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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-14
BRANCH BANKING
 HELD TOSTATES
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At previous conventions big-city and branch bankers had succeeded in sidetracking resolutions coFnrnits ting the association to any such definite stand.
 Tn 1890, the association adopted c resolution favoring branch bank ing within metropolitan areas but insisting on the preservation Of state autonomy.
 Two years later, however, deie- gates retreatod and insisted that adoption of resolutions on such controversial questions Do confined to divisions.
 The long -smouldering feud between branch and unit banking advocates was brought to c head last spring by introduction in congress of the MeAdoo bill to permit expansion of branch banking across state lines within federal reserve districts.
 Immediately unit bankers pre-. pared to seek al amendment to the association constitution to permit the state bank division to establish c special agency to "servo tho in- terestS of oil tho Independent unit banks"
 Presentation of the resolution to. day represented c compromise.
 Country bankers won control of the association yesterday with cleo. ton Of OrVai W. Adams of Salt Lake City, Utah, @ president, and Robert M. Hainos of Winston -ga- lem, N. G., as second vice presi- dent.
 Though c big-city banker, the newly elected first president, Philip A. Benson of Brooklyn, N. Y., iS known to Do sympathetic with unit bankers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-14

pending action is settled, 1t does mol eeein fitting that the plaintiffs counsel should be allowed to at tempt elaboration of the charges sci forth by further consideration oi these records"
 The writ of mandamus was issued in behaf of Senator George T. Gull hane, defeated Fusion, candidate for mayor; Francis T. Phillips, de- feated Fusion candidate for treasur- er: Dominic Barbieri, defeated Fusion candidate for city sheriff Mortimer J. Calvin, Jr., defeated Fusion candidate for city clerk; Walter Charest, defeated Fusion candidate for selectman; Dora A. Egan, defeated Fusion candidate for re-election as town clerk; and Thomas P. Healey, defeated Fusion candidate for the board of educa- ton.
 It names General Moderator James R. McMahon, Town Clerk Dora A. Egan, and City Clerk John F. Fitznaurice, as defendants and contains numerous allegations or discrepancies and irregularities in figures of the voting October 5th.
 Allegations Cited
 Among these allegations are fhe following:
 That the total of ballots showed S0,6O3 votes the total of machine counters was 38,616.
 That moderators failed to certify properly their reports.
 That machines in the 18th and 18th districts were not sealed as law requires immediately upon closing of the polls.
 That discrepancies appear in figures in the 3rd, 18th and l4th districts.
 That a machine was out of order in the 18th district, and numerous similar counts.
 Machines Remain
 Both Attorneys Bronson and OConnor agreed that the voting machines, now held under police and Fusion guard in the county courthouse basement, should remain there, with O'Connor stipulating that the city police retain Jurisdiction.
 Reason advanced by MT. Bronson
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-14
POLI'S

