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The Washington times., 1934-07-28
BELGIAN ENVOY
CRITICALLY Ill

. Paul May, Belgian ambassador
here since 1881, is critically ill
in Emergency Hospital, it was
learned today.
Ambassador May entered the
hospital several days ago, Suf-
fSring from the heat.
Since then. a serious abdomi-
nal trouble has developed, and
doctors have not yet decided if
he is able to St-nd an operation.
A graduate Of the University
of Brussels and Of Oxford, he
is a veteran in the diplomatic
service, having served his first
post as an attache here 36 years
ago.
The ambassador is an authority
on Oriental art and has a noted
collection of Chinese pottery
gathered when he served in that
nation.
At the hospital today it was
reported that his condition was
mot good"
The Washington times., 1934-07-28
Chicago Listens In"
On "Strato" Talk

CHICAGO. July % GN.sO.-
Drama was snatched from the all
today at the Chicago headquarters
Of the National Broadcasting
Company as its short wave radio
receiver brought in the "first per.
son" story of the stratosphere
flight which started at Rapid City,
S. D., early today.
Human voices reached radio
listeners from the Stratosphere
balloon Explorer" as Capt. Albert
w. Stevens, scientific observer.
talked to the National Geographic
Society in terms cryptic to the un.
scientific layman.
The first message came at
8:12 o'clock, just Is minutes
after the take-off. Major viii.
liam E. Kepner. the pilot, was
doing the talking. He explained: !:
Were having difficulty re-
ceiving messages from the
ground"
Shortly after 10 a. M, Major
Kepner said:
II hope we can go to 10000
feet. but 1 don't care if we
can't. We will go as high as
we can safely go, So that we
will have enough ballast to
come down again. We're about
15,4OO feet"
Maj. Gen. Benjamin D. Foulois,
chief OF the Army Air Corps. held
a radio interview from Washing
ton with Major Kepner.
The Washington times., 1934-07-28
Firen1en to Hold
Outinq at Bay Ridge

About $50 persons are expected
to attend the annual outing of the
Gaithersburg Washington Grove
Volunteer Fire Department and
Chamber of Commerce, at Bay
Ridge August 2, it was announced
today by Ernest c. Gurtner, chair
man.
Mr.. Gurtner said this years out
ing will far eclipse any previously
held by the two organizations. He
urges those who expect to attend
to obtain their tickets as soon as
possible. These may be purchased
from any member of the commit
tee or at Barnett's Drug Store.
The Washington times., 1934-07-28

ROANOKE, Va. July 28.-Post-
ponement Of preliminary hearing
of Major Robert c. Kent, jr., on a
Federal kidnapping charge will be
asked when he appears before U.
S. Commissioner Fox, Monday.
This was announced today by
Commonwealth'S Attorney Joseph
Chitwood, who said he will ask a
continuance until October /, so
that Major Kent may be brought
to trial in the State courts on two
indictments charging him with
the kidnapping and murder of Mrs.
Mary Jane Hastings, wealthy Blue
Ridge resort owner. The State
court is to try the case in Sep
tember.
Despite the fact that the Fed
eral charge carries with it the
death penalty. Major Kent ex-
pressed the desire to be tried on
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"Hey, we are at $4,000 feet"

A few minutes later a brief con-
versation took place, but it was
too indistinct to be heard by the
little group of reporters listening
into the loud speaker. However,
word was quickly received that
Captain Stevens had communicated
with the ground crew at 9:10 a. m.
EST, and reported the balloons
position as $4,000 feet high over
Cheyenne River, about 80 miles
north, northeast of Rapid City.
Captain Stevens then engaged
in a five-minute conversation
with Brig. Gen. Oscar Westover,
assistant chief of Air Corp, who
was with one of the ground
crews in Iowa.
Captain Stevens voice was not
recognized at first but it was
believed he was the first to speak
and mention the list. The mat
ter was believed due to the fact
the balloonists planned to level
off at about $4,000 feet. They
apparently started to level off
when they reached $4,000 feet,
which would account for the list
and the fact that the next mes
sage mentioned a height of
$4,000 feet.
Good Will Messages
AS the big balloon took off, mes.
sages of good wishes were received
by the three fliers from officials
of the National Geographic So
ciety, according to an announce.
ment today from the organization
From ship in the MeGiterra'
mean where he is cruising, the
president of the society. DR.. Gil
bert Grosvenor, cabled:
Every good luck to you three
gallant officers in this splendid
scientific expedition. / am with
you In spirit and will be fol-
lowing with the greatest in
terest the news of your flight
and safe descent"
John Oliver La Gorce, vice
president of the society, also sent
congratulations. During the night
he remained at the society's head
quarters here to maintain Short
wave radio communication with
the StratoSphere camp.
The Washington times., 1934-07-28
All Well at $4,000 Feet,
'Strato' Pilot Radios

