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Evening star., 1935-03-29
RATHER BITES GIRL

SHREVEPORT, La, March 20 OP.
Bessie May Sandifer. 81, of Epps,
La, walked to her hen house at dusk
yesterday and thrust her hand into
nest.
The fangs of 5-foot rattlesnake
hit the third finger of the young wom-
ans left hand.
Her screams attracted her husband.
working in a nearby field. He killed
the snake. which had nine rattles.
Admitted to a hospital here, the pa
tient today was pronounced in Sc
rious condition.
Evening star., 1935-03-29
COED HELD IN SHOOTING
FREED ON So, 500 BOND
Lois Thompson of Northeastern
State Teachers College Denies
Chinese Student Assault.

BY the Associated Press.
TAHLEQUAH, Okla, March 29.-
Lois Thompson, l9-year-old North
eastern State Teachers College coed.
was freed under $2.500 bond today
after she pleaded not guilty when ar
raigned on charge Of assault with
intent to kill Daniel "haw, Chinese
student at the college.
Sanford Martin, county attorney.
filed the charges shortly after w. w.
Miller, the girls counsel, urged such
move so he could obtain her release
on bond.
She betrayed no emotion as she
answered mot guilty" to the charge,
filed before Justice Of the Peace ]. M.
Boiling. 4
Evening star., 1935-03-29
WOMAN DECAPITATED
BY HANGMAN'S MOOSE
Mrs. Sarao Put to Death With
Two Others at Montreal for
Killing Husband.

BY the Associated Press.
MONTREAL. March 29.-The hang
mans moose decapitated Mrs.
Thomasina Theolis Sarao, 46, today
as she was executed for numbering
her husband. according to a witness
vino attended.
Newspaper men were barred from
the execution by the Quebec Attorney
Generals Department.
A few minutes before Mrs. Sarao
dropped through the trap, Leone
Gagliardi, 80. and Angelo Donofrio.
10, were hanged on another scaffold
for the same crime.
Evening star., 1935-03-29
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MILAN, Italy, March 2S.-Wartime
profiteers in Italy will be stood up
against a wall and shot, Premier Mus
solinfs newspaper, Popolo d'Italia,
said today.
The newspaper, after chronicling a
serious rise in prices in the last few
weeks, said:
Those who decided to launch
themselves in wicked adventures are
mistaken If they think there is any
possibility today of renewing the
greedy profits of the past.
Rather 1t Is better they should
know formally that whenever the pos
sibility of war profits arises We will
begin Immediately to place some per-
sons against the well in the tirst two
Evening star., 1935-03-29
CAR LIABILITY BILL
BATTLE RENEWED
District to Give Senate Data
on Accidents Caused
by Non.ReSidents.

Armed with figures showing "a per
cent of the traffic accidents here in
the last year involved cars driven by
non-residentS, District officials laid
plans today to ask the Senate to re-
store to the District utomobile finan-
"ial responsibility bill the section re-
quiring nonresident drivers to in
sure settlement Of claims.
The measure was passed by the
House yesterday after adoption of an
amendment by Representative Mich
OILS, Democrat. Of Oklahoma. reliev-
ing non-residents of the financial re-
sponsibility feature, but retaining the
language which would prohibit them
from operating a car in the District
II claims for damages have not been
satisfied within 80 days.
Traffic Director Van Duzer today
cited figures to uphold his contention
that elimination of this section would
be a serious obstacle to the whole
insurance plan. OF the 1900 nom
residents involved in accidents last
year, he said, 888 we're from Mary
land and 500 from Virginia. both Of
which States have compulsory insur-
ance laws with the nonresident
clause.
If the bill is enacted in its present
form. thousands of drivers from these
nearby States would drive their cars
into the District daily and be exemnt
from the responsibility while in
Washington which is required in their
own States. A count in December
and January shows 20 per cent of
the cars on Washington streets bore
out-of-town tags and this percentage
is considerably higher during the
Summer months.
Adopted by States.
Corporation Counsel Prettyman also
pointed out that every State financial
responsibility law contains the non-
resident clause.
The nonresident section stricken
out would have the traffic director
act as attorney for nonresident
drivers so service could be made or
him in actions growing out of acci-
dents. The plaintiff would be re-
quired first to file in court Sureties
for reimbursement of the non-resi-
dent operator in the event that the
case should fail. and this should in
clude reasonable attorneys fee, the
amount to be fixed by the court. No
tice of the service with a copy of the
process would be sent to the non-
resident operator by registered mail
by the plaintiff. The defendant would
be allowed reasonable opportunity by
the court to defend the action and
no judgment of default could be
granted for at least 20 days.
The Senate is expected to ask fol-
a conference with the House in an
effort to retain the original language
The amendment was approved in the
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Evening star., 1935-03-29
Father Murders Five
OF Nine Children as
He Faces Loss of Job
Nv the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
TARNOW. Poland. March 20.
-Stanislas Pypene, a farm hand
near here. murdered five Of his
nine children yesterday, because,
he said, he was too poor to keep
them, local police reported today.
He killed them with a kitchen
knife.
Pypene told the police he was
to lose his job April /.
Evening star., 1935-03-29
BY staff Correspondent Of The Star,

