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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-11
Profit Taking Again Smashed Recent Gains in Marke
Losses Not Heavy As
Trading Proved Light
Wheat Caused Nervousness as Govt. Report Showed
Surplus General Motors Went to New High

strong Industrial shares also meA
considerable profit-taking. Vest
inghouse gave up a point to un.
der IS and u. S. steel was liz
lower at SO 3-S.
Alcohol shares firmed under
lead of u. s. Industrial. Most rail
losses were fractional save Union
Pacific which lost about two
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islands situation" was all they
would say.
TydinLs said the committee ex-
pected to resume hearings later.
Witnesses were directed to hold
themselves in readiness for future
questioning.
What Priests Claim
Meantime, the senate investiga-
ton received documents intended
to show that Catholic priests in the
islands felt Gov. Pearson was max
ing ''war" on the Catholic
church"
att looks as il it is now a war,
sPearsonites versus the Catholic
church" wrote Father Leo st.
Laurence, c. S. S. r., Il wonder
who Is going to win"
His accusation was contained
IN . letter to Paul Yates, former
executive assistant to Pearson who
resigned after five months to press
charges against the islands admin
istration.
& Put Out of Club
Father st. Laurance SAID the
fathers have been put out of the
81. Thomas Tennis club, suspend
ed from all the rights and priv
iieges.' ] guess we are on the spot.
Yates said the tennis club direc-
tors were all government men. He
produced a letter from Father Ar
thur Collins. also OF the Redemp-
forist Fathers. endorsing the St.
Laurence letter. s.s.4
Father 1t. Laurence said he con-
ferred with DR.. Ernest Gruening.
chief of the interior departments
division OF territorial affairs and n
Justice department agent, during
fheir visit 10 the Islands.
Following the conference he said
Gov. Pearson called the father M.
norioF 10 the government house
and handed him a note saying 1T
was said on Nov. 6, IN the. pres.
kztery OF the Church Of g. Peter
ana Paul by Fathers ~. Laurence,
ffIaal. Collins and Helldorfer that
The members OF Gov. PeaFson'n
staff was corrupt, dishonest and
Immorai"
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HOME LOAN BONDS

HOME LOAN BONDS
Bid Asked
Home Owners
Loan s. s1052.i0i 24-32 100 lI.s2
Home Owners
Loan 2M's l940.i00 i4-32 i0l i.s2
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HOOVER MAN IS
MADE THE TARGET

