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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-15
By RODNEY BUTCHER (WAshIngtOn COrrcspOndent)

Copyright l03b, NEA Service, Incl
 Washington, Jan. lB-Ilight states and the District of Columbia have adopted unemployment compensa- ton laws.
 That leaves 70 states which must come in under tho wire through regular or special logis- lativo sessions during I036 If they're to benefit from tho New Deal schomG' to foster state unern- ployment insurance laws by making it c losing proposition not to have them,
 A federal tax of per cent on i,ayrolls becomes effective for tho year l03e and will Do collected In i037 unless tho supreme court balks. This tax will increase by c half per cent every three years until it reaches g per cent in i040 and stays there.
 I1 proceeds will go Into an Unemployment trust fund.-" in the U. s. Treasury. It applies to employers of eight or more por- sons, with stated exemptions. such as for agricultural workers.
 When 6 state has on unempl0y- ment compensation law which meets certain standards sot up by tho Social Security Act, and has been approved by tho Social se- curity Board here, its employers will receive c credit on the fed orai unemployment tax for % per cent of tho tGx sum they have paid Into tho state fund.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-15

The Tower this morning received four tickets for the first card party the Waterbury Hardressers and COsmetOOgists association at the A. O. H. hall Tuesday evening" January 2l. Prizes entertainment and re- treatments will be in order My good friend Betty Null Igan is chairIady, assisted by Mrs Edna Ledel Mrs. Thomas Candy, Mrs. Marion Lynch, and the Misses Nora Sheehy, Helen Foley and Rose ONe reception sts The entertainment will be well taken of by Mrs M GerminO. Many thanks, girls for your kind in- vitatiOn The Democrat will be represented.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-15
Other Credits Allowed

After 1887 employers will be granted additional credits un- der the federal law whenever state law permits them to reduce payments to the state fund . result of good employment rec- ord or adequate reserves, subject to certain federal restrictions.
 States are given almost cons plete discretion in setting up their own systems. They may charge the entire cost to employers or divide 1t with employees or the state itself. They may set Up sep- arate individual employer &C., counts or pool all contributions.
 The Security Act only demands that, when the states employers are to be granted that 90 per cent credit. laws must provide: Admin istrative methods approved by the 6SB. payment of compensation through public employment offices or other approved agencies, fair hearings before impartial tribunals when appeals for compensation are denied. and full SSB access to the books of state systems.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-15
Bulletin topics

Bulletin topics Leon French and Frank Brodie back active members of the Kiwans Club which is good news to the Wednesday noon gatherers . Tim Garren chairman of the 18th Democratic district still
 hospitazed at St. Marys It's been long, tough siege for Tim, but he takes it with smile admire him and wish him well on the road to recovery Mrs William Mecca mother of Waterburys popular accordion macs tros underwent major operation at the Waterbury pita Monday She's coming along nicely which is pleas ant to type--Eddie Keenan, believe it not has lost exactly 5 pounds since he entered the Veterans pita at Newngton Billy Curley brother of the ctys leading matchmaker is undergoing treatment at the same institution. Tom Wagner, Joe Miller, Al Mar in the annual banquet meeting of the State Personal M nance Company at the palatal Hotel Bond in Hartford Saturday. Ditto for secretaries Rita Corkery ImeIda cronin, Gladys Lowell and Dorothy Gray
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-15
States May Be Punished

The SsB may cut states of its approved list if it finds its regula- tons are not being complied with or if eligible persons are being denied compensation.
 An individual refusing to worl: because job is vacant due to la- bor trouble. because wages, hours or work conditions are worse than those prevailing in the locality, oE because he would be required tA join Q company union or quit . labor union may not be denied com- Ipengntion.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-15
Law Called Model One

The District of Columbia k somi- officially considered to have c model" unemployment insurance law. It provides for 6 pooled fund covers employers of ono or more, re- quires employer contributions of 1 per cent for i036, 2 per cent for 1887, and 8 per cent thereafter, and provides c maximum contribution by tho District of Si76,000 in 1888.
 It establishes tho compensation rate at 70 per cent of wages plus 10 per cent for dependent spouse and 6 per cent for c dependent relative with . maximum of 0b DOT cent, only i3 weeks of employment ag . qualification period, 2 three. week waiting period, and 10 weeks of benefits.
 The federal government went Into the unemployment insurance field bccause states kept out of it on the theory that 1t would give employ CTS In less progressive states Q coin- petitivo advantage over their own. The Social Security Act provides uniformity of cost to employers per pcrBon employed. The act does nothing for those now unemployed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-15

likely to be as far.rcaching and im- portant as any the court has made to date,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-15
Some Employers Exempt

