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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-13
HYsTERIeAL WoMEE

A RE you nerv- A Ous and un- reasonable? Sub feet to sudden tears and violent outbreaks of tenn per? These are often symptoms of feminine upsets. Take Lydia E. p;0kham'sTablefS .
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-13

MT and Mrs Robert Chesterton of Walnut street are spending a few days in Scranton, Pa.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-13

Miss Carmella Mastrionni of Hill street spent the past few days in Springfield.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-13

MT and Mrs D. Francis McCann of New York spend the weekend with MT McCann's mother, Mrs Mary McCann of Walnut street.
, 1935-01-11

divorced her. naming the actor
as correspondent. Each has declin-
ed to say whether they would
marry again.
From London. where Buddy
Rogers, former orchestra leader,
is making a motion picture, came
reports OF a possible romance be-
tween him and Miss Pickford.
They had appeared together in
Hollywood in the picture MY
Best Girl" and the film colony
knew them as good friends.
Fairbanks diQ not contest his
wife'S suit, which was called for
hearing without prior court an
nouncement. Superior Judge Ben
B. Lindsey, former juvenile and
domestic relations iuriSt OF Den
YER. who had Just taken office
here. disposed Of the case in three
minutes.
Appearing in a gray dress. gray
fur coat, black pumps and a small
gray hat with a red feather perch
ed jauntily OH the crown, Amer
ica'S sweetheart" kept her emo
tons under control until Judge
Lindsey. looking up owe his
spectacles. said clearly:
Gentlemen, / have read the
complaint and a decree will be
granted"
Mary gave { little start. and
then. as she left the courtroom
thanked by her attorney Lloyd
Wright. and her public relations
director, her eyes filled and she
choked as she attempted TO an
Swer questions OF newSpapermen.
On the witness stand, three
yes" sufficied after she had
answered the routine questions as
TO her true name and length of
residence here. Elizabeth Lewis,
the actress secretary corrobo-
rated her testimony.
Has q fair. just and equitable
property settlement been nader"
asked Wright.
Yes" Miss Pickford's voice
was low.
Have YOU read the complaint?"
Il charged mental cruelty, indit-
ference and neglect.
Yes"
Are the charges true?"
Yes"
Her eyes were lowered as If to
avoid the curious glanceS Of the
few present IN the courtroom.
The marriage. which Holly
wood for a long time had regard
ed AS ideal. began with a secret
ceremony here on March 20, 1920.
Miss Pickford had Just obtained
a Nevada divorce from Owen
Moore. OF the screen. A year be-
fore Fairbanks and Ann Beth
Sully had been divorced.
, 1935-01-11
Fog Halts Vessels

NEW YORK, Jan. 10. Rp-Ship-
ping was paralyzed again Thursday
In the clutches of the heavy fog
which has blanketed the Atlantic
Seaboard since Sunday night.
Through the night visibility rang
ed from so feet TO 100 yards. Ship
fog-horns moaned in the harbor as
incoming vessels. some Of them more
than a day overdue. rode their an
chors off Quarantine.
Sailings were indefinitely post
poned. The pail already has cost
more than 81 100000 to harbor ship
ping. 1t is the worst, in intensity and
duration. in many years.
, 1935-01-11
Movie Sideights
CAPITOL

Big 80. clean as a hounds tooth,
strong in story. comedy, cast and
production value. this production
should rate high" That is the opin-
ion Of Variety. the screens tairest
yet severest critic, IN its preview OF
UniverSaliS Imitation Of Life"
This Fannie Hurst b~est-seller,
Claudette Colbert and Warren Will
liam as his stars. has fully justified
this authors estimate OF IL. "Imi-
tation OF Life will play at your"
Capitol, Brownsville with a Saturday
midnite preview and showing Sun
day and Monday.
Claudette Colbert as "Bea" Pull
man steps into this emotional role
direct from her triumph as Cleo
patra." and makes OF it the out
standing Characterization OF her
career.
Warren William plays opposite
Miss Colbert. as he did IN Cleo
patra,' and II Is a happy combins-
ton. Rochelle Hudson. Ned Sparks,
Baby Jane, a 3 year old budding
star. Louise Beavers. Alan Hale,
Henry Armetta and a score OF 9TH
err very well-known players COM
plete the cast.
, 1935-01-11
Rotarian's Injured
Brother Is Honored

