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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-26
--'--------~------ - TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, April 26-- OUP)--- Government expenses and receip ! for the current fiscal year to April "A, compared with the correspond ing period of the previous fiscal year:
 This Year Expenses Last Year $5,734,573,656.S5 $5,751, ,90S. .567.4a ss,Os1,7O6,159.4S $2,462, ,S9s. .673,2s
 Deficit s2,672,s67,497.s7 ss.2S9, ,Oo9, ,sst.13
 Cash Balance s2,O24,444,375.55 $4349,O 9,O2O, ,I0o.7s
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-26
BEL CHAN SINISTER EXPELLED

gian spinster named Wante, aged 35, was ar rested and expelled from Doorn today after she had tried to throw herself in front of the former kaiser's automobile. Her attempt eliminated several days of efforts by the woman to interview the former kaiser, claiming membership in his family Police said she was well-equipped with funds. They believed she was weak-minded victim of suffering during the war.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-26
The Weather

Fair--Cool Tonight;
 Unchanged Saturday Full Weather Report Page 6.
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-02-22
PHIL KENNANER
FOUND GUILTY,
RETAINS CALM

PAWNEE, Okla, Feb. % GIN.
SO.-Convicted last night in the
Staying of John Gorrell, 19-year.
old Phil Kennamer sat in a cell
today smoking cigarette, calm
and dry-eyed.
Even as he stood and heard read
a verdict which found him guilty
of manslaughter in the first de-
gree for the killing of Gorrell, he
was cool and collected-the same
Kennamer who admitted he fired
two bullets into the brain of the
Kansas City dental student and
left him dead in his automobile.
Tomorrow afternoon at 2
o'clock this problem" son of
Federal Judge Franklin E. Ken.
manner must stand before the bar
of justice to receive a sentence
of from four years to life in
prison.
20 Years Expected
Judge Thurman Hurst, who
presided at the trial, will pass
sentence. Judge Hurst, known
as stern judge, was expected
to inflict at least 20 years
imprisonment on the Federal
jurist'S son.
The romantic poseur, who
boosted of leading revolutions in
Cuba and China, planned a
newspaper of his own and dis
cussed airplane flights to the
moon, was without the soulful
glances Of the girl he said he
loved so madly when he heard
the jury's verdict. Virginia viii.
cox, beautiful 19-year-old daugh.
ter of a Tulsa oil multi-millionaire,
was not in the courtroom.
The girl, for whose love Phil
said he killed Gorrell because the
dental student planned to kidnap
her, was at motion picture show
in Tulsa as Kennamer heard the
decision.
Appeal probably will be taken
unless an extremely light sentence
is imposed.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-02-22
SESSION URGES
j. s. OPERATE
TELEPHONES

Government ownership and op.
Grafton of the nations vast tele-
phone system was urged today in
. resolution adopted by the Pub
lie Ownership League of America
convention in the Willard Hotel.
The resolution was offered by
j. E. Bennett, commissioner of
Portland (Ore.) public affairs and
chairman of the convention tele-
phone committee. The resolution
urged, primarily, that Congress
enact legislation ito make the
telephone system of the country
a Government owned and operated
utility" or, in lieu of such pro-
poSal, Congress make it possible
through financial legislation for
the various States and cities to
purchase the phone system of
their respective districts.
The convention, turning down
amendments to the resolution
which called for Government
owned and operated telegraph and
radio systems, decided the amend
mentS would be taken up by other
committees and predicted favor
able action.
Senator Joseph C. O'Maheny, of
Wyoming, was the principal
speaker. He spoke in favor of
aforementioned and operated
utilities and declared whatever
action the Government takes to-
ward bringing about cheaper power
Is "a most essential step toward
the deliverance of our people"
Public Utility Commissioner Ern-
est E. Anders, of Jacksonville,
Fla, related of the 40-year sue
cessful operation of Jacksonville'S
municipally-owned lighting plant.
The convention also adopted a
resolution offered by DR.. Carl D.
Thompson, secretary of the
league, favoring the establishment
Of a Department of Municipalities
in the Federal Government. Such
a department, the resolution
urged, would render to American
cities, towns and villages the same
service which the various gov
ernmental departments rendered
to the various elements of Amer
lean life.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-02-22
Letters Reveal
Shattered Love
Of Hermit

