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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-04
WOMAN PASSENGER DROWNED

Vancouver, B. C., Feb 4-(UP)-A woman passenger was drowned today after collision of the Canadian Pacific steamer Princess Alice with the West Vancouver ferry in aheavy fog at the entrance of Vancouver harbor. The ferry boat sank. All passengers and crew were saved, except the woman.
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Many Important Decisions Giuen
 By Supreme Court
William P. MacCracken Must Serve 10 Days in Jail
 Which Was Inflicted for Contempt of Senate; New England Movies Lost Case

Washington, Feb. 4-(UP)-The Supreme Court today upheld the right of the senate to punish William F. Mac Cracken former assistant secretary of commerce. for a legged contempt of it's and airmal Investigating committee.
 The senate had imposed To-day jail sentence Mac Crace He had argued successfully in the lower that only the courts could impose such punishment.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-04
DIES OF HIS INJURIES

Peabody, Mass, Feb 4-(UP)--Ar Me Poland, 41 World war veteran, died at hos pital today of injuries allegedly suffered when attacked at Winston-Salem, N. c. Bruises and acid burns were on his body. McPo!and returned from the south yesterday. An investigation was begun
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-04

Washington, Feb 4-(UP)-Scn Arthur H. Vandenberg. k. Mich
 disclosed today that testimony in the senate munitions inquiry may be certified to the U. s. district at- torney here to determine if one or more witnesses committed perjury,
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|H0usen1uidF F0rMOrr0lU Family Took Her Life After The Kidnapping
Woman Restaurant Owner Said Miss Sharpe Was in Her Place Night of the Crime e-Carried Blanket '
 and Appeared Very Nervous
BY SIDNEY B. WHIPPLE United Press Stan COrrcsponden)

Pennington, N. J., Feb. 4-(UP) - Counsel for Bruno Richard Haupmann wedged another piece of testimony into the record today designed prove that Violet Sharpe house. maid for Mrs Dwight w. Morror participated in the Lnd bergh Kidnapping.
 Mrs. Anna Bonesteel, proprietor of Yonkers N. r.,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-04
Markets At q Glance
Stocks dull and irregular. Bonds quiet and steady.

Stocks dull and irregular. Bonds quiet and steady. Curb stocks easier in dull trading. Chicago stocks quiet and mixed Call money per cent. Dollar easier in foreign currencies. Wheat and corn off % to 4 cent; oats drop N to &. Cotton holds small gains. Rubber steady around previous closing levels. Bar silver up % at 5SB cents an ounce. Copper 3 cents pound.
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Final Edition Closing Stocks L0te News Flashes
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Evening star., 1935-04-07

