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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-05
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No-sKI
BY TIE MAN IN THE TOWER

She cannot ski She cannot skate, For winter sports She has hate. Whats the use Of piles of snow, And getting cold Shed like to know. As for the crowds Who go each week on on snow trains And pleasures seek, DO they really like 1t? Or actually like to ski, Or are they scared Like you and me? Maybe they're just onlookers Kidding along with snow glasses, But when 1t comes to sports Just manage few passes, And most of the day Tn the great open spaces Try to keep warm and Avoid frozen faces. No, she cannot ski She cannot skate, For winter sports She has @ hate.
 --Em Elm.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-05
By FRED DAVIS NEA Service Staff Photographer

lVvONNE is my pet.
 \ My reasons are highly mercenary. Yvonne gives me the best pictures. It was Yvonne I got, so beautifully asleep in her little chair. It was Yvonne I. got with the straw hat on, and the flower in her hand. Yvonne is the one who greets me the most gaily when I go into their sanctum in my white surgeons gown.
 And in the groups, Yvonne is the one who claps, who crows, who opens her eyes widest, shows her tiny teeth best, sticks one ridicu- lous little foot up in the air.
 Emile, however, is the nosey one. Emile wants to know what is in my camera. Never mind the outside. Whats inside?
 What is it that I keep looking into, down the hood? If I left my camera on the ground half a sec- ond, 1t would be Emile who would take 1t apart to see the wheels go round.
 But, now, Annette; there's An- nette, for instance. It is Annette who reaches me first, whether crawling or staggering, and tries to climb up me.
 And Annette, with her large, speculative eyes, has yet to figure out who I am and what I am do- ing in her curious world, so filled with nurses and doctors, and crowds milling around at @ polite distance.
 Who am I, to be admitted, peril odically, into her presence? An, ii. about IS years, Annette, when you see the family album, you will understand.
 Cecile, the favorite of the par ish priest, has Q devoute look Marie, the little one, has given us all the jitters we ever had, and no doubt that is why she is Doctor Dafoe's favorite.
 The more trouble, the better they like them. Doctors are fun- ny that way. And mothers. Mother Likes Photos
 Mamma Dionne, despite any, thing that has been written or said, has exhibited the greatest delight and excitement whenever have given her-as I invariably do-copies of the choicest pictures I shoot.
 She likes groups best. And 1t is uncanny the way she identifies her babies. It is the mother in- stinct.
 From the start, and no matter how they were arranged in the picture, Mrs. Dionne names them, and names them exactly.
 This is more than can do with certainty. Doctor Dafoe, who ad- mits it's hard to tell the quins apart in the nursery, has said he doesn't see how anyone can iden- tify them in 0 photograph.
 The nurses, of course, can tell them perfectly. But why not? They are with them daily, hourly.
 The people who have actually touched the Dionne quins are few and far between, the parents, tho
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-05
AnslUers To
 Test Questions

Below are the answers
 to test questions printed on page 6.
 1. A theory or hypothesis as to the origin of the earth, sun, moon and stars.
 2. Point Pleasant, Clermont County, Ohio.
 3. Italian composer.
 {. It Is an autobiography, describing the authors exper. fence as 8 prisoner.
 E. Invertebrates.
 6. The Platte.
 !. A tenant who rents and cultivates a small holding of land or croft. s. No; 1t is an independent republic.
 9. A verse or sentence which reads the same when read either backwards or forwards. 10. Jerusalem.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-05

Mrs. Kate Reed of Matching Tyre. England. took in a starving dog out of kindness, and has just been fined for having no license for 1t.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-05
Nurses Do the Posing

But since that morning, 20 months ago, when the lid came down with bang, on that suddenly world-famous little home in the backwoods, the nurses, the doctor and I, and the parents on their visits, are the sole contacts.
 In making the pictures, the nurses do most of the posing for mo. Until 8 couple of months ago, it was not 50 great trick to pose the babies. Set them on 3 table and dingle a little bell. That was my act.
 And mark you, ladies and gen. tlemen, that look of wonder and interest in those wide eyes, Is not for you. It is for me.
 Yes'm. I'm the guy. Dingling a little bell with one hand and trying to focus Q big press camera with the other. Standing on my head, lying on the floor, looking through my legs, balancing on one ear. -
 I hate to tell how many thous- and photographic plates I have fired at those babies. It would make all the regular cameramen snort with derision.
 But am only a poor wandering minstrel. With Q little bell. or q bright ribbon. Or Q snap of the fingers.
 I am goggle-eyed from trying to focus on five pairs of eyes at
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-05

volt was given to the unit of electric energy.
 Volta died in 1927. at the age of g. One hun. dred years later Italy issued the stamp sh Q " n h c re. in five values.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-05
Little Hope Remains

