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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-08
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HAUPTMANN JUROR KILLED

High Bridge, N. J., May 8-(UP)-PhiIip Hockenbury, 62, one of the jurors who con demned Bruno Richard Hauptmann to death for the murder of the first son of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, was killed here today when he was struck by freight train Hockenbury, a rail- road track walker, apparently stepped from be- hind one train into the path of another. He was the second member of the jury to die. Liscom Case, who also voted for Hauptmanns convic- tion, died of heart attack last February
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hostilities, the troops and equipment used, and the tactical execution of
 the plan have offered material fol careful study. z
 While our own military organiza- ton is entirely one for defense oi this country, a study of the Italian campaign has emphasized the wis., dom of our present plans. Many de- tails of supply, of medication and sanitation, of fast and effective road building will be of value. But the United States is already em- phasizing those things which were found valuable in Ethiopia.
 Staff Planning Wisdom
 The wisdom of staff planning with It's attendant school system; of highly trained officers in key posi- tions of command, supply and tralls- portation; of insistency on a high state of professional training for those troops which would enter combat zone; of armament and equipment which will be superior to or ct least equal to that of an en- emy: and of the highest possible state of mobility through develop ment of air service, of mecl1aniza- ton and of motorization; of re- organization of our tactical units to give them the Tnaximuutn of speed, control, and flcxibility: all these arc and have been kecnly desired
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CALLED FOR HIS LEO

Chicago. May e--(uP)-dust Lar- son. 6S. injured in an automobile ac- cldent. awoke in the hospital and yelled for hla leg. A nurse brought lt-a highly finished one of walnut, Larson sighed happily when he opened q secret recess Go the leg and cxaTactad . bottle of whisky.
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|EXILED EMPEROR
 IN PALESTINE.
Brought ll7 Chests Full of Gold Will Be Guest
 of British Govt.
BY JACOB SIMON


 Haifa, Palestine, May 8-(U.P)-- Emperor Halle Selassie of Ethiopia an exile, arrived today in ancient Palestine. guest of the British gov- ernment, and was greeted by a guard of honor of British marines and soldiers.
 Brought Much Gold
 He brought treasure Of incalcula- ble worth, sand great python as a pet. I personally counted IF chests of gold and silver which were unr loaded under heavy guard. An ofii- cer of the cruiser Enterprise on which he arrived said the emperor spent two days aboard the ship with his treasurer, counting his gold and silver. The crack Enterprise which brought the royal party from DJi- bout, French Somaliland, steamed
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MRS. ENCERT IN
 HER HOME AGAIN
Wife of American kmbas. sadOr at Addis Ababa
 Helped Fight Bandits
BY ELEANOR PACKARD

Copyright l030 By United Press)
 AddiS Ababa, May 8--(U.P)--Mrs. Sarah Cunningham Engert took her knitting needles with her when she fled the besieged American legation during the bandit riots, she said to- day--but she forgot the silver spoons she inherited from her grandmother. A San Franciscan, Mrs. Engert is the wife of Cornelius Van H. En- gert, the American minister. Now she is back at home, after taking refuge at the fortified British lega- ton.
 Cut Holes to Shoot
 "When the bandits attacked" she told me, i've cut holes in the lcga- ton walls through which to shoot.
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THEY STOLE FIFTEEN LANTERNS

New Haven, Conn.,, May 8.-(UPl-TWO Yale drama school students George K. Cole, Jr., Chicago, and Genevieve Bonner, Lewiston, Idaho-were fined $1864 each in police court to- day after admitting they stole 15 lanterns from a street excavation Ito play trick on another student" Police broke into Howe street apart ment at a. m., to find Cole and Miss Bonner sit ting on the floor, surrounded by the eLanterns.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-08
GOV. cURLEY CARRIES REVOLVER

Boston, May 8-(UP)-Governor James M. Curley isn't taking any chances. Since he re- ceived a. "bomb" Tuesday, Curey has kept re- vover in the center draw of his desk at the State House he revealed today. The governor said he does not carry a revolver himself, but "there is always one in the car"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-08
Military Heads EOf United States
 tWatche q ItdIy
Campaign That Armies of MussoIini Just Concluded Was Observed Very ClOsey-They Came to
 Some Very Pertinent Conclusions
BY SENATOR MORRIS SHEPPARD (ChairIhan Senate Committee on Military Affairs (Copyrlght 1030, by the United Pressl

