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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-03
CHAPTER TX

Marcia's plane had left Chicago in weather which was only little better than bad enough to suspend eervicc. There had been indications of improvement, sufficient to permit the plane's departure, but, several hours on the way, the pilot encoun- tered conditions which the airport had not expected. The wind veered suddenly, bringing snow, and then shifting again, forced the temper ,ature down, 50 that ice formed on the wings.
 The passengers who observed at all noticed vaguely that the pilot seemed to be seeking q more fav- Orable altitude and wind conditions. but they could not, of course, know when the co-pilot found the radio suddenly dead.
 Marcia. gazing through her win. dow into the haze at mental im- ages which the poor visibility of tho day could not erase, rG ..zca that the plane was about to land. She had not acquainted herself with the schedule of the flight and thought that they were making a regular stop, until she noticed that tho landing was to be attempted not et an airport but Fin q field, sncw-covcred and Isolated.
 Considering the snow, the pilot made an excellent landing: 1t was not his fault that Undiscovered fence brought his plane to an ab- rupf stop, jerking, the craft to one side 50 violently, 4that wing dipped and one propeller was badly damaged, and the passen- gers were rudely jolted.
 Instantly there was a chorus of questions. The pilot and co-pilot emerged from the control room and patiently and at length ex- plaincd the decreasing visibility and the silent radio.
 Then the two men opened q door and disappeared in the mist.
 
 Under the ministrations of the stewardesS, the cabin took on something of the atmosphere of a PtIAAtSs AitS NOAANC hAatA Dtkhid which would have been served within half an hour at any event were passed around, and people began to speak to their neighbors Of their escape from a serious ac- cident, ard of possible continuing transportation.
 In the midst of these festivities Bruce McDougall, having finished with his refreshments, turned in his seat and glanced at the pas sengcrs behind him. He saw Mar cia. and his face broke into the same broad yet strangely embar- rassed grin which she had seen earlier at the hotel in Chicago Then he was on his feet, making his way down the noisy aisle to- ward her.
 "Will y6' believe he said bend- Ing over her, that I'm not actually following you?"
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Brain Twizzlers By Prot. ]. D. Flint

A famous gambling casino once had . regular patron who often left at the end of his play with exactly nothing. The casino man. agement had a fee system which required payment of one dollar for ea.h person who passed through any one of three doors even # they were leaving. one in the east end, one in the west end and one be- tween the two large rooms of the casino.
 One time 1t happened that the rAxular patron entered the east door Of the casino. lost half Of the sn0n- ey he had left at the big gaming table. sent through the door into tigs 0ther room. lost half of shat he had left. sent out the west door. returned through the west door. lost half 0f whnt he'd left. went through ass door Into the other room. i0st hkif ef what hs he'd there and left hv tue east door wlth TO money Ut. W0w much money must he have had when he ste7ted7
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colony may be re- turned to Ger. many.
 Both Germany and France have issued stamps for this colony. A German stamp is nlanaasrn AAnn
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GERMANY again is looking to.
 ward her former colonies in Africa, and one of the likeliest spots is Togoland, in West Africa, now held by mandate under French control. Here, close to the equator, life is difficult for white settlers. especially near the coast, where the tsetse fly spreads the dangerous sleeping sickness.
 By 1884, Germany had estab. lished eight trading stations in Togoland, and hoisted her flag there. By 1913, this became Ger. many's only self-supporting col- ony in Africa, her chief source of palm oil and cotton. The Treaty of Versailles divided the colony between England and France.
 Since then Togoland has pros- pered, increasing greatly it's ex- ports of cocoa, oil palm products, cotton, and copra (dried coconut meats). Under the League of Nations mandate, however, the
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The Washington times., 1937-12-20
DEMOCRAT CLUB
SLATE PICKED

MT. RAINIER. Md, Dec. 20.-.
Robert Sherwood, Of Mt. Rainier,
Nd, will run unopposed for re-
election to the presidency Of the
Young Mems Democratic Club of
Prince Georges county in the an
nual election Of officers January 10.
Leo w. Dunn, Of Brentwood, sec
on6 vice president, and W. waverly
Webb, Of Hyattsville, treasurer,
have also been renominated with
out opposition.
Other candidates for office are
william A. Carson, mayor Of River
dale, for first vice president, and
e. Nelson Snouffer, Calvert Hills,
for secretary.
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'LOStrSiSterS'
Club Starts
AtDuquesne

