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Evening star., 1935-10-20
INVESTMENT COMPANY
AVERAGES MOVE DOWN

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, october 19.-The in
vestment companies common stock
index dropped last week, as evidenced
by the averages compiled by Distrib-
utors Group, Inc.
The average for the common stocks
of 10 leading management companies
influenced by the leverage factor
stood at 1915 at the close of October
18, compared with 15.41 on Octo-
ber II.
The average of the mutual funds
closed at 1885 on October 10, COM
pared with 1880 at the close of the
previous week.
Evening star., 1935-10-20
ARMOUR TAKES OVER
DECKER & SONS PLANT

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, October 19.-R. H. Ca
bell, president of Armour & Co.. an
nounced his firm would take over the
Jacob E. Decker & Sons packing
plant at Mason City, Iowa, and the
Decker branch houses today.
Armour contracted to purchase the
Decker properties last August 81, but
the transfer of ownership was de-
layed by legal formalities.
THE change in ownership will not
disturb the operation of the Decker
plant" CabeI said.
Evening star., 1935-10-20
BRITISH STUDYING
LEAGUE CRISIS AND
COMING ELECTIONS
Danger of War Is Realized.
Cabinet Likely to Win
on Defense Issue.
FRENCH TRADE CURBED
BY POLITICAL TENSION
Business Lags 1919 or More Be-
hind Year Ago-Germany
skeptical of Sanctions.
Snecial Dispatch to The Star.


NEW YORK, october 19.-Cables
and radio dispatches to Business Week
give the following survey of business
abroad for the week ending today:
LONDON-"All Britain is inter-
ested above everything else this week
in the question of spanking Signor
Mussolini. A dozen harried League
members have thrown up score OF
reasons for not trying to enforce
sanctions, but Britain Is determined
to do something. The outcome is a
question, for there are not few peo-
pie in London who realize that Italy
may interpret economic sanctions as
military sanctions at any time If any,
thing like a blockade is attempted.
And that would surely mean war.
Next to the Ethiopian problem,
widest interest centers in the coming
elections which. it seems now. will be
staged in mid-November England has
been expecting a Fall election for a
long time, but when trouble first start
ed to brew in the Mediterranean. it
was thought they might be delayed.
Socialist Split Helps.
ISSUES have changed. Even as re-
Gently as four months ago, the Ma
tional government expected to appeal
to the people on its recovery record.
Today there is only one vital issue
rearmament. On this there is unity
among all parties except the Socialists.
Their split is the best boost the
Baldwin government could ask. Should
the Mediterranean situation drag
along, the government has more than
an even chance to win because of the
British attitude that the present crisis
developed because the British had al
lowed others to arm to the point
where British force was not respected.
IF the situation is more tense, the
National government is sure to be re-
turned"
French Business Drops.
PARIS.-"France is disturbed over
the Ethiopian crisis. but the real rea-
son that business activity is running
10 per cent or more behind last years
records Is the internal political situa-
ton.
Left Wing parties are increasingly
active, and are the disturbing influ-
ence, though they have no construc-
tive program to offer.
Beginning with the elections sched-
uled for next week, and continuing
through the important convention of
the Radical-Socialist party on Octo-
ber "a, France Is likely to feel more
and more the disturbing influence of
politics"
Reich Is Skeptical.
BERLIN.-"Though England is OBJ
viously in dead earnest about economic
sanctions, opinion here is skeptical
regarding their efficacy. considering
Austrian and Hungarian opposition,
Swiss reluctance to cooperate, French
sabotage Of the plan by consistently
delaying it, and German aloofness.
THE first small rise in unemploy.
ment came in September this year, a
full month ahead of the seasonal de-
cline last year. Security sales by pro-
spective Jewish emigrants is avowedly
new bear factor in the decline of the
stock market. The butter shortage is
no longer critical because of large
shipments which have been received
from Denmark"
Evening star., 1935-10-20
IMPORTANT DIVIDEND
MEETINGS SCHEDULED

