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Evening star., 1937-02-14
Fifty Years Ago
In the Star

THE days left to the present Congress
steadily diminish" says The Star OF
February 7, 1887,
for Onange Oh land the time with
Inaupuration. in which that body
can do its part
toward changing Inauguration day from
the 4th of March to the 30th of April
will soon be past. Unless the proposed
amendment to the Constitution is sub
mitted by this session the change can
not be made in 1885, Nearly everybody
favors the change and no further argu-
ment is necessary in its favor. A few
minutes of action is all that is asked.
Who knows, gentlemen of the House,
that one of your number may not ride
bareheaded up the Avenue. the central
figure of the inaugural procession OF
1889? Now mark it well, expectant Presi-
dents-elect, if in the hurry of the closing
days of Congress you neglect to submit
the proposed amendment just retribu-
ton shall fall upon you. The local
Weather Bureau shall on March 4. 1882
let fly such pneumonia breathing gale
about your exposed head and ears that
in receipted doctors bills at least you
shall bring forth fruits meet for re-
pentancel Report Messrs. Judiciary
Committee; act, gentlemen of the House,
and avert pneumonia and the day OF
wrath"
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"The bill introduced in Congress
lately" says The Star of February 8,
1887. providing for
Street halfway the repeal of the
Franchises. charters of the Wash
ington and George
town and the Metropolitan Railroad
Companies and for the offer of their
franchises at public auction is based
probably upon a reasonable impatience
at the exercise of valuable rights by
these railroads without proper compen-
sation to the city The enjoyment. prac-
tically gratuitous, of their valuable
franchises is not only improper in it
self, but it hinders all attempts to obtain
benefit from new franchises of similar
kind, as prejudice and partiality in favor
of the old companies and injustice, by
contrast, toward the new are at once
suggested To arbitrarily forfeit the old
charters and sell the franchises is OBJ
jectionable and probably not practicable.
But if all the street railroads, old and
new, existing and proposed, shall be so
regulated by law as to be required to pay
into the District treasury fair share OF
the large profits which spring from street
railway franchises, impartial justice Will
be administered and Washington will
profit by it"
Evening star., 1937-02-14

Lincoln said with malice toward
none" Grant said Let us have peace"
Postmaster General Farley declared,
There will be no reprisals." Perhaps
Mr.. Farley will command a higher
place in history than his modest asser-
tons of conciliatory craftsmanship now
accord him.
Evening star., 1937-02-14

No sabotage is reported as to the
machines where sit-down strike is con-
Quoted. Despite contentious with his
fellow man. an intelligent workman
does not quarrel with his tools.
Evening star., 1937-02-14

Maryland Is compelled to discuss al
legged tax wastage along with a demand
for more funds for educational pur-
poses. A course in political finance
might be desirable as an incident of
mathematics.
Evening star., 1937-02-14

When the President said he would
never forget Senator Norris he spoke in
admiration OF fearless and an honor
able man. AS the Nebraska Senator
proceeds in candor he is less likely than
ever to be overlooked.
Evening star., 1937-02-14

II some reconstructive plans 60
through, future historian may make
bold to remark that the United States
Supreme Court was a great institution
while it lasted.
Evening star., 1937-02-14
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Evening star., 1937-02-14

One trouble about radio is that it
may cause something related to stage
fright and makes it impossible to be
sure what the mechanism Is going to
say next.
Evening star., 1937-02-14
Unfinished Enterprise.

ct have discovered a new planet" ex-
claimed the enthusiastic astronomer.
That's not the hard part" COM
mented the woman with a chilly voice.
Nov go ahead and discover something
to do with it,
Evening star., 1937-02-14
Weary Student.

Wc8ly SCuueuCs
The statesman thinks his lot III starred
And longs for vacation.
He thinks no lesson Is as hard
To learn as legislation.
And he should be In clover
He hears demands from regions vast
To do the work all over.
Evening star., 1937-02-14
Assuming Needless Burden.

