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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-16

age to walk again, and Of the little heroine who brings everyone new zeSt for life.
 Arthur Preacher and Helen Vest ley play prominent roles in the story and Pauline Moore, Thomas Beck Mary Nash, Sidney Blackmer, Mady Christians and Sig Rumanfi are also featured in the cast.
 The companion feature Is Danger Love At Work", ( gay comedy with Jack Haley and Ann Sothern ir tho leading roles.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-16
POLl'S

Mirthful entertainment with tri- ple- powered value indicated In It's title comes to the Loew theater Sat" llrday in the Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer picture, "Llve, Love and Learn"
 Robert Montgomery and RoSallnd Russell, both favorites of the screen, have tho co-starring roles, Mont gomcry as a gay devil- may-care artist of Greenwich Village, Miss Russell as q daughter of society.
 Through her love for him she gives up the 400.moro- or.leSs of her set and goes 10 live in q garret with n north light, near q delicatcsscn and q Chinese laundry In the throb- bling heart of the village. Here, nd. venture ovcrtakes them and for & while shatters their romance.
 But true love and heroic measures combine to restore them to ono an- others arms and the lofty studio room. Montgomery goes back to his easel and rcbuilds the career that almost slipped when they part cd. The story is amusing and hes It's moments Of drama, but it !S largely intended for laughter and unquestionably gains It's point nt every move.
 Robert Bcnchley, humorlst and more recently actor, plays afl cx- cellent part. Others who stand out In the cast include Helen vlnson, Mickey Rooney, Monty Woolley, E. E. Give and Charles JudelS.
 The direction by George Fitz. maurice is of q superior brand. It was he who not long ago directed that successful film, "The Einper- OTIS Candlesticks," with William Powell and Luise Rainer.
 Live, Love and Learn" Is for the entire family. We are sure the audience will Do enthusiastic in It's praise.
 The companion feature on the program is Here's Flash Casey" with Eric Linden and Boots Mallory. Currently played at Loew's Poli Is the murder mystery "Thank You, MT. Moto," with Peter Lore and Jane Ragan. The second big hit on this program is Borrowing Trou- ble" with The Jones Family"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-16

1 monks, Earl Darlington, Robert Ly-
 sat-, James Marshall, Robert Neale, l Harold Htauffer.
Evening star., 1937-12-07

resist the cold and succumbed about
am.
About dawn. Mr.. Barnes attracted
the attention of George Grymes, King
George County farmer, who padded
a boat to the side of the submerged
craft and rescued the numbed man
and the body of Zeaman. Mr.. Barnes
is expected to recover
The two men, former employees of
the Chriscraft Motor Boat CO. sales
agency at Fourteenth and Water
streets NV, had left Washington at
1880 pm. yesterday to tow sailboat
to Baltimore with a rented 50-foot
motor launch.
The motor boat began to fill with
water about 8 o'clock last night. Mr..
Barnes said. Soon the motor was
choked, leaving the boat to drift in
the stiff northwest wind. Flares
Searchlights and stimulants we're in
the cabin, but were flooded with water
before they could be reached.
Friends here said the two men had
contracted with H. E. Ofhouse, who
formerly worked for bus company
here, to tow his sailboat to Baltimore,
where it was to be shipped aboard a
steamer to California.
Both men had worked at odd jobs
around the local waterfront, doing spe-
cial work for the Chriscraft agency
several times during the past two
years. They last worked for this COM
pany about month ago.
Evening star., 1937-12-07
Trapped When Boat Sinks,
d. e.. Man Freezes to Death
Another Rescued After 10 Hours in lev
P0tOnac-Suruiu0r Tells Story
of Narrowing Night.

One Washington riverman froze to
death and another was stricken Sc
verely by cold and exposure when
trapped on a sinking motor boat in
the Potomac River near Fredericks-
burg, Va. for 10 hours last night and
early today.
George T. Zeaman, %, of 329 Elev-
enth street S.W., succumbed in the
icy water about 4 am. today. His
companion. William Barnes, 80, of
625 L street S.W, won a desperate
fight to save his own life and keep
his friends body from being washed
away and was rescued about dawn by
a King George County farmer.
From his bed in the Mary WASH
ington Hospital at Fredericksburg to-
day, the Associated Press reported, Mr..
Barnes told narrowing tale of acute
suffering during the bitterly cold night
as the pair struggled for life on the
lce-covered and partly submerged boat
100 yards from the Virginia shore
near Fairview Beach, about 20 miles
from Fredericksburg.
A biting wind and freezing spray
raked the 48-foot motor sailer for
about 10 hours after the boat sprung
leak and settled to the bottom in
10 feet of water. Temperature on the
river last night was about is degrees.
Knee-deU in the icy water, hanging
on to the topmost part of the cabin,
the boatmen sought to keep their
bodies moving to maintain circula-
ton, but Mr.. Zeaman was unable to
Evening star., 1937-12-07
FEDERAL WORKERS
TO GET EXTRA DAY
President Excuses En-.
p|oyes From Duty Day
Before Christmas.

