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Drama Class To
Present Play at
Forum Meeting

The intermediate Dramatic class
of Halle @. Brown House has
charge of the program which will
be presented Sunday, Dec. 20, 1886,
at a o'clock. ''The Spirit of Christ
mas Giving" is the title Of the play
to be given. Christmas carols will
be sung. Mr.. Louis Williams will
be the featured vocalist.
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NOTICE TO READERS AND
ADVERTISERS

The Christmas edition of this
newspaper will be on sale and in
the mail Wednesday, Dec. %, two
days before Christmas.
All matter intended for that is
sue should be in our office by Mon
day, Dec. q.
One way to keep your friends is
not to give them away.
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Something Special
Cabaret Ball

Make your table reservations
to see the old year out and new
year in with the members of john
ny Baker Post at the Apex Hall,
63S Sixth Ave. No., Dec. 81. Make
reservations through Ike Moore,
chairman, Locust 9475.
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MAIL SUBSCRIBERS NOTICE!

Notices are being mailed to de-
linquent mail subscribers. Failure
to pay subscription or notify our
circulation department of date of
payment will cause subscribers
name to be dropped from list.
PUBLISHER.
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Penn Williams
Suffers Fractured
Skull i'm Accident

Penn Williams, GA LyndaIe
Ave. No., is critically i'll in Fair
view hospital, suffering from a
fractured skull and other injuries
received in an auto accident.
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OUR CHRISTMAS EDITION
WILL

Contain holiday greetings from
many of the clubs, lodges and bust
ness firms. a-@o'... ..E v~s
It will be on sale and in the mail
Dec. %. .-
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If any profteers should slip
into heaven, it would be good-by
to them streets of gold.
Every day something is being
done that couldn't be done"
There is something in the theory
that the world is flat. Flat on its
back, but it is going to turn over.
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-05-15

pess and industrial enterprises" said
Roper, land not of one particular
segment of the government to in
crease its efforts for greater en-
plOyment. If a substantial measure
of increased unemployment does not
take place the taxation for relief
purposes will come largely from
business earnings. There must be
unemployment or longer period
of increased taxation"
Various members of the chamber
replied spiritedly. BOY C. Osgood.
vice president of the First National
bank of Chicago, predicted that if
the administration embarked on a
sound fiscal program that would in
spire confidence, business would
make rapid strides toward recovery.
Fred II. Clausen, president of the
Van Brunt Manufacturing company
of Horizon, Wis, told the chamber
that the rising tide of public spend-
ing had been rolling onto our DeO-
pie for five years." and there was no
end in sight. He declared that the
employment mandates laid down
by President Roosevelt, Secretary
Roper and others were practically
impossible in the light of the in
creased burdens heaped on indus
try.
The American Federation of La
Dor reported that little or no prog
ress" had been made in re-employ-
ment during the first quarter of this
year.
The federation estimated 1854
600 persons were unemployed in
March. Seasonal gains in business
and agriculture, returning 569, 900
persons to work, were about nor
mal," the report said.
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-05-15
Navy Expansion Measure
Passed by the House

ONCE international naval disar-
~ mament efforts have failed,
those who advocate adequate ma
tional defense rejoice in the passage
by the house Of the bill appropriate
ing approximately $531 100000 to
build our navy up to treaty strength.
Representative Marcantonio of New
York and a few others put up loud
opposition, but a record vote was
not necessary. The ObjectOrs dwelt
especially on a clause authorizing
the laying of keels for two $4,000
ton battleships after January /,
1887, should any foreign signatOry
to the London naval treaty start a
battleship replacement program.
Two days later they might have
read dispatches from London say
ing rumors had reached there that
Japan was considering laying down
a 55,0O0-ton battleship armed with
21-inch guns.
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-05-15

the recommendation of the resolu.
tfOnS committee.
The Arkansas delegation also will
be uninstructed, though the state
convention approved an expression
of good will" toward Gov. Alf Ian.
don Of Kansas.
Col. Henry Breckenridge, who of
fered himself to the Democrats as a
Presidential nominee aspirant mere
ly so that disaffected members of
the party might have some place to
go, received about One-seventh of
the votes in the Maryland prefer
ence primary. The rest, of course,
went to Mr.. Roosevelt Colonel
Breckenridge had made no cam
paign.
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-05-15

festivities, March % to April 1.
Some have found the origin of April
Fools day in the change from the
Julian calendar to the Gregorian
calendar in France in 1864, when
the New Years day was moved to
January l. 1t is argued that part
of the old celebration on the April
date was then converted into bur
lesque, One pretended religious con-
nection is found in the fact that
the medieval miracle plays showed
Jesus being sent for trial from one
official to another, it being held that
this accounts for the foolish err
rands of this day, but this is a very
unlikely explanation Of April Fool
origins.
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-05-15
Origin of April Fool Day
Is Lost in Mists of Time

The origin of the April Fool GUS
tom is unknown, but it is very an
cient and is thought to be relic of
those once universal festivities held
at the beginning of spring A Hin
due celebration is the Hull festival
at this time, the chief amusement
being the sending of people on
fruitless and foolish errands. The
ancient Romans had a Feast of
Fools, on February II, when they
played burlesque tricks. This was
revived during the Middle ages and
often celebrated even in the churches
at the time of the old New Year
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-05-15

in w a S h j n g t o n
and warned its
members, most of
whom are persist
ent critics of New
Deal policies, that
unless private en-
terprise takes up
the slack in en-
plOyment, business
must pay the relief
bill out of earnings.
1T is the respon-
SihilitV of all h11ci-
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-05-15

dIlOu.
The bill was handed to the senate
whose finance committee, headed by
Pat Harrison, had been studying it
in secret sessions in order to be
prepared for the public hearings
that opened two days after the
house had acted. There had been
predictions that this committee
would modify the measure radical
ly, but the opposition to it in Dem
ocratic ranks seemed to have faded
away and it's passage by the senate
without material change was
deemed probable.
AS passed by the house the bill
provides:
l. A graduated tax on corporation
income which, it is estimated, will
force distribution of $3,360,000,000
more in dividends and yield the gov
ernment an additional $620,000,000
annually.
2. A "windfall" tax on unpaid or
refunded processing taxes imposed
under the invalidated AAA, which
is expected to yield $100,0O0,000.
3. Continuation Of the capital
stocks and excess profits tax for six
months to yield $35,000,000.
4. A refund of $35,OOO,00O to proc
essors who suffered financial losses
under the old AAA.
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-05-15

sion, but it is more than suspected
that the real reason was the fact
that the du Pont family, all-power-
full in Delaware Republican politics,
had decided that the senatorial seat
should go to Gov. c. Douglas Buck,
who is related to the du Points by
marriage. Senator Hastings has al
ways been ready and eloquent in
defense of the Gu Points against at
tacks by the New Dealers.
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-05-15

said. "But the delegation is un-
pledged-at ny request. 1t is free
to vote as pleases. I have not
sought a delegation here or else
where and hall not do so. have
not sought th, nomination and shall
not do so. My situation is not
changed in the slightest"
Friends of Senator BOrah in Utah
tried unsuccessfully for a Borah
pledged delegation from that state.
The Republican state convention in
Ogden voted to send an uninstruct-
ed group to Cleveland, following
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-05-15

to the Republican
convention in Cleve-
land for the Presi-
dental nomination.
b u t the senator
insists this does
not make him an
active candidate.
"T h e Michigan
S t a t e convention
generously instruct
ed the Michigan
delegation in Cleve-
land TO present my
name" the senator
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-05-15

Before his death Fuad named a
regency council of three to govern
the country until FarOuk comes of
age. The young king, who is six
feet tall and well educated, hopes to
return to England to complete his
studies at WOolwich. 1t was feared
in Cairo that Fuad's death would
have an adverse effect on the nego-
tiatiOnS for new AnglO-Egyptian
treaty which will give Egypt a
greater measure of freedom.
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-05-15
Hagood Holds New Command
One Day, Then Retires

MAJ. GEN. JOHNSON HAGOOD,
4NA assigned to the command OF
the Sixth corps area with headquar-
ters at Chicago, held the command
only one day, as a matter of form,
and then at his own request was re-
lieved of the assignment and retired
from active service. He said he
would remain in Chicago several
months to do some special work for
a mail order house and then would
select a permanent residence and
write a book telling chow the Unit
ed States can get a very much bet
ter national defense at very much
less cost TO the taxpayer"
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-05-15
Radicals Control French
Chamber of Deputies

