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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-03

character of Peggy Shippen Arnold. Her pride was as deep etched as that of her clustering pride bitten husband himself. Her loyalty to that and to him was ultimate.
 The letter finished, she waited again. There was presently com motion at the door. Arnold lived. The "ilisinua tions'' regarding his conduct in America were honor ably assuaged. And here was the Earl of Lauderdale himself, calling to express concern that I had been unhappy" as she recorded later.
 It was probably the most satis- factory moment in Arnold's whole later career. But it did not bring much lasting comfort to him or his wife. What strikes one most in it all," a chronicler remarks, sum- ming up the case of Benedict and Peggy Arnold. lis the frightful, des- perate solidarity of husband and wife, through Heaven and Hell.'
 Again it is observed: "The most assuaging aspect of the strange tragedy is the tenderness of his young and lovely wife, the enfold- ing, sustaining affection that shines like delicate, pale star in the chaos of utter ruin"
 .,a
 PEGGY NEVER VOICED
 REGRETS OVER CHOICE
 It was not only spiritual support that Peggy gave her husband in
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jected.
 Arnold soon became destitute and was forced into commerce. He trad ed between the West Indies, St, Johns, and England, and, as usual. his luck was out. In the French wars. he fitted out privateers, and lost them. Nothing worked. There was something consistently crazy, desperate, even sinister, about his luckless projects.
 WIPES LOYALTY
 WAS UNQUESTIONING
 "The desolate, chill dawn of Lon don crept down the quiet street. The sound of a slammed door echoed in the ears of the woman who waited. She tried to calculate the time: So much time to get to Kilburn We'll. So much time to ar- range the preliminaries pace off the distance, load the pistols, spread the surgical kit on the ground So short a time for a pistol ball to strike home!
 Peggy Arnold while her husband was dueling with Lord Lauderdale, sought to distract herself by writ ing 8 letter.
 Weak woman as I am," she wrote, T would not wish to prevent what would be deemed necessary to preserve his honor"
 In that short sentence is fixed forever the salient virtue of the
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exile. She bore him child after child. And more practical still, she found the money, through her fath- er-then chief justice of Penrisylva- nia-for his wildcat, scatterbrained ventures and their actual susten- ance.
 The judges remittances totaled many thousand pounds. his son-irl- law having a curiously debonair way with money. All his invest ments were gambles. most of them taken against his wife's advice.
 If Arnold was notoriously reck- less, Peggy was highly scrupulous. The child-bride had developed into a woman of strong character. At his death, in 1901, she was able to square away his obligations, satisfy her own innate determination to look the worlS Square in the face. debtless. She sold the furniture, the wine cellar, "and many other con- forts" As
 T am now living" she writes. "in very small house in Expansion Street, using furniture purchased from Carlow Ga servant) who is nov more independent woman than her mistress .. My father is yer good to me. But for his aid, I should have suffered still more wretchedneSS
 Then comes the news: T have paid every ascertained debt due from the estate of my late lament ed husband. I will not attempt to describe to you the toll it has been for me, but may without vanity add that few women could> have effect ed what I have done" '"
 She died in 1904. Tn those last years one wonders if she remem- bered Philadelphia in that heady spring of 1778 when (like Wallis Warfield so many years later. mak- ing her debut at a wartime cotil- lion in Baltimore) she was a belle of the town. Did she regret those years of self-imposed exile? She never said.
 TOMORROW--The romance in exile of the poet Shelley and the beautiful woman who became his mistress, then his wife.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-03
Tip-off to suckers.

Tin-of to suckers The great race of suckers ought to render vote of thanks to the Massachusetts Senate which recently approved bill that would com pei hotels night clubs to post signs if their hat check and cgare girls not allowed to keep their tips That subterranean diversion of tips is of the most annoy ing of all the little rackets that are worked on American suckers Tipping in itself is enough of annoyance Of but the custom whereby pocket all of the tips and force the girls who receive the tips to get along unadorned weekly wage is about twice as bad The man who goes to night club can expect to be gypped of course and his expectations seldom will be dis appointed But it would help little if this pettest ana meanest of gyps could somehow be outlawed
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Tall Tower Topics
END OF THE TERM
sY THE MAN IN THE TOWER

