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Evening star., 1935-04-18
Good News Of Money Savers!
FRIDAY SPECIALS
From the House.
wares Section

Medium Size Rinse. You know
how useful this Is! Limit of 4
packages to a customer. For H
Friday Only. .............
59c Waterless Cleaner. 5-lb. cans
of Waterless Cleaner-can be used
for walls, floors. enamel
ware and porcelain. For A7r
Friday only ............. ~
Soc Self-Wringing Mops. Squeeze
Eazy self-wringing mops; no need
to soil your hands when
you use this mop. For 20N
Friday Only ............. ~
19c Hose Reels. Hard wood con-
struction; will hold up to 100 #.
of garden hose. Heavy cast
iron wheels. For Friday 17N
Only .................. ~
CLEARANCE ROSE BUSHES,
SHRUBS AND HEDGES
IA Price
35c Roses ..............1Se
35c Shrubs .............1sc
49c Fruit Trees .24c
79c Bundle Calf. Privet. .36e
sec Bundle Barberry Hedge, 29e
81 Wear Ever Aluminium Kettles.
3 qt. covered wear ever aluminium
handled kettles. For Fri 1AR
day Only ...............
79c Shoe Towers. Holds from 5 to
10 pairs Of shoes; metal hangers
for ties, belts and scarts. AQC
For Friday Only =. ......
Palais Royal-Fifth Floor
Evening star., 1935-04-18
Children'S
2.19 Shoes
For Friday Only

For Friday Only
Just so pairs of children's I.S7
patent 1-strap shoes. in ~>S
broken sizes s1a to 3 in
the lot.
WearWell Sheets
For Friday Only
Orig. LIS. Fine quality. o2C
firmly woven taped
edges and snowy-white finish.
Choice Of S1x99 or 72x10S!
Mattress Covers
For Friday Only
Orig. 1.29. A close-out! Q7fs
Twin or full size, Of good W.
grade sheeting. Rubber. buttons.
Palais Royal-Second Floor
Evening star., 1935-04-18
2oc Garment
Storage Bags
!, f,'.s, ...'.. 4 for S9c

Duo-tone bags, size 27x60 inches.
roomy enough to accommodate
three garments. Fully cedarized
they'll protect your things
against moths and summer heat.
Palais Royal-Main Floor
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-27

Quantities are limited = the early shopper will have finest selection and will not be disa ppointed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-27

Just 17 to sell - complete with colorful paper-parch- ment shades.
Evening star., 1935-07-15

Mems fancy colored Isle and Isle mixture socks in light
and deeptoned coors Seamless. with double heels and
toes Sizes 10 to Il.
Aso-6OO pairs Mems Pure Silk and Fine Esle Socks;
light medium and dark shades some full fashioned Sizes
10 to II. Special. Csc pair.
STORE SECOND FLOOR.
Evening star., 1935-07-15
PARKING WRONG CAR
LEADS TO CHARGE
Man Accused of Drunken Driv.
ing After Mix-Up in Auto.
mobiles.

Among 288 persons arrested over
the week end on traffic charges
was James H. Thomas, who allegedly
took another mans car by mistake
md parked it on the sidewalk in front
Of his home, 1915 street southeast.
Thomas was charged with driving
while drunk.
Two other cases involving drunken
driving were among the 80 to be heard
In Traffic Court today. OF this num-
Der is were locked up. Collateral
was forfeited by l89 persons arrested.
The number Of defendants and
witnesses was so large this morning
that court room and corridors out
side were crowded.
A large number Of speeders were
fined from $40 to $25. One case in
volved reckless driving, in which a
woman was injured. Hearings for
those charged with more serious
ofenses were deferred until this after
noon.
Evening star., 1935-07-15
TWO KILLED IN FIGHTS;
TWO OTHERS ARE HELD
Murder Charges Placed After
Separate ARRAYS Result
in Fatalities.

