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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-16

sonalitv was ,. w.FitzPatricl< Chubby" Charley Schwab, chair man of the executive board. MT. Schwab fought for his country during the late European muss for one buck 8 year, and 8 million dollars worth of publicity. He owns a juicy hunk of Bethlehem stock and he drags down a paltry two hundred thousand Smackers per ar1num for being Chairman Of the Board. He is also the proud possessor of the only combina- tion house-railroad station-mau- soleum-and freight terminal on earth. It is situated at the cor- ner of Riverside Drive and Seven ty-Second Street, New York City; it covers an entire block; it is re- ported to be the finest example of architectural heebie-jeebies ex- tant. Charley does not live in 1t. At least he is never known to have admitted the fact. Barkers on New York sightseeing busses have been known to announce to 8 load of suckers that the building is filled with E.skimos, Igorrote dog eaters from the Philippine Islands, polo ponies imported from Terra del Fuego, three thousand eight hundred and forty-five chamber maids, eighty cooks, fifty-nine window cleaners, and a full bri- gade of night and day watchmen. MT. Schwab has at various times tried to give, donate, unload, and throw away the joint on or to the city of New York, the Association for Cancer Research, the League of Nations, the Freeport, H., base ball team of the Three:Eye League for a training camp, and to for mer Light Heavyweight Cham pion Maxey Rosenbloom, the gall loping cowboy from the Bronx for a nightclub rodeo. Nobody wants 1t or will take it. None of the foregoing has anything to do with what I started out to say. But the mention of Bethlehem Steel auto- matically brings up the name or Schwab. And the name of SchWab automatically drags in the SchWab Castle on the Hudson. With this much off the typewriter let us get back to our muttonS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-16

CAA6AAASS OA
 struction { o r armies and navies; it pays sundry of its officers, notably President Eu- gene Or ac e, s t a ag g e rim g sums in bonus es in addition to their nig- gardly salaries; and up to 8 couple of days ago its best wn per-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-16
TODAY'S COMMON ERROR Never say, "Send whomsoever
 will do the j0b"; say, "who- ever."

A. The custom was brought from Europe where it started in order to avoid window tax, and at the same time to give an appearance of af- fluence.
 @. How many men were dis missed from the service with dis honorable discharges during the World war?
 A. There were 1O,250 dishonor- ably discharged and 24,260. who re- ceived discharges "other than hon. orable".
 o. How many times has congress enacted legislation changing the number of members of the Supreme Court?
 A. The original act provided for six members, and congress has passed seven later laws designed to affect the number of its mem bership.
 @. Give the length of the Well land Ship Canal and the dimen- sions of the locks. l A. It IS E6 miles lOlg, ana mas eight locks with minimum dimen- sions as follows: Length, 859 feet; width 30 feet; depth 30 feet; lift, 461a feet.
 Q. How large is the Gulf of Mexico?
 A. It has an oval form; the greatest length from east to west is about HOO miles, and from north to south it is about 800 miles. The area is about 100000 square miles.
 If you want 8 copy of our book
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-16
Why Not?

The presence of a Sour Fuss at' the historic meeting of the steel company stockholders in Whining \ ton is not as strange as it might appear. In view of certain other tricks of monkey wrench tossing by young MT. Gilbert I wonder that almost everyone present did not qualify for the name. Ger Z tainly President Grace and some other directors had excellent rea- son to change their monnikerS and become identified with the Sour Fuss clan. MT. Schwab too might have appeared like mem Der of the tribe. No one whose two hundred thousand Smacker job, which is parried on cruising in the Mediterranean, was en- dangered could be blamed for not grinning like a cat which had just swallowed a canary. Pres ident Grace and his fellow direc- tors were even more roughly ham, dled by Pocket-full-of-Proxles Gilbert and had better reason to look sour-pussed. Before he got around to making the innocent suggestion that Chubby" Charley be ornamented with tin can, Gilbert made a protest about the way the Bethlehem management was managing the business of the outfit. He also demanded that President Bonus" Grace ana other officers of the corporation repay
 immediately the S15,OOO,0O0
 balance of the $18,OO0,OOO they
 borrowed from the corporation
 in 1881 and used to buy stock in
 the cnrnNra fiNn.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-16

a
 1. In what year was the Lusitania sunk?
 2. In the New Testament, who were Priscilla and Aquila?
 3. Can any alien become an American citizen merely by being adopted into the family of Q person who is already a citizen?
 {. Where is the Yser Canal9
 5. Which animals are included in the order of primates?
 6. For whom was Louisiana nam ed?
 T. What Is a delta9 8. Near the entrance of which Gulf is Cape Breton Island2
 9. Who was George R0mnty7
 10. How long was Nero the Eni- peror of Rome?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-16
BY WAY of NO HARN
James William FitzPatrick