Washington, May - (UP) - The campaign which the Italian army has just concluded in Ethiopia has been followed with intense interest by members of the commit tee on military affairs of the senate The war plan the in the theater of preparatory to actual
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-08
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, May S---(UP)--Gov- ernment expenses and receipts for the current fiscal year to May c. as compared with n year ago: This Year Expenses Last Year S6,i23, 3,671, ,351.bs $C,066,s7O,72l.Oi ss.4ss,s1s.Ss2.es ss.lu. .Os4.s5i.7o ss. 700 SUI .sG9.55 s2.ss5. .ss5.ss9.si
 Cash Balance
 S2.A5G, i.S30.523,022.75
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Evening star., 1936-03-28

countryside. When citrus workers in
the Avon Park district wanted to hold
labor meetings in several towns, the
officials told them: You must first
get permission from Fred Bass" That
is only one of similar demonstrations
Of the power delegated to him.
When Hillsborough County officials
we're investigating the possible parti-
cipation of Orlando Klansmen in the
Shoemaker murder, they say Bass
frankly told them that he had called
a meeting of Klansman, selected 70
or IA and had taken them to Tampa
as armed polling place watchers-Sl0
and expenses for the day-at the
Democratic primaries That is good
fraternalism, as any other lodge pres
ident would give brother members the
first chance at such soft jobs. One
brought machine gun and all were
so menacing that the Hillsborough
County sheriff advised Bass that any
Of his followers who crossed the county
line again would be locked up. A
picked crew from these watchers is
now awaiting trial on the charge of
coming to Tampa at higher wage
scale for the flogging job which re-
suited in Shoemaker's death.
Evening star., 1936-03-28
BY JUNIUS B. WOOD.

TAMPA, Fla, March % (NAN.A.).
The outwardly quiet city Of Orlando,
nesting amid lakes. proudly takes
THE City Beautiful as its Florida
slogan and produces Fred M. Bass as
one Of its leading citizens.
The inside story of the Ku Klux
Klan in Orlando, and 1t is not neces-
sary to go back very far, tells what
often happens in Klan lodges-when
a reputable lawyer was its guiding
officer, judges, county and city Off
cials and leading business men were
among its members. The lawyer COM
mitted suicide-again that grim hand
Of death-a different crowd jumped
into the saddle and Bass was elected.
Recently he was retired, and Sidney
Swope was put into the office.
All this would be merely the routine
affairs of lodge in which the public
is not interested, If 1t were not that so
many persons believe the changes re-
lated to deeds of violence which have
shocked Central Florida.
Young Mr. Swope is also president
Of the Junior Chamber of Commerce,
a son Of o. p. Swope, regional director
OF the w. P. A, and is from one of the
first families of both Florida and New
York. Despite this effort at better
ment. reports in Orlando are that,
since the Shoemaker murder, for
which three Orlando Klansmen are
indicted. Dr. Hiram w. Evans, Ku
Klux Klan grand wizard in Atlanta,
Ga. has suspended the Orlando char
ter and has taken its records and
membership lists to a safe place.
Even if this has not already been
Evening star., 1936-03-28

Japan Buys More Cotton.
Japan is sharply increasing its raw
cotton purchasing in China.
Evening star., 1936-03-28