Recently ct . gals premiere n Hollywood, aii obviously delighted audience greeted Joan Crawford n her latest and nest impressive role in "The Bride Were Red" This is the screen version of TeFenc Mol. naF'B stage triumph, "rho oifl From Trieste"
 Miss Crawford plays tho most cole orful and dramatic role Of her CAs reer ag Ami, ( cabaret enteFtainsr who becomes . grand lady for c month by the chance Of fate. TO1e, whose first screen success was scored as Miss CrawfCrd's rejected AuitoT in Dancing Lady," wins ct last lti C cinemAtic love affaiF with the star aS tic gallant and whimsical dluiio. Young b given hb finest acting opportunity M Rudi, q wealthy fiobletnAil.
 Reginald owen as ( potnp0lis res tired Admiral a1d Billie Burke M tho Contessa di Meina, c new come edy team, ably head the supporting cast. Tn prominent featured roleF afc Lynne Carver As MAddolera, isudl's fiancee, who b tilted Cor
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-14
Shanghai Co1Uers As
 Sino-Jap Shells FaH
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Within ten minutes Japanese are tillery was in action over the entire Shanghai portion of the front.
 Streets Deserted
 Streets in the Settlement were de- serted. Then automobile, bus and street car traffic was stopped at passengers and crews abandoned their vehicles and fled to buildings Casualty reports began accumulat. ing. One Chinese was killed and four had limbs blown off by c shell that struck at the intersection oi the Peking and Szechuan roads. AmbulanceS began racing through the streets. A shell crashed into the German. CarlowitS building. Another struck near the Louza road police station. Another near the wing on Cotton Mill.
 Fires began breaking out on the fringe of the settlement.
 Planes Appear
 It looked as If the terror was about aS great as 1t could be--and then United Press correspondents, on observation posts about the set- clement, and other observers saw the tiny winking lights of two chi- nese planes far overhead.
 They were flying down the Whang. poo to bomb Japanese warshipg be- low the city. A check.up disclosed that these two planes were decoyA intended to draw the fire of Japan. csc warshipS while other planes, titl- lighted, did the bombing.
 &@, Guns Open Up
 As the planes flew close to the settlement water front, the Japanese warship guns opened Up with af1ti- aircraft fire and danger to the set- clement increased.
 The firing was unprecedented.
 An American ofiicer on duty ct ar observation post on the settlement flashed word that, in the Chapel North Railroad station area, the Chinese had begun their biggest ate tack of the two month battle for the city.
 "They are fighting like hell, hand to hand" he said.
 Hand to Hand Fighting
 It was hand to hand work i1 the narrow streets of the Chinese quar- ter on the other side of soochow creek from the marine lines.
 Machine gunners poured death into each others ranks. Chinese ''big sword" men and infantry with bayonetted rifles charged into the Japanese. Fighting was described aa that of madmen, all at close quar- ters.
 In the settlement, those on duty ct observation posts saw c picture oi the most awful beauty.
 Flames Brighten Night
 It was dark now. All about in the battle sectors, in Pootung, Hoiigkew Chapel, the flames of big fires thrust upward.
 Fallen electric power lines fl, Hongkew, the Japanese part of the settlement sent eerie flashes high Into the sky. From tho river, from
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-14
Election Recount
 By Court Likely
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1 for the injunction was that the i0- day law requirement for the mach. ines to be sealed after conclusion of an election, expired tomorrow night at 6 o'clock. He said he wanted as- surance that none would tamper with the machines after that hour, pending decision of the court on the mandamus matter.
 Police Be Guards .
 The corporation counsel concurred saying that city police, however, should keep guard as the machines are city property. He contended also, in dispute with MT. Bronson, that the City Clerk, not the Town Clerk, should have custody of the election records and related the re- cent order of Mayor Hayes, acting upon his advice, for Lewis s. Reed. President of the Citizens and Manufacturers National bank, to re- fuse any persons access to the voting sheets in the bank vault unless they had a court order.
 AS related to the rnandamus, Judge Dickenson, asked the corpor- ation counsel when he would be ready to file a motion to quash" to which reply was made that the answer to the mandamus might not take form and time would be neces- sary that to determine what the pro- ceedure will be.
 Notify Bronson Sunday
 Finally 1t was agreed that the corporation counsel would notify MT. Bronson of his intended action not later than Sunday to allow preparation of the case by the plain tiffs' attorney.
 It was at suggestion of Judge Dickenson that probability developed of @ recount of the vote to be held in the courts jurisdiction, to which both sides apparently were in agree ment. Thus, the election which saw candidates winning and losing by very slim margins may be thrown into series of upsets when, the mat ter is finally determined by the court There is possibility that another election can be ordered should eVi- dence of irregularities warrant, 1t Is understood.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-14
ELECTION CASE
 RECALLED HERE
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 chimes themselves. Whether such difference does show . discrepancy, maintained the court, depends on degree and circuinstance.
 In connection with the Bridge port refusal to allow Q recanvass of the machines, the court says of mod- orators: Their honest and reason. able exercise of their judgment caFl- not be controlled through the courts through Q writ of fnandamus."
 The courts, said the decision, should act only "upo1 Q clear show- Ing that otherwise serious injustice would Do done"
 No Error Found
 The Supreme Court found no CT. TOT in Judge McICvoy's refusal to Issue Q mandamuS calling for Q TO. count, and dismissed the appeal oi the defeated candidate from the Superior Court juriSt'S decision.
 ErTors, said the court, are to DC expected lin the hurry of . crowded voting district. The chief noderas tor has discretionary powers In ale lowing or refusing . recanvaSs Of the machines, and with such power the courts rarely interfere.
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 ---A----A.-------z-------- Conference and only other speaker at todayS general session, joined other convention speakers lil dee i1ouncing Roosevelt administration economic policies.
 Was there ever more prodigious hocuS-p -pocus than the scientific pretensions of modern national planning2" he asked. "1t L silly to pretend that the economic activities of 6 whole nation can be Scienti- fieally planned and administered on the basis of any economic knowi- edge now available or likely to Dc forthcoming from government agencies or universities"
 To suggest that it can be done by any person, or group or party, he said, s sheer humbug."
 Certainly that ajestic aggrega- . ton of ancient impulses of power and greed which Is the modern state has found no more effective sheepskin if1 which to conceal its sharp teeth than the symbols and cerefnoniab of science and research by which 1t persuades the masses of it's foresight and insight"
 Jordan depiored the use of res search as an instrument of policy "A means of persuading people tc, accept policies, rather than c pro. cess of developing policies that viii work because they are in accord with the facts"
 Let Us Dc less eager to onlighten the other fellow and more afnbi. tious to enlighton ourselves" hs Said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-14
STATE TROOPERS
 SEEK RODEO RIDER

