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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-10
BY JACK AMMAN Limited Press Staff CorrespOndcnt) ]

Hartford, Conn, Dec. i0.-tUP)-- State Labor Commissioner Joseph M, Tone moved a step closer to es. tabliyhmcnt of the first industrial minimum wage scale in Connectl- cut in years today when he accopt' cd a wage boards report recon. mendlng c minimum pay scale Of 3B cents an hour for women and minors in the pants industry.
 Tono said he would call . public hearing within 90 days on the rec. ommendatlon. If he discovers no justlfiable objections, the commits sion said he would Issue directory order to pants industry employers to establish the minimum ct once.
 At the same time, Tone dlSclosod he was taking immediate steps to set up minimum wage in the laun. dry industry, employing approxim- ntely 5000 women and minors. He said he was working on creation Of q wage board to investigate this itl- duBtry.
 No Connecticut industry today has . minimum wage. The lace inc dustry once had ono, Tone said, but it proved unenforCeable.
 Tho commissioner proclaimed ace ccptAnce of the report the first step" In an offensive tc establish
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-10
SCHOOL SCRAP
 IS ALL SETTLED
Happy Children on Their Way to Assigned Schools
 This Morning

Smiling school children trudged back to school today after more than week of striking" against attending schools to which they had been transferred from Croft. The strike was called off at meeting of parents of the affected children in Workmen's Circle hall last night.
 Supt. of Schools Thomas J. Con- don met several Of the parents this morning at his office and reported tfsat their conference resulted in the alnicable settlement of difficulties. Transportation provisions will be made in several cases, where the distance from home to school Is outstanding.
 Parents Protested
 The protest committee, consisting Of parents of the children, which had been formed at meeting last Monday, was dissolved at the meet ing last night. Atty. William K. Lawlor, who had been called to the meeting for informing the coili- mitte on legal procedure, advised that the school board was doing the logical thing in moving the small children from Croft to make room for Leavenworth's growth.
 The main factor in the dissolution of the protest committee was a let ter received by Chairman Stanley Novitsky from pr. Ernest w. But terfield, state commissioner of edu-
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FORD TICKETS
 ARE ARRESTED

Kansas City, Dec. i0--(UP) --six- teen plckets were arrested and charged with disturbing the peace today shortly after Q strike was called by United Automobile Work here.
 The arrests occurred as c union official threatened to call c labor holiday involving 3B,000 to 10000 members of committee for industfihl organization locals here to support the Ford strike.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-10
Ne1vspaperPubH Pressnler Sign Again
Agreement for Five Years That Could Serve as Model to All Labor Unions in NatiOn-Surest, Safest
 Way to United Peace

Washington, Dec. 10-(UP) -T'ht American Newspaper Publishers as- sociation and the 1nternational Printing Pressnen's Union today re- newed for five years g 30-year.old agreement for abolition of strikes and lockouts in the pressrooms ot American newspapers.
 The new contract, which sets up arbitration machinery for labor dis putes involving pressmen, was hailed by James c. Stahlmaf, president ot the A. N. P. A., as pointing the "surest and straightest way to in- dustrial peace and consequent econ- onic recovery.
 62,O00 Members in Union
 Sen. George L. Berry, D., Tenn, president of the pressmen, an Amer ican Federation of Labor affiliate said the new agreement followed a referendum among the 62,000 menl- bers of his union and "comes from broad, healthy and rare experiences in harmony with the true and gen. uine philosophies applicable to great democracy"
 The agreement originally was ile- gotiated in 1907, the year in which Berry took office as president of the union. No changes in It's formula for mediation, conciliation and are bitration--if necessary--were enl- bodied in the renewal.
 Those Who Signed
 The new agreement was signed for the union by Berry, William H Mcfiugh, vice president, of Dayton O.. s. B. Marks, vice president, of Chicago, and Joseph 0. Orr, secre-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-10
JAPANESE ARE POURING INTO NANK|NG CITY Shock Troops Are Rushed Through Shattered Gates
 of Capital City ENTRANCE IS MADE
 BEFORE MIDNIGHT Fight Rages From Street to Street; Chinese Stub.
 bOrnly Resisting
BY EDWARD W. BEATTIE United Press Staff Correspondent

BY EDWARD w. BEATTIE
 United Press Staff COrrCSpondent)
 Shanghai, December 10.-- (UP) = Shock troops of the Japanese armies were report ed to be streaming through artillery-breached walls and shattered gates of Ranking shortly before midnight to- night. Reliable reports re- ceived here said bitter street to street and house to house fighting was in progress after the capitals ancient battleme1tS had been battered for hours by ter- rife aerial and artillery fire.
 The Chinese, resisting the assault in the narrow streets which for cen. turies have known the clash Of swords and rattle of fnusketry Of invaders seeking rich loot In the capital of the rnings.
 A spokesman for the Japanese army said the final assault had started at noon and was making rapid progress. He assumed" that the Great Wall had been penetrated and that advance units were en- gagged in mopping Up inside the city.
 Some Are Located
 It was known, he said, that one unit had reached the southern slopes of Purple Mountain, just outside the citys east gate, another had arrived At TAipillg, half-way bc. + ,iN s.sgt ehs z, s.4-- 4s'i'ls (Continued on Page @
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-10
LANDON IS NOT
 IN RACE AGAIN
Will Not Seek Nomination for President-Still
 to Be Active

Washington, Dec. 10 -- tU.P) -- Former Governor Alfred M. Lan- don of Kansas republican standard bearer in the 1886 elections an- nounced today that he would not be 0 candidate for president in 1o40. Landon removed himself from consideration as a presidential cail- didate as he arrived here to attend the gridiron dinner of the National Press Club Saturday night.
 He will confer at 4:30 D. m. with President Roosevelt ct the White House.
 The plans of the former Kansas governor to confer with the Presi- dent were revealed by MT. Roose- welt ct his setni-weekly press cofl- ference. MT. Roosevelt did not inc dicate whether he would discuss any specific matters with the opponent he defeated last year.
 Will Not Accept
 "What about your personal poli- ties in 1040?" Lardon was asked by newspapermen. DO you intend to
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-10

Versailles of the capture later was rescinded and 1t was admitted they still were fugitives, Meanwhile, police dug in the half-acre garden of the murder villa, convinced that Eugene George Weidmann, con- fessed slayer of Jean DeKoven, 22. year-old Brooklyn, N. Y, dancer, and four others had killed other victims. The fugitive sought as the leader of the murder ring Is Roger Million, 2b, Q varnish-haired gigolo, long known to police as Q traffieer In women and drugs and anything else to make money. With him IS Q young blonde, Mile. collette, de. scribed by police as a vampire. A peasant youth, Jean Blanc, police believe, may have been the foil oi smarter men and with Million and the woman.
 Police Reveal Details
 Police revealed full details of the murder for profit" group.
 Million, they said, had dreamed of introducing Kidnapping into France on . large scale, but had been unable to do SO because nc couldn't find c killer sufficiently cold .blooded and interruptions. ho freouented the luxurious bars of the 4 ifs' NM 'i.-a..kaAALs ~
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-10
CORONER IS NOT
 DONE WITH PROBE

Bridgeport, Dec. io--tuP)-Coro- ner Theodore E. steiber said today he would resume Tuesday q hearing Into responsibility for the illumin- ating gas deaths Nov 8 of YMcA secretary Raymond Yeoman, his wife, and three children,
 steiber announced he would ask Prof. Yandell Henderson, Yale uni- versity authority on carbon monoS' lido gas, to testify at the hearing, A leak in Q gas main caused the deaths, an investigation revealed,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-10
German, American Bund Seems Determined to GO
 Ahead With Plans
VETERANS PROTEST TO
 CONN. CONGRESSMEN
New Haven Trades COun. Gil Would Bar All Nazi
 Bund Activities

Faced with a determined stand by officials of the German-American Bund that the Southbury zoning code barring military drill at their proposed camp there shall not prevent establishment of a pro-Nazi settlement there, Waterbury veteran groups joined today in pro- test against the Bund project on the l79-acre Kettletown tract.
 The Democrat learned from un- impeaehable authority that . Veter- ans protest has been sent to Con- neetieut representatives at Wash. lngton, asking thorough investiga- . ton and action against tho Dund ln Connecticut if developments war rant.
 Joining the forces aligning against the Hund project after The Demo- crat had exposed dubious character of some private protest, tho New Haven Trades Council, American Federation of Labor, today informed The Democrat of passing a reSolo.. ton which seeks banning of all Dund activity from the state.
 Labor Gives Reason
 sal.ta,a fan eAuaa a aAA lahor's drastic proposal in its reSo. lutlon are. "The Council ,. teondemnS) tho Hitler government for smashing trade unions la oer- many; for executing or throwing Into concentration camps many thousands of sincere trade uhions ists, liberals, and other progresSivess for prosecuting Jews Catholics and
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-10
MABEAs CORPUS DENIED

Boston, Dec. i0,--tup),-A pc. tltion for n habeas corpus writ for Forest Hill, negro fugitive from a Florida ehainagang was denied to-. day by Justice Arthur h. Dolan or state supreme court, The writ was sought after Governor Hurley hnd approved rendition papers for Hills return to Florida,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-10
AL SMITH LIKES CoHAN

New York, Dec. i0,--tuP ..--Al- fred E. gmitii--accordirg to Mary Jane Walsh who plays ii tho show went to sec I'd Rather Dc Right" which lainpOonB President Roosevelt the other night and told George M Conan baclIstagc. well, George, ] like the way you play Franklin D better than the way hc does"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-10
Municipal Merit System WilL Soon
 Be Promulgated
Bureau of Personnel, With Fund of $l2,OOO Is In-
 cluded in Budget-Certain Officials, Clerk in City Hall Depts. to Be Changed

Mayor Frank Hayes plan for drastic reorganization of the city government with general application of a municipal merit system to be devised by the committee he appointed two months ago. is provided for in the 1888 budget estimates The Democrat learned today Provision Board of Aldermen next Thursday for Bureau of Per- sonne and fund of about $12OOO allotted to for
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-10

salaries and expense of a director of personnel and whatever assistants may be appointed.
 This is the first definite indica- ton of the trend of the mayors re- organization plan, announced ex- clusively in The Democrat late in october. Mayor Hayes, at that time, promised the citizens of Waterbury Q modern, stream-lined city goverr- inent" with particular attention to the economy aspects which might be attained through a merging of war; ious departments, elimination of others.
 Second Step in Schedule
 That the 193s budget, calling for q reduction of one-half mill in, the current tax rate, provides for the mayors merit systems operation, was seen as the second step in the schedule of Waterbury's head of government. First, the tax reduc-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-10
More Forces Join To Block Maxi Settlement On Southbury Property
Master Mind or Paris Murder Plot Escapes
French Police Thought They Had Roger Million Cor nered at Swiss BOrder-Kiler of Jean De KOven
 as Member of Murder Gang
BY PETER c. RHODES United Press Staff Correspondent)

Paris December 10. - (UP) - Police throughout France were mobzed today in serach for the alleged master mind" of the murder factory of St. Cloud and his blonde accompce who slipped through police net at Nantua near the Swiss border after authorities thought theY had been cornered An official announcement at
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-10
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, Dec, l0-~ ttlp-atiQNs crnment ONpenApA ana te0elptA for tho current hacnl year through D0ei \, compared with year ne0i Ihla VOnr ENnpnaOA Hast NHNr Sa,BOT,lNS,bgSgi SO,0is,g1g,sa
 Receipts Sg Sg,baS,Ois,tb5Os .Shtii,T1tOaO'Oi
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The Weather

Fair, Continued Cold Tonight, Saturday Full Weather Report Page .
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-08
Homes Offered
BySimon

Persons desiring q well-built
home in either the low-priced or
medium-priced class have recently
been among the purchasers Of
dwellings constructed by Frank A.
Simon in Foxcroft, Va, and Brad
ley Village, Va.
Foxcroft is already noted for
houses that are inexpensive yet
soundly constructed and complete
with all modern equipment. Priced
at $3.50, Foxcroft dwellings are
made of brick and boast large liv.
ing room with closet, dining room,
up-to-date Kitchen, Venetian
blinds, two bedrooms with big
closets, tiled bath, indirect light.
ing, hardwood floors, slate roof
and a full basement.
They can be procured for only
$3.50 cash and payments of $47.50
q month. Better than that, they
are but 10 minutes from downtown
and can be reached by driving out
the Columbia Pike to Ode Street.
On the south borderline of
Foxcroft is the Columbia Pike.
soon to be a 60-foot highway, and
the north borderline is the site
Of the forthcoming south en-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-08

DIRECTLY above is dis
played a seven room, three
bedroom home, complete
with finished attic, at 811
Maple Lane, Silver Spring,
Md. It can be bought
through the owner, on the
premises. At left is shown
another seven room house,
for sale through e. L. Miller
at 20 Philadelphia Ave-, Ia
koma Park, Md. Priced at
only $11,500, the dwelling
has brick construction, a CEN
ter hall, a recreation room,
open fireplace, large living
porch and a built-in garage.
Both homes are ready for in
spection today and tomorrow.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-08
Racket Probe
Subject of
Meeting
Architects to Hear
Charges on Cost
OF Building

Nationwide studies to determine
whether "rackets" are gaining q
foothold in the construction indus
try and impeding the housing
movement will be considered by
the American Institute of Archi-
tects at it's seth convention which
will be held in Boston from June
/ to 4.
Building conditions in the
United States demand thorough
sitting for the reason that a con-
tinuing rise in building costs Is
stopping the progress of the pro-
gram, declares statement by the
Institutes Housing Committee.
Among the questions to be an
swered, according to the commit
tee, are:
"Are the rackets in industry
harming the individual desiring
to build a home by increasing
the cost of construction?
"Have not the racketS in other
business fields in the United
States been creeping into the
building trades, resulting in an
increase in cost which must be
passed on to the consumer"
American industry, in nearly all
cases except housing, has been
able to reach into much lower in
come brackets than has the build
ing industry, the committee points
out in posing the following addi-
tional questions:
care building methods in the
United States generally obsolete
and are many architects, some
times through the client, too
often influenced by those in
terested in increasing the use
of materials and labor?
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-08
National Realtors President to Address Was
Homes for Low
IncomeGroups
Is Subject
ConcIave Scheduled
For Tuesday At
Wardman Park

J. Present proposals for national
action in regard to housing policy
and plans under way through the
leadership of the National Asso-
citation of Real Estate Boards for
meeting the need of sound home
development will be discussed by
Paul E. Stark, of Madison, Wis;
president of the association, in
an address to the Washington
Real Estate Board on Tuesday,
May II.
The meeting will be held In
Wardman Park Hotel, according
to Morton j. Luchs, acting preSi-
dent of the local board. Herbert
U. Nelson, executive secretary OF
the national group, will speak on
the forthcoming regional con-
ference, to be held in New York
City, May IA and Is.
Low Rates Urged
Stark will outline the import.
ant relationship between the
securing Of lower carrying
charges for the home owner and
the widening of the group Of
American families for whom
home ownership is possible, en-
phasizing:
|. Cd The need of lower interest
rates for the home owner and a
longer period of home amortiza-
ton than was prevalent in the
pre-depression period; Cd The
part which fair tax conditions
for real estate play in the reduc-
ton of the home owners annual
carrying charges.
Stark says:
whether q family with an in
come of $4,000 a year or a family
of any other income level can af-
ford to own a home depends not
so much on the total valuation
placed on the dwelling, but upon
how much per month or per year
they would have to pay out for
its ownership.
CITES COST
Eve have long engaged and
will continue to engage in studies
to cut in every wsy we can the
production cost of a home, but
believe that the most effective
way of widening ;he field of
home ownership lies in cutting
the monthly carrying cost.
ut is the best protection we
can set up against another wave
Of foreclosures, such as we saw in
the past depression period"
He holds that lower otal
monthly carrying charges for
home ownership, including inter
est payments, amortization
charges, and taxes. are the best
safeguard for the country in the
new investment and building
period ahead. In his inaugural adj
dress at st. Louis in January he
said:
Ito these three detectives, 1
believe, the National Association
of Real Estate Boards should
dedicate itself during 1887"
Stark, in his address here, is ex.
pected to outline the active work
now going on under the leadership
of the National Association of Real
Estate Boards to build up a better
understanding of real estate, and
a better factual record of those ele-
ments of the changing economic
picture affecting real estate uses.
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trance to the Lee Boulevard,
which will be 200 feet wide.
In Bradley Village, located on
Bradley Boulevard, just outside of
Bethesda, five homes are avail
able at $3.50. Like II houses al
ready sold by Simon in the COM
munity, the dwellings have five
rooms downstairs. one of which
can be either a library or a bed
room,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-12-02

