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(COntiilted from Page IJ Payment of S36,346.9e for the rec inaining assets will enable payment of dividends of IS per cent. This would make 25 per cent in all in dividends received by depositors.
 The receiver has filed Q motion asking for instructions in connec. ton with the offer, which will also be heard the 18th.
 The offer provides that Q certified check for 43,OOO shall be filed as a guarantee of good faith by the prospective purchaser as soon as the offer is approved.
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-FOUR FELLOW CITIZENS"

Rev. Thomas s. COchard, Pastor of Prospect Congregational Church, Native of Ohio, Student, Athlete, Radio Enthusiast, Enjoys Confidence, Respect of Hundreds
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BLUE LAW DooMs CATE

oak Harbor, o. CU.P)--To closd oak Harbor's only night club, after complaints, Mayor o. |. TeagarderI dtsted off a "blue law ordinance of lse6, prohibited sale Of liquor after midnight.
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JAPAN TIeHTENS NAVAL SECRECY BEFORE MISSING BATTLE FLEETS FOR S-MONTHS' WAR MANEUvERS
Japanese Government Also Urges Parliament to Enact Laws to Restrict Camera Shots of
 Maneuvers Still Further

Tokyo, June 3-(UP) 1.-The Japanese navy will conduct fla summer maneuvers in complete secrecy just did the United States in the recently completed games in the
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Japan is considering a unified land, see and air transportation policy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-03
CASH OFFER FOR
 KAZEMEKAS co.

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She Gould Haze Quit

A s sports reporter throughout the era of Won
n oerful nonsense your correspondent covered all
the multimillion dollar fights but never encountered
another figure who called upon to prove the
hneness, determination and bravery that Tr,Idv dis
closed that day. She had not only sufficient excuse
put the urgent pleas of her trainer and her own
1ather to chuck it and try another time And she
was risking her life most of the 13 hours and more
because the sea was really bad and lifeboat might
nave sWamped in an effort to pick her up The
channel was feeling uncommonly brutal that day and
ordinary shipping remained inside the breakwaters
The sleeve gave her bad wrestle at that and at
one stage of the struggle she carried away up
toward the North Sea, which was technically out
OF bounds, but swan back into the fairway so to
speak, and finally beached herself in the dark of the
night on the pebbly coast at Kngsdown, England.
Your correspondent hired a brocaded and in
laid limousine of the class of 1909 and drove out of
the little Hotel of the Lighthouse at Cap Gris-Nez
Robert Blondiau, the proprietor was down the road
with his dogs at the moment but Madame Blondiau
wedding party from the neighboring village of VIM
erehX
Trudy had been good friend but she had also
done them very bad turn at Cap Gris-Nez for she
had slapped the poor old sleeve into submission and
nowadays almost anybody might swim it. Monsieur
Blondiau might swim it himself of these days
with no more training than pint of black coffee
and half dozen hard-boied eggs, although he
didn't know whether he could swim at all. 1t was
just that Trudy made swimming look easy To-
gether inspected the little Hotel of the Light
house.
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ace of diamonds, and South start
ed to argue. AS result, declarer
made his contract.
If North and South had been on
their toes, however, the contract
could have been defeated in the
following manner:
North's proper opening is a
heart. Declarer can safely take
the fneSse, as North has bid
hearts, and then lead q small
spade from dummy. South should
go right in with the ace and
North should discard a high club.
South should not cash his ace
of clubs, but should lead back the
jack of clubs and, even though
West plays low, North should
overtake the trick with the king,
as he knows his partner is asking
him to win the trick and lead
back a heart.
When the king Of hearts Is
played and dummy covers with
the ace, South ruffs with the
deuce of spades and then leads
back a diamond, which is won by
North with the ace. Now North
can cash the ten of hearts and
South will discard his deuce of
diamonds.
Then when a diamond is
played, South ruffs with the six of
spades, thereby defeating the con-
t-act three tricks.
Copyright. 1896 By NEA Service. Incl
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Clements the real brains of the Townsend move
ment and DR.. Townsend as his stooge This pubca-
ton, according to the story current here Infatuated
Dr. Townsend. From then on he and Clements
were at swords points Once, according to one tale
in Washington, the good doctor became incensed
and berated young Clements in language so provoca-
tive that friends had to restrain them When
Clements resigned DR.. Townsend said it met with
his hearty approval" Which putting it mildly
MOTHER factor is involved Regional directors
N of the Townsend Plan have been impatient to
obtain a more liberal cut on the proceeds which
flow into the Townsend organization through men,
berShp fees. These regional directors some of
whom have records indicating that they have not
always been interested in such phanthropic causes
as pensions for the aged have felt that Clements
was keeping too tight rein them especially with
regard TO side rackets like the collection of rakeofs
from retailers Endorsed" by Townsend clubs They
have ganged up on Clements encouraging Dr. Town
send TO believe that his co-founder was attempting
to run away with the show
The nature of the inducements used to per-
suade Clements to relinquish his heavy interest in
the Prosperity Publishing Co. a highly profitable
side affair with present value of about s5ooOO0
may be disclosed during the House investigation be-
ginning today.
livery day, Rep. Jasper Bell, chairman of the
~ House Townsend Plan Investigating Commit
tee, comes to his Office find hundreds of abusive
letters accusing him of laying hands on holy cause
Some threaten physical violence. drnifed clean
cut appearing Kansas City lawyer former Judge
Bell shakes his head and expresses regret that the
nickels and dimes of elderly people should be
scooped up by such racket as he believes the Town.
send organization to be.
Clements has young red haired bride who is
supposed TO be the most dynamic person except
himself In the organization. former stenopra pher
she runs the Washington Office and had much IN do
With STRENGTHENING the hold Of Clenents on the
Townsend machinery.
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Rome Wasn't Built in q Doy