In the White House, Roosevelt discusses the court and the Con- stitution with his advisers and many visitors, again and again. He has little hope that much but frag- ments will be left of the New Deal.
 His congressional leaders have told him that any immediate at- tempt to pass legislation curbing the courts would be too great a risk He just waits, while many of his supporters take occasional cracks at the court and strain their ears for the popular reaction.
 Everybody agrees that popular reverence for the court tradition of infallibility will doe hard, if ever.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-05
New Deal Again if F. R. Wins

Out of all the huddling and buzzing and plotting come certain fundamental implications which are now thoroughly appreciated by both sides, but which thus far have been little publicized.
 If Roosevelt is reelected the nation is likely to see @ second New Deal"
 1n other words, as some of the New Dealers already are predict ing, the legislation killed by the cOurt-Or laws of the same type
 may be enacted al lover again in Roosevelt's second term, with the likelihood that nearly all of them would be validated by the court.
 Of course the idea is that Roose- welt might get the opportunity of appointing two new justices of li- beral trend. Because the average age of justices is Il and for other reasons 1t is generally believed F. D. R. will have such a chance to "re-make" the court if he stays in the White House.
 Conservative Justice Van De- vanter's health is none too good and 1t is rumored that he--as well as Conservative Justice McReynolds would have retired ere this if he could have been sure of being re- placed by a conservative.
 
 Whether either would try to stick another four years after in- auguration in January, 1887, is questionable.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-05

Washington Lives From One
 U. s. Supreme Court Deci-
 sion to Another Little
 Hope From That Source
 Left For New Deal Lib-
 erty League Warns Against
 Packing The Court If
 ROOsevelt's Reelected.
 Washington, Feb. 5.--Washington lives from one U. s. Supreme Court decision to the next.
 The court and the Constitution are on every mind and every tongue. Much of the talking is done in whispers.
 Most persons here sense a dull, Iethargic atmosphere which doubtless comes from the general belief that the court will go right on killing legislation until here's next to nothing left of the New Deal
 Anti-New Dealers are tensely alert for every possible political advantage. old men humble to their wives ct night. Government employees go around asking one another, Are you unconstitutional yet?" The whole tempo of the Capital has slowed down.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-05
It Isn't Backing"

~ AOht sSShs'S
 Certain Liberty league orators already have warned the voters that Roosevelt will "pack" the court if he gets back in. Any such choice of words is also ques- tionable.
 Presidents have the constitu- tional prerogative of appointing supreme court justices. If the voters are afraid of the type oi jurists Roosevelt will name if he gets the chance, they can head him off next November.
 The voters might as we'll know that Roosevelt probably will ap- point liberals of the Brandeis- Stone Cardozo type if he can and the Liberty league might as we'll prepare to pipe down in case 1t can't beat him thls year.
 The quaint aspect of 1t all is that the New Deal if the voters endore 1t, may have to start al over again.
 Meanwhile, as Al Smith said Here we are!"
 Copyright 19S6 NEA Service, Inc
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-05

Sold to us at less than cir usual price by the Seam- prufe manufactur- CTS.
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doctor, and the midwives, during those first weird hours of May, 1884, when the stork alighted five times on the Dionne stovepipe. Maybe a few nelghbors also picked them up. I don't know.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-05

NEXT; Who begun cUnstruce tion os Windsor t'astIe3 go
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-05
Fred Davis, Takes All Those Pictures Of Quins
 Tells How He Does It And What He Learned About Babies
 My Quintuplet Scrapbook"

YOU THINK SNAP TO SNAP WITH ONE ACTIVE
 TROUBLES FIVE! THE TRUPS RBITONS OF THE WEGO BELL ON THE HARDEST PICTURE AND TELL ALL ABOUT IT IN THREE
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BEHIND THE SCENES
 IN WASHINGTON
-eY RODNEY DUTcHER-

Democrat Washington Corre-
 spondent)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-05

N'OpyrlEhL iYS6. NEA Nvryic<. inc,l
The Washington times., 1936-09-11
CHARGE DENIED
BY SHIVES

