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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-15

CTAMPS had come into use In 0 thc United States the year be. fore when, in lS48, Zachary Tays Tor, hero of the Mexican War, was Co be notified of his nomination for the presidency by the Whlgs. How was this notification 10 be sent? If by means of the new stamps on their letter, the norns ince might deem it on insult that he could not p0y the postage, which used to be collect. If not by stamp, he might not believe the letter worth redeemlng,
 Perplexcd, the nominating corns mittec decided not to use the new stamp and General Taylor rcs fused it! When the committee failed to get his response, q dele. gaGIon was sent 10 Baton Rouge, home of Taylor, and there they learned the truth. Taylor had not known the unStamped letter he had refused had contained his notification. He accepted the noms lnatIon, and was elected.
 On July Q. 1850, a little more lhan . year after he took office,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-15

hoWeVer, Tays Tor died, at the age of 60. On the 25th annie Versary of his death, in 1875, the United States issued . 6seent Sts nj ? with his pors trait.
 Ises H....lzA RAAA
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-15

NExTs Wh0 sVas the "pF0tecs aeg" ef UTusuay7 4--4 q
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-03-20
FORMER ARMY OFFICER LEAPS
 TO HIS DEATH
Kills Wife Before Taking Own Life-Body Near
 ly Hits Milkman

LOS ANGELES, Cal. March 20.- An invalid former Army officer leap- ed to his death this morning from a second story apartment house win dow
 In the apartment was found the dead officers wife, body slashed
 The officer has been identified as Cole Randle, aged 30.
 The woman, Marian Cole, had been killed with a flatiron and her body slashed with hunting knife.
 Cole apparently had cut his wrists and turned on the gas but decided to leap when he heard steps of a milkman on the street below.
 Cole, in leaping from the window. almost hit the milkman.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-03-20
Italians Measure
 Tidal UnduIations
 in Earth'S CruSts

TRIESTE, March 20-Deep in the grottoes of Postumia, Italian scientists are measuring the tidal waves produced in the earth's dry crust by the gravital pull of the moon.
 Caused by the same force that rolls up tides at sea, these land waves are infinitesimal and can be recorded only by extremely deli cate instruments
 To see" the earth's undulations, young scholars working under Prof. Luigi Camera of Naples mounted their apparatus in caves protected from surface jars by layers of solid rock.
 One set of mirrors is fixed to the rock of the cavern and another swings ever so slightly as the earth's surface rises and falls. Re- flected light thus traces the move ment on rolls of sensitized paper.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-03-20
ROOSEVELT TO
 CONFER WITH
 MAJOR HAC00n
Officer Removed for Criti- cizing Work Relief to
 Talk with Executive

WASHINGTON, March 20--It is reported here that President Roose- welt, on his expected journey to Flor ida, will confer with Ma ajor-G General J. A. Hagood, recently removed be- cause he criticized the work relief ad- ministration.
 The conference, said to be arrang- ed by third party whose name is undisclosed, is expected to lead to a final decision as to whether or not the General will be restored to &C., tive duty.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-03-20
Police Chief Sets Mode
 in Honolulu Beach Weal

HONOLULU, March 20. = Police Chief w. A. Gabrielson believes Ha- waiian lei sellers should go Ha- waiian' even if he has to give prizes to encourage them.
 When he introduced the holoku, flowing Hawaiian dress, as an unof- ficial uniform along the waterfront. he staged fashion" contest, 100 years after the holoku was first worn in the islands.
 The winner received another ho- loku.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-03-20
STOCK MARKET HIT TODAY BY
 PROFIT TAKING
Buying, Selling, Compara- lively Dull = Close
 Is Irregular

NEW YORK, March 20-Profit taking prevented the Stock Markets feeble attempt to resume the for ward push today.
 Scattered mines. oils and speciality issues were able to flourish how ever during the session.
 Buying and selling was compara- lively dull.
 Todays close was irregular
 Transfers totalled only 1,950,000 shares
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-03-20
CLOSING PRICES TO-DAY

NEW YORK. March 20.-Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 15h, American Can l24 American Power and Light 1lA Anaconda 35& Bethlehem Steel 564 Curtiss Wright 77s, Chicago, Mil waukee. St Paul and Pacific Rail- road 2is, General Motors GAS, h. ternational Harvester 87ls, Kenne- colt S8%. United States Steel GA, Cities Service 5A, Boeing Airplane 23i2 United Aircraft 277s, Pound S496aa.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-03-20
DAVID HANSON
 TO SOON KNOW
 JURYS VERDICT
Third Trial of Alleged Wife Slayer Is Ended in
 California

