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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-18
Narragansett Race Track Officials Say, However, That They Will Start
 Their Racing on Tuesday
O'HARA WAS PERMITTED TO
 GO THROUGH MILITARY GUARD
By HOMER JENKS United Press Staff Correspondent

Providence R. l., Oct. 18-(UP)-Backed by the militia, Governor Robert B. Quinn won today's skrmish in the Battle of Narragansett" when the openingday races of the scheduled fall meeting cancelled abruptly.
 May Race On Tuesday
 In announcing the cancellation, however the office Managing Director Walter E. OHara of the $3 O00O track said that entries being taken for races tomorrow
 Martial Law Did It
 Todays card was called off "because of martial law the sad referring to the of 300 steehelmeted and heavyarmed Rhode Island National Guardsmen who had taken possession of one-me area around the track.
 Machine Gun Blocked Entrance
 loaded machine gun set up at the main entrance the track Details of troops guarded all gates and roads leading the main highway Admission to the track was by cards signed by the military Ushers ticket takers and tote" board handlers were denied admission but all other employees were allowed to enter and leave. OHara Arrives At Track
 OHara arrived at the track at midmornng and went to his offices unmolesed Counsel for the Racing Association asserted however that PawtucketS Mayor Thomas Mo Coy political ally of OHara Police Chief Leonard Mills and acting State Senate President Russell Handy had been barred from the track.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-18
ATTORNEY ARTHUR
 SHIPMAN DIES

Hartford, Conn.,, Oct. 1s-(U,PJ- Funeral services for Arthur L, Ship man, "a, former corporation coun- sel and outstanding member of the Connecticut Bar, were held private ly today.
 He was 0 descendant of the first settler of Say6rook, a graduate of Yale Law School in 1888, and a former member of the common council. Of late years he had been engaged in the investigation of the hiding place of the famous colonial charter and a report of his findings was to have been made october Sl at the 26oth anniversary of It's dis appearance.
 His widow, two daughters and a son survive.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-18
MRS. DAHL WILL NOT VISIT SPAIN

Paris, Oct. 18 - (U.P0 - The blonde Mrs. Harold Dahl, whose plea to General Francisco France saved her husbands life, is not go- ing to Salamanca to meet either the flyer or the Nationalist leader, she revealed today. T am afraid I will have to give up the idea of seeking i'm mediate release of my husband" she told the United Press. French and United States authorities won't ler me out. They refuse permission on the grounds that it would involve their responsibility for my safety and if anything happened to me there would be" complications "There is little chance of getting them to change their minds so l will have to wait until my husband is released and meet him at the frontier"
 Permission from General Franco already had been obtained for her and James Mollison to fly across the frontier. This is useless, however, without French authorization to cross the border and United States permission to travel ip Spain.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-18
Gouer11orRobertQ Quinn Has Won First Skir71ish With Walter E. OHara
CENTER GROTON
 SCHOOL OPENS
Committeeman Brown Is Present With Mrs. Buck
 Iyn in Full Charge
By GEORGE R. MORRIS, JR.

By GEORGE R. MORRIS, JR. United Press Staff COrrespOndent)
 Groton, Conn, Oct. 18-(UP)- Center Groton school, scene of a month-old education department feud over appointment of two teach CTS to one classroom, reopened on schedule today as Third Dis IT. rt board of education edict and again Committeeman Dudley brown o...ed stood guard over the entrance to protect his appointee, Mrs. Hazel Bucklyn.
 Inside there was 8 roaring wood fire in the pot-bellied stove in the center of the classroom and Hal lowe'en decorations of pumpkins and witches decorated the walls and windows. About half the 9 pupils were in their seats.
 Outside, leisurely smoking his pipe, was Brown, his wife, daughter and son, and several score of towns people who flocked to the little white schoolhouse anticipating an- other verbal skirmish between Brown and School Superintendent S. B. Butler.
 Opponents Absent
 Butler, however, and Miss Ellen InniS, whom he appointed to the job, failed to show up, leaving Brown in full possession of the situation. -AnsNsycwn. dcternined to bring the issue to showdown so that Mrs Bucklyn may be legally designated as the teacher and draw pay, pre- pared to go to superior court tomor- row and ask Judge Carl Foster for a temporary injunction restraining further interference on the part of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-18
DIES SUDDENLY

