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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-02
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preted as meaning the death penalty as in war time was not explained.
 Situation Dangerous
 The situation again became urgently dangerous to foreigners be- cause of the furor of the battle out- side Shanghai.
 British consular authorities an. nounced that Britiah women and children would not be permitted to return until further notice, and British men were advised strongly not to return until further notice.
 A German and Q Czechoslovakian who ventured out between the Chi- nese and Japanese lines of the city today were wounded seriously by rife bullets. Japanese sailors, guard ing the lines, warned them not to 20 out into the mo mans land" there, but they wanted to do some sightseeing. As soon as the Chinese saw them outside the Japanese lines shf 7 began sniping, taking them for Japanese. They were brought back to hospital.
 North of Shanghai, ill-trained, ill- armed Chinese soldiers had stopped the Japanese offensive with @ sui- cidal heroism that may immortaliZe them in their country's history.
 Chinese Face Big Odds
 Facing countless thousands of picked Japanese regulars armed with every engine of destruction, Chinese boys and men out in the country north of Shanghai danger ously disrupted the carefully laid plans of the Japanese general staff under which, long before now, they were to have been annihilated.
 They had resorted to guerilla tac- tics, and this was not in the book as the Japanese had written 1t.
 Some of them armed with hand grenades only, subjected day and night without pause to a merciless bombardment by Japanese airplanes, artillery and naval guns, formed small groups and threw themselves against the Japanese infantrymen and stopped them.
 It was a question of how long any body of men whose chief weapon was blind courage and pride of coln- try, could take the punishment the Chinese were taking.
 Not Cracked Yet
 They might crack at any time, 1t was apparent. But they had not
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cracked today. The Japanese were overdue In Shanghai and to those who, like myself, were here in the war of 1882, 1t was apparent that the Chinese even now were giving 0 better account of themselves than did the 18th route army that, in 1882 won undying fame by It's defense of the city.
 Fighting was desperate and on 0 big scale. Lotien and Kiating, Q lit- tic west of north above the city were the big fighting centers.
 The Japanese held Lotien, the Chinese Kiating southwest of 1t.
 For 10 hours, Japanese warships artillery and airplanes bombed the town without pause. The city was aflame late today. But the Chinese, seeming determined to die to Q man rather than surrender, held out
 Japan's Statement
 Tokyo, Sept. 2.-(UP)-Foreign Minister Koki TIirota, in Q formal statement to the press today called on the powers to refrain from help- ing China with munitions or other wise.
 "The powers" he said, "are inc yited to cooperate with Japan by refraining from any action which would prolong the present activities"
 He explained that he referred to delivering munitions and similar acc tiVities.
 The statement, reviewing ct length the Chinese-J Japanese struggle, said Japan had endeavored to refrain from armed hostilities. Contrary to some opinion abroad, Hirota de- clared, Japan Is not fighting because several sailors were murdered, but because China rushed regular and other masses of troops into Q for- bidden area and deliberately began provoking the Japanese when Japan actually was giving favorable con. sideration to Q proposal of the pow- CTS to preserve the area from con- fiict.
 The Chinese attacked and Japan was compelled to return their fire, he charged. ..
 Hirota asserted 1t is not the small Japanese force but c vast Chinese army which menaces foreign lives and property at Shanghai. Both in north China and Shanghai, he charged, Chinese provocationB caused the conflict.
 The fundamental causes, he said, lay in the fact that Chinese leaders long fostered anti-Japanism. for purposee of political prestige and also energetically prepared for war.
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DEMOCRAT PLANS
 BICYCLE TESTS
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got to satisfy the officials.
 BRAKE .. TIRES LIGHTS