PITTSBURGH dN.S0. Out,
numbered more than 20 to / by
male students IL. Duquesne Univer-
Sity's school of business admins.
tration, is goods have formed a
Lost Sisters" Club.
Miss Annabelle Lancaster, a
senior, was elected first president.
The organization claims its aim is
to prove that women are as cap
able as men in handling of execu-
tive positions.
The Lost Sisters" will attempt
to furnish the first bit of proof in
an intelligence quiz scheduled for
the near future.
The Washington times., 1937-12-20
FRANCO FORCES.
B 0 NJ B BORDER.
TOWN IN DRIVE.
Action Seen ReprisaI
For TerueI Attack

pERPIGNAN, France, Dec. 20
0.N.S0. Spanish insurgent
planes today twice raided the
loyalist-held border town Of Port
Bou, dropping 80 bombs which
caused heavy damage but no
casualties.
1t was reported that a mysteri-
Gus vessel, with all lights extin.
guished, cruised few miles off
the port during the raids.
BARCELONA BOMBED
Earlier, insurgent warplanes
raided Barcelona, with a light of
a full moon, in reprisal for the
loyalist offensive against Teruel.
Reports from Bar celona claimed
bombs dropped by the insurgent
aircraft hit two hospitals, caus-
Ing many casualties.
Advices from Seville stated the
Teruel offensive was developing
some heavy fighting north and
west Of the city. It was estimated
10000 government troops were
pushed back, losing more than
1000 dead. Six hundred more
loyalist troops were reported cut
off from their main armies when
they launched counter-attacks at
three points on the front.
FIGHT IN BITTER COLD
Barcelona reports stated the
lighting was raging despite a tenn.
perature Of ten degrees below
zero. These reports claimed Ter.
uel was completely surrounded by
the loyalists and within range of
government artillery.
Advices from Salamanca. how.
ever, stated that desperate coun.
ter-attacks against insurgent posi-
t1ons south Of the city were strong.
" repulsed with heavy losses"
The Washington times., 1937-12-20

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 20 U.N.sJ.
Jeanette Macdonald, singing
screen star, today was making
rapid recovery from an attack Of
ptomaine poisoning.
Described as mot serious" the
actress illness prevented her from
making a scheduled. broadcast last
night.
The Washington times., 1937-12-20

4, A Miniature Bible Land That You
Can Tour In Single Day. Brother
Soseph's Reproduction At Alabama's
enedIcttne Monastery, OF All the
aOly Lands Historic Places, Pictured
The. American weekly, with SIM.
aay's WashinEtOn HeraId. .Timea. =
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DESERT AIR PURE

Desert air Is freer from micro
organisms than that Of moist re-
gionS.
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ROBINSON CASE
MYSTERY GAINS

NEW YORK, Dec. 20 G.N.S0.
The mysterious "Mr. and Mrs.
Donald Robinson" under arrest
or already executed in Moscow,
may not even have been Amer.
leans. it was hinted today by au.
thorities continuing their inves-
tigation as to how the pair OBJ
tanned fraudulent American pass
ports.
It was believed the passports,
issued in the names of two New
York children long dead, may
have been Smuggled across the
Atlantic to them.
The further theory was consid-
cred that they were foreigners
concerned in a plot to overthrow
the Stain regime,
The Washington times., 1937-12-20

SET ICE RECORD
The Montreal Canadiens set
National Hockey League record by
going undefeated in nine straight
games.
Evening star., 1937-05-07

