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Evening star., 1937-05-30

was unnecessary and that it would
lead to a closed shop, lost 800 work
men or more during the day.
It's stainless steel division at Canton,
Ohio, shut down with 800 men walk
ing out, and other men were re-
ported. without confirmation, to have
left Republic plants elsewhere which
still were operating with curtailed
forces. Plants of Sheet g. Tube and
Inland were not running.
In Cumberland. Md, it was an
bounced that Republics smallest plant,
the N. e. G. Taylor Co. Tin Mill, will
shut down Monday.
Corporation officials in Cleveland in
etructed Plant Supt. Thomas j. Muir
ply today to pay off foremen, Office
employees and plant workmen Monday.
The S. w. o. C.-steel unit of the
John L. Lewis organization which won
agreements from United States Steel
Corp. and the biggest units of the
motor industry aside from the Ford
Motor Co.-centered it's attack on
efforts to keep food from the men
DILL Ill lIlt pldlltS.
Trains to Be Halted.
In Ohios Mahoning Valley union
officials said all trains entering steel
plants would be turned back; pre-
Viously they had been released after
pickets made sure the cars carried no
foodstuffs.
A Republic steel official requested
the Post Office Department to pro-
vide suitable escort for mail trucks
that have been halted at plant gates
Tor examination. This action came
after Republics disclosure 1t had
used airplanes to drop food to strike
bound plants.
In the Chicago area pickets marked
time after the fighting with police in
which a score were inquired. Van A..
Bittner. S. w. O. c. director there,
charged Republic was using every
un-American means possible" to break
the strike.
The Walkout order affected $4,000
men in the Chicago area, $4,000 in
Ohio and smaller numbers at Buffalo,
Pittsburgh and in Indiana and Michi-
gan.
Union officials declared 77,24O of
1890 employees were idle, but Re-
public disputed these figures. They
said some of their plants were op-
Grating at 40 per cent capacity.
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successor, but it
was taken for
gra n t e d that
there would be
no development
along t h S line
until the proposal
to reorganiZe the
executive estab-
lishments is set
tied.
DR.. White, the
Republican men,
Der of the bipar-
tisan commission,
is returning to
his post as pro-
feSSnr Of n0litical
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VETERAN "IMPROVED"
T. L. Kidwell Held Recovering
From Effects of Gas.

Frank L. Kidwell, about so, was be-
Neved recovering last night from the
effects OF illuminating gas which rem
dered him unconscious yesterday
afternoon in a bath room at 457 N
street southwest, where he rooms. His
condition was reported as improved"
ut Casualty Hospital
Kidwell was revived by the fire
rescue squad after another roomer,
Harry Newland, found him uncon-
scious. Police said hose to a gas
heater had been disconnected.
Kidwell, according to neighbors, is
an ex-service man who has been un-
employed recently. He has two
daughters in Washington and a son in
Norfolk, Va.
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LIFE-SAV|NG COURSE
Red Cross to Conduct Weeks
Series at Mckinley Pool.

The District Chapter of the Ameri-
can Red Cross will conduct life
saving examiners course at Mckinley
Pool, Lincoln road and Prospect ave-
nue northeast, from Tuesday through
Friday, from l to pm. each day.
The course is to be given for all
examiners who have not reviewed their
work under field representative dur
ing the last two years, and for senior
life-savers who wish to become ex-
aminers and who expect to conduct
. water safety program this year.
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Steel

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Time Inquiries Increase.

Since the installation OF me-
chanical apparatus in the London
telephone exchange for telling sub
scribers the time by phonograph in
quiries have increased to 220 900 .
week.
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Radio for County Police.

Rutland. England's smallest county,
with only l8 policemen. has equipped
the force with the latest radio teleg-
raphy and telephony.
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brief rest, prepared to return to
Washington Monday. His brother,
Senator John H. Bankhead, who also
has been home for rest, left for the
Capital today.
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DELAY |NF|LL|NG
WH|TEPOST SEEN
Civil Service Office May Stay
Vacant Pending Action
on Reorganization.

