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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-21
By FERDINAND c. M. JAIN United Press Staff Correspondent


 Vienna, Feb. q - (UP) Panic spread among Vienna Jews today as Nazis and anti-Nazis clashed in front of the university. Numerous wealthy Jews made arrangements to leave the country, seeking tenn porary refuge. Some Jewish real estate owners began hastily trying to sell properties. Nations of the Danubian basin alternated between hope and fear as to their own po- sition under Europe'S diplomatic new deal, The first real clash here between Nazis and non -Nazis was ot potentially serious character.
 At first there were minor fights. Police sought to disperse the rioters. Then outsiders joined Nazi students and girl students joined with boys. Shouting as they went into the uni versity, they took possession and began shouting:
 Judah, jump the twig!"-go hang yourselves.
 When JeYish blood drips from our knives everything will go welll"
 Police were hard pressed. They contented themselves. for 8 time,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-21
Pequabuck Post
 Office Destroyed
(Acme Radiophoto)
rs,ec;aI to the Democrat,

Special to the DemOcrat)
 TerryvilIe, Feb. 21-The Pe- guabuck Post Office was totally destroyed by fire shortly after. noon today when an 6if burner blew up. Postmaster Michael Olie, only occupant of the building at the time, saved some valuable papers in the safe, but everything else in the building was ruined.
 A general alarm was turned in and two lines of hose were still battling the blaze at 1880 this afternoon. The firemen were unable as yet to estimate what the total damage would be.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-21
HITLER, RULER
 OF ALL EUROPE
Never Before in History Was He More Firmly
 Entrenched
(Radophoto, Copyright, 1938 NEA Service, Inc)
BY WEBB MILLER

Copyright, -9SS, by United Press)
 Berlin. Feb. 21-(UP)-Adolf Hit Ter is the dominant ruler ill Europe today and never before in the five years of the Nazi regime has he been more firmly entrenched at home.
 Studying him in the Krou opera house yesterday one realized that here was the man, above all others in Europe, who, by diplomacy and gestures of force had lifted himself into the saddle of middle Europe.
 Events confirmed that impression when I returned to the United Press office here and read that in London Foreign Minister Anthony Eden had resigned because of a British cabi- net split over policy toward Ger many; that in Rome, MusSolini, Hitlers ally, was silent, and that his silence apparently gave comment to what the Fuehrer had said; that the people in the streets of Vienna had
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-21
Germany WiH Not Be Second To ToAnyNation
Hitler Demands Include Return of Colonies, Attacks on Nazis Must End, More Babies, More Soldiers,
 More Steel, More Guns
BY FREDERICK C. OECHSNER United Press Staff Correspondent


 Berlin, Feb. 21-(UP)-Germans who yesterday heard their leader Adolf Hitler eXpound his domestic and foreign policy awaited today a confidently anticipated approach from Great Britain that would break the increasingly sharp divi- sion between the totalitarian and the democratic nations of Europe. As for the Feuhrer,s speech, it had invited Europe's attention again to the fact that here in its heart were 66,000000 people, strong and proud, who would be second to none.
 It had demanded colonies. it had demanded that attacks on Germany cease, it had emphasized Germany's new unity, her growing might-- more babies, more soldiers, more steel, more guns.
 It seemed, in the view of people here, to raise almost as many questions as it answered--what
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-21
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, Feb. 21-(UP)-Gov. ernment expenses and receipts for the current fiscal year through Feb. 18th, compared with a year ago: This Year Expenses Last Year $4,77S,573,770.11 $4,61S,62O,125.69
 Receipts ss,7S2,s25,sss.79 s2.631 .ss1, ,451.75
 Gross Deficit $ss5, 5,74S.4S1.S2 s1,SS6, ,sSS, ,s73.s4
 Net Deficit ss4s,35O,7S132 $1,s14.7s4.07S.s2
 Cash Balance $s,O11,4s1 ,27S.SS Si.5so,6s4.s52.ss
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-21
The Weather