she always says, oh, I get so tired OF
seeing the same things in the same
place all the time
But I'm going to give her taste
of her own medicine this year" con-
tinued Mr.. Milfret vindictively. when
she starts cleaning house I'm coming
down to dinner with a rubber boot
on my head, my dress suit on back
ward, neckties around my knees, ten
mis- shoes on my feet, and my eye
glasses hung over my ear. And when
she asks what the big idea is, I'll say,
oh, get so tired of seeing the same
things in the same place all the time.
"That," he concluded grimly. will
show her how silly the whole business
Is, when viewed effectively"
Yesterday I encountered Mr.. Mil
fret again. He was Just entering Joe's
lunch wagon.
$50 you're eating out, too" I OBJ
served.
"Yes," he said apologetically. "Ev-
erything Is topsy-turvy at home, SO
thought I'd better"
But what about your little
scheme?" asked. "You told me that
when your wife started house clean
ing you were going to come down to
dinner with your dress suit on back
ward and tennis shoes on your feet,
and a rubber boot on your head, and
whatnot-to open her eyes to her
folly. Didn't your plan work?"
mo" MIR. Milfret sighed. "As a
matter of fact I couldn't find my
boots or my dress suit or my tennis
shoes or anything. And besides" he
added, "there wasn't any dinner to
come down to. How about q couple
of hamburgere2"
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any more extensively than Great
Britain. They thought of the fathers
and mothers back home. They could
not assume the responsibility for
sending boys they had known as
babies into an European slaughter
pen. But the majority sentiment
was overwhelmingly against them.
The voting started at 2:45 am.
Only the voice Of the reading clerk
as he called the roll broke the dead
silence Of this solemn occasion. There
was no comment-untl the clerk
came to the name Of the lady from
Montana.
Miss Rankin
There was no response.
miss Rankin-Miss Rankin" he
repeated twice in a louder voice.
She rose to her feet, her face
flushed.
II want to stand by my country"
she said in q faltering voice, but I
cannot vote for war"
vote! Vote!" cried several mem
bers.
"Yes," she said in voice barely
audible. They went to her side and
asked her to repeat it. to make sure
it was recorded correctly.
Slightly over a half hour was re-
uuired to take the vote. There never
had been any question over the out
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High School boy was accepted for
enlistment in the Navy and there was
some protest that war should be al
lowed to invade the school room.
There we're gorgeous gowns for Easter
on display in the Washington store
windows. At social gatherings they
were singing Pack Up Your Troubles. !"
"Tipperary" was already out of date.
"The Long. Long Trail was just be-
ginning to be heard.
Thousands were getting a rather
| highly colored impression of war from
the most popular book of the day
| long since relegated to trash heaps.
1t was Arthur Guy Empey's over the
Top" A war vocabulary was making
its way into the conversation of Amer
lea. Folks talked about going gest," !"
"Tommies," ''camouf1age," orient" F"
etc. Ministers quoted THE Towers Of
oxford" in their sermons. The FASH
ion designers were wracking their
brains to devise snappy uniforms
overseas caps and all-for militant
ladies.
Lights were burning all night long
in the War Department.
The Good Friday rituals through
| Christendom were being chanted
against the overtone Of the booming
guns in Picardy.
1t was thus that Americans went to
! war.
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no one has ever died Of
Spring fever, it resembles the
more deadly fevers in at least
one respect. At the onset of the

