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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-25
BLUE-EYEDBABY
 WITH UNIVERSAL
Babara Read, One of "Three Smart Girls"
 Headed for Stard0fl1

There is a little dynamo five feet two inches high in action at the Universal studio, these days. It has blue eyes and brown hair and an- swers to the name of Barbara Read. Small, shapely and beautiful, this girls youthful gaiety hides an over- towering ambition and the courage to risk everything to prove her own ability. A hot temper and a keen wit warm her natural flair for drama. Her confidence and drive have impressed every director on the lot.
 Six months ago Barbara was merely one of the myriad unknowns who storm the studio gates. Today conservative prophets predict she will be one of the really important feminine stars in a year or two. She is one of the leading ladies in Universals current hit, .Three Smart Girls". She followed this by a featured role in '"The Mighty Treve." As result of these two performances, Paramount borrowed her for an important part. Now she has the principal feminine role in ''The Road Back" Universals mann moth-scale sequel to "All Quiet On The Western Front. And she won all this by her determination to have her talent recognized.
 Barbara is just a few months past her nineteenth birthday. She was only a high school girl, two years ago, living with her aunt at Laguna Beach, California, when she won her first movie contract. Six months went by. In all that time the studio gave Barbara not single role to play, while she funed in helpless
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-25

for the birds hop fearlessly right on the window ledge, just outside the where the quins can do everything but actually touch them.
 Here the toys like the hammer and-peg" game are kept. With a small wooden mallet, pegs are driv- en through holes in the board, so cut as to offer definite resistance. It takes lusty hammering to drive them through, but the sense of ac- complishment when a child has successfully done it is reward fer the effort. There are nests of box es which fit inside one another, and colored pegs which fit into similar ly-colored holes in board.
 At first the children just stuck any peg in any hole, but now they unerringly match the colors. show ing the growing orderliness of the little minds.
 When the end of the play period comes, and they have become ab= sorbed in one of the toys and un- willing to give it up. you might ex- pect a little friction. In fact, I have heard some pretty emphatic screaming and tantrums under sim liar circumstances in some homes. Yet there is seldom any trouble with this in the Dionne nursery. Shortly before being required to give up the plaything, the nurse will go to the child and explain quistly that the period will soon be over,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-25
BY ALLAN ROY DAFOE,
 o. B. E., M. D.

Copyright, 1887, NEA Service, Incl
 Callander, Ont, May 25-Celebri- ties, am told, are made constantly aware of the fad for collecting au- tographs. But the Dionne quintu- pletS are certainly the first to be
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-25
CUNNERY SCHOOL
 TO GRADUATE 25
Commencement Exercises at Washington to Get
 Underway June n

Washington. Conn.,, May 25.-The 87th Commencement Exercises of historic Gunnery school will take place Friday, Saturday and Sunday, June 11th, 18th and 18th, it was an- nounced today by the Rev. Tertius Van Dyke, head master of the school.
 The program will consist of the tennis finals on Friday afternoon, an out-door concert by the Gum nery School Glee club on on the campus on Friday evening, com mencement exercises at the Congre- gational church at II Saturday morning, at which time Prof. De Witt Clinton Poole, M. Dip, LID, chairman of the School of Public and International Affairs, Prince ton university, will deliver the ad- dress.
 Parents and out of town friends will be served luncheon at the school, and in the afternoon the Varsity baseball team will play the South Kent school. A tea dnace in the afternoon and formal dance ill the evening will wind up the days activiteis.
 A large graduating class of 9 will be awarded their diplomas be- fore leaving for home.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-25

flooded with requests for the sheets on which they had painted in wa ter color. or even scrawled in cray on. Apparently many people want ed to add an "early Dionne" or two to their art or autograph collec- tions.
 Naturally it was impossible to comply with these requests, for two reasons. First, there were too many requests. To fill them, we would have had the children scribbling and painting eight hours day. And second, these early efforts at paint ing, drawing and writing are all part of Q record which is being carefully kept and will form an ab- sorbing study in child development.
 Why should one of the girls usually choose green among the range of colors, and why should another choose pink? Why should Annette draw in sweeping circles and why should Marie prefer straight vertical lines? The rec ords of these embryo art perfor-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-25
DIR. JANE DARCAN
 TO GIVE ADDRESS

