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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-09

Guest artists and 8 dramatic in- terlude are expected to be among the features. Benny has been do- ing a lot of thinking about radio trends for 1885, and after careful ly waiting to see what other ex- perts have had to say concerning the new radio season, he has is- sued this exclusive and harmless statement:
 First there is the matter of radio drama" impresaria Benny states. You will be surprised to hear this, but you can mark it down in the book as an absolute fact-radio drama still has long way to go. Well, sir, the Benny Dramatic Company is ready to .as- sume it's full share of the responsi- bility in bringing to radio the finest that the worlds foremost dramat- ic authors have produced. We will even present some plays they never though. of writing. There will be a lot of turning over in graves on the part of some famous playwrights whose works we will adapt. However, 1t doesn't make any difference. how much they turn over as long as they're healthy, as Miss Livingstone would say.
 Heretofore the guest artist has not been given proper recogni- tion," continued Benny. "One might even say that he has been neglected. There have been en- tirely too few of them and through my arrangement with Jake Gen. zers booking agency I will be in a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-09

saar, said Braun. Then a revolt of the workers. Then flight of bteween 30 and 50 thousand.
 "Are the Socialists armed?" l asked Braun. They are accused of having even machine guns stored )
 '.No," he shouted abruptly. How will be fight? With naked
 You, yourself" I asked. "wiIl you emigrate from the Saar when the Terror commencesw
 The gray eyes of the Fuehrer's chief enemy in the Saarland turned cold. "One can die," he snapped, "fearfully = or without feari"
 Hitler the Issue
 Thus the tragedy of the Saar is the tragedy of. a house divided against itself.
 Were 1t not for the Fuhrer, there to-day would be, practically speaking, no reason for a ple- biscite. The voice of the country would be entirely and imm mediately German.
 How many Saarlanders actually are worried by the thought of a Htlerian future, 1t is hard to as- certain. But the number who have reason to be worried is great. There are 5000 Jewish and other emigres in the Saar. Communists and Socialists make up more than 25 per cent of the population. And overlapping all categories, in the Socialist and Separatist as well as the Deutsche front camps, mine laborers, tradesmen, white collar workers" are 560,000 Catholics. How will the Catholics vote? Will they vote as unit?
 q am a Catholic. My brother Is a Catholic priest. He teaches in a Saar university" The speaker threw out his hands before me. And you see me. am a mem Der of the Deutsche Front. have been told to vote according to my conscience. l can only say that am not like the Socialists, who put party before patriotism"
 That was one answer obtained from Catholic. He is actively in the Hitler movement.
 In St Ingbert, in the east-cen- ter district of the Saar, Is the cen- ter of the Separatist movement. St Ingbert may vote for status quo. But St Ingbert and a few other centers are isolated in the heart of the Saarland. Perhaps in Saar- louis, which is closer to the French frontier. there will be a good-sized status quo vote.
 Thanks principally to Hitler, all the plaques internal strife are visible in the Saar. The whisper ing galleries of the territory are sibillant with rumors of plot and counter-plot of sabotage, provoca- tion, panic and invasion.
 TOMORROW: Saar tests Hitler.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-09
Mar Braun (Gbove), c school. teacker
 With c film-hero coMnte-
 nOnce, Who leads the Saor's minority im cts fight for the StGtMs Quo.