ANNS4o AAA e~s @Se>Ss
i one respect. At the onset OF the
malady the victim feels strange
" stimulated. The first symptom is
increased muscular, respiratory and
mental activity desire to go places
and do things.
Just as the pale genius with the
hacking cough does his best work
when his days are definitely num-
bered. so the vernal valetudinarian
displays a phenomenal burst Of energy
before yielding to the lethargy that in
evitably claims him.
He Is up at dawn, spading the gar
den and performing odd jobs around
the house. He walks to the office.
breathing deeply, and at his desk ne
gives q convincing impersonation OF q
human dynamo working overtime. But
all this time the insidious somnolence
is in his blood. The infection Of in
dolence is spreading through his sys-
tenn, though he never suspects 1t.
Women seem less susceptible to
Spring fever than men do. Many Of
them exhibit all the preliminary symp-
toms-the restlessness and the aggres-
sive busyneSs-without ever reaching
the later, more passive stages Of the
disease. Some women, in fact, act as
carriers" although immune from
Spring fever themselves. They re-
main consistently active, but the
people they live with get very, very
tired. Such cases should be isolated.
NOWHERE is the natural feminine
resistance to Spring fever more
evident than in the business Of house
! cleaning. One may cqpcede that
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houses should have thorough clean
ing every so often. But why must 1t
always be now? With four seasons
to choose from, why pick on Spring?
There is a touch of the poet in the
average man, but 1t is only in the
Spring that he becomes aware OF It.
Under the influence of languorous
Southern breezes, fieecy clouds ana
twittering birds, he is ripe for ro-
nance. He is ready to loaf and invite
his soul. But the psychic r. S. v. p.
is lost in a cloud of dust, and the girl
of his dreams appears with towel
around her head and a broom in her
hand. .
Though Spring cleaning is a fixed
festival that recurs annually. it almost
invariably comes upon the male mem
bers of the household as an unfore-
seen calamity. They leave home In
the morning, never suspecting what is
in store for them. No reverberations
of the crash reach their ears at school
and office; no ominous yellow envelope
brings them the message, Come at
once. Your Morris chair is sinking
rapidly"
But when they return in the eve
ming they find their home practically
in ruins. Chairs are sprawled with
their feet in the air. beds have been
stripped to their chassis. Pictures
and bric-a-brac are stacked on the
bare floor, the uncurtained windows
are logged with soap, and everything
movable-from pianos to pincushions
has been moved. The place is an
unrecognizable wreck. Shrouded fur
niture turks in the shadows. and the
funereal effect is heightened by the
melancholy wailing Of the vacuum
| cleaner. while distanNearpet beater
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throbs slowly like the tolling Of 3
muffled bell.
There Is no sanctuary here for
poets and dreamers. Ordinary weekly
cleaning is done with decent restraint,
one room at a time; by charting the
zones of low barometric pressure you
can usually find sheltered spot even
in the midst of the storm. But the
first principle Of Spring housekeeping
is an all-embracing thoroughness.
There is no suspense, no build-up. It
is like play in which all the actors
and the scene-shifters, too-are on
the stage all the time. It is a three
ring circus. except that there are no
seats for spectators. The unsuspect-
ing husband opens the front door, and
before he has time to hang up his hat
he is shanghaied by feminine press
gang and put to work As II It
weren't hard enough for him simply
to gaze on the ruin they have wrought,
he is compelled to assist them in the
demolition of his own home.
The pernicious effects Of general
house-cleaning last long after the
actual upheaval has subsided. Time,
the great healer, works slowly and 1t
is many weeks before the old status
quo is re-established. At their worst,
the sweeping, scrubbing and beating
are ephemeral evils; in few days the
dust settles. the window panes begin
to take on their accustomed blue-gray
patina, and you can breathe without
inhaling feathers. It is like coming
out from the anesthetic sitter major
operation.
RUT a protracted convalescence lies
ahead Of you, . trying period Of
readjustment-for thsreal purpose Of
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house e-cleaning is not cleanliness, but
change. Nothing Is exactly where it
was before. Even the familiar humps
and hollows of your favorite armchair
have disappeared.
It is obvious that women clean
house not for the satisfaction of seeing
everything spick and span, but for
the advantage 1t gives them over the
men in the family. Every Spring they
Systematically hide books. letters. pen
cils, golf balls, corkscrews, fishing
tackle, comfortable old shoes and
other personal property. And when
the innocent victims of this mischief
appeal to them for some clue to the
missing articles they smile patroniz-
ingly and sigh, Men are so helpless" !"
They create emergencies simply for
the fun of helping us out Of them.
It was MIR. Milfret who first sug-
gested this theory to me. encoun-
tered him the other day as was COM
ing out Of Joe's lunch wagon.
Eating out, eh?" he said, chuck
ling.
"Phoebe's cleaning house." ex-
planned, land she said I'd better"
ct know, know" he nodded. I'VE
all have to 60 through it. And now
for the next six weeks you'll be prac-
tically stranger in your own home.
I tell you, house cleaning is simply a
racket promoted by wives to keep
their husbands in subsection. Every
Spring my wife has all the furniture
moved into different corners of the
house. She shifts the pictures on the
walls, shuffles the contents of the
bureau drawers and remodels the en-
| tire door plan% And when ! object
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Beetle Spreads Elm Disease