Two colored persons, Anna Dabbs,
81, of 1893 Cecil place, and a man
believed by police to be Ernest Jack
son, address unknown, died early yes
terday and Saturday night, respective
ly, shortly after their injury in alter
cations.
The Dabbs woman died of a shot
gun wound in her head received In a
fight at her home. Police later ar
rested William r. Ridley. 81, colored,
who also lived at the Cecil place ad-
dress. He was charged with murder,
police reported.
Jackson died from stab wounds re-
eeived in a fight at the home of
Thomas w. johnson, As, colored, 400
block of SiX-and-half street south
west, police said. Johnson was booked
on murder charge at No. 4 precinct.
He is in a serious condition at Cas-
uality Hospital from stab wounds re-
ceived in the fight.
Evening star., 1935-07-15
DUTCH ASK PROBE
OF PLANE CRASHES.
Six Killed in Latest Acct
dent-Authorities Aroused
by Series of Crashes.
By the Associated Press.

ey the Associated Press.
AMSTERDAM, July 15.-Authorities
ordered a rigid investigation today into
the series of disasters to the Neither
lands airliners after Sundays tragedy
in which six persons were killed at
the Shiphol Aerodrome.
The giant American-made Fokker
plane which crashed into dyke and
burst into flames yesterday soon after
taking of for Hamburg was the third
flying hotel" of the Netherlands
wrecked in little more than six months.
The charred wreckage of the great
four-motored ship was sealed. Not
even officials of the airline were per-
mjtted to approach.
A post mortem disclosed that the
six Notwithstanding two English
passengers whose curiosity to inspect
the operating mechanism led to their
being trapped in the pilots compart-
ment-died before the flames reached
them.
Is PASSENGERS Escape.
Thirteen other passengers and one
member Of the crew escaped through
a small rear door, which burst open
in the crash.
The dead, trapped behind jammed
door forward in the cabin, besides
the two English passengers, named
Newman and Hodson, were four crew.
men-Pilot Silverstein, Wireless Oper-
ator Niebor and Mechanics Brom and
Van Dyk.
"The plane became a raging in
ferno q few seconds after the crash"
said one woman survivor, a Mrs.
Claassen.
Il first noticed something wrong as
the plane tried to gain altitude from
the take-off. One engine began to
sputter and backflre. I felt my heart
in my throat as the ship began to
wobble. 1t was all over in flash.
Before I had time to get panicky
I felt a terrible shock and saw flames
burst out in the front of the plane.
Then some one cried: Here, this way
and grabbed my arm and hurried
me out to safety"
No Americans Aboard.
Three survivors were injured. No
Americans were aboard.
As the official investigation was
started, it was learned that the ship
developed motor trouble almost imme-
diately after taking off. The pilot
crashed while striving to avoid plung-
ing into dyke under construction.
Last April Fokker plane flying
the Praha-Amsterdam route crashed
near Kassel. Germany, with loss
of seven lives.
In December a Douglas flying
hotel" which had finished second in
the England Australia race, was struck
by lightning over the Syrian Desert.
ALI seven occupants were killed.
Evening star., 1935-07-15
Six Marriages Licensed.

FAIRFAX, Va. July Is Especially -
Marriage licenses have been issued in
the Office Of the county clerk as fol-
lows: James E. Anderson, %, East
Falls Church, Va, and Barbara H.
Shear, 81, Washington; Christian
Schultz, 90, and Olga Shelton, 81, both
of Baltimore, Md; Dudley c. Webb,
81, Fairfax, Va, and Idell Beales, 10,
Alexandria, Va; Charles B. Vance, jr.,
81, and Gertrude c. Vaughan, %, both
Of Alexandria, Va; Walter j. L. Simp-
son, "a, and Mabel Marie Honemond,
20, both Of Washington, and Raymond
M. Lynch, "a, and Mary H. Gilling-
ham, both of Alexandria, Va.
Evening star., 1935-07-15
CHAIN LETTERS
SWELL 'M0RGUES'
Millions Sent to Dead Letter
OffiCeS-S0me Contain
Money.
BY tho Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press,
One result Of the chain letter craze
between two and three million let
ters in the dead-letter ohices.
Disclosing this, officials said yester-
day the fad was dead now-that 1t
reached its peak in May and slowly
subsided-but how many letters were
sent, how many persons took part, or
how much they proflted would never
be determined.
Only through the letters that could
not be delivered because of wrong ad-
dresses, fictitious names or death could
any estimate Of its proportions be OBJ
tanned.
There was an increase Of from 1000
to $500 per cent in letters sent by
postmasters to dead-letter offices dur
ing the April-June quarter.
Letters containing money were seq
regated from those without money
and an ATTEMPT made to return the
letters to the senders.
The Government will profit to some
extent by the chain letter craze be-
cause about one out Of every 10 un-
deliverable letters have contained
money.
During the peak Of the craze many
letters addressed to the President and
Mrs. Roosevelt were received at the
White House, sometimes as many as
a couple of hundred day. They
were sent to the Post Office Depart
ment for disposition.
While the scheme was declared IL
legal under the postal laws, authori-
ties were powerless to stop it mas
much as the law prevented them from
opening first-class mail without a
court order and there was no way Of
determining whether letters were Of
the chain type. Therefore, no seiz-
ures were made.
Evening star., 1935-07-15