Young folks are cheering up It's near the end of the term; Summer joys to think of, Time for new perm. Examinations are over, HI shout Dick and Tom; The sub-deb Is getting ready For her first college prom. She's got snappy getup. The newest thing in curlS, A billowy pastel organdy With yards and yards Of sWirs. Sonny has his first longies, He's finishing in grammar school, Says, nuts to all the goings on, And longs for the swimmin' pool. Young folks are cheering up, Glad it's near the end Of the term, Summer joys to think of And time for new perm.
 Elm Elm
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AWARDED PATENT

A patent on a switch mechanism for control apparatus >has been awarded to o. Harold Hunt of this city. The patent has been assigned to the Bristol Go. The Waterbury | Clock Go. has been awarded a trademark on watches.
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GET TOGETHER

When the famous illustrator Rus sell Patterson first turned his tal- ents to stage designing, he worked for a Broadway producer named Lew Gensler. Again Patterson Is designing and GehsIer producing this time for the Paramount picture. "Artists and Models 2
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Eavesdropping. Bill and Anna Dwyer renewed acouaintances with their many Brass City friends Sun day and Monday. They've been living in the Bronx the last six years but yet haven't acquired the accent
 Dorothy Brenneis is busy plugging the annual semi held at the Watertown Lawn Club June 25th: Bill Gibson acquired becoming coat of tan at Atlantic City the past weekend Joe Diliberto lost pair of slacks in the annual froshsoph campus at Clark Uni versty last week. The freshman grabbed the trousers and while Joe was pursuing him. hopped on the back bumper of car and disappeared Now they're tagging the local pride, 'Trouserless Joe.
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AnslUers To
 Test Questions

Below are the answers # to test questions printed on page 6.
 l. Appalachian system. 2. An instrument fo rdeter- mining the apparent velocity and motion of clouds. < }. Jane Austen. < {. The term refers to the, color. A diamond of the first water Is of the finest quality. 5. Greencastle, Ind.
 6. Toga. 2. Apple blossom.
 8. Italian painter 3. Pennsylvania.
 10. Patrick Henry.
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Peggy Shippen, no gallant so de- bonair as Captain John Andre, or- ganizer and master of ceremon- ies of the fete. They were surely pair of star-cross'd lovers.
 Peggy Shippen, eleven months la- ter, was again the focus of social attention in Philadelphia. She was bride. Her groom was General Benedict Arnold, exactly twice her age, a widower with three children, crippled with wounds, hard-bitten, notoriously. insolently brave and dangerous"
 This was the man who, a year and half after his marriage, was to attempt to deliver the Amer icans' greatest fortress and arms base, West Point, into the hands of the enemy. At the same time, as events developed. it would have been possible had the affair suc- ceeded, to capture General Wash- ington himself, Arnold's constant benefactor and support. The vi- cious act of treachery was only foil- ed by the capture of the British conspirator, the same Andre who had danced so gayly with Peggy Shippen in 1773.
 Much water had flowed down the Schuylkill and the Delaware since the "Mischianza," when Peggy mar ried Arnold. General Washington had drummed the Red-coatS out of town. Lord Howe had sailed for England. Captain Andre, in New York, had become msjor. EVIDENCE LINKS |.
 PEGGY TO PLOT
 The marriage was decidedly a misalliance; many people said so. Arnold was nothing but landlesS resolute sharked up in the boil of war. He had the faculty of making important enemies. He had missed his grades. His victories, splendid in audacity, had been stolen by other generals. He had no luck, he was suspect, disapproved, a man with grievance, the victim of kitchen politics. Only one person really trusted him. That was George Washington.
 Peggy was the daughter of an eminent lawyer. Edward Shippen, loyalist. T trust" Arnold wrote to him, soliciting Peggy's hand. "our differences in political sentiments will be no bar to my happiness"
 Was Peggy herself a loyalist2 Worse still, was she an accomplice in Arnold's treason? Many have thought so, and there is some evil dence.
 Andre corresponded with her after the British evacuated Phil- adelphia. Once, indeed, he offered to be "of service" to her, perhaps an innocent courtesy. To the lengthy correspondence which pre- faced the treason plot, Peggy some times added personal commissions to be done for her in New York. That augured her knowledge of the conspiracy.
 