,iron-master's left cheek. They speak eloquently of Teutonism, of the sentimentality which takes warlike disfigurement as high honor.
 The steel king dismissed my question of who will win the Saar plebiscite. Germany will get 97 per cent of the votes," he said.
 His chief interest was the mat ter of payment for the Saar mines. By the Treaty of Versailles, if Ger many wins. she must pay France for them, in gold. Few people in recent years have taken the stipu- lation for gold seriously. With little more than 3 per cent gold literally can't find 1t. This fact reached in Rome recently, to ac- part payment.
 In slow, precise English, his head with its octagon-lensed spec tacles benignly bent over his desk, Roechling showed me why the mines, which in 1919 were evalu- ated at $90,00O,000, now can be regained from France for about $6O,000,O0O under the terms of the Rome agreement. The rivalry of water-power, of oil, of brown coal," advances an industrial tech nique. and the general world de- pression have slashed the worth of coal, Roechling pointed out. Dilapidation in the mines them selves = naturally the French |. ix~o i'm provements on a tenure of IS their worth.
 The gray-haired, portly iron master lit q light in a case of wall maps. He pulled down Q large scale chart of iron workings in q corner of what is now French Lorraine. With a pencil he indi- cated two great workings, one gal lery of which is three miles long.
 "That Is named after me-" he said. This one is named for m father"
 Did you ever receive compen- sation when the French took these over?"
 "No," he answered.
 Then came a leading question. Roechling strengthened from the map. 'If French troops were to come into this territory after Jan. 13," he responded. "it would be terrible" him.
 The answer was a long. slow, sombre look.
 Socialist chieftian BMax Braun at AZ has the chiseled face, square jaw. level eyes. Were he not a public man, he could have q career in Germany's films. He saw me in the Arbeiter Wohlfahrt, So- cialist welfare center in Saar- brucken, where he lives with his beautiful wife in three small rooms. :,
 "SO much q German that l spent two months in prison when the allied troops invaded the Rhine land, for publishing an attack on them. It isn't I who hace changed. It's Germany"
 His idea is that when Hitler goes, the Saar should return to the Fatherland. That is the ap- peal he makes at 20 meetings weekly. He has no illusions about his chances. Socialists and Com 'munists in the Saar." he said, nave 35 per cent of the vote. The rest depends nthe Catholics and whether the League defines the Status Quo so as to assure the Saar of real democratic govern ment."
 If Hitler wins, there will be 'im- mediate reprisals against the So- cialists and Jewish emigres in the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-09
B, Mol,RIS GILBERT
NEA Service Staf Correspondent

NrH ocrNlce StAH correspondent
 Saarbrucken. Jan. y--The rust. colorcd. -flame-lit Roechling works are niasscd in the smoky town Of Voelklingen like an unholy shrine to some fierce, germanfc god of metal. Sweat t-streaked workers perform nibelungen rites in the changing shops.
 Sheets of lurid flame rip sky ward from the furnaces. They are like signals of defiance, Haunt ed toward the French border, less than two miles away.
 For Herr Doktor Hermann Roechling is not only multimil- lionaire steel-priest of Voelkilgen and financial overlord of the Saar basin. He also has been and Is the kingpin of stubborn resistance to Frances aspirations in the Saar.
 To the French, Roechling is m arch-Hun. Furthermore, he is It, erally a fugitive from justice. He was convicted in absence by French military court shortly after the war to ten years hard labor and ten million francs' fine on, charges of sabotaging French industrial machinery behind the German lines. On the other hand, to all Germans, Roechling is an ardent patriot, close friend and advisor of Riechs- chancellor Hit Ter, benevolent patron of German workers.
 Antithesis
 Should some creator decide to costruct the exact human op- posite of Herr Doktor Roechling he would probably start building Max Braun, Saarland Socialist chieftian, leader of the battle for the Status Quo, the man who has combined socialists and commun- ists here into Common Front.
 Braun is the intellectual Social ist in arms, a teacher, a journalist, who lives in comparative poverty as he was born. Roechling is a Junker, . hereditary potentate, vigorous 60-year-old dictator of huge private wealth and power. Roechling is c devoted lieutenant of Hitler. To Braun, Hitler is the enemy who must be destroyed.
 Both call themselves ardent Germans, patriots, fighting for the Fatherland.
 To them I went to learn the story of the strange battle of Ger mad vs. German which is being
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-09
TfIE SAAR'S TWO MEN OF IRON
Region Baauns Against seE King
 And Socialist TeGche Leading

Morris Gilbert gives yOu an intimate glimpse of leaders, factions and political scnti. h. 70 iIIrOugilOuf tfle troubled SAt. iD a series of three ar- tis'Ies '1bisib l,c has written rM Tn: ,''atcrbury Democrat nf'cr n tOh. of tlic territory MIHSc future "ill bc settled plchiscitc on O. 'iuary 13, Tliis Is the sccO...1 article. The third and last VI: ap- iIeiir tomorrow,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-09
333--WBZ.. .BOstOn-.99O

P. M.
 4:3O-Rochester Civic Orch.-Guy
 Fraser Harrison, conduc-
 tor. 5:00-The Monitor Views the
 News-Ernest Beaufort. 5:15--Time. 5:16-New England Agriculture. 6:30-Singing Lady. 6:45--Little Orphan Annie. 6:00--Education In the News. 6:15--Air Adventures of Jimmie Allen. 6:30-Press- Radio News. 6:35--Time, weather. tempera-
 ture. 6:45--Today's News--Lowell
 Thomas. 7:00--Amos n Andy. 7:15--Plantation Echoes. 7:30-Red Davis. 7:45-Dangerous Paradise-dra-
 matic sketch starring Elsie
 Hitz and Hugh Dawson. S:00--Penthous Party. 8:30--Don Humbert and his
 Magic Strings. S:45--Frank- and Phil. 9:00--20,00 Years fin Sing Sing
 Warden Lewis l.. Lawes. 9:30--John Mccormack, tenor. 10:00-Mischa LevitZki, concert
 pianist. 10:15-Madame Sylvia of Holly
 wood (drama). 10:30-Joe Rines and his Mayfair Orch. 11:00-Time, weather, tempera-
 ture. f1:05--John Carver of Federal
 Housing Administration. 11:15-Hal Ramp and his Hotel
 Pennsylvania orch. i1:80--'aThe Administrators
 Policies and Projects"
 Senator Huey F. Long of
 Louisiana. l2:O0--Archie Bleyer and his Ho-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-09
Leader Optimistic
 On Power Outlook
Knowlton, Reviewing 1884, Says Public Common
 Sense Will Prevent Injustice -'t

Common sense of the public, when crystalized, will intervene to prevent injustice in the present attempt to utilize government funds in the construction of government owned plants to compete with the already more than adequate exist ing public utilities, as we'll as in the matter of disproportionate tax ation of utilities. 1t, is the opinon of R. H. Knowlton, vice-president of the Connecticut Light and Power Cmpany, who in a statement issued today commented as follows on the progress of the light and power industry in 1884 and upon the outlook for 1885:
 "A year ago 1t was pointed out that there were signs of a change in the downward trend in business volume of the Utility Industry. The year 1894 has witnessed their confirmation. The use of service in homes not only has continued to increase, as 1t has done through out the depression, but service de- mands from stores, offices and in- 'dustrials have increased with a de- gree of consistency which affords a BOuHu DdbiS lOF ShSVutaeSAhS SAs' Moreover, the economy wave that in many places so sharply affected the field of street and highway lighting may be said to be defi- nitely at an end.
 There is evidence on every side of growing universal conviction that the extent of the use of cleo trio service has broad, econamic and social significance. While the business of supplying 1t may not be said to be new one, the grow ing recognition of its value affords Virtually a guarantee of it's fu- ture growth. Because each dollar of increased volume requires the investment of from $4 to $6 in ad- ditional facilities for supplying the service, the industry will play an increasingly important part in af- fording vehicle for the safe in- vestment of savings.
 There are but two clouds on the horizon. Both may be said to have arisen because of this demon strated stability of the industry's earning power which has been grossly misinterpreted in many quarters and, therefore, has been resented as evidencing oppressive administration of an industry which exists only because of public convenience and necessity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-09

"The first is the apparent grow ing impatience of the public with the progress of the industry toward lower rates, which the advocates of public ownership have been prompt to capitalize as witnessed by their efforts to secure the ap-
 propriation of hundreds of millions of dollars of, public funds for the constructin Of publicly owned cleo tric systems, some of which are admittedly out of all proportion to the needs of the communities and
 all of which will compete with ex- isting more than adequate privately
 owned ones. The hope for lower rates can be the only excuse for such, wasteful expenditures. The advantage, were It possible to soundly secure 1t, must be weighed
 against the unquestioned disadvan-
 tage of forcing ,ruinous competi- ton upon some ten millions of pri- vate investors to say nothing of
 the many millions of indirect own
 CTS in the form of savings bank depositors and life insurance policy
 holders. |i
 "In this instance, as in ail others. however, the common sense of the peple will intervene to prevent this injustice. The public will conclude that since the industry is regulated throughout the country. both with respect to the quality of the serv- ice and the rates that may be charged for it, the remedy for iso- lated instances of oppressive rates lies not in the direction of destruc- ton of the industry but through reform secured through orderly regulation as provided by law as and when the facts substantiatc the claim of illegal rates. Except. therefore. during the short period which must eiapse before the pub lie opinion is crystalized, the pri- vately owned industry has nothing to fear from destructive threats.
 "The second cloud arises because of the seeming urgent need for un- precedented increases in public funds derived from taxation. Ii finds expression in increased taxes levied upon the industry out of all proportion to it's rate of growth and ability to pay. It, therefore. con stitutes the industry's chief handi- cap to it's effort to function in the public interest and to afford to the latter progressively lower rates as Justified by increased volume ot business. It is evident to all think
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-09

ing people that no corporation can meet expenses which are not re- couped from the consumer. The policy of requiring the industry, therefore. to pay taxes in dispr0-
 portionate amount is. in effect. to levy discriminatory tax upon those who use electric service, thus requiring them to contribute more than their fair share to the cost of government and to discourage them in the use of the service to the extent justified by it's economic and social value. It may be con fidently predicted that this cloud too will be lifted once the signifi-
 canoe of 1t dawns upon the con- sciousness of our people"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-09
PORTUGAL FREE OF PUBLIC DEBT
Favorable Balance. ir
 Budget Made 1894 a Memorable Year
By ADOLPH DA ROSA { United Press Stan COrrcsponde

| I Lisbon, (UP)-Re-est establishment
 of the constitutional regime, a
 budget with a favorable balance,
 and disappearance of the public
 debt made 1884 a memorable year
 for Portugal.
 Elections held in December | G934) of & national assembly re-
 stored constitutionality after a
 lengthy dictatorship. Ninety depu-
 ties, all previously selected by the | national union party, in agree
 n1cnt with, the dictatorship. were chosen without opposition. The republican parties refrained from voting or presenting candidates. 1t
 is believed that General Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona, presi-
 dent of Portugal, will be reelected for another seven-year term. One partial cabinet crisis oc-
 cured during the year, with the | replacement of four ministers. Dr Olivcira Salazar, premier and min-
 ister of finance, retained control of the dictatorship and prepared the l elections of the national assembly | which figures as part of his new
 state" cooperative system of government.
 Favorable Budget | Premier Oliveira Salazar an- nounced the budgets favorable
 balance amounted to 130,000 l contos.
 Official statistics, revealed that l Portugal in 1884 began to export coffee to the United States. Wheat. potato, grape and other crops were
 excellent during the past year. The wheat harvest was so large that ! the government announced it's production must be limited Tn order to avoid one-sided oyer production far exceeding the na-
 tion's needs.
 \ Construction and reconstruction | of roads, extension of the national telephone system and other public works marked constructive meas ures taken during the year for the
 alleviation of unemployment. The
 nations jobless numbered 10000
 at the close of the year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-09
THE AIR WAVES