Boston, Oct. l4.-(Up). 1.-TWO Virs giniG state troopers arrived today to return c rodeosrider wanted in A murder four years ago In Lynch- bug.
 But Prank Ferroni, accused slay. or of Raymond JohnBon, 2i, who died in G street fight April i3, iO33, refused to waive extradltion.
 Troopers Leslie l.. Stanley and William 6. Hayden wired Virginia for orders,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-14
CONVENTION OPENS

Norwich, Conn.,, Oct. il.--(UP)-- The fall convention Of the Con- iiectieut State Nurses association opened here today with pr. Mer- Til K, Lindsay, Yale clinical pro- fogsor Of orthopedic surgery, as the principal speaker.
 Ruth M. Olson, New Britain, pre- sided over the public health section Augusta Patton, West Hartford, ovog the educational section, and Mary B. Discoil, New Haven, directed pri. Vate duty discussions,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-14
COMMITTEE MEETS

London, oct. i4 -- (U.P.) -- Tho international non-intorVention coin- tiittee has ben invited by Chairman Lord Plymouth to meet Saturday morning to consider the withdrawal of foreign volunteers from Spain, it was reported reliably today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-14
MINIMUM WAGE . DRIVE IS ON
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NCOAAVALAhSA AAOAh EuBV ~ ment," he said, to set Q minimum wage in every industry in which women and minors are underpaid.
 "1n event that petitions come to us from any groups to investigate and set 0 minimum wage, the de- partment will take steps to put the law into effect
 The pants industry report will be the first here since the Washington state minimum wage law declared constitutional by the U. s. supreme court.
 A report from Connecticut's ate general followed the supreme court decision, giving Commissioner Tone a Ego ahead" In application of the law, which was modelled after that of the New York and Washing ton state laws, tt
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-14
NO DANGER OF
 CREDIT COLLAPSE

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More than 90,OoO,o0o Is paid out annually in pensions to confedeTata veterans, their widows, and, in some eases, their servants, by the Sou' therii states.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-14

Personal to Fat GirIs!- Now you can slim down your face and figure without strict dieting or back:breaking exercises. Just cat sensibly and take 1 Marmola Prescription Tablets . day until you have lost enough fat-then stop.
 MNrmola. Prescription Tablets contain the same element prescribed by most doc- tors ln treating their fat patients. Millions Donse let others think you have no apunk and that your will.power Is as flabby as your flesh. Start with Marmola today and win the slender lovely figure rightfully youNys
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-10
TURNING AWAY THE
DESIRABLE VISITORS

Not only is Ell Centro faced with
problem of undesirable transients who
attempt to camp in vacant lots and va
cant boxcars, but it faces also another
problem. dealing this time with desirable
transients. The city has seen numerous
cases within the last few weeks in which
visitors, with money to pay for room,
have been unable to find place to
stop.
Two women, for instance, found it
impossible to obtain a room the other
night. They wished to pay. They were
desirable tenants. Yet there was no place
where they could obtain a room. Even
a plea to the police department failed
to locate one.
The hotels are filled. There are no
rooming houses of the proper sort which
are not renting every room. There IS,
in short, another sort of housing short
age. We have known all along that El
Centre needs more homes for permanent
residents. Now it appears that the city
needs more rooms, also, for transients.
The solution is up to business men and
property owners.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-10
ONE KIND OF TOURIST
WE DISPENSE WITH

