to-
day. Taste the Difference-Save the Difference.
The Washington times., 1934-04-25
RENTAL DEMAND HEAVY

Alexandria real estate dealers
report heavy demand for mod
ern houses for rental, particu-
larly in the suburban sections
where it exceeds the supply.
Houses in the older section that
are being reconditioned are oc-
cupied promptly.
The Washington times., 1934-04-25
Mrs. Roosevelt Sees
DOT at Fort MueT

Mrs. Roosevelt, accompanied by
her daughter, Mrs. Dali, drove
over to Fort Myer this morning.
'Dot," Mrs. Roosevelt's favorite
steed, is being stabbed at Fort
Myer.