\lidlllOCl VI DCPul1So
EINAL elections in France put
complete control of the chamber
of deputies in the hands of the rev.
olutionary popular Front" coali-
ton of Communists, Socialists, Rad
ical Socialists and minor left wing
groups. The new chamber does not
meet until June, and the confusion
is so great that there are fears of
chaos and financial panic in the in
terim. Many believe the Popular
Front will be unable TO form a
stable government to succeed that
of Premier Sarraut. The lead must
be taken by the Socialists, for they
now form the largest group in the
chamber with 146 seats. The Radi-
cal Socialists have 115. the Com
munists 70 and minor left parties
A. The National bloc, including
center and right parties opposed to
the leftists, have 236 seats.
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-05-15

through the house.
The vote, 267 to 90,
was almost strictly
along. party lines
T h e roll call
showed 50 Repub-
licans and only II
Democrats vot e d
against the meas
sure, while four Re
publicans deserted
the minority to cast
their lot with the
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-05-15

rineS and Fascist militia men.
Their coming was welcomed by
the foreigners who remained in the
city, for as soon as the negus left,
the natives began to pillage, plunder
and burn. The business center of
the town was speedily wrecked and
the government buildings were
StOrmed and ravaged, these includ-
ing the treasury from which the
states store of gold was stolen, and
the armory. The streets were
Strewn with corpses and the ETH
Opians, crazed by liquor, rushed
about shooting at random and gath
ering up their loot to carry it to the
hills.
Only one foreigner was reported
killed. That was Mrs. n. A. Stadin,
American wife of an Adventist mis-
sionary, who was struck by a stray
bullet. Nearly all other foreigners
were gathered in the we'll fortified
British legation, but American Min
lister Cornelius Van H. Eggert with
his wife and the male members of
the staff remained in the American
compound. They were armed only
with rifles and pistols and were un-
der orders from Secretary of State
Hull not to risk their lives useless
ly; but they were determined to
hold the legation and radio station
as long as possible.
After repulsing many attacks. this
plucky group finally evacuated the
legation.
Halle Selassie went by train to
Djibouti, French Somaliland, and
was received with all honors at the
governors palace. The British cruis-
er Enterprise took him to Palestine.
and later he may 90 thence to Eu-
rope. At first it was rumored that
the French would hold him for
a time, but later advices said the
French and British governments
had decided that he remained a SOW
ereign and must have full liberty
of movement. The emperor told
his French hosts that his flight
was caused by the knowledge that
some of his own people were plot
ting against him and that his loyal
troops were without food and sup
plies.
SO ends the military part of Mus
SOlini'S African adventure, sue
cess despite the opposition of the
League of Nations and the imposi-
ton of economic and financial pen
altieS. The duce announced the vic
tory of his country from the cham
Der of deputies and there was wild
rejoicing throughout Italy. 1t is
taken for granted Mussolini will
set up an Amharic state in part of
Ethiopia under puppet emperor:
and presumably Italy, France and
Great Britain will get together and
determine their respective zones of
influence in the ancient empire. The
humiliated league can do nothing
except lift the existing sanctions,
which proved futile in halting the
war. British Foreign Minister Eden
and his fellows in the government
must admit as gracefully as posi-
BILE their failure to check Mussolini
and get what they can for Britain
out of the African tragedy. France
probably is not sorry over the out
come. for her opposition to the
duce's ambitious scheme always was
half-hearted.
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-05-15

lOOterS, DrlnS-
ing safety TO va
rious foreigners,
including Ou r
own minister.
r O m e w e n t
wild with joy
and no wonder.
In seven months
MuSsolini h a S
conquered Ethio-
pi "a S millions,
Kill n G a n d
wOunding 250,-
600 of them,
marching stead
lily ahead through
-n1
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-05-15
Pioneer Champion of Inland
WATERWAYS Is Dead

TAMES ELLWOOD SMITH of st,
- Louis, who died the other day
at the age of eighty-five, had de-
voted much of his life and fortune
to the cause of inland waterways
transportation. He was one of the
founders and the president emeritus
of the Mississippi Valley associa-
tiOn
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-05-15

family. MussOlini's
victorious troops
soon after marched
into the capital,
the first to enter
being a picked reg
iment representing
all units of the Ital-
ian army, the AS
kari, infantry, ar
tillery, air force,
engineers, grena-
diers, bersaglieri,
Alpini, cavalry, ma
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-05-15