Denial of charges preferred by
Mrs. Ann Ruth Campbell, 20, in
a suit for 100000 for alleged de-
ception and breach of promise to
marry, was issued last night by
William Shives, 29-year-old build
ing contractor. He said:
81 never deceived anybody In
my life. The marriage resulted
from a celebration party on the
day my divorce was handed
down. We were married the
same day."
In her suit filed through At
torneys Cedric johnson and Rob
ert I. Miller, Mrs. Campbell
charged that at the time of her
supposed marriage to the contrac-
tor she discovered they had
skipped a six-month period re-
uuired by law between the time
of divorce and remarriage. She
also charged Shives promised to
remarry her on April /, but failed
to keep his promise.
VOTE AMERICAN
The Washington times., 1936-09-11
SHIP BUILDING
TO AID WEST
AND SOUTH
International News Service

International News Service
Plans calling for rehabilitation
Of Pacific and Gulf Coast ship
yards as a national defense meas
ure have been drafted by Federal
merchant marine experts.
This was disclosed today by Of
ficials of the United States Ship
ping Board Bureau, who said the
proposals are part Of a tentative
ship construction program that is
to be submitted to the new mari
time commission. President Roose-
velt is expected to appoint the
commission within the next few
days.
Political unrest in Europe and
other parts Of the world neceS-
states immediate revival Of ship
building facilities both in the West
and South, officials said.
Seek Legislation
Pacific Coast interests for sew
eral years have attempted to OBJ
tain legislation which would per-
nit Western ShipyardS to add s
per cent for the cost of trans
porting steel and materials from
the East whenever they bid for
naval ship construction.
Although this plea met with
considerable opposition in Con-
greSS, it is anticipated the new
Maritime Commission will look
with favor on the 6 per cent al
lowance. A smaller differential
would be granted Southern ship
yards.
Coast shipyards also will be
necessary when ship construction
activities get underway.
Acting under authority of the
new Merchant Marine Act. ex-
pertS contemplate 400 million
building program designed to add
at least 40 new vessels to the
American merchant fleet each
year.
The program will be carried
out with the aid of Government
subsidies which will enable
American ship operators to con-
struct and operate their vessels
as cheaply as those of foreign
merchant lines.
IS Millions Involved
The Ship-construction would be
spread over a Six-year period and
calls for expenditure of approx
mately IS million dollars a year.
The Government will contribute
about 80 millions Of this amount
in construction and operating
subsidies.
VOTE AMERICAN
The Washington times., 1936-09-11

well wanted to move out. Why
for 5000 years people have
fought for the right to live where
they like and not to be moved
around like cattle"
Climaxing his attack on the Re
settlement Administrator at Rapid
City last night, Knox declared:
1--WE will reduce waste and
political use Of relief money.
The Washington times., 1936-09-11
D, T.. Students Given
66,633 in MA Plan

Allotments totaling $19,606, 767
have been set aside by the Ma
tional Youth Administration for
the 4S States and the District
of Columbia.
The administration announced
s66, ,633 had been set aside to aid
needy students for the first three
months of the coming term in
the District, while Virginia will
receive $289,O33 and Maryland
SAG. .402,
The Washington times., 1936-09-11

RAPID CITY, S. Da., Sept. II
GN.SO.-Leaving behind a pro-
mise that the Republican party
would stop building marble dog
pounds and sidewalks in COW pas
tures," Col. Frank Knox, fiery Re-
publican vice presidential nom
inee, headed farther into the West
today.
Making a swift tour that will
The Washington times., 1936-09-11
G. o. P WILL END U. S. WASTE, COL KNOX SAYS IN WEST

Aberdeen, scored the widespread
belief that South Dakota has
been turned into a desert coun
try by the drought. He said:
1--WE are still going places.
Our folks came out here in
covered wagons and won
against .nore than drought.
Well win too"
The Washington times., 1936-09-11
One-Room School Closed

PEEKSKILL, N. Y.-The fight
of the taxpayers of Annsville, a
suburb of this village, against
consolidation Of its school district
with that Of Van Cortlandtvills
ended today when Frank p.
Graves, State commissioner of
education, dismissed their appeal
from a dissolution order and or
dered the one-room school closed.
The Washington times., 1936-09-11

cover more than a dozen States in
two weeks, Col. Knox has already
made is speeches in two days. Yes
terday his special train paused at
seven towns where he spoke from
the rear platform to enthusiastic
audiences. At Wolsey, he said:
81 am surprised to find this
fine cheerfullOOking crowd. l
thought you were the folks Tug
The Washington times., 1936-09-11