done, responsible Klan members who
resent any aspersions on the order
declare it will come and that the lodge
will be purged of members whose deeds
Of violence have aroused popular re-
sentiment against the Ku Klux Klan.
However, unlawful activities are
still carried on in its name. For sew
eral weeks, Federal investigators have
been scanning the work of the w. p.
A. in this district, as in other parts
of the country. They talked to many
persons, with the result that at least
four of them received anonymous
threatening letters through the mails.
The letters arrived in plain, sealed
envelopes, the addresses typewriter
and each consisted of a single sheet
of paper headed Orlando" and with
the recipients name.
A typical one, with its misspelling
and crude English, was:
I'VE don't want no publicity about
the head of the Klan.
He don't no we are writing you
but he is scaird and we amt going
to put up with 1t again.
This amt no threat just damn
good advise"
I saw. terrified young business
man who trembled and turned pale
when the letter which he had received
was mentioned. He pulled out the
top drawer of his desk and kept 1t
open while any stranger was in his
Office. No better proof is needed Of
the haunting fear which hangs over
the city beautiful" for any who
dare to mention the Ku Klux Klan or
to talk to a Federal investigator.
A committee of union labor men
take the credit for inducing the
w. P. A. to drop Bass of its pay roll
under the all-embracing title Of 'in-
vestigator" at $40 a week. Their
experience was interesting. At first,
they say, they were told that Mr..
Bass was not an employe, but when
they stubbornly insisted on seeing the
pay roll his name was found.
What work is Fred Bass doing
here?" they asked a director.
He isn't doing anything"
Fine, how about putting us three
on to do nothing?" Frank Houghton
asked.
Nov. II you'll only keep quiet, we'll
straighten it out"
I'VE don't want it Strengthened out,
but want his name taken of the pay
roll now" 1t was done. Such a de-
mand requires courage in Orange
County where the methods of silencing
disturbers in the name of the Klan
have been amply demonstrated.
More than mere talk recognizes Bass
as the unofficial ruler of city and
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break up the clods and by Spring the
soil is in much better condition for
gardening than if left undisturbed.
Rose Pruning.
MANY gardeners are now giving
N their monthly roses a final
pruning because the expanding buds
now tell the story as to what wood
is alive. 1t would seem that local
rose plants are due for rather severe
pruning again this year due to Win
ters ravages. This hard cutting
means fewer roses in the first harvest,
but the blooms will be finer. In look
ing over the bushes. it is apparent
that young shoots which grew late
last Autumn are rather apt to be
dead, whereas wood which grew in
Midsummer and had time to mature
appears to have withstood Winters
ravage to better advantage. Some of
the half-hardy climbers, such as
Nine. Staechelin and Jacotte, have
passed through the past Winter bet
ter than a year ago. when even such
sturdy varieties as DR.. w. Van Fleet
suffered severe injury. Rose growers
will welcome a return Of the mild
Winters of few years ago, when all
roses came through almost un-
scathed.
Some Of our cultivated roses are
developed from cuttings and are
known as own-rooted roses. Others
are grated or budded on wild stocks,
and these are known as budded or
grated roses. 1t is conceivable that
grated plant might be so badly
Winter injured as to kill out the en-
tire top and the buds pushing up
from the rootstock would be nothing
but wild roses. This does actually
happen at times and is one argument
Evening star., 1936-03-28
BY J. w. WELLINGTON.

TOO few home gardeners give their
gardens adequate preparation.
With many, gardening is too much of
a seasonal proposition in which inter-
est reaches a height in late April or
early May and subsidies to very low
level by early Autumn. Such f1uc-
tuation in interest cannot promote
maximum success. One may bring
to mind, as matter of contrast, one
very active local home gardener who
in Autumn sows Winter rye and other
green crops on his idle land simply
to provide fertility for the future. This
same gardener has his soil spaded
deeply in Spring after the rye has
made some growth and also maintains
compost pile for rotting old plant
debris into useful plant food. The
maintenance of fertility is in his
mind the full year around.
If the soil is spaded or piowed
deeply at this season and then worked
down into condition it will remain q
good seed bed for many months ex-
cept for slight surface hardening.
With clay soil, 1t is poor business to
spade when it is wet and sticky but
it is much better to wait a few days
after rain. If worked at the right
stage, clay will crumble into fairly
good garden soil. A light, sandy soil,
on the other hand, may be spaded
almost any time except during actual
rain. Some home gardeners have
learned that sifted anthracite coal
ashes will help make clay more work.
able. Three or four inches spread
over the soil and spaded in will do
no harm and, indeed, work much
benefit. 1t is true that coal ashes
add little or no fertility but the par
ticles do work into the clay and keep
1t from pudding. Rotted manure. peat
moss and lime are other useful agents
in improving the texture of clays. If
one could secure enough rotted manure
to cover the soil to a depth of three
or four inches, he would soon have an
ideal garden. The practical way out
OF difficult clay is perhaps the ashes
plus green cover crops, such as Winter
rye, crimson clover and cowpeas.
When one is making a garden for
the first time, the ideal treatment is
to spade or plow in late Autumn,
leaving the soil in a rough condition
throughout the Winter. Such treat
ment exposes the soil to erosion and
is applicable to only fairly level areas.
Alternate frost and thawing help
Evening star., 1936-03-28
CUT IN DEFAULTS
IS SEEN BYF. H. A.
Mcdonald Says Reports
Show Insured Single Mort
gage Is Safeguard.