Fair, Milder Tonight; Unchanged Tuesday.
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The Washington times., 1938-10-22

thing-in the constant search to
nip boredom's sting. The Old
Post Office is the scene of play, in
any remote spot where the chiefies
stay away till they feel more like
working. When one lad gets tired
end moves away, there's always
another, ready to play. Thus far
the chiefies haven't found it out
for someone would surely undergo
the knout!
That q popular organization
procurement Division has at
least one) is the money club. :.
That, for instance, eight employees
(preferably permanent for obvi.
Gus reasons) join for the dura-
ton Of eight pay days, pooling S.
apiece when the ghost walks.
That dates of the next eight pay
days are written on separate
sheets, folded and drawn, the
member receiving $35 extra on
the date he drew. Some mem
bers take two shares" and cash
In twice.
That not long ago a lad in Post
Office was hoping to get reclas-
sified In order to receive $4OO
more salary, and was advised to
ask Civil Service Commission
about 1t. That he did just that,
and shortly thereafter his Job was
reclaSSified. That as soon as this
was done, officials took him off
the job, gave him something else
to do at the same Salary-and
placed a pettiboSs' pet on his old
job with new and fancy pay!
That the treatise on letter writ.
ing which a Farm Credit official
delivered before the recent Civil
Service Assembly caused a foxy
guy around town, who writes for
the papers, to recall an old and
testy gentleman he knew. The
old gaffer. it seems, was horribly
wrothy one morning because he'd
received a 12-page single-spaced
4 typewriter letter. by Golly,'
he spluttered, "if that so-and-sc
had had to write this in long
hand he'd have said the same
thing in a two-line memo!"
That the Democratic National
Committee now is sending It's
cash appeals right into your office
-. That one of them came re
Gently to a Government Printing
Office printer (never before inter
ested in politics one way or an
other) who-Since this was the
second he'd received-became sc
gosh-dang mad that he took of
his apron. wiped his hands
scuttled to the phone booth anc
wasted a nickel telling Mr.
Quayle's staff, in choice language
just where it could gol
The Washington times., 1938-10-22

check law That investigators
are now quizzing those within Ar
lington Building suspected Of hav-
ing done business"
That if you appreciate art you'll
not miss the exhibition Of por-
traits, ending today at $50. be-
ing held by Gina Brennan, the
Winchell Sweepstakes judge, at
the Little Gallery, 1904 o st. N. w.
The National Press Clubs audi
torium Friday evening will wit.
ness q jam session provided by
Maxim Lowe for all good little
Social Securities. That it's a
costume affair, will cost you six
bits, and is sponsored by the
agency'S union.
That one Of the finest satires
on Our Service which has yet ap-
peared in print bloSsomed in the
first edition Of Wednesdays issue
OF q local paper and-Strangely
enough-waS entirely uninten.
tional. That beneath the sigma.
ture Of the sheets regular Govern.
ment reporter was published-in
all its sprightly glory-the night
club column! That needless to
say, the error in makeup was cor
rected in all subsequent editions
- I
That if we were a poet, we
should write a story thusly:
One Of the oldest stories of the
current day concerns employees OF
the Triple-A, where it seems some
have ceased to watch the clock by
discovery Of pastime to which
they flock. The pastime is
merely a game of poker, started
at first by practical joker, but
which now has become a serious
The Washington times., 1938-10-22
The RedOubtable Champ

4 ne Ne00U0G00I6 Champ
WE HAVE never met Bennett Clark, but we
" knew his old man, the redoubtable Champ,
who came within an ace Of being President him
self but was finally outjuggled in favor Of Wood
row Wilson. We got acquainted with him at
Chautauqua meeting at Boulder, Colorado, Q lively
little city famed for two distinguished products
Gene Fowler, the author, and Whizzer White, the
football player.
Old Champ was one Of the oratorical features
Of the ChautauQua but what we remember most
drink out of a stone jug. He tossed the jug
in the crock Of his right arm with mere flip Of
the wrist and drank from it without the slightest
effort. We do not remember just what was in
the jug except that it blew us right from under
our hat.
Mr.. said the Republicans are sort O. mark
ing time until they see how Tom Dewey comes
out in his race against Herbert Lehman for the
governorship of New York. He said Tom Dewey
remains the hope of many Republicans for 1940
though Senator Vandenberg is still the favorite
in the future book betting
We asked him how about Bruce Barton. And
he said WE'LL old Bruce would figure up there
pretty good except for Dewey.
He said when all is said and DONE that as far
depends upon what Mr.. Roosevelt intends doing.
If Mr.. Roosevelt should happen to mention that
he wishes another term, Mr.. z said there would
be readjustment Of future book prices like you
never saw before in your life.
The Washington times., 1938-10-22
Speaking of Government
Workers
THEY DO SAY:
.By J. Earle MOser

