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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-20
HORSE OWNERS
 GIVEN WARNING

Hartford, Conn, Aug 2o-CUP)- The state domestic animals depart ment today warned Connecticut horse owners to take their animals out of pasture because of spread of encephalomyelitis, deadly disease affecting horses.
 Deputy Commissioner George E. Corwin said the disease was spread ing throughout southern Massachu sets, near the Connecticut border. and undoubtedly would invade this state.
 He said germs were carried by mosquitoes and flies. All horses, he warned, should be kept in stable until the danger was over.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-20
INTERVENE IN STRIKE

East Hartford, Conn.,, Aug. 20- (UP)-The state board of mediation and arbitration was expected today to intervene in a strike of 20 em- ployes of the Hartford Despatch & Warehouse Go.
 Strikers charged the firm violated terms of union contract, while company officials said the union was guilty of the violation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-20
FEDERAL BUREAU
 SEEKS JEWELS

New York, Aug. 20.-(UP) ).-Fed- eral bureau of investigation agents took up the search today for $2,O00 worth of jewels sto,en from Mrs. Jean Fratkin, estranged wife of Harry Fratkin, former concert mas ter of the Boston Symphony orches- tra. The theft occurred at sea.
 Mrs. Fratkin returned yesterday ,n the Furness-Bermuda liner Queen of Bermuda after a six-day cruise and reported that she had missed the jewels-some rings, bracelet and a pennant-the first day out of New York. Ships officers made a suiet investigation
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-20
DEMOCRATS FACE CITY PRIMARY CONTEST
Mrs. ScouiH WiU Probated Today
Judge Frank HickOx of Watertown Receives Docu. ment for Probating-Her Daughter, Grandchil=
 dren Are Bequeathed ScOvill Estate

The will of the late Mrs. Ellen Hyde Scovil who died at her home in Waterown July 3O provides that most the estate shall go to daughter grandsons and grand daughters and great grandson Mrs. Scovill was the widow of Henry William Scov descendant of the founders Frank Hickox admitted the will probate court at Water town today The size of the estate will not be known unt
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-20
bEECHER ESTATE IS |NvENTOR|ED
Valuation of Holdings Is Placed at $l44,769.O1;
 Filed in Probate

Inventory of the estate of William E. Beecher, longtime member of the board of public works and real estate operator was accepted today by Judge Dennis J. Slavin in the probate court. MT. Beecher died June 28, this year.
 Valuation Placed
 The valuation of the estate. amounting to $144,76901, is ap- praised mostly in stock holdings, with some real estate and mort gages, as well as cash included in the total.
 Property holdings include land at Hillside and Central avenues, $12,- 800; and on Platt street, $500. Stock holdings are:
 40 Aetna Life Ins. Co.,,
 plus dividend .......$ 100000 10 Colonial Trust Co.,,
 plus dividend ........ 2,520.0O 50 Arrow, Hart & Hege-
 man plus dividend =. 1,587.5O IA Citizens & Manufac-
 turers Natl Bank .. 1,680.0O 100 First Nat1 Bank of
 Boston plus div. .. 3,850.OO 20 Waterb ury Natl
 Bank ... 44ooo 40 Colts Patent Fire
 Arms Go. plus div. ... 2,140OO 100 Conn. Light & Power plus div. ........ b,175.0O 60 Greenwich Water &
 Gas Co. plus div. .... 3,840.00 52 Home Insurance Co.,. 1865 .O0 100 Internatl Vita min
 Corp. ............... 325 5.0o 13 New Britain Machine
 Co.,, plus div. ..... 1,257.75 50 New Haven Water Co.
 plus div. ............ 3,7oo.oo 205 Peter Paul, Inc, plus
 div. ................ 6,713.75 108 Plume & Atwood Mfg.
 Go. .............. 3,4s3.0O 80 Risdon Mfg. Go. ..... 100000
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-20

Berlin, Aug, 20-(UP)-It was announced officially today that the arrest in Austria of Capt. Thomas J. Kendrick, British passport off, cer at Vienna, was made on sus- picion of espionage. It was added that he had been ordered to leave Germany at once.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-20
CAPT. KENDRICK
 GIVEN RELEASE

London, Aug. 20--(UP)-The Ger man government has ordered the release of Capt. Thomas J. Ken drick, British passport officer at Vienna, the foreign office an- nounced today. The announcement came after a strong British pro- test and request for an explana- tion of Hendricks arrest in Aus tria.
 Details were not immediately available. Sir Neville Henderson, ambassador at Berlin, in dispatch to the foreign office said simply that he had been ordered released this afternoon. He was expected to leave for Great Britain within a day or two.
 Kendrick was arrested in the Salzburg area of Austria, on his way to England for vacation, and taken to Vienna by Nazi secret police.
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Evening star., 1938-04-26
CHARLES S. HAMLIN
FUNERAL TODAY
Mrs. Roosevelt Among Notables
Attending Rites for First
Reserve Board Governor

