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Evening star., 1935-04-23

The questions unquestionably will
strip civilization bare. They not only
will develop the number and prices of
union suits and combinations" pur-
chased by each member of the family,
but also "corsets, girdles, brassieres,
boomers. panties and slips cotton,
silk, or rayon?)."
Some Simple Questions.
Recitation of the outstanding in
quiries would take up most of this
whole page, but the following are fair
samples:
Time employed? Rate of pay? Earn
1ngs? Cor each quarter year,.
Rent from boarderS? Other income? !?
Expenditures for household, medicine,
recreation? And a. thousand other
things.
Have you dinette? Elevator? In.
closed porch? Janitor service? Play
space?
How much 1aundry9 Wet? Rough
dry? And (beheve it or mott mangled {?
How much starch, bluing, cleaning
powders, steel wool?
These, of course, are only prelimi-
nary questions to get the lay of the
land. Next the agent will ask you to
itemize your expenses by quarters for
POI different foods, including peanut
butter, figs, cod-liver Oil, soft drinks
consumed at home, other drinks con-
sumed at home" prunes, dates, brus-
sells sprouts and colIards.
There are no separate Questions
proDided jor jrankfurters and
bologna. both being combined
Under one heading, apparently for
the sake OF breUity. But the agent
zDilI ,Uant to knoU the ser and aqe
OF persons SerDed at each meal
during the last sepen days from the
family tund.
The clothing question, however, is
the one which troubles them most.
There are about 223 categories of ques-
tions on clothing. They will ask the
males about five different classes of
suits; namely. heavy wool, light
weight wool, cotton linen, palm beach,
"other." Also six different categories
of shoes: Two street pairs, two work
pairs, canvas and other"
This should be easy for most hus-
bands earning less than $4,000 a year.
Evening star., 1935-04-23
EDGAR BACkUS DIES:
BURIAL IN NEBRASKA
Supervisor in Bureau of Inves-
tigation Succumbs After
Short Illness.

Edgar Backus, supervisor in the
Justice Departments Bureau of In
vestigation, died Saturday at Sibley
Hospital after a brief illness. He was
rs years old.
His body is en- route to Columbus,
Nebr.. where his parents, MIR. and
Mrs. A. H. Backus, reside. Interment
will be in Columbus.
A native Of Nebraska, Mr.. Backus
received his early education ut Pierce.
Nebr., and Columbus. He was q
graduate Of Nebraska Wesleyan Uni
versity and of the Law School of the
University Of Michigan. He entered
the Bureau of Investigation two years
ago and had been stationed at head
quarters here since last November.
He is survived by his wife and q
sister, in addition to his parents.
Evening star., 1935-04-23
By the Associated Press.


NEW YORK. April 23.-Publishers
and members of the Associated Press
paid a reverent tribute yesterday TO
the memory OF the late Adolph s..
Ochs. publisher Of the New York
Times and one Of the founders of the
Assoc lated Press
The more than 800 persons who
were present at the thirty-fifth annual
luncheon stood In silent tribute TO his
name and his place in American
journalism at the opening Of the an
nual Spring meeting of the news
gathering organization
Secretary of the Interior Ickes.
speaker ut the luncheon. also paid
high tribute TO Mr. Ochs.
"Adolph s. Ochs,' he said. proved
beyond all doubt that one of the
greatest newspapers in all the world.
Evening star., 1935-04-23
Adolph Ochs Paid High Tribute
Bv 4. p. Members at Luncheon
Charter Member of Organization
Praised by Ickes as Exponent of Best
Ideals Of american Journalism.

the New York Times. could be built
on the virtues of fair play. of true
craftsmanship, Of honest and objec-
tive comment. His columns were
never USED to advance his own selfish
purposes OF ito wreak vengeance on
some hapless individual for whom he
had conceived a personal dislike.
He has set q high standard, one
that the great journal that he estab-
lished in this city will continue TO
live up to so long as his spirit broods
over it: a standard that will be held
up to future generations of newspaper
men as an inspiring one for them to
follow
The people of the United States
will ever be grateful TO the memory
of this great journalist for what he
was and did. A benediction TO his
ashes"
Evening star., 1935-04-23
What's What
Behind News
In Capital
New Deal Plans to Get
Low Down on
Private Life.
BY PAUL MALLON.


ONOT be surprised If q bright
young agent rings your door
bell shortly and starts asking
- 1916 simple questions about
your home life.
1t Is an idea which one of the
brain trusters thought up one rainy
afternoon recently. when he was look
ing out the window, wondering. The
thought is understood to have come
to him virtually without effort. As
he reasoned it out, the Government
is trying to plan for all its people and
here it really does not know much
about you. at least not about your
private life.
Thus evolved Bureau of Labor
statistics form No. 807. with 18 pages
of simple questions. 1t has not been
made public yet. but 1t has been ap-
proved by the Bureau Of Home Eco
nomics and considered at private
meeting of the Central Statistical
Board.
The inQuisitipe thirsters for
knowledge haUe decided to try it
out first or families in rural COM
munities under $500 population
and income groups under $4,000 a
year. thus couering seUeral million
families. They haze figured it out
that each family tUiH require from
three to sir hours to ansUer the
1916 simple questions, depending
on the intelligence OF the family
and the state OF household book
keeping.
Evening star., 1935-04-23
"y0UTH DAY" PLANNED

youth day" will be celebrated by
the washington Optimist Club tomor-
row, when each member will bring
boy as his guest to the weekly lunch
con at 1890 pm. In the Hamilton
Hotel. Arrangements have been made
to accommodate between ITS and 200
men and boys, according to Joe Rice,
president of the club.
Bowling Bell, Is, of 802 H street,
who Is vice president Of the Junior
Optimists, will speak.
Evening star., 1935-04-23
AIR DEPARTMENT
BILL 0. X. LIKELY
House Military Committee
Approval Due Over Serv.
ice Protests.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
A bill to create o Federal Depart.
ment Of Air was pointed today toward
almost certain approval by the House
Military Committee-over bitter pro-
tests from the Army and Navy.
Leading committee Democrats pre-
dicted-snd q survey of the member
ship backed them up-thst the com
mittee probably will vote about two
70 one for the measure.
Introduced by Chairman McSwsin,
Democrat, Of South Carolina. the bin
would place the Army Air Corps ana
civilian aviation activities OF the Bu-
resu OF Air Commerce under q new
cabinet oficer, designated Secretary
OF Air. At the same time 1t would
greatly strengthen the personnel and
nying equipment of the Air Corps.
Hearings Near End.
The committee is about ready 10
close hearings on the bill and begin
working 1t over in executive session.
First, though, several Army Infantry
officers are to be heard. perhaps later
this week, in opposition TO some Air
OOTpS pTOmOGIOH features.
From generals and admirsls down
through smaller luminaries, the ccm-
mittee has heard War and Navy De-
partment arguments against the bin.
Nevertheless, poll of score of the
IS committee members disclosed an
even dozen are convinced the bill
should 90 through or are inclined" to
favor it. Five are against it and three
are undecided. Others could not be
reached.
Some of those who want q separate
department of air and at least two
OF the opponents of such an agency
said they preferred a department of
national defense with undersecretaries
In charge Of the Army, Navy and
aviation, but that probably it was i'm
practical TO set up such a department
now.
Can't Wait on Army.
we can't afford to wait on the
War Department to get ready TO give
up its air force" McSwain asserted.
IF we had waited on the Army we
would never have had an Air Corps in
the first place"
Il sort of believe we are going 10
approve the bill, despite the opposi-
ton of the Army and Navy" added
Representative Rogers, Democrat, of
New Hampshire, chairman Of the
committees aviation subcommittee.
Just what reaction might be ex-
pected in the House-and at the
White House in the event the bill were
enscted-has not been clearly defined.
Evening star., 1935-04-23
THIRST TORTURES
QUAKE SURVIVORS
Formosa Relief Speeded as
New Tembl0rs Add to
Terror.

tCopyrieht. 1895. BY the Associated PressD
TAIHOKU, Formosa. April 23.-
Relief agencies, experienced in deal
ing with earthquake disasters, rushed
food, water and medical supplies to-
day into remote sections of north
western Formosa. devastated in Sun
days catastrophe
The problem of supplying water to
the survivors became one of primary
importance ss q tropical sun psrched
the tongues of the stricken inhabi-
tspts and added TO the hazard of
disease. Scarcely q pipeline or .
reservoir was left unchanged in the
area.
Hasty repairs TO the shattered rail-
way line leading from here to Tainan
and northward enabled relief workers
and physicians to speed into the in
terror with their welcome stores of
water, food and blankets.
Dead Number 3,I5s.
The latest oficisl casualty figures.
which it was believed would be sub
ject to only minor revision, gave the
number OF dead as 3,152 and the
total seriously wounded as 10,4C6.
Damage was estimated at s3,000,0 900.
Aerial surveys of the quake region
showed that the flimsy villages Of the
savage, head-hunting mountain tribes
had escaped destruction and that
heavy casualties at first feared in
these areas had not occurred.
1t also was ascertained that For
mosa's principal industry, sugar, had
suffered no serious damage, most Of
the mills and canefields being out
side the damaged zone.
The surveys disclosed that the
shocks laid waste an area of approx
mately 1000 square miles inhabited
by some 250.000 persons. Most Of
the inhabitants are of Chinese ex-
traction and engaged in agricultural
pursuits.
New Shocks Occur.
AS army and Japanese Red Cross
workers pursued their merciful efforts,
q succession of slight aftershocks
spread new terror. None of the later
quakes, however. was sufficient 10
cause damage.
The possibility Of foods created
concern among oficisls. The Tansu
River is bank full ss q result of re-
cent heavy tropical rains and it was
believed only continued fair weather
would check its rise.
The japanese destroyer Shimsksze
reached Byoritsu with O cargo of re-
lief supplies, while the steamer va
mato Maru was en- route from Kobe
with q group Of Red Cross workers.
THE naval Office in Toxic an
nounced it had declined with sin
cere thanks" the offer of Admiral
Frank B. Upham, commanding the
United States ASiatic Fleet, to place
the facilities of the feet at the gov
ernment's disposal to aid in its re-
lief efforts. British naval officials
at Hong Kong also offered their ia
cilities.)
Evening star., 1935-04-23
Boy Runs Own Gold Nine,

Seventeen-year-old Michael Mac
Donald has managed his gold mine in
Rhodesia so well that he will enlarse
it. He employs q dozen natives and
Is getting nine pennyweights of gold
from ton of ore. He Is adding a
battery Of stamps to work his ore on
the spot.
Evening star., 1935-04-23
LIQUOR ParleY Scheduled.

Liquor and beer dealers have been
asked to attend q conference ut 2
pm. Thursday with the Alcohol Bev-
eraee Control Board on the rule
against cooperative advertising by
various elements of the liquor business
The board has ruled illegal many OF
the past practices.
Evening star., 1935-04-23
Plane Builder Hurt.

KENOSHA, Wis, April 23 @.--
Carl Swanson, 20, of Zion, ILL.,, whose
homemade airplane crashed from an
altitude Of 500 feet, yesterday was re-
covering from injuries he received In
the accident.
Swanson's ship was powered with 4
motor cycle engine supported by parts
Of washing machine and was held
together by baling wire and door
hinges. Experienced flyers warned him
against trying to fly the contraption.
but he decided on q test flight.
Evening star., 1935-04-23
Landlord Detains Tenants.

SPOKANE, Wash. April % (PJ.-A
landlord charged with disorderly con-
duct for locking in tenants who failed
to pay their rent forfeited SIS bail
in Police Court yesterday. The ar
resting officer said Frank Marsh pad
locked a family in a house after he
was unable to collect the rent. The
family, said the ofiicer, had decided
to move.
Evening star., 1935-04-23
TRUTH SERUM FAILS
TO GIVE CLUE OF BOY
Inmate of Insane Asylum, ouizzed
Under influence of Drug, Gives
Searchers No Aid.

SeaEcnerS NO Alu.
BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. April 23.-Psychiatrists
and crime detection experts Of the
Northwestern University laboratories
announced last night, after two hours
of questioning, Joseph Bottle, inmate
Of an insane hospital while under the
effects of truth serum" had not indi-
Gated that he knew the whereabouts
OF 4-year-old Richard Perrot, missing
since April 4. ....
Bottle, at one time tentatively identi-
fied as the thin man" seen walking
with the boy after his disappearance
from home. voluntarily submitted to
tests ordered by. Judge Z. K. Jarecd.
/ The serum produces the effect Of
twilight sleep. = $50.
Evening star., 1935-04-23
CeyIon's Epidemic Revives.

COLOMBO, Ceylon. April % R.-
With $4,000 deaths already oficially
reported, the malaria epidemic today
was believed reviving. A number Of
cities reported that the fever, which
recently diminished in fatalities, filled
many hospitals again over the week
end,
Evening star., 1935-04-23
Speaks Eight Languages.

An Indo-C Chinese girl who said she
could speak eight languages has been
granted q maintenance order By the
magistrates of South Shields,a Eng
land. . e &
Evening star., 1935-04-23
ROOSEVELT SENDS SYMPATHY.

A message Of sympathy has been
sent by President Roosevelt to En-
peror Hirohito Of Japan for the loss
of life in the Taiwan earthquake.
The message, made public by the
State Department today, said:
THE people of the United States
join with me in extending to your
majesty and to the people Of Japan
deepest sympathy in the suffering and
loss Of life caused by the tragic. dis
aster in Taiwan."
Evening star., 1935-04-23
SHOCKS FELT IN IRAN.
4s3 Reported Dead, With Reports
MeaEer as Yet.