iTNHEY DO SAY:
l. That one of the rottenest jobs
to hold within the District govern
ment is that of jail guard-prin-
cipally because they receive no day
off per week, putting in seven days
in seven That although the
cash is on hand for a new jail, no
move has been made to give the
guards even a half day Saturday
That apparently the law is
being broken, inasmuch as the
Saturday half holiday law made
no mention Of exemptions for
those under civil service 1.
That Lorton and Occoquan guards
get a day off weekly, and finally,
that guards are afraid to organize
because it's been limited that the
biggest of the big-wiggieS frowns
on such self protection! CMore on
this later, and steadily until
relief is forthcoming0
That some Of Vets AdminiStra-
tion's personnel are in another
financial jam That some Of
the boys land probably some of
the girls) have found that it's
possible to borrow a bit of cash
now and then from some Of the
lads who vend things just outside
the building-at the usual 10 per
cent That the modus operandi
is for the borrower to sign the
usual check on a bank in which
he has no funds, rendering him
liable to prosecution If he doesn't
pay back the loan, via the bad
The Washington times., 1938-10-22

To the Wise: Here's the
WARNER film schedule for
today:
EARLE-"Garden Of the
MOOn," with Pat O'Brien,
John Payne and Margaret
Lindsay, with the Stroud
Twins on the stage. METRO
POLITAN Jean Arthur,
James Stewart and Lionel
Barrymore in "YOu Can't
Take It With You" AM
BASSADOR-Jack Oakie and
Ruth DOnnelIy in affairs of
Annabel." UPTOWN - John
Barrymore and Jack Haley
in Hold That Coed" CAL
VERT, PENN and TIVOLI-
Laurel and Hardy In ''BlOck.
heads"
The Washington times., 1938-10-22
This Changes Daily

HIGH ICE CREAM: We
hope Iona Redmond, Vets
Administration, will drop by
this desk for q slip emitting
her to a quart of this tasty
cOnfectiOn at any High Store,
one of which operates at
1910 Georgia Ave. N. w.
BOXING: Submission Of
an unusual fact in regard to
the Federal service may win
you two reserved seats for
the world championship ring
battle scheduled Monday eve
ming at Turner'S Arena
Nuf Sed.
LITTLE THEATER: 'Tife
Passes On" showing there, is
said to be the best show in
years. So if H. X. Bishop,
Bureau of Public Roads, will
drop by we'll present two
passes.
The Washington times., 1938-10-22

.. .Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan. g. B. Shaw,
Frank Harris, the Prince Of Wales, Whistler.
Peter Stuyvesant, are a few others reSurrected
for the footlight pageant.
Editor M. 8. Taliaferro, Of the Watseka Repub-
that If BILLY the Kid" was erased by a certain
staggering Buck Taylor, he has never heard of
It, and doesn't believe it. II lived in New Mexico"
he writes, "and had my office on the same floor
with Sheriff Garrett. never heard Taylor's
Kid was killed in a small cabin where man
named Maxwell lived. The men with Garrett
were John W. Poe and Kip Mckinney. Poe was
later sheriff Of Lincoln county and afterward
The Washington times., 1938-10-22

be different, so ours is private.
We call him Mr.. z. He does
not care to have his identity
made known as it might cause
q lot Of keyholes to be closed
to him and thus shut him off
from much valuable inside
info, and interesting scenes.
He Is the fellow who makes
mp our future book on the
Presidential nomination situa-
ton. We gave him a good
wigging for not reporting to
RIS latelY on thA changes in the
The Washington times., 1938-10-22
Clark Second Choice

Mr.. said that second choice to Garner in the
AVA future book betting is Bennett Clark, of
Missouri, and that If Garner does not care to
run, he thinks Clark is a cinch. We said we had
heard it rumored that Garner and Farley have
already gotten the situation so well in hand that
they will say who is to be the nominee.
''Well," said Mr.. z, II don't know whether they
will have the say as to who is to be the nominee
but you can go and bet they will have the say
aS to who isn't to be-"
He said that Uncle Jim Farley would probably
like to be the Presidential candidate himself, but
Uncle Jim is Catholic and the Democratic poll
The Washington times., 1938-10-22
Tried Or0tOry, Too
The Brighter Side ByDamonRunyon

ticians are afraid Catholic could not be elected
President, which Mr.. z agreed was q sad COM
mentary upon the progress Of religious tolerance
in this country.
However, it was believed in Washington he
said that Uncle Jim would take the nomination
for Vice President if teamed with Garner or with
Bennett Clark, either. Mr.. z assured us that
Bennett Clark is getting right hot in the future
book betting.
The Washington times., 1938-10-22
Taught Many to Fly