Funeral services for Charles Sum-
ner Hamlin, rs, first governor of the
Federal Reserve Board, who died Sum-
day at his residence in the Hay-Adams
House, are being held this afternoon
in st. Johns Episcopal Church, Six
teenth and H streets NV. The Rev.
DR.. Oliver J. Hart, rector of st. Johns,
and the Right Rev. Julius w. Atwood,
retired Bishop of Arizona, are off,
ciating. Burial will be in Boston.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt is among
notables attending the funeral.
Mr.. Hamlin served as governor Of
the board from 1914 to 1916, when
he was named a member of its board
OF governors for l0-year term. In
1926 he was reappointed for another
lO-year term by President Coolidge,
serving until two years ago, when he
was named special counsel to the
board by President Roosevelt. He
held the latter position at the time
of his death. A native of Boston
and graduate of Harvard University,
Mr.. Hamlin's first public Office was
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.
Mr.. Hamlin is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Huybertie Lansing Pruyn
Hamlin; brother, Edward Halnlin,
Boston, and two sisters, Miss Harriet
Hamlin and Miss Jane Hamlin, both
Of Marion, Mass.
Evening star., 1938-04-26

Diamond cutting In Belgium is re-
ported to be increasing.
Evening star., 1938-04-26
DRUNK IS SEIZED
IN GEM ROBBERY
Man Found Staggering Near
Smashed Window of F
Street Jewel Store.

Police seized a drunken suspect early
today shortly after two men smashed
q show window at the Shah &, Shah
jewelry store. 921 F. street NV, and
stole $500 worth Of watches, leaving
behind broken toy pistol and num-
ber Of rings and other jewelry strewn
on the sidewalk.
Breaking Of the window set off a
burglar alarm, which brought Detec-
tive Sergts. c. W. Trammell and j. J..
Tolson speeding to the store in police
scout car few minutes after the rob-
berry.
A taxicab driver told the detectives
he had seen two men running from
the vicinity short time before. They
had parted at Tenth and F. streets
NV, he said.
In searching for the robbers, the
officers stopped a 23-year-old white
man staggering nearby and found on
him two watches, believed to have
been taken from the jewelry store.
Sergt. Trammell said the suspect was
too intoxicated to question at the
time. He was held for investigation
Police were not certain whether the
suspect was one of the two men who
had smashed the store window, or
whether he had wandered by a mo-
ment later and picked up the two
watches from the merchandise spilled
on the sidewalk.
Apparently. the men had used toy
pistol to smash the window, and it
was broken in two by the impast. The
broken butt was found inside the
window.
In reaching through the hole in
the glass for the watches they stole,
the robbers upset trays containing
antique rings and other jewelry which
spilled out by the handful onto the
sidewalk.
Meanwhile, police continued wide
spread hunt for thieves who broke
into Castleberg's jewelry store, 1904
F street NV, over the week end and
stole more than 5000 worth of watches
and gems. Two men were reported to
have attempted to sell new wrist
watches to pedestrians at Florida
avenue and Third street NV. last
night, but escaped as a police car
approached.
Local police also were on the look.
out for $4,000 worth OF dental gole
stolen from Baltimore supply house
over the week end. Baltimore au.
thorities asked local officers especially
to check dental Offices here where the
stolen gold might be offered for sale
Detective Sergt Eugene Lambert
arrested a colored man last night and
recovered part of the s204.50 worth OF
jewelry stolen Sunday night from the
home of Howard Parish, 3510 Rodman
street NV. The prisoner was held at
the eighth precinct for further inves-
tigation.
Silver valued at 5000 was reported
stolen last night from the home of
Leslie Prince, 20 Kalorama circle, by
thief who climbed ladder to an
unlocked second-floor window.
Evening star., 1938-04-26
GORE MAY RUN AGAIN

Former Senator Gore Of Oklahoma
said today he expected to leave Friday
for Oklahoma City to determine
whether to be candidate for the Sem
atorial Democratic nomination.
The blind attorney was prevented
by illness from leaving Sunday. He
was recovering today.
Il want to 20 to the State to find out
whether sentiment is general enough
to warrant my fling" he said.
Evening star., 1938-04-26
APPEALS FOR FUNDS
Rehabilitation Farm Operator
Writes to Mai, Brown,