Have you ever studied psychologist"
mo-" answered Senator Sorghum IT
have decided to give my mind rest
A statesman can find enough perplexity
in the days work. There is no use of
his going out of his way to find subjects
that scarcely anybody appears positively
to understand"
Jud Tunkins says the radio Is show
ing the value of time. Fifteen minutes
is long enough for anybody to tell
what's on his mind.
Every man." said Hi Ho, the sage of
Chinatown, might be hero, If life did
not so seldom present opportunities for
the particular kind of heroism to which
he is suited"
Evening star., 1937-02-14
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Tasks Uncompleted.

Tasks Uncompleted.
The same old duty reappears
And almost causes dizziness.
What we encounter through the years
Is Just unfinished business.
Evening star., 1937-02-14

Human folks is natchelly generous"
said Uncle Eben. II never yit saw q
man Wit SO much trouble Of his own
dat he WASH willtn' to give somebody
advice"
Evening star., 1937-02-14
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Maryland and virginia.
Evening star., 1937-02-14

In recent years many salesmen have
sought to travel in their own auto
mobiles Some of the States have i'm
posed a special license tax on out-of-
State statesmen. although no such tax
is imposed on statesmen travelling by
train. Indeed, it is said that the rail-
roads have been responsible for some
of the burdens placed on interstate COM
merce on the highways. hoping to divert
trafic to the rails. This has resulted
in situation whereby buses not owned
by railroad companies are subjected to
many burdens, while those which are
operated by railroads 60 free.
The system is particularly burdensome
on trucks delivering for commercial
establishments located in cities near
State lines. A truck making, perhaps.
two deliveries day across a State line
must stop and go through the formali-
ties of proving ownership of the vehicle.
insurance coverage and meeting vari-
GUS other requirements on each trip.
The increased cost of doing business
under such handicaps, OF course, mas
the effect of adding to the cost of
articles sold and delivered.
All the various restrictions are in
addition to the regular charges for
license plates and driving permits and
to the State and local taxes on gasoline.
There are places where the motorist
must pay the Federal tax on gasoline.
State tax, a county tax and a municipal
tax, the aggregate of the tax ar1ount-
ing to more than the cost Of the product.
That an effort will be made to gain
some uniformity in practice is certain,
but how successful it will be, in view
Of deliberate intent on the part of some
Jurisdictions to collect all the trafic can
be made to bear from out-of-State oper-
ators, In . matter Of uncertainty.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-14
HOPE FOR GRAVE
 ROBBER VANISHES

Streetsville, Ont, Oct. l4.-(UP) :. Hope of capturing the grave rob- Der who Kidnapped" the body of 2o- year-old Hayden Pope and demand ed $100 ransom fade today with dis- covery of the corpse In a roadside ditch.
 Police said the body, found by four children returning from school, apparently had been thrown from an automobile.
 Officers and villagers, however, continued their search for clues which might indicate the identity of the ghoul who took the body from a new grave Monday night and left a ransom note for the youths par ents in the empty coffin. The note; written in block letters by pencil, read: ,.,
 If you want your son back have $i00 ready and we will write where to leave money when the cops cool off."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-14
SIGNATURE FORCER FACES CHARGES

Boston, oct. l4-(UP)-Criminal prosecution of Q person who alleg- edly forged signatures of l5 Catho- lie priests pas anticipated today.
 Disclosure of the purported for- geries was the second election scan- dal withing 10 days. It came only 24 hours before the deadline for reg istration for the November 2 elec- ton.
 The charges were presented to the Boston election commission by For mer assessor Timothy W. Murphy of Jamacia Plain as police investi- gated the fake listings of potential voters in two Charlestown precincts.
 The alleged forgeries were dis covered on nomination papers ot Former State Auditor Alonzo B. Cook, one of three republicans among the nine rnayoral candidates. The priests were listed as living at the rectory of the Immaculate Con ception church in the south end. but five of the priests last night denied they had signed the papers, while others had moved from the rectory before the papers were circulated
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-14
Supreme Court Upheld Judge McEvOy's Ruling
 For Moderator
DISCRETIONARY POWER
 NOT NTERFERED WITH
Human PrOneness to Error Cited - No Recheck
 Taken in Park City