Nashua. N. H., Oct. 1S--(UP)- Wilbrod Francoeur, SS, former New Hampshire legislator, died suddenly of heart disease at his home last night. He was the first president of the young mems Republican Club of Nashua and Q former athlete, Be- stdes his wife and two children, he leaves relatives In Rhode IslAnd,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-18
Palestine Violence Is StilL Increasing
Peace Between Jews and Arabs Almost Impossible; Mussolini's Newspaper Scores Great Britain
 for Massacre of Arab Population
BY JACOB SIMON United Press Staff Correspondent

OHAtCV KECSS 0taAA SVhACSRVHNSHN
 Jerusalem, Oct. ls-(UP)-Vio- lence increased throughout Pales- tine today while neutral observers voiced the opinion that peace bet ween Jews and Arabs under pre- sent conditions was impossible Mill itary authorities of this British mandate took stern measures to suppress terrorism, but to no ap. paent avail. General A. P. Wavell, commander of the 10000 British troops in Palestine, ordeerd the homes of Arab terrorists burned, following the destruction of Kalan- dia airport, near Lydda, with an estimated loss of $50,000. Sixty per- sons were arrested for breaking the 24-hour curfew--which amounts to virtual martial law.
 The newst violence was the bombing of the Jewish Orthodox quarter of Jerusalem. Damage was slight. The Jews seized a Bedouin whom they accused of the bombing, and turned him over to the police.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-18

plane was wrecked but described the locality as one of extreme rugged ness and virtually inaccessible ex- cept by horse trails.
 Bergeson and his co-pilot Bill williams radioed the United Air Lines office here that they planned to land at Knight, Utah, about 10 miles west of the point where the plane was reported down. This was at Q point about 10 miles west or the Utah-Wyoming border.
 Bergeson's radio message to the Air Line of1ce here said:
 Have found ship 12 to 15 miles south-southeast Chalk Peak. You
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-18
United Air Lines Transport Down Near Utah Border
Missing for Twelve Hours at Salt Lake City-Sightet From Air Lying in Very Rough Country Cannot
 Tell Just What Happened

Salt Lake City, Oct IS = (UP) - United Air Lines coasttocoast transport forced down in rainstorm with a9 persons aboard and missing for nearly 12 hours sighted from the air today the Wyoming Utah border
 the company announced United Air Lines pilot Robert down near Chalk Peak in the Porcupine Range about IS miles east of Coalye Utah He did not say whether the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-18
Justice Black In
 Supreme Court

Washington, Oct. 1S.-UP)- The supreme court, with Jus- tice Hugo L. Black apparently participating in its decisions for the first time, today refused to undertake a review of the con- nationality of the securities and exchange commission.
 The court denied a petition of three Florida investment firms for Q review of 8 Fifth Circuit court of appeals deci- sion upholdlng the act and re- fusing them an injunction against service of securities and exchange commission subpenas. for telegrams sent and received by the companies.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-18
ENTIRE CHINESE
 REGIMENT DIES
Sworn to Die Rather Than Retreat; A11nihiIated By
 Japanese Drive
BY JOHN R. MORRIS

IUnIted FTeSS StUIK COFFoSpOnuehtI
 Shanghai, Oct. 18.--(UP) -Four- teen hundred Chinese infantrymen, an entire regiment sworn to die rather than retreat, were annihilated today in the Woosung Creek sector of the Woosung Creek sector of the Shanghai front. For days Japanese had been attacking in the sector, trying to consolidate themselves on the Shanghai side of the creek. Each time they had been thrown back. Today they sent a fleet of bombing planes over to attack the Chinese lines. Then infantry, march, ing behind tanks, were sent over the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-18
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, Oct. 1s---(UP)--Gov- ernment expenses and receipts for the current fiscal year through Oct. 18th, compared with year ago:
 This Year Expenses Last Year $2,239, ,663, ,7S9.03 $1,9s2,602, ,000.66 s1,s2s.s .s55, ,Os2.2s n.2s5. 7so. .ssS.sS s411, 1908, ,75s.77 $sss.s41,sOA $2.sOs, ,o45, ,ss7ss sS,o1O, 7sO. .77s.s1
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-18
MAKE THIS TEST :. oN YOURSELF!