LAR, far back in those days of long ago, he
SCARED away from Kelly Field to offer his
young life in the service Of his country. Many
young war.bird learned to fly under his patient
tutelase at the base at Issoudin. Once he cheated
death in those past years-French peasants
found him beneath a crumbled pile Of plywood
and canvas, victim of an enemy bullet. To the
hospital they carried him, and from the hospital
he eventually came back home.
From then on he rode the heavens by day and
by night, in clear weather and in storm.
ana 20 the hours licked by, and soon behind
his name came q figure and q row Of
ciphsrs-10,00O hours, $500 Of which were as a
transport pilot. And In all those years he did
not cause cents worth Of damage to any winged
The Washington times., 1938-10-22

In the Robert Sherwood play
and also in the Federal Thea
ter's prologue to Glory 80.
Queen Victoria has her brief
moment in knights Of Song"
and an evening to herself in
"Victoria Regina. Oscar
Wilde has his complete eve
ming, too, in the play carry
ing his name and appears for
q few moments here and there
In knights Of Song" and also
in the Hiram Sherman lam
poon in Sing Out the News"
The Washington times., 1938-10-22

But he had something"
about him that set him apart.
It was an atmosphere of quiet;
Of q tolerant detachment that
comes only to those mortals
who have ridden upon out
stretched wings, alone with
God In the blue and the gold
Of Q summers dawn.
He possessed that air of un-
hurried determination Of men
who have done things with
: the span Of years allotted to
The Washington times., 1938-10-22


betting odds on the various potential entries on
both the Republican and Democratic sides and
he said there has been nothing to report.
He said that among the Democrats there was
not so much talk now Of the possibility Of
third term candidacy, and that allowing that Mr..
Roosevelt is going to turn hermit in his dream
house up the Hudson at the close of his term,
the next favorite in the Democratic future book
right now is John N. Garner. of Texas, and that
wellfancied psrlay Is Garner and Uncle Jim
Farley. the latter as a candidate for Vice Presi-
dent.
The Washington times., 1938-10-22
Can't Be EquGlled

One-pOund boxes Of delic-
iOus ORIGINAL VELATI
chocolates or carameIS to-
day are awarded to: Kath-
ryn McSOrley, Agriculture
Engineering; Jackie Swartz,
Hole; Robert L. Harrison,
Capitol Power Plant. Candy
will be presented at either
store, Ninth and G StS. N.
w., or 500 Fourteenth st.
N. W.
The Washington times., 1938-10-22
''But''- g

TALL. 1ean-looking ruddy of face iron-gray hair
~ and a twinkle in pair of kindly eyes, one
might have taken him for a story-book banker.
The Washington times., 1938-10-22
Voice of New York By Louis SObOl

president of q bank ct Roswell, N. Mex, In the
Pecos Valley"
Champ Voice ThrOUer
T THINK If were asked ,pointblank (Which
have not been) to name the No. ventrtlo-
uuist of the country, it would not be Edgar
Bergen, although Fam a great admirer Of his
talents, but q lesserknown gentleman. one Senor
Wences. Wences paints up hand to produce q
grotesque little chatterbox spilling pert philoso-
phies heartily accented. There Is head in the
box which pops out with q few irrelevancies and
a telephone which answers questions, although
throughout the confusion of babel, Senor Wences
never stops talking himself. Currently, he is at
the palace of accents, Dave Appolon's Casanova
Club, and I must confess to me he is the top
interestholder of all of Mr.. Appolons hirelings.
OF course, never believed there was future
in ventriloquism although in earlier days did
succumb to an enGicing proposition to be hypno-
tist, and even paid 50 for the first Of what were
to be "A lessons. All day went around staring
into the eyes Of people, but nothing came Of it.
Tried Or0tOry, Too
THERE was a time, too, when q little ad en-
L phasized the advantages Of public speaking
and sent for the book but it did me no good
either, and have never been able to get upon my
feet at banquet table or among any group mum.
bering more than three and speak right out.
The Washington times., 1938-10-22

At left above is Carl G. Berger president of General
Accounting Lodge No. g. AFGE, with Lawson A. Meyer
executive director Of the Civil Service Commission the
right and James oBrien Meyers assistant in center
They rehearsng the Questions and Answers program
to be presented all next week by WRCs Gordon Hten-
mark 746 each morning, during which Meyer and oBren
will tell Berger and Hittenmark (and you latest develop
ments regarding the June "a Executive orders These
answers bearing the Civil Service stamp of authenticity
will particularly interest emergency employees slated for
inclusion IN the merit system on February I.
The Washington times., 1938-10-22