TT is not the today. They have electric lights
where in 1926 there were only candles and
they have wash basins with faucets in some of the
rooms, although, to be sure there was no running
water yet, the pipes not having been put in But
Rome built in a day?
At the Cafe Lieboise in Boulogne, where the
channel swimmers and their managers used to eat
cheese and drink beer, the proprietor broke the
news that Joe Costa dead. Joe was the spirit
and the character of the channel swimming indus
try and it seems fitting that he died when the game
played out. He was amusing character as cheap
and phony as some of the driftwood swimmers who
rowed themselves across the sleeve at night and
jumped into the water to walk ashore exclaming
Il did it, He chiseled his percentage of every franc
that spent channel swimming during the
craze, and you could scarcely draw breath of air
but that Joe Costa got his cut.
He drank with thousand men but never bought
much thimble of cognac in all his life and
yet they said in Boulogne that Joe Costa died broke
1t seemed that he finally gypped himself somehow
Well, he was the only who could have done it.
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Times Books

TT is getting that the hard boiled, fast-moving
100 per cent American detective story Is provid-
ing us with of the most entertaining reading
OF the day. Writers like Erie Stanley Gardner and
Dashiel Hammett have shown that detective story
need not be wholly artificial exercise in mathe-
matics, but can be real and close TO ordinary
life as the man in the filling station.
good sample Of this sort of thing is to be found
in THE Man Who Murdered Himself" by Godfrey
Homes Morrow; So. This has to do with the find
ing of corpse in a city reservoir, and with the
efforts of not too ethical pair Of private detectives
to discover the dead mans heirs
BY trying to find the heirs, the seuths uncover
two more murders, and swift, exciting story Is
the result.
We come next. by contrast to "Gaudy Night" by
Dorothy L. Sayers (Harcourt Brace; $3.50 in
which Miss Savers demonstrates that she is prob
ably the most over-rated detective story writer
extant.
"Gaudy Night" is very long and very self-con-
scious not to say arty, and it is also very dull Miss
Savers describes shady poison pen plot in wom-
ems college at Oxford University, brings in Lord
Peter Wimsey to solve it. and produces rambling
tale WITCH tries hard to be Literary and succeeds
only id being downright dreary tBy Bruce cattono
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Gen. johnson Says