GOVERNMENTAL entomologists
who are battling against the
Dutch elm disease, an enemy Of the
elm trees which is potentially as dan
gerous to the elnls as the chestnut
blight was to the native chestnut trees
Of this country, have at last found
the principal enemy, the carrier Of the
disease. William Middletown attached
to the Bureau of Entomology. after
considerable study. has determined
that the elm bark beetle is the carrier
Of the disease.
The beetle, feeding on infected
trees, picks up fungus of the disease
and transmits it to the crotches Of
unaffected trees when feeding on the
healthy specimens.
Three instances of such transmits
sion have been obtained on three diff
ferent elm trees. In two cases the
beetles used in the experiments were
reared from diseased elm bark and
wood kept in rearing cages and in the
third case the beetles used were COL
lected from an infected elm growing
in the open. The experimental work
was carried on in a greenhouse at
Morristown, N. j.
The possibility that many other in
sects. including other boring species
and sucking and leaf-eating insects,
are carriers of the fungus of Dutch
elm disease remains to be studied So
far, however, the bark beetle, Scolytes
multistriatus. is the only insect known
in this country to carry the infection
from one tree and implant 1t in an
other.
Observations to date indicate that
there are two complete and a partial
third generation of the beetles annu-
ally and that from about the middle Of
May until after the middle Of Septem-
ber. there IS an almost continuous sup
ply of adult beetles. The retarded in
dividuals of one generation overlap
subsequent generation.
The last survey shows that beetle
infestation (not Dutch elm disease) in
Massachusetts, extends as far north as
Haverhill, near the New Hampshire
line, south to Halifax and west to
Wayland. In the vicinity of New
York the beetle was found in Con-
necticut as far east and north as
Meriden and New Milford, north along
the Hudson River to Clermont and as
far west as Bloomingburg. On Long
Island the infeStation extends as far
east as Bay Shore to the south and
Rosslyn to the north. The beetle is
found over New Jersey except in the
southern part and in Pennsylvania
from Philadelphia north to Bangor
and west to the Susquehanna River.
Maine and New Hampshire were not
surveyed. 1t should be remembered
that the area covered by this beetle
has no immediate relation to the area
now covered by the Dutch elm disease.
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months to come. 1t was to be war
of rain and mud, at home and over
seas.
Within a half-hour after the vote
in the House was completed the
United States already had won its first
engagement when. braving a drench-
ing storm of mingled rain and snow,
q force of police and bluejackets had
taken possession of six German Llovd
and Hamburg American Line ships
interned in Boston Harbor. 1t was an
engagement without fatalities, unless
from pneumonia The German crews
left peacefully enough. The only re-
sistance was offered by an irate purser
of the Kronprinsezzin Cecilie, who
ludicrously defied the invaders. stand
ing on the deck in bare feet and
drenched pajamas.
In Washington Spring was well ad-
vanced that year. The forsythla
hedge in front of the German En-
bassy was in full glory Of green and
gold. The magnolias in Franklin
Park were blooming. Vegetable plants,
The Evening Star Of that day reports,
were beginning to break through the
soil in home gardens Out on N street
the children of the British Embassy
were making a garden, with much fun
and merriment. Woodrow Wilson
passed them on his morning walk and
stopped to talk with them.
Quite matter-of-fact was that walk
of the President He and Mrs. Wilson
left the White House at II o'clock and
struck out across La Fayette Park. He
was without an overcoat and was
swinging a cane The crowd waiting
for the Good Friday services in front
of St. Johns Church respectfully made
way for the couple as they turned up
Sixteenth street. They nodded to a
few acquaintances. They walked
briskly to Scott Circle. He seemed
especially interested in the display
of flags. They turned up Massa-
chusetts avenue. On the way back
they stopped in front of 1903 Twen-
tieth street, the house where they
were married. On Connecticut avenue
they met Justice Oliver Wendell
Holmes and stopped to chat with him
Mrs. Wilson admired some dresses on
display in a shop window. They
went inside to look for them.
THE President was back at the
l. White House by l O'Clock. The
war resolution was brought to him
He waited for a few moments. Was
there some mystical significance at.
tached in his mind to three aces
the three zones" recorded by hi:
watch as he affixed his signature? II
was only a formality. Thirteen hours
had passed since the battle" with
the pajama-clad purser in Boston
Harbor. Did the poor fellow get pneu-
monia? Was he ever considered fol
an iron cross? One wonders.
The declaration of war brought
about no immediate mystic change ir
the daily life of Washington-nor OF
the Nation. The Senators were or
their way North. They were to play
Pat Moran's champion Philadelphia
Nationals at the ball park the next
| day. Misunderstanding children were
obstructing the sidewalks. Govern
ment clerks went home to burn raked-
up dry grass in their back yards. The
ancient tragedy Of Calvary was re-
enacted in all the churches, their
| affairs draped in black. A Business
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she read Of alleged German atrocities
and now-she raised the Stars and
Stripes.
Up in Oyster Bay. N. Y, the news
stirred the blood of Theodore Roose-
welt. He issued a statement calling
for "a system Of universal military
service" He wanted to raise his own
division for service on the western
front.
The Army had a recruiting tent at
Seventh street and Pennsylvania
avenue. It was crowded all day.
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come. It was 373 to so in favor Of
war. There was rush to leave the
crowded galleries. Champ Clark i'm
mediately signed the resolution. The
news was flashed all over the world.
America, to all intents and purposes,
was at war
Far across the Pacific bitter old
lady ordered the Stars and Stripes
raised over her house for the first
time. For a generation she had
hated Uncle Sam-this Queen Liliuo-
kalamu of Hawaii, who had been de-
prived of her throne. But the senti-
mental old lady's blood had boiled as
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IT WAS a cold, gray Spring day.
L Most of the night before a chill.
drenching rain had fallen on Wash
ington. Out at Fort Myer the Sd In
fsntry, District Of Columbia National
Guard, was setting up tent camp in
a field where the mud was ankle deep.
With the certainty of war the men
had been called from their homes the
day before, but, with the exception of
one company, all had been allowed to
return to their own beds for the night.
Their clothing and equipment were
soaked. 1t was a fair introduction to
the life they were to know for many
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try are hereby pledged by the United