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, october 19.-Important
dividend meetings scheduled next
week include those of Burroughs Add
ing Machine, Diamond Match, Nor
folk & Western Railway, United Gas
Improvement. Lggett & Myers Tobac-
co, United Biscuit, Ingersou Rand
And Eyeepogt Texas o.,
Evening star., 1935-10-20

was assigned as aide to the chief Of
the Bureau of Aeronautics here.
From the start of his employment
with Acacia he was engaged mainly
in field work. After two years in the
home office he was transferred to
Cincinnati to take charge of the
branch there. At that time it had
six agents. 1t now has twelve, four
of them being members of the 1882
group. Ten of the twelve are mem
bers of the william Montgomery
Quality Club.
Evening star., 1935-10-20
LOOSE-WILES EARNS
PROFIT OF $1,N2,247

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, October 19.-Loose-
Wiles Biscuit Co. and subsidiaries, nine
months ended September 80, net profit
$l,022,247, against $l,043,6ss In the
like period last year.
Evening star., 1935-10-20
RAIL ORDER EXPECTED.

NEW YORK, October 10 (R.-Rail-
way Age says the National Railways
of Mexico Is inquiring for 10 express
and 70 mail and sxprsw carh
Evening star., 1935-10-20
ACACIA EXECUTIVE
TRANSFERRED HERE
Manager Of Cincinnati Branch
Shifted to Field Department
in Home Office.

Transfer of A. r. Mead from the
post of manager of the Cincinnati
branch of the Acacia Mutual Life
Insurance Co to the field department
Evening star., 1935-10-20
Corporation Earnings

NEW YORK October 19-Corporate
earnings reports issued during the week,
showing the results in earnings per share.
included.
Evening star., 1935-10-20

Year Ended September 80.
Continental 423 S37s
Quarter Ended August 81.
Douglas 81 IT
EiEht Months Ended August 81.
Amer. Tel Tel (inclu6ing
subsidiaries) % So .S5
Allis-Chalmers Mfg----- .S2
Western Union Telegraph---- 2.69 Isl
mot available.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-13
STRIKERS HAVE TAKEN UP JOBS
 THEY HAD LEFT
Over l5O Returned This M0rning-Others Will
 .GO Back Later On

More than 150 employees of the Watertown Undergarmcnt Co.,, part of the 450 who had been on strike for seven weeks. resumed work at the factory to-day. Philip Lipschitz, president of the under garment firm told The Deinocrat sto. day that all Of the 460. enployes and ss,loE III s,G bsel to Nsss7ss just as soon as the plant c(ln be- come adjusted again after the long delay. According to al state law effective in such eases the prin- cipal concern in the terms agreed to in a settlement reached at the Elton hotel last night, no financial figures were released for publica- tion, but all interested parties to- day appeared to be well satisfied.
 Cutters First Back
 The first of the employees to re- sume work today were the cutters whose operation Is the first in pre- pairing the garments made at the factory for finishing. All of the former strikers who assembled at Building Trades hall this morning cheered an announcement from MT. Lipschitz that all was in readi- ness for between 125 and 15O of
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-13
JURY GETS CASE
 OF SCHWETTZER

Detroit, Aug. 13.-(UP)--A jury of six men and six women today began deliberating the fate of Wil- liam Schweitzer and three women companions charged with slaying Howard Carter Dickinson, prom inent New York attorney and nephew Of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes of the supreme court.
 The jury retited at 12:40 p. m,, an hour after. Judge John A. Boyne had begun his charge. He ex- plained that in the case of Schweitzer, 26 year old underworld figure of many aliases, 1t could re- turn verdict of first degree mur- der. with mandatory life sentence; a second degree verdict carrying a sentence of any number of years up to life; . manslauglfer verdict or acquittal. The penalty for man. slaughter in Michigan is 15 years.
 But three verdicts are possible in the cases of Florence and Loretta Jackson. sisters.and Jean Miller, the co-defendants, the court said. The women, charged by the state with plotting the rob bery and murder of the attorney with schweitzer and carrying it out, must be found guilty of first or. second degree murder or else acquitted.
 k e verdict of manslaushter ls returned against schweitzcr. the women must be freed. the court eNuiioned.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-13
BIG APPLECROP
 IN NEW ENGLAND

Boston, Aug. 13-CUP) - The New England apple crop is ex- pected to total 5,554,000 bushels this year, the New England crop reporting service announced here today.
 The forecast indicates a mod crate crop, though much larger than the 3,011,000 bushel crop of last year. About 4,101,000 bushels of this years crop are expected to reach the market as fresh fruit. Nearly, twice as much as the conn mercial crop of 1884, but only 7S per cent of the five-year average.
 Good crops are extepceted in Mcintosh and Wealthies, but re- turns from Baldwin, Gravenstein and Spy will be light. June rains permitted scab to develop on sus- ceptible varieties.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-13
FORD MOTOR co.
 OF JAPAN ANGRY