SAN JOSE. Cal, March 20.-The fate of David Lamson, charged with staying his wife Allene in their Stanford campus home, was placed in the hands of the jury at noon today.
 This is Lamson's third trial. He was first convicted and sentenced to hang. but the California State Su- preme Court ordered a retrial at which the jury disagreed.
 SIInn IHr a.1Hr--
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-03-20
Butter for Fish

VIENNA-Butter shortage in Ger many is stimulating Austrian ex- ports of this dairy product, but trading isn't as easy as it used to be. The latest trade pact between the two countries stipulates that
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-03-20
Locomotive Explodes;
 Two Men Are Victims

WENDOVER, Utah, March 20.- Two persons were killed and four injured this forenoon in the explo- sion of a Western-Pacificl locomotive at Silver Zone, Nevada, 34 miles west of here.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-03-20
DOW, JONES AVERAGES

The following are today's Dow, rails 47.32. utilities 3183.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-03-20

Germany permit the importation of 500,000 pounds of Austrian but ter, under the condition that Aus tria take from Germany equivalent value in sealfish.
Evening star., 1936-06-27

iveness and weaknesses of existing
laws and to suggest possible improve
mentS.
Evening star., 1936-06-27
HOME BUILDING
BOOM FORECAST
Mortgage Application Back
Up Claim of r. H. A.
Official.

Mortgages selected for appraisal by
various insuring Offices throughout
the country average more than
81 500, 900 a day for each work day,
according to reports reaching the
Federal Housing Administration, sub
stantiating the predictions of Housing
Administrator Stewart Mcdonald
that 1886 would be a banner year
for home building.
A further evidence Of the trend of
the home building and buying field is
shown in the fact that during the
first nine days Of June mortgages ac-
cepted for insurance by the Housing
Administration totaled $14,285, ,387.
This figure includes money insured
for both new construction, buying of
new homes and the refnancing Of
existing mortgages.
Through June the total business
transacted through the Federal
Housing Administration, including
repairs, refinancing and new con-
struction, was over $3.50, 900. 900, in
dicating that the billion dollar mark
will probably be passed in August.
Large scale housing mortgages ac-
cepted for insurance now total
$50, ,452,158.
All Of this money represents pri-
vate capital. Funds are advanced
by private financial institutions, and
the mortgages are insured against
loss by the Housing Administration.
Evening star., 1936-06-27

teenth street southeast; to cost $4,000
Francis L. Hawes, 3403 Macomb
street. owner and builder; j. E. Ellis.
designer; to erect one 2-story brick
and frame dwelling, 442o Thirty sixth
street; to cost $4,000.
DR.. c. N. Chapman, 1920 Rhode
Island avenue, owner; w. NJ. Miller,
designer; r. K. Ferguson. Inc, 1881
Georgia avenue, builder; to erect one
l-story brick store and Office, e14
Twentieth street; to cost S5,000
Walter H. and Carrie E. Harvey,
1922 E street southeast, owner and
builder; G. E. Eckendorf, designer; to
erect one 112-story brick and cinder
block dwelling, 210 Quackenbos street;
to cost $4,000.
w. c. & A. N. Miller, 1119 Seven
teenth street. owners and builders:
G. E. MacNeil, architect: to erect one
2-story brick dwelling, 1906 Verplank
place; to cost $4,000.
Harry & Co., 918 F street, owner
and builder; A. S. ]. Atkinson, archi-
tect; to erect one 1-story brick and
concrete and stone gas station, $500
Georgia avenue; to cost $1,000.
Edward A. Hyde, 5918 Second place,
owner and builder; z. J. Conner, de-
signer: to erect two l II STORY brick
dwellings, 1908 and 1912 Congress
street southeast; to cost $500 each.
Dwelling to Cost $4,000.
Clifford Adams, 1341 Connecticut
avenue, owner; George T. Santmyers,
architect; B. F. Kemp, Takoma Park,
Md, builder; to erect one 2-story brick
dwelling, 1898 Mckinley street; to cost
$4,000.
C. M. Zimmerman, 5139 Cathedral
avenue, owner; C. B. White, designer;
]. M. Mitchell, builder; to erect one
2-story brick dwelling, 5515 Haw-
thorne place; to cost $4,000.
District of Columbia Developing Co.,
Inc, 1912 K street, owners and build
ers; M. Mesrobian, architect; to erect
one 2-story brick dwelling, 800 I'm
derwood street; to cost $4,000.
Evening star., 1936-06-27