Che comments opn0ns conclusions appearing beOw af fose They not necessarily. those of M editors oe DEMOCRAT they to De construed invarisb
 as e. reflection Oe their vSewp0infD.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-16
Free For All

Whereupon President Grace was restrained with the utmost difficulty, and by the strong arms of . pair of puddlers from the Bethlehem plant, from carry- ing out his promise to bust MT. Gilbert in the beezer. Showing that President Grace earns every dollar of his bonus if only as the best beezer buster in the steel cor- poration. Undersized MT. Gilbert would have been forced to stand on the top rung of 8 six foot step ladder in order to get his beezer busted by President Grace, but that is immateria1. What is ma terial and responsible for the un- dying fame Of the Bethlehem Steel Company Is that another gent who did not like MT. Gilbert's sugges- ton to bounce Chubby" Charley horned into the argument. He would displace Beezer-Buster Grace in the seeking department and be tickled to death to take on the job.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-16
Direct Result

Don't get the idea that the ac- tion of the Bethlehem stock holders at the Wilmington love feast is unusual. Inspired doubt less by the steel magnates deter imitation to have the Bethlehem board of directors take action about the return of the borrowed $15,000,000, Albert H. Wiggin, for mer head of the Chase National Bank (the largest financial insti- tuition in the wOrld) offered a personal payment of $2,OOO,OOO yesterday to settle suit brought against himself, officers, and di- rect0rs by twenty-seven Chase Bank stockholders. The latter, (probably all Lewis D. Gilberts in disguise), brought action against Wiggin ct al because they said $103.000.O00 had been lost to the bank through the negligence of the former head of the institu- ton and his associates in its con trol. All MT. Wiggin asks is that the two million dollar payment Twill constitute 8 final settlement of all claims and matters which are asserted in or which may arise under the amended complaint in this action" Who, in the light ot MT. Wiggin's offer can have the gall to rise and say that generos- ity is lost virtue in American business life. Or that the family of financial sour -pusses is in danger of extinction. It is grow by the million.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-16
A Thought for Today

Let no man therefore judge you in meat Or'in drink, or fin respect of a hOlyday, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath days.-COlOssians 2;l6
  Judgment is forced upon us by experience. Johnson.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-16
CharYey's Castle

The Bethlehem Steel Company is one of the country's greatest industries. It makes, among other giInmicks and gadgets, cute little
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-16
WAGNER ACT PRECEDENTS SIMILAR TO MIRA DECISION
M DREW PEARSON
WASHINGTON, April 16

WASHINGTON April 16 - Government legal experts have been putting the microscope on Supreme Court opinions since the deluge of them in the Wagner Act cases, and have unearthed some highly
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-16
Daily Almanac

Daily Almanac Moon sets II :55 D. m. Sun rises 5:12 a. m.; sets 6:32 p. m All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-16
What a Man!

That man was none other than
 John Souermundt. Who, you may ask. is John Souermundt2 He Is probably . Pennsylvania Dutch- man from Easton. Reading. Lan-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-16
T est Y o u r Knowledge

Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to last page for the answers.
Evening star., 1937-11-10
DRIVERS PERMIT
PHOTOS ENDORSED
Cathedral Heights Cleveland
Park Association Hears
Traffic Official.

Acting on the appeal Of M. o
Edridge, assistant director of traffic
the Cathedral Heights Cleveland Park
Citizens Association last night voted
unanimously to cooperate in the
effort to have drivers photographs
stamped on the driving permit in the
District
Mr.. Eldridge cited cases where
drivers, whose permits had been re-
voked or suspended, were using other
drivers permits. Over 500 drivers
have been taken off the streets during
the past three years for driving while
drunk, and cannot get their permits
back because they cannot get insur-
ance." Mr.. Eldridge declared.
The association indorsed the sugges-
tion OF the traffic official for a change
in school hours to 9:15, so that smaller
school children might avoid the morn
ing rush hour.
Capt. Merlyn G. Cook of the associ-
alton was supported in his opposition
to the proposed raise in the 1893
District budget. Citing figures of 20
years ago, he said, then, when our
budget called for eighteen million dol
lars, the Federal Government con-
tributed nine million dollars; now
when we have forty-seven- million
dollar request, the Federal Govern
ment gives us five million dollars.
Waldron Faulkner, president of the
association, welcomed four new men,
bers at the meeting.
Evening star., 1937-11-10
FORD is REELECTED
BY BUSINESS GROUP
Columbia Heights Association
Hears of Plans for Santa
Claus Lane.