Besides agricultural labor, ex- empted from the tax are employers of domestic servants, officers and crews, individuals employed by son, daughter, or spouse, children under 2i employed by parents, public em- ployes, and employees of nonprofit institutions.
 Criticisms of the Unemployment Compensation plan stress it's dupli- cation Of taxes, the confusion sure to result from varying state sys- temS, its failure to use federal inc come taxation for financing, the likelihood of administrative com- plications, and the fact that the federal government stands to make Q profit.
 Retaining 10 per cent of the fcd- eral tax, 1t will pay state admints- trative expenses estimated at little more than 5 per cent Of the tax, indicating a possible profit of 30 or 70 millions c year. Also, when states exclude galaried workers above Q certain income level, the Treasury goes right on collecting the tax on total payrolls. And when e state has no unemployment insurance law, your Uncle Sam profits the whole tax.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-15

A severe earthquake was felt recently in the Wawayama district of Japan.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-25
By ,, P, D,

More than one week late in ar- irving here In the city, 60,000 of the new Oregon Territory Gen. tennial postage stamps were placed on sale at the local post ofIlce yesterday morning. The stamps were first placed on sale ct four designated points along the Oregon trail on July 14, and were supposed to have been on sale at other post oftlces the fol- lowing day. For some reason un- known to local postal offlcials, the stamps were eight days late in ar- irving in Waterbury.
 Mrs. Eleanor Egan, WPA em- ploye in charge of the stamp clubs which have been organized at local playgrounds, reported an increase In registration at the three clubs at Hamilton, Fulton and Washington parks during the week, the present number of local youngsters amounting to about T5. The three groups meet on Mondays at Washington, Tues days at Fulton and Wednesdays at Hamilton.
 During the past week members of the various clubs held election of officers. Those who were elected are listed as follows: Ham iltOn: President Robert C0stigan; vlce-president, Roy Kliest; secre- tary, Lemuel Biven; Fulton: PreS- ident, Thomas Carmichael; vice. president, Charles Leas; secre- Sary, Edmund Mierxwinski; Wash ington: President, George MOn- tango; vlce-president, Pasquale Palomba; secretary. Max Car neiuna.
 At the present time, according to the director, plans are being made for an exhibition to be held at Q later date. Each class will conduct an individual exhibit first, and later in the summer an exhibition of the best work In stamp mounting will be held for all members of the organization. Nest of the 75 members enrolled at the present time are boys. though there is one young lady among the twenty girls enrolled who ranks with the best in the city.
 The young lady Is Miss Lena Paslni of lS0e Baldwin street and according to a statement made by the director Of lhe class. thls young phlIaGellst sold . collection es her stamps to Harris & c., Boston, nGass., last year for she snm of mere than $500. Her Colombian collection alone brought ehe sam of 9soA.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-25

Joe shugrue has just returned to his home in Jersey City, after having visited relatives here for number of days You must remember Joe, for he was here years ago. and was prominent in the fighting game, as well as being the owner of well-known cafe on South Main street. Joe was always likeable fellow, one you liked to meet, and one who always remembered his friends
 He's just popular today but in another part of the country His appearance on the street last week with his brother Tommy of the Fire Department made the Tower
 man feel good and reminded him of the days of yester day when Joe one of the active heads in all Of the good people and is pleasure to know that Joe is con nected with the Department of Education in his native city and doing well.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-25

ifestations invariably take place, Daylight saving doesn't seem to have interrupted this.
 odd. isn't it?" Dunninger asks Daylight saving must be an in. convenience to ghosts. Bad for werewolfs and vampires, too. I won. der how they manage It."
 Jury to Decide Genuineness
 He has received a great number of letters since he made his offer of $10,000 for a genuine haunted house, will investigate all those that are within 8 reasonable dis tance" of New York city. The pur- pose back of the investigation, he explains, is to discourage "fraudu- lent" mediums who, he believes, have taken advantage of credulous persons to prey upon them tanan- cially.
 A jury of press representatives, members of the Council for Psy- chic Research, and persons who claim to have seen the ghostly phenomena will attend these in- veStigations.
 "If aything occurs" Dunninger declares, "that I can not explain or duplicate, or if I do not prove the occurrence to be Q halucination, or if the jury does not agree that what has occurred is not the work of 6 supernatural agency, I will pay $l0.000 to the person who sup- piled the information about the house."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-25
This Weeks Books
Daring Traveller Finds Strange Tribes Living In Shadow Of Civilization
BY BRUCE CATION