 REAR REFLECTOR BELL.
 And, of course, you couldn't pass your test if, for example, you had the kid brother riding on the hai1- dle-bars or on the luggage carrier in the rear. You know that's against the law now.
 And 0 bike has to have 0 proper light that will work. And Q bike must be equipped with Q proper re. Hector on the rear mudguard that will enable c motorist approaching from the rear to catch the reflec- ton on c dark street.
 Dads and mothers ought to be inc terested in this safety campaign that the Waterbury Democrat will in. augurate Monday, September 13. We hope they'll encourage youngSterS who own bicycles to come out for the tests because the more boys and girls who do, the better off our efl- tire community is going to be.
 Safe Driving Principles
 Bicycle riders of today are motor- ists of tomorrow. They won't be, though. unless the principles of safe driving of e mechanically sound vehicle are taught during the teen years.
 Incidentally, there's no age limit on this safety campaign for bicycles All may come, old and young-the more the rnerrier and the better off our city will be.
 And SO that every bike-rider can keep in constant touch with thia campaign Uncle Harry of the Wa terbury Democrat "funnies" haa agreed to tie up his safety club with 1t. So every afternoon when he goel on the air over WATR hell bring his listeners news of the campaign and how oil the boys and girls of the city can help make 1t the Suc- cess 1t deserves to be.
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2b in Kahrkov, and c few in other cities The recent arrests are said to include 140 Hungarians.
 Danger of Foreign Spies
 Almost daily the official press thunders about the danger of for- eign spies. These blasts have fright- ened the average Soviet citizen so that foreign residents are avoided and at present are isolated from Soviet contacts to on unprecedented extent. I heard of an instance in which Russian doctor refused to continue to treat his foreign pa- tients.
 One of my friends was trying to negotiate with, c leading Soviet dramatist for the American rights to his latest play. The dramatist required first e letter setting forth in detail the reasons for the pro- jected meeting. Ills own reply was unsigned. He offered to send his chauffeur and automobile to bring the American to his country house to continue the negotiations verbal- ly, but refused to send the car to the American Embassy building, which had been suggested as Q meeting place. Instead he specified that the chauffeur meet the Amer ican in the lobby of the National hotel.
 Americans Snubbed
 Russian teachers who have been linstructing Americans in the Rus- sian lanugage refuse nowadays to go to American houses. Such in- stances are indiactive of the state of mind engendered by the anti- foreign campaign.
 The foregoing does not mean that legitimate tourists, thousands of whom, principally Americans, visit- ed the Soviet union this summer, and who go under the auspices of the 1ntourist state Tourist Corrl- pany, have the slightest difficulty once they nave entered the coun- try. But extraordinary precautions were taken to discourage scores of Americans from entering, even after they were granted visas. The rea- sons were obscure.
 Several Are Barred
 Several dozen tourists aboard cruise ships from America were refused entry ,at Leningrad. Thuy included c woman named Dorothj Thompson, apparently barred Do. cause 1t was mistakenly thought that she was Dorothy Thompson columnist wife of Sinclair Lewis Another was William White, barred apparently becauBe of the resefn. biance of his name to that of th( Kansas sditor who publiBhed . booi { Q which the government objected One of c pair of twins was barred but tho other admitted.
 once inside the country tourists travel eli over the union without encountering troublesome cotise. quences of the anti-gpy drive. 4 sourist Is just as safe from harm lr Eovietlard as he ig in any othei major continental country.
 Two Trouble Instances
 During three weeks of visiting half Q dozen principal cities on riiy | 3,OOO-miie tour of the interior, encountered only two instances O trouble. An American friend ifl { Moscow hotel reported several Ob' jects were stolen from his room, in. cIuding on alarm clock and . shirt Three detectives came and tool elaborate fingerprintG, neglectine however, to take Chose of the Amer ican and his wife. They DleutheI happily in my friends room unti
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they discovered his electric shaver, which so enchanted them tenp0r- arily that they forgot the crime. Finally they assured him that 1t WaR on inside job, and that they would get their man.
 The other instance of trouble happened to Fred Bettelheir1 of Philadelphia. He was seized in A dark street in Rostoff-on-Don by c gang of youths while [ was there, and robbed of his tickets.
 Writer Barred From Plants
 Probably as c result of the artl- foreign drive in tho lest few weeks, tourist have been refused permis- sion to visit the great industrial plants. was not permitted to sec the big automobile plant ct oorky which employs 37,000 men and woe men. also was barred from the tractor plant ct StalinRrRd and the agricultural implement plant in Rostoff- f-on-Don. Until June these plants were on the regular list of tourist show places. On c flve-day trip down the Volga everyone was ordered below deck c quarter of Q mile before the boat reached each bridge. We had to remain below until our boat had passed the bridge.
 Tn five great cities on the middle and lower Volga, each with pop- ulation of approximately half million, I saw thousands Of vaca. tioning workers swimming and boating and living in rest housaA which were formerly the palatial homes of wealthy merchants. Nude bathing, once . feature of Russian life, iS now drowned upon and practiced only by young people ir the villages. The men wear trunks and the girls trunks and brassieres usually home-made but attractively setting off, handsome figures. Bathing Beaches
 Every city has numerous bathing beaches and barges with thousanda of sufi-bronEod men and women using them-men and women obs viousiy well nourished and happy.
 Though still for inferior to thc average in western Europe, tho standard of dressing among women is noticeabiy improving each year, But In the provinces waved hair lipsticIss, and painted fingernalii are rare. More attention b given to dress styles aB portrayed in tho new fashion magazines. Choice fab- rics continue scarce, but many girls manage to make thetnselvol attractive in gaily-colorcd ging- hams.
 Men, too, are showing an increas- Ing consciousn6SS about theii clothes, Creased trousers and Bhined shoes gre less rare than on my last trip. \
 in c hotel ct etalihgrad SOW the docrinan bar c worker from the dining room where . jazz band played and tho diners danced ifl their shirt sleeves. The worker hac committed the social error of com. Ing drossed in Q bathing suit. fzG loudly protested against this restric- ton of his freedom.
 Hotels Up to Date
 Tn the principal cities the fi1tour. igt Agency has built excellent mod. eFn hotels. Most of the rooms have baths. I stayed in . new 10 story Moscow hotel where every room hat a bath, free telephone and radls equipment, fuil-length mirrors, di' vans, and writing deaks with sta. tlonery. The hotel now provideI soap and toilet paper, The rate va se rsbIes 6 day cF about eT ct tnl
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GOV. OF GEORGIA
 CONTINUES FEUD

