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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-24


 Public buildings, such as the City Hall, library and banks, will be closed. The post0ffice will hake no deliveries, outside of mail bearing special delivery stamps. The superior, common pleas, compensation and pro- bate courts will suspend busi- ness. The police court will function but the civil side of the court will be closed.
 All factories and business houses will remain closed for the day. Usual milk and bakery deliveries will be made, however. All city departments will sus- pend activities except the fire, police and street and water de- partments. In the latter depart emergency crews will be on duty.
 Church Services.
 All churches of the city, both Catholic and Protestant, will conduct special services tomOr- row, not only in the morning
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-24
WHITE CHRISTMAS
 EDGED IN GREEN

Chicago, Dec. 24-(U.P.) - The color scheme for the United States this Christmas will be white, edged in green, weather forecasters said to-day.
 From New England westward to the Rockies in the northern portion of the country there will be enough snow on the ground tomorrow for sleds and snowballs.
 On the west coast, the gulf coast and the Florida coast it will be a green Christmas" with the mid- southern states supplying medium between green and white.
 A cold fave from the northwest moved into the middlewest to-day, driving temperatures to zero and below. The great mass of cold air will roll eastward on Christmas day, sending temperatures generally low CT, the weather bureau said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-24
ATTENDANCE
 GIVEN AT SCHOOL
Many Bunker Hill Students Attain Places on First Term Table

The perfect attendance list for the first school term has been an- r1ounced as follows by Principal Ralph W. Darlington of Bunker Hill school:
 Grade 8S-George Angrave, Nor man Benedict, John Dixon, Frank 1yn Finnan, Charles Ingraham, Ro- bert Lewis, Robert Lowell, Eliza beth Allen, Eleanor Baldwin, Julia Brickett, Eleanor Cooke, Hazelruth Burner; Martha Hulse, Geraldine Jones, Margaret Moriarty, Lillian Rotella, Bertha Webb, Ruth Whit ney.
 Grade 8W-Nicholas CoStantin1, Albert Class, Donald Hickey, Will liam Phillips, Albert Shattuck, War ren Tapken, Virginia Girch, Agnes Turner, Thora Miller.
 Grade .7F-Joseph Le Clair, Mat thew Mentucci. Russell Schmitt, Ed ward Zaukauskas, Isabella Brickett.
 Grade 7B-Richard Bieler, John Lewis, Donald Linhard, James Null ligan, Evelyn Blake, Alba Costan- tini, Grace George, Ruth Granger, Marjorie, Hermans.
 Grade 6K-Frank Hess, William Loeffler, Margaret Austin, Beatrice Costantini, Eileen Miller.
 Grade 6F-Carmella Quaranda, Wilfred Bourassa, Chester Cole, Harry Finlay, Joseph Ouwelant, Frederic Shattuck, Philip Signor, Jeanne Aurav Mary Austin Rattv Phillips, Airline Tramm, Barbara Waugh, Paul Ingraham.
 Grade 5-Robert Auray, Patrick Lynch, Nazzerino Mentucci, Whit man Moody, James Solomita, Joan Carroll, Margaret Collins, Joan Dil- lon, Janice Niver, Ruth Palen. Grade 4-Arthur Butler, John Hathaway, Edward Heiman, James MacKerracher, Gerald Mercer, Wy dell Rood, John Solomita, Edmund Webb, Bella Brickett, Joan Mulli- gan, Joyce Rogers.
 Grade 3B-Barbara Marvin. Grade 3P-Eben Hollis, Nicholas Solomita,. Barbara Mussary, Virgil mia Worden.
 Grade 2-James Rosania, Elaine Lagerquist, Mary Overton, Marcy Stango.
 Grade 1-Alfred Brickett, William Brickett, John Collins.
 Kindergarten Gerald Miller, Thomas Moody, Carlton Young, Barbara Carlson, Airline Duphiney, Cecile Martin.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-24
M The Local Theaters