Q White, self-striped madrases
Q Fine, white oxford cloth
Q Colored Rice-Weave Cloth
Q Colored madrases
. White pique
Evening star., 1935-07-15
Home Club Meetings Curtailed.

FAIRFAX, Va, July IS (SpeciaD -
Local Home Demonstration Clubs will
hold but two meetings this week, Miss
Alice Crutchfleld, county home dem
onstration agent, has announced.
Tomorrow Oakton Home Demon
stration Club will meet for a social
gathering, for which the program is
being arranged, and Wednesday after
noon at o'clock Fairview Home DEM
onstration Club will meet for a DEM
onstration on clothing construction to
be conducted by the county agent.
Evening star., 1935-07-15

that extra something" being the ease Of selec-
tion from large variety Of Palm Beach suits
the delight Of shopping in distnctively individual
Mems Store-the careful fitting by mems clothing
experts Regulars, longs, shorts, stouts.
Evening star., 1935-07-15
Camp Worker Has Meningitis.

SALISBURY, Md, July is R.-
Joseph A. Richardson, 32-year-
Civilian Conservation Corps worker,
was confined to the Peninsula General
Hospital here today with meningitis,
one Of the first cases to be reported
on the Eastern Shore Of Maryland this
Summer.
Evening star., 1935-07-15
Poland Builds Roads,

Poland expects to build 75o miles of
new roads in two years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-25
In To-day's Mail
 Anonymous letters will not be accepted unless accom-. panied with writer's name.
WRITER CONGRATULATES CITY ADMINISTRATION UPON
 ITS EFFICIENCY
Waterbury, Conn,

Waterbury, Conn,
 July "A, 1885.
 Editor of the Democrat:
 It is with genuine satisfaction that I read of the many workers being put to work. by the city dur ing the last few weeks. Many or these men have not worked for many months, it will mean much to them and their families to be able to have a few dollars to spend even though their employment lasts but a few months. The paying out of wages to these workers Will also boost purchasing power, thereby aiding our merchants. Our citizens, too, will be benefited by the improvements these workers create.
 May as a citizen of Waterbury congratulate the present city ad- ministration through these columns upon the efficient manner it has handled the city's affairs through the six most depressing years our country has ever known. True the present administration is not per feet, but then what administrator is, but the citizens of Waterbury have a mind of their own and they will show they cannot be fooled by the mutterings of few dis gruntled workers who seem to have no ones welfare at heart but their own by reelecting the pres ent office holders in october. AS am not a political man and nave no flare for publicity. you can sign by names, as,
 FAIR MINDED CITIZEN.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-25
A Thought for Today
United States Challenges

Once more United States challenges for the Davis Cup, symbolic of supremacy ln the international tennis world. The splen- did victory of Winner Allison and John Van Ryn Tuesday in the doubles compe- tition with Germany spelled the real dlf- ference between success and failure tor the 1885 team which represents this na- ton. We do not mean that Donald Budge's unexpected defeat of Baron Von Cramm yesterday was any less glorious. Quite the contrary. However nothing hinged on the outcome of this match. Everything did on the doubles.
 And surely no more glorious match was ever waged than this doubles contest in which the victorious Americans staved off five match-points in the last two sets. To Allison must go full credit for the en- trance of the United States team into the challenge round of Davis Cup play. He was magnificent in the doubles, perhaps no more so than his partner Van Ryn, but it was on Allison's shoulders that rest ed the task of continuing the fight after, the doubles were won.
 Although the Americans led two to one when play was resumed today, it was nec essary to win one of the two remaining singles contests. Allison must have been physically worn to thread when he faced Heiner Henkel yesterday And despite the predictions that Allison would easily beat his opponent, it might be recalled that Henkel upset the dope in the Germany Australia matches. All of which would have put Budge squarely on the spot and in the pinches Won Cramm might have been a different opponent than he was when hope was gone.
 The big test comes when the Americans tackle Fred Perry, Bunny Austin, ct alia. We don't say their chances are excellent It's too much to think that Perry can be beaten by Allison or Budge, but there is a tremendous incentive for each of them to attempt the impossible Austin can be defeated, but in Davis Cup play he's at his best His tourney showing can't be taken into consideration. At doubles the Amer jeans should again win. If they can cap ture two singles matches, a real ovation will be accorded them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-25
It Gets Us All