in accordance. with these plans), the
casing and rendering departments Of
the proposed plant will have open at
mospheric ventilation. This means
that the smells from these operations
will be discharged directly into the
open air, affording no control Of this
nuisance which, under conditions
prevalent in the District, will vitiate
the wind and be smelled for miles.
8. DEAD ANIMALS.
There are indications on the plans
that dead animal processing Is con-
templated as an operation Of the
rendering plant. Such operations
would attract scourge of blow flies
and be future source of uncontrolled
processing stencil. In addition, blood
from the killing beds is to be dried
and ground and while the other
fertilizer treatment and handling Is
not specified in detail, dust collectors
are not indicated on the plans. Dried
blood in powdered form Is taken up
and carried by the slightest breeze
A strong draft will send clouds of
this substance into the air. In the
proposed plant the type Of construc-
ton and open ventilation would mean
that this dust arising from the driers
and grinders would be carried into
the atmosphere and settle on and In
the homes and buildings Of the
vicinity. Under certain circum-
stances, this dried blood dust may
be carried a considerable distance
by the wind and deposited on win
dow sills, balconies. doorways and
the like. When this dust is wet by
rain 1t revertS to some extent to its
former character and becomes ex-
tremely offensive.
d. POLLUTION.
The proposed plant would be To-
Gated, in part, over stream of water
known as Popes Run. Popes Run is
a natural drainage for spring and
storm water for a large area of land
and, after passing beneath the pro-
posed plant, its pollution would be
inevitable. This polluted stream
courses through private property and
empties into the Anacostia River at
or near the lily ponds development
whose purpose of affording recreating
and civic beauty will definitely be
impaired by the effluent from the
stock yards and environment.
5. DETERIORATION OF
PROPERTY VALUES.
"The circumstances surrounding
operation of an abattoir inevitably
attach a stigma to the neighborhood
Of the plant. In this particular in
stance, especially in view of the
heavy concentration of traffic cross
ing the viaduct at this point, it would
mean the creation of a stock yards
district in Washington in the center
of an extensive proposed public i'm
provements, and completely sur
rounded by vast park system.
From the above and other similar
causes of nuisance the whole district
in the vicinity of the slaughter house.
packing plant and stock yards should
deteriorate in value very rapidly"
Evening star., 1937-05-07
PROBE WIDENING
IN TAYLOR Staying
Los Angeles Grand Jury
: Hears Mary Miles Minter,
Mother and Sister.
Iy the Associated Press,

LOS ANGELES, May THE be-
hind-the- Staying Of the ace
movie director, William Desmond
Taylor, at time when he was en-
gagged to wed the screens young dar-
ling, Mary Miles Minter, may draw
. new, exhaustive inquiry after being
Cnsolved for is years.
The district attorneys Office dis
closed today that such an inquiry
was being considered by the county
grand jury now studying the latest
chapter of the voluminous file.
Two intimate diaries of Miss Minter
And a reputed old romance with the
one-time screen hero, James Kirk
wood, were drawn into the picture.
However, District Attorney Buron
Fits was quick to say he could see
nothing in these which might shed
light on the biggest real life mystery
In movieland.
Assuring ''Kirkwood isn't implicated
IN this case" Fits said he might ask
the former matinee idol, now in Grand
Rapids, Mich, for a statement, "but
It would have to be voluntary state
ment"
Miss Minter, her mother, Mrs Char
lotte Shelby, and her sister, Mrs. Mar
garet Fillmore, now estranged from
the rest of the family, appeared be-
fore the grand jury yesterday.
Mrs Shelby said she was asked if
abe shot Taylor or knew who did, and
replied mo tc both questions.
Evening star., 1937-05-07

O'Connell, who disclaimed all re-
sponsibility for, or connection with
prior petition placed before the
appellate court by John M. Holzworth
New York attorney, who recently
entered the case as associate counsel
for Jordon.
Both papers, however, set out sub
stantially the same new evidence
which consists Of q police incidental
and statements by several persons to
whom Mrs. Jaynes spoke shortly after
she was shot. These are to the effect
that the slayer was tall, fair man.
Jordon Is short and dark.
New Law Is Cited.
Whelan and O'Connell agree with
Assistant United States Attorney
Roger Robb that the new evidence Is
hearsay and could not have been
introduced had 1t been known Of
during the trial. They called atten-
ton, however. to an act Of Congress
signed by the President June 20, 1896.
just three months and three days
after Jordon's conviction.
The gist Of the statute is that any
writing made in the usual course OF
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AbattOir
Continued From Page B-1.)