We will stop building marble
dog pounds and sidewalks in
COW pastures.
"a government that squanderS
the peoples money is headed
for bankruptcy, initiation or
reputation"
National Committeeman Har-
vey Jewett, in introducing Colonel
Knox In a sunrise meeting at
The Washington times., 1936-09-11
SocioIogists Meet

Prominent colored educators
will participate in a public meet
ing of the National Sociological
Society Sunday at 4 p. M, at AS
bury M. E. Church, Eleventh and
K Streets Northwest. The Rev.
Robert M. Williams is pastor of
the church.
The Washington times., 1936-03-28
6. P @. WINS
SICK LEAVE

Government Printing Office
workers are entitled to sick leave
under Sections 2 and 3 of the re-
Gently enacted leave act, Comp
troller General McCarl ruled
today. .... =.
Since the appropriation for the
fiscal year 1886 does not speci-
cally provide for granting sick
leave, the Public Printer had asked
for an Interpretation from the
Comptroller General. The ruling
allows for one and a quarter days
sick leave per month of service.
No sick leave has previously
been allowed Government Print
ing Office workers.
McCarl also ruled that sick
leave may be substituted for leave
without pay or annual leave be-
tween January and March IA,
the date upon which the new
leave act was enacted. SubStitu-
tion, however, McCarl added, can
only be made to the extent Of sick
leave which accumulated from
January to the date Of return to
duty at the rate of one and one
quarter days per month.
The Washington times., 1936-03-28
Utah Abandons Hunt
For Todd "SIayer'

OGDEN, Utah, March %
U.N.SO Search for an Ogden
man named by an unidentified
woman as the slayer Of Thelma
Todd was dropped today following
word from Los Angeles police that
the death of the vivacious moving
picture actress had been declared
a suicide.
The woman sent telegram to
Los Angeles police saying Miss
Todd's slayer was living here.
Ogden police went to the suspects
hotel and learned that he had been
in California, but had no connec-
ton whatever with the death Of
the actress.
The Washington times., 1936-03-28
1000 FACE
J0BL0SSI
us. CUT
President Believed to
Be Back Of Plan
to Slash Rolls

With orders, said to have come
from the White House. for a gen.
eral cutting down in the number
Of Government workers employed
here. especially in the emergency
organizations, more than 1000
employees will be dismissed this
spring, it was learned today.
More than 900 employees Of the
old NRA, which was extended to
next April ! to clean up the WORK,
will not be continued on the job
and will not be given new positions
In other branches Of the Govern
ment, it was understood.
The President, 1t was said, was
appalled, by the number of EN-
ployes Of the Reconstruction FL
nance Corporation, with the result
that that organization has been
studied by personnel experts and
it is expected more than 500 en-
ployes will be dropped in the next
few weeks.
Federal Housing Administrator
Stewart Mcdonald has received
orders to cut his clerical force by
so per cent, not later than July /,
it was understood, meaning an
other 1000 employees will be dis
missed. About 500 FILA employees
were dropped only a few months
ago.
Just how far the slash will
affect other Government depart
ments has not yet been learned.
The Washington times., 1936-03-28
Vera Will Disclose
Shooting Details

She hasn't got to that part Of
her story yet, but it was indicated
on good authority that she will
say she killed her Teutonic sweet
heart in q hand-to-hand death
struggle over the gun while he
was on the bed in his apartment
on the twenty-first floor Of FASH
ionable Beekman Towers, clad
only in his white nightShirt.
DR.. Gebhardt, according to this
source, was attempting to drag her
toward him against her will. How
she got hold of the revolver
(found in her handbag when she
was arrested few minutes after
the slaying) will be explained by
her statement that it was in his
dresser drawer. Thus the defense
will try to show Miss Stretz slew
her lover in self defense.
Miss Stretz, teStifying In her
own behalf in her fight to escape
the electric chair, was no woman
Of ice," as she has been called.
Indeed, she was q weepy defend
ant. She sobbed not once-but q
dozen times.
She did not give the impression
however, that she was using any
of the feminine articles calcu'
lated to impress a male jury. She
seems quite sincere. Sometimes
CONTINUED ON Page 2, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1936-03-28
ASKS $5OO,0OO
OF BARONESS