tion. See for yourself if they're right when you view the picture.
 Another big treat in this week of surprises at the Warner State oc- CUTS on Saturday when Rafael Sa- batini'S classic Captain Blood" be- gins a four days engagement. Thou sands in the cast, this story is said to excel 'Mutiny On the Bounty and throughout it is woven a love romance that surpasses anything in the history of the world. The new star Errol Flynn has the leading role supported by such favorites as Olivia De Havilland, Lionel Atwill Basil Rathbone, Ross Alexander and Guy Kibbee.
 Manager Julia M. Smith hSa ar- ranged giant Christmas surround ing program to accompany it.
 Keep in mind the States big New Years Eve midnight show. It will be headlined by two new hits, Show Them No Mercy" the greatest of all the "G-Men" pictures also First a GirT starring the new singing and dancing sensation, Jessie Mathews.
 The State management and staff join with the entire Warner Broth CTS organization in wishing you and yours the merriest of all Christ masses and a New Year filled with health, happiness and prosperity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-24

but in the afternoon and eve- ming. c.
 Traffic today was heavy as Christmas shoppers made final purchases. Local stores report ed heaviest business in several years, further attesting to the return of good times"
 Mayor Frank Hayes, among his other duties and travels during the Yuletide period, stopped at the Salvation Army Citadel this morning. He hand ed out the first bag of several hundred being distributed by the Salvation Army to the needy of the city.
 All in all, Christmas day (tOm0rrow) will be the hap piest in some year. Tonight Christmas trees and candles will be lighted in thousands of Waterbury homes, heraIding the approach of the birthday of Christ. Everybody joined today in wishing everybody else 8 Merry Christmas.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-24
POLl'S

Closing tonight at Poli's is a great double feature bill made up of Ginger Rogers and George Brent in Tn Person" and Otto Kruger and Martha Sleeper in Two Cinners."
 AS the special holiday attraction Polls has secured the outstanding film which will be shown for its Connecticut premiere "A Tale Of Two Cities" with Ronald Colman and 5000 others.
 Massive, spectacular, romantic and all the other attributes deserving of something that is out of the ordi- nary can all be applied to this film and they are inadequate to properly describe 1t.
 It has been made with an eye to having it surpasS all other of the great books that have been made into screen hits and it has succeed ed admirably. There has been noth- ing yet and there is nothing on the horizon that compares in any way with "A Tale Of Two Cities" Make your plans to see this film which will be at this popular theater for a week starting tomorrow and you are
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-24
PAPER FORCED TO
 PUBLISH NEWS

Holyoke, Mass, Dec. 24-CUP)- The Holyoke Transcript Telegram today published the following front page editorial:
 "The Transcript Telegram for the past 12 years has carried no item of violence or crime on page one of its Christmas Eve edition.
 Tt can't be done this year. There is violence at home and abroad new threats of war in Europe; the Italian-Ethiopian war; the fleeing of the Lindberghs to protect their son. Jon from Kidnapping threats; the developments in the case of the convicted Lindbergh kidnaper, Bruno Richard Hauptmann; the es- cape of two convicts after they had fatally wounded their Massachu- sets state prison guard-such is the news of the day, news of men gone mad and their innocent victims.
 Pope Plus in an address to 30 cardinals today begs God to end all threats of new wars and vio- lence. We all do."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-24
$l5,OOO ACTION
 IS WITHDRAWN

The $15,000 civil action of Will liam Lachance against the Dietz Exterminating Co.,, was withdrawn from the common pleas court docket today. The suit was based on in- juries the plaintiff sustained March 28, 1884, in an automobile collision involving the defendants automo- bile.
 The plaintiff was a guest in the car driven by Frederick w. Dietz, Jr., when it collided with a car driven by Harper D. Adams on the Middlebury road. Numerous injuries were listed as having been Suf- fered by the plaintiff. Attorney Samuel E. Hoyt of New Haven rep resented the defendant.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-24

assured that you will be seeing the best that the silver sheet has as yet given us. A program of selected shorts will complete the program.
 AS usual this year Polls will hold a New Years Eve Midnite show. Manager Fitzpatrick just returned from New York where he secured the film that he wanted for this performance, it being Jean Harlow in "Riffraff" with Spencer Tracy. The title tells you what to expect.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-24
BEHIND THE SCENES IN WASHINGTON - ''Why We Entered World War" Debate Takes On Added Fury
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