President Roosevelt today signed an
executive order excusing all Federal
employees from duty on Christmas
eve
The text of the order follows:
by virtue of and pursuant to the
authority vested in me as President
of the United States, it is hereby or
dered as follows:
Il. The several executive depart
ments, independent establishments
and other governmental agencies in
the District of Columbia, including
the Government Printing Office and
the Navy Yard and naval stations,
shall be closed all day on Friday, De-
cember "a, 1887, the day preceding
Christmas day; and all employees in
the Federal service in the District of
Columbia and in the field service of
the executive departments, independ-
ent establishments and other agencies
of the Government, except those who
may for special public reasons be ex-
cluded from the provisions of this
order by the heads of their respec-
tive departments, establishments or
agencies, or those whose absence
from duty would be inconsistent with
the provisions of existing law, shall
be excused from duty on that day.
.. This order shall be published
in the Federal Register"
Evening star., 1937-12-07
MERCURY AT ~;
COLDER FORECAST
Light Snow May Come Tomorrow
Night-Maryland and Virginia
Mountains Blanketed.

The temperature dropped to 20 de-
grees, the lowest of the season, here
this morning, and it probably will be
slightly colder before dawn tomorrow,
the Weather Bureau reported today.
The mercury reached the low point
one degree under the % degrees re-
corded on November 24-at 6 am.
and had risen to only 27 by 10 am.
The forecast called for continued
fair and cold weather, with the low
est temperature tonight about 20 de-
grees. Increasing cloudiness and
warmer weather are expected tomor-
row. with possibly light snow tomor-
row night.
Snow blanketed the mountain Sec
tions OF Virginia today. Highways OF
Western Shenandoah County were
covered with to 6 inches of snow
and ice.
Cumberland, Md, and adjacent
sections hsd from to 4 inches of
snow yesterday. Snow plows cleared
the roads in Garrett County, while
other trucks spread cinders on curves
and grades where slippery highways
endangered motorists.
Evening star., 1937-12-07
Three Seconds to Eternity!
American in Spain, Eyes Blown Out
Counts, Awaiting Own Grenade's Blast.

moustache over his mouth and doesn't
smile very often.
He wasn't raised to be q soldier.
His father died young and left Mrs.
Raven with five small children to feed,
one an infant. The children took
turns helping support the family,
Eugene and Thaddeus first Then,
when Bob got old enough, he took
over and let his brothers 60 to Eur
ope to study music. They wanted to
be concert musicians, Eugene a vio-
inist, Thaddeus flutist When they
had studied enough they came back
to pitch in and let Bob get on with his
trying to become a doctor, and all
helped their only sister, Lucy. She
was going to be great painter.
But the family had no luck. They
tried hard. Things just went against
them. Eugene and Thaddeus are on
the w. P. A. now in Pittsburgh. At
10, Lucy showed such promise that
she won q scholarship at Carnegie
Tech, which has one of the finest art
schools in the country. She seemed
to be on her way, but poverty had
taken toll on her strength, and be-
fore she could start Sic died of q
streptococcic infection. Mrs. Raven Is
in hospital in Pittsburgh with tuber-
culosis. Young Stanley has only Just
conquered the disease and is now
back at school in the eighth grade,
and finally there is Bob, a hero re-
turned from war.
Bob took the pre-medical course at
the University of Pittsburgh. For
three years he worked IL hours q day
in the Montefiore Hospital there as
male attendant while going to
school.
He got his degree as bachelor Of
(Sea RAVEN Page A-4.l
Evening star., 1937-12-07
BY IRA WOLFERT.

