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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-04

Poor Duncy was a startled lad when his balloon broke. That's tee bad" said Scouty. How do you suppose your tough luck game about?"
 ''The rest of us have ours, you see. and they're as big as they can be. Your red one was blown np too big for its own good, no dOubt.'
 "oh. veal, ?'' Duncy promptly uaiA. 'T think it was a trick, in- stead. Come on, confess! Who used pin? I think it is a shame"
 Of course no Tiny said a word, And then the farmers voice was heard. Nobody used pin, son, but I am the one to blame.
 .Asr your balloon sailed round In air, thought I'd give you quit. a scare. I touched 1t with my big cigar. To all the rest twas fun.
 You were funny sight to zee, but now I'm sorry as can be. If you'l1 forgive me, lad, I'll glad ly buy another one"
 '.I'd rather have an ice cream cone," the lad replied. All of my own" Instead of buying just
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-04

one, though, the farmer pur- chased six.
 The Tinies ate them in delight. and everything was quite all right. The farmer smiled and said, "I'll pull no more expensive tricks" 4
 Then to the Tiny girls a man said, "Oh. please help me, if you can. I need a couple judges over at the jelly booth. M
 There's lots of jelly you must taste" Right to the booth the two girls raced. "Oh, this is fine," said Go1dy, "'cause have a big sweet tooth."
 The man then lifted them up to the counter. Now, it's up to you" said he, Ito tell me which jam seems to taste the very best"
 "Oh, my, must all that Jam be tried? You girls are lucky" Duncy cried. When you have had your tastes, tell me. and will eat the rest"
 Copyright, 1885, NEA Service, Inc. (The girls are rewarded for be ing judges, in the next story.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-26
D. C. TUBERCULOSIS
GROUP ASKS FUND
City Heads Told of Need f
Continued Use CT Old Hos
pital Building.

Directors Of the District TuberculC.
Association today urged the Comm
sioners to provide funds for continue
ton of the use of the old Tuberculos
Hospital until such time as "adequa'
facilities are available in Q new in
stitution."
Another resolution adopted BY Il
body was in support of requests
the Board OF Public Welfare for MOI
adequate funds for personnel an
equipment at the Children's Tubercu
loSis Sanitarium at Glenn Dale, Nd.
Members of the group declared b
tween 20 and 80 patients cannot
admitted to the institution because @.
a lack Of funds for this year for ado.
quate personnel and equipment. Fur.
thermore. the group reported there /,
a waiting list of so children VIII
should be transferred from theil
homes to the institution for proper
care.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-26
for melting revolt against Govern

for melting revolt against Govern
ment.
The situation on that is the Milo
Reno crowd of prairie firemen has a
relatively unimportant minority fol-
lowing. It's foothold extends into only
two or three Missouri counties and
perhaps a like number in Kansas.
Once in a while the firemen get out
their torches and start q political bon
fire. That Is what happened to cause
the indictments.
You may expect the culprits to be
punished. The Federal Judge here Is
exceptionally competent (Supreme
Court caliber).
The strangest sight In K. c. is one
which must make Carrie Nation turn
over in her grave every seven days.
This State Is as wet as . brewery vat,
except on Sundays. when everything
closes up. But across the river in the
Kansas soil from which prohibition
sprang land where it Is still culti-
yated), the law permits sale Of beer
any day on the assumption that 1t Is
non-intoxicating.
Thirsty Missourians consequently find
their oasis on the Sabbath In the
center Of national aridity.
(copyrisht. 1880
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-26
NEWA. G. F. STOCK
INQUIRY ORDERED
Hopson's Company to Un-
dergo Probe by Another
U. S. Grand Jury.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 26.-Fed-
eral Judge John c. Knox today au-
thorized an additional grand jury to
investigate the alleged manipulation
Of stock of the Associated Gas q Elec-
trio Co. Application for the extra fury
was made by United States Attorney
r. w. H. Adams.
The Associated Gas & Electric Co.
whose mead, H. C. Hopson, recently
appeared before the Congressional
Lobby Investigating Committees after
an extensive search was made for him
has been under investigation at Diff
ferent times since 1882. Its affairs
were studied by Federal grand jury
late IN that year
A corps OF Government agents and
accountants, under the direction of
Hugh McQuillan, chief of the Intelli-
gence Unit Of the Bureau Of Internal
Revenue. is now engaged IN porting
over the company's records in New
York. New Jersey and New England.
The Associated Gas & Electric Co.
was one of the most active utility
firms in lobbying against the admin
istration's Wheeler Rayburn utility
control bill.
The extra grand jury will convene
early in October, probably on the 9Th.
The investigators have gone over
thoroughly records of a recent re-
organization hearing before Federal
Judge Julian w. Mack
The advertising methods used by
the company have been closely
scrutinized, not only by McQuillian's
staff, but also by post office inspectors
and agents of the Department of
Justice
The decision to lay the results of
these investigations before a Federal
grand jury came after Assistant
United States Attorney j. " Hayes
compiled a lengthy report and sent it
to Washington.
For two weeks late in July and early
in August Hopson was an elusive fig
ure, with Federal agents seeking him
over the Nation to serve him with q
summons to appear before the con-
gressional committees.
A few days after his testimony in
Washington two suits were filed by
two minority stockholders, one in New
York and the other in New Jersey.
They petitioned the court for an &C
counting Of Hopson's stewardship of
Associated Gas and sought to force
him to return more than 100000
spent in lobbying against the Wheeler
Rayburn bill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-26
Girl With Ruptured appendix
Taken From Barricaded Home

