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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-05
Daily MNav.,.v- Gr-Rc,..,1 Washington .v-~-- = e - - =---~- SEN. NORRIS CANDIDATE
 FOR REELECTION
. By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT s. ALLEN

Washington December = Senator George Norris will be candidate for reelection next year. Under pres sure of strong pleas from the President his Senate col leagues and thousands of admirers in a parts of Gne
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-05
TO-DAYs COMMON ERROR Never say, T have drank my
 c0ffee"; say, "have drunk.

A. July 27, 1917, when the Bleeck- CT street and Fulton Ferry line franchise was given up.
 c. What was the value of the estate left by Theodore Roosevelt?
 A. It was valued at $98l,171 on May 31, 1922, according to the report of the executors and trustees filed in the supreme court in New York city.
 e. How is 1895 written in Roman numerals?
 A. MCMXXXV.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-05

If you want a copy of our booklet STAMP COLLECTING, write to the Waterbury Demo- crat's Washington Bureau. 1913 Thirteenth street, Northwest. Washington, D. c. Enclose 10 cents for postage and handling.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-05

Fashion Plate
 New York and Hollywood cloth
 iers can war to the finish about
 the Ten Best Dressed Men of America. But the best dressed
 man I've seen consistently well-
 groomed is Earl Benham, a tailor. He makes clothes to order for James J. Walker, William Gaxton,
 Adolphe Menjou, and other sar-
 torial notables.
 BI0Onin' Stranger
 And that reminds me of the fel-
 low who sauntered into the florists shop of a Park Avenue hotel and
 ordered enough gardenias to make,
 as he said, "a good-sized blanket" !"
 The salesman didn't even blink an eyelash because Park Avenue for ists get accustomed to anything. But then the customer left. word with the florist that four seam stresses were to come up to his suite and sew the gardenias into a blanket by 8 o'clock that evening. Well, Park Avenue florists hadn't
 heard an order like that one before and repeated it to make sure. The
 customer said he was serious. And at 6 o'clock that evening, four seamstresses finished their task of sewing couple of hundred gardenias into a blanket, covering Q six foot bed in the gentleman's apartment. The stranger paid the bill, which came to $e400. tipped
 the sewing machine girls and sent
 them about their business. Were you waiting for the pay-oH to this story There isn't any, Nobody
 has yet satisfactorily explained the mystery of the gardenia blanket.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-05

c. Where is Hindustan?
 A. It is the Persian name for In- dia, variously applied to CD the whole Indian peninsula north O. the Deccan; (2) a smaller area com- prising East Punjab and Rajputana, and the greater part of United Provinces: (0 loosely, the whole of India.
 c. Who is the football coach at Duke university?
 A, Wallace w. Wade.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-05

Readers desiring additional in- formation regarding their horO- scopes are invited to communicate with Octavine in care of this news paper. Enclose . 3 cents stamped, sell-addressed envelope.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-05
T est Y Q U r Knowledge

Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to last page for the answers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-05

Chorus Qualifications
 The difference between an old fashioned and new, streamlined chorus girl, according to Tom Weatherly, producer of musical shows, is plenty. MT. Weatherly, hiring chorines for his new Illus trators' Revue, demands these ten specifications from 8 lady of the ensemble:
 She must be able to do simple stage and tap dancing. She must have distinctive personality. She must wear clothes with chic. She must be slender and perfectly pro- portioned. She must be intelligent. She must not be less than five feet three inches tall or more than five feet six. She must have undyed hair. No synthetic blondes, red heads or what-have-you need ap- ply. She must be vivacious. She must not have vulgar or raucous voice. She must be a lady.
 The last condition is the hard est.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-05
A Thought for Today

Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.-DeuteronOmy 26:25.
  Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.- Maturin.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-05
In New York
By GEORGE ROSS