Similar in most respects to the present legal controversy over Waterbury's city elec- tion is a Bridgeport case of a few years back in which Su- perior Court Judge Frank F. McEvoy of this city refused to order a re-canvasS of the voting machines, and was supported in his ruling by the State Supreme Court of Errors. The Supreme Court, in refusing to instruct the moder- ator to make a recanvass of the vot- ing machines, said, through Chief Justice William M. Maltbie, that with discretionary powers the courts rarely interfere, and that difference in opinion or Judgement Is never a sufficient ground for interference".
 The Bridgeport case was that of Frederick Harrison, unsuccessful candidate for the State Senate in 1882, against Ralph T. Wilson, chief election moderator in the Park City. MT. Harrison alleged that dis crepancies between the number of names marked off on the check list and the number of votes actually listed on the machines were suffi- cient to cause Q recount to be ordered.
 No Recheck Ordered
 Judge McEvoy declined to order 6 recheck of the machines, and al, appeal was taken to the State Supreme Court of Errors.
 The. states highest tribunal, in ruling on the case, pointed out that there are two factors in determining election discrepancies. One Is the check list of those whose names are checked off, as having voted, the other iS the( certificate of the mod orator as to the number of votes registered on the public and pro- tective counterS< of the voting ma chimes. " Possibility of Error
 In the check list the court points out, there is possibility of human error, and this enters largely Into the question. However, any, difference between the two counts would not necessarily mean any error, in the canvassing of the votes from the machines or any defect In tile ma
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-14
SEEKING
 LIMIT FOR ITALY
Italian Participation in Spanish War to GO
 Before Committee
BY RALPH HEINzEN

United Press Staif Correspondent
 Paris, Oct. 14-(U.P.) - Gravely anxious over 1taly's activity in the Spanish Civil War, the cabinet agreed today to participate in e discussion of the situation before the non-in- tervention committee but to insist on prompt action.
 It was understood that Foreign Minister Won Delbos, at the non- intervention meeting at London, would suggest a definite time limit by which Italy should agree to diminish her activity in the Balearic Islands and to curtail her troop activity in Spain proper.
 A time limit of from six days to two weeks, probably two weeks, was expected.
 The alternative to agreement would be that France and Great Britain, acting together, would re- sume their own liberty of action and take such steps aS they saw it to counter Italy'S activity in behalf of the Spanish nationalists.
 Today's meeting was Q formal council of ministers at the Elysee Palace under President Albert Lee briin.
 Its task was largely to approve the decisions taken at a dramatic meet ing of key ministers, aided by scores of experts, yesterday. The ministers were in telephonic touch with the British foreign office. An agreement for joint action was effected by tele- phone. s ,.
 There were reports that French and British warships even now were patroling of the Loyalist-held island of Minorca, in the Balearic group, to prevent an attack on 1t from the neighboring island of Mcjorca. Majorca is held by the Ma tionalists and is base for Italian bombing planes. It is directly on Frances line of communication to North Africa--and the tough native fighting men in French territory there. N
 Both the French and British ad- miralties denied these reports to- day. Spokesmen ct both ministries said that the only British and French warships near the Balearics were those on the new "anti-piracy" patrol.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-14
ILLEGAL VOTERS
 MAKE GETAWAY

Somerville, Mass, Oct. 14--(UP) When Il alleged illegal voters ar- rested in yesterdays city primary defaulted today, District Judge Mall colm Sturdevant demanded:
 What was their bill7"
 Forty dollars each" replied the prosecuting officer.
 If had been bailing those men I would have set bail at $6, 900 each, thundered Judge Sturdevant. "Then they would have been here this morning"
 Police Chief Thomas Damery said he had ordered the Il held without bail.
 MysterlouSly. all were released early today after giving false names to . bail commissioners.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-14
BAY STATE MAN
 IS BOUND OVER
Charged With Stealing Auto Parked on Che-
 shire Road