through the picket fence and two men
who said they were relatives stood
guard. The men said grufiy that
Margaret would be all right" without
surgical attention.
DR.. william H. Mccormick, the
family physician, who found the door
barred to him, expressed fear the girl
would die.
Margaret was stricken suddenly last
night and DR.. Mccormick was sum-
moned. He then went to call an
ambulance. When he returned he
found Mrs. Kerston had hastily bar
ricaded the doors and pulled the
shades.
The ambulance, with two staff sur
geons, and finally o squad Of police
arrived, but Mrs. Kerston was ad-
amant. Helpless, the group stood on
the sidewalk and watched the lights
in the house 60 out one by one save
a single bulb In the sick girls bed
room.
Police learned that mother and
daughter held deep fear Of hospitals
and surgeons since the death of Mrs.
Kerston's mother following an opera
ton SIX years ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-26

crosses the street at the proper place
and in the proper manner.
Last year out of a total of 1875 per-
sons killed in trafic accidents in
Washington, SO were pedestrians. In
&c of these accidents investigations
show that the pedestrians were pre-
sumably at fault. In % of the cases,
study shows the drivers were at fault.
I'm the cases where the pedestrians
were at fault, IS were crossing not at
crosswalks, were walking in the
street between intersections, 9 pedes-
TRANS stepped from behind parked
cars. 8 were pedestrians crossing the
street at trafhc-controlled intersec-
tons against the signal light, were
playing in the street, of the pedes-
TRANS we're intoxicated, we're coast
ing in the street and were inatten-
tive to trafic conditions at the time"
Van Duzer said there had been a
definite improvement in the accident
record since the opening of the Police
Departments campaign two months
ago, but more drastic steps are
needed.
Maj. Ernest w. Brown, superin-
tendent of metropolitan police, told
the Commissioners he agreed with Van
Duzer's suggestion, but added he
would need more police officers to en-
force the ruling.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-26

The plant of the business man here
Is the same as throughout the Middle
West. In Chicago, Milwaukee or Kan
sas City he will lean across his desk
and tell you:
Il am not against reform. Lord
knows, We needed some. The social
security legislation Is all right with
me. But what I want to know is:
Where do we go from here? I am
not going to risk my money in spruce
ing up my business or expanding
my plant II the Governments going
to turn socialist on me in the next
year or so.
"The Presidents promise OF
breathing spell did not mean much
to me. That phrase, breathing
SPELL sounded like he had some
more fre1Dorks IN mind TOR later
on. What Uould like to haze is
good feeling that Washington has
done all the socializing 1t Is going
to do and that can plan ahead
without fear that some brain trust
er is going to get re,D idea for
cracking dotDn on me or running
me. or that spending is going to
continue until the Government
ruins itself and me-"
Prairie Firemen In Minority,
Don't fall for the rumors you may
hear about impending radical farm
uprisings, merely because a few farm
ers have been indicted around here
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-26
JUDICIARY SQUARE
FUND PLEA MADE
Deficiency Bill Item Dis
cussed by Roosevelt,
King and DelanQ.