Carl N. Taylor liked to explore the old corners of the earth and he finally paid for 1t with his life He was killed @ few months age while Investigating the rites of tho Penltentes in the southwest BeforV that, he had explored the back coun' try of the Philippines, and h odyssey of the fsSAads" (scrlb. ners: S3), he shows that he was a man with Q neye to see things and Q pen to describe them.
 odyssey of the Islands," in other words, Is Q eorking good book, lt covers MT. Taylor's extensive wan- derlngs in the Philippine archipal- interesting photographs, and it iS written intelligently.
 There are odd things to be seen In the Philippines, MT. Taylor stumbled on an amusing trlble oi sea gypsles--people who live from birth to death on rlckety little boats, eternally wandering laElly from island to island, supporting themselves by fishing, coming ashore SO seldom that 1t makes them dizzy to walk on dry land, Strangely enough, he found them poor sailors, subject to seasiok- ness, and remarkably incompetent flshermenl
 Then there are the tribes which stiyy take heads and defy white civilization in III its forms, Neither Spanish nor American power has ever made much headway with them; nor, says Mfr. Taylor, Is 1t at all likely that the new Filipino commonwealth will have any more success in tanning them.
 They are intraetablo savages and 1t Is almost impossible for troops to get at them.
 Upon the island as . group, how ever Mir. Taylor finds that America has left an indellhle impression. The FlliplnoS actually are larger and more robust than they were before Dewey fought at Manila. They have more than doubled their numbers since then. They owe America c good deal, and this writer believes that they are not unmindful of the debt.
 All in all, odyssey of the Is- lands" Is flrst-rate reading,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-25
Gone but not forgotten.

Gone but not forgotten. How many people can hak back to the days when the road to Naugauck fol- lowed the old Patts Mill highway still in use and more so right now while Dead Mans Is being eliminated
 It was really in recent years that the present motor highway put into usage. Back when motor cars weren't moving at 50 and 60 miles per hour without caus ing comment Dead Mans curve was so bad, as curves went in those days. The early-day motorist didn't call curve bad until 1t almost doubled back and re- crossed itself But speed increased the curve be- came more of menace and widening constantly in order Its width is now many feet beyond the orig inal limits of the highway at this point Twenty years ago it was pretty narrow and winding. Soon back and start leveling out the terrain,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-25

This and that John and Alice Morrissey post. card from Atlantic City where they stopping for few days. Ray McKennerney and Allie Affeldt arc isslng challenges for would.be golf twosennes for match any day in the week. As Allie puts It, with his authority (twO badges) and Rays weight, who can beat us? |. Accepting the challenge, Frank Kenney and Jake Kinney putting in several days intensive training to get down to fighting weight for their huskier opponents. Andy DPctrO is driving a new Plymouth sedan these days Mrs. Charles s. McCarthy and children, Mary Elizabeth and Charles, are spending several days at Bay View the guests Of her sister Mrs. Frank Kcnney.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-25

Barbs. . Hopkins, Minnesota claims the title of raspberry capital of the naton In recent months we thought Washington, D. C., had monopoly on the crop
 "Though I've listened to lots of jazz, I'm no saV- age no says Paul White
 man. Still we'd hate to have him sit down on our daVen- port |. Hollywood actresss husband ran amuck be- cause he was called "Mr. Polly Moran. mob scene probably would result If somebody shouted Messrs Jean Harlowe" For the new Dionne baby, there's one grain of comfort Not many boys will have his opport' nity of shaking down big sisters five young men. Deroter complains he had tooth pulled two months ago and still has ringing in his He might answer the dentist and tell him hel pay the bill
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-25
Tall Tower
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SUMMER CURTAIN CALL
RY THE slAN IN THE TOWER