International Copyright and All Other Rights Reserved
WE HAD talk yesterday with our private rela-
" tions counsel in Washington. A lot of con-
Germs have public relations counsel but we like to
The Washington times., 1938-10-22
Inspired Confidence

Inspired Confidence
LIS voice was quiet. It was the kind Of voice
"A that inspired confidence in the most diff
dent. We rode together $500 miles q year ago
and looked down upon cities and great broad
lands blotted out beneath blanket Of yellow
waters-the flood waters of the mighty Ohio.
His smile was warming, showing the whitest
Of teeth And his eyes would crinkle into q
thousand "crowsfeet," etched there by hours Of
looking into the sun or trying to penetrate the
darkness of night.
The Washington times., 1938-10-22
DOTPoURRI:
The seasons

DOTPoURRI: The seasons theater has
brought forth q parade Of personalities OF
the past. Abraham Lincoln is the central figure
The Washington times., 1938-10-22
BOake Carter

When in their company, they inevitably make
one survey in retrospect ones own past years, and
more often than not feel impatient with oneself
for all those precious minutes wasted ever to be
recaptured.
The Washington times., 1938-10-22
His Spirit Flies On

CEREMONIES and ostentation certainly held
~ nothing for him. And now he has gone
on that final flight. And his mortal re-
mains -asheS-"duSt thou art and to dust thou
shalt return"-floated down from the skies Of
a plane that flew along few days ago his first
route-Los Angeles to Salt Lake City.
But his spirit flies on-the spirit that pioneered
that great system that crisScrosses this country
today as it lines no other country in the world,
the American air transport. He was a simple
man, q thorough man, a careful man and good
man. That's why his fellow pilots revered him.
He was the epitome of all that was good in the
personnel that makes up the great army Of men
who fly the commercial skyways each day.
His name was Hal Snead, and not alone
T. w. A., for whose Eastern division he was chief
pilot, but American aviation will miss his wisdom,
his advice and his kindly tolerance Of the short
comings of others.
Moreover, he was my friend, too. shall miss
him.
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(BoGke CGrter'S optHtoHS are his otDn and not
necessarily those Of The Washington TtnesJ
The Washington times., 1938-10-22
Saws BOake Garter

craft that rode the skylanes under the touch
of his long, thin, tapering fingers.
The Washington times., 1938-10-22

president Of bank ct Roswell, N. Mex, In the
Pecos Valley"
Evening star., 1938-06-05

lation which has in the past harbored
danger for every government.
That it cannot instantly abolish guerrilla
warfare has however been demonstrated
also and it is predicted that there may yet
be an era Of unrest caused by irrespon-
sfble bandit gangs. taking advantage of
the present situation to prey upon ranches
and small villages. Such was the case dur
ing the religious conflicts of the 1s20s,
when bandits posing as "Cristeros"-the
religious rebels-raided and levied tribute
upon ranchers and villagers.
The second development of the San Luis
Potosi events has been the introduction of
a new policy on the part of the government
in dealing with the rebels. 1t has literally
"suffocated them with kindness" as one
government spokesman phrased the process,
and by this unexpected and liberal policy
has had greater success than any previous
administration has experienced when faced
with the same problems.
The key to this situation may be found
in the fact that President Cardenas is no
killer. To recognize his difference from his
predecessors, particularly from the former
Presidents, Gen. Aware Obregon and Gen.
Plutarco Elias Gales. 1t is only necessary to
recall the events of the 1920 to 1880 era
In Mexico.
Evening star., 1938-06-05
Canada CANDLES 100000
ToDefeat Bible Bill Aberhart
Buying Out Private Stockholders in Effort to-
Erase Social Credit Program
in Alberta.

voters, who are heavily obligated In the
majority of cases because of the successive
years Of drought in the province, must be
shown that the deft legislation enacted by
the Social Credit Premier-a duplicate of
which he has promised to Saskatchewan
Is not feasible
Premier Bible Bills" failure to paw
promised dividends to Albertan citizens
after more than two and a half years in
power has weakened Western faith in the
Santa Claus" portion of his promises. His
debt cancellation and repudiation legislation
stands, however, in different category as
something actually achieved-unless the
federal authorities see fit to disallow it.
Disallowance is confidently anticipated
before the campaign closes Tuesday night
and it Is the confident belief of Canadian
political circles that it will place the final
seal of failure upon the attempt of Evan
gelist-Premier Bible Bill" to enlarge his
political congregation by one whole prov
ince.