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DOW JONES AVERAGE
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sented 1t to Queen Anne Of Cleves in
1889. She gave It to the Barrett
family. In 1925 it was sold to Fran
els Douce for $3.50. Ten years later
he becueathed It to his old friend,
DR.. Meyrick. 1t disappeared from the
doctors luxurious mansion. At one
time he thought he had lost it. At
another, he believed he had put 1t by
mistake in a tin box he had sent to
a bank. And at still another time. he
thought it had been stolen.
-Four years after Meyrick's death
the family solicitor. Romer Williams,
bought 1t back under mysterious cir
cumstances. There was a strong rumor
that it had been in possession of the
highly placed Esterhazy family at
Vienna, but they refused to confirm
or deny the report.
The portrait had never been re-
moved from its original ivory case,
but the rock crystal covering is faxed
in two places where attempts had
been made to pry it loose.
For lovers of art mysteries there Is
an unsigned. untitled miniature that
dates from the early Stuart period.
Critics are unanimous in hailing it
as work "of great skill and rare tai
ent" No historian has been able to
decide whom it represents. No expert
has been able to identify it as the
work of any known artist. It is ex-
quisite and distinctive. and each year
the mystery grows more baff1ing. Who
was this artist. this strange unrec-
ognized master2
There is the strange case of John
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other precious stones, and necklace
of pear-shaped pearls.
But what price can be set on the
pleasure an imaginative man might
have in holding this tr1nket In MS
hand and filing out Its obscure ana
tangled history, which began shorty
after Sir Francis Drake defeated the
Spanish armada and endured with
tantalizing, inexplicable gaps Of hum
dreds of years to today? Historians
have not yet decided exactly to whom
Queen Elizabeth awarded the m1rl1a-
tllre. nor have they been able to dis
cover BY what route it reached the
vaults of the noble family which
finally sold it to the elder Morgan.
Then there is Dante Gabriel Ro-
setti's exquisite portrait of his un-
happy wife. the only one he ever made
of her after their marriage. She was
Elizabeth Eleanor Sidall, flaming
beauty from a milliner's shop. She
married the leading talent of her time
in 1860, bore q child in 1851, and died
In 1852 of an overdose of laudanum
taken for neuralgia. As her cofhn
was being closed, Rosetti overwhelmed
with grief, placed the manuscripts Of
his early poems In the hair Of the girl
he forever called "Gugguns." Years
later, at the insistence Of friends, he
had the body disinterred and pub
lished the poems.
The miniature is q three-quarter
seated figure of her and Is luminous
with a somber light. It was made in
her bed room. shortly before the ar
rival Of the baby, with Rosetti seated
at the end of the sofa and very close
to her. Heavy with unspoken sorrow,
the miniature lived on long after its
painter and sitter had died. and final
ly won through to an amazing, hap
py ending.
When Mrs Rosetti died her nurse
pleaded insistently for the portrait
and her plea was granted. The nurse
willed it to her daghter, who liked the
feeling of sadness It inspired. For
years it hung in a cheap frame on
the wall of an East End fiat In Lon
don. Then the daughter, becoming
seriously Ill. was filled with gratitude
when q young doctor saved her life.
She had no money to pay him, 80 de-
cided to sell the picture which. she
believed. was worth only q few slail-
hnEs. She took it to her clergyman
and from him 1t passed into the hands
Of Mr.. Morgan. The girl got for the
picture enough to buy q comfortable
life annuity.
What would sensitive man pay to
own the small group of miniatures
which travelled through bitter years
from the Royal Lodge at Windsor. IN
1880, TO the Morgan collection In 1905?
The Royal Lodge was furnished for
Lady Conynghame by George Nv,
called ''the First Gentleman Of Eu-
rope" It Is not known whether he
took the miniatures to the lodge, or
whether he found them there, but
when he died the groom Of the cham
bers developed the convenient theory
that the ornaments In the room whsre
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self? A dirty bandage, torn of the
wound of a man bleeding to death"
But, In spite of the violence of these
concepts, 1t cannot be said that the
figures Of the book are simply types. :"
They are not even Germans. They
are human beings, and the American
who looks about him today at our
disinherited generation-in camps, in
shelters, on the roadway find SINH
lar human beings, of similar view
points, although II years have passed
since 1924.
In view OF the books preoccupation
with postwar conditions, the ques-
ton raised by its treatment of the
mother. Beate, Is interesting. Does
Herr Rabener mean to symbolize in her
the attitude of nations toward their
young-making conveniences of them
for monstrous and idle purposes and
then dropping them aside and making
no provision for them? Or does he
mean to place the blame on the pre-
ceding generation, charging against
its blindness, its sel1shneSs and jingo-
ism the present chaotic conditions?
Certainly it is impossible to accept
Beate simply as a person; of all the
characters in the book she seems
marked to be symbol" For If We
are asked to accept her as merely a
woman, then 1t would seem that the
author should accord her the pitying
understanding that he gives the
others, for If she Is only a woman
she is no worse than insane. But
the treatment of her alteration by
the author differs markedly from that
of any other character. There is no
pity for her. Instead. the pages deal
ing with her are informed with a
livid hatred, as the result of which
she exceeds belief as person. In her
vileness, and must be questioned as q
symbol.
Condemned to Live" Is, as has been
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this darling Of her king had announced
sensstionally that she was fed up with
the futility of splendor, that she would
retire from the court. and, as the cur
rent saying was, go into the desert" ;"
Perhaps to memorialize her dramatic
dedication 70 Spartan simplicity, she
employed Mr.. Dixon to paint her in
all her fortitude. But Mr.. Dixon could
paint only what he saw, and his
miniature reveals with gentle subtlety
that she was not-in the words Of the
Morgan commentator and annotator-
free from the vanities of the world"
Samuel Cooper, whom a contem-
porary called the most famous nmner
Of the world for face" Judgment
indorsed by present day critics, Is rep
resented in the Morgan collection with
Is miniatures. One Of these was dis
covered boarded UP behind some panel
ing In an old house. Another is
portrait Of that poor wretch" Mrs
Pepys, and Pepys records grumblingly
in his famous diary that he paid e150
for it.
The collection includes work Of the
leading artists of the English. French.
Dutch, German and Italian schools,
and covers a period from the begin
nings of true portraits in little" to
the decline Of the art in the early
Victorian period.
The man who buys one Is buying
"joy." a dealer said. and 10y has no
price beyond what the buyer is willing
to pay"
(Copyrisht 1885 by the North American
NewspaPsr AIisnce. 1nc)
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the former Is seeking 20 acquire all
the shares. Just a few miles across
the Straits Of Bah FL Mandeb lies
the British-c controlled Yemen, which
safeguards the southern entrance to
the route to India, and just around
the corner is the strategically i'm
portant port Of Alden. So Great Brit
aims interests are not altogether
those of sympathy. And in the inte-
rior Of Ethiopia, in he higher areas,
/ is a vast area of dust in the hot
season and of the stickiest mud in
the world in the wet season, which
may prove to be Ethiopia's best de-
fense against invasion, far better than
her wretchedly poor armament, chief
ly consisting of ancient weapons and
equally arcient and generally nom
fitting cartridges.
Such is the picture which Mr.. Mac
Creagfl paints. vividly, humorously,
briskly and with avowed partisanship
for the oldest government in the
world. GAL.
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REVIEWS OF NEW BOOKS ! THE MORGAN MINIATURES
PICTURES RICH IN ROMANCE
MORGAN Miniatures to Be Sold Auction in London Tied Up
in Drama and Intrigue, and Their Value Is Beyond
Estimate-"P Paintings in Little"