Let's go down to Pogumquot
 There's c summer theater there, Ali the play fans gather round To enjoy the dramatic fare. Many stars of Broadway
 Away from the blare of the city Amble through their lines amused At seaside or village pretty. Theaters large theaters small, Some of them, oh SO quaint; What matter if they slip up on properties Or forget the old grease paint Let's go down to Westport Conn, Or out on the Cape Cod shore, Summer dramas at full swing And all the stars that you adore. Comedy tragedy, comic opera, You're bound to find them all, Out in the sticks in the summer time, Dc there for the curtain call.
 FEM EM.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-25

been looking Tor SplFIt 0CQuaMpInCe5 TOT W B0Oa many years never met one, but is undiscouraged.
 Proximity to Pile of TOmbstOnes
 It has been Q lively quest:
 "In Los Angeles" Dunninger says, "a man and woman moved out of new home because they heard mysterious raps at night in the cellar. Not far away was collection of tombstones taken from an old cemetery. The couple thought spirits from the buryng ground must be paying them visits and making the strange noises,
 1T spent night in the house with the owner. Sure enough, along about midnight we heard raps coming through tho floorl We went down Into the cellar where lot of rubbish had been stored. Back of two old trunks was the explanation of the ghostly rap- png-a large rat with one hind leg caught in trap
 "The trap had not been haited, but the lock had sprung in some way and the rat trying to pull away, only succeeded In rattling the trap. When anyone went into the cellar the rat was quiet, and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-25
New AldOus Huxley

AldouS Huxley has written many novels about the RimlesSneSs of life in the post-war world, He has seen 1t aS . life without faith or hope, on era which has destroyed It's old gods and is too cynical to raise new ones, and he has penned some bitter pictures of it.
 Now he sees daylight ahead, and his new novel, "Eyoless In dRsa" tHarpers: $2,60), takes Q different tone.
 Ho writes of an intellectual Eng lishman who grows up In tho pre- war world, is cut adrift from his
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-25
This and that.

This and that . Waterbury friends of Attorney Thomas B. Curry of Hartford will be pleased to learn that he has been appointed Chief Clerk in Insurance Com missioner John Backals office Attorney and Mrs Cur " have many friends in Waterbury and have visited here on many occasions When the Tall Tower man picked up the New Haven JournaCourier Thursday a. m right on page loomed the picture of good old Les ter Warner of the S. N. E. Tel. Co., Lester used to service the teetype machines for the Dem before gradu ating other and hurried to Cheshire Wednes day afternoon when gas explosion blew out the Chesh ire exchange building Young Teddy ODonnell of Laval street is home after serious operation at the Hart ford Hospital The Laval Street gang will be glad to know that Teddy will be around in another week or So
 Anne Sheehan and Toddy Whelan are vacationing at Bay View Johnny Cooney postcards from the Iitched hills to say that he'll be down to town about August when some of the boys give Eddie Bunce bach eor dinner Eddie and Johnnie were Schulte huddieS at one time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-25

Marking the 14eth anniversary of the founding of the United States Coast Guard and the dedi- cation of the new St. Petersburg Coast Guard Air Station August i. the Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring e bi-colored cachet for air mali covers only. Send cov- ess to H. E. Warner, Post Of1ice box l7o5, St. Petersburg. Florida, to reach there before August 1.
 Information printed 'in South American newspapers indicates that the controversial 1p. map stamp of the Argentine, issued January this year, may be al- tered soon to conform more closely to the facts of geography.
 Great Britain has been report. cd as protesting that the Falk- land Islands were shown incor- rectIy as part of the Argentine Republic and Chile objected to the boundary shown for its tcrri- tory. In response to the protests of the latter. Argentine officials now are reported as having agreed to alter the die for the stamp and replace that part of the issue re. maining unsOld.
 The Argentine claim was that the shading appeared incorrectly in the printing of the stamp after the large design had been reduced to stamp size.
 Sponsored by the Greencoint Stamp club of Brooklyn, there will be issued a printed cachet to mark the first day issue of the Eucharistic Congress stamps of the Philippine Islands. Covers will be mailed from Manila. Send 12 cents per cover before August 5 to A. Murphy, 9S Noble street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
 The director general of the Do- EniniOn of New Zealand post Ok- flee announces that two nddi- ti0nal denominations of the New Zealand pictorial stamps printed on multiple watermaFked papers the enc and one-haIf denOminN- ton and the 3 d.. will Dc avail able shortly. The new supply of the Cd. value ls the first to he printed fin New Zealand and has been produced as the government printing office by the lithegraphic offset process. The c@ioFH vary slightly from alssse ss She orig Inal printing and shs watesmark is si6ewaya
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-25
'wHoo-oo-OO-OOw. But $10,OOO Says It Isn't a Ghost You Hear
Joseph Dunger Holds All Those Ee Sights And Sounds In Hanted
 Commonplace Orgs-In Fact He'll Bet He's Right
BY LAURA LOU BROOKMAN Waterbury DemocEat-NEA Service Chest Writel