Pleading for funds to support former
Washington convicts on . rehabilita-
ton farm near Huntington, w. Va,
Earl E. budding wrote to Maj. Ernest
w. Brown, superintendent Of police,
yesterday, stating that unless financial
help is forthcoming he will be unable
to continue caring for the men. Mr..
budding stated that on the large farm
he operates, with the aid Of former
Evening star., 1938-04-26
TECHNOCRACY BACK

Its Prophet Forecasts Major
Economic Breakdown in 1912.
PITTSBURGH, April 26 R.-
Howard Scott, prophet Of technocracy,
predicts a major economic breakdown
in the United States in 1912 with
40 ,000, 900 persons out Of work.
I'VE will be producing 40 per cent
more, but using 30,000,000 fewer
Evening star., 1938-04-26
Federal Workers to Dance,

Women's Union los, Bureau of En-.
craving and Printing. National Fed.
GRAFTON of Federal Employees, will hold
a dance at the Hotel Powhatan at 9: 80
pm. Saturday. Nicie Powell is chair
man of the Arrangements Committee
Evening star., 1938-04-26
PROMOTION MEASURE

HOUSE Passes BIZ NJ MOderniZing
Naval System.
The House passed and sent to the
Senate yesterday bill to "modernize'
the system Of promoting naval off,
GERS.
Chairman Vinson, Democrat, of
Georgia, of the House Naval Commit
tee said the measure would eliminate
the necessity Of forcing into retire.
ment those officers who do not stand
at the top of the list of men selected
for advancement.
Evening star., 1938-04-26

people to do 1t. he said yesterday.
The solution, as Mr.. Scott sees It:
THE conduct of affairs must be
governed by specifications of tech.
nocracy. Measurement must be sub.
stituted for values"
Evening star., 1938-04-26
Kennedy Club to Meet.

Representative Walter Of Pennsyl-
vania and Ramsey E. Black, Third As
sistant Postmaster General. will ad-
dress the members Of the Kennedy
Governor" Club at q meeting in
the National Democratic Club, 1900
Rhode Island avenue NV, at $50
o'clock tonight.
Evening star., 1938-04-26
AUTOPSY SLATED

Body of o. A. Gustofson, 46,
Patent Attorney, Found in Hotel.
An autopsy was to be performed to-
day to determine the cause of the
death Of o. A. Gustofson, 46, . patent
attorney, whose body was found yes
terday afternoon in his room In the
Logan Hotel by employees. who had
missed him for two days.
Homicide squad detectives said Mr..
Gustofson apparently had died OF q
heart attack. He had been living at
Evening star., 1938-04-26

the hotel for some time. Police no.
titled 4 sister living In Connecticut.
Evening star., 1938-04-26

convicts, he now employs 121 men re-
leased from the District Jail.
Evening star., 1938-01-09

they were flying. A scissor tailed f1ycatcher
was clocked at 10 miles an hour, Baltimore
oriole at IL, prairie horned lark at Is, night
hawk at II. In an emergency, however, under
the spur of fright, when the pursuer sounded
his horn and raced his motor to roar, the birds
Travelled much faster, and some even doubled
their speed The naturalist concluded that the
small prairie birds have an upper limit of about
80 miles an hour.
To clock the swiftest flyers one takes to the
airpane. Colonel r. Meinertzhagen, of the
Royal Air Force, raced wild geese in France
and found that about SIS miles an hour was
their limit - a result in good agreement with
the observations from the New Jersey train.
Wild duck move bit faster II the aviator
could open his throttle to SO miles an hour
before they dived from the race.
While flying in Italy, the Royal airman
encountered lamnergeier, species of vul-
ture, and gave chase. The lammergeier kept
flying straight ahead faster and faster, with the
plane in pursuit, until the air-speed indicator
marked 10 miles an hour Apparently that was
Evening star., 1938-01-09
Druwiaos by
lock Hvnez