ALEXANDRIA, Va, March o.
John A. Ahern, rs, who was reunited
with his wealthy sister, Miss Cath
crime c. Ahearn, in Topeka, Kans.,
last week after the two had been
separated for more than 40 years,
died this morning at his sisters resi-
dence, 915 Prince street.
The brother had been back at his
sisters home here less than a week
since he had been located at a Federal
transient camp at Topeka. He was
in ill-health at the time he was
located.
Miss Ahern, who has spent most
of her time during recent years trayx
Evening star., 1935-03-29
BELGIUM DROPS
GOLD STANDARD
Pfemier's New Deal Pro-
gram Contemplates De-
probation of Currency.
BY the Associated Press.

oy tuc hSSUSAatcu EIeSo.
BRUSSELS. March 29.-Premier
Paul van iceland today proclaimed a
new deal for Belgium, with the value
of the gold belga cut "a maximum of
80 per cent" and with sweeping eco
nomic and monetary reforms to be
rushed into effect
Political observers expected Parlia-
ment, to which Van iceland an
nounced the program, to give the gov
ernment a vote of confidence by a
majority of 40 or so members.
Van iceland stated: The currency
level would not be the same as today,
but in no case would it be more than
80 per cent below the present level"
And he added that the new regime will
60 into effect Monday, with a pro-
viSional cut of Is per cent in the
belga's value.
Suspends Payments.
The premier'S announcement cracked
the European gold bloc, for the COM
prehensive program he announced in
wolves the suspension of gold payments
by Belgium pending an international
agreement on currency policy.
The premier announced the under
taking of great public works schemes.
the favorine of industrial production
by all possible measures. reduction in
taxes. the guarantee of bank deposits
and a desire to resume diplomatic and
commercial relations with Russia.
Although Van Iceland and his gov
eminent seems assured of a vote of
confidence in the Chamber Of Deputies
on this program, lively opposition is
expected In the Senate. Parliament
is expected to debate day and night
throughout the week end, including
Sunday, before the vote is taken.
Wrecked by Depreciation.
The governments program is a re-
suit of heavy blows dealt Belgian in
dustry by countries with deprecated
currency.
BY the governments action Belgium
Professionally Is OF the gold standard,
although she intends to return when
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Evening star., 1935-03-29
Elderly Pair to Wed.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, March 20
R.-George Yesberger, rs, and Mrs.
Esther Mitchell, SO, will be married
here today at an open meeting Of the
Three Quarter Century Club, an or
ganization Of E-year-olds.
Evening star., 1935-03-29
Morro Castle Wireless Man Is
Found in Fume-Filled Room.

NEW YORK, March 20 P).-George
Alagna, 28-year- r-old wireless operator
of the burned liner Moro Castle. whose
testimony in the subsequent inquiry
excited controversy, was removed to
Bellevue Hospital today from the gas
filed kitchen of his Jackson Heights
apartment.
Alagna declined to talk. He is said
to have been morose over his unem-
ployment since the investigation of
the Moro Castle disaster last Fall.
Evening star., 1935-03-29
WEATHER.