DR.. and Mrs. Walter c. Hess, 4700
Connecticut avenue, owners; E. j.
Conner, designer; c. r. Matheny, 6l47
thirty first street, builder; to erect
one 2-story brick dwelling, 3607
Chesapeake street, 10 cost $1,000.
Barnaby Woods Development Co.,
Bethesda, Nd, owners and builders;
l.. r. Moss. architect to erect one D.
story brick and cinder block dwelling
1924 Thirty-second place, to cost
$4,000.
Barnaby Woods Development Co,
Bethesda, Nd, owners and builders;
4, r. Moss, architect; to erect one 3
story brick and cinder block dwelling,
6sl6 Thirty place, to cost
$1,000.
L. Il. Breuninger & Sons, Inc, 1915
x street, owners and builders: Harvey
p. Baxter. architect; to erect two q
story brick dwellings, 1916 and 1918
T'hirty-fourth street, to cost SO 600
Harry H. Ritter, $40 Eleventh street
southeast, owner; Richard c. Darnell
26Ol Highview terrace southeast, de-
signer and builder; 10 erect one 2-story
brick and cinder block dwelling. 2204
Branch avenue southeast; TO cost
$4,000.
District Amusement Corp, owners;
20 make alterations, ITO F street; to
cost $1,000.
A. B. Garden, owner; L. w. Giles
architect: J. d. Davidson, 2014 Nichols
avenue southeast. builder: to erect one
1-story brick dwelling. 1911 Seven
Evening star., 1936-06-27
STUDY LICENSING LAWS
Real Estate Board Members Begin
Survey.

Plans are under way by the Ma
tional Association of Real Estate
Boards to make an analytical study
of all real estate licensing laws. At
the present time % States have such
laws and many other States are con-
sidering their enactment. The pro-
posed plan is to determine the effect
Evening star., 1936-06-27

District of Columbia Developing Co.,
Inc, 1912 K street, owners and build
ers; NJ. Mesrobian, architect; to erect
one 2-story brick dwelling, 823 Tewks-
bury place; to cost $4,000.
National Press Club Corp, Four
Evening star., 1936-06-27
Painting Matches Furniture

BY purchasing an unpainted piece
Of furniture and finishing it just the
color you want, it is possible to match
other furniture you already possess
feat which is frequently impossible
if you have to buy an already painted
piece.
Evening star., 1936-06-27

teenth and F streets, owners: Louis
Justement, architect; Lee T. Turner,
1866 Perry place, builder; TO make
repairs and alterations, on third floor,
Fourteenth and F streets: to cost
$4,000.
Evening star., 1936-06-27
Flat Paint on Furniture.

Flat paint is ordinarily wall paint,
but it may be used for a printing or
first coat on furniture. 1t has no gloss
and should never be left as the finish
ing surface on any piece Of furniture.
Evening star., 1936-10-25

Left. TRAVEL DE LUXE
IN INN Err MONGOLIA.
Women and children jour
meyers over the desert coun-
try are happy to bump
along for endless miles in an
ox-cart of this crude but
sturdy build.
Evening star., 1936-10-25
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w couldn't afford to change But nov Get
10 lovely CLOPAYS for the same money They
look as gOspd ~ the cOstlIest - 20 2 years and
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samples CLOPAY CORP .I777York Street.
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Evening star., 1936-11-06

Here's one of the first answers.
Hard hitting and fast footwork are
emphasized in the choice of Mr.. Al
corn, rather than any doctrinal drift
or change He was an intimate friend
of the late Calvin Coolidge and is
pretty much of a traditional, old-line
New England Republican. His past
challenge of the Roraback machine
was more of a demand for new blood
and a general shaking-up Of party
machinery rather than new policies.
Tariffs and free enterprise" appar-
emily are still the mainstays of New
England Republicanism, and one can
see no party apostasy in the move to
bench Roraback and send in Alcorn.
Mr.. Alcorn is a native of Sufield.
Conn, where he still lives. He has
been States attorney % years. He
has been active in politics all his life.
but always as an organization outsider.
In 1928, he contended. unsuccessfully,
for the primary nomination against
Senator Bingham.
Connecticut Republicans have now
lost the Governorship four times in
succession. A friend from up that way
tells me the kick-back from this last
defeat may unseat not only Mr.. Rora-
back but several members of the State
Central Committee.
Evening star., 1936-11-06