tContinued from Page D there by trolley. He thought per- haps with good luck he'd reach his destination by tonight, but persons better informed of distances, told him 1t would take him several days of thumbing rides.
 Granted Candltionally '
 doy Rivers summoned the negro from tho chain gang to the state house yesterday and told him that his application for parole had been granted conditionally.
 "You must live in Massachusetts," no said, land you'd better make theri c good citizen up there.'
 Rivers commented in c statement:
 "dov., Hurley somes to Do In need of some extra lottery operators. Well, we'll give him one."
 Wills, known as "sing," had no money at all and employees at the state house clipped In iT cents to buy him cigarettes.
 Willis through his :. attorney, had flied on application for parole, promising to move from Georgia to massachusetts,. The application as prepared by the lawyer said that "the attitude of dov. Hurley toward the applicant is moro in keeping with tho happiness and welfare Of the applicant than is to Do found in the state of QaorRia."
 Wills had served one month of his 10 months sentence. Therefore tho term of his exile is nine months.
 How FouG Started
 The feud of MaSSachusetts and Georgia started when Massachusetts authorities arrested James Cuns ningharn, 37, c negro figitive from Georgia. Cunningham in . hear. ing before Hurley charged that the chain gang system was cruel and inhuman puniShmont from which Hurley should save him. Hurley, agreeing, denied 0eorgia's extradi- ton application.
 Some weeks later there were sevs eral escapes from Georgia chain gangs and Rivers charged that the convicts were breaking out hoping to reach MassachusettB sanctuary.
 Since his residence ifi MasBachu. setts, fugitive Cunningham has been arrested and convicted on a charge of operating c lottery. He has appealed tho conviction to the Massachusetts supreme court.
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25 in Kahrkov, and c few in other cities The recent arrests are said to include 140 Hungarians.
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present rate Of exchange. That would Do expensive for tho taxi man who drove mo. His salary wAA $50 rubles c month, and ho paid 90 rubles rent for 40 square yards of living space.
 Tn the provinces tho people are less wary of contacts with foreign CTS than in Moscow. Tourists enc counter everywhere . fFlendliness and good-naturod curiosity, egpes cially about orie's salary and how much one paid for his suit and shoes. A surprisingly large number of young engineers end technicians have . sffiattoring of English, which they learned iri their schools end are eager to practice it. Their usual comment iA:
 Things are better than they used tc be and gro getting better ali the tirne." Hf8.52
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ZINDAH CROTTO

