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Evening star., 1934-09-06

Trafalgar Square. He controlled the
the world, the Monte Carlo Casino,
and continues to have important hold
ingS in all the ammunition factories
in Europe.
Power in European Politics.
For two decades he welded a tre-
mendous power in European politics,
especially in Great Britain, where
Lloyd George. a man who appreciates
brains, consulted him frequently dur
ing and after the Versailles Peoce
Conference. Great Britain, France
and other countries heaped honors
upon him and offered him citizenship.
He is man who never forgets
anything, good or bad. Since the
lady he loved was already married
and could not obtain a divorce, Ia
haroff did not marry until she was
free, through the death of her hus-
band In 1924, when the Duchess of
Marchena became a widow, they were
married, although both of them were
over rs years old. The new Mrs.
Zaharoff lived only three years after
her second marriage and, since her
death, the ammunition king became
almost a recluse.
He also remembered his early youth
and especially the filthy Athens pris-
on. When he became a rich man he
provided funds for the Greek govern
ment to build a new and up-to-date
jail.
The Story Of the Cigar.
The few privileged by his friend
ship were enthusiastic about his hos
pitality, q his charming manner and
his wit. He never had any use for
fools Lord Thompson, the former
British air minister, used to be one
Of his close friends. One evening,
when the two men dined together in
Zaharoff's London residence, he opened
a cabinet and offered his guest a
cigar. "a wonder of wonders" said
Thompson. an epicure The Britisher,
so the story goes, praised the delicacy
of the cigar. Zaharof smiled and
said, "Yes this is a good cigar, but it
has q still better story behind it
which shows how grateful human
beings are.
Before the war, in is0s, I used to
have a secretary. The young fool
got into trouble. I don't know
whether it was women or gambling,
but I know that one day he came to
me and told me that he had forged
certain things and the French police
were hot on his trail. gave him
81 900 and told him to leave the
country. AS years went by he went
out of my mind altogether.
Last Christmas I received this cigar
cabinet and a check for $4,000 from
an unknown man. A letter followed in
which the unknown wrote: Dear Mr..
Zaharoff You may have forgotten
me but have not. Years ago was
your secretary and you helped me out
when I was almost q ruined man.
With the 81 900 you loaned me went
to New York and thence to Ga
Latin American country. I fought in
number of civil wars. provided
the right people with ammunition and
arms and finally carved myself situ-
alton. I am at present not only
rich man, but also the finance min
lister of /" from where I venture
to send you these rare cigars and re-
Evening star., 1934-09-06

At least that is the theory. It may
be overrated. I have an idea it is.
But the old-timer, showing off her
(often his) social savvy, tips off the
newcomer thus:
Business in this torn is trans
acted oDer the dinner table Why,
If tue tUdnt TO knotD something
about the MEXICAN situation tDe
don't 90 around to the chGncery
Office at the Mexican Embassy.
Indeed not; t0e just invite the Meri-
can Ambassador oUer to dinner"
Just why the Mexican Ambassador
Is always chosen for the example in
this little conversation I don't know.
AS matter of fact, the Mexican Am
bassador doesn't dine out nearly so
frequently as many of his confreres
in the diplomatic corps.
Vice President Dimes.
Voters, if thoughtful (who said they
wereO, would elect a Vice President,
not on his politics, but on his diges-
ton. For he has to eat all the formal
dinners the President can't.
The President, obviously, cannot
dine NTH the British Tuesday and
decline to dine tUith the French on
Thursday. He can't sup with the
Senator from Oregon on Friday
and refuse an mutation ,1ith the
Senator from Vermont on Saturday.
Since he can't eat all the dinners
to t0hich he iUould be bid, he eats
none fnearly none; there are one
or ttOo ercepttonS). So the Vice
President is his supper substitute.
Which Dloved Thomas Marshall,
Evening star., 1934-09-06

among Candidates Byrns, McDuffie
Rayburn ct al.
It's an event during the Winter
season when the Speaker of the House
eats at home. And a miracle when
Senator Borah accepts an invitation
to dine out.
Mrs. Henry Morgenthau, jr., is the
model wife. When her husband came
to washington she made him a prom
Use: She would never drag him away
to an afternoon tea. And has kept
the promise.
A woman-So rich and ree-fined
thrilled by her first White House state
dinner last Winter, turned the service
plate over to see what kind of china
it was. A Mortified guest went to Mrs
Roosevelt with the story. Mrs. Roose-
velt nodded Understandable: 1T is
a temptation. isn't it?" she said.
(Copyright. 1894. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc)
Evening star., 1934-09-06
Speaker Next as Diner.