Tokyo, Aug. 13-(CP)-Direc- tors Of the Ford Motor company of Japan will refuse to turn over control of the concern to Japan csc capitalists. as proposed in a new automobile control law, it was. learned today.
 The motor company executives the law, pleading they had not been given opportunity to study it. But from other sources it was learned they had decided to re- tain control of the company as long as it is permitted to exist un- der the legislation proposed for December.
 With enforcement of the auto mobile law considerably remote, Japanese officials had a more im- mediate problem at hand in at- tempting to apply the provisions of the new petroleum storage law. which would require oil firms to maintain a six months supply available to the government in emergencies for national defense.
 Foreign companies have not signifed their intentions regard ing construction of additional storage supplies. Some Japanese companies also have protested that the requirement win mean in- creased prices.
 The law win become effective in 'october.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-13
POTATO CROP IN
 MAINE SHOWER

Boston. Aug. 13-(UP)--A 25 per cent decrease in the Maine po- tato crop this year from the 1884 harvest was forecast in bulletin issued today by the New England crop deporting service.
 A crop of 41.6oo.oo0 bushels was indicated. This Is about per cent below the five-year average, but 3.200. .000 bushels more than the July 1 forecast. 8
 The Aroostook county crip im- provedS during July, but still is in backward condition and the out come is uncertain.
 The entire New England crop was expected to reach about N50,- S95.000 bushels. The 1894 crop was e5,725,000 bushels.
 The bulletin pointed out that there might be considerable com petition in marketing the potato harvest this year, as the crop for the country is only ?. per cent less than that of last year and nearly 4 per cent above the five year aver age.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-13
Mayor Hayes Backed By Real Labor Forces
False Reports Are Refuted By Secretary Steinmuler of State Board of Mediaton- Federation of Labor
 Does Not Recognize So Called Labor Party

Reports being circulated through out the city by certain workers to the effect that Mayor Frank Hayes "laid down" during the strike at the watertown Undergar- ment company strike and did not make an effort to help settle the sdiffefsnpes betwssn the employers to- day by sviifiam stt siiler secretary of the state hoard of mediation and arbitration. MT. Stenmuller, when talked with at Hartford, declared that imme- diately at the outset of the strike Mayor Hayes offered not
 Mayor Offered Services
 Time and time again, MT. Stein- muller said today, Mayor Hayes asked him if he could be of any service. However, MT. Steinmuller said. the state board was able to handle the situation with the result that the strike was declared off, cially closed last night with the workers returning to their duties this morning.
 Mayor Hayes was at all times ready to lend us hand if we need ed It," declared MT. Steinmuller to- day at his offices in Hartford. Several times during the strike he called me and wanted to, know if he could be of any assistance. He constantly expressed a desire to see the strike settled amicably, Senator Joseph H. Lawlor of Wa terbury also offered his services several times and wacs ready to aid the board if called upon" said MT. Steinmuller. Senator Lawlor was a member of the old board of med iation and arbitration.
 Agitators Behind Story
 ! Reports that the mayor did not take an interest in the strike are attributed to agitators behind the new labor party. While the labor
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-13
HOOVER SEEMS
 DESTINED TO BE
 ONE OF LEADERS
Has Not Announced His
 Candidacy But Is Surely Aiming That Way
BY LYLE c. WILSON United Press Stan Correspondenfl

\CHUeU EreSS SIaM OOFreSpOu0enED
 Washington, Aug. 13.--(UP)- Political observers remarked strlk- ing similarities to-day between the situation of Herbert Clark Hoover in August, 1927, when he was seeking presidential nomina- ton and August, 1885.
 During the year before the 1928 convention at which he was nom- mated, MT. Hoover was front run ner in a pack of would-be suc- cessors to the then President Coolidge. And the res. of the pack had made common cause against him on the unimpeachable theory that if Hoover could be stopped some one of the other as- pirants would win the prize.
 History Is Repeating
 History is repeating itself today at least to the extent that mention of MT. Hoover as a 1896 candidate causes many of his party leaders to suffer acute discomfort and he is undoubtedly in the first flight of presidential possibilities.
 As was the case before the 1928 convention, the campaign track is open to all corners and the man who runs the fastest the longest will represent the republican party for four years, either in the White
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-13
NATIONAL GUARD
 TROOPS SSTARTED