WASHINGTON 2Soon Congress will nen- " taliy will notice that saying of American entry into the World War which would had they uttered such opinions while was still n.
 Tn fact quite people prison saying same
  winter without protest.
 feeling W others voted against
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-24

about the foreign loans of bankers or the industrial ambitions of mu- nitiOns makers" says Baker. we
 all did all we knew how to keep
 out of war"
 Oswald Garrison Willard, Hey- wood Broun, and other columniSts suggest that i've aIl'' did bum job at 1t an dthat it's funny Baker never heard of the successful Lan- sing -McAdoo pressure to reverse the Bryan neutrality policy barring notation of war loans here.
 Then certain New York and Washington newspapers take up for Baker and Lamont editorially, de- crying "cruel aspersions cast on the memory of Woodrow Wilson by the ignorant and ignoble," the ''intoler- ably insulting .. unfounded allega- tions of the Nye committee :" and so on.
 Linked Others in Blame
 Stephen Raushenbush, chief in- veStigator of the munitions com- mittee, is good and sore by this time and writes another letter to the Times, quoting from the au- thorized text of the St. Louis speech.
 He presents something Lamont left out: "The real reason that the war we have just finished took place was that Germany feared her commercial rivals were going to get the better of her and the reason why some nations went
 into the war against Germany was that they thought Germany would get the commercial advan- tage of them."
 Hence, says Rauschenbush, Will son obviously didn't refer only to Germany in that controversial re- mark.
 Author Taken to Task
 Raushenbush wrote a month ago and up to this time the Times had nt published his letter. But one notes book review by John Cham berlain of American Neutrality" by Prof. Charles Seymour of Yale (authority on Wilson and amanu- ensis of Colonel House).
 Seymour ignores recent reyela- tions as to changes in American policy which helped bring on the war and Chamberlain takes him to task for blaming it all on Germany submarine tactics. Chamberlain presents the last word in the argu- ment to date when he refers to:
 ". the idiotic assertion that we went to war to save the Mor- gan loans and the equally idiotic assertion that we went to war to make the world safe for democracy"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-24

p1ltOrleQ LOT LGlaC, now CIlAL D VaSt number of Americans judging from the strength of the neutral i itY movement-ha come to be- lieve our entry was all a big mis- take.
 Since Congress adjourned after passing 8 makeShift compromise neutrality law, there has been nc end of discussion of this matter in the public prints. which will echo in the winter debate.
 One thread of the argument in which men who were important al the time have participated centered on what Woodrow Wilson himself finally thought of it all. Since prob ably only small minority of read CTS have followed it, your correspon- dent undertakes to trace its outline Protests for Morgan
 On Oct. IS, Thomas w. Lamont of Morgan & Co. writes the New York Times protesting a book re- view by Robert L. Duffus, which suggested that the Morgan firm 'sheiped" get the United States in-
 Lamont admits Eve were pro- to war.
 Ally by inheritance, by instinct, by opinion" but denies any Nor
 gan propaganda or pressure for war, despite the heavy Morgan
 financial stake, and in effect says he still believes we entered "t0 make the world safe for demOcra- cy."
 William Floyd, director of Peace Patriots, shoots back, quoting the famous telegram from Ambassador Page at London in March, 1917, to the effect that this country would have panic unless it hastened to support the Allies.
 He also quotes from Pages auto- biography as follows: By April G. 1917, Great Britain had overdrawn her account with J. P. Morgan to the extent of $4O0,000,000 and had no cash available with which to meet this overdraft.
 "The American government final ly paid this overdraft out of pro- ceeds of the First Liberty Loan"
 Floyd then quotes Woodrow Will son as saying: 'This was an indus trial and commercial war"
 Lamont Hits Back
 Lamont replies that the 'over- draft" was demand loan secured by collateral. He refers to Pages astonishing suggestion that the. the way to preserve American pros- perity was to engage in a world war;" says there's no evidence Page ever was given an answer, and de- clares tht Floyd, like Senator Nye and other individuals" misquoted Wilson's 1919 St. Louis speech.
 The context, Lamont says, clearly shows Wilson referred solely to GeTmany's reasons for making war as industrial and commercial"
 If we are going to quote our de- ceased presidents, let us quote them correctly and justly" says Lamont. and quotes what he calls the context from 8 16-year- St. Louis newspaper, in brief: Wilson told how Germans had removed Belgian Factory machinery because they hal d Belgium for her superb ority if textile and iron industries.
 