 LATER ACTS LABELLED
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Faces about town. . . Julie Truelove looking cool in the heat as returns to her employment at the Chase Offices after the monday recess Mary Carroll with
 brand new sunburn acquired at the shore the ho iday {. Ditto for Helen Murphy and Betty Byron. T.. "Shmmers" Sheehan of South street waving from his new Packard which he bought when fire damaged his Plymouth <. Tommy Scadden, the new Grand Knight of Sheridan Council K of c. accepting congtatu- latons. Jerry Kerwn looking over the travel routes to Detroit His twin sister is to take her marital VOWS there on July TO- and Jerry will be best man. T. Leo Berner driving through the center in his knobby Ford sport ob the while telling friend how much he desires "a Cord.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-03

Congratulations to Elaine Resnikoff, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Resnikoff of Central avenue. city and county prize in the recent WCTU. contest conducted under the able supervision of Mrs. Henry Preusser. Her topic "Acohol Inside the Body" was declared best by the judges, New Haven and hamden authorities Elaine entered the contest of her own free will and received the prize from Mrs Preusser at the Methodist church Tuesday. Incidenty Elaine was pupil of Edgewood school until the sixth grade when she transferred to Drggs. Nice york; Elaine Take a bow!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-03
BY MORRIS GILBERT NEA Service Stan Correspondent

TWELVE hours together, the fddes squeaed their merr \ men At Thomas Whartons place fruit trees were in blossom. Bowing frocks of Phiadephias farest daugh matched peachboom world in dainty color and fresh ness The 'Mischanza" triumph everybody said so from Lord Howe Gin whose honor gven) to the est corporal of the Red-coat army, kitchen police.
 seemed Philadelphia May
 at that gddy social British occupation No radiant
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 Man Whole World Hated Benedict Arnold Never Lost The Loyalty Of His Beauteous Wife
FLOWERS IN EXIIE": SECOND OF SIX ARTICLES
Peggy Shippen (Like EValSa1Jield Q Maritime BeILe)
 Financed Husbands Crazy Sclen1es Paid His Debts :.

What the future hold who Fenounced the throne England and the dvOrcee whom he is making his wife? Some clue perhaps uncovered by turning the history and studying the stories of other famous Lovers in Ex This is the second of six articles written for the Water hurv nennnrr
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This and that. Joie Mulhall of Sylvan avenue is saving tin foil for the Tower man, and visit from him is expected shortly. Bob Grady is anxiously awaiting the delivery of the his father bought last week. Andy McFadden, who will middle aise-lt for his diploma at Holy Cross next week, has been named class marshal That is major domo of activities after commencement Marion R. Warren, pretty Tor rington damsel and George G. Rankin of Hartford, haven't set date for their ring ceremony but it won't be long now.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-03
BEHIND |TfE SCENES WASHINGTON Ley RODNEY DUTcHER-'
 Democrat Washington
 Correspondent

Consumer CO-Ops Not Likely to Receive Full Official SuprSrt of the Government
 Hundreds of Little New Dealers Try Out The En- terprise In Washington.
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LATER ACTS LABEL1sED
 HIM WANTON VANDAL F,s f
 If the question of her innocence or guilt divides historians, general agreement exists on another point:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-03

Don't all rush at once. We learn from the Con- necticut Forest and Park Association that one of its members Seth L. Pierrepont of Ridgefeld has num- Der of wild shrugs to given away for the asking or rather for the taking. Mr. PierrepOnt is going to build a lake on his land and to do must remove large amount of wild shrubbery. At small price Of so cents per bus firstcomers may have laurel swamp azaa highbush blueberry, fresh from the ground
 . . You dig em yourself, or make some arrangements to get them dug. Don't say didn't tell you
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-03

Times certainly change fast when even the old time rag man has become modern and socits his trade III motor truck The first to introduce the mode has quite vehicle on which is painted in gstening letters "yrut and Vegetables" In reality the has formerly been used for this purpose of distribution but in due time we expect will soon be down as to resemble the worn out steed which replaces Your rag man, if he Is in step with the times will drive to your neighbor- hood and launch vicious attack on the horn and follow
 his introduction with the familiar cry Rags" which will
 be repeated until some housewife appears and attempts to bargain At any rate the trend will be break for the horses which we imagine did or do not lead the wagons for all of the glory that they get out of it, for indeed m perhaps would be infrequent to them as the daily o
 of fare allotted thoroughbreds.
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TOMORROW-The romance in exile of the poet Shelley and the beautiful woman who became his mistress, then his wife.
Evening star., 1937-02-27
GIANT PLANE SPEED
REGULATIONSISSUED
Anti.Static Antennae and Radio
Direction Finders Treated
by Air Bureau.