The spectators debac which Coolidge in the
first months oos administration the
walls Of the
couered perpetual rnay
day opportunity to develop their individual
doUn, fear gripped America
these
gan TO desire passonatey not opportunity
and panic turned God Franklin Roosevelt the
god Of the distressed millions
Rugged ndvduasm the symbol Of the old American
portny became byword Security the shbh
American political thought Roosevelt the Demo-
cratic leader who would Government welfare
the old
The Presidents petuant entirely
hoogy the hour the psychology national
DANGER The tribal god the messahshp
Yet other American millions
Wit" alarm and despair
rejected the fear psychology moving
oy Ihese l5 millions Of Americans minority that op-
portunity is more precious than
Why this division
minority thinking entirely different starting entirely
different premise in their those In the
These serious questions '''
however there
o country o" professional
a losses ana the rich
maoWn group certainly have felt
lives - "
What will happen when prosperity really
Evening star., 1936-11-06
President at Crossroads
Voters Put Nation in His Hands and Impose
Duty on All.
Duty on All.

voter who is a member Of any trade
union could be eliminated, and still
Mr.. Roosevelt would have been re-
elected.
We have heard the voice of
Nation speak. Only twice before in
the history of our country has it
spoken so unmistakably, when the
Federalist party died. leaving Monroe
practically uncontested, and at the
Nations birth.
This election also has wiped out the
lunatic fringe and the extremists Of
either the right or the left. The
American people did not vote for
communism, which in New York
State failed even to hold its place on
the ballot, or for Lemkeism, or for
Townsendism, or for socialism. Nor
did they indicate that they wish the
New Deal to proceed in any of these
directions. Not one-tenth of Mr..
Roosevelt's voters in New York State
supported him, as they had the op-
portunity to do, under the banner of
the American Labor party. The
same election. which swept in Roose-
welt brought in the progressive New
York charter, and in rockribbed Re-
publican Massachusetts MIR. Roosevelt
came in while Mr.. Curley, for whom
Rooseveltism, in the voters mind,
had become q racket, went down
before the impeccable Republican,
Henry Cabot Lodge, jr. Curleyism
and Coughlinism we're as decisively
defeated in this election as was the
Old Deal.
These facts invest the President not
only with every possible power short
Of the limitations imposed by the fun
damental law, but with fearful re-
sponsibility. For he must represent
not party, not class, not this pres
sure group or that, but the progressive
will of an entire Nation. That Nation
has chosen him as its leader and in
dicated a direction, and the President
and his Congress must find the way
best to express and incorporate the
Nations will to peace, to progress, to
greater security, to more stable and
universal prosperity inside the tradi-
ton Of liberal democracy.
Invested with q confidence rendered
him by every conceivable sort of group,
the President will have the lofty duty
to harmonic specific interests in the
frame of the total welfare.
But the election calls for a renewed
sense Of responsibility not only in the
President, but In all of us. For II is
no longer a question for any of us
whether, or how far we are prepared
to collaborate with the President, but
whether and how far we are prepared
to collaborate with the national will.
1t ought to mean that conscious
OF the weakened position of the mi
nority. the President will be the more
sensitive to honest criticism and the
more willing dispassionately to discuss
means and methods for arriving at
objectives 50 universally desired.
Yesterday the United States stood
at the crossroads. But today the
President stands at the crossroads. He
can choose struggle, mobilizing toward
coercion, or backed by his tremendous
majority he can choose the widest
possible measure of conciliation and
collaboration in the liberal temper
which exudes light.
tCopyright. 1850
Evening star., 1936-11-06

supreme power is in the hands OF q
class, numerous indeed, but select OF
an educated class, of class which Is,
and knows itself to be deeply inter-
ested in, the security Of property and
the maintenance of order. Accord
ingly, the malcontents are firmly
yet gently restrained. The bad time
is got over without robbing the wealthy
to relieve the INDECENT. The springs
of national prosperity soon begin to
flow again: work Is plentiful; wages
rise and all is tranquility and cheer
fulness.
Majority Is the Government.
"I have seen England three or four
times pass through such critical
seasons as have described. Through
such seasons the United States will
have to pass, in the course of the next
century, if not of this. How will you
pass through them? I heartily wish
you a good deliverance, but my rea-
son and my wishes are at war and I
cannot help foreboding the worst. 1t
ID QulVC Pldlll tildO sOul SONCLhLiCAAb
will never be able to restrain a dis
tressed and discontented majority.
For with you, the majority is the
government and has the rich, who
are always a minority, absolutely at
its mercy.
"The day will come when, in the
State of New York, a multitude of
people, none Of whom has had more
than half a breakfast, or expects to
have more than half a dinner, will
choose the legislature. Is it possible
to doubt what sort of legislature will
be chosen. On one side is a states
man preaching patience, respect for
vested rights, strict observance Of
public faith. On the other, is
demagogue ranting about tyranny of
capitalists and usurers and asking
Evening star., 1936-11-06