New York; July 26-Ten thousand dollars for haunted house!
 And worth it. toO-every penny of it-accordng to Jo seph Dunnnger who has made the oer The house, how ever must be inhabited by 100 per cent spooks.
 I've never met real ghost" Dunninger but I'd Ike to- It's not whm $0000 offe Spookseut- Ing an avocaon with Mir Dunnnger almost profession Hes
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-25

DiaIing. {. . HOwie Davis Ray Wiener, Al Clan. cull will treat Henrietta Bouffard Mary KrOpa and Anne Dmidas to an excursion trip to Moo Yawk to- morrow where they will inspect Radio City and sec how it feels to be atop the Empire State Building Ann GrnelI is dropping cards from Indian Neck. Dot GiIIis had the time of her young life fOrking and spOOnng dish of spaghetti yesterday noon at Bank street emporium.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-25

moorings by 1914 and It's aftermath, and survives into the i99os In Q soc ciety which believes in nothing, ex- poets nothing, and hopes for noth- ing.
 This Englishman Is not content to live In Q vacuum, Ho hunts ceaselessly for something he can believe In, for Q new trust In the nobility of the race, and the ex- istenee Of 0od-and Mir. Huxley finally finds them for him,
 This will probably earn Mir. Hux- Icy the condeseending sneers of those critics who are passionate tn their defense of tle ashesl to-a ashes outlook on human life; but it does provide an excellent study of the way e modern mind, Schooled in all tho disillusionment the modern world has to offer, can win it's way back to the belief that man is something more than Q helpless mite lost In Q world of meaningless c0n- fusion.
 There Is only one trouble with the book, Mfr. Huxley has written 1t with an inside-out time sequence, which makes 1t, in places, very hard to read. But 1t is worth the effort,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-25
PAST 70 BEFORE HE
 WON FAME AS DRAMATIST
HIS LITERATURE REQUIRED
 NEW WORD TO DESCRIBE IT

As literary his reputation was made To describe his writ adjective English language Shav- financial worries having in 1893 mar Charlotte Townsend who had considerable r- America and Americans he has also and of the Eng of his the most famous probably Man and published ieos Back 70 Metnu
 Secure fame often called the VOare of his great of the 18th century the 20t century iuses and taken the mask cant, hypocrisy hunabug.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-25

requiring five nights of observa- ton. At the end of that time Dunninger discovered that, when the moon shone brightly. a group of shrubs ln the yard outside pro- duced a remarkable silhouette, Through the window, this silhou- etc gave some semblance of Q face. Branches were cut from tho shrubs and the ghostly visitor did not return.
 So it has been in every house investigated, Battling shutters loose hinges - invariably there Is some such explanation,
 Haunts are varied, Dunninger says. The commoneSt to be re- ported are objects moving about Q room, chairs, misplaced, knock ing on doors which, when opened, reveal no one present, Sometimes Q face or hand seems to appear.
 Modern ghosts don't seem to rattle chains as they once did, Dunninger thinks this went out along with the passing of old-time mansions,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-25

Editor, Tall Tower Topics: May l. through the col thanks to Bernard Ladden of Pleasant Street, who kindly and thOughtfully returned my pocketbook which lost on Wednesday night It was certainly glorious feeling when all seemed darkest to find an honest person. Again hundred thanks. Lucky Girl; M. S.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-25

It had been in the about eight found It."
 The GhOsty Face at the Window
 Ohostly frightened two elderly Seattle women appealed explanation he to