may be totally Ineffective since the ar
ticles themselves contain nothing that
has a specific effect in reducing. They
merely act as expensive substitutes
for ordinary foods that may be more
fattening. Most persons using them
expect some magic from them and
don't understand that their reducing
power depends entirely upon the die
tory regime they recommend in con-
nection with it.
There is still no royal road to reduc-
ing. The sane way in most cases is the
hard way of diet and exercise.W Whether
you want to gain or lose get a physi-
clans advice. And the diet he rec
ommends to you will include the basic
protective foods needed in any we'll
balanced diet.
These protective foods include the
vegetables, especially the green and
yellow varieties; fruits of all kinds
particularly citrus fruits for their Wit
amin C content; milk; and eggs.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-12-02

You may find that you can get a
satisfactory feeling of having your
"fill" by eating bulky vegetables. Be
careful not to overdo this, however,
since in some cases too much rough
age irritates the digestive tract.
If you want to gain weight turn the
above "don'ts" in "do's". Eat foods
that supply a lot of energy-high-
caloric foods. Then when your body
doesn't use this energy the excess will
be changed into body fat. Either in re-
ducing or gaining the best way is the
slower way. If you try to increase
your food consumption all at once you
may overtax your digestive system.
And if you lose too rapidly you may
well question your reducing technique.
There are numerous preparations on
the market that are guaranteed to re-
duce your weight safely without max
ing it necessary for you to change
your habits of exercise or of eating. In
their advertising these blurb writers
promise results for all kinds of over
weight.
According to the Federal Food and
Drug Administration there is no prep
aration which is a safe and effective
treatment for all types of overweight
They put these preparations into four
general classes.
First, there are those that act as
cathartics. These are not only ineffec-
tive in really reducing but they often
cause digestive disturbances. They
prevent proper assimilation Of fooo
and reduce weight by removing water
from the system. The weight is quick
" regained by drinking fluids to re-
place those lost. Some of these car
thartics also contain harmful drugs
There are other preparations that
contain harmful drugs. These drug!
stimulate body processes and cause
loss of energy. Some of them ma!
cause blindness, destroy health or IL
some cases cause death.
There are other preparations thai
are rubbed into the skin or used in the
bath water. These are Ineffective. The
least harmful type is the so-called di
etary reducing food-usually an ordi
nary food sold at fancy price. Thes'
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-12-02
SELBYSPORT

The revival services announced last
week will be postponed until the first
of the new year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Foster Friend and
members of their family, Of Frost
burg, spent Thanksgiving Day here
with Mrs. Laura Hone and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emerson Liston, of
Brownsville, Pa, spent the weekend
here with Mrs. Amanda Liston.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Huckenstein
and family, of Pittsburgh, were here
several days recently with w. w.
Schlossnagle.
Ray w. Wills, of Confluence, was a
visitor here on Monday.
D. L. Fike and son Rannie, who are
employed at Waynesburg, Pa, were
here several days the past week.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-12-02

themselves of the facilities the SER
vice affords. The real function of the
service is to act as clearing house
for labor in private industry. An en-
ployer may request that several per-
sons be referred, thus being enabled
job is to be filled, thus being enabled
to select the best qualified person for
the job. Selection of labor is made on
the basis of merit and qualifications
and the relief status of the applicant
is not the deciding factor in the pro-
cess of referral or selection.
Many qualified persons want job,
but are hesitant about registering, be-
ing under the impression that the En-
ployment Service operates solely for