(U s Weather Bureau Forecast)
Fair and slightly warmer, with lowest
temperature about IS degrees tonight: to-
morrow cloudy and warmer.
Temperatures-Highe So, at noon
yesterday; lowest, Al, at 6:l5 am. today.
Full report on page BIO.
Evening star., 1935-03-29

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SHIP WITNESS GASSED

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-28

it by no means a coincidence that plans for these maneuvers were announced by naval authorities on the very day that Japan formally denounced the Washing ton naval treaty.
 He points out that the territory involved is exceedingly close to Japan, and remarks that any slight accident to one of our ships - an explosion, for instance might easily be blamed on some Japanese super patriot and lead to war. Many of us" he says, believe that the Aleutians are the right place to hold maneuvers for those who want war, but the wrong place for those who want peace"
 And that remark, in turn, points to the most peculiar feature of American-Japa- nese relations. The ordinary American does not know whether he wants war or peace in the Pacific; or, to be more exact, he does not know whether he prefers to support war-like or a peaceful policy. As things are now, we are drifting - drift ing in the direction of war Most of us don't like the idea, but we can't see just what we should do to reverse the trend. And yet it is really quite simple.
 In the last analysis, it boils down to question of what we are willing to stand for in connection with Japan's course in China. Japan is moving steadily toward the establishment of something very closely resembling protectorate over China. Seizure of Manchukuo and Jenol, offer of loans to Ranking, and warning to other nations to keep their hands off all are part of this one design.
 What we need to do, as soon as possible, is make up our minds once and for all whether we are willing to fight to prevent such hting. If we are, then we should go ahead on our present course, building up our fleet, holding extensive maneuvers in Pacific waters, and preparing to give good account of ourselves when the day comes.
 If we are not, we should stop acting as if we were. We should pull in our horns, keep our navy close to our own coast, and let the Japanese know that they can go
 If we keep on drifting, we may have to ahead of the course they have laid down. make our decision suddenly, in time of crisis when sober thinking is impossible make it, in fact, without ever exactly realizing just what the basic point at issue is.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-28
Pillar of Cloud

About all we need to finish the warning
 ,m the western plains is pillar of fire
 'ght. We had the pillar of cloud by day, aIa went swirling eastward as grim sen 0dar of the fate that follows after ! fCtlg A lust storm, of course, is natural phenomeH0n like cyclone or a flood. But unlike tn se 1t is partly man-made thing, e got our dust storm be- cause of 1, y we used our land, and it was an om. Us indication of the way na- ture can go on the rampage when man up- sets her balance.
 Altogether, it is a queer situation. We expanded our agricultural production be- yond reason, few years ago, just as we expanded other kinds of production By bringing under cultivation more land than we needed, we helped to give ourselves farm depression which today is requiring the most heroic measures. Then, as if that were not enough, high winds and dry weather combine to ruin the land which we unwisely plowed.
 Out of it we ought at least to get new comprehension of the proper way to use our natural resources. Few lands have ever been as blessed with such resources as America. Fertile soil, great forests, mineral deposits they were here in
 
 them dazzle us. We got into the habit of moving in on them enmasse and letting the lucky first corners use them as they pleased.
 That worked all right for while. Now 1t is exacting penalty. The dust storms are forcing us to learn that unwise exploi- tation of these resources has to be paid for by the nation as a whole. We can use our resources as individuals, but eventually we have to foot the bill as collectivists.
 This is not true only of farm land. It is true of our forests, of our oil fields, of our coal deposits and of all the other riches with which nature blessed us. All of us must have say in the way these things are used, because if they are used unwisely all of us will feel the effects.
 This is the warning presented by our pillar of cloud. If we are as smart as we like to think we are, we won't wait for another warning before we insist that our resources be used under plan which has the welfare of the whole country in view.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-28
Whose Idea Was This?