The unexpected resignation from the
Civil Service Commission yesterday
of DR.. Leonard D. White was followed
Immediately by speculation as to his
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-21
Answers To Questions
By Frederick M. Kerby

Q. Who played the role of Ear bara" in the motion picture May time," and how old is she?
 A. Lynn Carver. She was born in Lexington, Ky, September 13, 1916. Until recently she was known on the screen as Virginia Reid.
 o. What was the per capita consumption of sugar in the United States for 1884 to 1886, inclusive?
 A. In 1884, it was 90.17 pounds; 1885, it was 93.78 pounds; and 1886, it was 96.29 pounds.
 e. When substituting cocoa for chocolate in a cake recipe, what is added to take the place of the fat in chocolate?
 A. Three tablespoons of cocoa and one-half tablespoon of butter are equivalent to one ounce of chocolate.
 O. Was maid of all work ever called 8 "Slavey?"
 A. The term "slavey" is an Eng fish diom meaning a household servant, usually a maid servant.
 o. How many savings accounts are insured under the Federal Sav- ings and Loan Insurance corpora tion?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-21
Ten Years Ago

Ten years ago when Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic Ocean and set his plane down in France, he could have had any thing, so exuberant were we Americans at his feat and so accustomed by our high living to tossing out honors and cash, regardless of the consequences or effects. Today the same Charles Lindbergh is thousands of miles away from his native land. He may never return to it for all we know. Today, too, he probably couldn't get a single honor or cash in at all on his reputation established back in 1927.
 Not that time has dimmed the Lind- bergh epoch. Rather it has made it seem all the more ventureSome and heroic. There have been few single flyers to brave the Atlantic and it must be written that the outstanding in this small and select field is woman, Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam. We can recall very wildly get ting the news that Lindbergh had landed in France. As matter of actual fact this writer was enjoying Saturday after noon round of golf when the news was flashed to the United States that Lind bergh had not merely bridged the Atlan- tic, but had flown to Paris.
 Remember his homecoming and how he was marked person every place he went. There were all sorts of jobs available for him; nothing was too good. Then his successful and happy marriage to Anne Morrow and the arrival of their first born son, the beginning of such tragedy as strikes at only few in this world. Well, the story is old now and we refrain from digging it up. Lindbergh should be honored just as much today as he was in 1927 for his feat was epochal. He was the first solo flyer to cross the Atlantic.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-21
Next in Line

Whoever succeeds to the office of Chair man of the Republican State Central Con- mittee will be a successor in point of order only. We don't think this age will see in the role that the late J. Henry Roraback played for over thirty years as able or accomplished a political leader. There are candidates for the office of state chairman and we don't doubt but what from those now being so promi- nently mentioned for the post an ade- Quate chairman can be selected. He will not be another Roraback, though. They come about one in century.
 The indelible mark of J. Henry Rora- back is impressed on our state govern rnent and our history of politics in the first thirty years of the 20th century. No comments or chronicles would be com plete now without including the part that this farm boy from Sheffield, Mass, played in building up redoubtable re- publican machine and giving the state its first taste of the pay-as-you-go system as applied on large scale. It was sing ular that man who built up such tre- mendous big utility chain could at the same time devote full time and energy to building up statewide political organ ization and succeed at both.
 When republicans make their choice in the near future, we may expect that the new leader will be forced to devote his full time to the job. Doubtless, when MT. Roraback took over the reinS of party control back in 1912 he had to devote full time to the job, but his opposing forces then were mostly from within the ranks and continued to be so most of his Suc- ceSSful reign. The republican party of today offers no man who can make United him dies several essential qualities of the republican party of this state. It will be interesting to see how heredity works on this subject.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-21
caII kaDay