The Columbia Heights Business
Mems Association, meeting last night
at the Arcade Building, reelected
George A. Ford as president. Others
chosen were William T. Cary, first vice
president; Harry D. Gordon, second
vice president; Velma B. Merriam,
third vice president, and H. c. Phillips,
secretary and treasurer.
Mr.. Phillips entered his eleventh
successive term and was presented
with testimonial from the members
for 10 years of faithful service. The
Election Committee consisted of DR..
M. M. Gottleib, chairman, and A. B.
Carly and Wayne c. Stone.
Ambrose R. Swami. Who retired from
business on account of ill health
last week, was made an honorary men,
ber, and five new members were ac-
cepted. A silver loving cup was
awarded to William Dismer for having
attended the most luncheons and din
Evening star., 1937-11-10
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Millions take DR.. Edwards Olive
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That is one reason why Olive Tablets have
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Evening star., 1937-11-10
BEAUTIES INVITED

Girls don't have to be single to be
popular, according to Opportunity
House officials, who today urged all
Washington beauties to enter the pop
ularity contest featuring their fund
raising fiesta at the Raleigh Hotel
November % and %.
The prize for the winner, they said,
will be trip by airplane to New York
for the girl and her chaperon and q
visit to several points of interest in
. the city on December 10.
Prospective entrants should COM
municate with fiesta headquarters at
the Raleigh.
Evening star., 1937-11-10
ners Of the association during the year.

ners Of the association during the year.
The annual Santa Claus Lane parade
of the association will take place on
the evening of November 26 and a
popularity contest is now being held
to name the queen of Santa Claus
Lane, who will be crowned at a ball
to be held following the parade at the
Arcade Building. Miss Nancy Lang
was leading the contest last night.
About 200 members attended, and
Lester Rucker, former vice pres
ident. acted as master of ceremonies
when the new officers were inducted.
In his annual report to the members
OF the association, Mr.. Ford made a
number of recommendations pertain
ing to the betterment OF conditions In
the community.
Evening star., 1937-04-08

dropped pamphlets over the Basque
country containing q last warning"
to surrender.
Government troops fought desper-
ately to break through an insurgent
ring of steel protecting the city OF
Cordoba, in Southern Spain.
Seizure of Villaharta would place
government fighters in position to
cut the Cordoba -Penarroya road and
break the insurgents main line Of
communication.
Withdrawal Of troops from the
Avila Province, SO miles west OF Ma
drid, by Franco to reinforce other
lines. enabled government troops to
capture Cebreros, 10 miles southeast
Of the insurgent base of Avila city
RUSSIA ACCUSED ANEW.
Evening star., 1937-04-08
RUSSIA ACCUSED ANEW.

Writer Charges Ship Is Carrying War
Materials to Spain.
ROME, April 8 (P.-Virginio Gayda,
regarded as the most authoritative Of
Italian editors, today charged Soviet
Russia, as he previously had accused
France. Of violating the Spanish civil
war neutrality agreement by sending
aid to the Madrid government.
The Spanish steamer Mar Negro.
Gayda declared, was en- route to
Valencia from Odessa, Russia, with 4
Evening star., 1937-04-08

cargo Of munitions OF war for the
Spanish government.
Aboard the vessel, he wrote, were
rs tanks, 20 airplanes, 30 trucks and
500 tons OF war materials.
0aydas charges, coupled with those
o6 yesterday that French general
stan was taking over planning Of CAM
paigns, were regarded in diplomatic
circles Is government inspired.
Informed sources, however, de-
scribed the Italian official attitude as
one Of "watchful but hopeful wait.
Ing" and insisted Italy did not intend
Evening star., 1937-04-08
q $4,000 donation from supporter,
in the Philippine Islands.
DRIVE TOWARD CORDOBA.

