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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-15
GAVE
 AMAZING SPEECH
Whole World Listened in Last Night as He Called
 For Peace
By FREDERICK A. STORM Limited Press White House
 f,oPreRnOndentl

Chautauqua, N, Y. Aug. lS-(UPl Through the foreign offices and the chancellories of the world there rang today President Roose- vclt's forceful preaching against war and his pledge to isolate this country from all war dangers. Tn a major pronouncement of Ameri- can policy, the president told Q crowd of se'', 'al thousand last night that he had been bitt.rly disillu" stoned in the hope tha the whole world could be led into the ways oi peace.
 He betrayed his grave concern with world conditions. "A goodly portion" of his every 24 hours, he said, was devoted to a study of for eign. relations. He did not refer specifically to any country or to any situation, but his listeners did not doubt that some of his fears were based upon the Spsnish civil war, the talo-Ethiopiar war, and the Japanese conquest of Man" churia.
 we believe in democracy" he cried out at the end, repeating what he had said before. We believe in freedom; and we believe in peace. And so we offer to every nation of the world the handclasp of the good neighbc.. Let those who wish our friendship look us ir the eye and take our hand"
 Some observers saw significance in four words appended to MT. pledge that this country was ready to defend itseli. These
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-15
LOWELL DEFICIT
 VERY PECULIAR

Lowell, Mass, Aug. l5-(UP)-A report showing a technical deficit of $69, ,22l in accounts of the city Of Lowell has been filed by the state director of accounts, 1t was learned today.
 Mayor Dewey c. Archambault said he had no alternative but to present the case to the district at- torney's office for investigation and prosecution.
 If City Solicitor William White is satisfied that the deficit is as re- ported, he will take legal steps to collect from the company that bonded former City Treasurer Charles R. Flood. under whose ad- mlnlstration the deficit occurred, 1t was said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-15
ALICE RANSOM
 WILL WASF|LED
Longest Document of Kind Ever Presented to Local
 Probate Court

The will of the late Alice Ruth Ransom, wealthy New York and Florida resident and widow of the founder of the Florida -Ardiondacl school for boys, was filed today with Judge Dennis J. slaVin in probate court here. The will, one of the longest ever filed here, covers 24 closely printed pages and lists dog ems of bequeStS and special proviS- ions. Mrs. Ransom owned consider. able property in Waterbury and held . number of mortgages in the state, and the will was filed hero for taxing purposes. Mrs. Ransom died July i7. io3S, at Franklin, N Y. The estate IS represented in thii city by Attorney Henry 0. Campbell Under the terms of the will, numer. ous specific bequests to Felativei and friends are listed. The residue of the estate goes to SeveraI nephewg and c niece.
 Danfogth Gesr ExeeutOP
 Danforth dcer, Jr. of Short Hills N. J., is executor of the estate, and has posted c bond of Si,0o0 with the probate court. Mrs. Ransom held equity in eight pieces of real estate in Waterbury, according to legal papers filed with the will Her local holdings include three pieces Of property on Tudor street and property on Citizens avenue Park road, Hill street, and Chestnut avenue. The size of her estate and the value of the local holdings will
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-15
CANAL STREET
 FIRE IS PRODED
PaperAC Company Plant Was .Gutted..Many Fire Com.
 panies Fought Blaze

Fire Marshal Dennis J. Lahey today began his investigation of the Ire which last night swept through the Dumouchei Paper Company building at 0i.e7 Canal street, do- ing damage of thousands of da!larS, Marshal Lahey said no official eSti- mate of the damage had yet been made. The two-alarm fire began shortly before midnight and gutted the entire interior Of the structure destroying paper stock of all dcS' criptions.
 Marshal Lahey said the origin oi the fire was aS yet undetermined. The building, one of the oldest of It's type in the city, has been utilized by several different concerns over c period of many years and hun- dreds of Waterburians have been employed there. The fire marshal has not yet determined whether or
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-15
LEMKE WILL GET
 ENDORSEMENT
Rev. Charles E. COughlin Smiles at Attempts to
 Block It
BY LYLE c. WILSON