Great Bend. N. Y., Aug. 13.- (UP)-The vanguard of S6,000 National Guard troops converged to-day on the Pine Camp area for war games over the week end. The main force of the first army, ammassing from the New England states, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, will begin arriving Saturday in 70 special trains and in fleets of motor trucks. passen- ger cars and taxicabs.
 At the same time, 17,000 addi- tionai troops of the Second Corps Area will gather at encampments in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts for separate maneuvers.
 Maj. Gen. Dennis E. Nolan. com- manding general of the Second Corps Area, Will direct activities of ail the 5a.Oo0 men from Great Bend headquarterR
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-13
DOLLAR DAY ON THURSDAY WILL
 BE BIG AFFAIR
Merchants Are Ready to Greet People of City and
 Naugatuck Valley

It's here, folks, the big event you've been waiting for all sum- mer-Dollar Day!
 Yes. Thursday of this week has been set aside by the Merchants Bureau of the Chamber of Com merce as a day to afford the peo- pie If Waterbury and the Nauga- tuck valley an opportunity to get in on the ground floor for a list of bargains that beat anything ever offered before.
 Dollar Day, the day after to- morrow will find a number of local stores, participating in the big event, with specialties that sold for higher prices all season, yet will be offered at practically cost price in order to make this a real bargain day.
 Will Go Long Way
 It will be surprising to many to see how far a dollar bill will stretch on Thursday WhsEs ( mignt htve ptirciiased ofie article in the past, 1t will be found to have attained wider purchasing power so that instead of, one arr ticie, two and three will come to a total cost of one dollar.
 There is hardly any need to go into. detail about the values and wonderful bargains that will be offered on Thursday for everyone n the city and its adjacent towns are now quite familiar with Dollar
 
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-13
OLYMPIC GAMES
 CAME TOSENATE

Washington, Aug. 1s - (UP)-- The question of American partici- patton in the Olympic games in Germany next year was raised in the senate today by Sen. Peter c. Gerry, ,d.d% R. T., who said he doubted the wisdom of sending American athletes into a situation which might develop racial tur- moil and controversy.
 "It seems to me that it might be serious matter if an Ameri- can of Jewish extraction should win an important event in the Olympic games, or if there should be some question of a dead heat and some controversy should come up," he said.
 'With all that turmoil 1t might result in bad feeling being engen- dered. I'm wondering if American sportsmen should give serious consideration as to whether or not they should participate in the Olympic games."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-13
C-MEN AIDING E. MASS. POLICE

Cambridge, Mass, Aug. Is = UP)-Three G-men today cooper ated with Cambridge police in the investigation of yesterdays $7,500 daylight hold-up at the ice cream plant of H. P. Hood Sons. Inc.
 Thomas E. Myers. Harold Mar tin and R. H. Sites of the depart ment of justice scanned hundreds of rogues' gallery photographs for likenesses of two young bandits who executed the robbery disguis. ed as milkmen. They also inter- viewed several witnesses.
 Anthony Rock, the Boston hank messenger from whom the money was taken. is a World War vet. eran and former Boston policeman who was pensioned because of bullet wounds suffered in the line of duty.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-13
LEON ALLSTOCK
 SURRENDERS AT POLICE STATION
SeSss OFk Man as Iieid Responsible for Death;
 Is Bound Over

Surrendering himself this morn ing at police Headquarters on a warrant charging him with auto- mobile homicide in connection with the death of 62-year-old Sackville Berkeley, Settlers vil- lage watchman, Leon F. Allstock, 31, of the Barbizon-Plaza hotel. New York, was bound over to the September term of superior court when he waived examination be- fore Judge Edward Mascolo in city court. The judge set bonds at $1,- 900, which amount was furnished for the accused.
 Allstock's surrender follows a finding issued last week by Deputy Coroner Walter w. Smyth in which the New Yorker was charg- ed with criminal responsibility for the death of the negro. Berkeley was fatally injured July on Chase Parkway, near the Highr land avenue signal light. when struck by Allstock's car while walking to work.
 . Driving Too Fast
 Deputy Coroner Smyth, after a lengthy. investigation during which many witnesses were questioned, held that Allstock was driving 'too fast" near the busy intersection and that the Empire State driver was accountable for the fatal in- juries suffered by the pedestrian. The finding claimed that < All- stocks car proceeded for some distance after striking the watch man. s.l F
 After the fatality controversy ensued in which 1t was claimed that the signal light at the inter- section, which was set at amber while repairs were being made, was at fault. This was denied by Deputy Coroner Smyth in his finding, the. official claiming that the amber light, as a caution signal, should have warned passing drivers to slow down when ap- preaching.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-13
TAX RICH PLANS
 GOING THROUGH
Roosevelt Program to Let Little Fellows Alone Is
 Much Favored
By H. Q. THOMPSON

