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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-19
SOFT FLOOR FOR COAEFoRT

Don't iron for hours standing on a hard floor. You'N he much more tired when the weeks laun- dry Is done than you would Dc ls you stood on . rubhet mat, OT one made of thick llnoleum.
Evening star., 1937-03-04
Civic Group Asks That Ads
Be Put in Papers in A.
fected Areas.
!pecial Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
SILVER SPRING, Md, March A.
Enactment of legislation requiring no.
ticeS Of hearings on zoning to be in
serted in newspapers circulating in
the area affected was urged in a reso-
luton adopted last night by the East
Sligo Valley Citizens Association.
1t was pointed out that advertise
mentS of hearings on coming applica-
tions sometimes are published in news
papers which do not circulate in the
sections affected by the zoning.
The resolution will be sent to the
Civic Federation.
Another measure urged the Civic
Federation to enact regulations which
would prevent minor matters of purely
local nature from being introduced
and acted upon by the county group.
Use of the county-owned site in the
rear of the State armory for park and
recreation purposes, rather than for
apartment houses, was favored by the
association.
A resolution was adopted support
ing the proposed school program for
increasing the school facilities, which
in all probability will carry with it
adequate provisions for increasing the
teachers salaries"
The association approved the move
ment launched by the Silver Spring
Business Mems Association to have
the proposed 100000 building of the
washington Suburban Sanitary Com.
mission located in Silver Spring.
Evening star., 1937-03-04

(Contlnued from t1rSt fageJ
not fatal and that the Army exposes
its men to it in training.
I'VE ought to investigate that"
Senator La Toilette remarked.
Partial records gathered by the La
Toilette Committee on Transactions OF
Federal Laboratories showed that
S139,659 of tear and sickening gas
and equipment has been sold in the
four-year period from January l, 1888
to 1887. A second compilation showed
that industrial concerns have pur-
chased 249 Thompson guns and 81
other machine guns since 1921.
Charts prepared under direction OF
Chief Investigator Robert Wohlforth
showed concentration of these indus
trial sales in Ohio. Pennsylvania,
Southern New England, California and
New Jersey. Close watch was kept
on labor developments, sales letters
showed.
Bearing nearly a truckload of rec
ords and documents, officials of Fed
eral Laboratories were present when
committee aides entered with several
large charts of domestic distribution
of munitions.
AS Young took the stand, Senator
La Toilette entered in the record gros:
income returns of the concern show.
ing the following receipts: s414,000 ir
1892, $4,000 in 1888, $1,3l5,000 ir
1884 and $7S9, 900 in 1885.
Young said gross income in 1896
not yet completely compiled, was ovel
$500,000.
Under questioning, Young said hi
Evening star., 1937-03-04
CUP REGATTA COSTUME
BALL JUDGES NAMED

Appointment of Mrs. Frances Troy
Northcross, Charles Bittinger and
Melville Grosvenor as judges of cos
TUNES at the Presidents Cup Regatta
Associations costume ball March IL
at the Willard Hotel was announced
today.
The costumes are to be of the period
of the gay nineties." and all guests
in costume are invited to enter the
grand march. during which the judges
will make their selections Of the most
beautiful, the most authentic and the
most amusing costumes worn by men
and women.
The ball will be from 10 pm. to l
am, with an elaborate entertainment
between IL pm. and midnight. There
will be prize polka"
Evening star., 1937-03-04

had withheld from the committee in
vestigator much of the industrial sales
records, but the material was among
the documents brought today. In ex-
PLANTATION, he declared some of their
records had been stolen during the
Senate Munitions Committee probe
and later made public.
Subpoenaed in both 1884 and 1896
by the Munitions Committee. officers
of the company removed considerable
material from their files at those
times, Young and his secretary, G.
Oberdick, said. All invoices of domes-
tic sales, however, were brought here
today, Oberdick added
During visit to their Pittsburgh
Office by Committee Investigator Luke
Wilson, the witnesses said, some Of
these invoices were being kept in q
basement vault in their warehouse.
Following the Nye Committee probe,
it was testified, the bookkeeping sys-
tenn was altered so that industrial GUS
toners names were deleted from all
books except invoices.
Oberdick, Young and Harry E. Rau,
treasurer, told of removing records
from files during the week prior to a
second subpoena served by the Nye
Committee in January, 1896.
Rau said some Of the record manip-
ulating, ordered by Young, was done
while the Nye committee was known
to be attempting service of the jan
uary, 1886, subpoena.
Young's explanation was that the
Nye investigator previously had used
material obtained in this way as a
basis for prot Communist speeches
Thomas A. O'Leary, former assistant
to Young. was called to testify that all
officers Of the concern, on order of
Young, absented themselves for a
week while the Nye committee agent
was trying to serve the subpoena
During that time, the records were
"purged" and the subpoena finally was
served on B. H. Barker, sales vice
president, also before the committee
today.
Evening star., 1937-03-04
Rebels, Digging Under Hospital, Set
OFF LOyalist Mine.

MADRID. March 4 P.-Human
moles burrowed under the University
City's no-man's land today, carrying
dynamite with which to break the
deadlock of weeks of fighting.
Insurgent Sappers have made re-
peated subterranean thruSts at the
government positions in the Clinic
Hospital on the northwestern out
skirts of Madrid and the government
defenders have laid protective mines.
A government mine was exploded
last night, plunging the sector into
another SpaSm of intense fighting
each side thought it was signal for
attack by the other.
The insurgents apparently were dig
ging a new tunnel toward the hospital
when they hit protective mine laid
several weeks ago by government
troops. The explosion ripped apart
q small section of the building. Sew
eral insurgents were reported killed.
The insurgents swarmed from their
trenches at the detonation and opened
a brisk rifle and machine gun fire.
Madrid's defenders counter-attacked
and the area of battle spread to the Ell
Pardo woods, further to the northwest,
with artillery joining the battle.
The government declared a fresh
advance had driven a wedge through
the center of Oviedo in Northwestern
Spain. A corps of miners vanquished
insurgents holding Notifications in
Lagar de Forno on the outskirts OF
Oviedo, reports from Gijon said.
Some troops of the beleagllred in
surgent garrison in Oviedo were re-
ported to be burning buildings as they
retreated.
Evening star., 1937-03-04
SPAIN BLOCKADE
ON ARMS DELAYED
Saturday Night DeadIire Is
Abandoned by Neu-
traIity Unit.
~ the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, March 4.-The 1nterna-
tional Neutrality Committee today
abandoned the Saturday midnight
deadline for placing Gordon of ships
and land observers about Spain.
The start of the scheme to enforce
q ban on foreign arms and men was
delayed because of the time required
to recruit neutrality agents and work
out other details.
An attempt will be made to set the
date for the patrol for March 20.
British legislation to require British
shipping to comply with regulations
of the projected naval patrol will be
introduced next week. Neutrality
Committee experts have been drafting
a uniform bill for all q countries in
volved in the neutrality scheme.
The British expect to have 130 of
their own observers stationed on the
Hispano- Portuguese frontier by March
20, the suggested new date for the neu-
trality blockade. That will be just one
month from the effective date of the
preliminary agreement to shut of the
flow of foreign volunteers to Spain.
Some observers saw in the new de-
lays an indication that it would be diff
ficult to shut off outside help in time
to do any good in the event of revo-
luton in a more vitally placed Euro
pean country, such as Czechoslovakia.
INSURGENT SAPPERS BALKED.
Evening star., 1937-03-04
REPORT LEFTIsTS BEATEN OFF.
insurgents Say Foes Were Driven
With Whips.

SALAMANCA, Spain, March 4 CP)!-
insurgent forces defending Oviedo and
its Asturias environs reported today
they had beaten off new government
attack with "veritable butchery'' and
had captured government prisoners
who had been driven into action with
whips.
Thousands of government reserves,
said insurgent sources, were thrown
into a futile attack on insurgent po-
sitions at San Claudio, Cerro Regajal,
Buena Vista and other points.
An official insurgent communique
Said the government prisoners ex-
inibited backs striped with welts from
whippings and declared government
officers were ordered to take the in
surgent positions under threat of ex-
ecution if they failed.
On the Jarama front southeast Of
Madrid. the communique added, a
government tank attack was repulsed
with great losses"
Evening star., 1937-03-04
|MARYLANDBUDGET NEW LAWS URGED
SLASHED $780,O50 ON z0N|NG NOTICES
Joint Committee Session
Defers Action on Some
Items, Including U. of M.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, March s4-Fiscal
Committees Of the Maryland Legisla-
ture neared the end Of their biggest
job today-consideration Of the $70,-
000, 900 budget which supplies funds
for operation Of State agencies for
the two coming years.
The two committees, meeting in
Joint session for some hours yesterday,
agreed on general fund budget cuts
totaling $780, ,05015 for the two years.
Some items-including the University
Of Maryland-on which the two COM
mittees had not yet reached an agree
ment are not included in those reduc-
tions.
Also Agree on Shifts.
The committees also agreed on fund
shifts totaling s1,572, 2,287.55 in the
State Roads Commission. Those
monies will be transferred from other
items to the road-construction fund.
So far there has been no decision
as to what use the committees will find
for the reductions in the general fund
budget. They can be used to restore
diversions of highway funds to the
general fund or for partial or full
restoration of 1888 pay cuts on teach
ers and State employees.
The House Ways and Means Com
mittee has voted to cut $4,000 yearly
from the University of Maryland bud
get. The Senate Finance Committee,
however, has not acted on that item.
Neither committee cut anything
from the Governors recommendations
for hospitals for the tubercular and
the insane or from appropriations to
hospitals.
Sum Was Allowed Richie.
1t was reported that the two groups
agreed for a time yesterday afternoon
to cut the Governors mansion main
tenance fund from $4,000 to $4,000
yearly. At night, however, respond
ing to a plea from Senator Milton L.
Veasey of Worcester, the committee
restored the figure to $4,000.
That was the amount allowed dur
ing the administrations of the late
Gov. Albert C. Ritchie.
The miscellaneous" appropriations
took a severe cut. The 2-year reduc-
ton in that group was 1921 .701.71.
Evening star., 1937-03-04
Film War Thrill
Makes Audience
In Madrid HOOt
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MADRID, March War
thrills in Hollywood fashion
brought derisive hoots today
from motion picture theater
audiences in Madrid where the
real thing is a part of the daily
life.
Pull down the shade, you
fool" the audience shouted when
one of the film characters. dur
ing a night air raid. rushed into
a room, turned on all the lights
and started dashing off a dra-
matte letter of farewell.
Evening star., 1937-03-04
Submarine Survey On.

Exploration Of the bed Of the At
lantic will be made by a party Of
scientists who have set out from Hol-
land in q submarine. The scientist in
charge is DR.. F. A. Vening MeineSz of
Amsterdam, who has had much ex-
perience in this kind Of work. In 1884
he left Holland in q submarine and
crossed the South Atlantic to Brazil,
continuing on to the Dutch East In
dies. It was the longest voyage ever
made In q submarine.
Evening star., 1937-03-04

tCOntlnued from F1rSC fage.D
embarrassed" at being forced to pre-
sent such cases, but Justice Proctor
interrupted to say that he did not lay
responsibility for the situation at the
door of the district attorney.
Men like this defendant, by force
Of circumstances, may be forced into
this occupation in order to earn liv-
ing" the Judge continued. "Of course,
what they do is wrong and they should
be punished, but from human point
of view their crime is understandable
II want to have this business cleared
up from the bottom. I know there
are big men behind this type of gam
bling, which is well organized, and
that they obviously are being screened.
I don't want to see the little fellow 60
to Jail while the big ones stay out"
Jones' case was referred to the pro-
baton officer for investigation and re-
port.
Evening star., 1937-03-04
INDORSE HEALTH PLEA

SILVER SPRING, Md, Mar/l A.
Application of the county for a free
health survey by the American Public
Health Association. in connection with
the rural health contest of the United
States Chamber of Commerce, was
indorsed by the Silver Spring Business
Mems Association.
A suggestion by Frank E. Walsh
that Silver Spring incorporate as a
town and apply for a charter was
referred to the Business Development
Committee for study.
Evening star., 1937-03-04
25O,0OO AIR WARDENS
PROTECT ENGLAND
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, March 4.-Britain will
enroll at least 250.o00 "air wardens"
to sound alarms In case of air raids,
the House of Commons learned today
from Geoffrey Lloyd. undersecretary
for home affairs.
English boroughs will form the war
den's groups on a volunteer basis soon,
Lloyd said. Their duties. in addition
to sounding AFRAID alarms. also will
be to advise inhabitants of precau-
tions to prevent injury and death.
Evening star., 1937-03-04
Grain Storage Program.

Chinas ministry of industries is
planning a 10-year program fer a
nationwide grain storage system to
handle nearly 100000 tons of rice
and other cereals annually.
Evening star., 1937-03-04

Colombia Breaks Export Records.
Colombia broke its export records
last year by shipping over 500,000,000
pounds of coffee to other countries.
Evening star., 1937-03-04
La Toilette

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Evening star., 1937-03-04
FOUND.
LOST.

SUM OF MONEY. Southeast section. Cal
Lincoln 4527-J.
Evening star., 1937-03-04
Numbers

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Evening star., 1937-11-02
CHA|RMEN NAMED
FOR BRIDGE PLAY
Comdr. CorIey Heads Local
Committee for National
Championships.

Comdr. w. A. Corley, u. S. NJ, re-
tired, president of the Washington
Bridge League, will be chairman of
the Washington Committee for the
National Bridge Championships to
be held at the Shoreham Hotel No
vember 20 to December S, it was an
nounced today by William Cheeks,
publicity chairman.
Serving with Comdr. Corley will be
Mrs. E. B. Swanson, vice chairman;
Mrs. James H. Lemon, who is first
vice president Of the American Con-
tract Bridge League, and E. B. Swan
son, director of the national league.
Other Committees Named.
Mrs. c. B. Pennebaker will be CHAIR
man Of the committee in charge of
the national woman's team cham
pionship. Other members will be Mrs.
Paul E. Golden, Mrs. Daisy Hubbard
Mott, Miss Amy Veerhoff, Mrs. M.
R. West and Mrs. H. C. White. Chair
men and personnel of other COM
mittees follow:
National mixed pair tournament,
Lewis R. Watson, jr., chairman, and
Mrs. Eugene Nolan; national. open
team tournament, o. L. Veerhof,
chairman; Phelps Adams, E. M.
Baker, Howe P. Cochran and John
L. Donnelly; national open pair
tournament, w. M Mcintyre, chair
man; Mrs. C. w. Boyce, vice chair
man: Mrs. A. P. Stockvis and Roy
T'hurtell; amateur pair tournament,
Roy Astleford, chairman; Miss Maize
Buie. vice chairman; Mrs. Kitty
Boyle, Joseph P. Granger, Samuel
Groves and Maxwell Johnston.
Miss Frances C. Skelly will be
chairman of the Federal Committee,
with Miss Sallie Elkins, Miss Helen
Jolliff, Mrs. A. NJ Kilmartin, Mrs.
Paul Schwarz, j. L. Acuff, E. E. Eisen-
hast, w. A. Gardner, j. w. Hussey
DR.. c. c. Mcdonnell. Miles E. Myers
and John L. Wilson as the other
members.
The Committee for Northern Vir-
ginia will be composed of Lewis C.
Tubbs, chairman Mrs. Lester d.
Johnson, Rush Buckley and j. B.
Lowell. Mrs. Marian H. Barre will
assist Mr.. Cheeks in handling pub
licity.
Evening star., 1937-11-02
FIVE KIN DIE IN CRASH
NOVEMBER 7. 1897

FORT PAYNE, Ala, Nov. "A
mother, three of her children and her
1-year-old grandson were killed here
late yesterday as their automobile COL
lded with an Alabama Great South
ern passenger train.
The victims were Mrs. Bertha
Teat, A; Imogene Teat, IL; Charlie
| Teat, 18; Mrs. Edith Hamilton, 81,
and Mrs. Hamilton's baby, Tommy.
Two of the Teat children, Willie
Opal, IA, and Mary, 8, who were in
the opened luggage compartment of
the small coupe, were unhurt. They
said they jumped when I'VE saw the
train coming"
The family was returning from a
plantation a few miles outside Fort
Payne, where William Opa. Teat said
they had been picking cotton.
Evening star., 1937-11-02

|SASKEDOF GROUP
Manor Park Citizens Hear
One of Organizers of
BrightW0od institution.

Moral and financial support of the
proposed bank in the Brightwood area
was urged on the Manor Park Citizens
Association at the Whittier School last
night.
The community has needed bank
for more than Is years, Marcus o.
Cohen of the Hechinger Co. and one OF
the bank organizers, told the group,
especially since it has grown to include
10000 persons.
MANY small towns with population
of less than our sixth precinct here
support two or three banks" he de-
clared
Members of the community have
subscribed to about half the stock in
the proposed bank" Mr.. Cohen ex-
planned, "but we are anxious to get
other members to take some. We are
trying to keep it community affair" +"
The association reiterated its OBJ
lection to the use of the evacuated
premises Of the old tuberculosis Hos
pital at Fourteenth and Upshur streets
NV. as an adjunct to Gallinger Hos
pital for obstetrical cases. Motion was
made by Ernest Pullman, chairman Of
the Legislative Committee, who de-
clared there were probably germs
upon germs in the place and also that
administrative costs would be high.
The members also reaffirmed their
stand that the premises instead be
used for educational or recreational
purposes.
G. A. Corbin, president. proposed a
membership drive during the coming
months and parceled out the territory
to be covered by various members. He
urged the members to talk up" the
association.
After the meeting, Mrs. E. Ruth
Stitt gave two readings, and movies
OF the development of the telephone
were shown.
Evening star., 1937-11-02

George E. Irwin, 3O4 Taylor street
NV, 80 days.
James A. Jackson, 1910 Rosedale
street NE, revoked.
John L. King, AIT Second street
NV, 80 days.
Virginia H. Miller, 1448 Juniper
street, suspended.
Claude M. Parker, 2 Fort Drive
NV, 80 days.
John N. Parker, jr., 811 Sixth street
S.W., suspended.
Henry E. Price, 1919 H street NV,
80 days.
Malcolm ]. Stewart, sol B street
NE, As days.
John Walker, 1430 T street NV,
revoked.
The following is list of the sus-
pension and revocation of operating
privileges of non-residents as of Oc-
tober 80:
Gilbert NJ Allen, Fort George
Meade, Md, 80 days.
Archie D. Davis, Arlington, Va, 80
days.
George Destafney, Philadelphia, re-
vOked.
Marie Edgerton, Lanham, Md, 80
days.
Lander Hargon, Fort Belvoir, Va,
80 days.
Jack D. Jarvis, Baltimore, 80 days.
James w. Plant, jr., Wood Haven,
N. Y, so days.
Roy E. Rountree, 1881 S street NV,
Washington, D. c., revoked.
Roosevelt Williams, Baltimore, re-
voked.
Evening star., 1937-11-02
TRAFFIC CONVICTIONS
LEAVING AFTER COLLISION