0DHERE is stretch of track on the Central
Railroad of New Jersey which furnished
the course for an impromptu race between
steam and muscle power few months
ago a race in which muscles proved an easy
victor over the putting engine.
The baggage master of the train was the
first to become aware of the race. He saw
wild goose flying low alongside the train, SEEM
ingly just drifting, as though to give the iron
horse generous handicap. Then. in burst of
acceleration the wild goose darted forward, and
in few moments had passed the locomotive,
which was moving at so miles an hour
The train slowed down for stop, and the
bird circled the air above it, as though waiting
for its leisurely rival When the train was NOV
ing again at normal speed, here came the goose,
and it quickly passed the locomotive.
This happened at three stops. BY that time
almost all the passengers were at the windows.
And having demonstrated what it could do in
the matter of rapid transit, the goose veered
off and vanished into the blue.
Of course, trains must run on schedule, and
are not to indulge in wild-goose chases. So we
can't say what might have happened if the
Unquestionably modern steam locomotive
can outdistance wild goose. But the incident
remains amusing and interesting - just as the
fight of four wild geese across Floyd Bennett
Field in the van of Merrill and Lambie's air
plane arrival from England in Coronation Week
last May was interesting These incidents Illus
trate playfulness in matching wings against
machines that is often encountered by locomo-
tive engineers, automobilists and aviators.
Bird speeds frequently have been determined
by timing the instant when bird or flock
passes certain point, and then telegraphing or
telephoning ahead for timing of the passage
at another point given number of miles away
Also, of course, there is the familiar procedure
of taking nesting bird some distance from its
nest, releasing it and marking the time of its
return arrival. The willingness of birds to race
a man-controlled machine provides third
method, from which some important results
have been obtained
While motoring along the straight country
roads of the fiat Kansas prairies, the American
naturalist Harold B. Wood began to measure
the speed of fight of small birds startled out
of the roadside brush. He found that some
would fly directly IN front of his Car, and by
pursuing them until the pace became too great
and the birds turned aside or dived into the sky,
he could tell from the speedometer how fast
Evening star., 1938-01-09

substantiated by others. In particular, some
reliable measurements of the flight of swifts
we're made by the British naturalist E. c.
Stuart Baker He was able to clock them with
stop watches over two-me course in India,
and found that the birds repeatedly flew at
about 200 miles an hour.
Nor is this rapid pace matter of sudden
squirt of motion over short distance. Swifts
are migrants, flying vast distances over sea and
land. Each spring the European swift moves
from its winter quarters in Africa to its summer
quarters in Europe, and floCks of the birds have
been observed to cover that distance of more
than 1900 miles in about seven hours. Even if
we assume no stops at all, that figures rate of
more than 200 miles an hour.
Almost incredible speeds have been reported
for a small two-inch insect, the deer bot-Ay.
According to some biologists this creature
moves through the air at 8OOmes an hour. This
velocity is higher than that of sound; and if
800 miles an hour actually is attained by the
fly, here is subject of enormous interest not
only to biologists but also to physicists and
aeronautical engineers.
The fastest land animal cannot begin to
approach the speed of the fastest air animal,
but there are some four-legged creatures that
rival on foot such feathered flyers as orioles,
night-hawks, quail and wild geese. Apparently
a gazele can run faster than a wild goose can
fly.
Dr. Wood, whose automobile enabled him to
clock the Kansas prairie birds, chased rabbits
at speeds of 20 to Is miles an hour. Dogs kept
in front of his car when it was going twenty
miles an hour.
Fox hounds are credited with running better
than 48 miles an hour, but the fox apparently
can run faster, for he usually leads in the first
few miles of the chase.
Pigs and chickens are hardly to be listed
among the speedsters, but it is interesting to
note that DR.. Wood clocked pigs at II miles an
hour and chickens at from 6 too.
Gazelles and antelopes are among the swift
est animals on foot. Roy Chapman Andrews
was driving his automobile on the Cobb Desert
when he came upon gazelle. The startled
creature darted off. The explorer stepped on the
gas, his car spurted ahead to SO miles an hour,
but the gazelle was going 60 with ease.
Swifter than either gazelle or antelope, ac-
cording to many naturalists, is the chetah or
hunting leopard, which preys on both. Report
ing his observations of chetahs in "African
Game Trails, " Theodore Roosevelt said, 'For
short run, up to, say, quarter of mile or even
Evening star., 1938-01-09
Photo BY
U, S. National Mvsevm

Record holder? The deer bot-ny
the vultu1e's limit, for it then dropped out in
graceful nose-dive.
Although he was unable to measure the
upper speed OF swift, Colonel Meinertzhagen
believes that this bird, familiar in Europe and
in America as the chimney swift, and also
Known in many other lands, is the fastest of
them ALL On one occasion, when he was flying
over Mesopotamia, he encountered flock of
swifts at an altitude of more than mile. His
plane was moving 68 miles an hour, but the
swifts easily overlook and encircled it. He
estimates that they can reach velocity which
must exceed 100 miles an hour.
That this estimate is conservative has been
The Washington times., 1938-09-22

strain. whose loyalty and in
tegrity to the U. S. cause was
oftimeS questioned, proved a
source of grave trouble to a ma
ton beset with momentous prob.
lens.
Certain groups of our citizens
we feel are heartily in accord
with Der FuChrer's program Of
ruthlessness in his present cam
paign of aggrandizement. Such
activities as he is fostering on
the Czech border might come
under the heading of Teutonic
culture, but to Americans it
reacts as a highly unciviized
gesture.
In closing we might state
those diSgruntled ones living
here who subscribe 10 the theory
Adolf can do no wrong, should
by all means fly back to the
arms Of the Mad Minotaur Of
Munich.
CHARLES j. WARREN
The Washington times., 1938-09-22
Mr.. O'COnnOr Is Purged