A recent routine police report showed
that more than rs per cent of the per-
sons arrested in Ell Centre last month
were transients. Now it is revealed that
one Ell Centre policeman, during the
last week. has persuaded 81 itinerant
families that it would be better for them
to camp elsewhere than in the city limits,
because their camp within the city limits
would have to be in the city Jail. They
were not arrested, and their names will
not appear on any official report. They
merely chose to leave town. Before they
did so, however, the officer examined
their belongings. In every one of the q
automobiles involved, gasoline can and
a rubber hose were found.
Now. gasoline can is a fairly COM
mon piece of equipment, and a rubber
hose of insignificant size is not neceS-
sarily matter of horror. Many people
who are rated as quite respectable have
gasoline cans and rubber hoses around
their homes, either in connection with
one another, or separately. But when
a gasoline can and rubber hose, each
inseparable from the other, are found
in the automobile of a transient family
whose next meal is a matter Of grave
uncertainty, there is only one logical.
conclusion. Someone's gas tank has been
or will be drained with the device-and
probably that someone will never receive
remuneration for gasoline thus taken
The theft of gasoline, while it may
be quite vexing to the victim on a cold
morning, is not matter of major I'M
portance to the law. 1t is, in fact, called
petty theft Any good citizen naturally
yearns to see petty theft punished, but
he usually does not lose sleep over the
desire. Therefore it is not so much the
gasoline can and rubber hose combination
to which we object as it is the idea be-
hind the thing People who make habit
of using such combinations for illicit
purposes are not exactly desirable vlsl-
tors to any community.
This gas hose brigade is not eligible
for relief because its members have not
been in the state long enough. Their
pocketbooks are hardly fat enough to
assure them meals for very long time.
There is no work for hem. Yet, like the
rest of us, they must eat. And they do
eat. How, is a question that remains
officially unanswered, although the an
swer is not hard to guess.
There have been a lot of petty thefts
of one kind or another in Imperial Valley
lately.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-10
News Behind the News
Washington's Greatest Secrets
They Deal With Reorganization
Three NeU Cubineteers :.

WASHINGTON. The most closely guarded
secrets in Washington those shared by the
president and his experts on government reor-
ganiZation.
Rough blueprints have been charted, however,
for a thorough overhauling and Encouragement
which will bring nearly all emergency agencies
under federal departments and transfer many
oldline bureaus This much is certain at the
time of writing:
The president will ask Congress to create
two and perhaps three new executive depart
ments of cabinet rank He will ask for general
authority to transfer and regroup federal agen-
cieS authority under which he would build up
the structures of the new departments along
functional lines and make other additions to
and subtractions from the old departments.
A Department of Public Welfare and De-
partment OF Public Works are the ones which
Roosevelt and advisers have definitely decided
should be created
Roosevelt agrees with Secretary Ickes that
the name of the Department of Interior should
be changed to Department of Conservation.
The president practically on the eve of his
message to Congress. hadn't decided whether to
take up the question OF reorganization at once
or TO wait three four weeks
Administrator Harry Hopkins of WPA, Chair
man John Winant OF the Social Security Board,
and Assistant Secretary OF the Treasury jose
phine Roche are being discussed as possible
cabinet secretaries for the public welfare post.
Hopkins is 10 to Shot although the presi-
dent holds both Miss Roche and Winant in high
regard.
Ickes, according to the present dope, would
be secretary of conservation rather than of
public works That's not entirely certain but
he will stay in the cabinet unless he is drafted
to be comptroller general. Just who would be
secretary Of public works is still anybodys guess.
The Department Of Public Welfare dt may
be called something else meaning the same thing
if someone thinks of a name in time) would
certainly include WPA, Social Security Board,
E1Yhl Of
ton, Children's Bureau, and certain other
agencies.
The Department of Public Works would take
in PWA, the Procurement Division of the Trea-
sury and presumably administration of any
new federal housing program. Conceivably, it
would also embrace IVA and Rural Electrifica-
tion Administration. but that's only speculative
insofar as this dispatch goes
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-10
BY HENRY SUTHERLAND

