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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-05-17
BOYS DROWNED
in QUARRY HOLE

Fall River, Mass. May 17-(UP)
Two boys were dead today as re-
suit of drowning tragedy in an
abandoned quarry hole.
The victims were George j. JAS
per, IA, and Henry Talbot, IL, both
Of Fall River. They were found
clasped in each others arms in
Beattie's Lake, the Jasper boy APP
parently having lost his own life
in futile effort to saw his COM
panion.
Abelard Lapre, IS, who. was
thrown into the water with the
other boys from a raft yesterday.
was able to swim ashore and noti-
fy members of the Vasco Da Cana
club. After repeated diving In the
40-foot water, the bodies were
brought to the surface.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-05-17
Four Billion Dollar
Drive Ready To Go
Continued from Page u

ment payrolls and cause return OF
the same number to private indus
try if the government is to keep
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-05-17

The grave Of Moses Rogers, com
mander Of the Savannah, pioneer
trans-oceanic steamship, has
been located at Cheraw, South
Carolina, after a two-year search
by the Sea Scouts of America.
Captain Rogers died near
Georgetown, during the yellow
fever epidemic of 1923, and was
buried in an unmarker grave.
Old residents of Cheraw, remem-
bering Captain Rogers friend
ship for o Capt Daniel Ellkins,
and knowing that the two men
died just IL days apart, have To-
Gated both graves In st Dayid's
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-05-17

able report on resolution to APP
point Sen. j.. Sedgwick Tracy, re-
publican, Canaan, commissioner
of Litchfield county, which post
was left vacant in the list OF ID
nominees approved yesterday.
Approval of Tracy would give
republicans every county seat.
It was estimated at committee
hearings the cigarette tax would
raise $l,200,O00 a year.
It was considered one OF the
opening wedges to get the sales tax
bill back on the floor for debate.
cut short several days ago when It
appeared it never could weather
senate approval without q halr
dozen or more amendments.
A favorable report came in on .
bill to repeal existing statutes re-
garding books and periodicals.
whereby a person suing Tor libel
could not only direct action against
the publication but sould name
dealers and even newsboys a.
parties defendant.
Naming Of Judges
Hartford, Conn.,. May 17.--tUPl
Of six common
pleas court judges in Fairfield ana
New Haven counties was approves
unanimously today by the senate
In secret ballot.
Those named we're Samuel O.
Ehaw, Samuel Meillta, y. Earle
Garllck and John 4. Dwyer, Fair
field county. and Edward J. Flnns
and Robert L. Munger. New ha.
ven county.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-05-17
Senate Matters

Hartford, Conn.,, May 17.--(UP).
"A two mill tax on each cigarette
sold was proposed in q bill re-
ceived IN the senate today on fa-
vorable committee report.
II was designed as a companion
measure to the controversial eS.-
100000 sales tax-municipal relief
bill and was tabled.
The senate also received q favor
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-05-17
STATE MILK BILL
WAS PRESENTED

CONTINUED from Page l.,
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-05-17

The Irish Free State IL trying q
increase its timber reserves
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mike DI FLORIO
FACES 10 YEARS

tcontinued from Page ~
The Washington times., 1935-06-28
VIRGINIA WORKS
START MONDAY

RICHMOND, Va, June %.
John Galleher, State director of
MEG, announced today every eff.
fort will be made to start the Fed
eral Governments work relief pro-
gram in Virginia next Monday.
He predicted the work would cost
approximately eighty million dol.
lars and be well under way before
autumn.
The first projects to come under
the new program will be those al.
ready in force under the work
division Of the Virginia Emergency
Relief Administration.
These projects will be trans.
ferred to the new Works Progress
Administration. The change-over
will be largely a paper transaction,
as 1t is expected that nearly all
the VERA projects now in opera.
ton will be approved under the
new program by Harry L. Hopkins,
National Works Progress Admins.
tration.
The Washington times., 1935-06-28