 Baker Has His Say
 Next comes Newton D. Baker, Wilson's secretary of war, in a let ter Nov. 13, saying he never heard Wilson or any cabinet member say we must go to war or that any com mercial or financial interest would be promoted by our going in.
 He says Page was ignored and that that quotation from Wilson has been grossly misused by Nye and others.
 None of us ever heard that we
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-24
AL. SMITH WAS
 MADE TRUSTEE

New York, Dec. 241U.PJ-Fed- eral Judge Alfred c. Coxe to-day appointed George s. Gibbs president of the Postal Telegraph and Cable Corporation, to serve as a tempo rary trustee with former Governor Alfred E. Smith in the re-organiza- tion of the company under section 77B of the federal bankruptcy law.
 Gibbs appointment was opposed by the so-called Stewart bond-hold- CTS committee on the ground he was identified with the International Telephone and Telegraph manage ment.
 Hearing was set for January g for the naming of permanent trus- tees. N
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-24

Mir. and Mrs. William Wilding of Preston, England, claim a total of nine marriages, he having had fiVe wives a ndshe four husbands.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-24

Christmas Day, tomorrow, will be observed in Wa terbury in happy fashion Despite the fact that the weatherman predicted green" Christmas and dis appointed many who hoped to the ground covered with to give the real Yuletde aspect the holiday nevertheless will he real one q.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-24
By United Pressl

New York, December 24 - County Clerk Albert Marinelli said cheerily today that Police Commissioners Lewis Valentine didn't have "a lick' of Christmas spirit. Valentine said Marinelli didn't have good judge ment. Barinelli erected a big can- vas sigh at 8 downtown intersection wishing his. constituents a Merry Christmas. Valentine ordered it torn down because it was draped over a police sign advocating safe driving.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-24

KANSAS CITY, Kan, Dec. 24-- (UP)-ChriStmaS Eve found Jess Gordon on his way to the state penitentiary to serve 10 to %; years for the theft of Rosaries and silver ware from St. Johns Orphanage. He pleaded guilty to the theft charges and Judge W. H. McCam- ish fixed sentence.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-24

Chicago, December 24 = CUP) = Christmas pardons will be signed today by Mayor Edward Kelly for 132 inmates of the county jail who will be given. 8 yuletide meal tonight before their departure.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-24

CHICAGO, Dec. 24- (UP) Re. ports that Midget Fernekes, mur- derer and bandit, had cached ESQ., 900 loot before he committed sui. eide in the county jail here were denied today by Jack Rubens, pub.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-24

Many industries in Sweden are operating at capacity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-24
NEwS ODDITIES

lie administrator, who revealed tlss' Fernekes' wealth amounted to 4IG and a cheap automobile.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-24

You'd never suspect, just watching Dorothy Lee going through her lipstick ritual, that she covers 9.68 square feet of lips in a year and that she and the other 2874 cO-eds at the Univer
 Sity of Wisconsin use enough lip stick annually to paint four good sized barns. But that's what the test shows. The chart below shows that the average lip area is .S3 square inch. With the painting process repeated g times 8 week, the annual territory coverage
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-24