New York, Dec. Sits next to impossible to get a Broadway play wright to admit he's happening 8 real-life celebrity.
 First Lady," which Katharine Dayton wrote with George g.. Kaufman, lightly disguises Alice Longworth and Dolly Gam, prin- cipals in the Washington social feud, as its two leading charac- ters. But, of course, the authors deny it. When Mrs. Longworth phoned from Washington the other day to ask about 1t, she was told that the show dealt with the brightest, most beautiful woman in the Capitol. She said "Thank you" and hung up.
 Another new Broadway smash hit, Boy Meets Girl" is about those two bad boys of Hollywood, Ben Hecht and Charlie MacArthur, and reveals their boyish pranks in the picture colony. Of course, this is vehemently denied by Sam and Bella Spewack (husband and wife, who wrote it. But when saw Ben Hecht talking about the show the other evening, he was saying, Tt can't be about us," with a smile.
 Celebrities are taking their worst beating in Moss Hart and Cole Porter's Jubilee" in which Johnny weismuller is faintly concealed as Charlie Reismuller when people aren't calling him Mowgi. There arc also laughs at the expense of Elsa Maxwell, Park Avenue, social arbiter, Noel Coward and any king or queen you might care to men, tion. We also still have with us Personal Appearance" which rakes movie siren over the coals, but the none-too-bright heroine could be plenty of motion picture She bas.
Evening star., 1935-05-20
$3.50, 100000 NAVAL
BILL HIT BY NYE
Senator Pictures Uncle Sam
Taken for Ride" by National
Defense "Racketeers."
BY the Associated Press.

DH lIlr hooOIldltu
TERRE HAUTE. Ind. May 2o-A
picture of Uncle Sam taken for
ride" by national defense ''racketeers"
was drawn yesterday by Senator Nye,
Republican, of North Dakota, in a
speech here condemning war profits.
The chairman of the Senate NUM-
tions Committee took a special thrust
at the $460,000,000 naval appropria-
tions bill His address was before a
meeting arranged by the local Minis
terial Association.
The measure, Nye said. is the
largest ever known in peace time" and
comes on the heels Of an Army supply
bill setting a peace-time record.
Along with these, he said, is pending
a maritime bill, which is only another
name for ship subsidy, which calls for
the availability Of millions for build
ing of a merchant marine"
AS a remedy, Nye proposed enact
ment of legislation such as has been
drafted by his Munitions Committee
for taking profits out Of war.
He also urged adoption of neutrality
measures for preventing American
money of munitions from going into a
war zone and to abandon the neces-
sity Of protecting Americans who in
sist upon going into the war zones"
Evening star., 1935-05-20

When it's speed or safety. choose
safety.
When it's adherence to the right Of
way or safety. choose safety.
The driver who takes chances must
expect to take consequences. One
may get away with frequent viola
tions or live through hair breadth es-
capes, but there Is one trafic law that
Is enforced everywhere. That is the
law of averages"
An memorable law under which no
tickets are ever torn up, no fines re-
mitted, no sentences suspended. It
doesn't necessarily mean an accident,
nor an injury nor . death whenever q
driver takes q chance. But 1t does
prescribe that with 50 many chances
there Is bound to be an injury and
with 50 many more q fatality.
1t Is stern law that cannot be ig-
nored and it follows that the fellow
who exposes himself to danger most
frequently Is the most frequent victim.
Why take foolish chances? Life Is
short enough ut best. After al, y
second saved Is nothing IN the eyes Of
Eternity.
Evening star., 1935-05-20
LA GUARDIA ISSUES
PROGRESSIVE CALL
Urges Them to Rally to Platform
That Will Solve Present
Disaster.
BY the Associated Press.

by tnc hSSOCldGtO FltSS.
NEW YORK, May 20.-ProgreSsives
of the Nation were called upon by
Mayor F. H. La Guardia of New YORK
last night to rally to the support" Of
a real, honest-to-goodness platform
that will have the courage to state in
plain language an economic plan that
will solve our present distress"
I'VE have been shared too many
times" he said in radio address in
honor of the first anniversary of the
founding of the Progressive party in
Wisconsin.
I'VE will be courted by all parties
within a few months. All political
parties suddenly get the religion of
progressivism on the eve of a cam
paign.
"Progressives have been criticized in
the past. and sometimes with justifi-
cation, for clinging to parties with
conservative ideas and stand-pat
programs.
Now is the time for all ConServa-
tives to get together. We know what
they stand for. Let them stand up
and be counted.
"I am sure that ProgreSsives
throughout the country will answer
the call. The fight is on-Progres-
sives stand BY"
Evening star., 1935-05-20
Fight Believed Useless.