What would happen if Hamlet were written to-day and produced In the modern Broadway manner is shown fin "Old Words to New Music, an original musical radio drama which scored a great suc- cess when heard in England sev- eral months ago. The rights to, the play have been acquired by NEG and it will be broadcast for the first time in this country. on Monday, February {, over an NBC-WJZ network.
 The music, by Kenneth Leslie- Smith, is now crossing the Atlantic and the play will go into rehearsal at the Radio City studios imme- diately on it's arrival. The author of the hbretto, James Dyrenforth, also Is coming to America for the broadcast and will be in the studio when his satire goes on the air on February at 3 p. m. EST. Tho two writers have collaborated on other BEG plays, and Dyren- forth's Puritan Lullaby" was shortwaved to an NEG network a short time ago.
 "Old Words to New Music" marks another step forward in the development of musical drama written especially for broadcast ing. Distinctive in the quality and humor of the book and lyrics, and with music perfectly adapted to the mood of the production, the play fits itself to the requirements of radio. The full hour program will be. presented by cast of well known NEG actors and soloists.
 Pets have such 0 definite
 place in the life of Edgar A.
 Guest, poet of the Household
 Hour of Musical Memories
 that he can't pass up . pet
 shop. When he goes each
 week to Chicago to keep his
 radio date, he's likely to take
 back to Detroit gold fish, ca-
 naries, white mice, snails, tur-
 ties or chamclons. It's the
 animal-lover in him!
 When Frank Black lays down his baton after one of his evening hroadcasts, he isn't finished with his days work, not a bit of 1t. The orchestra director returns to his office and begins, with the aid of HIS muSlcaI StdI, the Qeta1lS or the next program. Black often works late into the night and is frequent ly at his desk by six in the morn- ing. Yet his day is never done, for there's always another program coming!
 Larry Taylor, crooner with
 ROxy's Gang, is going to be
 featured at the impressario's
 new thcater In Philadelphia.
 The last time the young singer
 appeared in the Quaker City
 1t was as Larry Tate, a radio
 band leader. Before that he
 had been known by his right
 name-Larry Tatman.
 Smoky" Jack Benny, inter rupting weeks vaudeville en- gagement in Pittsburgh, will hur- ry back to New York for his regu- lar broadcast Sunday. Mary Liv- ingstone, Frank Parker, Don Will son and Don Bestor's orchestra also will be on hand.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-09
.WATR PROGRAMS

3:00-Victor Zembruski's orch. 3:30-Van Clemens, Songs. 3:45-Eagles' Indoor Circus. 4:00-Hits and Bits. 4:15-News.
 4:30-Uncle Harry. 4:45-Sign off.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-09
5OO-.WICC.. .fsr,Ggernrl.-60O

P. M.
 ,3:45-Harry l.. Dodgers at the
 Console. 4:00--National Student Fedora
 tion, Oswald Garrison vils lard. journalist .'fhe Saas
 Valley and the Peace of
 Europe" 4:15--Will Ashley, baritone. 4:30-Silent for WCAC. 5:00-Jack Onslow's Baseball
 School. 5:15-The Cosmopolitans. quintet. 5:30-WICC News Bulletins. 5:45-Vera Van, songs. 6:00-Yankee Network News
 Service. 6:15-Will Fleming, tenor. s 6:30-The Melody Limited EX-
 press. 6:45-Adeline Manzy, Sweet
 Adeline of the Air" 7:00-Polish Orch. direction Oe
 Edward Krolikowski. M 7:30-New Haven EZRA Dance
 Band. Ai S:6o--Boston Conservatory pres sents. 8:15-Spotlighting Modern Edu-
 cation, Madeline Day.
 Home Teacher, Lynn;
 '"The Home Teachers and
 Her Work" f"s S:30-- Muster of Mystery Storys
 direction of Fred Bisholh 9:O0--Andre kostelanetz" Orchs
 Vocal Ensemble and thGs
 Male Quartet. 9:3O---Meyer Davis Le Paradis
 Dance Band. ff@ 9:45-Charles Abbott, baritone. 10:O0--Perley Stevens Raymor
 Orch. t0 :3O--Melody Masterpieces pre-
 senting Mary Eastman,
 soprano: Evan Evans
 baritone; Male Chorus and
 Concert Orch. direction of Howard Barlow. hss5 II :00--Yankee Network News,
 Service. 11:16--Local News. :30--Ozzie Nelson and his Orch. 12:00--Jacgues Renard and his
 Cocoanut Grove orch, A. NJ. f2:3O-~Gcorge Hal and hls Orch.
 seats. 5:3a--.Advcntures of Oracle. tU: Way Byrd Antarctic
 B.addeaAf. 10: 3a--M eiody Afasterpieces 1i:D0--Iseon Besasco's Oreh I1;ac--ozzls Nciton's c ell.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-09
2OO.- O.-WDRC--Hartford..l33O