A suggestion that funds to start the
100000 building program for the
Police, Juvenile and Municipal Courts
of the District in Judiciary Square
be included in the first deficiency bill
when Congress meets In January was
made during a conference at the
White House today between President
Roosevelt and Chairman King Of the
Senate District Committee.
Frederic A. Delano. chairman of the
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission. also attended.
The District Commissioners some
time ago applied to the Public Works
Administration for a loan to erect
these buildings. The purpose OF Sen
ator Kings visit to the White House
was to find out whether the loan ap-
plication might be approved at this
time
Although 1t appeared, following the
conference, that there is little hope
of obtaining the P W. A. ALLEGATION
at this time, Senator King said the
President indicated he was in favor
of making provisions for the court
building and made the suggestion
that it might be covered in the de-
ficiency bill.
According TO Senator King. the
President felt that arrangements al
ready made between P. w. A. and
w. P. A. could not be disturbed by
making the ALLEGATION for the court
building.
King said the next step would be to
confer with Chairman Buchanan Of
the House Appropriation Committee.
Under the District P. w. A. loan
law, II the money had been obtained
from P. w. A.. the District would
have been required to pay back to the
Federal Government 10 per cent of the
allotment at The rate of 81 900 900 per
year. Part Of the total cost will be
asked for In the deficiency bill. the
usual procedure being to Ak the au-
thorized limit Of cost and then ap-
propriate only as much as would be
spent within the ensuing year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-26
HURRICANE MOVES
TOWARD YUCATAN
Storm Travels Slowly and
Is Changing Direction
South Of Florida.
By the Associated Press.

oS Ilc ASSOCIATED Press.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. September
ga fully developed tropical hurri-
cane today moved slowly toward the
Peninsula OF Yucatan in Mexico.
Its position was charted at 10 am.
by the Weather Bureau as about 100
miles slightly north of east Of Cape
Gracias Dios. Nicaragua, and its
movement was apparently northwest
ward, q change In course since last
nights advisory when it was reported
going westward.
This hurricane is moving very
slowly and apparently Is changing d.
rection," said the Weather Bureaus
morning advisory.
The storm was reported increasing
slowly in area and intensity.
The present position of the center
was some 600 miles south southwest
of the extreme tip of Florida.
Vessels were warned to exercise eau
ton in the Northwestern Caribbean
Sea south of Yucatan and Cuba.
The San Juan Weather Bureau re-
ported the disturbance in the Eastern
Caribbean was dissipating
Meteorologist Dunn said the western
hurricane center was moving about /
miles an hour or less over a sma
area and the bureau has not yet full
determined the angle of its recurIC
in course, since last uight.
las long as the storm is moving
slowly" said Dunn, there is plent
of time for warning Florida shoul
it menace the peninsula.
The meteorologist placed the cent
about ATS miles southeast of the Yuc
tan Channel and approximately
miles south of Miami, Fla.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-26
DOUGHTON HOPEFUL NEW
TAXES CAN Be AVOIDED
General Levy May Not Be Neces-
sary, He Believes, Noting
Business Gain.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The hope that no new general tax
legislation will be necessary next year
was expressed today by Chairman
Doughton of the House Ways and
Means Committee after sizing up what
he described as decidedly improved
business conditions.
Asked whether the s250o00 900 Law
written last session would be in for
revision next session, Doughton ex-
planned we will have to wait and
see what revenues it yields"
I'm in hopes We won't have any
general tax bill next year" he added.
II don't want one if it is not neces-
sary.
Business conditions are improving.
People are more hopeful. think
there is a decided improvement all
over the country"
Doughton came here in connection
with 100000 public works alloca-
ton for construction work on the
Shenandoah Great Smoky Mountains
National Parkway.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-26
What's What
Behind News
In Capital
Pendergast, the Concrete
Mixer, Dilutes New
Deal Idealism.
BY PAUL MALLON.