. We don't blame city officials from all . over the state to take up cudgels against : the proposed measure to have the Public : Utilities Commission control all the water . works or electric and gas plants that are now operated by the cities and towns ot . Connecticut. The measure, incidentally, . introduced but not sponsored or supported by Representative John D. Thoms of thls city, caused quite furore in the State Capitol yesterday when it came up for a hearing before the judiciary committee. . According to reports from Hartford the . bill was prepared and authorized by the . Public Utilities Commission itself. If this . is supposed to be move for independence . on the part of this much-maligned state . body then we are sorry to say it is in the . wrong direction. There does not seem to . be one good sound reason why the mil lions of dollars worth of public service . plants in this state should be controlled . directly by the commission. And until we read of one we won't be convinced that there isn't joker in the measure some where.
 Waterbury has sunk many millions into it's water works in development and main tenance Outside of the fact that the city hasn't yet devised a schedule of water rate that will meet with universal ap- proval, we see no cause for complaint or . for outside interference in the supervision , of the aforesaid water works. We pre-
 sume the same holds true for Hartford or
 any ether city maintaining it's own plant.
 And there are a few communities that
 boast their own electric and gas works. There evidently is more behind this pro-
 posal than appears on the surface of the
 bill. We have been demanding of recent years that the powers of the Public Utili- ties Commission be broadened and it actu- ally be made board that will control the public service companies of the state. But never did one advocate of such measures as this believe that the sudden turn, as
 exemplified by the legislative bill to con- t1ol city utilities, would be made. It needs much explaining.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-28
So They Say

refuse to believe that Germany will be ruled forever by the NaZi murderers, gangsters and thieves. -Gerhart Segar, exed former member of the Heichstag.
 In the dim paet my ancestors may have been Jews or Catholics or Protestants--What am more interested in is whether they good citizens and believers in God.
 President Roosevelt. l believe in taking care of my own people, Every cent give to charity will be given in America.
 Princess Barbara Hutton Mdvani.
  Spankings are unforgivably rude. We don't hit our friends when they do what we don't like Neither should we hit our children. Mrs Clara Savage Littledae, noted child d-rearing expert.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-28

A nationwide movement is afoot to rid our statute books of all laws that enable persons to bring suits for alienation of affections. The term is pretty we'll played out these days. In fact reliable estimates show that the goodly proportion of suits that are brought under the guise of alien ation of affections are simply "shake- downs. It's racket, was the way that one prominent lawyer expressed it. And that's why New York, Indiana, Connecti- cut, and few other states are determined to wipe out the racket for once and for all. In our own state we ask that damage claims for alienation of affections, where the defendants are parents, be outlawed. In Indiana and New York the legislative measures also propose to end breach of promise claims. As the Hartford Courant recently said editorially, "The sensation press has made heart balm phrase at once familiar and odious to self-respect- ing individuals. The General Assembly would do we'll to make it altogether illegal in Connecticut"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-28

as chairman of the MIRA board.
 Second only to the presidency, this is the most exposed office in the government today. For Richbcrg who Is distrusted both by labor and the senate liberals-it is dobuly hazardous.
 He didn't want the job.
 The only reason he took it was that Roosevelt could get no one else to accept.
 Roosevelt offered it first to w. Averell Hartman, multi-mil- lionaire executive officer of the NRA.. He declined.
 Then he turned to Arthur l.. Whiteside, dapper little head of Dun & Bradstreet and a. mem Der of the MIRA board. He also refused.
 Stumped, the president W a S hesitating over his next move when he was warned by Frank Walker, former chairman of the national emergency council, that he must act and act quickly if the NRA was to be saved.
 Walker, had n. making a quiet survey of senate sentiment and he found the MIRA situation decidedly ominous. -
 He told the president h a it was absolutely necessary to come to terms with labor and the lib- erals. '
 So at the last moment, with no one else available, Roosevelt, in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-28
Yours truly,
 A DISGUSTED ONLOOKER
MEXICAN PROSECUTIONS NO WORSE THAN BLACK AND
 TANS' CLAIMS WRITER.

March 26, 1885. Editor of The Democrat:
 It is amusing to tread in this evenings Democrat Q protest from Archbishop Curley against the so- called persecution in Mexico. When the people in Ireland were being murdered indiscriiminately by the Black and Fans, there was no pro- test from the Catholic Church. The crimes were so horrible that even an English Protestant church pro- tested to the English parliament that They (The E. and ID might at least observe the laws of civil ized warfare"
 Every reader of the Catholic Transcript will remember how the Curlys; the Turner's and the Ryans, gloated over the wholesale murder of Ireland's most noble and most scholarly leaders by England E hirelings, Collins and Cosgrave, and now in Mexico because the clergy are concerned, oh my! What an awful thing, the, whole world should protest. The Almighty Cardinals are in trouble. A protest from Archbishop Curley seems to mo as funny as England seeking world peace. or the Dillinger gang trying to make the world safe for the miliionnaires. Personally be. lieve that the natives of Mexico are not the prosecutors, but the persecuted. I am dear editor Your for Justice.
 JOSEPH F. HOLOHAN. 126 Maple Street,
 Waterhurv. Conn.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-28
FATHER COUGHLIN'S NUS: IS CRITICIZED BY
 FATHER FINN
Waterbury, Conn. March 27, 1885.