A meeting of zindah Qrotto scheduled for tomorrow evening has been postponed until September l7, 1t was announced today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-02

After an Algerian wedding, the bridegroom enters his home back ward, holding dagger in his hand, and the bride follows, touching the blade with the tip of her finger.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-02

At least 1900 years old and con- taining e well-preservod skeleton, q Roman cofiin dug up iEi Belgrade, yugoslavla, had Nd weighing two tons. Lll-A
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-20
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
NO COMPROMISE

Some of those who oppose the initiation of the
Supreme Court have been grooming the sweet word
Compromise" in ever-rising cadenza recently. They
advance the idea that if they force the Presi-
dent to accept only two Roosevelt justices, instead
of six, they will have won a moral victory.
Moral victory?
Well that is the phrase. Actually, if the oppon-
ents of court initiation accept such compromise,
they will be guilty of about as immoral piece OF
political quackery as has been arranged in the
darker antechambers of Congress. Their accept
ance of such compromise will be a confession
that they were not telling the truth when they SAID
they opposed the court proposal because OF the
threat of dictatorship inherent in it, but that they
merely hoped to hand Mr.. Roosevelt his first major
defeat through their opposition. They will go on
record as being willing to abandon whatever prin-
ciples they profess if they gain political advan-
tage thereby,
This issue, as no other in cur history, should be
one above politics. parties and personalities. lhere
cannot decently be compromise on 1t. IL is
question of whether we want to take our democ-
racy insurance or whether we want to leave 10
chance the kind of government we are going to
have 1t does not matter whether the President Is
allowed to ame one new Roosevelt justice, six new
Roosevelt il stices or sixty Roosevelt justices II
this Preside or any other President is permitted
to initiate the court at will, then open the way
for the evolution of dictatorship, and whatever
may follow.
Win or lose those senators and representatives
who oppose the inflated court must go on TO VIC
tory or defeat without compromise, If they DeheVe
what they say they believe. In connection wtn the
court issue the word compromise" is so sweet that
it is MISUNDERSTANDING Evening Post.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-20

view of members of Congress with CCC camps
in their districts and opportunities to judge, this
| is not So On the contrary, the opinion is quite
foreefuly expressed that the costs of these
camps is ridiculously out of proportion to the
good they do; that abuses exist and waste Is
great; that to rivet them permanently as MI
| Roosevelt wants would be an exceedingly bad
| thing to do.
What is the matter with CCC? 1t is no
better and no worse than human nature is
bound to be when it is mixed with the Tam
manyized political system which now con-
trolls this country.
Many of the CCC boys have made good
records in the camps and have been helped
by these experiences. Others have made
bad records and have done hurt to them
selves and the country. That is human ma
ture; and when all sorts of young men are
corraled in camps under CCC conditions,
exactly what has happened is bound TO
happen and what is happening now will
continue to happen as long as the system
exists.
The CCC system has cost the country
hundreds of millions of public money.
Much money has been wasted, as pointed
out by new deal Congressman. Is the eX-
pertinent worth it's cost? 1t is certain that
it's record as whole does not commend it
as a permanent institution, estimated to
cost the country near half a billion dollars
annually for the expense account.
As to the results of the experiment, they
have been exactly what might have been
anticipated. Until human nature is changed
by something more potent than new deal
leaven, this and similar experiments will
come out in just that way.
The basis of the trouble is the system.
The CCC and other new deal social and
economic fantasies do not fit into our
American system. The founders Of the re-
public desired to keep this country as far
from such schemes as possible; and so no
provision was made for their Introduction
into the system of government. The toun-
ders were wise and far-seeing enough to-
forecast the results when government
like ours ceases to confine its efforts to its
plain and simple duties under a written
constitution and undertakes to turn the re-
public into the most gigantic socialist and
communist caudron ever known to civil
cation.
Don't place the blame on the CCC boys.
They are good bad and indifferent-Just
like the balance of the country's popula-
ton. The responsibility should rest upon
President Roosevelt, whose creature and
pet the CCC is; and upon Congress that
is charged with the duty of protecting the
country from such schemes.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-20
By ROGER JOHNSON
United Press Staff Correspondent