Judge Edward Mascolo in city court today bound over James Burke, %, of 16 Willard avenue, Dorchester, Mass, to the next term of superior court, on @ charge Of theft of an automobile.
 Burke was arrested in Springfield, Mass, last Friday, and charged with stealing an automobile owned by Louis Wenzel, of 30 Willow street, which was parked on the Cheshire road. MT. Wenzel appeared in court today and stated that the car was worth about $l00. The car was stolen about 10 o'clock Thursday night, he said, while 1t was in the care of his son.
 The accused admitted passing through Waterbury on Friday night after 9 o'clock, but denied stealing the car. He said he came upon the car, which was out of gas at the time, while walking along the highway in Springfield, and crawled in to sleep.
 He said that he had been given a ride from the outskirts of Water bury, in to the center, and out towards Cheshire by Q man whom he described as "a panhandler with one leR." ",.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-14
CATHOLIC GROUP
 DEFENDS STAND
Smith, CarmOdy Head l75 Who Seek to Clarity
 Spanish Situation

New York, Oct. 14- (UP) A group of 175 Roman Catholic clergy man and laymen made public today statement defending Catholic sup port of the Spanish Nationalists and attacking the Spanish Loyalist gov- ernment.
 The statement was a reply to a recent "open letter" of Protestant clergymen and laymen, which asked Amercian Catholics to say whether they were in accord with the pastor al letter of Spanish bishops support ing Gen. Francisco Franco's revolt
 The Catholic group, which includ- ed Former Governor Alfred E. Smith and Martin H. Carmody, supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus, charged that the ProtestantS' letter mot only misrepresented the facts and the issues of Spain but 1t has also tended to create a species ot religious war in the United States"
 The Catholics defended the Span- ish bishops as having acted on be- half of the Preservation of Religious and Civil Liberties and of all the functions of Democracy. They den- jed that the bishops had aligned themselves in support of Nazism or FasciSm, and charged that If Franco were defeated the Loyalists would end Democracy in Spain and estab- fish a dictatorship like that of Sov- let Russia.
 They challenged American Pro- testants to say whether they were in accord with regime which has carried on a ruthless persecution of the Christian religion since Febru- ary, 1936," and termed the Loyalist government mixture of socialists, communists, anarchists and syndi- caliSts.
 The statement, made public by the Rev. John La Farge. associate editor Of America, National Catholic Weekly denied charges of Nation alist atrocities, and declared that communists had nasSacred virtually all priests and set fire to churches in the areas they controlled in an attempt to destroy the Catholic re- ligion. It charged that l4,000 Catho. lies had been executed by the Loyal ists.
 The statement asserted that a campaign of misrepresentation, er- TOTS and deliberate lies" had been instituted against the Nationalists and declared that two-thirds of the Spanish people had freely and en- Enthusiastically acclaimed loyalty and allegiance to General Franco"
 It predicted that If foreign inter- yentlon were ended and all foreign volunteers were withdrawn, the war would end quickly and Spain would then be able to right itself and ex-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-14
Gang Suruiuor Taken
 West Via Air Route
Plane Carrying James Dahover Left Bangor; Me-, at Sun-Up Destination Believed Indianapolis
 Out in Bridgeport Alleged to Have Revealed Plans