Regulations prescribing take-of
and landing speeds for the giant new
air transport airplanes which are be-
ing constructed Or planned for land
and sea service, requiring anti-static
antennae for air transport planes and
requiring installation of radio direc-
tion finders have been made public
by the Bureau of Air Commerce.
Under the new rules, landplaneS up
to 10000 pounds gross weight must
have landing speeds Of not exceeding
IS miles per hour at sea level in calm
air. Transports up to 10000 pounds
gross may not exceed 10 miles per
hour landing speed. For higher
weights. a formula is set up giving
a sliding scale of weight and speed.
Airplanes used in non-passenger serv-
ice are allowed miles per higher
landing speeds than passenger ships Of
the same weights.
It is prescribed that landplanes
shall be able to take of with full load
in calm air at sea level in a distance
of 1000 feet and that seaplaneS, flying
boats and amphibions shall take of in
As seconds or less in winds not ex-
ceeding 10 miles per hour from
moderately smooth water.
Installation Of the new shielded or
anti-static antennae is required by
November l. Shielding must be pro-
yided against snow, rain, sleet and dust
static.
Installation of radio direction finders
on transport aircraft is to be re-
quired by January /, 1888.
Evening star., 1937-02-27

RULEBE|NGDRAWN
Posting of Collateral at Pre-.
cinct Stations May Be
Revived.

Motorists would be permitted to
post collateral for traffic violations
at the precincts as well as at the
collateral Office at police headquar-
tiers under recommendations being
drawn up for the Commissioners by
enforcement authorities.
The proposed change in the regula-
tions has been under consideration
for some time by Corporation Coun-
sci Elwood Seal, Police Chief Ernest
w. Brown and Police Court Judge
John P. Mcmahon. The present sys-
tenn of receiving collateral only at
the central Office was inaugurated in
1882 by Brig. Gen, Pelham D. Glass
ford, then superintendent of police.
The new rule to be sought by the
Commissioners will lessen the incon-
venience to motorists who receive
tickets in outlying precincts and must
come downtown to put up collateral.
Prior to 1882 collateral was accepted
in any precinct for offenses commit
ted in another or the same precinct.
The Keystone Automobile Club yes
terday requested Maj. Brown to rec
ommend the change back to the old
system because the present system
works undue and unjustifiable hard
ship on a large number of motorists"
Maj. Brown replied that he and
his conferees already had agreed on
recommendations as suggested, and
these would be laid before the Com
missioners when details are worked
out.
Evening star., 1937-02-27
CHURCHESDEMAND.
CARE OF J0BLESS
Committee of Federation
Holds Problem Is Respon-
SibiIity of Government.

The Social Service Committee of the
Washington Federation of Churches,
after carefully considering the plight
of 5000 employables denied local relief,
authorized its chairman, DR.. J. Hill
man Hollister, to make public state
ment today saying that the problem
was definitely major responsibility
of Government-theD District Commis-
sioners, the Budget Bureau and Con-
gress."
They must face up to it and not
attempt to get out from under the
burden" the federation declared.
DR.. Hollister, who is pastor Of Chevy
Chase Presbyterian Church, said that
ito the extent that the churches
have duty in the situation, it is as
much a responsibility of Catholic and
Jewish organizations as of Prot
estants." 1t should also be remem-
bered, he pointed out, that a large
number Of citizens have no church
Affiliations.
Adding that the churches may be
expected to do their utmost to help
distressed families and that enlarged
plans are under way, DR.. Hollister
said the churches are already carry
ing heavy relief load.
Most of the Community Chest
money comes from church people" he
said. practically every church is
giving relief; many churches great
deal of it. They are maintaining
hospitals. homes for the aged and
for children. missions and aiding the
new Goodwill Industries. They are
also doing very large and important
work through the federation in hos
pitfalls and the Juvenile Court, which
reach back into the distress In
families"
Speaking for the Protestant
church, DIR. Hollister said that the
problem faced by the District in
meeting the needs of the 5000 en-
playable persons, representing a popu-
lation of about $4,000 is "far beyond
the resources of the churches, and of
churches and social agencies COM
bined."
Evening star., 1937-02-27
Miss Pugt, Ace Receptionist
For Democrats, to Wed Today
Party Job interviewer
Adds Role of Wife to
Present Duties.