Close observers have wondered why
the Republicans put up no greater
show of resistance against the latest
New Dealish moves in the Senate (the
T. v. A. strengthening amendments,
N. r. A. and the Wagner bilD. They
talked a little, but made no real fight.
Privately, the Republican leaders
will tell you they saw no reason to
waste their breath. They knew that
nothing their slim minority could say
or do would make any difference.
The fine art Of business appears to
have been developed amazingly by q
certain Southern shirt factory "a
small one). In the first place, it bor-
rowed money from q governmental
agency to build a plant or addition.
Then it borrowed Government girls
from a nearby vocational school con-
Quoted by the Interior Department.
As apprentices these girls were not to
receive the code wage for the first
six weeks. so. the factory staggered its
vocational apprentices in six-week
shifts.
Thus, 1t produced shirts for cheap
apprentice wages Thus, in q way,
the Government furnished the chisels
for chiseling. That Is, it did until
the Government recently found out
about it.
Copyright. 1eak1
Evening star., 1935-05-20
Congress Rin Brief
sss! =
BY the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
TODAY.
Senate.
Debates s460, 900, 900 naval appro-
priation bill
Banking Committee continues hear
ings on Omnibus bank bill.
House.
Consider miscellaneous legislation.
Ways and Means Committee opens
hearings on N. r. A. extension.
Military Committee reopens T. v. A.
hearings.
Interstate Commerce Committee
studies holding company legislation.
TOMORROW.
Senate,
Naval appropriation bill.
Commerce Committee, begins hear
ings on river and harbor bill.
Subcommittee continues hearings
on new banking legislation.
Heuse3
Holds memorial services for mem
bers who died during the Seventy
fourth Congress.
Streets and traffic subcommittee of
the District Committee resumes public
hearings on taxicab liability respon-
sibiity bill ct 1890 an.
Evening star., 1935-05-20
STRIKING PRINTERS
RIOT, INJURING FOUR
Non. Union Men Taken to Hospi-
tai After Clash in Spring
field, Mass.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, May 90
Four non-union printers were in
jured, two so badly they were taken
to a hospital, in strike riot in front
of the Republican plant last night.
One of the men at the hospital has
a possible fractured skull, the other
contusions and possible internal in
juries.
One of the strikers was arrested,
charged with breach of the peace.
Vandals early this morning OBJ
tanned entrance to the composing
room of the Union, one of the four
papers affected by the strike, cut the
belts on linotype machines, damaged
some keyboards and destroyed some
ads that had been set the night be-
fore. The two morning papers, the
Republican and the Union. were pre-
pairing to continue publishing with
the help of non-union men.
The strike situation remained un-
changed. Members of the Typo
graphical Union continued orderly
picketing at the two plants and at
some newsstands. The unions monthly
meeting was held at Central Labor
Union Hall yesterday afternoon. AZ
ter the session President Kenneth
Taylor reported that there appeared
to be no prospects Of an early break
In the situation.
Evening star., 1935-05-20
CITIES ASKING AID
MAY FACE PROBES
Work-ReIief Agency Hints
"Poverty" Pleas Will Be
Investigated.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
There we're indications today that
Federal investigators will check up
on the resources of cities which say
they are too poor to contribute any
thing toward the cost of work-re-
lief projects
The threat of such investigation, 1t
was said reliably, is counted upon TO
discourage communities from taking
false "pauper's oathS."
Leaders of President Roosevelt's
$4,000 100000 works program have
announced that 100 per cent grants
will be made to cities which nave no
funds available and have exhausted
their borrowing power.
Rush of Pleas Feared.
Some officials expressed fear a few
days ago that this policy would bring
a rush of applications describing dire
local conditions.
The latest word is that Harry L.
Hopkins, the works progress admin
istrator, plans to handle this prob
lem In a manner similar to that en-
ployed in the past in dealing with
State governments. He has had
studies made Of wealth, public in
debtedness and tax rates in the States.
This information has been Used in
working out amounts which the States
have been called upon TO contribute
Hopkins has disclosed that local Of
ficials will not be allowed to ad-
minister work-relief money in cities
which do not bear a share of the
cost Federal employees will be in
charge
A billion dollars worth of projects,
approved by the Works Allotment
Board. still waited today upon formal
approval by President Roosevelt and
determination of the wage rates to be
paid relief workers.
Wage Scales Studied.
officials said so-called security"
wage scales were submitted to the
President by Hopkins for study over
the week end. Previously, reports that
Hopkins had considered rates 30 per
cent less than wages prevailing in
private industry aroused a storm in
Congress. Senator McCarran, Demo-
crat, of Nevada threatened to make a
speech denouncing such a schedule
1t was said that Mr. Roosevelt
might announce approval of the in
itial batch of projects, and a deci-
sion on the wage rates at one time
The usual Monday meeting of the
Works Allotment Board was called
of. A meeting was planned Thurs
day.
Meanwhile, authoritative sources
disclosed that hundreds of country
farm agents will be asked to CO. oper-
ate with the rural resettlement and
rural electrification administrations in
the work-relief program. They are
expected. among other things, to pro-
mote an interest in electrification
among farmers.
Evening star., 1935-05-20
CHEFOO GREETS "GOBS"