try are hereby pledged by the United
States"
Then the resolution had gone to
the House. Its passage was certain,
but full debate was allowed.
The debate in the House had con-
tinued for 16 hours and As minutes
when the vote was taken. More than
100 members had spoken. There had
been some dramatic moments. There
were those in the House membership
sincerely opposed to war. They had
been accused of cowardice.
"Yes," said Claude Kitchen, the
majority leader, "but it doesn't take
any great courage to vote for other
men to go out and fight. My con-
science and my judgment, after pray
ers for guidance, have shown me that,
even if I must tread this path alone,
I must vote against this resolution"
The resolute House leader did not
have to stand alone. Forty-nine
others-Democrats, Republicans, a
Socialist and a Prohibitionist-stood
with him. There were some pic
turesque figures among them. One
was an old gentleman from Ohio,
Representative Sherwood He was the
only Union veteran of the Civil War
in the House. He should have known
whereof he spoke when he protested
against "plunging this country into
| the most ruthless and ribald war in
history" He protested against the
ill-repute which was being attached
to all things German. Those were
days when American towns named
Berlin" were voting to change their
names and sauerkraut was being re-
ferred to as liberty cabbage" Gen.
Sherwood wanted to speak longer, but
a five-minute rule was in force and
Representative Fitzgerald Of New
York, chairman of the Committee of
the Whole, refused permission.
Once fist fight seemed dangerously
near between the smallest and one
of the largest members. Thomas J..
Hehin was then a member Of the
House from Alabama. He said that
any Democrat making such dis
graceful speech as that of Majority
Leader Kitchen should, in common
| decency, resign his seat. This was
resented by Representative Burnett
Of Alabama. He seemed almost q
midget compared with the burly
Hefiin, whom he def1ed.
If you feel that way about It,"
he told his fellow Alabaman, you
should 60 back home yourself and
enlist"
Heflin intimated that he might.
The incident ended in q turmoil Of
shouting.
MOST Of the members who spoke
were in favor of war. There
was applause for both opponents and
proponents. The only woman mem
ber Of the House, jeanette Rankin
of Montana, was observed sitting
quietly, her head bowed. joining the
applause for neither side. She left
late in the. afternoon, but returned
before the voting started.
Some of the members wanted q
purely defensive war. They would
not vote to send troops outside the
United States. They could not un-
kderstand how Germany had kected