SAN FRANCISCO, May 20
(UP). - The suspension bridge
across the Golden Gate, called the
greatest engineering achievement
i nhistory, will be opened to traf-
fic May 81 with Il huge interna-
tional festival mcmorialiZing com
pletion Of San Francisco's dream
Of 30 years.
For full week official delega-
lions of foreign nations, the mass
ed L. S. battle fleet, representa-
tiveS of western states and cities
and host Of entertainers will
participate in a mighty display of
pagcantry celebrating opening Of
the gigantic span which took $685.
100000, four years, and 10 lives
TO build.
The Golden Gate bridge is a
single deck suspension bridge, the
longest single clear span in the
world. 1t is G4j0 feet in length
from end to end, and 1900 feet
center to center Of piers. The
span is three times the length Of
Brooklyn bridge i'm New York and
700 feet longer than the greatest
single span ever built to date, the
George Washington Memorial
bridge acros sthe Hudson river at
New York.
The Golden Gate bridge, sur
passed only by the San Francisco
Oakland Bay bridgc--a Scant two
miles distant -- crosses over San
Francisco Bay waters at Il height
of $50 feet and connects San
Francisco by highway directly
with the Redwood Empire Of
Northern California. 1t offers Il
shorter route to all points Of the
Pacific Northwest.
II is the first span across th"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-20
TO COMMENCEMENT ORATORS

Figures for South Carolina released last week"
The Chester Reporter says, showed that 1t has peen
taking two dollars Of administrative costs for every
one of actual relief, which is probably fair sam
pie of what has been going on all over the land.
Has not The Reporter gotten its figures wrong I!
Surely it is not as bad that? Anyway, there Will
be sufficient number of federal administrators,
in their varieties, to control elections in South Car
olina, of senator's, congressman, legislators, may
ors. South Cardinals head is in the federal moose
but the plain man refuses to believe it. The hesh-
pots and OH the mess is savory! The ADMINISTERED
tion of social security will tighten the moose.
How pleasant it is to be owned body and soul.
'Eyry dayql be Sunday bye and bye" Any COM
mencement orator neglecting to advise the grad'u-
atesS when they go out into the battle OF life
with their diplomas in hand to go after federal
administrators job was bad selection by the col
ieee faculty-Charleston News and Courier
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-20
LISTEN TO THIS
BY WICKES WAMBOLDT

condition should be exposed.
"ThiS problem is perhaps more
complicated than ever, because of
the efforts Of interested persons
to conceal the true severity of
the situation and, by their twist
ing of apparent facts, to seek to
muddle the public mind concern
ing it.
81 do not believe" asserts Mr..
Hoover, that prison doors should
be opened by sentimental Sob-siS-
terS to such men as Alvin KarpiS,
John Dillingcr, Harvey Bailey,
Harry Brunette, Baby Face"
Nelson or the rest of their recidi-
visit, habitually and professional
~ criminal clan of plundercrs,
sex criminals, and murdcrerS
whose freedom can only place a
stain upon the theory and prac-
tice of parole.
"Such maladminiSCration Gro
ates only enemies to society. 1t
cheapens the dignity of law en-
forccmcnt. 1t lowers the majesty
of the law in the estimation of
persons who deliberately commit
infractions. 1t is a problem to be
weighed and attacked by every
hOmc-loving person.
"Thc Federal Bureau Of lnves-
tigation maintains Il list Of 1876
of the most desperate, vicious en-
emies of society. OF these, 3,94S
have been recipients Of either
sob-sister or sentimental or none
tary or politically controlled par