FarOuk, q sixteen
year-old pupil in the
royal military acad-
emy at WOolwich,
England, was imme-
diately proclaimed
king and started for
Egypt, sailing from
Marseilles on a
British liner escort
ed by a British war
ship in order to
avoid going by way
of Jt91V
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-05-15

of the New Deal,
will not seek re-
election when his
present term eX-
pires. He so an
nounced in a letter
to the party lead
ers Of his state,
giving as his rea-
son the necessity
to devote himself
to his law practice.
This may have in
f1upncpd his dpci-
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-05-15
Bringing Back CCC to It's
Authorized Strength

DRECTOR ROBERT FECHNER
~ of the Civilian Conservation
corps moved to bring the corps up
to its authorized strength of 100000
by ordering state enrolment officers
to disregard previous quotas and
accept any qualified boy from 2
relief family.
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-05-15
Senator Hastings Will
Not Seek Reelection

DANIEL o. HASTINGS, senator
~ from Delaware, chairman of
the Republican senatorial campaign
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-05-15
"April FOOLS Tragedy"
BY FLOYD GIBBONS
Famous Headline Hunter.

YOU'VE all heard about the girl who plays like fish
line Well, here's where that situation
versed Distinguished Adventuer Patricia Root of New York
city, has here tell the story of how played
her like fish a line.
What's Pat Root isn't bit about it. AS matter
OF fact she's darned grateful the guy She would have died
he hadntweort of made sucker of her. Fish lines
can be pretty tough fish, but this life Patricia
1t happened n you forget
about the
Pat was visiting the Virgin islands, down in the West
Indies
starting fishing
but fishing
about mile off shore But there left the
do our fishing from the Shore"
Pat Began Tarpon Fishing From Rocky Ledge.
Pat just fifteen the time The others older There
John his wife, Maria islanders
and Paul They the
they
hundredpound fighting taking with there
that ledge.
to
a
the boiled standing.
she should fishing
had noticed that the getting roughe didn't until
suddenly
found myself engulfed water"
She Was Washed Into the Shark infested Sea.
standing
Before she could catch herself she washed
For the realize the terrible
position heard splash beside Wmot the
face. He had jumped from the top of the cliff
"Wimo a
tclutched neither
could climb the side wall
to it, only then that realized that couldn't back
again."
Wimo cifde
das washed them back Wmos strength beginning fail
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-05-15
Young Farouk Succeeds
to Egyptian Throne

QUAD I, king of Egypt, died Of a
gangrenous throat infection at
his country place near Cairo at the
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-05-15
Huge New Tax Measure
Rushed Through House

MYTH extraordinary speed which
w the opposition considered in
decent, the administrations new
$S03,000,000 revenue bill was pushed
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-05-15
Italy Takes Adds Ababa;
the Emperor Flees

EMPEROR HALLE SELASSIE of
IL Ethiopia gave up the hopeless
fight against the italian invaders
and fled from Adds Ababa with his
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-05-15

Two misguided MeXicans decided
to ring bells of the ancient mission
church at Juarez, Mexico, to cele-
brate the nomination of a National
Revolutionary candidate for govern
or of chihuahua. The piOuS ladies
of Juarez thought those old bells
should not be rung for any revolu-
tiOnary candidate. and 1t became
necessary for troops to rescue the
bellringers from the infuriated
women, giving a good imitation of
Euripides man-hunting Bacchae.
When women start they mean 1t
G King Features Syndicate Inc.
WNU Service.
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-05-15

Those impressed by the high
qualities of Ethiopia's Arab slave
trading ruler will note that in the
great crisis his presence of mind
remained. The Associated Press
says he took with him on tie Brit
ish boat "the imperial family jew
els, many cases of gold bullion
and gold coins" On his way from
Adds Ababa to the British ship he
stopped to take all the cash from
the treasury and customs house at
Diredawa.
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-05-15
Business Men Differ
With Mr.. Roper

nANlEL c. ROPER, secretary of
- commerce, appeared before the
Chamber of Commerce Of the Unit
ed States at its annual meeting
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-05-15
Vandenberg's Name Is
to Be Presented

CENATOR ARTHUR H. VAN
~ DENBERG of Michigan has
asked Gov. Frank D. Fitzgerald of
that state to present his name
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-05-15