Especial to The HeraId)
SAN BENTTO. Jan. IL The
Rotarians dispensed with their pro-
gram Thursday out Of respect for
DR.. Hugh Robertson, a member
whose brother, Arthur. was injured
In an auto accident this week. A
committee composed Of Z. +. Brady.
w. w. Housewright. ]. L. Lytel.
Raymond Slaughter and y. Q. Lud-
den was named to convey sympathy
OF the club.
Lloyd Thompson, Stanley Crock
EFT, w. p. Briscoe and Elton Ewing
constituted the weekly crop Of
Rotary visitors from Harrington while
Bob Briggs Of that city was a guest
of Bill Huitt.
, 1935-01-11
DITsTNANN

An outstanding success Of the past
Broadway season. Double Door
The thrilling and amazing play Of
life behind the sedatc portals of
one Of New York,s famous brown
stone mansions. has been made in
10 a picture by Paramount and
comes Friday 10 the D.ttmann
theatre.
In the central roles as the two
eccentric spinsters Of the Van Brett
family are Mary Morris and Anne
Revere. who created those parts in
the original Broadway presentation.
They were brought TO HOLLYWOOD
by Paramount. especially for this
picture. Evelyn Venable, Sir Guy
8 lnding and Kent Taylor contri-
butte their talents and ability. TO
make up an unusually ~well-round-
ed and competent cast-
, 1935-01-11
Fog Cost For
New York Set
AT 100000

NEW YORK. Jan. l1.-CP- The
fog that shrouded New York for
nearly five days was gone Friday.
disSipated by a westerly breeze.
A fleet Of 85 or more liners and
freighters, helpless in the gray blan-
ket shrouding the harbor, began to
move late Thursday III a procession
that attracted hundreds to the bat
terry Seawall.
All during the night the rumbling
voices Of steamer whistles echoed
over the city as inbound and out
bound ships moved along the East
and Hudson rivers.
Abrplanes which were grounded
at metropolitan sirports and New
ark were able to fly on schedule
again Fr .ay.
While the ice Va not the long
est on record. meteorological ex-
perts here regarded 1t a. one of
the worst and most extensive on
record, a.a OF maximum density.
Shipping ntn estimated 1t had
cost as high as $2.000,000 in idle
ships. extra tolls. lost business and
the like.
, 1935-01-11
Identification Work
At San Benito Speeded

SAN BENITO Jan. IL More
labor was promised by the city
commission Wednesday night 70
help the women's committees In
charge OF Identification with their
work. The city also promised that
at a later date lights would be
provided at the highway entrances
10 the city.
Mrs. r. S. Bone. local beautifi-
cation chairman: Mrs. c. +. CTed)
Hudson. and Mrs. Ralph Agar,
committeeman, appeared before the
commission outlining work being
done and asking for more men for
the project. They also asked en-
forcement OF the handful and
livestock ordinances.
, 1935-01-11
QUEEN

From the days OF the old silent
picture up to the present era. the
screen has known many horses that
have won regulations for themselves
Is four-footed actors. that many hui
man stars might well envy. 1t Is
safe 10 assert, however, that none
OF these equine wonders has won
such widespread fame In as short
q space Of time as Rebel, the mar
vel Steed. now c~o-starred with Reb
Russell, in The Man From He'll
feature attraction at the Queen
Theatre Saturday only.
Rebels fearless rider has a Strenu-
GUS role 10 play, as a wronged youth
who leaves the penitentiary, where
he has been unjustly imprisoned for
q stage holdup he didn't commit
and thereafter fights with fists. gun
and the aid of the vigilantes to re-
establish himself as an innocent
man. .
, 1935-01-11
KIWANIS CLUB
HEARS TALKS

Talks BY DR.. u. g. Peterson OF
Austin. connected with the u. S.
Public Health service, and .. w.
Borden Of Washington. connected
with the Hole, featured the reg
uar Thursday meeting OF the
Brownsville Kiwanis club.
After hearing DR.. Peterson's talk
on mosquito eradication and other
lines of health work. the club
unanimously endorsed the health
unit as an institution in Cameron
county. DR.. Peterson Is here in
connection with the effort TO re-
establish the health unit along the
lines on which it was formerly
operated.
The club also endorsed the Fed
eral Savings and Loan Association
after hearing Borden'S thorough
explanation. He complimented
Brownsville people for their liberal
and almost unanimous response In
subscriptions. Seventy-three out OF
a possible rs called on in Browns
vile subscribed TO the association
housing fund. Federal grants three
times as large as the local subscrip-
ton make up the working fund OF
association.
It was announced that plans are
being made for the clubs fourth
annual minstrel which is to be
staged soon. Fred Atkins and L. E
Seaman were officially installed as
new members Of the club by Travis
Jennings.
Visitors we're B. v. Proctor OF
Brownsville, Morgan B. Finley OF
San Benito, S. w Borden Of WASH
ington, S. w. Sherman OF Okla
homa City. d. L. WEIGH OF Har-
lingen and Or. ID. c. Peterson OF
Austin.
, 1935-01-11
Henry Gordon Now
Harlingen Policeman

