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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-17
Religion Of Service Gavin w. Allan Calls
 Christian Science
True Service, as Christian Scientists Understand It Is TwOfOId: 'GOdward and 'Manward,' Noted
 Lecturer Tells Interested Listeners

An interesting lecture entitled, Christian Science, "A Religion of Service was delivered Saturday evening at the Waterbury Woens Club Auditorium by Gavin w. Allan, C. S. B. of Toronto Ontario, Canada. MT Allan, who is member of the Board of Lectureship of the Mother Church The First Church of Christi Scientist in Boston Massachusetts, introduced by Ross Chamberlain First Reader of First Church of Christ Scientist Waterbury under whose auspices this lecture was given.
 The full text of Mr. Allan's lecture follows:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-17
Inequality

Humanity divides itself Into classes: the young and the old; the rich and the poor: the learned and the unlearned: the strong and the weak: and it asserts as one of its
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-08
Auto Test fleet
Will Come TO City

The Ell Centre Chamber of Com
merce expects some interesting
visitors in Ell Centre next Saturday
afternoon at three o'clock. when the
Texaco Test Fleet, accompanied by
thirty-one men, will stop at Cham
Der headquarters to be greeted by
President Walter B. Havekorst,
and city officials.
The TexacO Test Fleet Is travel
ing $4,000 miles and on its way
East will make moving pictures of
the sand dunes on the desert be-
tween FL Centre and Yuma.
The personnel of the fleet will be
presented with cantaloupes anc
watermelons. After an hours stop
in FL Centre, the cars will make q
short run to Brawley and later tc
Calexico. Cars in the fleet are
Buick, Oldsmobile, Ford Lincoln
Dodge, Plymouth, Chevrolet Chry-
sler, Packard, and Stude baker.
Car dealers in FL Centre interested
in this Texaco test will assemble
at Chamber of Commerce head
quarters Saturday afternoon to b,
on hand to greet the drivers of tn
fleet.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-08

in addition to $500 armed police
and 2,2OO frontier troops.
Lieut.. Gen. Sir Arthur Grenfell
wauchope, British high commits
sioner, invited Jewish and Arab
leaders to confer with him today
on measures to be taken to preserve
order, and to tell him any objec-
tions they might want TO make now
to the royal commission plan.
Jewish orthodox elders began a
sorrowful pilgrimage to the wailing
wall last night. They prayed and
chanted chapters of the Bible in
which Jerusalem is mentioned as
an inseparable part of the old jew
ish kingdom. They asked for full
fillment of prophecies.
The elders first concern was that
Jerusalem, the Holy City, was ex-
cluded from the Jewish state to be
formed from part of Palestine while
most of the rest went to the Arabs,
with small territory including
Jerusalem and Bethlehem reserved
for British mandate.
Neither Jews nor Arabs liked the
report.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-08
Nets, Graphing Irons
Used in Body Hunt

FRESNO, Cal, July 8. CUP)-
Nets and graphing irons today were
brought into the search for the body
of william Funk, %, Fresno resi-
dent, who was drowned when pull
ed by water suction beneath canal
headgate in the Dry Creek ditch
here. After fruitless wait for the
body at floougate four miles
downstream from where Funk dis
appeared, officers SCI severel nets
across the ditch and started drag.
ging the stream bed.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-08
Ball Player Will Be
Wed Before Game

SEATTLE Wash, July s, UF)-
Art mike Hunt. leftfielder with
the Seattle Indians of the Pacific
coast baseball league. and Miss
Charlotte Avelson, of Seattle, will
be married here just before the
Seattle team plays the Sacramento
Senators tonight.
The bride will be given away by
Gov. Clarence D. Martin and the
ceremony will be performed on
the home plate of the Seattle club
field.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-08
Cotton Planting
Estimated at Far
Ahead of 1896

Washington, July 3. (UP)-The
department of agriculture today
estimated 1897 cotton planting in
the United States at 34,192,OO0 acres,
an increase of Approximately $780,
900 acres over last year.
The estimate was the largest in
three years and was 1104 per cent
of last years planting, when 12,393,-
822 bales were ginned.
If the yield this year on acreage
planted equals the 1879 pounds
per acre of last year a crop of ap-
proxifately 13,5O0O0O bales will be
produced this year
While estimated paintings were
the largest since 1884, they were
Us per cent less than the average
for the five year period l928-32.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-08
Heat Madness DriVeS Man
To Suicide Inside Ice House

his legs doubled up so his feet
would clear the floor.
Then he knotted another length
of rope around his neck and tied
it to the hook of the crane. A jerk
of the control cord set the crane
in operation. Slowly it lifted Ham
nell into the air. An automatic
cutoff stopped the motor, leaving
the engineer suspended.
william Cervarko, Hammell's
assistant, found the body several
hours later.
Police, attributing Hammell's act
to heat madness. reconstructed his
method of suicide after an inves-
tigation.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-08