DA 6 Ahs Ss WA6SVN
 United Press Stan Correspondent)
 Public Hall, Cleveland, Aug. l6-- (UP)-ReV Charles D. Coughlin's National Union for Social Justice moved today toward steam.roller endorsement of Representative Wil- liam Lemkes protest presidential candidacy and formal entrance Into the 1886 campaign. The priest laughed ct minority N. U. J. ob. jections against playing preSi- dental politics. He expected to be named president of the or- ganization before business was over tonight and promised that anti- Lenke organizers would be over- whelmed 30 to 1 on the test vote whether the National Union should endorse his personal presidential choice. Father Coughlin definitely withdrew his National Union from participation in any state, county or municipal elections. It will endorse Lemke for president and approxi- mately 300 candidates of various pc litical faiths for congress. The priest expects to elect at least i85 of his congressman and believes Leake has Q chance.
 Constitution Today
 The Constitution of the N.U.S.J. that will be adopted today B to be SO drawn, he said, that the organ- ization will have to report its res ceipts and expenditures under the federal corrupt practices act which seeks to keep the public informed of the political take and the manner of its spending. "You are going to hear charges that Mir. Lemke ts Q
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-15

Dr. Triton E. Tillman and pr. Sam. uel Boyd on charges of conspiracy to commit mayhem. The trial was recessed until Monday.
 1sador Golden, chief defense coun- Sel, accused pr. Pedar Brugiere, first husband of Mrs. Maryon Cooper Hewitt McCarter, TnuchsTnarried SO. cialite and mother of Ann; Mrs. jo. sephine Brugiere, his present wife; and Miss Flo ElaVich, Mrs. Bru- giere's sister, aS the key figures in the plot.
 Calls It Conspiracy
 The attorney asserted these three, through Russell P. Tyler, Anns ct. torney, were engaged in conspiracy to extort money from Mrs. McCar- ter.
 Mrs. McCarter iS Q defendant In her daughters charges that the sterilization was performed to pre- vent motherhood and deprive her of inheritance rights to the estate of her inventor father, Peter Hewitt valued ct between SS,000,000 and 96,. 100000.
 Mrs. McCarter Is in Now Jersey, awiiting hearing on charges of ct. teEapted suicide and being Q fugi- tive from California justice.
 we expect to show that Mrs. Me-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-15
By EMILE J. FERRON fMemher. Canadian ParliamenO

Louisville, que, Aug. l5-(UP)- I was returning to Louiseville from Ste. Justine and had stopped at the crossing to let the freight go by.
 The truck, loaded to capacity With happy men and boys, swept oy at about 70 miles an hour, directly into the path of the train.
 The engine struck it in the middle. It turned over several times and burst into flames.
 The occupants, their clothes cov- cred with flaming gasoline, were hurled all about my car
 Just before the crash, there was hideous cry. Apparently many on the truck saw the train and realized that death was racing down upon them.
 Then the crash. 1t was over before I realized what had happened. The (Continued on Page i3J
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-15
Opposition to Lemke Faded Away After Father
 COughlin Spoke JOHN J. O'CONNOR
 NOT LIKED THERE Priest Hopes to Throw Election of President Into
 House to Settle
BY LYLE c. WILSON United Press Staff C0rrespondeMt)

United Press Staff CorrespondeMt)
 Public Hall, Cleveland, August 15.-(UP)-Inspired by song and the appearance of their leader on the plat form, the thousands gath cred here to plunge Father Charles E. Coughlin's Ma tional Union for Social Jus tice into the presidential campaign today demonstrat- ed in a screaming, pushing challenge to their enemies. The demonstration centered around 6 black coffin, symbolic of political punishment to come, which was rushed to the platform as men and women delegates pushed and damned their way around the hall. yelling enthusiastically.
 Just before the display of enthu.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-15
REBEL FORCES ARE BOMBARDING

Hendaye, French-Spanish Border, Aug. l5. -(UP)-Rebel forces began terrific artillery machine bombardment today in determined drive against Irun on the north coast The rebels drew in on Irun slowly from the hills in one of the major drives of the present phase of the bat tie of San Sebastian. The attack was begun early in the morning and was intensified through the day as the insurgents sought desperately to reach the sea and cut off San Sebastian on the east.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-15

Copenhagen, Aug. 1S.--(UP)-Col and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh left by airplane 10: England at 9:32 Q m. today (6:32 Q. m. EDTJ. Il was reported that Lindbergh took with him Q Danish non-drippin9 coffee pot, over which he was cn. thusiastic. Lindbergh conferred yes- terdav with aviation. experts regard ing the possibilities of establishing a round the world air route vie Greenland,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-15
EYE WITNESS OF
 CANADIAN CRASH
Emile J. FerrOn, Member of Parliament There;
 Bodies in All Directions

Telegraph Editors Note: Emile Ferron, member Of the Canadian parliament from Louisville was a witness of the grade crossing tragedy near that Quebec town early today. He tells his story m the following dispatch.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-15
Wild Cheering CrouUd HurL Their Challenge Al Political Enemies
TlUenty-TlUo Persons Killed Near Montreal
Truck Filled With Men, Boys Crashed By Speeding Train - Bodies Mangled, Burned,
 Dragged For Quarter of Mile

Louisville Que, August 15. -(UP)-At least 22 men and boys were killed and Is injured critically today when
 fast freight train struck truck carrying 40 persons at grade crossing half mile east of here The truck caught fire while the heavy train swept threequarters of mile down the track and some of the victims were burned to missing and may have died in the fire.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-15
USE DYNAMITE TO
 BLAST AT REBELS
BY LESTER ZIFFREN (COpyrigh, 1036, by United Press

tCOpyrignS AVSO, Dy Unfteu PreSsl
 Madrid. Aug. i6-CUP)-Asturias miners have entered the outskirts of Ovieda and are dynamiting their way from house to house in the center of the city against desperate rebel resistance, 1t was announced today. Government leaders ex- pect a long fight without quar- ter. Picked explosives men of the loyalist force are leading the assault. They are carrying sticks of dynamite in their belts, light ing fuses on the sticks from cigars, and throwing them into the houses ahead. Deputy Gonzales Pena, commander in chief of the loyalist forces. advised the government that the rebel commander, Colonel Miguel Aranda. had not followed the usual rebel tactics of holding c central barracks as a strong point but had scattered his men throughout the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-15
Ann Hewitt Case Takes NeuU Angle
 As Trial Started.
Two Physicians, Charged With Mayhem, Will Try to ,~ Prove Plot to Get Millions From Mother of Girl Victim
BY ROGER JOHNSON United Press Staff Correspondent

San Francisco August IS = (UP) = Two physicians charged with bringing about the sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt will defend themselves with counter charges that the young hereSs tool in extorion plot against her socialite mother, their attorneys said today
 The turn developed during the first day of the trial Of
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Final Edition
 Cosing StockS LGte NeSUs FT0shss
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LTNDBERGHs ON FLIGHT

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DRIVERS ARE FREED

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The Mathsr

Generally Cloudy To-
 night, Sunday.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1936-04-02
State Teachers College
Prepares For Conference

Men and women students at the
State Teachers College at Salisbury
are making preparations for the two
day student conferences, to which all
high school seniors and college stu
dents in Maryland are invited. Regis
tration will take place on Friday,
April oath, at 1870 P. M. The after
noon program will be followed by a
reception and tea dance in the lobby
and social hall Of the college. The
various student organizations will
participate in the program Friday
evening.
The Dramatic Club will give play
and both men and women will take
part in an athletic exhibition featur-
ing mass drills and individual stunts.
This will be followed by dance for
the State Teachers College students
and their guests from the high schools
and colleges Of Maryland
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1936-04-02
Insured Mortgages Popular
With Bldg. & Loan Assns.

Up to last summer very few build
ing and loan associations had coop
Grated with the Federal Housing Ad-
ministration in making insured long
range mortgage loans. In statement
issued March 81 FILA showed that
BEL associations in 10 states are do
ing from 81 to 81 per cent of their en-
tire business in insured mortgages
under the national housing act. Louisi-
ana leads with 81 per cent, followed
by Oregon with GA per cent, Kansas
with IS per cent and Wisconsin with
81 per cent.
More than $40 BEL associations
were cooperating on the date men,
toned, 80 per cent Of them members
of the Federal Home Loan Bank sys-
tenn.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1936-04-02
National Food Contest
For Al Club Girls Is
Planned By Natl. Group

A national contest in food prepar-
ton will be again conducted for the
$4,000 girls enrolled in the United
States in All club work, announces
the National Committee on Boys and
Girls Club Work.
State Club Leader, Miss Dorothy
Emerson Of College Park has accept
ed the contest for the 6,100 girls en-
rolled in All clubs in this state who
may obtain the rules from the coun-
ty agent or local leader.
The gratifying results of last
years initial contest have prompted
a substantial increase in awards by
the sponsor, Servel, Inc, of Evans
vile, Ind. Besides the $4O0, $500 and
5000 college scholarships offered for
national winners, eight kerosene-op-
Grated Electrolux refrigerators are
provided for sectional winners, and
as heretofore trip to the National
Club Congress in Chicago to each
state champion, and handsome gold
medals of special design for county
champions.
AS further aid to All club work
the sponsor has authorized it's local
dealers everywhere to cooperate as
last year in loaning Electrolux refrig-
orators to club leaders for use at
fairs, achievement days and summer
camps to preserve perishable pro-
ducts.
Miss Eleanor Smith of Glen Arm
was this states Chicago trip winner
last year.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1936-04-02
Gentle Spring

When Twentieth of March goes out,
Old Winter skidoes too;
/ do not think his leaving is
but by few.
By sequence, the next day will be
March twenty first, that's clear;
Then "Gentle Spring" (see almanac)
Is going to appear.
If "Gentle Spring" takes my advice
She'll not a moment lose
But buy herself sealskin sacque,
Some lingerie and shoe.
For all the pictures seen Of spring
Shows her in brief attire;
And If she comes to town thus clad
She'll freeze or I'm a-False prophet
George M. Griffith.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1936-04-02
WHEN "FARM RELIEF" H11RTs

Theoretical farm relief" often nfcts injury on some
it is supposed to help.
An excellent example of this is found in am article in
the Daimens League News which points out that dairy
farmers of the country unfairly penaized under the
new federal agricultural bill
The BILL based on the Soil Conservation Act of 1885,
provides that the Secretary of Agriculture can pay farmers
to withdraw land from production in the interest of soil
fertility Dairy farming naturally soil erosion and
promotes soil conservation AS result farmers raising
other products will be paid to withdraw land from its nor
NAL and will be permitted to plant it in grasses or
forage and put into the acreage The inevitable
consequence will be artificial increase in dairy produc
ton by parttme dairy farmers at the expense of the
three million farmers who maintain the dairy industry of
the nation.
Any farmer who wants to is certainly entitled to 90
into dayng But unprecedented observers doubt the
wisdom OF using public funds to pay farmers in other
fields to compete with their fellows and useless over
production.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1936-04-02