VX7AsHINGTON, March 26-This column criti-
W cised the reticence in official reports about the
causes of the great air disasters of the past year
and got editorial banning, in one case by its
favorite Midwestern newspaper.
There is no criticism here of commercial pilots.
In our Army, Navy-nowhere else-have our people
produced an ADLER, more courteous gallant genera
ton. Nor in the hierarchy of officials of the
rious transport lines there less alert able men
than in the best of all commercial enterprise.
DUT this is a highly competitive business. and
ID it has developed that, for good ill., its ultimate
standards of safety have been entrusted to the
keeping of the Department of Commercials the
ultimate standards of safety at sea.
If ever in governmental history both public
fdence and public safety demand the most Spartan
standards of responsibility and truth, it is in the
control of aviation, where human cargoes depend
wholly equipment, efficiency and skill. Some
bureau chiefs have been well chosen, but the Of
fetal tact of the chief in responsibility, the Sec
rotary of Commerce himself, about reports these
accidents does not inspire confidence or, in my
opinion add to efficiency.
Copyright 1886 by United Feature Syndicate. Incl
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ton, and also to stage a public
show of strength, Clements de-
cided to hold national conven-
ton.
inexperienced in this field, he
contacted Mr.. Christenberry in
New Orleans. With Huey dead,
Christenberry was looking for a
job. He agreed to manage the
Townsend convention for $1,000 a
week.
After Christenberry's arrival,
Clements preached the idea of
using the Townsend movement as
the basis for a third party with
Clements as the successor to
Huey. Christenberry fell in with
the proposal.
After the convention, Sc
cret conference took place among
Christenberry, Clements and
Townsend. Townsend was let in
on the secret-that is, part of it.
The part which was to make
Clements successor to Huey Long
was not told the kindly ex-Iowa
physician.
A IT this point, Christenberry
L n disclosed that before the
Kingfish died he had been pledged
the financial support of half
dozen of the wealthiest men in
the country.
Clements proposed to capitalize
this New Deal resentment to his
own advantage.
First reaction of the big money
men was promising. Despite
their opposition to the Townsend
plan. they indicated willingness to
use the movement to defeat Roose-
welt. But when it came to back
ing Clements as the standard
bearer-they backed of.
Instead, they proposed that the
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chubby arms reaching out from
one bed to another for a while.
But soon, one by one, they drop
off to sleep.
AS each falls asleep, the nurse
on duty covers the child and soon
they are all tucked away snugly
for the night.
All five usually sleep soundly
throughout the night, but one of
the nurses sleeps in the room with
them, and wakens if any of the
children should call for water or
be uncomfortable for any reason.
That is the approximate daily
schedule at present. AS you can
see, it tends to become more and
more design for living" for
growing children and less and less
that for babies.
nNE thing that ought to be re-
Omembered is this: The exact
situation we have here has never
been duplicated in medical history.
While it is true that we have the
best training advice that it
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is possible to get, through the
University of Toronto, and while
we are definitely doing no expert
menting with the children, it is
also true that we can not always
act from precedent.
We have to do what seems best
at the time in the face of a par
ticular situation. There aren't any
precedents. We have to make our
own rules as we go, in the light
of the best experience we can
gather, for we are treading an
unbroken path for every addi-
tional day and week and year of
the quintuplets' precious lives.
Our all-absorbing task has been
that of providing for normal lives
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Midwestern industrialist be put up
as the champion. He, however, re-
fused the call"
The names of two Republican
senators then were suggested
Lester j. Dickinson, of Iowa, and
Arthur Vandenberg, of Michigan.
But in the very biddle of these
undercover negotiations the Cos
sipy old doctor spilled the beans.
DR.. Townsend loves to talk. A
A newspaper man, knowing his
weakness and having a tip about
the secret third party scheme,
adroitly pumped him.
Townsend announced that his
organization would put a third
party ticket into the race. Glenn
ents hastily-and not very effec-
tively-tried to cover up the faux
pas. But the fat was in the fire.
DROMINENT state and local
- leaders in the movement
sent in hot protests against get
ting mixed up in the presidential
cat-and-dog fight. They asserted
that Townsend and Clements had
no mandate to launch a third
party, insisted that the organiza-
ton stick strictly to its own OBJ
jective, concentrate its efforts on
electing Congressman and Sem
ators who would vote for the 5000
month pension plan.
Under this powerful internal
pressure, Clements dropped his
political ambitions-for the time.
Just what his latest strategy
will be remains to be seen. His
sudden resignation surprised the
capital and discouraged congress
sional Townsendites who know he
was the vital force in organizing
the GARD forces.
Copyright. 1886. BY United Feature
Syndicate, Incl
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Washington Merry-Go-Round