~ ANSAS CITY. Mo.-New Deal
ers on the granary trail
~ through here have the ideal
L n istic slant. They talk much
of the social reformation and little of
the sordid affairs of politics. Yet a
political bloodhound does not neces-
sarily have to have an unusual nose
to scent the fact that some one has
been working the other side of the
street out here
Ominous political footprints as large
as the shoes of Democratic Chairman
Postmaster General Farley seem to
have been left on the shady side all
through this Middle West.
Here in K. c. they lead night up
to the door OF Boss PendergGst,
Who mires concrete and politics, BY
the machine method, Nth excellent
results.
The Pendergast Formula.
In case you have not heard, Boss
Pendergast's idealism was learned in
the lower wards The bigness of his
Democratic heart may be measured
by the fact that he he's permitted one
Republican, single. solitary one
to hold office around these parts. The
Republican is one Of nine Circuit
Court judges whom Mr.. Pendergast
decided not to kick out
This may give you a hint that. as
Pendergast goes today not only Kansas
City. but the State of Missouri is very
likely to be dragged along.
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Continued From First Page.)
playground ofiicials and Lewis r. Bar
rett, recreation co-ordinator, In plan
ming the necessary cutting of costs OF
the several programs.
Miss Sibyl Baker, District play
grounds supervisor, has suggested the
building Of one of the new swimming
pools at the Hoover Playground in
Southwest washington and the other
at the Barry Farm Playground in
Anacostia. This has not been finally
settled.
Wading Pools Proposed.
Miss Baker suggested that the
wading pools be built at the Rose Park,
Mcmillan, Hoover, Sherwood, Twin
Oaks, Barry Farm, Burroughs and
Phillips Fairgrounds. Tennis courts,
as suggested by Miss Baker, would be
placed at the Virginia avenue, Nc
MILAN. Burroughs, Kenilworth, Rose
Park. Willow Tree, Takoma Park,
Georgetown, Hamilton, Lincoln,
Hoover, Sherwood, Twin Oaks, Mon
roe. New York avenue and Barry Farm
Fairgrounds.
Other projects included in the ap-
proved list, for which funds are now
available, are employment of nurses
and other attendants at Gallinger
Hospital, $4,000: rebuilding of .
steam line to the children's ward at
Gallinger, $105,117; repairs to various
library buildings Of the free Public
Library, $9,247; repairs to the Munich
pal Lodging House, $8s7; repairs to
buildings at the Industrial Home
School, $17,423; . statistical survey Of
arrests made by the metropolitan po-
lice, $l,72S, and for the tuberculosis
case finding program, sos, 093.
Federal officials also notified Com
Allen they had approved
projects for the maintenance Of . per-
petual inventory Of job applicants ct
the United States Employment Serv-
ice. The cost will be $24s,73s. This
is q Federal project, but the workers
will be drawn from District relief
rolls.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-26
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
PERTH AMBOY. N. j., September
a. Margaret Kerston, l5-year-old
girl critically Ill with q ruptured ap-
pendix, was removed to hospital
today after her mother yielded to the
pleas of priests, physicians and police
to abandon ner objections to surgical
treatment for her daughter.
Margaret underwent an operation
soon after arrival, but physicians were
dubious of her chances for life.
The mother, Mrs. Anna Kerston, had
stubbornly refused all night to consent
to an operation which DR.. William Nc
Cormick said was needed immediately.
Two priests, Police Chief Joseph
Gutowsh and several physicians were
admitted to the house this morning,
and several hours later the girl was
carried to an ambulance and taken to
Perth Amboy General Hospital.
ct won't let them take my baby
away from me-" was all gray-haired
Mrs. Anna Kerston, the girls widowed
mother, would say from behind the
heavily barricaded door of her plain,
neat frame cottage last night.
Two savage dogs growled Ut visitors
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-26

ana on every
ay thereafter.
Make Baer will
think of him as
that dark brown
taste.
And now, 4
young Louis goes
on setting an ex-
ample to some of
the heavyweights.
both plain and
colored, by being
neither q bufoon
nor q bully nor
yet q braggart,
and If, by behav-
ing with modestY
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-26

and sobriety and some degree Of dig
nifty, he continues to reflect credit
upon his own people--well, it's GER
tainly going TO take the heart right
out Of the next miscellaneous lynch
ing-bee in this country.
And If were Mr.. Braddock, the
present champion, I'd now go so far
away from here they'd have to run
me down with bloodhounds and then
throw q net ever me.
(ocryritht. 1888. BY the North American
Newspaper ALLIANCES. Incl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-26
DESTROYER SAILS

to Visit Four Countries
on Shakedown Cruise.
England, Ireland. Scotland and
Holland will be visited by Uncle Sam S
new destroyer Monaghan, now en-
route from Boston to st. Pierre.
Miquelon. on her shakedown cruise.
the Navy Department disclosed yes
terday. She will return to Boston
November 9.
Comdr. Robert R. Thompson, who
was formerly on duty at the Naval
Academy, Annapolis, Md. is in COM
mand of the Monaghan, which was
constructed at the Boston Navy Yard.
She was commissioned on April l9
last and is the eighth of the new
destroyers to be finished.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-26
WARDE FUNERAL RITES
TO BE HELD TOMORROW
Retired Washington Building
Engineer Is Victim of
Heart Attack.