announcement Dy Feueral and State
authorities that the last day of March
marks the third birthday of the Civil
ian Conservation Corps brings from
District Forester C. F. Winslow, of
Laurel, Nd, whose jurisdiction covers
Hartford, Carroll, Howard, Baltimore,
Montgomery, Anne Arundel, Prince
Georges, Calvert, Charles, and st.
Mary's Counties, the statement that
for his district, as for the State as a
whole, the three years Of C. C. C.
activities have put forward the pro-
gram of the Maryland State Depart
ment of Forestry by some twenty-five
years.
"Most of the present $4,000 acres of
our State Forests" says Mr.. Winslow,
"as acquired from time to time, were
in sad state of diiapidation, the re-
suit of wasteful cutting and the raw
ages Of fire. With the money that was
likely to be available, it looked as
though good many years must
elapse before we could bring these
lands back to productiveness and give
them adequate fire protection. Then
the C. C. C. was established, and the
picture changed overnight. We had
the means now to give the State lands
what they needed, and we started out
to make the most of them"
On the Cedarville State Forest, in
Charles and Prince Georges Counties,
and on the Doncaster State Forest and
the Myrtle Grove State Game Refuge,
in Charles county, Mr.. Winslow goes
on to say, there have been built in the
last three years, with C. C. C. labor,
Sc miles of roads, 46 bridges, 20
miles of telephone lines, and fire
lookout towers. Besides this, the tim
Der stand has been improved in way
to give the more valuable trees a
chance to develop to best advantage,
and good deal of work has been done
to combat tree diseases and control
harmful insects.
Nor has the private land owner been
neglected, Mr.. Winslow points out
either in his district or elsewhere in
the State. Every G. G. G. enrollee,
says the District Forester, is subject
to call, day or night, to fight forest
fires. AS result, many acres of pri-
vate timber in the various counties
have been saved from destruction. In
other cases the public has benefited
directly by the roads the c. C. G. has
built, which often have shortened dis
tances between points, and by the tele-
phone lines, which enter sections not
served by the public utilities.
"Outdoor recreation" continues Mr..
Winslow, "has received its due share
of attention in c. C. c. work. The
Patapsco State Park, for example,
along the Patapsco River above and
below Ellicott City, is being developed
as an outdoor playground for the
people of surrounding counties. Those
familiar with the beauty Of the coun-
try along the river need not be told
that no similar area offers greater OPP
portunities for camping, hiking, swim
ming, fishing, and canoeing. Roads
have been improved, trails built, and
shelters erected. Stone fireplaces for
outdoor cooking can now be found at
convenient places throughout the
Park. In places the banks along the
river have been seeded and graded,
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1936-04-02
c. c. c. Puts County Forest Work
Ahead Is Years In MARYLAND
Roads, Bridges, Lookout Towers And Tree Program
Advanced Materially By Federal Planning, Says
c. F. Winslow, District Forester

and certain amount of landscaping
has been done. The work in not yet
completed, but when it is, Maryland
will have a State Park of which it
can be proud"
At Pretty Boy Dam, in Baltimore
County, is another C. C. C. camp. It's
job, Mr.. Winslow explains, is to es-
tablish system of fire protection on
that important watershed and to i'm
prove the forest cover.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1936-04-02
THE OLD HANDOUTS

Do suppose the word "hangout is not in the die
tionary because everyone knows it's meaning Hangouts
really play an important place in life, and at mere mention
of the word most think Of their favorite haunts in
other days Maybe it was the general store "Joes
Place." Pop and Mons" The name matters little but
the fun he had there Willing away the time in pleasant
conversation with pals counts for whole lot Long after
ne has reached manhood day dreams carry him back the
old hangous and the old gang. he turned out to be
writer he will put his thoughts of paper and if he is
composer he will set the old hangout to musicthe place
where he longs to be- In every town, everywhere the
hangou has long been institution just as it is today
It part Of American e part of most men, growing to
maturity like to look back not with msgvng but with
pleasure hard to describe.
Don't worry about being useless Most Of the harm
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1936-04-02
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Shelley. cho..

A monument in viareggio, Italy, 70
calls the fact that the body of the poet
Shelley was washed up there in 1922,
after his drowning at sea. His ghost
has often been reported walking along
the beaches.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1936-04-02
In the Limelisht

"My neighbor, Hi Hat, likes to be
seen on parade" said Hi Ho, the sage
Of Chinatown, "but he makes the mis-
take Of believing he can be an entire
procession all by himself"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1936-04-02

Don't worry about being useless Most Of the harm is
done BY wel-meaning people trying 10 be useful