NEW YORh, Dec. 7 (NANA.).-
Robert Raven of Pittsburgh is grown
up today, an old man at "a. Both
eyes are cut out, and two toes are
gone. His right leg is shriveled with
shrapnel. His thin, old-looking face
is wrinkled with the marks of the
plastic surgeons knife, and where a
bullet tipped along the side of his
head there is narrow red line run
ming like gulley from temple to ear.
He has just returned here from
active service on the loyalist side for
two months as sergeant and for
10 days a lieutenant in the Abraham
Lincoln Brigade, composed of Amer
ican volunteers. He was wounded
three separate times in one month,
and the gallant manner in which he
received the wounds has been at
tested by his commanding officer, in
case that should do him any good
Young Bob Raven is the boy whom
Ernest Hemingway saw in the Amer
ican hospital in Spain last April and
wrote about. Hemingway described
his face as looking like some hill that
has been fought over in muddy
weather and then baked in the sun. +"
But it doesn't look like that any
more The plastic surgeons are artists,
and there are Just these fine, delicate
little flicks, like brush marks of a
careless painter, across the ruddy,
healthy skin. He wears dark glasses
over where mis- eyes used to be, but
aside from that he is small, neat
looking man with high, round FORE
head from which the thinning blond
hair is retreating. Some of his teeth
were blown out by the conclusion Of 4
grenade. He wears little golden
Evening star., 1937-12-07
Lopez and Orchestra Go on Air
TONIGHT IN Christmas Broadcast
Program to Be Heard Orer WMAL
Starting at lO:3O-CMldren at Hospi.
tai to Be Interviewed Tomorrow.

Make date with your radio tonight
to hear Vincent Lopez and his new
"Suave Swing" Orchestra on the air,
broadcasting for The Star-Warner
Bros.-N, B. c. Christmas Campaign.
The time is 1890 to II pm. The place
is $50 kilocycles (WMAL) on your
radio dial. White tie, black tie or
dressing gown and slippers.
Featured on the program will be
Vincent Lopez at the piano. Fred
Lowery. the Whistling Troubadour;
Johnnie Woods, impersonator. and
other soloists The swing maestro's
orchestra is at the Earle Theater this
week and is heard over the radio on
behalf of the campaign through the
courtesy of the Musicians Protective
Union, Washington Local 16l. A. C.
Hayden. president.
Boys and girls in Ward F, Children's
Evening star., 1937-12-07
PRESIDENTS X-RAY
GRAT|F|ESD0CTORS
Bone Is Not Involved in
Infection of Gum, Pic.
lures Show.
Picture on Page A-3)
picture on Page A-3.)
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
White House officials said today ex-
animation of X-ray photographs had
disclosed mo bone involvement" in
President Roosevelt's unhealed tooth
socket.
Secretary Early told reporters this
meant it would be unnecessary to
scrape the jawbone to help the heal
ing.
He added the infection was confined
solely to the soft tissue of the gum
and;that another treatment, involving
cleansing Of the socket from which a
tooth recently was extracted, was
given this morning
Shortly afterward the President re-
turned to his Office and arranged to
see Labor Secretary Perkins at lunch.
Others were given appointments dur
ing the afternoon
Secretary Early said DR.. Ross T.
McIntire, naval physician, and 1t
Comdr. Arthur H. Yando of the Naval
Dental Corps had examined the x-ray
photographs. taken Immediately after
the President reached the White
House yesterday from his curtailed
Florida vacation.
There Is still some soreness and
slight drainage, but both Dr. McIntire
and Comdr. Yando are highly gratified
at the reading of the pictures" Mr.
Early said.
DR.. McIntire had commented
earlier that the President had re.
gained strength and was feeling ship
shape"
Mr.. Roosevelt, bronzed from his
fishing trip, was welcomed at Union
Station by Vice President Garner
Speaker Bankhead. six cabinet off,
GERS, and five Democratic congress
sional leaders The train arrived in
furry of snow, in contrast to the
warm sun that beat down on the
yacht Potomac as the President
cruised for six days around the
Florida KeyS
Evening star., 1937-12-07
(See LOPEZ, Page A-5.)
MRS. ROOSEVELT
QUESTIONS $17PAY
D. c. Minimum for Women
"Seems Rather Low"
She Saws.