WTASHINGTON, March o.
w Most ludicrous, also pathe-
tic chapter in recent American
political history is to be unfolded
by the congressional investigation
of the Townsend old-age pension
movement.
The pathos of the story is the
trust which thousands of elderly
people throughout the country
placed in the leaders of Town
sendism.
The comedy is the manner in
which these leaders cast their lot
with men completely out of SYM
pathy with the aged, solely for the
purpose of promoting themselves.
Most amazing story is that Of
the secret Townsend deal with
Huey Long. also the Townsendite
strategy of stepping into the
Kingflsh's shoes as leader of
third-party movement against
Roosevelt.
TINE story opened last July in
Il hotel room in Washington.
Present were Huey himself; his
secretary, Earl C. Christenberry.
now secretary to his widow; DR..
Francis E. Townsend, brain
father of the plan, and R. E.
Clements, slave little ex-realtor
who, until his resignation Tues
day, was the real boss of the
Townsend organization.
Huey and Clements did the
talking, which was straight and
to the point.
No agreement was reached at
the meeting, but . friendly basis
OF negotiating was established
and it was agreed to talk further
There were no further talks
Six weeks later, Huey was dead.
THE scene shifts to Chicago.
Il To quiet mounting chorus
of criticism within his organiza-
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Beach, Cal, three Years ago. he
conceived the idea of $200-a-
month pension and took it to
his young boss. The real estate
business not being very good in
1888, young Clements began
studying it, saw possibilities in
it, and launched forth, as CO.
founder with DR.. Townsend.
Although young Clements had
occasionally to correct" some of
the ill-advised political state
ments of DR.. Townsend, they got
along fairly we'll until last No
vember when Time magazine
printed an article picturing
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of the infrequent squabbles or
alterations gets too near the I'M
ruly stage.
At $50 the bath Is repeated,
and at $50 comes supper: Fruits,
porridge, bananas, and perhaps
once week a little liver, which
is the only meat the children
have eaten up to this time.
OF course plenty of milk. goes
~ with all these things. The
girls are putting away pretty
nearly quart of milk apiece
these days, an amazing contrast
to those first meals of two or three
drops of warm water or milk and
water mixture, doled out in a
medicine dropper shortly after
the quiIs were born.
They are getting away with a
couple of cases of oranges a
month now.
Directly after supper they are
put to bed. We do not in any way
urge them to go to sleep. They
usually play some, and there are
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BY ALLAN r. DAFOE,
o. b. E., M. ID,