United Press Stan Correspondent
 Washington, Aug. 13-(UP)-A tax bill revised so as to just "tax the rich" instead of taking both poor and rich was projected today into what promised to be stormy senate debate.
 The senate finance committee re- versed itself to eliminate taxes on low-bracket incomes, and sen. onto the senate floor a bill conforming closely to President Roosevelt's wish for heavy levies on the wealthy. The committee, in addi- tion, slapped additional surtax rates on $1,000,000 incomes.
 Burden Goes To Rich
 The committee which first had the idea of including small incomes and then thought better of 1t, rec commended without a vote, a bill designed to transfer the tax bur- den to those with greater ability to pay.
 The late revision, it was be- lieved, will expedite passage of the bill, despite a vociferous senate SAOuP tAAaS 0CAktahQS ~ UC iIddC " provide more revenue. Sen. Pat Harrison, d.. Miss, chairman of the finance committee, arranged the committees report so that if pos sible the bill could be taken up in ever, that he expected debate to the senate today. He said, how start tomorrow.
 Follows Wishes of President
 'I think the bill is greatly im- proved and more in keeping with the presidents recommendations" :" he said.
 The committee climbed down hastily from its proposals that the lower income brackets be required to pay increased taxes. It had reached that conclusion. Saturday. but a weekend of reaction from the country and from politically minded house leaders caused a sudden about-face.
 The lowered exemptions ap- proved Saturday were rescinded. leaving the rates in the lower brac- kets undisturbed.
 As a result of this quick turn
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-13
WOMAN ARRESTED HERE FOR STILL
 RAID IN MARION
Mrs. Carmella ZappOne Is Believed Involved in
 the Ownership

An aftermath of the surprise raid in Marion yesterday afternoon in which Southington police. directed by Chief IEdwaxd F. Geary. seized an illicit still of 1B00-gallon capa- city and worth $f0.000, was the ar- rest in this city to-day of Mrs. Car mella JZappone, A, of 357 South Main street. on a warrant charging her with being involved in the own- ership and operation of the illegal plant. Chief Geary told The Dem ocrat this noon that his department was still probing the case and that more arrests could be expected later in the day.
 Shortly after her arrest here by Patrolmen Patrick Moylan and Fred Hickey of the vice squad on the warrant forwarded from South ington. Mrs. Zappone was placed in fTArf4nnaA pa0a Al
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-13
GERMAN NAZIS PURSUIT DRIVE
 AGAINST VETS
Jews, Catholic, and Free Masons Forgotten for
 the Moment
By FREDERICK OECHSNER Copyright 1885 by United Press)


 Berlin, Aug. 13-(UP)-A meet ing of leaders of the Stahlhelm was expected today to foretell the fate of the powerful organization of War Veterans and the future re- lations of hundreds of thousands of its members to the Nazi party. "Steel Helmet" leaders called from all over the country were a. waiting Franz Seldte, minister of labor in the cabinet and their na- tional leader, and his report on a conference yesterday with Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgarden, in Ba- varia.
 Stahlhelm Death Knell.
 Popular expectation was that, in the end. the death knell,, of the Stahlhelm, hated by Nazi radicals leince Hitler's rise to power, would again be sounded as 1t has SC aaatl1ay times befores N 1s'i What actually would happen was a matter for speculation in that the Stahlhelm has been merged, purg- ed absorbed and reconstructed at times all during the two years of the Nazi regime, and remains to- day an object of suspicion as to it's loyalty to the Nazi program and as to its real power.
 !, Seldte himself, in his efforts to preserve his organization and at the same time to fit 1t in with Naz- ism has been called traitor by