LEAVING AFIER COLLISlON
Ashton D. Young, 1904 Swanr
street NV, S25.
THIRD -OFFENSE SPEEDING.
John T. Jones, 1923 Eighteenth
street NV, SIS.
SECOND -OFFENSE SPEEDING.
George w. Bodkin, 1925 Naylor roat
Sc, $40.
Richard C. Myers, $50 Emerson
street NV, SIS.
Frank Weaver, 1907 Second street
NE, $40.
FIRST-OFFENSE SPEEDING.
James H. Taylor, 215 c street NV.
$40.
Harry Watkins, Virginia, $5.
Francis j. Gray, 1712 Lincoln roac
Sc, IS.
Charles Alexander, S21 E street
Sc, IS.
Charles w. Hamauer, Ohio, $c5.
Wynne S. Noel, 1116 Eight, street
NV, $5.
Ewell l.. Beane, Maryland, IS.
Laura S. Purdum, Maryland, SIS.
John Sumlin, 6 Railroad avenue
Sc, IS.
Horace E. Banks, sO5 Third street
6.W., SIS.
Robert L. Cunningham, 4O4 U street
NV, IS.
Thomas P. Ryan, 1902 M street
NV, IS.
Henry NJ. Wilkinson, 1903 c street
Sc, IS.
Richard M. Macomber, 6214 Georgia
avenue NV, IS.
Albert Friday, 1923 B street Sc, IS.
Oliver w. Wheeler, SAB Eleventh
street NE, IS.
John A. Kormsa, 124s Maryland
avenue NE, S..
Francis E. L. Ford, 2431 Newton
Thaddeus L. Prince, 1928 Meade
street NE, IS.
William McMillon, 1916 Fifteenth
street NV, IS.
Allen S. Mitchell, 4500 Dexter street
NV, IS.
Franklin P. Clarke, Maryland, $40.
Andrew T. Radigan, 1916 H street
NV, $40.
James H. Turner, 2210 Pennsylvania
avenue NV, IS.
Joseph L. Harrison, 23O1 Cathedral
avenue NV, $40.
Robert E. Tewksbury, Maryland, IS.
- James E. Call, Maryland, IS.
Charles H. Jones, Maryland, IS.
Robert N. Stimmel, 212. Varnum
street NV $5.
James Yeager, New York, IS.
Marie E. Ellis, Maryland, SIS.
Richard H. Snow, 221O Thirty-ninth
place NV, IS.
William r. Barkes, 1915 Potomac
avenue Sc, IS.
Loring j. Turner, Virginia. IS.
Wonder B. Payne, 1894 U street
NV, SO.
Edward Welsh. 4O7 D street Sc. IS.
Charles c. Jones, jr., All Melton
street Sc, IS.
Lee A. Harley, "a Elm road Sc, $40.
James E. Wink, $50 Tennessee ave-
hue NE, $40.
PERMITS REVOKED OR SUS-
PENDED.
The following is a list of operators
permits suspended or revoked during
the week end, october 80.
Dominic Aluisi, 4099 Alabama ave-
hue Sc, revoked.
Edward K Brown, 1401 Twelfth
street NV, suspended.
George A. Crowder, 1913 Florida
Avenue NV SllSpended
Thomas S. Deal, Burlington Hotel,
suspended
Charles w. Garner, Bethesda, Md,
30 days.
William j. Gordon, 932 Twenty
Fourth street NV, 80 days.
Michael ]. Gormley, 3416 Garfield
street NV, 80 days.
George F. Henschel, 618 Fifteenth
street NE, revoked.
Evening star., 1937-11-02

y YAVING established herself as
popular operate and screen
star, Gladys Swarthout will
L Il essay the foreign role of
comedienne during her guest appear
ance tonight on the Hollywood Mardi
Gras show. The first prima donna to
be heard on the program, all previous
guest performers having been come
dians, is to share the master of cere-
monies assignment with Lanny Ross
and exchange banterings with Char
lie ButterWorth.
Miss Swarthout will not desert her
normal field completely, however, be-
ing scheduled to sing several ariaS
which have played a part in her rise,
as well as numbers from a forthcom-
Ing screen musical-WRC at $50.
GAMBA, described as an important
radio find" will demonstrate her
violin-playing style, Offering both clas-
sical and popular melodies, during
program over WMAL, beginning at
1o:45.
"HE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA" is to
be tonight's presentation of the
Northern Dramatic Co., with Ronald
Dawson directing and playing the
lead-WOL at o'clock.
A DOLPHE MENJOU and Verree
Teasdale (Mrs. Menjou) are to
be the guests of AL Jolson, discussing
their current activities in the film
world-WJSV at $50.
THE story OF Haiti's "zombies," or
living dead" will be dramatized
over WRC at 8 o'clock, the program
presenting a man who claims to have
been one of them for 16 years.
i A 27-YEAR-OLD college graduate
who is amassing fortune
through animated electric sign in
stallations is to be the guest of Edgar
A. Guest on his 1t Can Be Done pro-
gram-WMAL at $50.
ALFRED WALLENsTEIN's concert
will feature Torelli's "Sinfonia
No. 6'-WOL at 10 o'clock "Perslis
Clock" by Parsley, and Gade's Novel
letten, Opus SO" also are to be played.