the king had finally closed his eyes
were his perquiSites.
The groom's daughter stole min
iature Of Mary, Queen of Scots, from
her father, and sold 1t to an unscru-
pulous collector. Another collector. rich
and young, bid IN the rest Of them,
heartbroken that the lot was incom-
plete. Grimly he waited for the owner
Of the Mary portrait to die. He knew
time was in his favor. and quietly
biding his chance, eventually was able
to complete the group. The elder
Morgan bought 1t entire from his
estate.
In the portrait Of Henry VII, most
famous Of the Holbein miniatures, an
ancient scandal lies. The king pre-
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By Ina Wolferf.

NEW YORK, June 49,
A RT experts and dealers-the
~ men whose business II Is to
Il say, There 10 s1s,e7s worth Of
paint on that shrug help
lessly when asked to estimate
the cash value Of the ]. p. Morgan
collection Of miniatures, which will
be sold at auction In London June
24-27. The concensus is that the
collection Is worth at all times what
the traffic will bear. and that the
traffic will bear less now than 1t would
have five years ago. Governments,
museums. dealers and private collec-
tors in all parts Of the world will bid
against each other and what they buy
will be, in addition to works Of art,
q record of fabulous times
According to noses in Mr.. Morgan's
private files, romance and tragedy,
thievery in high places, bitter. re-
lentless drama and strokes Of good
fortune are wrapped up with the
gold, the jewels, the paint and the
genius that have gone into the max
ing of these portraits in little"
Further, the collection as whole
is of inestimable value to students
Of history and literature as well as
of art.
There is no way Of telling exactly
how much the collection cost the
Morgan family. The elder Morgan
never kept any records Of his art
expenditures. He bought his n1inia-
lures on his own and for his own
pleasure. Frequently M one was pres
ent when the deal was made except
himself and the seller.
Thus the present J. Pierpont Nor
gan. who preserved his fathers col
lection, but did not add to 1t be-
cause it was so large there was moth
ing much left 20 add, will not know
II the sale will be at loss or prof1t.
1t Is generally understood that Mr..
Morgan Is selling the collection TO
put his estate IN more manageable
form for inheritance taxes. He Is now
in his sixty-eighth year. He owns
four large houses, town and country
homes, both here and in England,
and nearly every room is rich with
treasures. They are the accunula-
tions of four generations of Morgans,
all ardent collectors.
The task Of approximating the dol
lars and cents value Of even single
item. such as the Armada Jewel,
would make any sctuary blanch. On
the case containing the portrait Of
Queen Elizabeth, by Nicholas billiard,
are four square table-Cut diamonds set
below five opulent rubies. At the
top and bottom is design worked
in triangular table-cut diamonds.
A jeweler could calculate the worth
of the stones and of the gold and sill
yer. An art dealer might make
guess as to the value of the Hilliard
portrait and the exquisite carving
worked out in infinite detail to SHOW
the Queen with her hair dressed with
jewels, q hair net set with pearls and
Evening star., 1935-06-16
Books Received

Fiction.
BRUTE. BY Millard Ward. New
York: D. Appleton Century Co.
BLOW DESERT wINDsl BY viii
liam Corcoran. New York: D.
Appleton Century Co. -
NOTHING LIKE LEATHER. BY v. 8.
Pritchett. New York: The Mac
milan Co.
MISTY MOUNTAIN. BY Barbara
Webb. New York: Doubleday
Doran & Co.
DAUGHTER OF DINA. BY Allene
Corliss. New York: Farrar q
Rinehart.
Non fiction.
HOME FURNISHING. BY Anna H.
Rutt. New York: John Wiley
a. Sons.
A MEASURED ECONOMY. By Ralph
Gross. Boston: The Christopher
Publishing House.
THE SCIENTIFIC EYE OF FAITH.
BY Richard U. Jones. Boston:
The Stratford Co.
BANKS. BY Robert Mclaughlin.
Boston: The Christopher Publish
ing House.
A. A. A. NORTHEASTERN TOUR
BOOK. washington: American
Automobile Association.
A. A. A. WESTERN TOUR BOOK.
washington: American Autofno-
bile Association.
Juveniles.
ART STORIES FOR YOUNG cHn-
DREN. Book Two. BY william
q. Whitford, Edna B. Lick and
william 3. Gray. Chicago: The
Reilly a. Lee Co.
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Shute, another genius 50 obscure that
some critics have labeled him myth.
But two copies of his book on archi-
lecture are in existence. Some paint
ings of his have been identified
tentatively. The Morgan collection
contains a miniature actually signed
by this elusive personality. This con-
elusive Identification makes Of the
picture a touchStone. by means Of
which his other unsigned works can
be detected.
The collection contains sly COM
mentaries that would delight biogra-
pliers and students of history. Nine.
de Montespan is represented by a
miniature by Nathaniel Dixon. The
portrait was painted at q time when
Evening star., 1935-06-16

THE LAST OF FREE AFRICA: the
account Of an expedition into Abys-
sinia, with observations on the
manners, customs and traditions
of the Ethiopians, with some
pungent remarks on the anomalous
political situation that at present
obtains between this ancient king
BY Gordon MacCreagh, author Of
white Waters and Black" etc.
Second Edition. New York: D. Ap-
pleton- Century Co.
TT IS rare that . second edition of a
l travel book will stand test. It is
rarer still when second edition is
demanded by the changes of affairs.
This Is such q case, however. Some
thing less than q decade ago Mr.. Mac
Creagh, accompanied by his wife, went
over to Ahyssinia, as 1t, was then
known, to Ego look see" He wanted
to md out why this country has, as
he says, remained free, as has none
other in the world, since all known
time. A little country remnant Of
pendent, though surrounded by ambi-
tious and land.hnngfy powers Of
might. 30 he went. with slender cap
ital, but abundant nerve, and he
braved the dificulties that beset him
at the borders. difaculttes OF nature
and of jealous European governments,
closely safeguarding" the ancient
land Of the descendants of the Queen
OF Sneba from the contamination Of
modern armament.
When he got into Abyssinia from
what he calls the worlds worst port,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-07
O'COnn0r Also Rebels

Floor Leader William Bank head, father of the celebrated Tal- lulan, has been ill all through the session, which is why Chairman John J. O'Connor of New York Tammanyite and brother of the Basil O'Connor, who was paid s25,OOO by Associated Gas & Elec- tric--has been functioning as ma Dojrity leader.
 O'Connor has opposed the ad- ministration at every turn during the holding company fight, which about made 1t unanimous for the leadership. Consider the case of O'Connor. which also involves some secret history:
 When Byrns and Rayburn were fighting for the speakership. O'Connor offered to line up with Rayburn if he could be floor lead CT. Rayburn would have none of that, declaring his preference for John Mccormack of Massachu- setts. O'Connor then became rules chairman in a three-way deal with Byrns and Bankhead.
 O'Connor didn't like that much, nor later reports that the adminis- tration, because of Bankhead's protracted illness. favored election of Rayburn as floor leader, to strengthen it's House machinery.
 In short, O'Connor had nc strategic or sentimental reason for helping Rayburn and plenty of reason for playing along with Byrns.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-07

ed to the presence of a Democrat reporter, although the g. o. p. press was already represented. James Hartley and Eugene Sheehan, two of the leaders of the independent democratic group, however, direct ed that The Democrat be repre- sented at the session.
 Thomas Moran was elected per- manent chairman of the meeting. MT. Moran is we'll known III the city. He was the low bidder for the garbage collection contract 8 year ago. The city rejected all bids, it will be remembered.
 Aside from naming a ticket of adopted a tentative platform. Among the clauses in the platform is one resolution calling for the inspection of gas and electric me- ters by the sealer of weights and measures. The elimination of the sidewalk inspectors and the may or's chauffeur is also caleld for. Mayor Frank Hayes is criticised in the platform for not acting as ar- bitrator in the present undergar- ment company strike.
 Platform
 The platform committee consist ed of James Butler, Joseph Ippo- Tito, Walter Legge, Francis Conroy, and Margaret McHugh. It was voted to keep the. committee Intact and to allow it to make any addi- tions or changes in the platform
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-07

tContinued from Page il barred from municipal baths and sports grounds and forbidden to buy real estate. Jewish children were forbidden to go to the same schools with "Aryan" children, Jewish merchants were forbidden to attend the weekly fairs.
 The town council of Guhrau, in Silesia, resolved:
 Jews Can't Do Anything
 "No Jew is allowed to buy a house or real estate in Guhrau. No artisan or business man will be allotted public work who maintains social relations with Jews or sup ports their business. Buying from Jews Is treason to the German peo- ple.'
 At Bad Toelze, in Bavaria, 1t was announced that henceforth no cards for cures would be permitted to mon Aryans'' at the popular cure resort.
 The anti-Catholic drive brought a two-month prison sentence yes- terday to a member of the Catholic Union named Philipps. charged with removing Anti-Catholic post CTS from walls at Coblenz. He pleaded vainly that he removed them to clean the walls.
 Hope for Currency
 Better crops reports brought hope thath the currency difficult ties might be relieved to some ex- tent. It was estimated that be- tween 23,000,000 and 24.000. 900 tons of grains would be available from this harvest and last years reserves. The total consumption is estimated at not more than 22,S0o,0O0 tons.
 Last year Germany imported 120, 100000. marks ($4S.000, ,00O) worth of wheat, rye, barley, oats and corn. It is hoped that this sum may be saved this year. Despite the expected improve cause of good crops, the govern ment in the currency situation be- ment is still concerned over the question of importing the neces- sary raw materials, especially rub Der, cotton and metals.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-07

truth" Hurley replied, still angry.
 When Schwellenbach continued the line of questioning. Hurley fiared again: "You might as well ask me if I've stopped beating my wife. That's. no way to put words in my mouth that I didn't use."
 '"I'm not trying to do anything of the kind" Schwellenbach re- torted.
 Hurley testified he also repre- scented the A. G. E. in some federal trade commission activities.
 Tumulty to Be Heard
 The committee, in resuming it's inquiry after several days recess, planned also to hear Joseph Yum ulty, former secretary to President Woodrow Wilson. Tumulty likewise was employed by the A. c. E.
 The house Investigating commit tee recessed after one-day hear ing which ended in spectacular search for H. c. Hopson, missing A. G. E. head. Date of resumption was indefinite.
 Committee investigators returned empty handed after a foray to the Virginia home of Hurley, 40 miles from Washington. The search did not get past the Hurley living room.
 The investigators took along a subpoena for Hopson, but did not have a search warrant. They de- clined Hurley's invitation to search the house, explaining they were without authority to do that. Not Hopson's Attorney "If you ask me I am being per- secuted because I am republican and it's an outrage" Hurley told the Investigators. He said he was mot MT. Hopson's attorney" T have no idea where he is. This is a political frame-up and an out rage to my family"
 The hurried trip to Hurley's home was made on a "tip" that Hopson was in hiding there. Previously the investigators had searched Wash lngton hotels where Hopson had been reported seen this week.
 Bernard Robinson. Chicago stock broker. told the house inquiry he had visited Hopson Monday night ! in a hotel where Chairman John C'Connor. D., N. r.. and Rep. Fredr erick R. Lehlbach. R.. N. J.. of the Investigating committee. m c their homes. Leaders of neither group would comment on possibilities of a com promise. which President Roose- welt was reported willing to accept if it provided for ultimate aboli- ton of ''unnecessary" utility hold ing companies.