@CNC4dl yChLo.
President John M. Schaffer said
the project would prove a great
boom not only for this section
but to the city in general; it
would give employment to a
large number now on relief and
provide sanitary low rental build
ings for colored families, many
of whom are now compelled to
live in alleys.
Apartments to Legislators
He pointed out that the South
west is a fine old section with
desirable sites the PWA should
consider for low rent buildings for
whites. If Representative Sab
bath, he said, is looking for a
site on which the Government
may erect an apartment for Con-
gressmen and their employees, it
could be found in the southwest
within easy walking distance Of
the Capitol.
Harry s. Wender, secretary, said
real estate dealers and others, are
shortsighted in ignoring the South
west as a residential center. He
said few tenement houses have
been built in the Southwest in the
past 10 years, Notwithstanding an
urgent demand for homes by en-
ployeS of the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing, Agriculture Depart
ment and other Government divi-
AionS in and near the Southwest
section.
Housing Project Welcomed
Residents of other sections of
Washington, he said, may object
to Federal housing project, but
Southwest welcomes them
Public Works Administration
plans call for the expenditure of
three million dollars for 26 two
room flats. 23O threeroom flats,
70 four-room flats and 100 four
and five-room row houses.
The Washington times., 1935-06-28
GEORGIA To GET.
j. 8, ROAD FUND
international News Service


Some counties of Georgia may
receive Federal aid for local road
projects, although Secretary Of
Agriculture Henry A. Wallace has
ordered all Federal funds with
held on Federal-State highway
projects, it was learned at the
Bureau of Public Roads today.
While Thomas H. Macdonald,
chief of the Bureau of Public
Roads, and Secretary Wallace
both declined to comment further
on the difficulties with the
Georgia highway board, it was
learned that Federal highway en-
gineers have been going over local
projects with a number of county
highway officials.
In similar manner, PWA Ad-
ministrator Harold L. Ickes, who
has rescinded a number of loans
and grants for Georgia projects,
has authorized completion Of a
number of local projects for
which contracts already had been
let or obligations incurred prior
to the row between Federal Off
Gals and Gov. Eugene Talmadge.
Mr.. Macdonald was called to
the White House today for a con-
ference on the highway program,
for which the President has al
loted five hundred million dollars
of the four billion dollars work
relief fund. Georgia's share Of
this fund would be between nine
teen million dollars and twenty
three million dollars.
The Washington times., 1935-06-28
CUPID BEATS RUNNER

MONTREAL, June % U.N.S0
Cupid outdisSanced Bill Bonthron,
outdistanced Bill Bonthron, crack
Princeton track star, today, lead
ing him to the altar with Marion
McLennan Lineaweaver, of Prince.
ton, N. j., at the church of st.
Andrews and st. Paul. The bride
was given away by her uncle,
Winthrop Brainerd, Bonthron,
resident Of Detroit, and his bride
The Washington times., 1935-06-28
PLAN HORSE SHOW

ROCKVILLE. Md, June %.
Arrangements for a charity horse
show July 20 for the benefit Of
the Montgomery County General
Hospital will be made at a meet
ing of the Montgomery County
Council of American Legion Posts
tonight at 8 o'clock.
The Washington times., 1935-06-28
American in Cuba
Gets Death Threat

SANTIAG o, Cuba, June %.
A prominent American, Robert
Wetmore, reported to army au-
thorities he had received a letter
threatening death unless he paid
$4,000. Mr.. Wetmoore, 70, is a
MEMBER of the firm of Wetmoore
and Butcher. agents for the Stand.
ard Fruit Company.
The Washington times., 1935-06-28

Public Works
housing project
for the District,
to be located in
the area bound
ed by M, Half,
P and Canal
Streets, S. W..
W h ich W i'll
clean out slum
sections n e a r
the War Col
lege and not
far from the
Capitol Build
ing. The asso-
cha tion has
urged this for
The Washington times., 1935-06-28
Parkway Is Urged
On Trolley Track

KENS1NGTON, Md, June %
(SpeciaD A Handicapped park
way in the center Of Connecticut
Avenue after the trolley line to
Chevy Chase Lake is abandoned,
was suggested today in a letter
from the local Chamber Of Com.
merce to the State Roads Com
mission.
The Washington times., 1935-06-28
Pickets Use Hymns
To Tie Up Plant