For the first time in the four years and a half of his administration President Roosevelt is faced with defeat at the hands of his overwhelming democratic controlled congress, provided he persists in a final knock-down fight on the Supreme Court. The better part of valor in view of the steadily growing opposition and party dedication would be to drop the whole thing as it now stands and call it day. [.
 One by one in some heretofore unheard of bold statesmanship during his admin istration the props have been cleverly knocked from beneath him at every turn in the court fight to date. It is as it were if some Superhuman agency had been fortunately gathered together to save MT. Roosevelt himself and the country from an irreparable folly.
 First, the Presidents argument that Supreme Court business Jagged was defi- nitely exploded by Chief Justice Hughes and the fact itself that the docket was cleared Then the argument that New Deal legislation could not get favorable hearing on account of the attitude of the conservative members of the court was knocked into a cocked-hat when the Wagner bill decision was rendered favor able to the New Deal And finally Justice Van Devanter's resignation for once and for all removed the argument that the shift of one man any time could throw the courts to decisions into reverse, which was too thin ice upon which to be continually skating.
 Thus it remains there is little left to object to as regards the necessity of an enlarged court, even if the original in- tention had been to "pack" it. All obstacles have been removed, one by one, by someone who, if the truth were known, would save Roosevelt from himself. And if the President would preserve that pop ularity which so unanimously returned him to office last November, he should let the matter drop, and as we said above, call it day.
 There's no gainsaying the fact that a well organized opposition of democrats and republicans alike is growing stronger daily and will carry the fight into the last ditch if MT. Roosevelt persists in pushing his plan Nothing his new brain trusters, Mr. Corcoran and Mr. Cohen, can devise will alter the opposition; no pressure MT. Farley may threaten can help now. The die is cast and if the New Deal leaders would avoid what looks like the beginning of the end of the democratic party, they should, we once more repeat, call it day, for in the words of the immortal bard, "all's well that ends well''.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-21

Convicted of murder! That's the sorry threat hanging over the head of oft praised dog-the St. Bernard. One of the large animals serving the hospice of St. Bernard in Switzerland is reported to have attacked and killed a 1O-year old French girl. This is an unusual story, for it is down on the records that no other St. Bernard dog, connected with the famous alpine hospital has ever attacked human being. Usually it's the other way around - the dogs are saving lives. Monks at the Mount St. Bernard Monas- tery could give no reason for the dog at- tacking the girl. Perhaps no one will ever know, but those critics who always rush into print to demand muzzles for dogs and leashes and confinement when such case is reported should hold their peace Their complaints and their cures would not undo the damage already done nor prevent similar happenings in the future.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-21
Who Are the Unemployed?

Opinions still differ as to the extent of unemployment in this country, but Harry Hopkins estimate of 100000 to 9,O0OO0O seems to be about the average guess, and is probably as good as any. More interesting than those figures them selves is his estimate that in normal times there are 100000 to 5,OOO,OOO unem- ployed people. This would reduce the present excess of unemployment, caused by depression, to 100000 or 100000, a far less appalling number than most of the estimates.
 The whole matter, though, is still very uncertain. And this uncertainty, per- haps, is due not so much to the lack of statistical facts as it is to the lack of standards by which to judge those facts. How do we define the term unemployed person.? A complete study of this prob- lem would be very interesting industrially, socially and politically.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-21

Governor Wilbur L. Cross is not going to take the blame for having proposed an increase of one-cent in the gasoline tax. He has come forward now to say that it was republican legislators who asked him to include this in his program of revenue sources. If they did it was an endeavor to steer the Legislature away from the tax on unearned income-divi- dends and interest-which was, as many recall, opposed by republicans two years ago. It looks now, however, if money is to be raised by the state it will be in the form of lower governmental costs, long advocated by this journal.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-21
A Book a Day
Author Has Feeling for His Characters.
BY BRUCE CATION