4S3 Reported Dead, With Reports
Meager as Yet.
TEHERAN, Iran, April % (R.-Un-
confirmed reports received here today
said 483 inhabitants of Mazanderan
Province in Northern Iran (Persia)
have died in a series of earthquakes
which have shaken the area since
April IL.
Heavy damage has resulted, the re-
ports said. Lack of communications
with consequent meagerness of details
occasioned concern lest the death toll
be larger than reported. =
IAN official of Trans Legation in
London said he had received no in
formation from Tehefan concerning
large loss Of life In recent earth dis
turbances.)
Evening star., 1935-04-23

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-18
GRACE ATWOOD TO
 MARRY IS REPORT

Middleboro, Mass, March 1S-- U.P.)-Mrs Levi O. Atwood, wife of a Middleford box manufacturers. refused to-day to confirm or deny published reports that her beaut:- full blonde daughter, Grace, 27, soon will wed Arthur Holden, 29, also of this town.
 Miss Atwood was m innocent figure in the sensational Dubois murder case of September 1892. In love with Miss Atwood, Charles F. Dubois, Tuckahoe. N. Y., gem dealer, murdered his wife Edith, with n revolver as she slept in their Great Herring pond sum- mer home at Plymouth and cam cealed her body in q carefully
 prepared crypt in the cellar.
 He was arrested on suspicion of murder but the state could not produce the corpus delicti and he
 was freed. A few days later he committed suicide at Quincy, leav- i ing a farewell note which enabled authorities to locate the body.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-18
CONNECTICUT co
 SETTLES ACTION
Charles DeLinks Plaintiff in $2O, GOO Suit t-In-
 iured on Bank St

i Two civil actions in which dam
 ages of S30,0OO were asked. were settled out of the local courts to- day. In one of the actions, with drawn from the common pleas court, Charles ]. DeLinks of this city was plaintiff against the Conn
 ecticut co He claimed $20,OO0 damages but no announcement of the settlement terms was made. He was crossing Bank street near the intersection of Congress avenue Nov. IS, 1884, when struck
 by 8 trolley. He was knocked to
 the ground, unconscious, he claim ed in the suit. Attorneys Francis F.
 and Joseph c. Guilfoile appeared
 for the plaintiff. Attorney Walter
 A. Mulvihill appeared for the 'trol- ley company.
 Tn the common pleas court, the death suit of Marinelli, as admni-
 istratrix of the estate of Constan- tine Vincenti, late of Watertown, against James J. French, was with drawn. Vincent was walking north erly on Watertown avenue near
 Belmont street Sept. 24, 1883 when struck by French's car and killed the complaint said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-18
BISHOP CELEBRANT OF REQUIEM MASS,
200 Priests Attend Obse- quies of Late Rev M. J.
 Judge at StratfOrd

More than 200 priests, several of them from this city, were present this morning as funeral services were held in Stratford this morn- ing for Rev. Matthew J. Judge, late pastor of St James church In that town and formerly pastor of the Sacred Heart church hero. Father Judge died at St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, March 5th.
 Most Reverend Maurice r. Me- Auliffe, bishop of Hartford. cele- brated the pontifical high mass of requiem in St. James church at 10 o'clock this morning. Monsig- nor Thomas s. Duggan was one of the assisting priests, as was also Rev. William Judge, brother of the late priest and former pastor of St. Thomas church here.
 Burial services were held at Mt St. Benedict's cemetery in Hart ford this afternoon, the funeral procession being escorted by state police.
 Thousands thronged the Strat- ford church yesterday and last night as Father Judges body lay in state. A special mass for chill dren of the parish was held at 8 o'clock this morning.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-18
HILLS PLAN FOR
 BIG CARD PARTY
To Be Held March 28; Proceeds GO to Better
 Club House

Preparations are underway at the Washington Hill A. c. for the forthcoming card party which will take place at St Francis hall on Thursday evening, March 18th. The proceeds derived through the ven- ture will be used for the better ment of the organization and its Baldwin street headquarters and serve to assist in future activities. Joseph Happy" Shea, president of the club, has extended an invi- tation to all of the card players and style enthusiasts to be present at the expected successful event and the committee has promised that hospitality. will predominate throughout the general program.
 The committee includes Patrick Moran, Thomas Purcell, William Mahaney, William Clasby and Thomas Walsh. All members of the Washington Hill A. c. are as- sisting in the sale of tickets.
 Announcement was made to-day that all of the "45" teams in the Naugatuck Valley will agains enter into the competition that has made the section foremost among all oth- CTS in this activity. Tables will be suitably arranged for the wo- men and young ladies so that they may play bridge and whist while the fashion show is being presented
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-18
MARY E. BALDWIN
 DIES IN NEW YORK
Donor of Town Library Inferred Yesterday in
 St Peters Cemetery
CHESHIRE NEWS Correspondent--1'homas M. HurIey-DlaI 6l5 or 73O