Copyright. 1898. by NEA Service. Inc.)
DROGRESS of the Dionne
quintuplets is well illus
trated by this simple fact:
They don't need as much
sleep as they formerly did.
Babies spend most of their
time slumbering, but as the
child grows in age and
strength, it needs less sleep.
The sleep period between and
II in the morning is gradually be-
ing merged into longer play
period, and by midsummer the
children will be staying awake
from the hour when they awaken
naturally, about a. M, until l
p. m.
A day with the quintuplets now
runs about like this:
They wake without being called
or aroused about 6 a. m. After
their orange juice and codliver oil
cocktail they frolic in their
play-pens until 7. Then, after
they are weighed and the nurses
have had their own breakfasts,
come the first of the two daily
baths. The children are bathed
two at time in a full-sized tub.
Following the bath comes the
opportunity to exercise natural
functions, which have become very
regularized through training.
Now comes breakfast: Bread
and butter, coddled eggs, milk
(evaporated or pasteurized), bis
cults or crackers.
After breakfast came until re-
Gently the morning nap, now be-
ing converted into a play period.
During the last winter the nap
gradually was "eaten into" by the
popularity of tcbogganing. That
wasn't, perhaps, as breakneck as
1t sounds. With the five little
girls in their snow suits on the
toboggan as the nurses pulled
them about the yard, there was
rare sport to be had, at that.
Sometimes they would spill out
in the snow, and scramble about
and enjoy it, laughing and
screaming with joy.
But about II a. m. in thew come.
to play on the nursery floor with
their toys.
r HOPE I'm not revealing a, Sc
l. cret when I say that the very
favorite playthings of the little
girls in the earlier days we're
clothespins! A great many expen-
slve and highly complicated toys
are received at the nursery, but
the children's preference is almost
always for the simple ones.
About noon comes the midday
meal. Soups, fruits Canned and
fresh, macerated ground or
strained vegetables, particularly
carrots and spinach, are their ia
vorite foods.
At l ,. m. comes their nap,
lasting until 3, and then the chill
dren are given another orange
juice and codliver oil cocktail
and another play period begins,
lasting until 5 or $50.
The children amuse themselves,
contrive their own little games,
and are not interfered with at
play unless there is danger of
hurting themselves or unless one
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Wor... The farmer can not read
English nor is he a client of the
column, so he doesn't give a rip
whether 1 ever get out. Still, he's
neutral. That's The bargain, or
so the interpreter assured me.
The seals are put on the en-
trance to protect me against my
better nature. Unless marooned,
l would almost certainly be
tempted out to engage in public
appearances or good works of one
kind or another.
AS things are arranged I can't,
even though / care to. There be-
ing no light in the cave, I am
taking no books. MAGAZINES or
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ahZnouAk
BY
WESTBRO0K PEGLER

+ ONDON, March 26-Coming up from
Paris to London your correspondent
broke the journey at Boulogne to revisit
Cap Gris-Nez, the village on the French
coast where in the summer of 1926 Trudy
Ederle trained for two months on diet of
grass soup fried esgs and veal and finally stepped
OF into a storm to inflict on the English channel
a beating from which that obstreperous strip of
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WdItT has nOI vet recovered.
Up to the time of Miss Trudy's
conquest only five swimmers, all
men, had crossed the sleeve, as
the French call it, and all of
them had done it in ideal weather
and none in less than Is hours
and somewhat. Bill Burgess, the
English blacksmith, an old wal
rus with scraggly mustache and
gnarled brown tusks, who was
Trudy's trainer and coach, had
taken day and a half from
Dover to Calais, and some of the
failures had remained adrift in
the tides and currents so long
that thew were DOsted as miss
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OARP Split Blamed
on Personal Feud
RY RAYMOND CLAPPER

WASHINGTON, March 26.-Behind the explo-
wv sive events which are shaking the Townsend
old -age pensions movement, much to the relief of
hundreds of political candidates who have been
put on the spot by it, lies intense personal feud
between the cofounders, the phiegmatic, elderly Dr.
Francis f. Townsend and the why young promoter
r. F.. Clements.
Townsend retired physician, was working as
a real estate salesman for young Clements in Long
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HEYE'oODBR0IN

MIAMI, Fla, March 26-This time it is
really and irrevocably good-by for two
weeks. / would not dramatic this exit for
short vacation so much if it were not for
ranged to take it. A remote friend of mine
Is lending me the side of hill. The place
does not matter The nearest neighbor is 81 miles
distant He is Polish farmer. When enter the
cave have arranged with him to seal the mouth
so that can not possibly get out.
At the end Of two weeks he is to come and break
the seals and liberate me, so that go back to
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ing on the Baltic Exchange and were regarded by
the nshermen as waterlogged derelicts and legit-
mate salvage jobs.
Inc channel was tough company until girl OF
~, VINO had been raised in railroad fiat above
meat market on Amsterdam-av in New York
reached down its throat caught it by the tail and
turned it inside out.
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for the children just so far as
their extraordinary circumstances
permit in such a way as will give
them the best chance to make the
most of themselves. But the
guardians have been happy in the
thought that perhaps the individ-
ual interest in the little girls up
here has brought better and more
intelligent care to many other
babies throughout the Americas.
Tho newspapers have been great
help in this respect.
NEXT: Health of quins guarded
with unceasing vigilance. Vacci-
nation against smallpox to be one
measure taken this summer.