Dr. Jane Dargan, vice-principal of Bulkeley high school, Hartford, will be speaker tonight at the an- nual banquet of the Rosary society of St. Margaret's church at The Elton. The other main address will be delivered by Rev. Raymond J. O'Callaghan of St. Mary's church, New London. Father O'Callaghan is director of the New London branch of the Diocesan Bureau of Social Service.
 More than 200 members of the so- ciety and their friends are expected to attend the gathering. Mrs. Thomas Horrigan is chairman of the committee in charge.
 Mrs. Katherine M. Pape and Miss Loretta Scully will offer several solos. A string quartet, directed by Mrs. Robert Birt, will present a group of selections.
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 ism.
 mances must be carefully and sys- tematically studied by those skilled in child phychology to determine their significance
 Certain it is that the pleasure which all the little girls take in this drawing, painting and model ing plasticine is beneficial thing for them, though it would be pre- mature to deduce immediately that all or any of them may be destined for career in art.
 ReprOve Bad-Mannered Duck
 Every effort is made in selecting toys for the children to have them exactly right for their present abil- itieS, as well as constructive in gen. eral. The thing we try to do is to have each toy present problem difficult enough to engross the at tention of the child, yet not so diff ficult as to baffle and discourage it. AS soon as they have completely mastered the working of the toy, and appear to be getting nothing more out of it in interest or instruc- tion, we try to replace it with some thing else.
 In the little music room of the nursery. where most of the "con- structive play" toys are kept and used, the walls are decorated with the pictures of animals cut out and shellacked to the wallpaper. The children know them all and their names, and have even ventured to reproach a duck whose mouth is wide open. They know that is bad form, and will shake their heads graVely as they reproach their pie tured friend.
 Minds Grow Orderly
 It is outside this room that a small bird sanctuary" has been built into the exterior of the win dow, with boxes for feeding suet and grain to feathered visitors. The children have grown even more friendly through the winter with birds whose acquaintance they made in the play yard last summer,
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and that it will be necessary to turn to something else. Then moment later when she goes for the toy, the child almost always hands it over without any trouble, having been prepared by the previous warning.
 Just Common Sense
 If all this sounds a little overly scientific, it is well to remember that our governing principle in all these matters of training is "com- mon sense." The "let him cry it out" principle which we have used to cure the quins of any tendency to cry when they want something, is scientific enough, but it is also nothing but good common sense. It is all a matter of the child's finding out very young that he can't violate the rules, and can't get just anything he wants by cry
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-25

NEXT: The story of the quins' growth and development, from week and from month to month, is an absorbing one. Dr. Dafoe tells it as no one else can.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-25

flooded with re- quests for "au- tographs" be- fore they could write at all.
 Perhaps that wants a little explanation. As soon as the word went out that the quins were sketching and painting as part of the creative play" plans for their development. we began to be
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-25

Home builders of South AfricH will receive government Q financie| aid.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-25
GARFIELD GUARD
 PLAN MEMORIAL

A meting of the committe of the Chatfield Guard Veterans Associa- tion was held last evening in the day room of Company E tChatfield Guards) with Colonel William J. shanahan, chairman. handling the gavel.
 It was decided to invite the various posts of World War veterans as of last year, to participate in the ceremonies at Colonel John Rs side Cemetery on the comparay's Memorial Day, Sunday, June 13.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-25

horseback riding, which she turns into races with whoever happens to be swimming or riding with her. She likes to write, chiefly poems and plays. She is fond of cooking and will enter an egg scrambling corl- test with any chef in Hollywood And if you don't think she'd win, vol don't know Barbara Read.
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ing. After he has tried it out once or twice and gotten nothing by it, in other words, when he has just "cried it out" there is a great deal less crying thereafter. And if that is scientific, it is also simple com mon sense.
 That is the way with many of our tactics here which have the ap- proval of the best scientific author ity. They are also quite simple matters of common sense. Many parents are unduly worried by these new scientific wrinkles. instance, there is the matter of in- telligence tests and T. O." ratings. This intelligence quotient under the Standard Revision of the Binet- Simon Test with which parents are sometimes confronted when their children are tested in school, is by no means anything to worry too much about if little Johnny regist- CTS a below-average 90 instead of a brilliant 120.
 For cold experience and common sense have shown that there are many other characteristics which will measure his success in later life perhaps better than the sheer scientific intelligence test. Factors of persistence, integrity, character may yet place him above the child who registers a high T. e." Many parents worry unduly about the re- suits shown by similar purely scien- tific tests.
 Thus at the nursery, while we are taking advantage of all the aids modern scientific child rearing can offer, we try never to allow the fi- nal balance to be swayed by any, thing but good old-fashioned com- mon sense.
 NEXT: The story of the quins' growth and development, from week and from month to month, is
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-25
Autograph Fans Write for Samples of Quns First Childish Drawings
 But the Sheets Are Saved Recording Seny Scientific Training