In Florida, Il well-meaning
preacher, who thought it his duty
to let rattlesnakes bite him to
show the power of God, actually
did let the snakes bite him with
out first removing their fangs. He
is dead, the jury said, "by the bite
of rattlesnake through his own
careleSSnesS.
The poor fanatic succeeded only
in proving the power of rattlesnake
poison. The laws of the universe
could hardly be suspended to JUS
tify the whim of one well-meaning
fanatic.
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-05-15

DR.. Walter Emerson Briggs, who
teaches dentistry in Tufts college,
says women can take any kind of
pain without a whimper."
Women endure pain more cOura-
geously than men. Childbirth has
taught them to suffer and endure in
isolation. Man shows his herOism
preferably in crowds, in squadrons,
platoOns; often he would not do that
if it did not take more courage to
stay behind alone than to go ahead
with the others.
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-05-15

leys and high mountains, driving
out the Ethiopian armies, that
were directed by skilled soldiers
from Turkey, Scandinavia and else
where.
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-05-15
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
Mussolini Goes Through
Practical Selassie
Snake Killed One
Which End of the Gun?

Mussolini's men entered Adds
Ababa, driving out the Ethiopian
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-05-15

The Carnegie Institute announces
new law of matter" having to do
with the cohesion of infnitesimal
particles Of matter within the atom. -
If 1t were not for that law, ac-
cording to scientists, "the universe
would consist of nothing but light
hydrogen gas" That should inter
est politicians, who, after the big
conventions, will live. until NOvem-
Der, in a universe consisting of some
thing lighter than light hydrogen
gas"
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-05-15

Much efficiency in cash rewards :;
Dillinger defied all the "G-men": a
reward was offered, and a red
haired lady delivered him to the
"G-men" bullets, and got $1,000.
Whether the $1,000 reward of
fered for karpis tempted some
friend of that courageous one re-
mains to be seen.
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-05-15

Englands new king, Edward the
Eighth, is said to be engaged TO mar
ry the Princess AleXandrine Louise
of Denmark, twenty-one years old,
the English kings third cousin.
The uncle of the young lady says
he and her father know nothing OF
it. Nevertheless, it is difficult to be-
lieve that King Edward will remain
bachelor, whether he marries this
charming young princess or some
other, possibly good healthy young
Scotch girl, if one available could
be found.
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-05-15

Fishing for Human Lives in Storm Swept Waters.
At length he reached the ledge the washed
him that
ledge until Carl down and carried him
While Carl carrying WimOt back the cliff John down
the ledge trying reach Pats Ousretched
another carried him
The rising high that dangerous
the ledge. Carl
WImot the of the cliff
time with line in his
the John caught and looped
neck" Pat land for a
there A the line
twisted
And then the bit of
the ledge stood Carl fishing rod in his hand slowly
shore That
Of a
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-05-15

The criminal is in business for
money, and when he can sell a
friend for $1,000, that seems prefer
able to risking his own life. The
reward system should be extended;
$4,000 reward for evidence resulting
In arrest and conviction of any
murderer.
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-05-15

1t makes a difference, even to
the No. l Public Enemy, I'll
never-be-taken-alive' bandit, which
way the gun is pointed. Mr.. Kar-
pis is taken, much alive, with no
struggle, beyond holding a straw
hat over his face to BATTLE pho
tOgraphers.
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-05-15
The Waves Finally Tossed Her Up to Safety.

Minutes passed while this strange
if Carl would ashore
had dashed her body against the thin
around her hand all but
bleed
John was done for A shark had gotten him."
More minutes Pat to
faint from the torture of that cutting ne Then Carl
Shouting
to reel in the line Inch by inch she
within her reach-she her (:
the ledge.
carried back
covered with blood Since day.
meaning of April Fools TO
awful tragedy"
UServc
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-30

New appointments ratified at the recent executive board meeting of the Connecticut State Federation of Womens Clubs include: First vice. president, Mrs. Joseph M. Gorton of Glastonbury, who has been the sec ond vice-president of the State Federation and is former presi- dent of the Glastonbury Woman's Club; second vice-president, Mrs. Henry G. Ellis of Torrington, who has been third vice-president of the State Federation, and is a former president of the Torrington Woman's Club; and third vice-president Mrs. John Geist of West Cheshire, Q former president of the Waterbury Woman's Club. The appointments were made to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of the first vice. president, Mrs. Wayne Darlington Smith of Meriden.
 Department appointments con- firmed are: Chairman, Department of American Home, Mrs. Raymond H. Gordon of Hartford, president of