It is an unusual and rather heart warming story that Millen Brand has written in "The Outward Room" (Simon and Schuster: $1.25) /. And he has done it with materials that look, at first glance, highly un- promising.
 His heroine is the occupant of 8 mental hospital -- what they used to call an insane asylum in the unregenerate old days. She seems to suffer from the delusion that she is dead, or practically so: for five years she has lived in a sort of trance, unable to take any in- tereSt in life or to care very much what happens to her.
 On a warm spring night this lady escapes from the place. She buns ride to New York and proceeds to lose herself there pen niless, a mental case" homeless and friendless. Could anyone tackle New York against bigger odds?
 MT. Brand works no miracles and resorts to no melodraraa. He simply has her meet a husky young machinist, who gives her a break when she needs it and saves her from starvation.
 They fall head over heels in love with each other; and in the course of a year, this love affair this having something besides her own troubles to worry about. this absorption in someone else instead of herself-does for her what the hospital could not do. She is cured" as they say, able to stand on her own feet and make her own way in the world. All of this is presented with skill and with a quality not too common in modern novels - ten- derness. MT. Brand actually seems to care what hapens to his char acters. More important. he makes ] the reader care, too. sa
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-21

"rest room" in the world. Situ- ated in an Oklahoma City park, it is rest house, club building, restaurant, and stable for Na- toinal Guard officers.
 "It will not be open to the public nor to on-cOmmissi0ned men," says Adjutant General Charles F. Barrett of the Okla homa National Guard. "This is a club house for officers only, to hold meetings and social func- tionS."
 The building has a large ball. room, ladies lounge, several pri- vate dining rooms. bedrooms, ,di- nettes, and pine -paneled smoking rooms. AS A WORK-RELIEF PROJECT TT IS A PRIZE EX- HIBIT OF BOONDOGGLING.
 Merry-Go-R Round
 From Miami last week Inventor John Rust took plane from Buenos Aires, where he will put into operation on Argentina's vast cot- ton fields one of the cotton-pick- ing machines he and Brother Mack invented. Meanwhile, Brother Mack is in Russia on q similar errand ... Joe Sheehan, whom Joe Kennedy brought into the SEC in 1884 and into the Maritime Commission in 1887, was a baseball companion of Ken- nedy'S in East Boston. Kennedy played first base, Sheehan sec ond base =. TenneSSee'S new senator, George l.. Berry, owns the largest farm in the southeast. Size, 30,000 acres.
 Copyright, 1887, By United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-21
Selected Poem

BEHEST Judd Files in the Poets Corner Hartford Times I shall conceive my final stand Where an old tree grows, And winter cries across the land Where snow-owl goes. Here to embrace the wind of time Close to my spellbound breast; Scatter before its strength this rime Giving my last behest-- Let me endow the cloistered dust Now with the best of me There shall be more than snow-owl gives, There shall be less than tree.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-21

And while on the subject of expenses may we mention that impetus has been lent to the campaign to honor the late Major General Clarence R. Edwards, World War commander of the 26th (Yankee) Division with a monument on the Capitol grounds. $10,000 may be spent on this statue, due to efforts of va rious military organizations in the state to win recognition for Major General Edwards.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-21

the senate.
 One Miguel Paula, citizen of the Netherlands, met his death in a U. s. Marine hospital in New Orleans when an assistant surgeon made a mistake in in- jecting him with 20 per cent . cocaine when he meant to use 2 per cent n0vacaine.
 A board of medical officers att tributed the mistake ito a fail- ure on the part of the nurse on duty to correctly read the label on the flask containing cocaine solution"
 This happened six years ago. For six years the case gathered dust in a pigeon-hole of the Foreign Relations Committee. Just the other day, the commit tee got around to reporting the claim to the Senate, and the Senate, after further deliberation, decided to pay the claim of Miguel Paula, deceased seaman.
 Following this, the Senate passed still another claim, on behalf of one Henry Borday, Frenchman, who had been as- saulted by a pair of drunken U. s. marines at his place of business in Port au Prince, Haiti. The assault occurred 20 years ago.
 While waiting for the Supreme Court bill, the Senate is catch ing up with its business.
 Farmer Van Devanter
 When Justice Willis Van De- vanter retires from the Supreme Court on June 2 after 27 years of service, he will fulfill a lifelong desire to devote all his time to farming.
 For Van Devanter is essentially a man of the soil. He has in him the "blut und brot" of the earth. He is a great student of agricultural history. He loves to talk farming. In the summer on his farm in Ellicott City, Mary land, he goes to bed almost with the chickens, gets up with them. He is proud that his ancestors from Holland came from the soil, and that one of his sons man ages his farm. Van Devanter raises a general assortment of crops, though recently he has been specializing on corn and Hamp- shire hogs, of which he has a fine full-blooded stock.
 On his farm, Devanter wears khaki shirt, high boots and old plug hat, and spends much of his time riding or walking about his 750 acres. No matter what he wears, however, the 78-year- old justice never loses the digni- fled bearing which always stamped him while a justice of the su- preme court.
 Democratic
 Arriving in Washington to take the oath of office, TenneSSee'S new junior Senator George l.. Berry was met at the depot by a group of newSmen.
 "How'S it feel to be a sena- tOr?" one of them asked.
 "This is all new to me-" beamed Berry. "just forget the Senator. Call me George, boys, call me George"
 Prize BoOndOggling
 Energetic contender for the next gubernato torial nomination in Oklahoma is w. s. Key, WPA ad- ministrator and the builder of new and palatial armories all over the state.
 Key, a National Guard officer, believes in armories, not school houses. and has constructed. the record-breaking number of 56.
 However, one building which he built under the none too dis cerning eyes of Harry Hopkins may nip his ambition to become Oklahoma,s next governor.
 That building is the Brass Hats club, reputed to be the largest
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-21