This is the second of five ar- ticles, written by Dr. Allen Da- foe, on the DiOnne quintuplets as they approach their third birthday telling of their pro- gress mentally and physically.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-02
i'm
Brief !

LOS ANGELES, Aug.
Q.N.S0-Richard Arlen, dis
cussing the price of fame, says:
II used to go into the Para
mount cOmmissary with big
appetite and no money. Now
/ go in with lots Of money
and no appetite"
NEW YORK, Aug. Q dNSJ.
DR.. Oliver M. Butterfield, read
of a private family guidance
service, makes this observation:
''Love at first sight is al
right, but it won't hurt to Jake
q second look"
NEW YORK, Aug. 2 dN.sJ.
Dr.. Joachim Prinz, former Berlin
Rabbi, making a plea for objec-
tive judgment Of the situation in
Germany, declares: So
1--WE cannot Judge tie situa-
ton in Germany entirely from
the Jewish point of view. Il
is clear that no opposition to
the government pelicy Ii
possible in Germany Low. One
might almost say that German
jewry has died."
NEW YORK, Aug. 2 (CTP.S1.
Two Long Beach policemen and
the pretty brunette accused as
their coplotter in an extortion plot
each were held in $4,000 bail yes
terday in Bronx magistrates court.
The girl, Mrs. Evelyn Pangle, Q
22-year-old beautician, attempted
new version of the old badger
game on her former employer, Sol
Campo, Bronx beauty parlor op-
orator, police charged.
ZURICH, Switzerland, Aug, 2
UN.S.)--Five hundred delegates,
representing so countries, gath
cred in Zurich today for the open
ing tomorrow Of the twentieth BIZ
ennial World Zionist Congress.
The subject which will occupy most
of the delegates IL days is the re-
port of the British Royal Commits
sion recommending partition Of
Palestine Ninety American dele
gates are headed by Rabbi Ste"
phen s. Wise.
BERLIN, Aug. 1.-MOre than
100000 war veterans, including
representatives Of associations
in Is foreign countries, turned
out today for q rally Of ex'
soldiers at the Berlin Stadium.
CHICAGO, Aug. 2 (C.T.P.S).
The demand for blood tests in the
campaign to stamp out venereal
diseases has become so heavy re-
Gently that the department OF
public health announced today
that blood specimens will be tested
by the Kahn system only.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-02
BANKER DIES ABROAD

PARIS, Aug. 2 GNSD.-George
Pick, SO, investment banker Of
Highland Park, Chicago, died to.
day Of heart trouble at his hotel
here. Mrs. Pick will accompany
the body to Chicago.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-02

Oberlin M. Carter, nationally
known consulting engineer, today
failed in District Court in an ef'
fort to erase a dishonorable dis
charge from his Army record. The
District Court of Appeals affirmed
the decision Of the District Court
dismissing a bill for a writ OF
mandamus for lack of jurisdic'
ton.
In 1897 Captain Garter Of the
Army Engineers distinguished
himself in improving the harbor
of Savannah, Ga. It was then
the biggest engineering undertak'
ing in the country.
Rewarded with an appointment
as military attache at the Court
Of st. James, he was court
martialed before he could sail for
his new post, on charges that he
had accepted rebates from harbor
contractors. He denied the charges,
asserting they were fabricated by
jealous fellow officers.
After numerous suits in the In.
tervening years, he last year petit.
toned the District Court for a
writ Of mandamus, against the
Secretary Of War, to set aside his
dishonorable discharge and to re
turn private papers seized at the
time Of his arrest.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-02
TURKISH PRINCE
ROBBED OF GEMS