Cheshire, March 1S--News of the death in New York of Miss Mary E. Baldwin, was received here Saturday,, Born in Cheshire, Q daughter of the late Alfred S.. Baldwin, she was identified with much that was of interest to Cheshire. To her the town is in- debted for the library, It was through her efforts that a library was established, and it was she who interested Mrs Tompkins in the matter and who later gave to the town $5000 for the purpose. After the association was formed Miss Baldwin became its first librarian, which office she retained until i'll health caused her fesig- nation in 1921. Tn July, 1881. she sustainel a shock and has been un- able to speak since. Both of her sis- ters have died and only nieces, nephews and cousins survive. She was n member of the Congregat- tional church here and for many years sang in the choir. Funeral services were held Sunday after noon at the Congregational church at o'clock. Burial was in St Pc. ter's cemetery
 Word has ben received here of the death of Henry Clifford Bar mum of Faterbury. He leaves his wife. three daughters. Mrs Hugh Wrenn and Zella Barnum of Wa terburq. Mrs Newton Tyler of Che- shire and n son H. Curtiss Barnum of Cheshife. Funeral services will be held at Aldersons parlors at ? o'clock.
 Roxbury school will close Thurs day for the spring recess.
 L. A.. Thomas Lodge will meet in the I. o. O. r. this evening.
 The Junior Ladies' Aid of the Methodist church will meet to- morrow evening at the home of Mrs Merrill Moore.
 The Redmen will meet to-mor- row evening In the I. o. Q. r. hall.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-18

one thing Father Coughlin is EoJ guilty of, and that Is insincerity, said Rev. Murray T. Hunter, pRs- tor of the Methodist Episcopal church in the church's question box period last night. Each week qtlestfons are taken up and one ci this weeks was '.What do you think of Father Goughiin? Is he overstepping his province in deal ing with political matters? What issthe FelafiouO of church and state?
 tMr. Hunter replied: ~
 s.'Lvsupp6se it is Gen. Johnson's recent attacls on Father Coughlifl that Eltas given rise to thiis ques' ton. Father .Coughlin's following has reached dimensions, which tlte administration can no longof ignore. We also see his name coup- !, led with Sen. Huey Long's as Q potential dictator of an American fascisfn. Because of this the ordiH- ary citizen has a right to ask what Father Coughlin is trying to do Yet I've should beware of the catch-phrases of his opponents who are seeking to stampede ou! judgment.
 Father Coughlin is accused oi demogagism, but one thing he, is not guilty of is insincerity. He is honestly convinced that poverty is unnecessary in modern state and there are many ministers in the Protestant church that would agree with him.
 Again, we hear him accused of appealing to the emotions. But who is there seeking to mold pub- lie opinion that doesn't do the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-18
SURGEON AGREES
 T0DO OPERATION


 Fall River, Mass, March 18.- (UP)-Dr Philemon E, Truesdale, who recently righted Alyce Jane McHenry's upside-down stomach. has volunteered to perform a similar operation on a 13-year-old San Jose, Calf, boy. The con dition of the boy. James Nelson, became known when he wrote to Alice expressing his sympathy be- cause of his own knowledge Of her condition.
 Mrs Leulla McHenry, mother of the 1O-year-old Omaha, Neb., girl who is recovering after the deli- cate operation two weeks ago to- day, turned the letter over to Dr Truesdale.
 telegraphed the boys parents, Mir
 The noted surgeon said he has and Mrs D. M. Nelson of San Jose, telling them he would operate on the boy gratis if they could bring him here.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-18
PRINCE ALEXIS
 TO HAVE ENOUGH

London, March IS. (UP)- Prince Alexis Mdivani. soon to be divorced from Barbara Hutton Mdivani. will take his title with him and enough of the Hutton's five-and-ten-ce store thousands to make him comfortable for the remainder of his life.
 The Woolworth heiress, who will become "just plain Barbara" after she obtains a Reno divorce, has no intention of cutting him off with nothing but a string of polo ponies, she said to-day.
 As a matter of law and fact, there was a pre-marriage settle ment which will stand, regardless of the divorce, and which will pro- tect both Barbara's millions and the princess funds.
 The princess statement to the United Press to-day disposed of two rumors. one that she had mar ried Mdivani because she was TO- mantically intrigued by the title, the other that Mdivani married her flor her millions"