Bangor, Me-, october l4.-(UP) - James Dalhover, 3l, lone sur- vivor and accused "trigger-man" Of the notorious Al Brady Gange, left here by airplane at sun-up today, presumably for Indiana to stand trial for the murder of one of the three police officers aNegedly slain by the gang.
 The dilninutive outlaw, rnanacled to two officers, was spirited out ot city jail, where he had been con- fined since his capture Tuesday, and taken by automobile to Bangor Air port, nearly two miles distant.
 There Dalhover was put aboard what was described as a government plane and a few minutes later the craft took off and headed south- west.
 Only Received Scratches
 Facial scratches were all DaI- hover had to show for his part in the Columbus Day gun battle in which oang-Leader Brady and his lieu tenant, Clarence Lee Sraffer, Jr, riddled with 22 and 26 machine-g,ln slugs, respectively, were slain by G-Men on the main street of this down-east metropolis.
 Among those in whose custody the gangster flew west reportedly were Myron E. Guerney, federal agents in charge of Tuesdays coup, and Captain Meredith K. Stewart of the Indiana State Police. Dalhover had waived extradition after dictating and signing a con fession said to cover nearly 50 type written pages.
 Linked to Four Murders
 Though 1t was understood that he would be tried specifically on g charge of only one murder, that of Indiana State Policeman Paul V. Minnehan, who was slain in a bank holdup at Goodland, Indian, au- thorities said that he had linked the Brady Gang to @ total of four mur- ders. ,.. &a ..
 The other victims were 1ndianap- oils Police Sergeant Richard Rivers, Highway Patrolraan George Conn or Freeport, Ohio, and Grocery Clerk Edward Lindsay of Piqua, Ohio.
 Strict Secrecy surrounded Dal- hover's departure and those who had him in custody did not indicate
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-14
GRAND JURY STARTS
 HEARING EVIDENCE

Boston, oct. 14.--(UP).-The Suf- folk county grand jury today be- gan hearing evidence in the city's case against Edmund L. Dolan, for- mer Boston city treasurer who has been ordered to return nearly $780, 900 profits made in secret and a. legedly illegal bond transactions.
 This was the third phase of the case which started with an inves- tigation by the finance commission and was followed by a civil suit brought by the city. A superior cour verdict in favor of the city was upheld by the state supreme court
 Eleven witnesses were to testify before the grand jury which was presented the case by Assistant Dis" trict Attorney Frederick T. Doyle.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-14
BRANCH BANKING
 HELD TO STATES
American Bankers Assn. on Record as Opposed
 to Crossing Lines
BY HOMER JENKS tied Press Staff Corresnonden ent)

(Unlteu Press StaHf COrreSp0ndenG
 Boston, Oct. 14. - (UP) The American Bankers Association voice of financial America-for the first time in It's 62-year history went on record today as opposed to extension of branch banking, across state lines.
 The final general session of the associations four-day 63d annual convention adopted a resolution committing the association to:
 l. 1nsistence on the preservation Of the dual system of state and national banks.
 2. Insistence on state autonomy in deciding whether branch bank. ing shall be permitted in individual states.
 3. Restriction of all branch bank ing systems to the geographical limits of state borders.
 Adoption of the resolution coni- pleted passage of control of the Association to Country Bankers and climaxed a decade.long controversy. between advocates of unit and branch banking.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-14
HOOVER ATTENDS
 MILLS FUNERAL
2OOO Mourn at Services Held This Morning in
 New York City

New York, Oct. 14-(UP)-Tormer President Hoover and other asso- ciates of Ogden L. Mills during his outstanding career in public life, crowded St. Thomas church today at funeral services for the former secretary of the treasury.
 More than 2,000 nourners, head ed by MT. Hoover under whom Mills served, were in the church while hundreds gathered outside within lines manned by 30 police.
 The simple services were conduct ed by Dr. Samuel s. Drury, rector of St. Paul's school where Mills studied as boy. A choir chanted the 12lst Psalm "The Lord shall protect thy going and thy coming in."
 There was no eulogy.
 The family and intimate friends sat in the first ten pews on one side of the main aisle opposite the hon. orary pallbearers. Directly behind the family sat the domestic staff of the Mills home, the crew of his yacht, his office staff, and the man aging officers of the Mills hotel trust, one of his philanthropies.
 MT. Hoover entered the church by side door and left the same way. Two former presidential candidates, Alfred F. Smith and John D. Davis, were present as honorary pallbearcrs on list which included Vice Pres ident John N. Garner.
 A delegation from the state legis- lature also attended.
 Delegations from various corpora tons showed the wide extent of Mills interests. The chancel of the church bloomed with flowers. Two eight-foot crosses of lilies stood at each end of the casket which was covered with orchids and lilies oS the valley.
 A small cortege escorted the casket on the long trip to the family plot at Staatsburgh, N. Y.
 The former treasury secretary died here suddenly Monday at the age of 53.