Hthe stratosphere. The balloonists
will be in communication with
the National Geographic Society
headquarters in Washington.
They plan to hold the nam.
moth balloon at the ceiling-a
hoped-for altitude of IS miles-for
two hours to make complete scien.
tific observations and records.
The last articles placed within
the metal gondola were flasks of
liquid oxygen and liquid air
which will absorb the poisonous
carbon dioxide. given off by the
three men within the sealed gon.
dola.
Major Kepner planned to close
the two hatchways, sealing them
within the metal ball, when the
balloon reached an altitude of
10000 feet,
The Washington times., 1934-07-28
Pilots Told to Watch
For 5O-MiIe Gale

DEs MONIES, Ia, July %
G.N.S).-A report that a mod
crate gale of so to SIS miles an
hour was blowing at a 10000
foot level in the area into which
the stratosphere balloon was
drifting was relayed to the fliers
from the Chicago weather bureau
today.
"Whew! Oh, boy" exclaimed
Capt. A. w. Stevens, the radio
operator aboard the balloon,
when he heard the news.
According to a report picked
up by an N.B.C. mobile unit sta
toned here. the balloon was drift
ing toward North Plate, Neb.,
but the fliers expected their
course to change toward the East
by noon.
The Washington times., 1934-07-28
DiMinger?s Kin
Sign Vaudeville
Contract

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, July %
I.N.SD.-John w. Dillinger, 10,
father of the outlaw who be-
came U. S. public enemy No. !;
his son, daughter, and son-in-
law have signed a contract to
appear on a local vaudeville
stage preparatory to a national
tour, it was stated here.
The elder Dillinger and his
relatives accepted the stage
offer to pay the funeral bills of
his son, and in an effort to lift
a mortgage on the farm, it was
said.
The Dillingers were scheduled
to appear back stage of a down
town theater here today to re-
hearse for the first appearance.
which will be Sunday, Ted
Nicholas. manager of the thea
ter, announced.
The Washington times., 1934-07-28
SDOrtSnlen Pilots
COn1pete MOndau

The outstanding sportsmen
pilots of Washington will COM
pete Monday IN a series of elm
ination trials to determine the
man and the woman who will
represent the District in the ma
tional championships this Fall.
The qualifying rounds will be
held under the supervision of
Chester H. Washington, governor
OF the Sportsmens Pilot Asocia-
tion for the District.
The Washington times., 1934-07-28
REDS ARE ISSUE
IN MINNEAPOLIS
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at p. m. Thursday. For a
period of "a hours the city police
did not make a single arrest.
The military authorities, how
ever, made their first arrests last
night when they took three truck
drivers into custody for moving
trucks without military permits.
The men were arraigned before
Col. Elmer McDevitt, provost mar
shall, reprimanded and released.
Minneapolis citizens are a bit
bewildered by martial law but
they are getting used to it. Sen
tries armed with rifles and fixed
bayonets patrol the streets.
Parking Prohibited
One of the most annoying
orders from the viewpoint of the
citizens prohibited the parking of
automobiles in the downtown
streets. Soldiers saw to it that the
order was obeyed. At first the
order applied around the clock.
Theater men asked the ban be
lifted at nights and it was.
Business in the downtown stores
has been hit somewhat as result
of this daytime parking ban and
merchants do not like it.
The Federal mediators, the Rev.
Francis j. Hass and E. H. Dunni-
gan, are standing by waiting for a
chance for another peace move.
The Washington times., 1934-07-28
HuntreSS Obtains
Warrant for Wilson

EASTON, Pa, July % G.N.S0
Mrs. Esther Evans Wilson, big
game huntress, who four years
ago shot and seriously wounded
her husband, Dallett H. Wilson,
prominent lawyer, in his New
York offices, swore out a warrant
here today, charging him with
non-support.
Mr.. Wilson was about to leave
Bethlehem for Washington when
Constable Charles E. Kicker
served the warrant. Mr.. Wilson
posted $500 bail for a hearing
tomorrow.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-26
Rural Homes Are Nearer

Inasmuch as Thomas H. Beck, chair man of the State Board of Fisheries and Game, was appointed head of the con- mittee of three to outline plans for na- tional development of game bird resources the chances of Connecticut securing fed eral aid for the rural housing project seem brighter. It was MT Beck who first advanced the idea that federal funds might be obtained with which to defray the project that he evolved. The idea was simply the creation of series ot homesteads on abandoned farm lands.
 In time these homesteads would be owned outright by the tenants placed on them. Their duties would be cultivation of the soil for their own maintenance, de- velopment of idle areas, and restoration of farm and forest land as suitable cover for our wild animals and birds. It IS Tn this last respect that the State Board or Fisheries and Game enters the picture. The State Board of Forests and Parks is also concerned, inasmuch as development of tracts for the commission would also come under the pleasant duties of the homesteaders.
 The United States game plan is far- reaching in that it contemplates employ ment for perhaps 10000 men and utiliza- tion of 15,OOO,0OO acres of land right away and ultimately 5O,OOO,OO0. If Con- necticut's original idea, as advanced by MT Beck, meets with entire approval at Washington, undoubtedly this state will serve as laboratory in which it will be tried out for practical results. We're in- clined to think that MT Beck was success full in talking the proper officials at Washington over to his way of thinking. His appointment more than makes us be- lieve that shortly we're to see the home steaders settling down to their task on our idle acres. We can appreciate such trek back to the soil
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-26

out how many more miles you had driven during the past year? Well, that has been eliminated by Commissioner Connor and for it he is receiving the blessing of Con- necticut motorists.
 Now all the license applicant need do is send in the duplicate attached to his current license. It's a carbon copy of the original. Department employees simply add one year to the new license and it's all ready. Tn fact Commissioner Connor and his aides have the new licenses all prepared right now and are simply wait ing for the owners to get them, submitting naturally the customary $3 fee. It's quite a simplified matter now and certainly less expensive than the old method.
 The matter of change of address should not worry any individual. According to our present motor vehicle laws all motor ists are obliged to notify the department promptly when such change is made. Therefore, if the change occurs during the year and the department is notified it will be made on the new license. All in all the efficiency in which the depart ment operates and distributes licenses to the thousands of drivers in Connecticut is increased thousandfold.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-26
How Long R. F. C.?

The life of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, oldest of the recovery meas ures, originating more than year before President Roosevelt took office, was renewed on it's second birthday, January 22, to last for another year. It has proved to be one of the most useful weapons against depression, invaluable in propplng shaky banks, railroads, insurance com- panies and other semi-public institutions. It is now armed for still greater activity, being empowered to increase outstanding notes to the total of $3,750,O ,000 at one time.
 It is a question now, whether the R. F. c. will begin deflating itself toward the end of this year. The President evil dently expects that its biggest expendl- lures will end about midsummer. He IS authorized to check it's lending operations whenever he finds them no longer neces-- sary. A pronounced upturn of general business. such as is now expected, would hasten this process.
 The R. F. C., however, seems unlikely to pass from the scene soon. Its funds are revolving, in theory and to consid- erable extent in practice, so that 1t has already collected more than one-third ot it's loans. But it would probably take years to wind up it's affairs. Moreover, there are always new demands and op- portunities opening up for it, and 1t has proved to be so flexible and convenient that the government may not want to get along without it. It maysturn out to be, in it's present form or some other form, permanent federal institution.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-26
Pan-American Unity

Recognition of the new Cuban govern ment, headed by Mendieta, brings to satisfactory close worrisome chapter m the relations of the United States and Cuba. The two countries can go on from here with better feeling and clearer un- derstanding. Mendieta seems to com mand the confidence of more factions in Cuba than any of his short-lived prede- cessors since the expulsion of Machado. He also seems to be a man that the gov ernment at Washington can work with.
 The next move is to abolish or modify the Platt Amendment, so that we shall no longer feel any political responsibility In Cuba, and Cubans will no longer fear American intervention. The new surge of good will between the United States and all Latin-America is furthered by this action. Our Latin r.eighbors are now almost convinced that when we renounce dollar diplomacy and the big stick, we mean it. Our official words have reas- sured the other republics; but actions speak louder than words. Friendship, peace, profit and vast satisfaction may, come from the genuine friendship and cooperation of Latin-America.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-26
HISTORY

It is related that many Water bury men were in the regiment that was recruited and marched to New York in 1776. Captain Phin- eas Porter of this place received his majors commission on June 20 of that year, and on the occasion of this gathering of Connecticut troops the Declaration of 1ndepen- dence was read. Major Porter's orderly book cites many interesting events of this period. During this same summer many militia com panies of the township were or- dered to New York. Men from here enlisted in six of the eight companies of the regiment of which Phineas Porter was major, and men from here fought in the battle of Long Island, and were so it is said Gin the thickest of the fight"
 men figured in the attack upon New York. Major Porter, who is known to have been between Gen. eral Washington and the enemy, was taken prisoner at this time, suffering the uf1pleasantness of im- prisonment. Another man from Waterbury who figured prominent ly at this time was David Smith who was later put in charge of the militia of the state. He entered service in 1775 (May 1st), later was made an ensign, captain in 1776, and his company which marched from Albany into Tryori county was almost completely composed of Waterbury men. Men from here also figured in the action at Lake Champlain in October of that year,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-26

her bonds, then buying them in.
 The commission took this eat- your-cak and-have-it-too policy direct to the White House. As a result, the president spurred the Career Boys into action. Not only this, but he called in stub ble-haired Hans Luther, German ambassador, and laid down the law personally.
 DONE HIM WRONG
 Frank Walker, cherub-faeed ex-treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, got a bad break during the lobbyist expose. Because he resigned his commit tee post, his name was smeared with the lobbyist brush.
 Fact is that Walker wouldn't know how to lobby if he had to. He resigned because he was sec- retary of the Presidents Super Cabinet, and Roosevelt wants to divorce party organization from the administration.
 Frank Is Q Montana boy, who, after being graduated from Har- ward, asked his banker to lend him $1O,OOO without collateral and got 1t. By the time ROOse- welt was in the running for presi- dent, Frank had increased this $1O,OOO so many times that he was one of Jim Farley's Four Horsemen who coughed up $1O,- 900 each, even before the Chi- cagO convention.
 In both time and money, Walker has been putting up for Roosevelt ever since. His be- setting sins are a naive charm, a smile that never comes off and a belief that, Roosevelt can do no wrong.
 MERRY-GO-ROUND
 John Franklin Carter, alias Jay Franklin, who once left the State Department after he had written a magazine article, we Need a War;" has been hired by the Agriculture Department Mystery surrounds his duties. His friends say he is to be political adviser" to Secre- tary Wallace, but agricultural of- ficials say he is to do ghost-writ- ing for Professor Rex Tugwell. Irenee Du Pont has been looking into the question of buy ing out the famous Bacardi rum interests in Cuba One of the most efficient senatorial sec- retaries on Capitol Hill is Miss Mary Connor, who handles the multitudinous details of Hiram Johnson's office Judge Ewin Davis, brother of Norman Davis Ind member of the Fed eral Trade Commission, has been a big surprise. Appointed as a lame-duck Congressman from Tennessee, Davis was expected to be deadwood, has turned out the opposite Davis has favored keeping politics out of almost everything except the stenogra- phic force. He can't bear to see anyone but faithful demo- cratic damsels as stenogs .. Sec Hull threw scare into the State Department by taking a cruiser to Key West. His staff had painted his office as a sur prise, and when he speeded up his trip, they feared the room would not be finished. But they just squeezed through The paint was dry through still odoriferous.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-26
So They Say

If Huey Long doesn't take back every word he said about me, I'll follow him to Washington and cram those words down his coward Mayor T. s. walmsley of New
 Orleans.
 Production of capital goods, not money imitation, is the key to re- covery. ~col. Leonard P; Ayres' economist
 want to be an old maid. Ruth Hale, former wife of Hey
 wood Broun.
 You can't keep intelligence down and the American people have m. telligenee, together with unlimited natural resources on which 10 ex' eroiae their intelligence. --Charles Y. kettering, ausomo'
 tive engineer.
 Final establishment of e pro. aFeaalvo and secure world eituationi that in my guess in ansWeF 70 the auestlon, bWhithor the world1" I'll. c. Wells.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-26
Peiping Letter
BY H. R. EKINS
United Press Staff Correspondent)

United Press Stan Correspondent)
 Peiping, China-(UP)-Able to approach the great wall of China for the first time since the begin ming of the year Chinese officials have discovered several gracious acts on the part of the Japanese military.
 Last spring Chinese casualties were great in the fighting south of the great wall. But at the height of battle the Chinese were forced to retreat and for months after ward the great wall region in the vicinityof Kupeikou was closed to all travellers.
 Japan Buried Dead
 Now Chang Yung-nien, deputy commissioner of Chinese customs, has been able to penetrate the long-closed area on mission In connection with the establishment of Chinese customs stations along the great wall. Upon his return to Peiping he reported that the Japanese created five large grave yards for China's solder-dead in the region immediately south of Kupeikou.
 There are at least 20O0 graves, Chang reports. Each is makred with a small stone inscribed: Dedicated to the brave soldiers of the Chinese armies"
 Favorable Reaction Publication of Chang's eye-wit- ness accounts of his travels caused a favorable reaction in a region where the pesants have been led to believe that Japanese soldiers have horns and hooves and are incapable of kindness. Other travellers fro north or Peiping have confirmed reports that Japanese military authorities rendered great assistance to the peasants who returned to the form- or war-torn areas after having sought refuge in Peiping ana
 Tientsin during the hostilitles of ! last spring. Tn many eases Japan | ese officers gave financial assist. ance to farmers who had suheren
 destruction of their property ana l crops.
 Japanese officials also made con. | trlbutions of money t0 several Thousand Chinese refugees, all noFls eOmbatanta, who took shelter at . | Roman Catholic mission station north Of Miyunhaien, once tho base Of Chinese military operations in' aide the great sal.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-26
Lighter Building Taxes

Some Pittsburgh people, led by their new mayor, have an unusual plan to start a building boom in Pennsylvania. They hope to persuade the legislature to. tax buildings only one-fifth as heavily as land, That, they believe, would so encourage construction that the building industry would soon be at work again. At the same time, they say, it would so increase the demand for land to build on that land- owners could afford the heavier tax.
 It might be a good idea. And it isn't revolutionary. Some foreign countries tax buildings much less than land, and some don't tax improvements at all. The idea has been applied occasionally in this country. But the Pittsburgh people prob ably won't get very far with it. Critics will start right away condemning it as "single tax" We fight more about words than things.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-26

And while we are on the topic of ter centenaries we can't overlook the fact that Connecticut will follow Maryland Tn a similar celebration. How many people know that the original grant of land for this state extended as far west as the Pacific Ocean? Yes, the charter obtained in 1862 from King Charles II provided for a strip of land extending all the way to the coast. If we owned it today what a far-flung state we'd be. In fact, Con- necticut once included Long Island. We lost that in 1864, when the Duke of York was granted Netherlands, Long Island, and other lands Some years later the boundary between Connecticut and Rhode Island was made the Pawcatuck river. In 1774 we had colony in Pennsylvania, but surrendered claims years later. In 1786 we ceded to Congress all our western lands save a tract on Lake Erie, west of Pennsylvania. We sold more than half of this in 1795 and the proceeds form to- day what is known as the state school fund.