Funeral services for Frederick j.
Warde, 6s, retired building engineer,
who died Tuesday of heart attack,
will be held at am. tomorrow from
his home, 4404 Ord street northeast.
followed by requiem mass ct st.
Dominic's Church. Sixth and z streets
southwest Burial will be in Con-
gresSional Cemetery.
Mr.. Warde was employed as an en-
gineer in The Star Building until a
heart ailment forced him to retire
about four years ago. He came 10
Washington from Philadelphia 80
years ago.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Sarah
Edith Warde, and a sister. Mrs. Jo-
sephine Burke of Philadelphia
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-26
LEITCH FUNERAL RITES
WILL BE HELD TODAY
Full Military Honors Accorded
Chief Boatswain, Who Died
September Is.

Funeral services with full military
honors were to be held at 2 pm. today
in Arlington National Cemetery for
Chief Boatswain Thomas Joseph
Leitch, U. 8. N, who died September
49, Lieut.. Comdr. j. H. Brooks, chap
lain, will offlciate.
Chief Boatswain Leltch, So, died
aboard the u. 8. S. Antares of San
Juan, Puerto Rico. He had served in
the Navy since 1898 and was attached
for several years to the Washington
Navy Yard.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mil
dred Rosetta Leitch, of $500 New
Hampshire avenue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-26
Watkins Is Honored.

KAUNAS, Lithuania, September rs
P.-Felix Watkins, 28-year-old Amer
lean flyer who cracked up in Ireland
on his attempted New York-to-Kaunas
flight last Monday, today was elected
to honorary membership in the
Lithuanian Aero Club.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-26
New Deal Linked to Machines.


Harry Hopkins.
New Deal Linked to Machines.
In Illinois the New Deal tie-up
was with the Kelly Chicago machine,
in Wisconsin with the La Follettes
Both machines, like that of Fender
CAST, are dominant controlling powers.
Outsiders may wonder Uhether
any political bed is large enough to
hold such strange tellous. Kelly,
La Follettes and Penderonst mould
not epen speak to each other on
the street. so radically different are
their pieps. That may not be nee
essdry under the Farley decen-
trdlized remote control system.
They take the money. run their
own bdliuicks in their oun Dny
and may be expected to deliver on
election day.
The Pendergast machine is Ware
model with a special accelerator. It
does more than dole out jobs. From
the inside it is considered something
of a philanthropic institution. The
ward heutenants look out for the
poor of their neighborhoods. furnish
food and coal at times to the need
lest, give Christmas baskets, promote
dances and picnics. There are no
club room pool hangouts, such as
Tammany provided for the young men
to grow I'D in, but the same buses
which take them to the picnics de-
liver them at the polls on election
day.
The head man is in the ready
mixed concrete business. Conse-
quently very little concrete is ever
mixed out here. But there Is a lot
of new building. a new workhouse,
a new Federal post Office. the newest
and best air-cooled convention hall
in the country. (The Republican
Convention should, and probably will
come here next year. Hotel accommo-
dations have been expanded.
A neU building bond issue Of
$40, 900, 900 has been put through.
At least 100000 900 mill be spent
(uith the help of Federal con-
trtbutions) on the nep program.
All this, OF course, mill be concrete
for Mr.. Pendergdst, Which wiu
further cement his friendly reid
ttons Uith Washington.
(Note.-The law here requires con-
tracts to be awarded to the Lowest
and best" bidder. This Is no obstacle
to Mr.. Pendergast. He and his friends
are not always the Lowest" bidders,
but are invariably 1.-The best.D
Business Fears New Deal.
The street car motorman will tell
you 1.-The President Is not as stout as
he was" here. The business man will
tell you that all business Is politically
fearful, but business is much better
and the immediate outlook is bright.
These strongest anti-Roosevelt people,
however, privately rate him no worse
than even today, but are hopeful that
the trend away from him will con-
tinue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-26
Irwin s. Cobb
Says:
Louis Has a Chance to
Reflect Credit Upon
His Race.

CULVER CITY, Calf, September
26.-Let the sport writers name him
by what fancy names they please.
but I'll bet you on this-the day after,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-26
Jaywalkers

Continued From First Page.)