We can only blame it on the heat that Fairfield county legislators who are SUD- posed to be the final board through which the proposed Merritt Highway plans will pass should consider spending 100000 on this project. In the widest flight of imagination of anybody in this state there was never any thought of the expense of this job running as high as that. Even the 15,0O0,000, which we concluded was pretty steep but probably justified, was arrived at only after it was decided that federal funds could be obtained to pay part of this big bill.
 Meeting this week and debating the question for close to two hours the legis- lators finally adjourned until August IA with nothing definitely settled We owe a vote of thanks, though, to Representa- tive Daniel F.. B. Hickey of Stamford for sticking to the plan that $15,O00,OOO highway would be quite sufficient unto the needs of Fairfield county or any other county in the state for that matter. Un- fortunately for the peace of mind of the taxpayers of the state the Hickey stand was lost when it came to vote, IT legis- lators voting against sticking to any such low figures as mere $15,000,000.
 Such figures as these were offered at the meeting: construction cost, $17,600,- 900; landscaping, $3,O00000; contin- gencies, $2,O0O,000; right of way for 16 miles, $200,000 mile or $3,200,000; en- gineering divided into inspection, $640,- 900, survey and design, $390,600, and legal fees, $50,000. Incidentally the republican legislators were quite free in their criti- cism of State Highway Commissioner John A. Macdonald at the hearing. Per- haps Governor Cross was ill-advised in reappointing him as a republican hold over, after all. It must be perfectly obvi- ous to the rest of the state by this time that a serious mistake was made in en- trusting the work of blaming the roadway to group of legislators, swayed this way and that by seperate constituencies If ever again we hear the claim advanced that democrats held up the construction of the Merritt Parkway we'll be tempted fo tell such claimant that he's jackass The democrats may not have done very much to speed up this hng-awaited road way, but at least they have not engaged in tho artfuI lodging and fanciful feinting lint republicans now employ. S1b,000,OO0 is lot to spend on one road in these days of Unemployment Hear that in mind, gen. ||em1n. s= IoH 4'=s'.&. |41.00o,oQo Jobs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-25
We're Above Average

As we stated recently the average tax paid by the American motorist in 1884 was $45.41. Additional figures that have just been made public reveal that in Con- necticut the tax, exclusive of the property tax, if anyone pays that any more, on his or her automobile, was $47.19, slightly higher than the average throughout the country. Florida boasted the highest tax at $73.39, while District of Columbia driv- CTS paid the lowest $27 apiece All figures are based on those obtained by the U. s. Bureau of Public Roads and can be relied upon.
 The gasoline tax proved to be the high est of the several levies exacted from the motorist The average was $30.48 per vehicle, the bulk of this again being in the form of the state gasoline tax, the fed eral gasoline tax amounting to only $7.82. The average amount paid for registra- tions, drivers licenses, etc., was only $12.23. This again was we'll below the Connecticut figure, which was $22.21. We checked this list very closely and weren't surprised to find it the second highest, surpassed by only Verm2nt's average of $27.68.
 All of which only goes to prove that Connecticut has been exacting a bit more from the motorist than good many other states. Where we have been lenient in our gasoline taxes, we have leaned the other way in registrations. Now we are doing just the opposite We are cutting down the latter but evening up the total score by jumping up the gas taxes. That may be good financing in order to balance budget, but perhaps something might be done about presenting budget that would be in keeping with the times. We're heartily in favor now of less regard for stupendous engineering feats along our highways. They cost too much money.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-25
Press Comment
ROCK CLIMBING
(New Hayen Journal Courier)