Speaker Next as Diner.
Next to the Vice President in dining
out value comes the Speaker of the
House. Which ought to be a con-
sideration in the coming fight for the
job. AS soon as I find out I'll let you
know who has the best digestion
Evening star., 1934-09-06

<fCnENT as a clam, used to be
~ a good simile. A better one
is "talkative as q clam
~ eater" It's been good since
Sunday, when Jim Farley,
charmed by the informality of clam
bake IN upstate New York, said out
loud what a lot of his Washington
colleagues may long have been think
ing:
That it's more fun to gobble down
CLAIMS with your pals than to sip sue
culent soup with foreign diplomats
whose language you can't even speak.
Brought Chills to Capital.
The confession brought chills and
fever to some of the Capitals elect.
But the P. M. G. got big cheer from
the Wisconsin milkman Che has a
vote, remember) and from the Nevada
ranchman ESQ has he).
Dolly Madison dubbed Washington
the Nations drawing room.'' She
should have said Nations dining
room"
Washington offcialdom, even more
than Nepoleon's army, wins its VIC
tories on its stomach.
Evening star., 1934-09-06
LETTER ON ARMS
VAGUE TO CRAVEN
Wckers- Armstrong Official
Unable to Recall Writing
"Friend Will Help U.s."
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, September 6-Sir Charles
Craven, director of Vickers-Armstrong
Ltd, armaments manufacturers, said
today he was unable to remember a
letter read at the United States Sem
ate inquiry in Washington in which
he was alleged to have stated, MY
friend at the admiralty will help us. "
in connection with Vickers' bids for
British submarine contracts.
A secretary of the Vickers COM
pany stated that the concern has no
intention of looking up the letter or
of issuing any further statements re-
garding the Senate revelations. OFF,
cials of the British admiralty also
maintained a strict silence concerning
their relations with the Vickers COM
pany.
Both the Vickers secretary and an
admiralty spokesman refused to con-
firm or deny testimony that Sir Basil
zaharoff was a Vickers agent and
once promised to get recommends
ton from the British government for
the sale of submarines to Spain.
Craven would not deny having
written the letter In which reference
was made to the admiralty friend" !"
but he said that all his files were
at the company's shipyard in Barrow.
Sir Charles, who is a retired COM
mander of the royal navy, said that
in a personal letter he might refer
to people he knew in the service and
who are at the admiralty as my
friends at the admiralty" He ad-
mitted different meaning might be
given the statement, but that he pre-
ferred to stand on his reputation.
The Vickers' secretary reached,
following a meeting of the company
officers this afternoon, declined to
state whether the Senate inquiry was
discussed at the meeting. He said
that the company was receiving no
reports of its own on the proceed
ings at Washington.
Evening star., 1934-09-06

pay handsomely. They were kept at
his palace in L'avenue Hoche in Paris.
His old Scotch butler told Sir Basil
he had been offered a stupendous
bribe to turn over the diaries to a
certain interest. In an overt man.
ner, quite unusual for Sir Basil, he
announced that the diaries had been
burned. He and the Butler did it.
1t took two days. There was not q
scrap of them left.
Volumes Placed in Vault.
But. soon thereafter, some great
steel vaults were sunk into the rock
under Sir Basil's palace, on a bleak
precipice at Monte Carlo Some quite
detached and innocent news scout
counted IS large volumes being stored
therein
1t was in 1925 that Sir Basil bought
a controlling interest in the big dry
cleaning establishment at Monte
Carlo. He doubled the ante, re-staffed
and gilded the place and made efforts
to support it in the style to which
it had been accustomed. However, it
was just a casual and minor interest
and did not divert him from the
larger house percentage of the NUM-
tions business. He still likes to take a
hand at roulette. Fifty-seven years
ago he broke the bank at big Paris
gambling house.
His Tudoresque beard is real. No
one knows what goes on in the in
scrutable brain behind 1t. His deft
tierce and riposte are SO swift that
none knows which is which. He is,
indeed, an enigma. Being Levantine,
he loves gold. In his palaces and
chateaus and fortresses is the worlds
greatest collection of gold plate. He
has made only one public utterance
on war-"the hell that formed his
genius" He says sit will continue as
long as the world wants it."
He was feet tall, and handsome
in his youth. At IS he Is a dry wisp
of a man, boarding his gold plate
and still gathering his millions.
Evening star., 1934-09-06

Lumber Exports Soar.
Esthonia's lumber exports are near
a record high.
Evening star., 1934-09-06
Jockey Killed by Horse.

POCATELLO, Idaho, September 6
R.-Gentry Knight, 10, Brunswick,
Ga, jockey, died yesterday of a skull
fracture suffered when his mount
stepped on him after it stumbled and
fell at the Bannock County Fair Mon
day. Brief funeral services will be
held here today prior to sending the
body to Brunswick for burial.
Evening star., 1934-09-06

among Candidates Byrns, McDufie
Rayburn ct al.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-13
TERRORISTS GOT
 S25O FOR BOMBING
Boston Police Claim The ater Outrages Done By
 New Workers

Boston, Dec 13.-UP)-New York terrorists were paid $25O for each of four theater bombings in New England early yesterday, Bos- ton police said to-day.
 Deputy Superintendent James R Claflin said he had evidence that hired thugs were responsible for the brief reign of terror which brought from Governor Ely a state ment demanding tha tthe perpetra- tors be brought to justice.
 According to Claflin, certain union faction had threatened trouble if conditions to which they objected were not remedied.
 The bombed theaters, total dam age to which was estimated at $15,000, were the Fremont and Ma jestic in Boston, the Capitol at Lynn, and the capitol at Pawtucket, R. l., all cut-rate houses. Only two persons were hurt.
 The two Boston theaters are operated by the Greater Boston Theaters, Inc, of which Fred c. Lieberman of Lowell is the head, while the other two are part of the E. M. Loew chain, of which Elias M. Loew is president.
 "I do not hesitate to lay the blame for the bombings on the op- position" Lieberman said. "I have tried to give the public first run movies in tter-than-average theater surroundings for a small price, and everything has been done to prevent me from carrying out the plan. This isn't the end of 1t. They will blow up the town"
 Loew said he had had previous trouble with unions, especially in Rhode Island. He said he had three theaters bombed in New Bed ford and Fall River.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-13
ROOSEVELT MAY
 CLARITY POLICY
Newspaper Labor Dispute
 Handling Causes Capi= tOl Controversy

Washington, Dec 13.-(UP)- Possibility of President Roosevelt acting to clarify the administra- tion's policy toward handling news paper labor disputes was seen to- day following insistence of the Na- tional Labor Relations Board that it has Jurisdiction in such cases.
 The boards action in reaffirm. ing Jurisdiction in the case of the San Francisco Call-Bulletein and a former empioye, Dean s. Jennings, left. the agency sharply in conflict executive direction of the presi- dents National Emergency Coun- cil.
 Richberg and Blackwell Smith, acting MIRA counsel, had joined counsel for the Call-Bulletin and officials of the American Newspa- per Publishers association in in- sisting that the National Labor Relations Board, headed by Fran cis Riddle, had no right to take Jurisdiction in such cases.
 They pointed out a special arbi- traitor board for the industry was set up by the newspaper code. For any other agency to assume juris- diction, they contended, violated the section of the code which says that code is not to be modified without. assent of the publishers.
 Reaffirming last night its origin al decision of December 3. the la- bor relations board ordered the Call-Bulletin within 10 days either to offer to re-employ Jennings or to notify the board that 1t desired to submit arguments on the merits of the case.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-13
NATIONAL MILK
 GROUP ASSAILED
Clifford Hough Terms It "Rump Organization at
 Hartford Hearing

Hartford, Conn, Dec 13-(UP)- Clifford E. Hough, federal milk administrator at Denver, Colo, to- day described the farmers national as a trump organization built up by unemployed farmers who didn't even own a cow"
 Hough, former general manager of the Connecticut Milk Producers association, resumed his testimony in a federal trade commission hearing of the states milk prob lems, now in its second day.
 The national, he said, was an offshoot of the CMPA and its pur- pose. "as l see it, was to get money from the farmers"
 John w. Hilldrop, Tennessee, attorney for the commission, con- ducted the questioning. Reclining comfortably in large easy chair and puffing on an aromatic corn- cob pipe. he asked Hough whether any special favors had been shown directors of the CMPA. because they were directors"
 ''No," Hough emphatically stat ed, "why they've even paid penal- ties themselves"
 The penalties referred to were imposed under the CMPA fixed quota plan whereby producers were assessed two cents Q quart for reproduction or failing to i'll their quotas.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-13
FLOOR COLLAPSES;;
 CHILDREN ESCAPE
400 Miss Death in Crowd ed Liverpool, England,
 Entertainement Hall

Liverpool, England, Dec 13.- (UP)-Two hundred persons, most of them children. of 400 who es- capped death in a 40-foot fall when the floor of a school assembly hall collapsed, were recovering today from injuries.
 It was announced officially that no one was killed. Thirty-three remained in hospital-16 children, 13 women and four men.
 Children of St Clements school, with their parents. wre crowded into the second floor hall at 8 o'clock last night for a Christmas entertainments There was a min- strel show and after it an exhibi- ton of childrens school work.
 A boy was singing a song when there was loud cracking noise. The floor sagged and collapsed. Those in the hall plunged down, buried in debris and blinded by dust.
 Lights went out. An open fire fiickered in a grate in the wall, above while gas hissed from brok- en pipes. As the children shriek- ed for their parents, all fire en- zines and ambulances in the dis trict sped to the building.
 As the rescuers handed out chill dren first, then the adults. the fire men erected acetylene flares and began searching for buried vic- timS
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-13
Valuable JelUelry Is Taken h Burglaries
Street Robbed Last Night Clothing Also Taken By Thieyes-Wind0w Forced at One House

Housebreakers last night bur- glarized two local homes, securing several hundred dollars worth of jewelry and clothing in the crimes. Both burglaries were carried out while members of the family were away from the home.
 The home of Mrs Ella Noble, 90 Pine street, was entered between 8:30 and 10 o'clock last night. The thieves loot included several pieces of valuable jowelry and a radio set. Entrance was made through a back door, believed to have been left open.
 The other home entered was that of Maurice Condon, 72 Fern street, where the thieves escaped with two watches, several tie pins and stickpins, a camera, and a number of shirts. The burglary was discovered when members of the family returned at a comparatively early hour last night, and Detec- tive Sergeant Henry Johnson and Detective John Calvin began an immediate investigation. The thieves entered the home by fore ing a parlor window.
 Lieut. Detective Joseph Stevens and Detective Connie Shanahan. who worked on the burglary of the Noble home today, found that the thieves had entered the place through the back door. The loot included a diamond pin, diamong ring, a chain and watch, also a radio set. which was stolen from the maids room. The jewelry taken from Mrs Noble's home is valued at several hundred dollars.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-13
Man Accused of Particis pating in Plot Tells
 Story to Police
CANADIAN SECURITIES
 SALES ARE INVOLV WE'D
Pool Sold ShOrt-Attenlpf to Get Money Back
 Caused Complaint

Rochester, N. Y, December 13 - (UP) = Books and records of Frederick E. Peeler, dealer in Canadian securities, who told police he had been tortured in an al- legged $7,00O extortion plots were seized today in a raid by representatives of the states attorney general.
 The raid was led by Deputy Attorney General George R. Van Alstyne.
 Earlier one of five men whom Peeler accused of torturing and threatening him with death unless he signed a check for $7,000, told police his story of the affair. M
 Patrick D. Sullivan, Torort0 broker, one of the five men placed under arrest on technical charges of vagrancy pending an investiga~ tion of Peeler's story, told polics that he and the four othersl had been connected in a pool of Cana- dian securities.
 Peeler allegedly sold the securi~ ties of the pool short and the five had to put up $7,000 to buy the stock back, O'Sullivan said.
 O'Sullivan, along with the other four men, went to Rochester to question Peeler and attempt to get the $7,000 back, according to the story the Toronto broker told poe lice.
 They summoned Peeler to theiE hotel room, O'Sullivan said.
 Peeler told police he was held captive in the hotel for eight hours while the five men threatened him
 kHa.4;naa A. DaEa dn ..-.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-13
MUNITION MAKERS
 HAD BIG PROFITS
Ran As High As 36z Per Cent Testimony
 Shows