To prove to yourself the impor- 'tance of CONCENTRATING your Classified Advertising on the Waterbury Market, ask your self these questions:
 WOULD YOU TRAVEL 30 . TO 50 MILLS TO BUY A USED
 (a) AUTOM0BTLE9 r.y (b) VACUUM CLEANER? , (c) END TABLE?
 The answer, of course, Is "N0." Distant buyers prefer to buy near their homes. Waterbury buyers prefer to buy in Water bury. That's, why it pays - in dcllara and eents<-to CONCEll. TRATE your classified Advertis- Ing on the Waterbury market through The DEkAOCRA
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-18
JAPAN UNDECIDED

Tokyo, Oct. l8-(UP)-Japan still is undecided whether to attend the nine-power treaty conference on the se-Japanese war at Brussels on Oct. 30. foreign office spokes- man said today. .
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-18

As acting president of the senate, Handy would be third in command of the National Guard. He also is 8 Stockholder in the track.
 Meanwhile, Raymond J. Mo- Mahon, counsel for the Racing Asso- citation, said "weli open If it's physically possible, but we won't go beyond the law. We stand for law and order"
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The Weather

Rain Late Tonight or
 Early Tuesday Fun weather Report Page 3
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Evening star., 1937-07-24
Sdnctity of Personal Mail
viii BE Respected by Bureau

The sanctity of personal mail is to
be respected by the Commerce De-
partment. it was made known today
as result Of departmental teapot
tempest over a memorandum to Bu-
reau OF Fisheries employees notifying
them they had better arrange to have
personal mail sent home, as all mail
received at the department would be
opened in the mail room.
The threat" that personal mail
would be opened, said to have been
made in An Office memorandum from
the Bureau of Fisheries, was charac-
terized by department officials as "un-
fortunate" and "impolitic" 1t will
not be carried out, they said, and per-
sonal mail will not be opened.
The incident is said to have grown
out OF routine notice sent through
the department from the Office of the
chief clerk last March requesting en-
ployes to have personal mail sent to
their homes. Such reminders" are
circulated at intervals in most gov
ernmental departments, 1t was pointed
out, In an effort to relieve depart-
mental mail clerks OF heavy burden
Of non-omcial mail.
Evening star., 1937-07-24

above the first floor. It's dial is visible
for blocks
From top to bottom the case meas
ures AZ feet and it is feet wide.
Despite its size the new thermometer
works on exactly the same principle as
the familiar tube instruments. Like
the delicate instrument that a ply
sician inserts between the lips of a
patient to determine if he has a fever,
and like the instruments that house
holders tack to their window sills, The
Star thermometer is acuated by the
expansion and contraction of mercury,
The bulb and stem Of the new in
strument, however, are of metal in
stead OF glass. The bulb is mercury
filled. In response to temperature
changes, the mercury expands or con-
tracts, AS the case may be, thereby
Increasing or lowering the pressure in
the tube system
The tube is connected lth a special
operating mechanism which moves the
pointers on the face of the thermome-
ter. Figures on the dial run from 20
degrees below zero to 100 degrees
above
Evening star., 1937-07-24
Stars Thermometer Soothes Hot Broevs
Man in Street Can Appreciate How Hot He Really by Glance
at Giant Device.
IF YOU agree with Mark Twain |
that everybody talks about the
/ weather, but nobody does any,

IF YOU agree with Mark Twain
that everybody talks about the
/ weather, but nobody does any,
thing about it, you can skip this!
Because this is a story of action
scorching saga with hot and hap
py ending
This is tale to prove that some
thing can be done about the weather
that no longer need Washingtonians
subject themselves to the heat wave
tortures they have suffered for the
past four years.
Because now anybody can prove
that the official weather man who
says it really isn't as hot as it seems
to be is nothing but an unqualified,
super cooled, ultra conservative pre-
varicator.
In the interest of those who doubt
the -Weather-man's- s-fgures, The Star
has instituted new public service
On the Eleventh street side Of The
Star Building huge double faced
thermometer was put into position yes
terday
Hereafter heat-haraSsed pedestrians
at Eleventh street and Pennsylvania
avenue will be able to glance up and
tell exactly how hot they are at that
particular spot-not how cool they
would be If they were on the tree
shaded lawn at the Weather Bureau.
The thermometer is expected to
fill void created four years ago
when the old kiosk which stood at
Pennsylvania avenue and E street, and
consistently proved that the weather
man was wrong. was abolished.
Time was, before they tore down
the old bronze kiosk and carted it
away to the foundry, when a man
whose sweltering brow convinced him
it was 103 in the shade. while the
weather man said it was only 95. could
satisfy himself that he was right.
The old kiosk never erred on the
side of conservatism. 1t gathered in
every heat ray reflected from asphalt,
sidewalk and building wall and told
the world that's how hot it feels
here"
And the sWeltering man in the
street would relax and grow calm and
cooler with the knowledge that he
was right and the weather man really
didn't know how hot it was.
This caused no end of embarrass-
ment at the Weather Bureau. In
vain did the scientists protest that
they were merely gauging the tenn
perature Of the free air; that thev
took every possible precaution to pre-
vent their instruments from recording
the reflected heat from streets and
buildings,
Evening star., 1937-07-24

In department as large as Com
merce," it was explained, there is a
tremendous amount Of mail to be
handled daily, and if there is any
large amount Of purely personal mail,
1t just adds to the burden and may
become so troublesome as to delay
official business"
The memorandum of last March. 1t
was revealed, was merely a request to
all employees. which said: ITO relieve
the department of the work involved
and to effect prompt delivery, it is
requested that employees, so far as
possible, have their personal mail ad-
dressed to their residences"
The notice to Bureau of Fisheries
employees contained a paragraph read
ing: so that there will be no fur
ther misunderstanding, all incoming
mail, including mail marked personal
or confidential will be opened and
stamped in the mail room"
The Fisheries notice, department
officials said. apparently was Issued
IN an effort to strengthen the earlier
notice by putting teeth" into the re-
quest.
Evening star., 1937-07-24
So TAXES YIELD
INCREASE IN FUNDS
Government Collects $735, ,725, 900
More From Corporate In
come Levies.

Federal income from 50 of 81
classificatlons of taxes increased dur
ing the fiscal year which ended June
80, the Internal Revenue Bureau said
yesterday
Taxes on corporate incomes. chief
Federal revenue producer, Yielded
1858 900 during the wear, an
increase of s735, 725, 900 over the pre-
vlous fiscal period
Liquor tax revenues climbed S6S.-
f8l 900 to s594,245 600; tobacco levies.
s5l ,o8S,00o to s552 .254 900. and mis-
oellaneous manufacturers excise i'm
posts. S69,806, 900 to s44e.346 900
Revenue from the levy on gifts
dropped sl36,l46. 900 to s23,ell 900,
and receipts from capital stock sales
or transfers fell sl,7o4,O 900 to s3l.-
$4,000
Collections from all internal rev.
enue sources totaled S4,653,le5, 900
last year, an increase of sl,l32, ,986 O00
over the previous year.
Evening star., 1937-07-24
SYSTEM
SEEN BY STENCLE
Roosevelt's Reorganization
Plan Endangers Personnel,
A. F. G. E. Head Saws.

Declaring the reorganization legis-
lation introduced in the Senate to
carry out the program of President
Roosevelt's special committee holds
grave dangers to Government person.
mel" Charles I. Stengle, president of
the American Federation of Govern
ment Employees, said in a statement
today 1t would virtually wipe out
the merit system contribute nothing
to career service and substitute a
spolls system more obnoxious than
that which prevailed prior to our
present civil service"
The Senate bill was introduced by
the late Senator Robinson, Democrat,
OF Arkansas. In effect, it would CEN
trallze authority over every executive
agency in the President.
Stengle's statement was an am
pliflcation OF one previously issued
and pointed out, as have other criti-
cisms of the bill, that it contains
a number Of provisions that SEEM
lngly conflict with each other, and
would operate TO remove virtually all
supervisory positions from civil service
and make them subject to spoils.
Through its continuing power TO
reorganlze, transfer, consolidate or
abolish Government agencies he
said, this bill can have no effect other
than to keep the Federal service in a
state OF constant anxiety and turmoil
Its grant of authority to withdraw
from the classified service any position
that may be deemed policy determin-
Ing in character would forever blast
our hopes for career service.
Il make these statements without
lmpugning pernicious motives to any
one. What is stated in this analysis
by way OF comment on the bill should
not be understood to apply to any
person now in an executive or admin
lstrative capacity. I will say that we
know those who are now holding the
reigns OF government, but we do not
know those who are to come and that
Is the disquieting feature of it all
Evening star., 1937-07-24
LONG-HAIRED maestro with
his 10 unemployed musicians
l turned Lincoln Park into
y nnncarf thaafor La 81 ,,ierLt