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, June
2S.-Striking employees Of the
Wilson g. Co. Meat Packing
Plant turned the other cheek on
workers who dared to come out of
the plant yesterday for the first
time in % days. Instead Of jeer-
ing or throwing rocks the 100
pickets sang old fashioned church
hymns.
The Washington times., 1935-06-28
6 KILLED IN WRECK

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, June %.
Six persons were killed and IS
injured in a railroad accident
yesterday near Arvidsjaur, Lap
land, when a train struck two
horses and left the track.
The Washington times., 1935-06-28
HOUSING PLANS
WELCOMED IN
SOUTHWEST
BY A. J. DRISCOLL
Citizens Associations Editor

Officials Of the Southwest Wash
ington Citizens Association last
night approved plans for the first
The Washington times., 1935-06-28
Times
Table
TODAY

10 AM-Meeting, 8 P.M.-Re-
ception, Tau Phi Sorority, May
flower Hotel.
8PM.-Meeting and buffet sup
per-Semper Paratus Lodge No.
40, Mayflower Hotel.
$50 P.M.-Dinner dance, Iota
Gamma Phi Sorority, Shoreham
Hotel Terrace.
$50 P.M.-Dinner dance, Tau
Omega ri Sorority, Shoreham Ho-
tel Terrace.
TRADE BODIES
1890 PM. Luncheon, Trade
Executives Association, Lafayette
Hotel.
10 A.M.-Meeting, Ticket and
Coupon Mfgrs. Council, Shoreham
Hotel.
TOMORROW
CIVIC AND SOCIAL
200 P.M-Meeting, Tau Phi
Sorority, Mayflower Hotel. TOO
P.M.-Initiation and at 8 p. M,
banquet.
TOO P.M.-Reception; 1880 p.
M, dinner, Virginia Christian En-
deavor Union, Mayflower Hotel.
The Washington times., 1935-06-28

will sail Saturday from quebec
for a honeymoon abroad. Later
they will live in New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-08
TahitOe.

Tahitoe is dead. He passed to his
reward at Papeete, aged eighty seven,
and with his demise a dynasty that
ruled Eastern Polynesia for approx
mate thirteen hundred years came to
an end. A son of the King of Raiatea,
he personif1ed race as well as a
royal family and was described as
almost the last individual with the
pure blood of Opoa," the sovereign clan
of the most aristocratic of all the
Oceanic peoples. His home was a
sacred island, the traditional seat of
government and religious center Of
the Pacific Archipelago, and he was
born an heir to an insular realm of vast
dimensions. great natural wealth and
numerous population. Within the span
of his lifetime, however, the French
absorbed his inheritance, and poverty
and disease reduced his country and its
inhabitants to degradation. In the end
he was nothing but sorrowful human
relic of a civilization which, as Rudyard
Kipling might say, "is one with Nineveh
and Tyre"
No one can be sure about the origin
Of the Polynesian branch Of the human
species. They were migrants. not native
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-08

900 in two months year ago, used up
$45 900, 900 this year, and the Navy
boosted its expenditures from $52,OOO,OOO
to S5o,O00,O00.
All regular Government expenses, out
side of the New Deal expenses, jumped
from s425, 100000 year ago to $500 ,OOO,-
900 this year.
When the regular Government ex-
penditures and the New Deal expendl-
lures were added together the two
month total was about 81 233, 100000. II
that pace were kept up through the
year, expenditures would pass the $1,000
O00,O 900 mark. Actually, the intention is
to speed up spending, with sSoOo,oOo'oOo
the goal.
The whole Federal financial operation
is so big as to stagger the imagination.
Yet with pay roll taxes to be added
after January l, 1887, to support the
country's new social insurance system
the Treasury problem promises to be-
come bigger and even more complicated.
Pay roll taxes levied upon employees
and employers, are expected to amount
to $1,000, 900 900 annually by 1888 and
to $4,000, 000, 900 by 1949.
AS the budget continues unbalanced,
New Dealers are cycling the proceeds
from those taxes with interest.
Copyright, n 1851
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-08
Campaigning?

On the eve of national campaign, the
President and his administration speak
and act in a manner calculated to allay
opposition to Mr.. Roosevelt and his New
Deal. The President declares for a
''breathing SPELL for business and for
economy in governmental expenditure.
He signs The bill passed by Congress
giving back to Spanish American War
veterans the pensions denied them under
his original and now forgotten economy
act" His leaders in Congress promise
action on a soldiers bonus measure at
the next session. His Department of
Agriculture promises the farmers more
acreage to grow wheat, and the con-
sumers are given the impression that
possibly the reStrictions-on hogs and
corn-may be lifted and the skyward
prices for pork may come down.
But after the reelection of President
Roosevelt-if it happens-what may the
country expect? The President in his
declaration that business is to have a
breathing SPELL says that his legislative
program-the New Deal programmes
virtually completed when Congress folded
up its tents, went its weary way from
Washington. Yet> on the very night
of the adjournment of that session, let
tiers from the President to Senator Pat
Harrison, chairman of the Finance
Committee, and Representative Dough-
ton, chairman of the Ways and Means
Committee, were made public requesting
these gentlemen to give careful study
to the problem of new and substitute
N. r. A. legislation during the Summer
months so that it might be presented
to Congress for action when it meets
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-08
More Necessary Than Ever.

In his address to the Yellowstone Park
Convention of the Federation of Fed
eral Employees Harry B. Mitchell. presi-
dent OF the Civil Service Commission,
accompanied his forecast of continued
expansion in Federal employment with
the statement that there is greater
need for efficiency in the rank and file
of American public service than ever
before. No matter how unselfish or how
able the men who are steering these new
ventures may be- there must be the
greatest possible efficiency throughout II
the best results are to be obtained.
In the selection of these public en-
ployes) the methods that apply to pri-
vate business, the methods that have
been found most successful in govern
ment, the methods that other nations
have found the best, the methods that
all authorities tell us are best, should
surely be used"
Those methods are outlined IN the
civil service regulations, and in the eff
cient, non partisan application OF those
regulations to the Federal service.
Experience in Congress during the late
session" in applying such methods to
selection of employees for new agencies,
Mr.. Mitchell reports, is mot encourag-
ing" AS a matter of blunt fact, that
experience was not only mot encour-
aging" but disgraceful. In creating new
agencies-there have been about fifty
Congress has frankly regarded public
service as partisan spoils. Mr.. Mitchell
suggests that more pressure is applied
to Congress by job-seekers than by
those interested in maintaining eff
cheney in Government. For efficiency in
Government is regarded by the average
citizen as an abstract matter that does
not concern him personally-until he
begins to pay for inefficiency. And this
payment has been deferred.
Those who praise the high motives of
some of the New Deal ventures-in social
security, for instance-will realize at
Lille IllC
and inevitable expansion of bureau
cracy, with all its traditional and
attendant evils. The only effective
safeguard is the strict application of the
principles of the merit system. An in
tricate, self-feeding bureaucracy is dan
gerous enough. Such dangers are in
creased manifold when Government
service is regarded as the spoils of
politics and influence is put above
efficiency.
The Federation of Federal Employees
in deciding to raise 100000 as a war
chest in campaigning for the merit sys-
tenn is taking step in the protection
not only of classified civil service en-
ployes, but of taxpayers who support the
cost of Government.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-08
Fifty Years Ago
In The Star