A young lady who has interviewed
more job seekers than you could shake
stick at is going to take on a new
job herself today.
She is Miss Madeline Pugh, the
Democratic National Committees ace
receptionist. But this new job is not
political one.
The attractive, dark-haired girl is
to be married this afternoon to James
Howard Biscoe of the Lee House. The
wedding will take place at O'Clock
at the New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church
Miss Pugh expects to keep on being
the Democratic National Committees
receptionist at its headquarters in the
National Press Building-a job she has
held almost four years.
II enjoy the work too much" she
said. Its lots Of fun meeting peo-
pie"
1t was even more fun few years
ago when there were more jobs handy,
she added. She talks to practically
every one who visits the committee's s
Offices, interviews the job hunters,
hears plenty of kicks.
mot every one is after a job
though she said. thank heavens. u
And with that Miss Pugh flashed a
charming smile that has soothed many
an irate job seeker.
Miss Pugh came to Washington
from Des Moines, Iowa, and for three
years was employed in the crop loans
division of the Agriculture Depart
ment. she said.
She was reminded that seven years
ago the Republican party was in power
Evening star., 1937-02-27
WOMEN HEAR TALK
BY MRS. ROOSEVELT
Auxiliary Members of Police
Boys Club Told to Get Ac.
ouainted With Youths.

Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt yester-
day told meeting of the newly
formed Women's Auxiliary of the
Police Boys Club that club activity
among underprivileged children is an
effective means of putting down ju-
venile delinquency.
Mrs. Roosevelt advised her listeners
to get acquainted with the young
members of the clubs and told how
much she enjoyed knowing boys who
belonged to similar clubs in New York
City, where her grandfather started
one Of the first clubs for newspaper
boys.
Crime can be prevented more eff
fectively through these organizations
than through any other medium"
Mrs. Roosevelt said.
Police Chief Ernest w. Brown told
the auxiliary members that juvenile
delinquency has been reduced in Sec
tions served by the four clubs, which
now have a membership Of 2,228 boys
The talks were made at luncheon
in the Raleigh Hotel given by Mrs.
John Allen Dougherty, chairman Of
the new auxiliary. Mrs. Roosevelt is
honorary chairman of the auxiliary.
Other guests of honor at the lunch
con yesterday were James E. Colli-
flower, president of the Police Boys
Club; John A. Remon. leader in the
work, and Sergt. John E. Scott, di-
rector Of the clubs.
Evening star., 1937-02-27
Merit SYSTEM URGED
FOR ALL U. S. WORKERS

Declaring that "the Government
cannot continue on a half merit and
half patronage basis" L. A. Meyer,
chief examiner for the Civil Service
Commission. last night told the Dis
trict Federation of the National Fed
Grafton of Federal Employees that "a
real career service is essential to an
efficient civil service"
Meyer said that the merit system
should be extended throughout the
Government and that every effort
should be made to obtain, develop and
retain the highest type Of employe.
The speaker emphasized that the
success of the whole social security
program depends on administration
and that efficiency can best be OBJ
tanned with merit workers.
DR.. ]. Franklin Meyer, who pre-
sided, announced that at the next
meeting resolutions to come before
the national convention in the Fall
will be discussed.
Evening star., 1937-02-27
JEWELER LEFT S95,810
ESTATE IN WIFE'S WILL
Mrs. Salvatore Desio Specifies
That Daughter Is Beneficiary
on Husbands Death.

The will of Mrs. Mary Magdalena
Desio, leaving her $95,810 estate in
trust to her husband, Salvatore Desio,
local manufacturing jeweler, was filed
for probate late yesterday in District
Court.
Mrs. Desio died February IA. Her
will was dated October 20, 1881. 1t
provided for the estate to go to the
couples daughter. Delphine L. Desio,
at the death of Desio. After the death
of the daughter it will be divided
among four children of Mr.. and Mrs.
Desio-Salvatore, jr: Magdalena D
Corcoran, Alma Desio Won Steiner
and Camille G. O'Hara.
Mrs. Won Steiner was named ex-
ecutrix. She was represented by At
torney George G. Gertman.