NEW YORK, Juy 8. CUP)-Ho-
ward Hammell, rs, mopped his per-
spring forehead with a sodden
handkerchief today and looked dis
gustedly at the cloudless sky. No
sign of relief from the heat there.
He walked into the ice house of
the Borden company's Bergen street
plant in Brooklyn, where he worked
as an engineer, and found tempor-
ary respite. But he knew he would
have to go outside again and that
it would be hot.
Hammell's eye fell on the. ira
Yelling electric crane which lifts
blocks of ice from the freezing
tanks. 1t would do, if he made the
proper preparations.
Kneeling, Hammell passed rope
around his ankles and looped 1t
around his waist. That was to keep
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-08
Policeman Father
Leaves Son in Jail

SACRAMENTO Cal, July s. (UF)
"A 17-year-old boy spent last night
i'll Jail because his police sergeant
father who arrested him refused to
bail him out.
Sgt. Perry Gamble arrested his
son, Arnold, on a charge of malicious
mischief brought by a neighbor
who, said three youths had tossed
lighted firecrackers through an open
window.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-08

HAYWARD, CALI. July 8. CUP)
Mrs. Elizabeth Pardee. 80. Berke-
ley, and her mother. Mrs. Clara
Beck, ", were injured seriously to-
day when their car crashed head-on
with an automobile driven by l.. j.
Wride, ~, South Pasadena.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-08
Injuries Prove
Fatal to Youth
In Auto Crash

NATIONAL CITY, Cal, July 8
UP)-1njuries sustained in an
automobile crash Monday proved
fatal to Robert Miller, 20, in a
hospital here today. Miller was
fatally hurt when his car collided,
head -on, with one driven by Este
M. Ratliffe. Ratliffe and two COM
panions, E. A. Saxberg and J. G.
Rowe are in critical conditions
from their injuries.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-08
DOOMED SLAYER
IN DEATH CELL

SAN. QUENTIN PRISON, Calf,
July 8. (UP)-Thomas McNelll, So
former deputy constable at Teme-
cula, Riverside county, was placed
in the wood Slated death cell today
to await hanging tomorrow for the
murder of his wife. Mrs. Melvey
McNeill.
McNeill was said to have beat
his wife to death with washing
machine roller.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-08
War Veteran Takes
Own Life with Gun

SAN DIEGO, Cal, July 8. CUP)
Two days after he was discharged
from the US. Naval hospital here,
where he had been patient for
two years, Raymond Burke, IS, a
veteran of the Spanish-American
War. shot and killed himself in a
hotel room. Burke was respondent
because of continued i'll health
investigators said.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-08
Victim of Mystery
Knife Thrust Buried

LOS BANOS. Cal, July 8. (UP)-
While police continued a search of
nearly a month for a mysterious as
sailant, Mike Tehara, 37-year-old
Los Banos native was buried today
in Calvary Cemetery. Tehara died
of a knife wound allegedly inflict-
ed by man who attacked him as
Tehara left Tracy restaurant June
13.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-08
SUSPECT ACCUSED OF
KNITTING BARTENDER

OAKLAND, Calf, July 8. cuP)
Police today held William jack
son.25, for Investigation after he
assertedly threw a rock through a
beer parlor window then stabbed
the bartender, Harold Iensley.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-08
ELM NOTES
Bv JANE POOLE

90
Dallas Tanning, Gilbert ,Eates
Ralph Hancock and Sherman
Scraper enjoyed the Fourth at
Lakeside.
Robert Marshall of Imperial was
a recent visitor at the G.. H. Can
non home.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. Shumard and
family enjoyed the holidays in the
mountains.
Dallas Tanning went to San Diego
Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Monroe Lowe were
visiting Sunday with their son,
Elger Lowe. and family of Ell Gen.
tro.
Alora Gallaher went to Los An
geles for few days.
%
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. H. Boone of El
Centre were guests Sunday at the
M. l.. Boone home.
%
Mr.. and Mrs. K. Taylor and fam
lily went to the mountains over the
Fourth.
%
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Moore. en-
joyed several days at San Diego.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-08
Nine Unions Seek
Charter from C.. I. o

SAN DIEGO, Cal, July 8. CUP
"A charter for the San Diego in
dustrial council today was sought
from the CLIO, by nine unions af-
filiated with that group. The newly
formed organization claims the
membership of about SO per cent of
San Diego's organized workers.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-08
NAVY OPENS
CRASH PROBE

PENSACOLA, Fla, July 8. (UP)
Naval authorities opened an in
vestigation today into the fatal mile
high collision of two navy planes
near here yesterday.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-08
WOMAN HANGS
SELF IN CLOSET

OAKLAND, Calf, July s. CUP
Police today believed that poor
health was responsible for the sui
eide of Mrs. Margaret Courants 46,
who hanged herself in closet at
her home.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-08
ROBBER THREATENS
GIRLS, FLEES WITH 81

OAKLAND, Calf, July 8. CUP)
"A robber threatened two sales
girls, Elsie Ferguson and Alice
Shultz, with a gun and escaped
with 81 from a suburan grocery
store todav
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-08
MELOLAND
Mrs. A. Z. Meyer

Mrs. G.. Olson of Minneapolis,
Minnesota, sister of Mrs. Ward Nc
Grew, is spending the summer with
the McGrews at Mission Beach. Last
week Mrs. Olson was guest of
Mrs. Herbert Harris of Imperial
and Mrs. Herbert Bergstedt of
Brawley.
Holiday guests at the Dan Scott
home in Mission Beach included
Madame Ethel O'Neil, Miss Barbara
Kruger and Charles O'Neil of Los
Angeles.
Mrs. Effie Rumsey, Mrs. S. L.
Belts and daughter Ann, and Le-
roy Rumsey were visitors at the
Alex Meyer home the Fourth.
Verla and Vivian Doxey spent the
double holiday with their sisters
Mrs. Tommie Crawford and Ouida
Doxey in Santa Ana.
%
Mrs. Vaughn Thompson and
daughter Janet of Ell Centre were
guests of the McGrews Saturday
night.
Mrs. E. j. Skipper of Ell Centre
visited her son, H. G. Skipper and
family, in San Diego the past
weekend.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-08
$4,000 BRITISH TROOPS READY TO STOP PALESTIN
PARTITION OF HOLY
LAND RECOMMENDED

JERUSALEM July WJewh orthodox elders chanted prayers
waing wall today while British authorities waited
commits
sion report recommending partition Palestine.
More 5000 strategic points,
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-08
SIS Reward

Will be paid by The manufacturer
for any Corn GREAT CHRISTIE
PIER POSITIVE Corn Cure can-
not remove. Also removes Warts
and Callouses. 35c at Clements
Drug Store. (Ady.l
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-08
$500 Down. $500 Monthly
On Sears Easy Pay Plan

This powerful new Auto Radio has
dash plates to- match any car =. auto
A wonderful radio value only found at
Sears. Should sell at $50.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-08
S4.0O Down, $500 Monthly
On Sears Easy Pay Plan

The very newest in Auto Radios :.
single unit :. :. local distance control
-. z powerful tubes All the quail
ity features to make this the finest
radio you can buy for your car.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-08

Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Moore en-
joyed several days at San Diego.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-08

Mr.. and Mrs. K. Taylor and fam
lily went to the mountains over the
Fourth.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-03-22
SAN JUAN IS
SCENE OF RIOT
7 Killed, 40 Seriously Hurt
in Nationalist Out
break Sunday

SAN JUAN. Puerto Rico, Mar
22. (UP).-Scvcn persons were
killed and 40 seriously injured
some critically last night in q
fierce street battle between Ma
t:onalistS and police at Ponce,
across the island from San Juan.
Police were reported TO have
turned machine guns on a mob OF
parading Nationalist when they
resisted attempts to dispense the
demonstration.
In a message to the newspaper
Mundo here. Police Chief Felipe
Blanco of Ponce reported one po-
liceman and six civilians had been
killed in the clash. He said an
other policeman was critically
wounded aud that six more civil
lians were suffering from serious
wounds. Blanco estimated at least
81 civilians were injured.
According to the police chief S
report police at first attempted TO
break up the Nationalist parade
without firing. But the Demon
strators allegedly resisted and one
of the group fired at and wounded
n policeman. Then, according to
Blanco, police used machine guns
on the mob.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-03-22
FLOOD o. MINOR
MEASURES MAY DIE
CONTINUED from mage y

CONTINUED from mage y
Tor administration with the lieu
tnuaUt-go~ crnOr. the attornCy-gen-
c.a, and the state superintendent
of public instruction allotted places
on il.
But the measure whose passage
drew cheers on capitol hill was
one TO pay in full the salaries of
state employees which for four and
half months during the dark
financial days of 1888 were with
held.
The senate passed the house
measure Friday night and it was
enrolled and ratified the next day,
20 the audible JOY of those who
will receive large and small sums
Immediately as a result.
The 1888 assembly refused to
restore the back salaries and many
q Stenographer and office worker
Rad Abandoned any thought of
collecting for those four and a
hglf months. Hence the news that
the money would be available
forthwith was even more vel
come.
Scheduled to die in the calen-
dar committee with a mass of To-
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-03-22
lOCases Acted On
In Mayors Court
Drunk, Disorderly Counts
Numerous Today

Th;,+oon cases were called in
citv court this morning before
Mavor A. V. Edwards. The docket
was as follows: ., ,u.
Charges of assault with deadly
wcanon and carrying a concealed
weapon against Lula Bell Robin
son, colored, were continued 10
next Monday. :.
Sam Collington, drunk and dis
orderly was assessed the costs.
Toe McMinn was bound to re-
corder's court on charges of lar
ceny of a pistol and assault on
Fannie Sanders. Bond was set at
$500 in each case.
Meridy Hyder, drunk and dis
orderly, was sentenced to serve
60 days.
Frank Stepp, drunk and disor-
DERBY, was assessed the costs.
Earl Dcrmid, drunk and disor-
DERBY. was assessed the costs.
Emory Hendrix, drunk and dis
orderly. was sentenced to serve
60 days.
Otho Gibbs. drunk and disor-
derly, was assessed the costs.
Lee Case. drunk and disorderly,
was assessed the costs.
Sibyl and Pearl Scruggs, charg-
ed with disorderly conduct, had
sentence suspended.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-03-22
PROBE CRASH
AT HONOLULU
Miss Earhart May Try All
New Start After Plane
Smash-up

HONOLULU, T. H., March %
UP)--An army board of inquiry
today investigated Amelia Far,
hart Putnam's crash ut Luke field
Saturday while mechanics disman.
tied her $4,000 Flying Labora-
tory" and she sailed for home in
California with her crew on u
sturdy steamship.
The pioneering flight around
the world Of the greatest woman
tlier was delayed probably four
months by the accident, but she
planned to have the plane rebuilt
and try again, the next time for
a speed record. =,
inspectors at Luke field took
photographs of the wreckaGe Of
Miss EalhMtS silver Lockhecd
plane, Inspected it thoroughly and
questioned witnesses to the crash
in search of evidence for the for
NAL inquiry. They noted that
tracks mad" by the right tire were
wider at the point where the plane
went into its disastrous skid on
taking off. This, they said, indi-
Gated that the tire was getting
softer or that it was forced to
bear increased weight caused by
u fitting to the right. A defect in
the landing gear may have caused
the wreck, they said.
Neither Miss Earhart nor her
Capt. Harry Manning
and Fred Moonan, were injured.
Miss Earhart was highly praised
for her manner of handling the
plane in the emergency.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-03-22
VATICAN-GE2MAN
TENSION GROWING
CONTINUED from paGe onel

Continued from paEe one>
cordat, Hitler had said:
II am Of tn" happy conviction
that thereby the epoch will be
terminated in which too often re-
ligious and political interests
ciashed apparently without hope
of solution
The concordat failed TO end the
struggle between the church and
state because when signed and
ratified it left numerous questions
for later settlement. includin"
those of the Catholic press clcri-
cal influence in educational mat
ters. and existence Of Catholic
cultural societies and organlza-
tons.
These precipitated the present
clash.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-03-22
CHIEF JUSTICE HITS
COURT CHANGE IDEA