MT. CLEMENS, Mich, Feb. %
G.N.SO.-The secret of the
friendless, lonely life Of Alex.
ander Storl, was revealed today.
In the shack where the recluse
died officials found a bundle of
love letters dating back to 1891.
The letters, signed by Miss Annie
Zoeller, apparently came to
Storl at regular intervals until
1894. A letter bearing that date
served notice upon him that his
romance with Miss Zoeller was
ended.
1t was in that year, according
to the memory of local residents,
that Storl took up his lonely
life as a hermit, in his Warren
township shack.
Although the late recluse was
believed to be penniless, a bank
book showing deposits of $500
in a Detroit bank was found
among his effects.
No relatives have been located.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-02-22
Baby Resists Jinx,
Life Bears Charm

MUSKEGON, Mich, Feb. %
U.N.SD. - Eighteen-months-o d
Richard Charles Smack has a
charmed life.
He was back in Mercy Hospital
again today, fighting his second
attack of pneumonia. When he
was a few months old, his mother
fell downstairs with him, breaking
his neck. A month later he suf-
fered his first attack of penu-
monia. Then he fell from a bench
and fractured his skull. A week
ago coal dust in the kitchen stove
exploded and he suffered severe
burns. At Mercy Hospital physi-
clans said he would probably re-
cover.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-02-22
Treasury Gets
Portrait of
WOOdin
international News Service

An oil portrait of the late
Secretary of the Treasury Will
liam H. Woodin was hung in
the office of Secretary Nor
genthau today.
1t was presented by Mrs.
Woodin and was the work of
Mrs. Ellen B. Emmett Rand,
of New York.
Mr.. Woodin's portrait hangs
between those of David F.
Houston, the last Treasury
head during the Wilson Ad-
ministration, and Ogden l..
Mills, the last Secretary in the
Republican regime.
1t is customary that the
pictures of retiring Secretaries
be presented to the Treasury.
However, there is none of An.
drew w. Mellon.
A portrait of the daShing
Alexander Hamilton hangs over
the fireplace in the Secretary's
private office.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-02-22
Man Killed, 1 Hurt
AS Sewer Caves In

Cave-in of a sewer excavation
near Colmar Manor, Md, late
yesterday caused the death of one
workman and serious injury of an.
other. Both were buried under
more than a ton of wet earth for
nearly an hour.
The dead man is Alonzo Sharps,
q, colored, of Brentwood, Md.
T. Nestfield, 38, another colored
laborer, is in serious condition
in Casualty Hospital.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-02-22
Rep. Dunn Denies
Richberg Estimate

Representative Dunn CD of
Pennsylvania stated today that
Donald R. Richberg, recovery CO
ordinator, was way off, when he
estimated there are only about
100000 unemployed persons. He
added:
"Why there are that many in
Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois
alone"
The Washington times., 1935-11-21
What of the Future?
Ru James T. WiLLianrs, w.

lrequires, these newly acquired
provinces which Japan has taken
from China by armed force vii. be
consolidated.
In justice to Japan it should be
said that the conqueot of Man.
churia and North China is not
without a military purpose. Japan
is preparing for war with Russia.
When this conflict finally comes,
Japan prefers to wage it inland
and not on or near the coast of
Asia and too close to Japan
proper.
To this end Tsinking, the cap.
ital of Manchukuo has become the
military headquarters Of Japan on
the mainland of Asia. From that
headquarters Japan will now move
her forces and direct her strategy
so that when war between Russia
and Japan finally comes japan
will not have to fear a Russia
Chinese thrust from the Peiring
area.
It is no mean acquisition which
Japan has made in acquiring the
five provinces that make up the
puppet state of North China.
Their combined area is 470,991
square miles or an area equal to
the six New England States and
New York, New Jersey; West Vir.
ginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Hi.
nois, Indiana, Michigan and
Minnesota.
CHINA'S FATE
In the face Of this latest and
tremendous loss Of territory which
unarmed and defenseless China
has just suffered the political
Reds, Pinks and Fellows are at
tempting to "Chinafy" the United
States by spreading a propaganda
of Sedition and treason among
American youth.
Before any able-bodied youth
is lured or intimidated into sign
ing the "slackers oath" which
these sappers are circulating.
while singing the praises Of ia
pan, let him look at the map of
China as it was a few years ago
and as 1t is today.
If he wants the United States
to go the way of China he will
join the sapperS in their intrigue
to cripple the Common Defense
of the United States afield and
afloat.
Then when that is finally and
completely done, some country
will do to the United States what
Japan is doing to China.
1t is simply a question Of what
you wish the future Of the
| United States to be.
The Washington times., 1935-11-21