CHEFOO, China, May 20 P.-
Prosperity arrived for Chefoo today in
the form Of a part of the United
States Asiatic feet which will be
based here for the four Summer
months.
Twelve destroyers, one submarine
mother ship and the flagship U. S. S.
Augusta arrived from Japan, accom-
panied by q squadron of submarines
from Manila. They brought an ava
lanche Of "gobs" anxious to stretch
their legs ashore Chefoo has been
preparing for many months for the
arrival OF these men laden with
American dollars.
Evening star., 1935-05-20

(COlLlDueO fIUUI FlISL dSCJ
of course without success. worried
throughout Sunday and today I went
to the foundation contractor and
asked him If his men had filled In
the children's cave.
Body Is Uncovered.
"The contractor, Lawrence di Gio-
wanna, Immediately put two men to
digging. In 10 minutes, after these
two-Jimmy Gesuele and Nick Gio-
vanni-had turned about ton Of
earth, the body was found. 1t lay
pressed against the cement, hunched
over as If struck without warning"
The childs mother. Mrs. Pauline
Evans, was dressing when notified OF
the discovery. Her husband, William
Evans, told her the news. She broke
into frenzied weeping. and it required
the efforts of her husband and her
mother, Mrs. Mark Biery. Allentown,
Pa. TO care for her.
II want to go out there" she cried
wildly. II want to do something"
Comforted by the others. she re-
gained her compoSure, but Sne re-
peatedly broke into incoherent refer
ences to a colored watchman.
IF it was an accident" she cried,
why did that man wave a brick at
me?"
Presses for Details.
She pressed for details of the find
ing of the body. how deeply it was
buried and how it lay.
The father, composed, nevertheless
betrayed incredulity at the news.
is it true?" he asked of all who
came to the three-room apartment.
Did you see her?"
Shirley's pet bulldog, which sprang
to the door whenever it opened dur
ing the two-day hunt for the child,
moped about the house.
The Evans family, far from wealthy,
had doubted that their child had been
seized for ransom. A strange man
who had, day before Shirley's dis
appearance, terrified her playmate,
Elaine Halstead, was suspected of hav-
ing attacked her. The Evanses re-
manned optimistic, however, according
to a neighbor. Mrs. W. c. Bickroy.
who attended Mrs. Evans over Sunday.
Evening star., 1935-05-20
TALK WITH LAVAL
SOUGHT BY HITLER
French Minister Is Cool to
0vertures From Berlin,
However.