has so unmistakably registered the
popular faith in the President has re-
turned q largely Democratic Congress,
so that the President has stronger
congressional following than ever.
Furthermore. the election was not
a party victory. The victory was for
Roosevelt, not for the Democratic
party, since the voters who elected
him are not by any means all Demo-
Gratis.
But Others Vote Against.
Nevertheless, some 100000 Ameri-
can citizens voted against Mr.. Roose-
velt. I say against Mr.. Roosevelt be-
cause Mr. Roosevelt, and not Mr.. Lam
don, was the issue in the campaign.
They voted against personal leadership,
against extension Of Federal control.
against increased regulation Of busi-
ness, for retrenchment in public
spending, and for q more cautious and
traditional policy altogether. There
are not 1900, 900 economic royalists."
And that they lost is not so important
as is the fact that this minority. still
q very large part of the people, is
definitely not represented today. And
regardless of any estimate Of the Presi-
dent, be he pure as Parsifal, gallant as
Lancelot, and wise as Socrates. this is
not the best possible condition in de-
mocracy.
On the other hand. the vote enor-
mously clarifies things. It registers
in q manner that none can possibly
evade the overwhelming desire of the
American people to continue a new
way Of life better suited. they ap-
parently are certain, to the realities
Of the times in which We live.
The vote shows that that desire cuts
through all classes, through all Sec
tions, and is alive on the plains Of
Kansas, in the groves Of California.
in the cotton fields of the South, and
on the sidewalks Of New York.
1t is impossible to describe as
"class vote" anything so overwhelm-
ing. Every voter on relief, and every
Evening star., 1936-11-06

why anybody should be permitted to
drink champagne and to ride in q
carriage while thousands Of honest
people are in want Of necessities.
Which of the two candidates is likely
to be preferred by workingman who
hears his children cry for bread?
"Some Caesar May Rise"
'I seriously apprehend that you will,
In some such season Of adversely as I
have described, do things which will
prevent prosperity from returning;
that you will act like people in year
of scarcity, devour all the seed corn
and thus make the next year not Of
scarcity, but Of absolute distress. The
distress will produce fresh spoliation.
There is nothing to stay you. Your
Constitution is all sail and no anchor.
"As I said before, when society has
entered on this downward progress,
either civilization or liberty must per-
ish. Either some Caesar or Napoleon
will seize the reins Of government
with a strong hand or your republic
will be as fearfully plundered and laid
to waste by barbarians in the twen-
tieth century as the Roman Empire
was in the fifth, with this difference,
that the Huns and Vandals who raw
aged the Roman Empire came from
without and your Huns and Vandals
will have engendered within your
country by your own institutions. 80"
I do not agree that America has
necessarily reached any such point,
but if it is on its way the question can
be interposed whether intelligent lead
ership by reorganization of our po-
litical parties can direct and guide the
mass movement away from the dan
gers which the British author prophe-
sled for us.
(Copyrlsht, 1850
Evening star., 1936-11-06

State committees have put me"
radio stations
Democratic National Committee has been insisting
reraind of fond
its
yod the speeches not"
I'll tell what I'll
stay send right explaining my
Endorsement of opponent" e
Roosevelt senator-"We you explanation how
sounds"
all right The radio time Cancelled
Evening star., 1936-11-06

ern times for all
countries. e en-
Adolph Hitler, in
the last free elec-
ton in Germany
in which other
parties could con-
tend for recogni-
ton, received only
AZ per cent of the
popular b a lot
a n d t his fol-
lowed the RelcnS.
tag fire and wide
spread fear of q
Communist ris-
ing. The S q m e
n1e,kt~~ htn
Evening star., 1936-11-06
News Behind the News
Landon Seen as Candidate for Senate Two Years
Hence.
BY PAUL MALLON.


%HERE has Republican mogus
running opportunity
is too far away prediction probably
will suggesting midway
presidential campaign when became evident them that he
would
contact with Republican presidential
personally ambitious to
inside
would Mrs Landon they
say, to become a White House hostess
Whether these surn correct they certainly
family, and security
World Which
President Roosevelt likes it. fun than he could have
anywhere else He personally the and deeply inter-
ested in the for
Evening star., 1936-11-06

members to take
over the job Of
renovating and
reconditioning the
party in the
State. He has
not yet accepted,
but it is indicated
that he will. He
is noted here as
a figure of inter-
est in the first
r e T ormi ing of
shattered Repub-
lican lines. What
next" for the Re-
publicans is a
headline question