HOLLYWOOD. Jan. 8. Wp-
Adolph Hitler and his Nordic Nazis
may have done Luli DeSte (Baroness
Gotfried Hohenberg) out of Holly
wood film job, it is widely believed
here.
The Bavarian actress was lined
up for contract by a B. p. Schu-
berg talent scout in England, but
arrived in Hollywood to find the
offer withdrawn.
Schulberg gave no details of his
reason for retiring from the uncom-
pleted deal, saying vaguely that
owing to a misunderstanding over
contract terms" he felt it "unWise'
Tor his company to go through with
the bargain.
However, another prominent pro-
ducer who declined to be quoted di-
rectly, said he had been considering
a bid for Miss Deste's services be-
fore Schulberg anticipated him, but
had thought better of it because
German actors are currently poison
at the box office.
Admittedly there is some anti
Nazi feeling in Hollywood, the pro-
ducer said, but that has nothing to
do With the trend towards shying
away from German talent.
The real reason is the antipathy
of exhibitors and audiences, partic-
ularly in New York and the east,
for anything bearing a MADE in
Germany stamp.
Bad audience reactions" and ev-.
en- Semi-organized demonstrations
are said to have been experienced
in one or two spots against pictures
with German-born players in their
casts.
Miss Deste, an accomplished act
ress, recently played in an English
picture opposite Edward c. Robin
son.
Director w. S. Van Dyke made
Jean Harlow and Robert Taylor
blush a bright orange through their
yellow makeup when they went into
their first clinch for Man In Pos
session."
No sooner they embraced than a
siren shrieked and the studio fire
department and a volunteer bucket
brigade dashed up to the stage.
This fellow Taylor isn't going to
burn down any of my actresses" ex-
planned Van Dyke, dead-panning.
Last time he clinched Garbo, her
dress caught on fire. He blamed it
on cigaret butt, but I'm taking
no chances with the guy"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-10
Bruce Cation Says:>>
Americas Optimism Survives the Depression

The Americana always was a
hopeful cuss. He still is, even after
taking the awful beating that the
Street wished on him back in 1929
Fortune Magazine set out recent
ly to find out just how much hope
he has left. 1t undertook one of
those croSs-section surveys, present.
ing to a wide range of people the
question whether it still is possible
for any young man with thrift
ability, and ambition to. go up in
the world, own his own home, and
enjoy an income of at least $4,000
a year.
The answers it got are interest
ing.
An unhesitating "yes" came from
1916 per cent of the people uues-
toned. Eighteen per cent sail,
Yes, ii he's lucky Thirty four
per cent believed that the right
answer is mo- And about per
cent frankly said they didn't know.
II x
Assuming that the group uues-
toned gives a fair reflection of
national sentiment-and Fortunes
surveys have good reputation for
that sort of thing-it must be said
that a nation which feels that way
Is long way from being disheart-
ened.
What it amounts to is that Just
about one-third of the populace
believes that opportunity is dead.
Everyone else - barring a small
group that can't make up its mind
feels that bright young fellow
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-10
THE MIDDLE GROUND
IN HANDLING CRIMINALS

There has been lot of discussion on
the punishment of criminals, whether it
should be lenient but educational, or
severe but discouraging to crime. In the
middle of it have been the psychologists,
some on either side. The criminal is
known to have a peculiar psychology, or
personal slant on life; else he would not
be a criminal The reformers believe
his psychology can and should be cor
rected, making of him good citizen.
Those who oppose them believe that
you cannot make a good citizen out of
a confirmed criminal, and that the only
thing to do is to punish those who are
caught so severely that their examples
will deter others through fear
Twenty-year- James +. Hall, SEN
fenced in Los Angeles this week to five
years in federal prison for eXtortion,
might be worth the consideration Of
both schools. His extortion plot against
a motion picture actress was entirely
foolhardy He proceeded with the plot
long after it had been published in the
newspapers, and he knew that capture
was inevitable. The mans foolishness
was almost insane-yet he presents a
study that might do prison boards and
psychologists great deal Of good in
their dealings with other criminals. He
should be punished, studied and helped,
at the same time, but not entirely for
his own good. 1t would be for the good
of the race.
Reformers are too often prone to for
get the mass in consideration of the in
dividual. Yet consideration of the indi-
viduafs criminal leanings, especially If
they are pronounced as those of young
Hall. might point the way to long
term campaign that would make crime
undesirable 10 many who now engage II