(Copyrisht 1898 by the Associated PressJ
BERLIN. May 2o.-Pinched by
French encirclement. Reichsfuehrer
Hitler again Is seeking TO ease the
discomfort Of 0ermany's position
through a frank talk with Pierre
Laval, Frances foreign minister.
With all exits seemingly closed by
Frances diligent diplomatic ma
neuvering. 1t was disclosed today
Der Fuehrer is hunting high and low
for a way out Of the dilemma with
which his foreign policy Is con-
fronted. 1t Is said he would like TO
point the way to that as yet unseen
door in his Reichstag speech to-
morrow.
With the assistance of Joseph Beck,
Polish foreign minister, Hitler sue
ceeded in getting Laval into a two
and-a-half-hour conference at Kra-
kow with his principal aide, Gen. Her
mann Wilhelm Goering, ministrer OF
aviation.
But the Frenchman later slipped
out OF Poland through Germany with
rather emphatic indications that he
has no intention of returning to this
side Of the Rhine.
There is not much chance that
Laval will give Hitler the satisfac-
ton of an interview" quarters close
to the foreign minister said.
THE conversation with Goering
was instructive, but that's about all"
Ever since Hitler came to power
he has tried to entice French states
men to come to Berlin, but has met
with the stock reply: Come TO
Geneva and talk with all OF us
there"
Laval, however, has believed for q
long time in direct negotiations with
Germany. Soon after he became
foreign minister there were indica-
tions he might see Hitler If it became
politically possible.
Saar Vote Changes Ideas.
Informed quarters say this inclina-
ton has faded since the Saar plebis-
cite. Laval, they say, settled the
Saar problem with Germany in the
hope that the Nazis would settle
down" after the territory's return to
the Fatherland.
Instead, 1t is said, the Saar victory
was the signal for a whole series OF
outbursts distasteful to the French.
Whatever stand Hitler intends tc
take in his Reichstag address, he Is
keeping his own counsel.
Evening star., 1935-05-20
FRENCH INCREASE SEA FoRCl
Move Naval Strength to North Sea,
Says Report.


tCopyright 1885. by the Associated Press }
PARIS, May 20.-France was re-
liably reported today to be reinforcing
her sea frontiers as well as her out
posts on land, and to be quietly NOV
ing her naval strength toward the
North Sea from the Mediterranean.
The move corresponds with Frances
action in transferring thousands of
troops from the Italian frontier to
her Notifications on the German
border after the Reich announced
her rearmament policy and Franco
Italian friendship was sealed in the
Rome accord.
Within the past six months the
navy's second squadron, which is re-
sponsible for protection of the coast
from the North Sea to the Gulf of
Gascogne. has been more than
doubled.
There are indications that the
strength of the squadron will be still
further augmented after the naval
maneuvers off Morocco the first two
weeks in June.
Last Fall Frances west coast feet
consisted of one cruiser, two divisions
of destroyers and a squadron of sub
marines. Since November there have
been added one battleship, two new
desToyers and four torpedo boats.
In addition rs submarines have
been returned to the fleet, including
one which is the largest in the world
Evening star., 1935-05-20
MRS. ROOSEVELT'S VISIT
AWAITED BY OHIO CITY
Will Speak at 'People's Univer-
sity" Exercises and Inspect
Soft Coal Mine.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BELLAIRE. Ohio, May 20.-This
city of 1000 prepared today to vel
come Mrs Franklin D. Roosevelt, who
will be the principal speaker at grad
uation exercises for $50 students Of
Peoples University" here tomorrow.
Mrs. Roosevelt plans to leave Wash
ington late tonight, arriving here
Tuesday morning for busy day. One
part of the program includes a tour
Of an underground soft coal mine.
The university" Is a Self-help Or
ganization of unemployed and working
adults. Glasses in more than 40 sub
jects have been conducted. Mrs.
Roosevelt will hand the diplomas to
the $50 graduates.