OA AAAo WAtAA- drawal to the President is be- ing hailed as removing t h e last reason for MT. Roosevelt p thing the contested judic-
 iary proposal to 8 decisive v o t e in the S e n a t e. The haiIing is being done by the rock = ribbed serv ative
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-21

pfeSS or the
 country which has been busy rain- ing vitri0l on the Chief Exec utive's head since the issue was first raised! But the writer can not see that Justice Van Devan- ter,s retreat to his 788 acre farm in Maryland will materially affect the Presidents battle to make the Court wake up and live. On the contrary it seems to me that il1- stead of making MT. Roosevelt's position more untenable it leaves it unchanged. But it does put into hotter water the Democratic sem atOrs who have been clamOrOus in their opposition.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-21
GREAT BIRD REFUGE FOUND

Berkeley, Cal. (UP)-University of California professors have estab- lisned that Point Lobos, in Monterey county, is probably the greatest bird refuge in the United States. They identified 147 different kinds of birds enjoying the hospitality of the state park there.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-21
A Thought for Today

Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou has seen me, thou has believed: blessed arc they that have not seen, and yet have believed.- John 20:29.
 Nothing is so easy as to deceive ones self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.-Demos- themes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-21
TODAY'S COMMON ERROR Never say, ''The book will be sent directly to you from the the publisher" say, direct to you"

A. The savings of, 1,425, ,138 per- sons in 1861 savings and loan as- sociations were insured up to 5000 each as of March 31, 1887.
 @. How large is the ordinary deep-sea type of submarine tele- graph cable?
 A. The outside diameter is about one inch, and the weight in air is about two tons per nautical mile. The shore-end types of cable may be as large as 31a inches in diameter and weigh as much as 30 tons per nautical mile. 7
 @. How is the Scottish word GAZE pronounced?
 A. Gay.
 e. What is the function of the stroke oar" in rowing?
 A. He is the oarsman who sits immediately facing the coxswain and sets the pace as ordered by the coxswain. Each of the other oars- men keeps his eyes on the back of the oarsman in front of him, and times his swing from him.
 o. What causes waltzing mice to spin round and round?
 A. A defect in the labyrinth of the ear.
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 If you want . copy of our book let on FAMOUS WORLD STRUCTURES", write the Water bury Democrats Washington Bu- reau, 1912 Thirteenth Street, Northwest, Washington, D. c. Enclose { cents in postage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-21

ton passed by the Congress and approved by the President might have a chance for its life when it gets to the Supreme Court they must accept Mir. ROOsevelt's nOm- inee without quibbIfng or prOcras- tination. If, as is suspected, their liberalism is just so much eye wash and they are essentially as devoted to the preservation of our social and economic status quo as the Four Hard Boiled Eggs on the Court bench, they will fight any one MT. Roosevelt nOminates just as bitterly as they are fighting his whole proposal