Half a century ago the people of the
eastern section of the United States
were aroused by a
Inc massacre series of atrocities in
IN Wvor,;ro some of the Western
States growing out of
the importation Of cheap foreign labor.
Acts of reprisal against the users of
cheap labor were numerous. but not
until a wholesale slaughter of Chinese
miners in Wyoming was committed was
the Nation aroused to the seriousness
of the situation and prompt action on
the part of the State and territorial
governments demanded. In its issue
of September 5, 1885. concerning the
Wyoming massacre, The Star says:
THE wholesale murder of Chinese
miners in Wyoming Territory calls for
the most vigorous action of the local
government. The central authority has
also pressing duty in this case, as from
an international standpoint it alone is
responsible for the maintenance of
order in our domain. The massacre
must necessarily be made the subject
of diplomatic action. No nation can
afford to have its subjects slaughtered
in this ruthless fashion. Nor can any
nation afford to ignore such crimes in
its borders. even if they are passed by
without protest from the injured gov
eminent. We owe it to ourselves as
well as to oltr neighbors that such an
outrage be sternly dealt with.
The incident will revive the old-time
excitement over the question of Chinese
labor. 1t is pretty evident that the
Western people are determined to shut
out Monaghan competition. by law if
possible and by violence if necessary.
And it is a case where it is extremely
difficult to cope with the troubles by law.
1t has passed into proverb that we
cannot indict whole people. Where
public sentiment is practically unani-
nous on a matter held to be of vital
consequence to the community the ma
chinery of the law and even of military
force breaks down. History is full of
examples to show how futile are courts
and troops alike to force communities
to comply in good faith with obnoxious
regulations.
1T now becomes important to ascer-
tain what truth there is in the claim
that the Chinese are evading the immi-
grafton laws. 1t has been said that
COOllCS AldNC DCCIl oLluSSICu dCAOoo
border and been admitted into the ports
on false certificates. If these charges
are well founded they have a moral
bearing in the case though not affecting
its legal aspects. If it be true that the
Chinese are still brought into the coun-
try by SurreptitiouS and illegal means
to compete with native labor, it will give
the miners some hold on public SYM
pathy.
The Chinese Minister to this country
was not in Washington at the time and
it could not be learned from the lega-
ton here what the course of action on
the part of China would be. 1t was the
general opinion in diplomatic circles,
however, that the incident would be
allowed to pass for the time being and
be reserved for after use in the settle
ment of other matters between the two
governments"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-08
Greek Tragedy.

On the hurricane-swept Florida keys
has been enacted the final episode OF the
tragedy of The Bonus MarcherS.
The men died as they had lived, help
less orphans of the storms. The light
ning-lit madness of war tore them loose
from the relative simplicity and security
of the slow-moving age into which they
had been born. When the cannon ball
storm had passed over the desolated
fields of the earth they were blown
into a fast strange postwar world by
the initiating breezes of hero worship.
These subsidized and they found the calm
uncomfortable. After a brief lull they
were torn loose from whatever security
they had been able to find by the blasts
of the great depression. Again they were
blown hither and yon-great numbers
of them into the miasmic tln-can
CITY of the AnacoStia fats. which WASH
ington remembers so we'll And now
the hurricane, blowing them to death
and the peace of the great darkness 1t
was the last act for them of the drama
which opened with the bugle blasts OF
1917 The immediate responsibility Tor
the shambles probably will be fixed by
the investigations already ordered. But
one cannot escape the thought that the
real cause lies beyond the reach of any
Investigator. They were the victims OF
a hurricane sweeping the earth, whose
path no meteorologist can forecast nor
understand.
It was the tragedy of these men-and
perhaps the tragedy of all of us-to be
born into an age of hurricanellke tram
sition such as history has not known.
Life demanded of them a rapid series
of establishments which they were not
equipped by nature to make. Conse-
uuently they made them clumslly and
with infinite pain. They were bona f1de
veterans of the Great War. 1t was prob
ably responsible, in large part, for their
inadequacy. They deserved well OF their
country. Some of them were the victims
of material wounds, for which they were
given a small measure of compensation.
But these men and many others were
the victims of spiritual wounds and dis
abilities for which the Veterans Admin
istration mails no checks, but which
may well have been more serious, so
far as adjustment was concerned. than
any physical injuries they could have
suffered.
Some men came out of the war with
wrecked bodies-limping, staggering and
coughing their way into the security OF
peace. Some men came out, on. the
other hand, in far better physical shape
than before. Even SO, some men
stripped off their olive drab and donned
the store-clothes uniforms of civilian
life more self reliant and capable of adj
justment than on the day they first
subscribed to the articles Of war, and
some came back far less adequate than
before for any self-directed coping with
the multiplying complexities of living.
Among the latter were many OF these
poor victims of the hurricane.
Storm-t tossed they lived. Storm-tossed
they died, leaving an economically and
spiritually storm-tossed world behind
them.