Japan sets up the puppet state
Of North China with the same
machine-like methods that her
armed forces brought into being
a few years ago the puppet state
Of Manchukuo.
North china consists of those
northern provinces Of China
which Japan intends shall pres
emily round out" the boundaries
Of what was once Manchuria but
is now Manchukuo.
Nobody in the Far East will be
surprised by this latest move in
the clocklike campaign of con.
quest on the continent of Asia
which Japan is aggressively pros
ecuting. And anybody in the
United States who is surprised by
it has only himself of herself to
blame for being gullible enough
to swallow Japanese propaganda
whole, or for being too lazy to
look up the facts of the situation.
Japan's objections in past
years to the building up of our
Navy, and the fortifying of our
insular possessions in the Pacific.
Japan's press campaign last year
against the regular training ex-
ercises of our fleet being held in
the Pacific, Japan's increased
economic activity in the Philip
pines and the filtration she has
long been carrying on with Ma
nila politicos-all these diplomatic
moves on the chess board have
had but a single purpose.
FALSE SECURITY
And this purpose was to lull
the American people into a sense
of false security regarding events
in the Far East lest there be some
interference from this side Of the
Pacific to Japan'S plans of con-
quest.
AS a result Of propaganda.
which Senator Nye, of North Da-
kota, and his fellow sappers
against our common defense have
been disseminating in this country
for several years in behalf OF
Japan and against their own coun'
try, the Tokyo government more
than a year ago became convinced
that the United States would re-
main hands off in the Pacific re-
gardless of what Japan did to
China or threatened to do to the
Philippines. This conviction has
doubtless haStened the carrying
out of the plan for rounding out
the boundaries Of Manchukuo."
For the present. no doubt, North
China will remain the puppet state
now being established. In due
course, when the military situation
The Washington times., 1935-11-21
Working Mothers

Married working in Massachusetts, textile mill have
been warned that they become mothers they will lose their
jobs ar
They plan appeals the courts, to Governor James
Culey and to the Labor Board against what they hold to
"forcibe birth control"
6ne expectant mother said:
"What am going to do? The rules of married life
are plain enough. If husbands cannot haze children
there uUH be quarrels separations and dOorces must
hnUe my child and must keep job to help support
my other children"
An unmarried girl said:
at looks like We'H haze to become old maids What
else can uUe do? We can't afford to lose jobs"
A mill official said:
"MOthers should stay home and attend to their chill
dren."
There are three views grave social and economic prob
lem. Which is right?
We for one, not prepared to say.
The Washington times., 1935-11-21
'BE STILL"

'BE STILL"
Each year, before the snow
falls, we come back to the noun
tain ranch to put things in order.
We work hard-pruning, digging,
burning brush. Once again we un'
roll the old red rug that is faded
and ragged but still warm. I air
the thick wool blanketS-patch
the torn places. Get out woolen
socks.
The men stack piles of fuel be.
side the cabin door-oak logs, pine
splinters knobbed with gum,
gnarled knots of tough, red man
zanita root, baskets of pine cones.
We gather the pumpkins-big,
golden feuows-and the green
bronze Hubbard squash. The
kitchen smells of stewing ounces
and apples, corn meal fried with
bacon, home made bread.
It is a good time. Yet all the
while something seems wrong.
Something seems missing. We
catch ourselves waiting >. watch
ing feeling some strange lack.
1t is so quiet. The quietness is
more than a mere lack of sound.
There is a deeper stilling in it
as though something far down in
the very heart of the earth we're
slowing. some secret, central
pulse from which all living comes.
All summer, unconsciously, one
felt that steady throb beneath the
shining swish and sway. Now it
grows fainter. .slackenS. almost
seems to stop.
SILENCE
A pale light settles over every.
thing-a silvery light that some.
how seems a part Of the wide ST.
lence. It spreads, like a wet web,
across the dark and resting earth
E. across the great rocks, with
their peltS of moss. It clings and
glimmerS on the massed, dark
trees.
The poplars burn like candles in
that pale, still light. The birds
drift through it on soft, noiseless
wings. A leaf breaks loose, floats
slowly to the ground. AS quietly
we humans move about our work.
Good work-yet what is missing?
Why do we feel so lonely. al
most terrified? Why are these
days so different from all other
days? Like days lived in some
lost, forgotten world?
Gradually we know. We are
missing the city. We are missing
the city closeneSs and confusion.
We do not like the city. We say
that we are glad to be away from
it-and we mean it. Yet we miss
it-why?
We miss it because it gave us a
false sense of power and purpose.
We did not have to be individuals
in the city. We did not have to
depend on ourselves. We were part
of the crowd. We went with and
leaned on the crowd. We shared
the crowds feeling of power and
purpose. UnconSciously, we let
the crowd live for us think
for us. ...
But now, here in this quiet
place as1 this immense simple.
The Washington times., 1935-11-21
PRIZE HUSBANDS