Washington, Dec. 13.-UP) Wartime profits by munitions manufacturer, ranging up to 26z per cent on invested capital in a single year were revealed today be- fore the senate munitions investi~ gating committee.
 Within 24 hours after President Roosevelt organized a special board to draft laws for "profitless" and efficient mobilization of resource8 in time of war, the committee re- vealed it's first figures on what cor- poration made during the World War.
 Speedy Buying Helped
 Statistics introduced showed profits of from 40 to 80 per cent on invested capital in single years were frequent results of the speedy war time buying.
 It was testified that many of the profits, which were net taxable in- comes after reduction of allowable items, made from the disputed cost-plus-ten per cent system used in awarding many war contracts.
 Made in 1918
 The 362 per cent profit, accord- ing to the evidence, was made in 1918 by the Bethlehem Loading Company, a shipbuilding firm.
 Administration leaders sought to smooth over differences with the committee and work in cooperation to draft the new war preparedness law.
 Dern to Aid
 Secretary of War George 1T. Dern promised to aid the commits tee in bringing out new data re- garding activities of munitions firms and their relations with the war department.
 Senator Bennett Clark, Mo, denn- ocratic member of the committeSs conferred with President Roose- welt and he saw no reason for con- flict between the senate investi- gators and the presidents board. He said MT Roosevtl felt the two agencies should be mutually help full.
 Didn't Change Opinion
 Republicans Gerald P. Nyes N. D., and Arthur VandenberEs Mich, however, did not nodiIy
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-13
FLOOD CONTROL
 URGENTLY NEEDED
Yale Forestry Dean Urges Federal Aid For All
 Waterways

New Haven, Conn, Dec 13-- (UP)-The government must offer leadership and financial support .i flood dangers are to be checked and rivers constructively regulated according to Dean Henry S. Graves of the Yale school of forestry and a member of the Mississippi valley committee.
 Numerous rivers throughout the country, he said. still are exposed to repeated floods which cause se- rious damage and retard industrial development because of lack of se- curity to life and property.
 River improvements, he said were very costly and it was a ques- tion of how far the government should go in its policy of water conservation and control,
 Communities should share the expense in accordance with the benefits derived. He estimated To- cal costs as between 30 and 70 per cent.
 "In any case" he added, "the local contribution should be surfi- cient to prevent unwise federal ex- penditures such as would arise from log-rolling pressure that would inevitably follow payment oi full costs by the government"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-13
BOY IS GIVEN MRS
 ROOSEVELT'S PRIZE

Philadelphia, Pa. Dec 1S-(uP) Santa Claus today visited bed- ridden. eight-year-old Walter Fox. He brought a s1,000 check to he used for medical treatment to re- store his health.
 The gift was from Mrs Franklin D. Roosevelt. Walter Is to be sent to Warm Springs. Ga, to be treat ed for infantile paralysis. He has been bedridden two years.
 Mrs Roosevelt. selected as the 'outstanding woman of America in 1884" received the Gimbei nation- al award of s1,000. asked that the money be used to send a child sui. fcrer of infantile paralysis here 10 Warm Springs.
 A group Of physicians, headed by, Dr j.. Norman Henry. checked the list Of all Infantile cases in Philadelphia. Walter, son of Mir and Mrs Thomas Ecs. was select. cd,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-13
.BURLESQUE IN
 WATERBURY
Supt. Mclean Issues Order Banning Shows at The=
 ater After Inspection
KACEY, DECENCY LEGION
 PROTESTS BEAR FRUIT
License of Theater Not Re- vOked-ActiOn Follows
 Refusal to "Clean Up"

"Burlesque is out in Water bury" = such was the order given this morning by Super intendent of Police Joseph H. Mclean as he directed police men not to allow the show to go on at Jacques theater this afternoon or at any time here after. Superintendent Me- Lean announced his decision this morning after the theater manager, threatened with closing the show yesterday unless the performance was cleaned up, had not done so, in the opinion of vice squad members who attended the show at Jacques last night. As soon as the vice squad report was received this morning, the super intendent issued orders to have the show closed at once.
 Superintendent Mclean, whose threat yesterday and subsequent action today follows agitation by the Knights of Columbus and groups affiliated with the Legion of Decency, pointed out that his order forbidding burlesque does not affect the Jacques theater per- init for legitimate performances. If the theater wishes to continue its license and present clean and wholesome entertainment of the dramatic type, the superintendent will allow it, but no burlesque, in any form, will be tolerated.
 The Jacques theater was in darkness this afternoon, following the superintendent's order, and the company which was to present a matinee performance prepared to leave for New York. No plans for any theatrical entertainment of another form at the theater had been decided on up to press time.
 Superintendent Mclean. in an- nouncing the permanent closing Of burlesque in Waterbury, told re- porters that his action followed the refusal of the theater manager to "clean up" the shows at Jacques as ordered to yesterday morning.
 1T told the manager yesterday the superintendent said, that bur- lesque would have to adhere te rigid rules of decency or that would close the show immediately That order went into effect yes terday. Last night, I had men at the theater and they reported to