Mrs Franklin D. Roosevelt today
expressed the opinion that the SIT
minimum wage standard recently set
for women retail employees in the Dis
trict seems rather low, but added that
the standard may prove a help" If
efforts are made to prevent the figure
from becoming the maximum salary
scale for employees affected.
The Presidents wife stated her be-
lief that the basic wage in any occu-
patton should be living wage. She
pointed out, however, that the amount
of skill and training required in vari-
Gus occupations should be considered
in the establishment of all such mini
mum scales.
She is always afraid that wages will
be geared to the lower standard, Mrs.
Roosevelt said. Such questions should
be considered from that point of view
of the best that can be done rather
than the lowest possible figure that
can be arrived at, she added
Mrs. Roosevelt also expressed in
terest in the surveys and investiga-
tions being made at Gallinger Hos
pital. She has visited the institution
only once, however, she said.
Evening star., 1937-12-07
DU POINT PROPOSES.
100000 NEW Jobs.
IndustriaIist Sees New Era
by Planned Investment
of $4,000, 100000.
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Dec. IA 2-to-50-
year plan to create 100000 new jobs
through planned investment of S25,-
000,o0o,o00 by private industry, was
proposed today by Lammot du Pont,
president of E. l. du Pont de Nemours
& Co., in an address at the National
Association of Manufacturers Conven-
ton.
Du Pont pictured bringing about Of
a new era with eventual elimination
of poverty anda., unemployment.
through this threefold program:
l. Development and popularization
of new products.
2. Vastly broadening the market
for existing products through lower
ing their cost.
3. Maintaining rule of fair re-
turn for all effort, not excepting capi-
tai effort"
Fair Opportunity" Asked.
Industry can put this plan into ef-
feet, he said, if given a fair opportu-
nity' through a threefold govern
mental pledge covering these points:
l. "Stabilization of tax rates over a
definite period"
2. "Stabilization of fair laboring
conditions over definite period"
3. Immediate Stabilization of the
legal rules" under which business
must operate, subject only to "unmis-
taxable public demand" for amend
ment.
But new jobs, new wealth. farm
prosperity, cannot be picked like
dreams and theories out of the air.
he said. They can be produced only
through planned research, planned
development, and by planned expan-
sion of plant, sales, administrative
and other facilities, which means at
every step the planned expenditure of
capital months and years in advance
of one penny of return. And this
must be intelligent planning"
Fog of Uncertainty"
The largest industries, the smallest
merchant, he explained, must gauge
the future in operating their business.
obviously, then, when the future
is uncertain, business is uncertain,
he said. To-day industry is blanketed
by fog of uncertainty.
Uncertainty rules the tax situation,
(Sae MI POINT por, AaI
Evening star., 1937-12-07
WILSON MENTIONED
TO SUCCEED DODD
Assistant Secretary of State May
Be Appointed Ambassador
to Reich.
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
1t was reported today in diplomatic
circles that Hugh r. Wilson, Assistant
Secretary of State, soon will be ap-
pointed Ambassador to Germany, to
replace William E. Dodd, who is ex-
pected to resign.
State Department officials declined
to discuss the report, referring all in
quiries on the subject to the White
House. Mr.. Wilson also declined to
discuss the matter.
Mr.. Wilson, a veteran career diplo-
mat, has served only four months as
Assistant Secretary of State. He was
called to the post by Secretary Hull
after more than 10 years as Minister
to Switzerland
Mr.. Dodd, a former professor Of
American history at the University Of
Chicago, has served as President
Roosevelt's envoy to Germany since
June, 1888. 1t was understood in
diplomatic circles that he expects to
return to the university some time
next year.
Evening star., 1937-12-07

because the joyful occasion of
Christmas is nearing. Let us
not, however, be so content that
we overlook the misery, the pow
erty, the unfulfilled longings
and the disappointments of the
many for whom the year has
spelled, not through any faults
of their own, failure. Let us
consider how we can bring some
pleasure into the lives of those
who lack enough food, enough
clothing, and whose children
may awake Christmas morning
to look at a room as bleak, as
empty, as toyless as it is on every
other day of the year.
There is a way for each of
us who can afford such gratifi-
cation of his spirit and Senti-
Evening star., 1937-12-07
HOUSE D. c. GROUP
VISITS GA[L|NGER
Appropriations Unit Views
Three Structures Erected
During Civil War.

Continuing its tour Of District insti-
tutions, the House Subcommittee on
District Appropriations made a 10
minute visit today to overcrowded GAL
linger Hospital, focal point of con-
troversy over adequacy of public
disqualification.
Headed by Chairman Collins, the
subcommittee did not go into the main
buildings of the hospital, but spent
the 10 minutes inspecting the three old
structures built during the Civil War
days. which are now being USED to
hospitalize tuberculosis patients. DR..
Edgar A. Bocock, superintendent Of
the hospital, had hoped the subcom-
mittee would observe congested condi-
tions in the main hospital building as
well as in an old building erected in
1848 in which child patients are
quartered.
DR.. George c. Rutland, District
health officer, and Capt. H. S. Bishop.
jr., assistant to Engineer Commits
sioner Dan I. Sultan, accompanied the
subcommittee.
The subcommittee already has in
spected the old Police Court Building
IT Sixth and D streets NV, the old
second police precinct station on Fifth
street between M and N, which houses
the WomanS Bureau of the Police
Department, and the Reformatory at
Lorton, Va. and the Workhouse at
Occoquan, Va.
Chairman Collins indicated he was
pleased with the administration of
penal institutions under Ray L. Huff,
the new general superintendent, as
we'll as the steps he has taken to re-
duce operating costs. The most i'm
portant need of the penal institutions,
he said, is more modern quarters for
woman prisoners now forced to live
in f1imsy old frame buildings on the
Workhouse reservation.
Evening star., 1937-12-07