P. M. 3:45-Organ Recital. 4:00--National Student Federation
 Program. 4:15-Curtis Institute of Music
 Program. 5:00-Baseball School-Jack
 Onslow. 5:15--Skippy. 5;30--Jack Armstrong--All-Am-
 erican Boy. 5:45-Vera Van. 6:00--Mitch Lucas and Al White. 6:15--Bobby Benson and Sunny
 Jim. 6:30--The Shadow. 6:55--Press-R Radio News. 7:00--Myrt and Marge. 7:15--Air Adventures of Jimmie
 Allen. 7:30--The O'Ncills. 7:45--Boake Carter. S:00--Yiy.an md her Life Sa:er. 8:l5--Edwin c. iIill--Tke Human
 Side of s.;te News. S:3c---Evcrs.t AfarSlIH',s Droad.
 wcs yaric,'ts. s.0O--Andre KOstalnnetz' .rre-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-09
New York Stations wEAE-eeo - woR-71o - wJZ-7eO - WABC-seO

wABC-The o'Neills-- Sketch. 7:45--WEAF-Uncle Ezra Sketch.
 WOR-Levitow Orch. WJZ--Dangerous Paradise Sketch.
 WABC-Boak Carter,
 Commentator. S:O0-WEAF-Play, Connie Goes Home, with Mary Pick ford, Actress.
 WOR-Lone Ranger Sketch.
 WJZ-Penthouse Party: Mark Hellinger, Gladys Glad; Peggy Flynn, Coincidence; Travellers Quartet, Coleman Orch; Donald Novis, Tenor. WABC-Diane-Musicale Comedy. 5-WABC-Edwin C. Hill, Commentators S:30-WEAF-Wayne King Orch. WOR--Variety Musicale. WJZ-Lanny Ross, Tenor; odllcI OICH., IdIlCeS Maddux, Songs. WABC-Everett Marshall, Baritone; Elizabeth Len nox, Contralto; Mixed Chorus; Arden Orch. 9:O0-WEAF-Fred Allen, Come dian; James Melton, Tenor; Hayton Orch. WOR-Hillbilly Music.
  Sing-Sketch, with War den Lawes.
 WABC-Kostelanetz Orch; Mixed Chorus. 9:30-WOR-Sandra Swenska, Soprano.
 WJZ-John Mccormack, Tenor; Concert Orch. WABC--George Burns and Oracle Allen. Comedians. 9:45-WOR-Vecsey Orch. 10:00-WE WEAF-Lombardo Orch. WOR-Literray Justice Sketch.
 WJZ--Mischa Levitzki, Piano.
 WABC-Broadcas to and from Byrd Expedition. 10:15-WOR-Current Events-H. E. fLcdQ.
 WJZ-Beauty-M Syl- via. 10:30-- -WEAF-One Mans Family Sketch.
 WOR-Variety Musicale. WJZ-Denny Orch; Harry Richman, Songs. WABC-Mary Eastman, Soprano; Evan Evans, Baritone. 11:00-W Berger orch. WOR-News.
 WJZ--Kemp Orch. WABC-Belasco Orch. 11:15-WEAF--Robert Royce. Henor. ..tt,s WOR-Moonbe Trio. Il: -WEAF--Dance Music (Al- so WOR).
 WJZ-The New Congress Senator Huey r. Long of Louisiana.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-09
Test Your Knoluledge

1. What Is frost?
 2 Where is the Hall of Fame of great Americans? 3. Which state is nicknamed "LOne Star State"? 4. Who presented the Statue of Liberty to the United States? sa 5. Who invented the photograph? 6. Name clear, cOl0ress, transparent liquid that has neither taste smell 2. Who painted the picture Portrait of My Mother?
 s. What is bobwhite?
 g. Name the major planets.
 10. What do the letters A. w. 0. T.. used in mili- Z, tary records mean2 \ TURN TO PAGE IS FOR CORRECT ANSWERS