BAR HARBoR, Me-, Aug. 2
u.NS0.-Six Federal agents, in
surance company investigators
and police today probed mysteri-
GUS robbery at the summer home
Of Prince Burnan-Eddine, heir
presumptive to the former throne
Of the Ottoman Empire.
This exclusive summer colony
was electrified by news Of the rob
berry, coming on the heels Of the
SAT, 300 jewelry robbery from the
estate Of Mr.. and Mrs. J. ]. O'Brien
at nearby Seal Harbor last week.
Police Chief George C. Abbott
said he was informed only several
hundred dollars worth Of jewels"
had been stolen, but young Prince
Osman, son of Prince Durham, said
not jewels but "objects of great
value" were missing.
Prince Durham, son Of the late
Sultan Abdul Hamid Of Turkey,
was married in London in 1882 to
the former Mrs. Deming Jarvis Of
Washington.
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Continued from Page u

Continued from rage ~
from Tfentsin to forestall the
Chinese assault.
So grave is the fear Of hostilities
that 10000 Chinese residents have
evacuated the important port Of
Tsingtao within the last 48 hours.
Challenge to Russia
Japan threw an indirect chal.
lenge toward Soviet Russia today
when armed white Russians" op-
posed to the Bolshevik regime,
raided the Soviet consulate at
TientSin.
The White Russians, who were
in the employ Of the japanese In
telligence service, smashed in the
consulate door, broke UP the fur
niture, and seized important Of
ficial documents.
This was the first incident in.
volving the U. s. s. r. in the cur
rent Chinese japanese crisis,
wherein japanese penetration Of
north China has for one Of its
chief purposes creation of a pro
Japanese buffer state against 81
IBERIA.
Japs Hold Tientsin
Officials of the Soviet con.
sulate general at Shanghai said
a similar white Russian raid was
expected here. A large number
of CZarist Russians have been
imported from Manchukuo. ready
to act at the first opportunity
on orders of the Japanese in
telligence service, the Soviet
authorities charged.
Tientsin today is completely in
control of Japanese armed
forces, who likewise have routed
nearly all Chinese troops along
q wide swath from Peiping to
the sea.
A large area near Shanghai,
in the Chapoo section, has been
fortified by the Chinese in anti.
cipation that attempts to land
q japanese force will be made
there in the event Of further
hostilitieS.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-02
OUSTED OFFICER BRUNO'S WIFE
LOSES U. S. SUIT RETURNS TO U. S.

NEW YORK, Aug. 2 U.N.S).
Back from "a sad trip" in which
she visited her parents and the
mother Of her dead husband, Mrs,
Anna Hauptmann, widow Of Bruno
Hauptmann, returned today.
AS she arrived on the North
German Lloyd liner Bremen, Mrs.
Hauptmann, dressed in mourning,
her son Manfred clinging to her
hand, declared:
II still think Bruno was limo
cent and I will not stop my
search to find the guilty men,"
She was met by a private detec-
tive, Julius B. Braun.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-02
soFTRALL GAME FATAL

CHICAGO, Aug. 2 Q.N.SJ.
Struck in the abdomen by a ball
during a softball game, John
Ebertsch, IS, was dead today Of
his injuries.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-02
HARD TO DOUBLE
FOR ROOSEVELT:

Capt. Jack Young, Of Miami,
Fla, was wondering today how
President Roosevelt manages to
find time for work here in Wash
ington.
Captain Jack, 43 and tanned by
the Florida sun, is the Presidents
twin in stature and appearance.
He complains that everywhere he
goes here he is besieged by throngs
who want to shake his hand, get
his autograph, argue with him re-
garding the Supreme Court, or
merely wish him we'll.
Yesterday he visited the Mall,
south of the White House, to see
a baseball game. His appearance
there caused such a sensation it
almost stopped the contest. Cap
tain Jack declared:
"SOme people believe me and
some do not when 1 tell who I
am. But it's been this way ever
since I moved to Miami from
Toronto, Canada"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-02
Chinese Troops Massi1g
For Raid on 71entsin

hficers who support the Kwantung
army's policy Of aggression on the
Asiatic mainland were promoted.
Thirty-four hundred transfers
were authorized by the Emperor.
The two major political parties
announced their intention of pre-
senting a resolution in the House
Of Representatives calling for a
fundamental solution" to end
the Chinese problem once and for
all-and to most observers, a
fundamental solution" can only
mean war.
To help finance the North
China movement, the govern
ment, 1t was learned, is planning
to issue 100000 yen (nearly
$50, 900 ,O00) in mall-denomina-
ton currency.
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Welfare Director
OF Illinois in D. C.