NEW YORK, March % G.N.S).
Suit for $500, 900, charging aliena-
ton of affections, has been
brought against the five-timeS
married former Baroness Won
Hagen b. katherine E. Harrison,
it was disclosed today.
Recently the former baroness,
1t is alleged, confided to intimateS
she was about to take a six hus-
band, Edward Harrison, of Manila,
oil and pineapple magnate. If the
marriage ever took place, no public
announcement was made of it.
Born Jean Tobin, daughter of a
Haverstraw IN. " brick manu-
facturer, the former baroness
latest marriage of record was to
Edward N. Goldey, wealthy lawyer
and a partner in Jack DempseyS
restaurant, in April, 1885. Goldey
obtained a Reno divorce In De-
cember. .'
The alienation action was filed
in United States District Court be-
cause of the diversity Of citizenship
of the principals. ...-
Baroness Won Hagen, the former
wife of Peter A. Drury, jr., member
of the washington brewing family,
was a visitor in the Capital about
two weeks ago, staying several days
at the Mayflower Hotel before re-
turning to her home in New York,
it was learned.
The baroness and Drury eloped
to Rockville in 1928, and she al
legged in the tangled legal action
that followed that he deserted her
five days after the wedding. He
secured an annulment Of the mar
riage in Reno.
The Washington times., 1936-03-28
DEATH LAID
TO QUIZ ON
LOTTERY
Gather Killed to Avoid
Exposure of Aides,
Police Theory

BALTIMORE, March 2S G.N.s0.
Said by police to be the victim of
a gang ride" the body Of Charley
Gather, Baltimore lottery king
under indictment for conspiracy,
was found in suburban Perry Hall
today.
Detectives who examined the
body said Gather had been mur.
dered, apparently by persons who
feare d possible implication by
Gather in the policy rackets
against which authorities have
been conducting d crusade.
Gathers body was found on
the front lawn Of the summer
home Of Maurice Burman. Sev-
eral hundred yards away Cath
er's bloodstained automobile was
discovered. Identification was
made by papers found in the
dead mans clothing. Gather
was at liberty under $4,000
bond.
The Washington times., 1936-03-28
TRADE G|RDS
FOR TAX
FIGHT
Battle Opens Monday
at Hearing Before
House Group
International News serrlcs

The stage was set today for the
opening Of a battle over the
Roosevelt tax program which may
Shatter the famous breathing
spell" and precipitate new war
between business and the Admin
istration, as the House Ways
and Means Committee prepared
to hear first witnesses on the
$799, ,00O, 900 tax bill Monday.
Having already abandoned pre-
vious rsans to adjourn Congress
BY May n sdminigtfatioii leaders
hoped to push the tax measure
through in time to permit Con-
gress to go home from June /
to June IS.
Denounced by CrOwther
Indicating opposition to the Ad-
ministration'S revolutionary plan
of basing corporation income
taxes on undistributed SurpluseS.
Representative Crowther (R.) Of
New York, member Of the COM
mittee, declared that the tax bill
may kill the business rise. He
said:
Zone thing that helped tide
MS over the depression was the
more than O,OOO million dollars
Of corporation reserves. This
plan would take 900 million
dollars from their capital struc.
ture under the pressure Of
forced distribution.
'"The plan Is part and par
Gel of the share the wealth
scheme, with the large corpora
tiOnS, which supply labor with
jobs and pay envelopes, being
held up as horrible examples
Of 'entrenched greed"
Chairman Doughton CD Of
North, Carolina, Of the commit
tee, defended the Presidents tax
program, declaring:
There is huge and unfair
advantage in the present sys-
tenn to relatively small num-
ber Of persons. They are those
whose incomes are in the high
brackets or would be If they re-
Ceived all their corporation
earnings regularly.
"Under the present system,
only a small proportion of their
corporation earnings are paid
to them in dividends, because
It is to their interest not to
receive them and they are able
to control dividend policies Of
the corporations in which they
have their money. Thus they
escape high SurtaxeS."
Treasury officials were slated to
be the first witnesses at the
committee hearing.
The Washington times., 1936-03-28
POISON FELLS
10 IN HOME

PONTIAC, Mich, March %
QN.S0.-Ten persons, six of them
children, were found helpless and
gasping for breath in a suburban
home today, critically Ill appar-
emily from food poisoning.
They IRE Alvin Ortwine, "a,
worker on a WPA sewer project;
his wife, .Alfrieda, %, an expectant
mother; their six children, Mar
garet, 10; Alvin, jr., 8; Murdo, Z;
Clayton, 6: Mabel, 5, and Clyde,
4; Merton Annis, SO, father Of
Mrs. Ortwine, and Ernest Emer-
son, 26, a friend Of the family.
The adults were found in bed,
unconscious and frothing at the
mouth, according to DR.. Howard
H. Mcneil, who visited the house
in response to a call. The children,
he said, were all on the floor in
various rooms, gaSping for breath.