Continued from page one)
are available if you desire them,
the letter said.
During the present term we
have thus far disposed OF 666
case which include petitions for
certiorari and cases which have
been argued on the merits and al
ready decided
In regard TO the general idea
of enlargement Of the supreme
court or It's division into several
panels. Hughes letter said:
1T is believed that u would
impair that efficiency (of the
COURT so long rs the court acts
as a unit. There would be more
Judges to hear. more Judges 70
confer. more judges TO discuss,
more Judges to he convinced and
10 decide. The present number
of justices is thought 90 be- Iarg"
enough so far n the prompt, ade-
ouatc and efficient conduct Of the
work of the court is concerned.
As | have said, I do not speak ct
any other consideration in view
Of the appropriate attitude OF the
court in relation 10 questions or
policy.
II understand that IT has hCcn
."grcstod that with mon" justices
- rour' could Nror cases nv diyI-
sions. II is believed TINT such "a
r'on would D." imD'act.cable. \
LARGE PROMOTION OF the cases We
hear are important and % decision
by a part of tn court would be
unsatisfactory
81 NAV also call attention 10
the provisions of Article III. Sec
ton | of the Constitution. that
the judicial power Of the United
States shall he Vested IN on" SUI
premc cout' and in such inferior
courts a IN" con~r"rr NAV from
time 10 time ordain and establish.
The Constitution does not appear
20 authorize two or more supreme
courts or two or more parts Of 4
supreme court functiouing in Cf-
feet as separate courts
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-03-22
Would Provide
For President To
Act On Strike
Manufacturers Body Has
Recommendation After
Long Study

WASHINGTON, Mar -. lUP)
Tf, N.tiorul Association of Man
v5~rtr~crs foday stepped into the
wir..r.,ad labor-capital contro-
re-.i.: w'.h . recommendation
.Hgr congress enact legislation
D., m;r.ir- presidential interview
,iou in serious disputes.
tn" associations proposal that
.hr chief executive b" given wi
d.. lp.i,uI" i'm handling labor
controversies" was made public
a4 government officials Strove 70
avutt a threatened general strike
I'M Detroit. Other strikes dotted
the east and middle west.
LEGISLATION proposing compu!-
so,v federal investigation Of
threatened labor disputes Of ma
Iiu1gl murnjtude and banning
strikes or lockoutS during the IN
curry and for 80 days after its
completion, was advocated last
night by the association.
{. u. Chester. food manutac-
turcr and chairman Of the associ-
atoms board Of directors, in dis
closing the plan said II IS based
on months Of study of the ma
tons labor troubles. He empha-
iz,d tia. the association does not
recommend compulsory arbitra-
ton of industrial disputes and
lat his PROPOSAL follows the Drin-
vi. established in the law whica
events interruption Of rail COM
rfN.vEE
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-03-22

er jacket.
He explained that gas used to
heat the 100000 SchoolhOuse was
residue after commercial ele-
ments had been extracted, and
was pumped back to the COM
pany'S wells from the refining
plant. Some was used for heating
homes of company officials.
but we are selling it to no
one" Clark snapped. 1--WE have
never sold q cubic foot of that
gas. No one had permission TO
tap our lines"
He said his first knowledge the
schoolhouse was using the residue
gas came after the blast, when he
was asked to disconnect the pipe.
Clark was called after grim
faced oil workers, many of them
fathers of children who were
killed. had been called to outline
i'm detail the scene at the school
house after the explosion had 1T
orally blown it apart.
After the Parade Field foreman
told his story, State Senator JOS
Hill of Henderson, an East Texas
oil town, a civilian member Of the
military board, leaned forward
and pointed his pencil at Clark.
Now, Mr.. Clark" he said, you
don't want to leave the impression
this work was done without au-
thorization. The schools connec-
ton possibly would have been
made by authority of some other
official of your company"
1T could have been done
through some official" Clark re-
piled. "That is a possibility. But
it's never been done before and
such connection would have
been an exception. We are selling
that gas to no one
Floyd Hunt, a lean, drawing
Texan employed as janitor at the
school, said the gas line was con,
nected by "four or five janitors. y
"Who gave you the order for
the work." asked Captain Il. +.
Coombes, conducting the question
ing. -
81 think it was Mr.. Shaw, but
Pm not sure. Somebody told me
it was Mr.. Shaw"
William c. Shaw, superlntend-
ont of the school who lost his son
in the explosion, did not attend
tie inquiry. Asked whether he
knew anything about the sup
posed pipe-tapping, he replied:
81 don't care to talk now. /
will make a full statement for the
board. A Parade Gasoline COM
pany official can tell all about the
pipeline"
The janitor, under questioning
by Hill, said the work was "all
done in open daylight"