OMAHA, Neb, Dec. a4-tBPl- Santa Claus will need an oversize pack when he drops in tonight on the newly formed family of Carl Kludt. Kludt. 54. who has l3 cllil- dren, married Mrs. Kathryn M. Stenzel, 56, who has 12 children. Both are grandparents.
The Washington times., 1935-03-11
TODAY'S FEATURES

WMAL Father COughlin
in reply to General Johnson,
1O:15 to 1r:45 p. m.
WJSV-Kate Smith revue,
$3.50 to 8 p. m.
VOL Discussion of in
come tax publicity, 10 to
1915 p. m.
WRC Uncle Sans ar
chives, talk by Archivist Rob
ert COnnOr, 4:45 to 5 p. m.
TOMORROW
WMAL-WaShingtOn Times
news flashes, 9 to 9:15 a. m.
u. S. Marine Band, 1880 to
1890 a. m.
WJSV-U. S. Navy Band,
1880 to IL noon.
WRC-"COngreSS Speaks"
Representative Louis Ludlow
of indiana, "Taking the Prof
its Out of War: Representa-
tive Raymond ]. Cannon OF
wisconsin, HAS the Senate
Lost It's Dignity?" n
The Washington times., 1935-03-11
Radio Program High|ights

Next Sunday will bring a whole
series of programs of diversified
character and wide appeal, with
the emphasis on st. Patrick's
Day-the date being the seven
teenth.
Not all of the attractions will
have a st. Patrick's Day flavor,
however.
Over the Columbia broadcasting
system Sunday afternoon, Vlad.
emir Horowitz, eminent pianist,
will be heard as guest artist
with the Philharmonic-S Symphony
Society of New York. The
orchestra will broadcast the
fourth program Of Toscanini's
special Brahms cycle.
Sunday evening Rosa PonSelle
will be on the air, and there will
be other musical attractions Of
top grade, both afternoon and
night.
Broadcasters are giving greater
encouragement to amateur per-
formances since several amateur
numbers have been picked up by
the movies or the broadcasters
themselves and given prefe esslonal
| contracts.
, 1935-11-19
Truck Markets

Carlot shipments Of entire United
States reported Monday, NOV. 10:
Grapefruit Ariz z. Calf 2, Fla 5s,
Texas 81. total US 1903 cars.
Oranges: Ariz 2, Calf 95, Fla go.
total Us 1873 car.
Mixed Citrus: Calf 4, Fla Fl, Tex
az l. total US IS cars.
Beans. Fla az, total US AZ cars.
Cuba 3 cars
BeetS. None.
Cabbage: Mich I. " Y 2s. Pa /, SO
Car 8, Wise s. total US As cars.
Ca-~ots: Calf Ia. III /, Mich /,
N Y s. total US % cars.
Greens. Ariz I. total US 2 cars.
Mixed Vegetables: Calf n, Fla 8,
Texas !, others 3. total US "a cars.
Peas: Calf 3. total US 3 cars.
Peppers: Fla l, Ca 2. total US 8
cars.
Spinach: Maryland 4. Va Is. total
US 70 cars.
Tomatoes: Calf 4. Fla 1, Ohio 2,
total US Z cars.
Lower Valley shipments forwarded
Tuesday morning. Nov. 10:
Grapefruit 81. Mixed Citrus 4,
Mixed Vegetables /, total SO cars.
Total TO date this season-Citrus
1893. vegetables is. mixed citrus and
vegetables 4, total 1857: to same day
last seaSon-Citrus 5l4, vegetable SO.
total GOT cars.
Representative prices TO truckers
for Valley citrus and vegetables Mon
day, Nov. Is.
Grapefruit Boxes US Comb l.65-
LIS. Us No IS very few 1.00-110:
bushels US Comb l00-11O. US No
Is 60-65c. sacks box size US Comb
few around $40.
Oranges: Boxes US Comb mostly
2.lO-215: bushels US Comb 1.15-125,
US No. 81 75-85c.
Beans: BuShel hampers T5c-l00.
few best 1.10-125.
Eggplant: Bushel baskets mostly
leo.
Peppers. Bushel baskets i.O0-i10,
few higher. crates l50-l.75.
Squash: Bushei baskets yellow and
white mostly loo.
Tomatoes. Lugs l.10-12 Is, ordinary
quality mostly 100.
, 1935-11-19
FUNERAL Is HELD
FOR MRS. CRAIG

Many longtime friends or the
W. G. Craig family paid final
tribute 10 Mrs. Craig. 81. here Mon
day afternoon when funeral ser
vices were held at the Hinkley
chapel and at the Buena Vista
Burial Park.
The last rites were performed by
Rev. r. o. Macintosh of the Epis-
copal church to which Mrs. Craig
belonged for many years
The we'll known civic and social
worker died at her home Monday
morning following an illness Of long
duration. She had been III almost
continuously since q stroke ID
months ago.
a native OF Batavia, Ohio, reared
IN Austin, Mrs. Craig came here IN
1909 and was active for years IN
organizing the Civic League and IN
activities OF the SELF Culture club.
She had not been active for the
past five years because Of poor
health.
The decedent Is survived by her
husband. two daughters. Mrs.
Phil McNair OF Brownsville and
Mrs. w. Q. Withers OF S~totSenburg.
Philippine Islands: a son, William.
Jr., Of Brownsville; and a niece
Mrs. Emmett Goodrich az Mexico
City.
, 1935-11-19
z ARE SHOT
AT MONTERREY
Five Killed, IL Wounded
In Political Race
Gun Battle

MONTERREY. Mexico. Nov. ia
R1-F1ve persons we're killed and n
wounded Sunday In a gun fight
growing out of q clash between op-
posing political groups.
The trouble started when follow
ers OF Gen. Fortunate Zuazua. can
dldRte for the governorship or MI
eva Leon, entered a theatre In
which the rival candidate. Gen.
Anacleto Guerrero. was holding a
meeting.
Police attempted TO drive off the
zuazuactstas who resisted and dis
armed several officers.
Someone opened fire and a general
fight started.
Federal troops finally restored
order.
The fighting took the form OF two
riots, one In the morning near the
governors palace, when two men
were killed and several wounded.
and q second outbreak before noon
1t the Independence theatre, where
two more were killed.
Federal troops arrested 80 persons
involved In the trouble and the
acting governor announced that no
more demonstrations would be al
lowed.
General Guerra only recently an
nounced himself n candidate for
governor. while General Zuazua was
q candidate In the last election.
, 1935-11-19
Valley Churchmen
Name New Officers

SAN BENTTO, Nov. 1.-the VAL
ley Men Of the Church. Presbyterian
organization, held its Valley-wide
meeting here Monday night with
a46 present. and elected A. E. Nc
Clendon Of Harrington president,
succeeding J. G. Paxton Of Har-
Nngen-
Other officers elected we're Nelson
Jean Of Donna. vice president; and
Burton Rapp OF Raymondville, sec
getary-treasurer.
r. II. Kern Of Mercedes asked
invocation, and A. NJ. Bowie, presi-
dent Of the San Benito Men OF the
Church organization. opened the
business session. Cleve Tandy Of
Brownsville led IN group singing.
A talk on the history of the
movement was given by Charles
Bowie. county attorney. who decla--
Cd this gathering was in the nature
a. a homecoming since the move
ment had It's beginning here ten
years ago.
Paul Vickers ~ the McAUen
Chamber of Commerce also talked.
and James Shafer Of San Benito
sang.
DR.. w. A. Mcleod OF Cuero deliv-
cred an address. and benediction
was asked BY Rev. z. p. Day Of
Brownsville.