WYE HOPE that Representative John j. OConnor has
w good sense of humor. He needs it.
When Mr.. O'Connor running for office both
on the Democratic and Republican tickets he pledged
himself to support whoever won in the Democratic
primaries He apparently thought it would be John j.
O'Connor
It now appears that Mr. OConnor-if he lives up to his
pghted word-w have to support his opponent against
himself. James H. Fay has the Democratic nomina-
tion and John J. OConnor is to a Republican.
This is one Presidential purge that succeeded. The
New Dealers have now eliminated Mr.. OConnor chair
man of the powerful Rules Committee where he could
wv, to all intents and purposes, kill off
HeS VHeTe any New Deal legislation he disliked
H. Qo7onuo Even if he should be returned to Con-
gress, which unlikely in a
strongly Democratic Congressional district he will have
lost his influence. He will lose his seniority Demo-
crat He will be at the bottom of the Republican seniority
list no better off than the Congressman from Podunk
Junction.
The realignment represented by OConnor Fay is
amusing but it is also sense even though acc-
dental 1t is good to get the conservatives in party
and the liberals in the other OConnor is in the party he
belongs n though is startling to realize the low estate
of Republicans who would nominate Democrat against
the wishes of their organization.
All these various primaries and attempted purges are
bringing about needed result, namely reagnment of
pares with the liberals in one party and the
tives in the other From tn. New York Daily New.
The Washington times., 1938-09-22

sister married the son Of
the President Of the United
States. But if Sally has what
some might consider the bad
taste to cash in on that sort OF
thing, I can't see her doing Mr..
Roosevelt any harm-and I can
see him dismissing the whole
silly business with a hearty
laugh.
DUT not so Marie. She stood
over me with a mop in her
hand yesterday afternoon and
let fly-but not with the mop.
Nov, this sister, the one who
married Mr.. Roosevelt" shouted
Marie. do you hear a peep
out Of her? No. And after all,
she was the one who got related.
This Miss Sally, she's no more
kith nor kin to the RooseveltS
than you or me. And she goes
singing and dancing all over
Boston and New York when she
can't sing so good and she can't
dance so good. People come to
stare at her because they think
she's got an awful nerve and
they're waiting for the President
to say, Hey, you. Cut that out.
You're no Roosevelt. And I
don't want the impression to get
around that the family's taken
to dancing and singing for
money in night clubs
81 don't think it's as bad as
all that" I told her wearily,
"and I wish you would get on
with your mopping. Let the kid
bask in a slimly reflected glory
The Washington times., 1938-09-22
Your |. Q.
BY SHIRLEY SPENCER

By SHIRLEY SPENCEE
This is a spelling quiz. Score
8 for each checking Of the cor
rect spelling, Nos. l to II. Score
2 for each part Of No. IL.
/. (a) pommel (b) pummel.
2. (a) impertinance Cb) imper-
tinence.
3. (a) plenteous (b) plentious.
4. (a) dispensable (b) dispens-
ible.
S. (a) contemporanious (b)
contemporaneous.
6. (a) immovable (b) immove-
able.
7. (a) concensus Cb) consen-
sus.
8. (a) triennial (b) triannula.
9. Ca franchise (b) fran
chize.
10. (a) rhythmic (b) rhythmic.
II. (a) pavilion (b) pavilion.
IL. Check the words which
are to be written as two words:
(a) sometimes (b) someday
(c) somehow Cd somewhat (e)
someway Cd something.
ANSWERS on Page 19)
The Washington times., 1938-09-22

more important than romance.
However, the question of happi-
ness on the wife'S part depends
on her character and diSposi-
tion. Marriage is a partner
ship, and the man who keeps
romance alive will have an inter.
ested, happy and helpful wife.
A wife will soon get tired of heE
husband if they are constantly
struggling to make ends meet"
X X
Ernest TruesdeIl, 463 H st.
N. w., Government clerk:
The Washington times., 1938-09-22

all the money he can. OF
course a wife wants a man to be
a good provider, but a combina-
ton of these traits forms the
ideal man. Why is it that so
many wealthy men lose their
wives to men with less money?
I'd say it is because they failed
to keep romance alive"
4
Miss Alice Holmes, 526 Tenth
st. N. E., secretary: