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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-10

1 And may order something for youp What shall 1t be, Martal Philp"
 All the time that she went through her duties as O hostess she was thinking that once upon a time, she, too, had been afraid of lightning. She and Phil had been in @ fishing boat, of the coast of Normandie, when the sea had danced riotouosly in the wind, His strong arms had held her close as the waves and the sky and the bright curdling lights came to- gether. No good, reminiscing, she reminded herself, Phils words broke the spell, anyway.
 Judith, we came to ask you if you would accommodate your plans to ours Q little" he said. I'm going to China this autaumn and I'd like to take Marta. I can combine a world cruise with the business end of the venture"
 Singapore, Bagdad, Hongkong, Rome - once she and Phil had planned to travel the worlds far rim togetherl
 I'm leaving tomorrow night" Judith answered. Tt will be e matter of only few weeks, Phil, until you are quite free"
 They rose to go but the storm was too fierce. They sat down again. There was 0 silence. Into that silence came a mans heavy, drawing voice, as he refused to let the maid announce him and approached the sitting room,
 Judith looked up. The man who had been Marta's husband looked down on them.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-10

A pupil and successor Of PaSteur, File Metehnikoff, advocated the use of cheese In the diet as Q means of prolonglng life, after studying the very long lives of Swiss and Bul- garian peasants, who consume a large quantity of cheese.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-10

She knew that the silence, at first, was c tribute to the creation. It lasted 6 little too long. Amusement threaded it. Somebody gasped. A sound like a breeze in c field stirred the audience. Then there was ape
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-10
CAST or CHARACTERS

JUDITH IRVING, heroine, America's best dressed woman. PHILIP IRVING, Judlth's cs- tranged husband.
 MARTA ROGERS, Judith's rival.
 BRUCE KNIGHT, author, Ju- dlth's old classmate.
 NSTLLTCENT BAYNE, BruCe's prOtege.
 Yesterday: Judith arrives back in New York, arOuSeS Phll'S ire because of her reported romance with Bruce. She agrees to meet Phil the next day. But Marta Is on hand, too.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-10

WERE not for the cats ability to retrac it's claws they would be down by contact with hard ground stones Without S sharp curvng claws cat would be unable e hold Of dog however It's claws only for digging scratching and possibly while ning Its prey S held in the powerful jawA
Evening star., 1937-02-14

"a II ORAL disarmament" has
M been. for years, an old
wv favorite in the councils of
L 4 international diplomacy.
Evening star., 1937-02-14
BY HARRY w. BAEHR. JR.

w YTTH Senators William E.
Borah and Hiram W.
wv johnson standing side by
side to lead the fight on
Evening star., 1937-02-14
Threat of New European Conflict
Is Cementing British-Irish Ties

LONDON.-The persistent threat of
o general European war is bringing
peace to the British Isles in one re-
spect. Not for many years have Eng
land and the Irish Free State felt so
much is common as today. No one
need be surprised If this year sees sub
stantial progress toward settling the
economic and political differences
which long have estranged the two
countries.
England and the Free State are be-
coming convinced that If they do not
hang together in the next major war,
they may hang singly. With its FROM
tier on the Rhine, as Prime Minister
Stanley Baldwin expresses it, England
requires a satisfied and cooperative
ireland on its flank. In turn, unforti-
fed Ireland needs the British Navy to
keep out invaders who would find
ireland a convenient jumping-of spot
against Liverpool, London and Glas-
gov.
The defense pact between Great
Britain and the Free State is not un-
likely in the near future. The pact
would provide that the Free State
never allow its territory to be used
rs Q base for hostile power and that
It resist any such invasion with the
help Of the British Navy and the
Royal Air Force. nprotecting Ireland's
territorial integrity, Great Britain,
Evening star., 1937-02-14

change a traditional policy of the
United States had been first checked,
then defeated, by the Senate.
The present Senate faces different
issue, although quite as momentous.
The psychological setting Of the fight
is remarkably sinilar-the emotional
background of war ION depression,
this time) the prestige of a strong,
popular executive, the prospect of
serious changes in accustomed ways
Of national life, the fervor of humani-
tartan idealism. And the veterns and
descendants of veterans of that earlier
fight carry the parallel even further.
Borah, johnson, Hale, McNary.
Capper and Lodge are listed as
opposed to President Roosevelt's
scheme to alter the Supreme Court.
All these names might have been
found among the speakers at meet
ings to condemn Wilson's League.
Robert La Toilette, whose father
opposed the League, is reputedly for
Roosevelt. George w. Norris also
voted against the Versailles treaty,
but his final position on the court
question remains in doubt.
Democratic Picture Confused.
The lineup is less identical among
the Democrats. Ashhurst, Robinson,
Pittman, McKellar and Sheppard, all
for Wilson in 1919, are for Roosevelt
today. according to reports from
Washington. Harrison, Walsh( who
voted against the League), and Bank
head are dubious. Peter G. Gerry,
Ellison D. Smith and William H. King
are said to be against the reorganiza-
ton of the Supreme Court.
In 1919 the Senate was literally the
only obstacle to ratification of the
treaty of Versailles, and the vote of
only one-third of its membership was
suficient to defeat the League. To-
day it must muster a majority to repel
the attack on the Supreme Court.
True, it is associated with the House
Of Representatives and the position
Of that body Is not yet wholly plain.
But the general feeling throughout
the country Is that the Senate now.
as in Wilson's day, will be the de-
Gliding factor In the conflict.
ecepyxight. 1037J
Evening star., 1937-02-14
Zeppelin Navigator
Is American Born

FRIEDRICHSHAFEN CP.-Airship
Graf Zeppelin has new chief navi-
eating Observation-Disclosures Au-
gust Groezinger, the first German to
same aircraft.
Groezinger, 46, was born of German
parents at Stronach, Mich, but was
taken back to the Fatherland when he
was 4. He joined the Friedrichshafen
airship construction plant in 1908.
Groezinger Is the proud posSessor
of the City Of New York's medal COM
memorating the LZ-126's first flight to
Lakehurst in 1926. He also holds q
Japanese decoration on the Zep's
round flight and the Count
Ferdinand Won Zeppelin Medal. a
Evening star., 1937-02-14

would be protecting her own, and in
addition would be safeguarding her
wartime food supply. Cargoes from
North and South America might be up
against a submarine peril, as in the
last war, but the Irish Sea, carefully
mined, would be q comparatively safe
inland lake over which Irish allies
could ferry great quantities of food
stuffs.
Copyright, 1887
Evening star., 1937-02-14
MORAL DISARMINC GIVEN
IMPETUS AT BUENOS AIRES
Given Formal Expression in Several
Conventions Designed to Insure Ap-
plication of Cherished Ideal.

tainment Of that purpose. The sigma
tory governments agree to organize,
in their public educational establish
ments, the teaching Of the principles
Of pacific settlement of international
disputes and the remuneration of war
as an instrument of national policy,
as well as the practical application
Of these principles. They further
agree to prepare textbooks or manuals
of instruction adapted to all school
grades. including the training of a
teaching staff, in order to promote
understanding, mutual respect and the
importance of international co-opera-
ton. They undertake to promote the
publicity which moving pictures, the
theater and the radio may give to the
cause of international understanding
and "the study and application Of any
other measures which may increase
the spirit of tolerance. equity and
justice between nations"
The other convention intended to
aid moral disarmament is that calling
for the promotion Of inter-American
cultural relations through an eX-
change Of professors. teachers and
students among the American coun-
tries, as well as the encouragement
Of closer relationship between un-
official organizations which exert an
influence on the formation of public
opinion. The details and regulations
Of that mutilateral exchange of fel-
lowships have been amply publicized
by the press.
Other Helpful Conventions.
Two other conventions, Of the IL
concluded at Buenos Aires, may be
mentioned as helpful in the advance
mente of moral Recommendations
concerning interchange of publications
and the holding of artistic exhibitions
in so far as they, too, aim at cul-,
tural rapprochement among the ma
tions of the New World. However, it
Is in the resolutions and recommen-
dations approved by the Inter-Amer-
ican Conference for the Maintenance
Of Peace, even more so than In the
conventions signed, that the move
ment for moral disarmament was
really featured"
Outstanding among such resolu-
tions is the one providing for revi-
sion Of school text books. Recognizing
Soootinusd On Third4 Fssa.l
Evening star., 1937-02-14

days later. Lodge stressed that ac-
ceptance Of the League meant aban-
donment of the Monroe Doctrine. He
attacked the vagueness Of the terms
of the draft, and called for an active
public discussion of all the implica-
tions of the document.
Until now senatorial opposition had
been acting in a vacuum. A cartoon
of the day pictured them as very little
men af1oat in a tub, angling for a
Evening star., 1937-02-14
BY GASTON NERVAL.