They said they were protesting
against their dismissal from w. P. A.
music projects in Philadelphia and
New York City and the dismissal of
thousands of others from Government
relief employment rolls.
They complained not with placard-
bearing pickets nor the sit-down strike.
They protested with Souza, Herbert.
Rosslnl and Bizet. Their instruments
were their weapons, and with them
they captured more than 500 who
crowded around the improvised band
stand to listen to the protest.
1t was mixed audience they played
to. Young and old, rich and poor.
tramp and white-collar worker-all
listened enthusiastically and cheered
wildly at the close Of each selection.
The conductor was Giuseppe Crea-
tore. His Washington audiences of a
quarter century ago would hardly have
recognized the man. but they would
have recognized his mastery of his
men, even though they were musicians
whom he had never faced before with
his baton.
His arrangement Of the William
Tell overture, too. would have stirred
the memory Of some. His excerpts
from Carmen would have struck
even a more responsive chord.
Evening star., 1937-07-24
S. {. c. UNION HITS
PROMOTIONS BAN
|NECONOMY DRIVE
Local Of United Federal
Workers Asks Farley
on Program.
N0N.FILLING OF JOBS
ALSO is PROTESTED
Workers Pledge Support in Elm
mating Waste, but Deplore In.
juries to Employees"

The interagency economy cam.
paign ordered by President Roosevelt
had resulted today in another pro.
test from employees. Members of the
Securities and Exchange Commission
Local, No. S, United Federal Workers
OF America, asked the commission
for an opportunity to discuss a pro-
gram inaueurated there which calls
, for non-fllling of vacancies and bans
promotions in the coming fiscal year
This is the second of the new c.
I. o. units to urge modification of the
drive to lower expenditures, in so far
as 1t will affect personnel, the Rural
Electrification lodge having filed a
similar plea yesterday.
The S. E: c. union, while pledgine
support to ANY economy measures
which will eliminate duplication
waste or unnecessary Government ac-
tivities,' expressed the opinion that
the form the retrenchment is taking
is disastrous from the point of view
both OF the employees of the commits
sion and of the commission itself"
Efficiency Seen Lowered.
The ban on promotions, it was added
Is designed to lower efficiency and in
crease the employment turnover
while the non-fllling of all but 'indis-
penslble' vacancies will boost the
amount Of overtime required of the
workers.
We feel that the commissions ac-
ton is particularly unfortunate at the
present time" the lodge said, when
private industry everywhere is raising
the wage level Of its employees The
Government should be in the forefront
OF any movement to better the status of
employees everywhere. 1t certainly
should not be. the leader in freezing
the status quo"
Ihe S. E. c. program-likewise that
IN contemplation at Rural Electrified
tion-ls designed to go toward the 10
per cent savings which President
Roosevelt has directed all agencies to
seek this year in an effort to balance
the budget. The nature of these econo-
mics was forecast when the order was
issued.
First U. r. w. Campaign.
This is the first occasion on which
the new U. F. w. has entered actively
into employ matters since receiving
its charter from the Committee for
Industrial Organization.
In the meantime, according to re-
ports submitted at meeting of Dis
tr1ct members at the Hamilton Hotel
last night. the work of organizat ton
Is proceeding satisfactorily.
Jacob Baker, national president,
outlined plans for installing local
lodges gradually in each Federal
agency, and the District government.
and announced that organizers also
have been placed in New York.
Chicago Philadelphia and st. Louis.
Henry Rhine, a local organizer, and
one OF the principals in the forma-
ton of the U. F. w. left last night
FOR an organizing trip through the
South.