act numbers of livestock transported
on railroad cars and delivered by
truck cannot be determined, but the
professors, no doubt, will complete
their requirements for a daily kill by
supplementing what may arrive by
truck through purchase at the stock
yards in Baltimore. This would mean
the movement in and out of railroad
traffic with shunting engines, whistles
and bells throughout the day and
night with the accompaniment of
livestock bawling and stencil from the
filled and empty railroad cars.
THE chimneys, roof ventilators,
slaughter, rendering, processing and
sewage ventilation stacks of the pro-
posed plant would discharge free
gasses to the atmosphere below or on
an approximate level with the Ben
ming viaduct. All highway traffic
along Benning road concentrates at
this viaduct and would have to pass
through an odor curtain discharging
directly from killing floors, processing
tanks and the inedible rendering de-
partment where fertilizer is pre-
pared. The plant would be located
at low point where atmospheric con-
ditions probably would allow heavy
odors to accumulate and seep through
out the neighborhood Under proper
atmospheric conditions, and with the
wind in the right direction, there
can be no question but what typical
stockyards stencil will drift over a
considerable portion of the city.
The plans show new casing de-
partment,' which means that the in
testines of the slaughtered animals
will be evacuated of fecal content and
the slime scraped off the inner side
Of the intestinal tube. Slime from
htestines has pervading smell, Of
fensive in the extreme 1t is possible
to control to large extent the smell
arising from these operations If de-
partments are isolated and 50 con-
structed as to provide for internal air
conditioning and the obnoxious pro-
cessing gasses are burned at high tenn
peratures. However, under the pres
ent plans (and the plant must be built
Evening star., 1937-05-07

business to record happening shall
be admissible in evidence in Federal
courts, although the circumstances Of
its making may be shown to affect
It's weight.
This law, the attorneys claim, would
let In the incidental, should 4 new
trial be granted. and the circumstan-
ces surrounding its making could be
shown to indicate It's credibility.
Evening star., 1937-05-07
STATE CLUB TO MEET

The New York State Democratic
Club will hold its May dance and
card party tomorrow evening at the
Washington Hotel. The card party
will begin At o'clock and the dance
1T $50.
The whole New York delegation in
the House has been invited, as well
as Senators Wagner and Copeland.
A. J. Lapoat Is in chrage Of arrange
ments, and Mrs. William Curran
heads the Women's Committee. There
will be card prizes.
Evening star., 1937-05-07
NEW LAW IS CITED
IN T-SHOPPE CASE
Counsel File Plea for Con-
demned Man They Say
Witnesses Cleared,

Invoking a law enacted three
months after jury found Thomas
Jordon guilty Of numbering Mrs,
Lizzie S. Jaynes during the Garden
T-Shoppe hold-up six years ago,
counsel for the condemned man today
petitioned the United States Court Of
Appeals to grant him a new oppor-
tunity to prove his innocence. His
execution Is set for next Friday.
The petition was filed by Attorneys
Harry T. Whelan and William B.
Evening star., 1937-05-07
DR.. RUSTIN TO SPEAK
Youth Conference Banquet Will
Be Held Tonight.

DR.. John w. Rustin. minister OF
Mount Vernon Methodist Church. will
address the banquet of the Interde-
nominational Youth Conference at Z
O'Clock tonight In Calvary Baptist
Church. He will discuss Problems
Which Young People Must Face"
The conference continues at 2 pm.
tomorrow with discussion groups and
addresses by Prof. Hornell Hart OF
Hartford Theological Seminary.
Evening star., 1937-05-07

Whites and pestek, genuine
feathers, wood beads, rough
weave materials. Some with
fittings and upper fastening.
Evening star., 1937-05-07

Send cher" box Of Fannie MAY
today. We mail candy anywhere.
All you pay is the postage and small
cost Of carton. Your candy insured
free.
Evening star., 1937-08-01

the Quarantine Station in Charleston,
when he lived there.
He's going to study law when he goes
to college, but that won't interfere with
his hobby of model boats.
ONE OF these days, however, he's
going back TO making tiny models,
only his future craft won't be for bath
tubs-it'll be so small and pliable he
can place it inside glass bottle, just
as sailors did in olden times. His
grandmother has nice one and John
explains the mystery of getting the
boat boat into the slim bottle neck.
You make the hull like any boat,
but it's got to be small enough to go
through the bottle neck. of course
Then the masts and sails are made
SO they'll fold up, but strings are at
tached to pull them erect once you've
got the boat in the bottle. She stands
up fullrigged, then, and you just fasten
the strings and put in the cork"
1t sounds simple enough, and prob
ably is to John. considering the many
boats he's made already. But model
boat making certainly isn't the easiest
hobby to be found!
Evening star., 1937-08-01