MADRID, April 8 (F.-The eastern
flank Of the Spanish Governments
southern army hammered at Villa
harta today, striving, in the face Of
repeated counter attacks, to break
the insurgent barrier OF steel pro-
tecting the ancient Moorish city OF
Cordoba.
Seizure of Villaharta and a slight
southerly push from that point would
bottle up" $4,000 of Gen. Francisco
Francois troops, and open the way
Evening star., 1937-04-08

Cordoba Penarroya road running
north and northwest from the provin-
cial capital and linking insurgent
positions along . broad front extend
ing Is far as Penarroya, 1S miles
from Villaharta.
Barcelona dispatches told Of fresh
victories on the Northeastern Aragon
front.
Catalonians Advance Near Huesca.
Catalonian troops were said to have
made 500-yard advance just south
Of Huesca, capital Of the Aragon prov
ince Of that name, about 200 miles
northeast Of Madrid There was
heavy hand-to-hand combat.
Evening star., 1937-04-08

for swift motorized advance over
20 miles Of improved highway to
the southeast against Cordoba.
The decayed city, . major seat Of
European culture in the Middle Ages,
now is one Of the principal bases Of
insurgent strength.
frances men fought desperately
to dislodge Madrid's troops from
advanced positions in proximity to
Villaharta, but were turned back
seven times.
Nests OF insurgents cut of from
the main body Of Frances force by
the drive on Villaharta were being
cleaned out.
Evening star., 1937-04-08
Spain

Continued From First Page)
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'OUIIVHIueu FIUn1 F1rSG Page.
troops to withdraw to the second range
OF hills on one of the two principal
highways between Vitoria and Bilbao.
Pine Forests Fired.
The insurgents set afire pine forests
% drive back the defenders.
lnsurgent airplanes fought OF at
tacks by government planes and
Evening star., 1937-04-08

The governments Avi.a offensive.
about 38 miles west Of Madrid, was
reported facilitated by Frances recent
withdrawal Of forces there to REIN
force other fronts.
Evening star., 1937-04-08
to take any direct action "for the
REFUGEES REACH HENDAYE,

BoatloadS Leave Bilbao ~ Insurrents
Approach.
HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Bor-
der, April 8 R.-Boatloads Of refu-
gees from Bilbao began to arrive in
this frontier town today rs Spanish
insurgents drove nearer to the Basque
capital
Basque circles reported Juan Aguirre,
president OF the Basque autonomous
government, has received an offer of
Evening star., 1937-05-30
Shute Tr0unces Ma1rer0, 3.2;:
McSpaden Tops Laffoon, Fl,
To Reach PIG. Il. Final Today

A par at the thirty-fourth closed Tony
out.
McSpaden drove all day like Coast
Guard gun. lashing out from the heels
up and recoiling with dangerous
stagger toward the back edge Of the
tee He played every shot as if it
we're the last of his life. and made
Lafoon's heart skip on the green's.
The big fellow was two puts better
than par and three holes better than
Laffoon on the first nine He raped
in a 45-foot putt for birdie three at
the first. topped this with seven
straight pars. and ran down another
hixdie putt of Is feet on the ninth
Laffoon steady on the first nine,
was brilliant on the second. and still
disappointed. He came back in "a,
two under par, and picked up only
one hole. McSpaden missed his sec
ond at the eleventh and lost the hole
with bogey. His lead was cut to a
single hole at the fourteenth. when
he failed to hop 3-toot stymle, but
he charged home like champion.
Both got their pars at the fifteenth
and sixteenth.
Evening star., 1937-05-30
Hue-M0nth-Old Beard Fails
Him as Judd Loses to Rice
In Star Net Tourney Upset

erner swept through two opponents
with the loss of only one game. drop
ping it to Clarence Herreshoff after
taking two love sets from DR.. Al
Richwine.
Welsh Has Eye Trouble.
DEFENDING CHAMPION BARNEY
WELSH managed to get by only
the first round. but that was due to
q temporary giving-away Of Barney's
eyes, necessitating drops and dark
glasses for the day. His victim was
Emanuel Nunez by 60, 6-1 count.
The title holder expects to play two
matches today. meeting Morgan
(Happy) Jacobs and, barring the un-
expected, Billy Contreras.
A wide-open scramble by "a teams
for the major doubles prizes was fore
seen as a. result of only one of the
eight seeded teams ever having played
together in the past 10 years. With
out defending champion because
of the absence of Ralph McElvenny,
who won the title last year with Welsh,
the seeded No. position was given to
Welsh and Tony Latona, who are
playing on the same side of the net
for the first time since Western High
School days In the late '20s.
The new combination Of Dooly
Mitchell and Navy" Bill Howard was
seeded second, and the two Stans,
McCaskey and Robinson, third. Joe
Baker and Fred Doyle. a pair which
gave much promise in 1886, were seed
ed fourth, and the junior combination
Of David johnson and Harry Heffner,
fifth. Other seeded entries we're Hy
Ritzenberg and Murray Gould, sixth;
Allie Ritzenberg and Ray Stocklinski,
seventh, and Harry Goldsmith and
Bob Bradley, eighth.
Players should 60 directly to courts
assigned today for scheduled matches
in both singles and doubles.
See Results, Page Ais.
Evening star., 1937-05-30
McSpaden Comes Back.

AFFOON knocked in a 6-footer at
the seventeenth for a birdie, and
McSpaden matched it. Then, at the
eighteenth, with Laffoon 6 feet from
the cup in two, jug rolled one in
from l8 feet to increase his morning
lead to two holes.
Jug-he got the name because he
used to be built like one-won the
first two holes with pars in the after.
noon. Four up, then, it looked as If
he would run of with the methodical
Laffoon.
KY won the twenty-first by curling
in a 5footer for birdie 4, and
took the twenty-fifth when Nc.
Spaden's hook started flying over the
thick grass. The Chicagoan also
won the twenty-sixth when jug three
putted, but the big boy came back
with 15-footer at the twenty-sev-
enth.
Always good on the back nine, Laf-
foon dropped l0-foot putt for
birdie at the tWenty-eighth, and
evened the match with another birdie
on the thirtieth. They played the
next two holes in par, and McSpaden
went l up again at the thirty-third
when KY drove in the rough and tried
unsuccessfully to whack out with
spoon
McSpaden still held the one-hole
lead on the thirty-fifth tee He hit
two perfect shots to within feet
of the cup and dropped the putt for
q birdie and the match.
McSpaden's victory gave him his
first try In the finals of the P. g. A.
He was eliminated In the quarter
finals last year by Jimmy Thomson.
Evening star., 1937-05-30
TWO BEAT WORLD
RECORD IN VAULT
Seton, Meadows Go ID
Feet II Inches in Coast
Meet Trojans Win.
B. the Associated Press.

B. the Associated Press.
7 oS ANGELES, May 29.-South-
ern CALIFORNIA; sensational
William Seton and Earle
Meadows scared IA feet IL
inches to an unofficial world pole vault
record and Washington States quartet
clipped 0.3 second off the listed world
mile relay mark in the thrill-packed
Pacific Coast Conference track and
field championships today.
Seven conference records also top
pied as Southern California nosed out
the co-favored Stanford Indians, SIS to
81. for the team championship. Other
schools finished in this order: WASH
ington State, 81; Washington, 1919:
University Of California at Los An
geles, 1912; California, Is: Oregon 10;
Idaho, 6, and Montana and Oregon
l each.
Whether Seton and Meadows could
have gone Is feet-not so long ago
considered an impossible vaulting goal
could not be answered today. The
standards were not fashioned for more
than the IA feet II they did
George Varoff of San Francisco
holds the recognized record at IA feet
s. y inches.
Evening star., 1937-05-30
How They Gained
PIG A. Golf Final
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, May 29.-Here's
now Denny Shute, Boston, and
Harold McSpaden, Winchester,
Mass, won their way to final of
the Professional Golfers Associa-
ton championship:
Shute qualified 79-7O-149; beat
Joe Turnesa, Elnsford, N. Y, 2
and l.; Olin Dutra, Los Angeles.
and 2; Ed Dudley. Philadelphia,
3 and 2; Jimmy Hines. Garden
City, N. Y. 4 and 3, and Tony
Manero. Peabody, Mass, and 2.
McSpaden qualified 7l-72-l43:
beat Clarence Clark, Bloomfield,
N. j., 3 and 2; Bunny Torpey,
Dodson, Mo. up, 20 holes; Sam
Snead. White Sulphur Springs,
w. Va, 3 and 3; Henry Picard,
Hershey. Pa, l up, 80 holes, and
KY Laffoon. Chicago, and /.