(New Haven Journal-Courier)
 New Haveners who have kept their eyes on the escapades of those who try to scale East and West Rocks forget another, if lesser, danger in the city. Recent head lines have announced the plight of a young man caught atop a thirty fot cliff at Fort Hale park; they remind us that here. too. the fool hardy find it possible to get into trouble. It was about this time several years ago that the greatest of all Rock tragedies occurred when a war-maddened veteran hurled his family from the heights at West Rock. Less terrifying but more inexclusabie are the episodes of the boys who are caught on the Rocks faces.
 More inexciusable, because there are many adventures for boys with in striking radius of the city which do not risk their necks. If they want to hike, there is hiking galore. and if they want to climb, they can combine both yenrnings by go- ing over, say Mount sanford. Boys being boys. the hazards of the greater porlls will doubtless con. tlnuo to attract them. but # the Likelihood of injury doesn't deter them, perhaps the chances of em. baFFaasment at failing to mako the grade wifi do 70. After alI. ihere'H very little glory IlI being fiHhed Quf If zfHTfI DI H fifeHnU.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-25
T7he Tauern Decision Legislative Ineficiency Rather Than Legislative Intent Supported by Judge McEvoy's Views.
HARTFORD TIMES

that it was incumbent upon it to enforce the law as it found it, in spite of the obvious incongruity of requiring liquor permittees to close their doors for three weeks period while operations under the old law are being closed and those under the new law begun.
 Judge McEvoy's decision might or might not stand, if there were a trial and an appeal to the sur preme court. The commission is not likely to pursue the matter further. The time involved is too short and as long as the court is wqilling to take responsibility for clarifying the situation. the com- mission, presumably, will not care to proceed.
 Judge McEvoy urges that no penalties be threatened or inflict- ed as the result of the action of the tavern keeper seeking a way to keep his business open. The judge, doubtless, had in mind the situation of year or so ago when package stores strove to receive the same privileges as to hours as were vouchsafed to drug stores. In spite of the warning of the com mission that those who extended their hours would be penalized a large number of package store pro- prietors were defiant. The situa- tions are not parallel. Package stores and tavern keepers in the present actions seek only to be per- mitted to maintain their status quo; privilege which no one con- templated taking from them. In the former case package store pro- prietors sought greater privileges than were permitted to them. They were not obliged to close their places of business while their case was pending. They were merely asked to refrain from engaging in business on an enlarged scale.
 The commissions position in warning them against their course of action was sound. Equally so is the suggestion of Judge McEvoy that penalties be withheld in this case. No principle is involved in the current proceedings. and most people will feel that the decision makes common sense.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-25
Remember Belgium

It seems that there is going to be a war between Italy and Abyssinia; and one of the surest symptoms is the appearance of the first crop of. atrocity stories. A communique issued by the Italian Minis try of Propaganda announces that Ethi- opian tribesmen have been mutilating de- fenseless children and attacking innocent natives along the borders. Ethiopian raid ing parties, it is said, have crossed the borders carrying people off to slavery and. committing divers shocking atrocities.
 It all has familiar ring, somehow; and the thing for the American reader to re- member is that such stories, coming at time like this, mean absolutely nothing. The most exhaustive investigations after the World War showed that the over whelming majority of atrocity stories were made up out of whole cloth. Wherever such stories come from = Ethiopia, China, Manchuria or elsewhere = the sensible reader will take them with large, double handful of salt.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-25

Although Waterbury seems to be meet ing with fairly good response from those property owners who availed themselves of HOLC aid to retain possession of their homes, the state is said to be fourth on the list of states where foreclosures have been instituted by the federal government for non-payment of interest, default of borrowers, etc. And from what can be learned at Washington Uncle Sam is not going to be lenient landlord. He is go- ing to demand his due or else take over the property on which he was willing to lend to the extent of it's mortgaged value. Itis particularly unfortunate that even this respite offered by federal endorsement of mortgages could not aid many families. Others we presume are just defaulting by instinct probably imagining that the goy- ernment will not go through with it's part. But it will and all should be warned ahead of time
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-25
In New York
@ 1855 NEA

There will be a guest -col- umnist today "a prize.win. ing co lu m n st who for A years has chronicled the lives of her neighbors in the Ozark hills for The Forsyth (MO.) Republican. She's Q white- haired grandmother, wife of Charles Preston Mahnkey, har- monica champion and the store-keeper at Oasis, tiny hamlet you won't find an many maps. Mrs Mahnkey's the births and deaths, the work and play, the small trag- edies and triumphs of the peo- pie she knows, have won her first prize in a nationwide contest conducted among ru. ral newspaper correspondents by the Country Home Maga- zine. The award was a trip to New York City. And so I have asked her to- write a piece about her visit.
 PAUE HARRISON.