A number of reports, based on
statements of responsible real estate
men, have been published recently
In regard to deliberate default by
persons who bought homes last year
and are now attempting to evade
their obligations. 1t is stated that
In many cases these persons who
made small down payments on their
homes are starting again this year
to purchase newer and more at
tractive houses that seem to offer
better value. In commenting on this
situation Stewart Mcdonald, Federal
housing administrator, said:
There is no way of judging the
exact extent of such occurrences.
However. the fact that any have
taken place shows that the millen-
mum has not arrived and that there
is as much need as ever for the safe
mortgage insurance system, estab-
lished under the national housing act
I'VE have no record of such willful
: default in connection with any of
the tens of thousands of mortgage
loans insured by the Federal Housing
Administration last year This we
attribute largely to the fact that
man of such a type as to jump his
obligations has but little chance of
meeting the requirements for a bor-
rover under the Federal Housing Ad-
ministration's plan. Further, the
single mortgage system, together with
the thorough and impartial appraisal
involved, prevents the adding of
fictitious values to the selling price
OF houses in order to cover up ex-
orbitant secondary financing charges.
The single mortgage system helps
the buyer to avoid paying more than
the house is worth, and also helps
to give him assurance against major
defects in design, construction and
neighborhood factors such as may lead
borrower to lose faith in the value
OF his house.
"A growing number of operative
builders and home-tl financing nlStitu-
tions are employing the insured mort
gage procedure. AS this practice be-
comes more universal the proportion
of home mortgage defaults should be
greatly diminished and, correspond
ingly. home ownership will become
more popular, with the increasing pro-
portion of thoroughly satisfied home
builders and home purchasers
Evening star., 1936-03-28

that oWn-rooted rose fans use in pro-
roses. And bud pushing up from an
own-rooted rose is certain to be true.
However. records taken at Arlington
Farm, Va, show that grated roses
are decidedly more productive of
flowers, and this offsets the hazard
of losses from Winter killing.
The Apple as an Ornamental.
FOR the larger suburban place, a
single apple tree, placed judicious-
ly in the background, perhaps near
the garage, may easily prove the most
attractive feature of the ornamental
paintings. No less a landscape au-
thority than Frank A. Waugh has fire.
Quently called attention to the value
Of apple trees as landscape material.
Not the symmetrically pruned tree
that one finds in commercial orchards,
but rather one that is allowed to grow
more or less at will, except for thin
ming out of excess small branches. In
Spring, when the apple bursts into
bloom, there is no plant that surpasses
it in beauty, and in Autumn, when the
fruit is ripening, there comes another
period of attractiveness. Unfortunate
ly, the apple tree must be sprayed If
it is to be kept vigorous and productive,
but, on the large suburban place where
spraying Is a regular activity. this is
not a difficult task.
For the small home place, one may
we'll substitute a crabapple for the
standard varieties of apple. Bechtel's
Towering crab, for example, is a small
tree. producing each Spring a dense
crop of double roselike blooms of su-
perb beauty. This variety bears no
fruit, and, therefore. requires little
spraying beyond the dormant lime
sulphur treatment.
1t is not always easy to think of
utilitarian plant. such as an apple
tree, as having landscape value. Yet
1t is scarcely century since the very
practical tomato was grown only as an
ornamental.
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SERVICES UNITED
Immaculate Conception
Program Tomorrow.

The solemn Lourdes procession and
the blessing of the sick will be held
in conjunction with the radio broad
cast service over Station VOL from
the Church of the Immaculate Con-
ception tomorrow at 5 pm. Rev.
Joseph E. Gedra will preside. and Rev.
Paul Bussard will be the celebrant of
benediction.
Prof. Harry Wheaton Howard will
direct the music, with Bernard F'itz-
gerald rendering The Lourdes Hymn"
and the solo of the hour Dr.. John
K. Cartwright. pastor of the church,
will give the sermon on Kindness"
Sunday masses are at 2, 7, S:15, 9 and
10:15 am. and high mass at II
o'clock, sung by Rev. Joseph E. Gedra
Music under the direction of Prof.
Howard. with the choir of the I'm
maculate Conception Academy assist
ing. The sermon will be given by
Rev. Paul Bussard on Christian Ideal
Of Married Life"
Evening star., 1936-03-28