PRIZE HUSBANDS
Marriage is like owning =. home,
something which you feel is going
to be permanent. A trial
marriage" is like a rented apart
ment. You don't care much what
happens to it.
What many youth needs,
these days, is more polish on his
manners and less varnish on his
hair.
You never can tell about a man
before the wedding. The world is
full Of men who would make prize
husbands for some OTHER wom-
an, but are only headaches to the
women who happened to draw
them.
Nowadays, a man begins his
romantic attentions by handing
the girl a scenario of his emotions
so that she won't by any chance
mistake his gestures of ardor for
love.
A cynic vows that he has never
yet seen a woman walk out Of a
beauty-parlors who didn't look as
The Washington times., 1935-11-21
The Human Side of the News
BIZ Edwin C. Hill

, troll for the East India Company,
had made this prophetic asser
ton:
REBELLION
"I wish for a peaceful term Of
office. But I cannot forget that
in the sky of India, serene as 1t is,
a small cloud may arise, no larger
than a mans hand, but which,
growing larger and larger may at
last threaten to burst and over
whelm us with ruin"
The year 1857 found India rest
less under such reforms as the
prohibition of female infanticide
and the cremation of widows with
their dead mates.
The rebellion began among the
Sepoys in the Bengal army over
the use of lard to grease the end
OF cartridges in their Enfield rifles.
Grease had been used until a hall
caste had twitted Sepoy as haV'
ing defiled himself in its use. Has
tily the British substituted butter
to meet the religious ScrupleS OF
their native troops. But at Me
crut, IS Sepoys refused to use the
cartridges and when they were ar.
rested, the mutiny began.
One thousand whites-men and
women and children-were trap
ped in Lucknow with TOO faithful
Sepoys. Their commander, Sir
Henry Lawrence, was killed by a
shell, and for two weeks the others
held out until the arrival of the
relief column. It was another six
weeks before the siege was finally
lifted and the $4,000 bloodthirsty
natives dispersed.
Only the loyalty of the Punjab
army, the Sikhs and the Gurkhas,
saved India for England, and the
following year rule Of the country
was taken from the company and
invested in the Crown.
LAST SURVIVORS
On September 25, 1885, ten per
sons, old men and old women,
scattered around the world, held
spiritual communion with each
other. They are the last survivors
of the siege of Lucknow, the
youngest of them being Arthur
DaShwood, aged 78. who was born
at the height of the attack by the
SepoyS.
At the outbreak of the World
War, fifty survivors were living
and, those who could. went to
London, where a Defense Din
ner" was held. In 1920, an at
tempt to revive the custom found
only twenty alive, and today there
are but ten.
A lot like The Last Mans Club
OF Company B of the first Mime
sofa Volunteers is the thinning
group of Lucknow survivors.
On July 81, 1885, thirtyf1ve
members of the company formed
their club, setting aside a bottle
of wine to be opened by the last
member. Capt. Charles M. Lock
wood, on August 16, 1885, his 94th
birthday, opened the bottle and
drank this toast:
1.-THE campfire smoulders-ashes fall:
The clouds are black against the sky;
No tap of drums. no bugle call
My comrades all, good-by."
Captain Lockwood died on Octo'
ber 4, 1895.
Copyright, 1888, King Features
Syndicate In09
The Washington times., 1935-11-21
Listen, World!
By Elsie Robinson