Hospital, who are likely to spend their
Christmas in bed there, will be inter-
viewed for the radio audience tomor-
row night by Lee Everett. announcer
for N. B. c. This program will be on
WMAL from 7:30 to 7:45 pm, and a
number of children. ranging in age
from 2 to - years of age. have been
asked to tell you at that time what
they would like Santa Claus to bring
them for Christmas The 2-year -old.
nurses reported today, is rehearsing
his speech diligently. Arrangements
for this broadcast. designed to call
your attention to the needy children
OF Washington. have been made
through the kindness of Miss Matte
M. Gibson, superintendent of Chill
dren's Hospital; Miss Ashby Taylor,
Evening star., 1937-12-07

the human the personal Santa Claus to those
who might otherwise without If make your presents
the hapess through the Christmas campaign being con-
Quoted pubczed The Star in cooperation with Warner
theaters National Broadcasng the Metropolitan
Association it is probable that
Santa Claus will visit every home hope that all the citizens
of the District will support this noble work.
MELVIN c. HAZEN,
President of the Board of Commissioners
for the District of Columbia"
Evening star., 1937-12-07
HOLD-UP MEN GET 1925

NEW YORK, Dec. P)-Three un-
masked robbers, two of them armed,
staged daring hold-up today in the
heart of the Grand Central district in
midtown Manhattan.
The bandits locked the assistant
manager and a woman cashier of the
Ohio Finance Co.. on the sixth floor
of an Office building on Forty-second
street, just off Fifth avenue, in a
closet and fed with 1925.
Evening star., 1937-12-07
By the Associated Press

NIbll 1ilCulCNdl lduuSTS,
By the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI, Dec. 7.-Advance COL
umns OF japanese troops assailed Nam
kings historic walls tonight.
japanese officers who announced the
attack said a spearhead of the in
vaders was attempting to climb the
citys massive battlements with seal
ing ladders.
Gates Of the apparently doomed
city were closed. Chinese had started
final stand which seemed destined
to fail
Japanese asserted that their main
forces had not yet reached the city.
but added that they we're progressing
satisfactorily and according to sched-
ule."
The spokesman did not say how
soon he expected the fall of the one
time fountainhead of Nationalist
China.
Chang and Wife Flee.
Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek,
China's leader, had left Nanking, Chi
nese advisers disclosed. He and
Nine. Chang, head of China's air
force, were said to have departed by
airplane for Nanchang, capital of the
interior Province Of Kiangsi. The
government evacuated two weeks ago,
Meager foreign dispatches trickline
through from Marking confirmed
Japanese reports that Nippon's war
planes had pounded the city with
bombs. These advices, however, did
not mention the extent of casualties
or damage.
Japanese had asserted that 90
planes raided the city in the most in
tensive bombardment of the war thus
far.
The raids apparently were aimed
at military objectives in the city's en-
virons. japanese claimed their air.
| force had struck at towns and cities of
the Lower Yangtze Valley as far as
Anking, deep in Anhwei Province. de-
stroying airfields, aircraft and military
| equipment.
The Chinese boom at Kiangyin,
blocking Japanese warships from an
attack on Marking, remained intact.
japanese previously had reported its
| destruction.
Grip on Marking frightened.
Japan's grip on Nanking frightened
Early today the japanese reported
they had blocked all exits from
Marking on the south, while a spear
head unit thrust toward the Yangtze
River which curves around the city's
western and northern fringes.
Japanese rolled up field artillery to
cover attempts of infantry to enter
the city by scaling its walls. The sur
rounding Japanese Army gained in
numbers throughout the night and
early morning.
Japanese lines stretched from the
Marking Shanghai railroad on the
north over the Purple Mountain where
Sun Vat Sens tomb is located-the
national shine of the Republican China
he founded.
Fires ragged in Nanking, throwing up
columns of smoke which correspond
ents said could be seen for miles.
(The last dispatch direct from
(See SHANGHAI, Page A-6.)