A. L. Brown, Illinois State Direc.
tor of Public Welfare, is expected
here today for a confer
ence with Chairman A. j. Alt
meyer of the Social Security Board.
The board recently refused to
grant Illinois funds for old age
assistance on the ground that the
State administration system was
below standard. It is believed
Browns visit is to discuss that
situation,
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REFUGEES Tell
Of MASSACRES
AT TUNGCHOW
Women, Babies Are
Among 200 Slain

PEIPING, Aug. 2 G.N.S)
Graphic stories of the massacre OF
200 japanese and Koreans by
Chinese policemen at TungShow
were told here today by refugees
Among the refugees was ToShio
Ando, correspondent of the Jap
anese official news agency Domei,
who said he escaped from a
Chinese firing squad. He de-
clared:
Il was awakened at my hotel
early on the morning Of July
20 and was told 5000 Chinese
constabulary were roaming the
streets, massacring all japanese
and Koreans in sight"
HID IN STORE ROOM
with 10 of my compatriOts,
/ took refuge in the storage
room of the hotel. At a. M,
a japanese airplane flew over
head in an effort to rOut The
Chinese. Hundreds of them
burst into the hotel to escape
possible bombs, and while there
found us and routed us from our
hiding place.
1--WE wer taken fOrcibly to the
cOnStabulary headquarters. Ours
was a tragic procession through
streets Uttered with japanese
and HOroan I0oI
1--WE were halted before the
chief of the cOnstabuIary, who
summarily sentenced all Of us
to death.
Face Firing Squad
without further ado, we
were hustled to the execution
ground. There we found about
80 other japanese and Koreans,
including a number of women,
all of whom had been sentenced
to die.
"The firing squad took up its
position and was about ready
to fire, when one Of our women
suddenly shouted: Let us es-
cape.'
"That spur was all we needed.
We broke and ran, heading for
q five-fO0t wall that separated
US from safety. Most of us
were shot down, but / managed
to escape. After hiding for
three days and three nights in
the fields Of KaOliang, I made
my way to safety"
Other refugees told stories O
incredible brutality, saying chill
dren had been dragged through
the streets by their arms anc
mothers with babies beaten tt
death with rifle stocks.
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Church Carnival
To Be Extended

The Rev. Joseph Buckley, pastor
Of st. Francis Xavier's Church,
at 27O0 Pennsylvania Ave. S. E.,
today announced the carnival
which has been in progress there
since July II would be held over
two more days to compensate for
the curtailment caused by two
days Of rain.
The carnival proceeds are being
used to aid in the construction Of
a new church.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-02
F|NSLER'S COMET
FRIGHTENING Up

Finsler's comet, named for its
discoverer, DR.. P. Finsler, Of Eur
ich, Switzerland, will be visible to
the naked eye within a night or
two, astronomers at the Naval Oh
servatory declared today.
The comet will reach its maxi
mum brilliance August 8 or 10, at
which time it will pass halfway
between the sun and the earth at
a distance of fifty million miles
It will be slightly east Of the North
Star and almost on the same level
Scientists say the tail may be seen
with field glasses
Composed mostly of gases comets
contain only minute quantities OF
solid nuclei, scientists say.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-02
Traffic Blocks Fire
Trucks at Blaze

AEETANDALE, Va, Aug. "A
traffic jam on the Lee-Jackson
Highway at the scene Of a barn
fire here last night delayed the
Fairfax county fire department in
answering the alarm, Chief Allen
Williams said today.
The fire, believed to have origi.
mated from an automobile in the
barn, destroyed the barn, two
trucks, a small tractor, and the
automobile. Damage was eSti-
mated at $4,000.