incided with the trial of three men in
Tampa in connection with a fatal
nogging there last November. The
Tampa trials opening ', as marked oy
distribution in the co.. room of cir
culars signed Communist Party" and
charging responsibility for the fog
gings to the Ku Klux Klan and as.
serting the Klan was ION trial"
Hiram Evans, Klan head, who lives
in Atlanta, Ga, promptly denied his
organization had anything to do with
the Tampa case, asserting that it sup
ports strict enforcement OF law.
Several hundred members of the
knights and their women's auxiliary
marched through downtown streets
here last night in full regalia.
Evening star., 1936-03-28

for stores and mercantile buildings to
cost nearly s1,800,000; in Houston,
Tex, for school buildings to cost over
$2,700000; in Portland, Oreg., for
stores and mercantile buildings to cost
over s650,000 and in Salem. Oreg., for
a school building to cost over $500, 900.
Contracts we're awarded by the hous-
Ing division of the Public Works
Administration for project in Miami,
Fla. to cost over 100000. Contracts
were awarded by the procurement di-
vision of the United States Treasury
Department for a post office building
IN Santa Barbara, Calf, to cost over
100000.
Evening star., 1936-03-28
KLAN HEAD GAINED
GRIP ON ORLANDO
Had to Be Consulted Before
Public Meetings
Were Held.

The po,Oer ,0ielded by one man
is described here in the sepenth OF
a series OF dispatches disclosing re-
suits OF an investigation into reign
OF terror in Central Florida. The
first OF the trials connected Dith
the Shoemaker foggtng case, tDllich
shocked the Nation last Nopember.
is nop under way in Tampa.
Evening star., 1936-03-28
CHRIST is TOPIC
Rev. c. B. Austin to
Preach Tomorrow.

Rev. c. B. Austin, pastor of the
West Washington Baptist Church, will
preach tomorrow at II am. on Christ
at the Door of the Heart" and at
pm. on "A Small But Powerful
Word"
The church will conduct visitation
campaign March 90 to April 4. OBJ
ject: ITO get every member of the
church to attend the Palm Sunday
communion service"
Special music Sunday by the choir
under the direction of Gladys I. San
ders; Jennie A. Bogley, organist.
Evening star., 1936-03-28
MAN HAS PARADE
AS MEETING ENDS
Organization Head Denies Mem
bers Took Part in Tampa
Flogging.

By the Associated Press.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, March 2s.-
The knights of the Ku Klux Klan
ended their Statewide meeting here
today after a parade in uniform
through the business district of the
city last night.
The convention and parade here CO.
Milford chronicle., 1936-10-23
TRINITY


Mr. and Mrs. Leon Wheatley an,
son Billy spent Sunday at Baltimore
Mr.. and Mrs. w. r. Frazier and Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Frazier. Jr.. spent
Sunday at Cape Charles and Chinco.
league. Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Luther Rust and fam
lly spent Sunday with his brother
! Charles Rust near Redden.
Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Glow and
daughters, Fern and Beverly, were
supper guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Lee
Carey on Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Cannon of Can
non, spent Sunday evening with Mr..
and Mrs. w. e. Frazier.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Wheatley and
son Joseph visited at the home of
Ward Barwick near Greenwood on
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Walston and
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Walston spent
Sunday afternoon with Mr.. and Mrs.
Clarence Parker.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Bunting of
DagsbOrO, Mrs. Mary Fleetwood of
Federalsburk, Md. and Mrs. Dan
Galloway and children, Warren and
Sinah, spent Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. l. l.. Willin.
Clinton Hastings spent Sunday
with friends at ChincOteague and
Wachaprague, Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Elwell of PhiIa-
delphia spent the weekend with Mr..
and Mrs. A. T. White.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joshua West and
daughter called on Mr.. and Mrs. Ken
meth West and Mr.. and Mrs. 1. L.
Willin on Sunday.
Miss Louise Nelson of Philadel-
phia spent the weekend with her
parents here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Warrington |
Of fredericksburg spent Saturday af- |
ternoon with their parents here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Enos Nichols and |
family spent Sunday afternoon with |
Mr.. and Mrs. John Williams near
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Morris called on
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Martin, Sr.. on
Sunday.
Granville Galloway of Wacha-
prague, Va. spent Thursday with his
lunt and uncle. Mr.. and Mrs. W. F.
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