A9RN&A4A - -
HARLINGEN, Jan. H. Henry
Gordon, chief deputy under former
Sheriff W. Frank Brown, has as
sumed his duties on the Harlingen
police force in the place Of Cage
deputy by Sheriff j. Arthur Gools-
by.
Gordon has been an officer since
1918 and even when he went over
Seas during the war he was with
the division OF criminal inveStiga-
ton OF the American Expeditionary
Forces. He has been privately en-
ployed for police and detective work
as well as serving as member Of
the Brownsville police force where
he became assistant chief and as
member OF the sherff's staff.
, 1935-01-11
Well, 1t Finally Happened,
y y y y y = y
Mary Gets Diuorce From
y y y x y +
Swashbuckling Fairbanks

Los ANGELES. Jan. ll.-tPD-
Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pick
ford were a world apart Friday,
their marriage OF IA years dis
solved.
The SwaShbuckling hero. whose
desire to travel was one OF the
reasons his actreSs-wife gave in
asking the divorce which she OBJ
tanned here Thursday. was in
Saint Moritz, Switzerland.
He was there when Miss Pick
ford filed suit in December a year
ago. Also there on both occasions
was Lady Ashley OF the English
stage, whose husband recently
, 1935-01-11
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
SUMMARY

Barometric pressure was relative
ly to moderately high over C%alifor-
MIA and Nevada and over most Of the
great central valleys Friday morn
ing. and moderately low over the
far northwestern and Tar northeast
ern states. Except for a few light.
widely scattered showers the wealth
ar was mostly fair to clear through
&c the country east OF the Rocky
mountain region. Unsettled weather
with more or less general precipita-
ton prevailed In the far western
states. Temperatures dropped more
or less practically throughout the
eastern half Of the country since
Thursday morning.
Brownsville 8 "a. m. EST sea-
level pressure 1921 inches.
, 1935-01-11
Find Missing Woman
Buried In Henhouse

ANADARKO. Okla. Jan. 10. Up
Mrs. william Royce. As, missing two
weeks, was found buried Thursday
under a henhouse at the Royce farm
near Cement.
Mrs. Royce apparently had been
buried under the henhouSe for a
fortnight. officers said.
, 1935-01-11

GEORGE WEST, Jan. 10. Rl-
Eight jurors we're selected at noon
Thursday to try Charles Clark for
murder in connection with the STAY
ing and robbery of Homer Dobbs
, 1935-01-11

and Virgil Dobhs on the highway
near George West last October 8.
The greatest crowd to attend
trial here since the famous Harry
Leahy cas- several years ago pack
ed the town. They were camped In
tents and the courtroom was pack
ed.
, 1935-01-11
flood Present l4-Hr. I4-Hr
Stage Stage Chang. Rain
TIDE TABLE

High and low tide at Point Isabel
Saturday. under normal meteor
illogical conditions
High ...... 1874 p. m. 1882 p. m.
Low .......... 4:l0 q. III. 4:44 p. m.
, 1935-01-11

SAN ANTONIO. Jan. 10. tFr-ro-
lice Thursday sought q man who
Wednesday night took s51 from Mr..
and Mrs. d. ]. Smith of Austin aft-
er striking Mrs. smith in the face
with his fist.
, 1935-01-11
THE WEATHER

East Texas least OF Tooth meri-
diam: Mostly cloudy. probably &C.
casionsl rains IN west and south
portions Friday night and Saturday.
Light TO moderate essterly to
southerly winds on the coast.
, 1935-01-11
GRANTS
ELIMINATION
Is PROPOSED

WASHINGTON. Jan. II. -tP-
An important change in the meth
Cd of distributing money for works
projects would be made IL a plan
now under consideration BY Pres
ident Roosevelt we're approved.
The usual custom of the Public
Works Administration. In dealing
1 out money to non-federal projects
y undertaken by states and local gov
ernments. has been to provide 20
per cent of the amount In the form
Of q loan and 30 per cent as an out
right grant TO cover part Of the cost
of labor and materials.
Grants May End
Now. Secretly Ickss discloses, the
president Is considering the advisa-
bllity o. doing away with the grants
on non-fedeSA2 projects In pressing
his proposed $4,000. 900 900 campaign
of works to get the unemployed off
the relief rolls.
Ickes made clear that no change
In allotments already made was con-
templated. but said the question of
eliminating grants IN the future
"a being studied. All Of PwA's S.
7o0.000.o00 appropriation has been
spent or allotted.
One PWA official predicted that
elimination of grants would de-
crease applications for new allot-
ments. The PwA wage scale and
regulations In many instances have
meant higher construction costs. he
said. and the outright grants bare
ly" made up for the difference.
Some towns. In fact, have receiv-
cd bids on two bases, one on the
PWA wage scale and the other on
pay Of available labor. and have
decided TO accept an allotment from
the government because the grant
made up the difference.
Reduction In Interest
Ickes also made known that the
president vas considering a reduc-
ton In the present PWA interest
charge OF 4 per cent. Officials said
the reduction probably would
courage borrowings. and partially
make up for the proposed abolition
OF grants.
II was recalled that the presi-
dent. TO pave the way for the new
work program. wrote to the 10 gov
errors recently offering help in
drafting legislation The president
singled out slum clearance. munich
pal power and rural electrification
projects as those for which borrow
ing might be made more easy.
These were among the activities
stressed by the president In his ad-
dress to congress, but details OF the
program have been guarded close
ly.
, 1935-01-11

Men outnumber women 1878 70
I472 among the non : aboriginal
residents Of Australia's Northern
Territory.
, 1935-01-11

fF!rst figures lowest temperature last
night: second. highest yesterday: third
wind velocity nc Q n m: fourth. prec-
imitation In last "a hQursl
, 1935-01-11
RIVER BULLETIN

There will be no material change
IN the river during the next few
days.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-11-16
A JUST TAX
Courier.

have had hopes that at least one candidate for
the governorship of North Carolina would have the
intestinal forttude to come out lat-footed for the
sales tax. All know this three per cent tax on
dry goods, groceries, hardware crazycrysta, etc,
is more or less of nuisance to the purchaser, but
storekeepers who are making little added profit
by the tax, and politicians about the only ones
agin' it.
Certainly the sales tax pays teachers salaries or
wages, rather than real estate, and for which the
farmer is duly thankful.
There are thousands of families throughout
North Carolina who send their younguns to our
public schools, who own nothing but automobiles.
1t costs the state about 80 cents day per pupil
Papa, who has salary and nothing else certainly
should contribute his mite in the education of his
own children.
Where could ten million dollars year, most of
this huge amount be had more easily and not bur-
densome to anyone, than by small sales tax?
+ admire Governor Ehringhaus in his firm stand
on the sales tax. No doubt if the necessary money
for teachers could be had elsewhere he would aban-
don the three per cent on each dollar purchase.
But the politicians are prone to cuss out the
sales tax believing it popular to do so, but the
average farmer believes it to be wise and just
plan to collect money for operating the states al
fairs-Monroe Enquirer
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-11-16
TAMMANY AGAIN SLIPS in
THE BACK WAY
(By BRUCE CATION

Tammany Hall, with its derby tilted
down over its left eye in the good old trt.-
dition, is on the verge Of making come
back-at the expense, as usual, OF the COCA
citizens of the town.
Tammany succeeded in capturing IA al
dermanic seats in this last election. That
in itself may not mean so much-Florello
never did have the solid two
thirds majority that he needed on the
board of aldermen-but it seems to indl-i
cate that history, with the help of the boys
in the back room, is about to repeat ITSELF.
For Tammany, which has been the hor-
lrible example for American reformers ever
since the days of mustache cups and high
wheeled bicycles, always does come back.
The indignant customers have tossed the
tiger out of the joint about once every 20
years sor generations, and he always has
cone Oack for more.
Like the Salvation Army's pet clients, he
may be down, but he is never out.
Now all this is pretty sad commentary
on the fate of reform movements in Ameri-
can city politics, but there is nothing in the
least mysterious about it. A writer OF holy
scripture some 20 centuries ago called the
turn when he remarked that the sons Of
this world are frequently wiser than the
children of light. That is as true in modern
America as it was in ancient Judea.
The secret of the whole thing is that
Tammany, or any other political machine,
keeps working. Politics is not sanctifed
and emotional game, to the machine; it is
job which has to be worked at, day in
and day out.
The votes that elect city officials are cast
by living, flesh-and-blood human beings,
and the outfit that corrals the most human
beings gets the most votes (barring undue
shenanigans at the polling places. This is
the point that Tammany never forgets.
The man who wants to see his city per-
manently equipped with an honest and eff
cient government could proftably remem-
Der that point. 1t isn't enough to get up on
the stump once in four years and holler
about the misdeeds of the rascals down at
city hall. 1t takes a continuing organiza-
ton and continuing hard work.
As long as the people who are interested
in good government apply their interest
only by fits and starts, Tammany and the
other self-help machines will continue to
enjoy the eternal comeback.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-11-16
TWO THINGS MADE CLEAR

Here are several items which seem to have
certain sort Of relation, though not bit of CO.
herence. The first is an excerpt from speech by
Franklin d. Roosevelt in October, 1882:
81 have sought to make two things clear: First,
that we can make savings by the reorganization of
existing departments, by eliminating functions, by
abolishing many of the innumerable boards and
commissions which over long period of years have
grown up as excrescences on the regular system
These savings can properly be made to total many
hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
Here is tabulation of the number of federal
employees at two different dates:
March, 1888 '------------ 566,986
September, 1885 ----7 94467
The additions in jobhoders under Reorganizer
Roosevelt, is to be seen, than a quarter
of million. And the mammoth old age and une,t-
ployfnent insurance bureau hasn't got started yet
AS to the bureaus, the abolition of many of the
F"innumerable boards and commissions which over
long period of years have grown up excrescences
on the regular SYSTEM it is necessary only to con-
suit the alphabet to establish what an about face
Mr.. Roosevelt made between the times of his can
ddacy and his Observation-Disclosures News
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-11-16
NEWSPAPERS OPINION
TUE PRESIDENT ON BANKING

! Glance at bank statements now appearing IN
i newspaper will disclose to readers IN South oaf'-
lima that in the average bank, loans ana discounts
range from twenty to thirtythree and third per
- &c ;+s dpposits and capital stock that its M
! ,.ostmants are heavily in securities OF the led
oral state, and municipal governments.
| No. onnears Franklin d. Roosevelt, president,
| on tbe stage gently limiting to banks shat they
sbould lend more money, lend it literally on land
He talks about the abolition of the pirate rates
f interest especially in the South in the last three
or four years.
Presumably until then the "pirate rates" pre-
vailed and the fact is that while they prevailed IL
nine years preceding that October in 1929 when
the depression" began, nearly three hundred
banks failed in this state.
The banks had been thinned to stand before
1929 and most of them that died from the "depres-
sion were fatally sick by of bad loans long
before that day.
Wbv are the banks now gutted with money that
they won't lend on low rates? One of the answers
is that the federal government has taken from them
great numbers of their customers. This govern
ment has become banker and is lending, sometimes
virtually giving money to former customers OF
banks in the form of loans with which no legitimate
bank can compete. Besides, the stalWart, lndepen-
dent hank run bv hard-fsted bankers who know
their business and have never lost penny of any
bodvs money are compelled to compete with banks
that government controls and sometimes favors.
There is another answer. This benign govern
ment of ours this government that has taken over
the task and responsibility for recovery and pros
peritv lit denies responsibility for misfortune and
all calamties) has seriously impaired the faith of
III he is solvent lnQepen-
dent, in nearly all forms of investment.
The federal government cannot sell him its own
bonds except through the banks. 1t can put the
screws to the banks and it does.
Your common man who is solvent is still striv
ing, though not quite conscious of the strife, to DO
business in spite of government
He is struggling to stand up straight to keep MS
feet on bottom and his head above water, in spite
of hundred kinds of tax collectors, most of them
disguised, who sting and bite him, who suck his
blood.
If majority of the people have faith enough
in government to sustain it by their votes, 1t is
majority not composed of men and women who are
asking and receiving no favOrs from government
and who, if they don't know much, at least know
jolly we'll that they are carrying Mr.. Roosevelt's
and his governments load for them.
They are heretcs. They unbelievers in Presi-
dent Roosevelt's pretensiOns of any knowledge Of
banking. 1t is not unlikely that most of them would
prefer the advice of banking of The News and
Courier, not that they would take it.
They mean to act on their own judgment, and if
they are beaten down in this tumult of government
tai interruption and regulation of business they
will go down fghting.-The Charleston News and
Courier.