~OsNN~'
 March 27, 1885. Editor, Waterbury Democrat:
 Rev Leo Finn preached sermon in St Mary's church, Bridgepoit | last Sunday which was to all in- tents and purposes criticism against the preachings of Father Coughlin. His sermon sounds like a Revivalist or Evangelist camp meeting where fire and birthstone and the beauty of the Lord are served up to the laity after which the hat is passed around.
 Back in the early days of the Catholic church all forms of in- terest on money were bitterly de- nounced. Money lenders were threatened with ex-communica- tion and were so harassed that many left their money and goods to the church in the hopes of re- deeming their souls. Those were the days of old fashioned re- ligion.
 Popes Leo and Plus saw the mod ern world slipping away from old fashioned religion and caused en- cyclicals to be circulated through out the entire Catholic domain. Not only did these Popes urge the Catholic hierarchy of cardinals, bishops and priests to preach these encyclicals-they commanded them to do so.
 It would seem therefore that Father Coughlin was nearer right than either Cardinal O'Connell or Father Finn. Throughout the ages mans two chief problems have been his corporal wants and his spiritual wants. It. is diff cult to draw an exact line of de- marcation between the two. The corporal and spiritual natures of man are so dove-tailed that either one or the other nature comes into prominence according to the times and the circumstances.
 At the present time man is harassed with problems affecting his corporal needs and the law of nature will not allow cardinals or priests to offset these needs by abstract statements that they should look to God. God is not to blame. The problems are man made and man must correct them. The people are not sinful because they are trying to correct the sys- tenn of economies under which they have been forced to live.
 It is very doubtful whether Father Finn can stand up under any argument against Father Coughlin be 1t in the realms of religion or economies or both. Tne people somehow are 6Hgays right and 1t is truly a wise man whc understands their needs.
 N-u-s-J MEMBBR.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-28
INQUISITIVE
BUTTON, BUTTON, WHO IS GOING TO GET THE
 POSTMASTERSHIP?

Waterbury, Conn.
 Mar. 27, 1885. Editor of the Democrat:
 From week to week 1t has been absolutely and positively announced that the postmaster was to be named for Waterbury. Yet the weeks come and go and temporary postmaster. Jim" Kelley is still holding the line for good old Si- wash. This may be all well and good for those who figure he should worry as long as he's lOn the job. But what Of the nerve-wracking ordeal such uncertainty must cre- ate? It's probably just as bad for his opponent, MT. Babin, likewise. But in his case he Is not worried about something he never had.
 That's the rotten part of the whole postmaster muddle in Water- bury. Had MT. Kelley lost out in the beginning to any candidate in the field, do not think that he should have worried a pile. But to have been selected even tempor- aritly and then held the position for nineteen or twenty months Is where the injustice of the whole disagreeable mess comes in.
 Whoever Is responsible for drag ging the matter through so many months. if they think 1t is smart poll itics--and by the way Big Heart ed Jim" Farley was going to take postmaster appointments out of politics--has another thing com ing. The people of Waterbury are going to resent 1t if "Jim" Kelley loses the position more than the politicians think. Jim has plenty of friends and if 1t comes down to cases Is just as good demo- crat as Inf of those who are
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-28
Selected Poem
ROCK POOL

ROCK POOL
 David Wilkins in The New York Times) Uncovered by tide which left it bare For pryng eyes to spy within rock, little world found Six inches square, It held withal enough of peace to mock A large sphere. Here sloped gray stones for land, And moss-trees curled their fronds 50 darkiy
 gRcGn.
 Snails po" ed their sluggish way across white sand That gleamed beneath water crystal clear. When life around me clouds with strife, and stand hestant to act-through sloth or fear And doubt to find beneath this earthly sky Such happiness has been promised here, Do I deserve the nasty name of fool If thoughts slip back to Maine rocks and a pool |?