serve in making these jobs a success
will interest many other boys.
ONCE wrote story about boy
who caught mice and sold them
to laboratory at 81 each. There are
lots of mice, are there? Well, did you
ever try to catch mouse and deliver
him some place in good health? Two
other local boys run shoeshine busi-
ness during the Summer, canvassing
from house to house in the residential
area.
However these are unusual methods
of earning money, and whether you
make it running errands for mother,
washing dishes, washing the car, cut
ting the lawn, minding your younger
brothers and sisters or the, younger
children next door, why not tell about
1t in letter to The Star? 1t may
mean money in the bank.
And remember, letters should be ad-
dressed to the editor of the Children's
Page of The Star and don't forget
to give your name, age and address.
Two new topics will be published
on this page next Sunday, to be writ
ten about for the following week. So
far, good many original ideas have
come in in answer to requests for
them on this page. Helen Drain, l6.
OF 535 Irving street northwest, for
example, suggests that some time dur
ing this contest month, boys and girls
be asked to write on their travels, good
citizenship and school. However, the
next topics will be named week from
today. If you know Of topic that
you think should be selected. will YOU
write to the Children's Page Editor?
Evening star., 1937-08-01
Oriental Sbun Candy.

CANDY blowers in China sell spun
sugar candy on the streets to big
eyed little boys and girls. The candy
blower will make your candy in any
shape yau ask for. He blows sugar
sweets from his pipe formed like ami
mails, birds and toys. He balances
his kettle of boiling sugar sirup on
long pole but never spills drop.
Streets in China are gay with lad
vertising noises" as each vendor an
nounces his coming Besides calling
his wares, each salesman sounds some
instrument. The barber hits a brass
triangle, the man with dumplings
rattles little wooden mallet, the linen
seller beats small gold drum. And
what you hear singing in that little
cage on the back of the old man
over there is not canary-it's a pet
toy cricket!
Evening star., 1937-08-01

A/ of the original Our Gang"
" " movie comedies of dozen
and more years ago?
Most of the readers of this page
are too young to remember them, but
thier fathers and mothers, their older
brothers and sisters will recall with
chuckle Farina, the Saucer-eyed
colored elf, with kinky pigtails; Joe,
the roly-poly fat boy; Johnny, the
ringleader, the good Hooking boy filled
with mischievous deviltry, Mary, the
golden-hair little sweetheart Of the
gang, and Jackie. lozenge-eyed, and
so tousle- e-haired that he was known
as 'the boy who combs his hair with
an egg beater."
To the movie-goers of 1928 it
must have seemed that these ca
PRECIOUS children of the screen-"Hal
Roach's Rascals" they were called
would never grow up; there was the
illusion that they would forever re-
main Peter Parish, scampering in
their hilarious. childish play from one
trick to another.
ouG lIlCll lCkS elS" loiIS, lllSil 1oSCo
changed and they outgreW their star
dom.
Jackie-John Michael Condon-tells
what has become of the gang He
has been visiting Bob Hunter, son Of
DR.. S. A. Dulany Hunter of the
Georgetown University Foreign Serv-
ice School, and Mrs. Hunter, at their
Kenwood, Md, home.
Farina, who is a boy, although he
appeared to be a girl in the Our
Gang" comedies, is in high school,
but is not out of the movies entirely,
having played in few Joe E. Brown
pictures.
Joe-Joe Cobb-has just graduated
from an Oklahoma high school. Mary
Mary Kornmann-is married to
Hollywood cameraman and has a
baby. Johnny Downs has returned
to acting. He played the juvenile
lead in Turn Of the Moon
A handsome youth of 49, with wavy
hair, Jackie Condor plans to continue
the acting career which he began at
the age of 3. He has been studying
dramatics in Junior high school and
high school, and plans to continue
his studies at a school which Spe-
cializes in this kind of instruction. He
hopes to go on the stage before re-
turning to the screen. ShakeSpearean
roles are his ultimate ambition.
While still in the toddling stage
Jackie. his older brother and sister
were taken by their mother to the Hal
Roach studio in answer to an adver-
tisement for child performers. The
youngest Condor took direction so
well that he was signed up at once.
and remained with the gang" seven
years, making as many as l3 pictures
year. A private tutor taught the "ras-
GALS their three RS in classes at
the studio. When on location, but not
actually at work. the children at
classes and study.
During his movie days, Jackie
earned from $50 to $50 a day. His
mother invested most of his earnings
in property. Property values have de-
teriorated. and he is not the rich
youngster he once was, but there are
ample funds to pay for his education
and keep him comfortably.
Jackie's brother Patrick is an un-
dergraduate at Georgetown Univer-
sity. His sister is employed here with
the Treasury Department..