ehoneSt place we have to live
by ourselves, think for ourselves,
be ourselves. We have to make
our own power and purpose. And
it is too much for us.
1t is too much for us. We feel
shown up, small, weak, unim
portant. We wish we could run
away. But we cannot run away.
And, presently, something else be-
gins to happen.
FORGET SELVES
We forget ourselves and our
little itchings and rebellionS
Presently the noise and the fret
and the restleSSneSS go out of us.
Slowly we grow still inside. Then,
slowly, things come back to us
Things we had forgotten. Gentle
thing-and powerful things
and beauty.
We stop hurrying and worrying.
We remember how much we love
each other. How good it is to
work together. How good it is to
have a war;, red rug and woolen
socks and piles of fuel and heart
ening, healthy food. We are
happy and grateful.
We sit in the cabin working
while tn rain thunders outside.
We sit in the quiet room sowing,
mending harness, oiling boots,
while the children play on the
floor-and we are happy and
grateful.
And I remember a verse I
learned long ago, but forgot in
the city noise.
BE STILL AND KNOW
THAT I AM GOD!"
Is this God this gentle,
fire-lit room this friendli.
ness I feel for those who work
with me and the little child .
this soft, still thankfulneSS that
fills my heart? Is this God?
Why-I suppose it isl
Copyright. 1888, by King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
The Washington times., 1935-11-21
SIEGE OF LuCKNOW

At 10 o'clock on the morning
of September 25. 1857. they heard
the sound of the bagpipes in Luck
now. Robert Lowell has told the
story in stirring verse.
On that last day in Lucknow
fort!
We knew that it was the last;
That the enemy's lines crept
slowly on
And the end was coming fast.
In his poem it is Jessie who
hears the music first, Jessie, the
wife of the Scotch sergeant-major,
who is raving mad from fever:
The Hielanders! o! dinna ye
hear
The slogan far ava?
The McGregor'S, o! I ken 1t
Weel
It's the grandest O. them a.!
The others heard nothing but
the whine of the bullets, the cries
of the wounded, the shouts OF the
besiegers and the Sobs OF the
women and children.
But Jessie said, THE slogans
done
But Wilma ye hear it moo
The Campbells are coming! It's
no asdream:
Our SuccorS hae broken
through"
It was the pipes of the High
landerS!
And they played Aud Lang
Syne,
T. came to our men like the
voice of God,
And they shouted along the
line.
Next to the Battle of PlaSsey,
where Give won India for the
merchants Of England, the Mutiny
of 1857 is the most momentous
event in the modern history Of
that vast empire. The year before,
Lord Canning, in taking over con
The Washington times., 1935-11-21
Gas Rate Reduction

The status of public utility regulation in the District
will be greatly advanced result of the agreement on
control of gas rates the process of completion
The agreement in substance, provides for immedi
ate and substantial reduction in the rates and, MORE
IMPORTANT it sets up sliding scale under which fu-
tre changes in the rates will be or less automatic
The theory behind the sliding scale arrangement has
already been proven in Washington to be IN THE IN
TEREsT OF THE CONSUMER AND THE COMPANY
BOTH.
The outstanding example of this form of regulation is
the rate schedule of the Potomac Electric Power Com
pany which has been in effect here for about ten years
Under the consent system of governing the electric
rates the power company has enjoyed real and grow
ing prosperity.
At the same time the company's customers have ben
Gifted by annual reductions in rates. until now the power
rates here are among the lowest in the country.
THERE IS EVERY REASON TO BELIEVE THAT
APPLICATION OF THE SAME SYSTEM TO THE
CHARGES FOR GAS WILL BRING ABOUT THE
SAME RESULTS INCREASED PROSPERITY FOR
THE COMPANY AND DECREASED CHARGES TO
THE CONSUMER
Peonles Counsel William A. Roberts and those work
ing with him have done good job in bringing about the
tentative agreement upon which the Public Utilities Com
mission will shortly hold hearings.
Mr. Roberts has not only converted the gas company
to the idea of the sliding SCALE but in fixing the valua
ton upon which the scale is to be based has won COM
promise by which the company surrendered several MIL
lion dollars WHICH IL N0A0AS0~ A OAO
valuation.
Hereafter, if the Public Utilities Commission Gc-
cepts the agreement, and there is eUery reason to
believe that it lUiL, these millions cut from the
UaluatiOn UiU bring about lOWer charges for gas.
The agreement now under consideration does not of
course include any plan for reduction Of rates charged
for gas in the nearby communities Of Maryland and V
ginia.
In that respect is not peculiar the rates charged in
those communities not being under the control Of the local
commission
But the present instance of regulation WIthI" the
District does call attention to the discrepancies
1Uich exist in rates for virtually all utility services
bet1Ueen the District and the nearby communities
These communities growing rapidly and are being
linked closer and closer with the District.
TT WOULD BE REAL CONTRIBUTION TO
THEIR GROWTH AND TO THE PROPER DEVELOP
MENT OF THE DISTRICT IF SOME MEANS COULD
BE FOUND OF COORDINATING RATES IN THESE
NEARBY TOWNS WITH THOSE IN WASHINGTON