Sc II ORAL disarmament" has
M been, for years, an old
wv favorite in the councils Of
L 4 international diplomacy,
but at the Buenos Aires Conference
for the Maintenance of Peace the
term was, for the first time, given q
solemn and contractual status by the
representatives Of the 81 American
republics.
Like most Of the problems related
to the organization of peace, the
theory Of moral disarmament has
been preached for long time. It
was over 100 years ago that Prince
Metternich, the arch-diplomat of the
nineteenth century, countered a
French suggestion for military dis
armament advanced by Count Sc
bastiani, with the observation that
moral disarmament" was. more i'm
portant and should precede the
former. Ever since the term was
coined, it has been one of the most
frequently used resources of diplo-
matte phraseology.
AT BuenOS AIRES, however, moral
disarmament was not only a phrase.
It was made one of the objectives of
the inter-American conference, and
was given formal expression in sew
eral conventions and instruments de-
signed to insure the actual applica-
ton Of that long-cherished ideal. OF
course, it is still too early to cry
success; the real fruits will not be
known until after the conventions
have been ratified and carried out in
practice, but, even now, it is only
fair to admit that right beginning
has been made at Buenos Aires and
the paths have been pointed along
which moral disarmament may some
day become reality, at least in the
Americas.
Two Main Conventions.
Two are the main conventions
signed at Buenos Aires with this goal
in view. One, that concerning peace
full orientation of education, acknowl-
edges that moral disarmament Is an
essential requisite In the attempt to
"reafiirm reciprocal confidence be-
tween the nations Of the Continent
and to perfect the political and
juridical organizations Of peace." and
lays down certain na,ss sF ths as-
Evening star., 1937-02-14
Wide World Photo.

huge whale labeled Public Opinion
for the League of Nations" But on
March 3 the Senate gave proof Of
its power. Two-thirds of the body
must consent before the Versailles
treaty might become valid. On the
day before Wilson's departure for
France again, 80 Republican Senators
signed round robin disapproving the
League covenant and petitioning Will
son to conclude peace with Germany
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1937-04-30

The tourists are leaving New York and are GOING +
Angeles The road map shows eighteen principal cities bel
these two points The tourists visit each one Of
cltes but they do not want to go the twice
you IND the route they must take7 Each city has
letter SO that the sovers describe the taken
tourists
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-06
MAD BUTCHER
FEARED NEAR
9TH VICTIM

II MCLEVELAND, May 6. UP)-Police
feared today that "the mad butch
er of Kingsbury run" might be max
ing friends with his ninth victim.
They were reminded by discovery
Of a missing section from the torso
of his eighth prey-a Woman-that
somewhere ~ this city of a mil
lion roams a sugicall-skilled ap-
parently seX-crazed headhunter
In three years, the killer has
deeapitated and dismembered eight
persons, three Of them women. His
lure, police have theorized, is friend
ship. Most of the victims were found
to have eaten shortly before their
beheadings, feted perhaps by their
killer.
The neWest-fCund portion, discoV-
cred in the chilly waters on Lake
Erie yesterday, matched an upper
section found on a beach Feb. 30
Three years ago. the dismember-
ed trunk of another woman was
found at the same spot ON the same
beach
ley waters had preserved the flesh
The head OF the woman still was
missing, as We're those of six of the
eight other victims. OF the two
whose heads were found-both men
neither has been identified. The
body of only one of the victims-a
prostitute-ever was identified, and
her head still is missing.
Bodies of four of the head-hunt-
,.tr's victims were found in lonely
Kingsbury Run-a desolate valley
bNsecting an industrial section
two on the beach, two others in 9TH
er parts of the city.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-06
The Offer
Following is text of the provi-
sions of this offer to the District:

l. District to spend the entire grant and
loan from P.W.A. in the amount of 81
$4,000 for hydro plant developments on
the All-American Canal. The grant and
loan will be approximately sufficient to
construct Plants 2, 3, and s. installing |
unit each in Plants and 3, and 2 units
each in Plants and s. in conformance with
recent plant designs of Reclamation Serv-
ice, which would give the District an ag-
gregate generating capacity of 33,76O XIV,
compared with the total generating capa-
city OF $3.50 XIV. as proposed to be INSTALL
ed by the District under its allotment of
P.W. "A. funds. District would further agree
to install second units in Plants 2 and 8
IN time to begin the production of power
whenever load requirements make neces-
sary-plant estimated to cost 1892 900 and
to be required in 1855
z. District to reserve all energy required
solely for District desilting, dredging,
pumping and drainage operations and Cor
pOratlon to allow use of any of its avail
able transmission or distribution facilities
to deliver such energy to point of use upon
payment of a reasonable transportation
charge to be fixed by the California Rail-
road Commission.
3. Corporation to agree to purchase from
District for the period of 40 years all ener-
gy from such generating plants on the All
American Canal not reserved to the Dis
trict, capable of being used for distribu-
tion in supplying the Corporations con-
sumers in Imperial and COachella Valleys,
including sales at CaleXico for Mexican
use, at 5 mills per kw-hr, delivered at high
tension bus of plant SubStation
a. Corporation to further agree for pc
riod Of 40 years to purchase the remain
ing energy of such District hydro plants
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-06
Experts Confident
OF Making Winter
Flying More Safe

WASHINGTON, May 6. WP)-Bu-
reau of Air Commerce officials eX-
pressed confidence today that new
regulations and experiments will
make winter flying safer than at
any time in aviation history.
Following one of commercial aVia-
tion's most disastrous winters, the
bureau is working to remove the
perilous aspects of cold weather
flying, revealed in Investigations of
seven of the eight fatal crashes
since mid-DeCember.
Corrective measures include:
l. PRONUNCIATION of "A rule requir-
ing all commercial aircraft to be
equipped with shielded iooD an
tennas. The shield will insure
against interrupted radio reception
due to ice on the antenna. 1t will
also eliminate to large extent stat
ic induced by electrically-cha
snow and rain particles.
2. Requirement that all CONNER
cial aircraft be equipped with radio
direction finders to aid in blind fly
ing when radio beam transmission
or reception fails.
g. improvement and expansion Of
\ weather reporting and transmitting.
Srhe bureau is eliminating one of
'the chief faults in tranmission
through replacement Of old type
beam transmission towers with new
ones which will permit simultaneous
sending of weather reports and
course signals to filters.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-06
NICK LUCAS
SINGS SONG
FOR JURY

PITTSBURGH, May G. UR)-
Radio and screen singer Nick Lucas
obliged the ladies of the jury with
Tip Toe Through the Tulips to-
day after a breach of contract suit
against him had been dismissed in
federal court.
Lucas was on the stand when
Federal Judge Nelson Mcfvar dis
missed the suit, brought by two
Canonsburg, Pa, youths, on the
grounds that the evidence did not
show a claim existed.
Later women of the jury and
others stopped him in the hallway
of the federal building and asked
him to sing.
Frank Stasio and Ralph An
thony, plaintiffs. said they wrote
the song "When Your Road Leads
My Way" and made an agreement
with Lucas whereby he would have
the song published in return for
the privilege of using it on the
radio, They charged he used it as
a theme song but never had it pub
liShed. Lucas said he was unable
to sell the song.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-06
Mr.. Vests Letter
Following is full text of a let
ter Dritten May S to the directors
of Imperial Irrigation District:

10 the Board of Directors of the
Imperial Irrigation District,
Ell Centre, California.
GENTLEMEN:
Imperial Valley is now threatened with
the paraleing of distribution lines and
duplication of power facilities costing mil
lions OF dollars, and with the setting up
OF competing organizations to render
service already adequately supplied
The public has everything to lose and
nothing to gain from such a program It
involves largely increasing a District debt
already in excess of the ability of the tax
payer to carry, the cluttering up of streets
and alleys with wholly unnecessary poles
and lines and a largely increased cost of
service which will ultimately result in
higher rates than would be possible to a
single agency operating with half the in
vestment and serving the entire business
through one organization. These facts we
believe to be self-evident.
On June last we proposed to your
Board plan for the settlement of the
power controversy carrying an option to
purchase our local power facilities at the
end of eight years. This proposal is now
withdrawn both by reason of it's uncond-
tional rejection by your Board and because
of subsequent events at Brawley, where
competition between the District and Cor
poration service for nearly year has dem
Onstrated that a majority of the consumers
desire to retain the Corporations service.
The signing up of long-term merchan-
disc contracts by 581% of the Company's
residential consumers throughout the val
ley and of three year contracts by 49, of
its large commercial consumers indicates
the sentiment of our customers through
out the entire District.
In view of this situation, under no cir
cumstances will the Corporation volun-
tarily dispose of its electrical properties
or retire from the power business in I'M
peral Valley.
We recognize that the people of the Val
ley have looked forward to the develop
ment Of power on the All-American Canal
with three hopes in mind: first, that it
would materially lighten if not re-
lieve them entirely from the burden Of
meeting the great cost of the canal; second,
that it would give them the advantage of
power rates primarily based upon Canal
power costs rather than cost of service
from outside sources and third, that it
would make possible more complete ru-
raj electrification throughout the Valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-06

With these Objectives we are in hearty
sympathy but are satisfied the first and
most important of these cannot be obtained
through the service of the Valley by COM
peting agencies Before an irrevocabe de-
cisiOn has been made we have endeavored
to evolve a new plan of settlement that will
attain the wishes of the people in connec-
tion with the development of All-Ameri-
can Canal power and at the same time
avoid the waste and losses incident to the
competitive power plan now contemplated
The new plan as hereinafter set forth is
simple in character, unconditional in its
terms and with but few assumptions, most
of these being taken from District esti-
mates. The revenues to accrue to the Dis
trict are easily verified, being based upon
water flows in the Canal as estimated by
Reclamation Service and load estimates
set up on a much more conservative basis
than those assumed by the District in its
earnings studies.
The large earnings shown for Canal
power are only made possible by the Cor
pOratiOn's undertaking to purchase energy
greatly in excess of the demands of Impe-
rial Valley and on basis that will permit
the sale of every kilowatt-hour the plants
are capable of generating with the water
flows as shown in the latest estimates of
the Bureau of Reclamation.
The plan, if carried out, lUe believe ,uiH
assure net pOlCer revenues from AU-Ameri-
can Canal Plants sufficient not only to
meet interest and amortization charges on
the proposed pOlUer loan from the Govern
ment, but also to cOUer the construction
costs of the AU-American Canal CHARGE
able against the District as the payments
fail due.
The plan will provide for substantially
complete electrification of the rural areas
and carry the assent of the Corporation
that rates in Imperial Valley be primarily
based upon cost of power from the ALL
American Canal. 1t wholly avoids duplica-
tion of power facilities and the mainten-
ance of dual organizations, in fact, it is
only by eliminating such unnecessary eX-
penses that the plan is made possible.
We suggest that this new cooperative
plan be submitted to an impartial and in
dependent engineer for study and a re-
port carrying recommendations, with the
understanding that such report be made
available to the people of the Valley as
soon as completed We further suggest
that an engineer to be appointed by the
California Railroad Commission, the Cali
fornia District Securities Commission, or
the United States Bureau of Reclamation
be selected to act in such capacity, or if
the District may prefer, that a representa-
tive appointed by each of said agencies be
requested to act jointly in the matter
We finally ask that the people of the
Valley be given an opportunity before fl
nal decision is made to vote directly upon
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-06

the question as to whether they prefer to
accept the Corporations proposal or to
proceed with the present competitive pro-
gram. The issue at stake is too large and
too vitally affects the future of the Valley
to be decided without impartial inyestiga-
tion and the opportunity Of all residents
Of the Valley to record their wishes in the
matter.
We will be pleased to meet with your
Board or its representative at any time
you may suggest to discuss the details of
our offer
Respectfully submitted,
THE NEVADA CALIFOR-
MA ELECTRIC CORP.
BY A. B. WEST, President.